3/14/05
9:00am
--small handful of Cinnamon Toast Crunch
I've got a quick conference call. Hopefully it will wrap up soon and I can get some breakfast!
9:15
--1 barbecue chicken sandwich on a hawaiian roll
--1 banana
--1 cup skim milk
My call was quicker than I thought it would be! Work troubles today--trying not to let it stress me out but feeling kind of overwhelmed.
1:45pm
--1 Souffers ravioli entree
--Garlic hummus with baby carrots (probably between 2 and 3 T)
--1 large navel orange.
I had forgotten how good oranges can be! This one was perfectly sweet and juicy--yummy! We'd gotten out of the habit of buying fresh produce since I got sick of throwing it away. I now buy lots of frozen veggies and put them in just about everything, but I was really missing fresh fruit. Canned just isn't the same. I bought bananas, oranges, apples, and pineapples as the grocery store yesterday since that's what was on sale. I'm trying to make sure each meal/snack contains at least one.
A new thing that's happened to me this week is that I've started getting fuller sooner. Normally I can put food away like nobody's business. Last night I served myself 2 large chicken sandwiches which I used to be able to eat no problem. Last night I finished one, my fruits & veggies, and about 1/4 of my husbands (he couldn't finish either--they really were big!) and I was done. I didn't even have my usual nighttime snack.
What happened today was that I've been getting hungrier and hungrier for the past hour and I've been ignoring it. (did I think it was going to go away or something?) By the time I talked some sense into myself and went to get some lunch, I was pretty darn hungry. So, while I was waiting for my meal to cook I gobbled up the carrots and hummus pretty fast. Then I peeled the orange and had it half of it eaten before I even sat down with my meal again. By then I was feeling pretty full. It occured to me that I've gone through most of my life without really listening to my body. I tend to ignore its demands (be it hunger, thirst, tired, alert, need to go to the washroom, etc.) until I can't possibly ignore them anymore. It's almost like I spend a lot of my time fighting my body. I guess the idea that I consider my body something separate from "me" would be my first clue. Just something to think about. I wonder if things would be better for me if tried doing what my body wanted when it wanted it. Something to think about...
4pm
--1/2 cup lowfat cottage cheese
--7 reduced-fat Triscuits
--1 snack pack of prunes
Hungry again!
5pm
After days and days of reporting no exercise, I finally took the bull by the horns today and took a 35 minute walk around the neighborhood. It was very, very pleasant--I hope to be able to do it again tomorrow.
6:50pm
--1 cup Bush's baked beans
--1 1/3 hot dogs
--1 ear of corn, no butter, with salt-free herb blend
--1/4 of a fresh pineapple