Foodage

The past two days have been hard as far as meals are concerned. Yesterday, I tried a new recipe I found on Pinterest. It was for pumpkin muffins made with oatmeal flour. They were fucking disgusting…even after I put sweet cream cheese on them. Blech. I’m pissed I wasted 348 calories on those fuckers. I threw them away.

For lunch I had the salmon from the night before smashed on toast with cottage cheese and strawberries. Sooooo much better than my breakfast.

My friend, Corri, came over to visit and we ordered from a thai restaurant down the street. I couldn’t find any nutritional information on it, so I assumed it couldn’t be any worse than Pei Wei’s version, so I used their calorie information instead. I had shrimp pad thai and only ate half. And I had a couple pieces of calamari as well.

Today, for breakfast I had those protein pancakes with strawberries (still amazing, I’m making them forever). Lunch was the leftover shrimp pad thai. For dinner I really wanted Subway, but the Hubs was insistent on trying this seafood restaurant down the street called Marlin and Ray’s. It was mediocre at best and still expensive. Anyway….we ordered calamari again (it was not great), and I had the grilled grouper and mango salsa with broccoli and boiled red potatoes—now THAT was awesome. For dessert, I had half a slice of their key lime pie.

The good thing? I haven’t felt ridiculously full, so obviously I’m doing okay with portion control. The bad thing? The past two days I’ve consumed a lot of calories based on the myfitnesspal app. L I don’t know if I’m going to be making a ton of progress in my weight loss this week, but I’m hoping to do really really well tomorrow. Although, it is my last day of work and I’m pretty sure my boss is ordering pizza so that’ll probably screw me up. Oye.

Another good thing? I have exercised every day this week, though I have officially given up on the Shred completely. My knee just could not take it. It has been so swollen and sore. So yesterday, Bubs and I went for a power walk and then I came back and did a ton of ab and arm work. Planks, pushups, obliques, etc. I felt awesome and today my abs are nice and sore which makes me feel great. I love that sore feeling.

This evening, I walk/ran a little over 3.5 miles. It was hot as shit today, so I’m glad I waited until it cooled off a bit. I’m still walking 1 song, running 1 song for the duration, but on Tuesday I walked 1 song, ran 2 songs and I felt like I worked hard, so I feel like I’m definitely progressing.

I’m hoping to do the walk 1, run 2 again tomorrow and then the ab work as well. I found a good ab series on Pinterest that I’d like to try. It’s from P90X.

I need to put in the work so that when I see that scale on Saturday I’ve lost at least 1 lb. sigh…..just one measly pound please?!