What are you eating today???

Hello all...I think checking in here has made me stick to my menu more than ever.  I am doing better than I have in a long time.  Yesterday I did have 3 jolly ranchers though...but not a big deal.  I always leave a 100-200 calorie buffer for stuff like that in my day.

Breakfast- 1/2 banana and 14 almonds.

Lunch- 1/2 cup cottage cheese and 6 strawberries

Dinner- Chipotle!!! Yummy!!!

Snack- fruit smoothie (with fruit and veggies...super yummy)  I'm tryng a new smoothie recipe.  There is just so much on pinterest.  I love pinterest. 

I will try:

Breakfast:  Protein Shake and vitamins on the way to work

Decaf Chicory Coffee with 1/2 n 1/2

Snack:  Pea Pods and cheese spread

Lunch:  1/2 c Miso Soup, 1/2 cottage cheese w/ranch 1 small orange

Snack:  15 pistachios

Dinner: 

Breakfast: Ezekial toast with frozen raspberies/melt coffee with milk

Snack Green tea pistachios

Lunch caprese salad with tomato and fresh mozzarella and basil olive oil

snack Green tea lemonade unsweetened

Dinner smoke butt with cabbage, carrots and potatoes

i cannot get those jolly ranchers off my mind.......yum

well you can partake...they are only 3 for 50 calories.  so you can have one....My favorite is the watermelon or green apple.

There is candy all over the place at work (I never worked at a place that feeds you like they do).  Aside from the assorted choolate...like kit kats, hersheys, reeses, 3 musketeers, snickers...and so on.  There is also starburst, now & laters, laffy taffy, assorted gum, werthers, jolly ranchers, blow pops, tootsie rolls....and in the lunch room they have single serving bags/packages of fritos, cheetos, gargettos, animal crackers, cheese its, goldfish,lorna doone cookies, ritz crackers, wheat thins, pringles, special K breakfast things, granola bars, peanuts, famous amos cookies, Oreos,  soup in a cup, crackers with cheese....and this is just stuff I can remember off the top of my head...I know there are things I am forgetting.  they have so much free food laying around it;s scary.  So when I choose to have something I always go for something small and something that won't trigger my urge to pig out....so that usually is a jolly rancher or starburst.  Those are safe.  I could never take anything like chocolate or cookies...if I take it once I will take it again and again...and I'm afraid I won't stop.  And the fact that I can name  many  so of the snacks by memory shows you that I have stood there many times and stared at them and wanted to pig out...but turned and walked away!!!!

And really as long as I am busy I am fine and I'm not tempted.  It's when I have down time that I get antsy for some snacks. 

whats your favorite veggie/fruit smoothie???

I just tried this one tonight.  I added the spinach to the recipe.  I decided that I can take any smoothie recipe and add veggies to it.  So this one had my favorite stuff in it.  It was good...and since I used greek yogurt and peanut butter it was full of protein!!!  I also left out the honey...I hate honey

http://fit-is-confident.tumblr.com/tagged/recipe

Here's another website that has some smoothie recipes.  I'm not sure I believe their hype about what they say their smoothies are for...I just like it for ideas.

http://www.superskinnyme.com/smoothie-recipes.html

Breakfast- Chocolate protein shake

Lunch- Nut crackers with meat and cheese,. sugar free pudding, 6 cherry tomatoes                    

Dinner- large spinach salad with hot bacon dressing

snacks protein bar and popcorn.