Day 5

Today was a lazy day...I'll admit it...exercise-wise anyways. But I guess I can partially blame the snow storm and the soreness from spin and swimming as an excuse to chill-ax. Fridays are usually my hour long physical therapy sessions which actually give me a decent workout- bike to warm up, massage (my favorite part of the workout by far), strength training, and balancing activities, but with the weather and what not it was canceled. When I got home from work I totally crashed...so much so that my boyfriend called me an hour into my slumbered stooper and I couldn't wipe the drool fast enough to answer.



I faced a new challenge in my blogging quest for health (drum roll please...)- RESTAURANT FOOD (particularly buffets). This is tough for me, especially since I have this tendency to want to eat "my moneys worth" all too often. I almost cracked under pressure tonight with this food ecstacy, but I managed to hold it together.


Food for today:



B'fast- Licorice tea with stevia, 3 mini muffins (fresh bran w/raisins, blueberry, carrot) from my favorite bakery, Goya coconut water (this was some good shiz...it has pieces of coconut floating in the drink and is actually low in calories...two servings are around 120 calories).


Snack- Apple, Mocha TLC bar, Fat Free Vanilla pudding


Lunch- Strawberry Greek Yogurt, pretzels


Snack- Bowl of baked potato soup with cheddar cheese and bacon, 6 ounches of orange juice with Lecithin granules and flax seed oil, a bite of a pop tart.



Dindin- I had 2 small plates of food at the benefit both with ziti, salad, seared tuna with tomatoes, and mashed potatoes with two Jack n Cokes. Every part of me wants to be negative right now and say that the mashed potatos had lots of butter, coke is soda with high fructose corn syrup and refined sugar, and the ziti had cheese (I already had cheese today!) but for once, I'm going to focus on the positive...I had smaller portion sizes then I would have had in the past, I stayed away from the white bread, I didn't have any dessert, and I didn't add any salt or butter to my food. I've noticed that I can be a perfectionist at times and not give myself credit for the baby steps I've made. Moral of the story, celebrate small victories...even if its as small as not getting your moneys worth and pigging out at an all you can eat buffet.