Sparkpeople????

I've been monitoring my intake of food on Sparkpeople. It really is full of information. I just wish the site would move a little faster.

Oh well. So far so good. I had leftovers for lunch (whole grain pasta, artichokes, sun dried tomatoes, olives and feta). I have also had an orange and a banana. The orange kept me from eating something NOT good.

I am still hungry. I had a few wasabi peas....but they really are just for taste and I had to stop eating them because, well, I could eat the entire bag in one sitting.

I have two apples and an orange left until dinner. I am trying to avoid having microwave popcorn, but since I won't be home until after 8:30, I must just have some.

Sparkpeople is eye opening!

Of breakfast and sabotage

I just posted yesterdays breakfast. I do not know why it came up today. Anyway, I had the same thing this morning, except that I ended up having skim milk in my coffee instead of soy milk.

I overslept, and then didn't drink my coffee - which got cold - and last time I nuked coffee I burned my hand, besides I had completely lost track of time and couldn't find a travel mug, so I stopped at Dunks for a medium.

I'm trying to cut out caffeine.

It's not going all that well.

Anyway, breakfast was delicious!

Then, I got to work, and put my lunch (and I brought extras for my coworker) and told the law clerk (they are both part of our lunchtime strolls...emphasis on "stroll"). I told him it was healthy and someone else in my office laughed. He said that for me eating healthy is like him chewing on his fingernails. I'll last awhile, but it won't last forever. He knows my family and we like our desserts. Nice.

That is a judgement (yes Stacey I noticed!). I told him it was, and that he should be more supportive. I should also add that he doesn't think I'm fat. Anyway. I guess that is what happens when you work with mostly men.

So, off to my day! I brought sneakers to work and it looks like it is clearing up.

Breakfast of Champions

This morning, I decided to make a couple of days supply of cooked steel cut oats. They take about 45 minutes to cook, so they are not great to cook on busy mornings. However, if you cook them in advance and refrigerate them, you can just microwave them and are good to go.

I actually got hooked on steel cut oats, after reading Stacey Shipman's blog post on them. I bought mine at Trader Joe's. They are Irish Style Steel Cut Oats by Country Choice. They are quite delicious, particularly when you add some maple syrup.

Maple syrup is one of my new favorite foods. I eat too much sugar, and am trying to cut down on processed foods, so for the time being, maple syrup on my oats or waffles in the morning is hitting the spot!

I've been buying maple syrup at Whole Foods, and so far I have tried the 365 Organics from Whole Foods, and so far so good.

After Dinner

So I ate dinner. I thought that by just making half of a third of a bag of pasta that I would get a small portion. It wasn't that big, but it was more than I needed.

I am now full.

While I was eating, the not hungry husband went to the store and got himself the fixings of a hot fudge sundae. He ate it. He also brought in cat litter (which had been sitting in my car) and now hopefully he will change it. If he doesn't, Elwood might get mad, and a mad Elwood pees on things that Adam uses.

Check out the "boys" on my first blog ever.

I do not think I will have a hot fudge sundae. I'm glad he didn't get chocolate chip meringues or even coffee ice cream with chocolate sprinkles!

Ok. Now is confession time. I had a some of the ice cream. Brigham's vanilla. I had about a serving - 3/4 of a cup and then some Brigham's hot fudge. Just because it was yummy.

And now for dinner

I forgot to add that my snacks today were an orange and a granny smith apple. I almost had some microwave popcorn, but opted for the apple.

Now I am home and the husband is not hungry, because he had food from a fast food joint that I cannot mention. It is one place that I won't even eat (and it is not Taco Bell). Now he wants ice cream. This is why I am fat.

So...I am having a cup of pasta (the regular kind), broccoli rabe and some ricotta cheese. I might also sprinkle some Parmesan cheese on it.

I also did some strength exercises, mostly because it is too yucky to go for a walk. I'll have to plan to go early tomorrow.

3:55 is the witching hour

I'm hungry again. Or maybe I'm bored. The weather is nasty out and I am trying to figure out what to do for some activity tonight.

Mostly, I'm trying to blog when I get hungry to see if there is another answer -- i.e. -- boredom, and to track my progress.

This post is probably boring for everyone else, and you are all thinking. Is she always hungry? The answer is no, but 78% of the time I am.

I made it to lunch

I ate lunch, sort of late. I had some of those beets - and I am positive that when I walk tonight, I will sweat magenta.

I decided to enter my food into Sparkpeople, because I'm copying my friend the lover of beets. This is for informational purposes only - not to get crazy about counting calories.

I had leftovers for lunch - the pasta with artichokes, olives, feta and sun dried tomatoes. I'm thinking about food again, but that's probably because the husband is going to be home tonight, and normally he is at class tonight so. . .that throws a wrench in my plans for dinner.

Now to think of something that the husband will eat. Or else call the husband and send him to the supermarket to get something he would eat. I was going to do something with brocolli rabe. Brocolli rabe is not a food that the husband eats.

Poor husband, does not have any idea how yummy it is! He just sees all that green and gets nervous.