Staying within 1500 calories is proving to be difficult lately. Mostly because I don't have a lot of control over what is in the house to eat for the time being (like 2% milk is the only option). Some of it has been poor choices. For instance, the cereal I ate cost me 500 calories before the milk was poured on. Granola is probably better as a small snack than a full bowl of cereal. It's gonna be a tough day considering I just learned that what I have planned for dinner is extremely high calorie (800+ calories per serving for the main dish alone!), but I gotta use what we have. I'm hoping that if I pull the skin off, and have just one piece it will lessen the calories considerably.


Also difficult-- exercise. I'm nursing an injured foot. No idea what's wrong with it. Stuart splurged and bought me new running shoes. They're not as high grade as my old ones, but my old ones are four years old. That's ancient for running shoes. Hopefully they'll help. In the mean time I've been doing resistance training, and I borrowed my mother-in-law's bike on Saturday. I logged in 7.9 miles in about an hour on a big beach cruiser. It was fun. My bum hurts. My legs were well worked out. I wasn't as tired afterwards as I am after running. I hope it was a good enough workout.

On a good note I wore a new-to-me dress on Sunday (thanks mom! I'll gladly take your fat clothes). It was knee length and made of stretchy/flow-y fabric and I didn't even feel uncomfortable in it! And... are you ready for this??? I discovered that I have SPACE between my calves and my boots! Space that wasn't there just a couple weeks ago. How awesome is that? Really, REALLY awesome.

breakfast (600):

granola with 2% milk (600 ish)

lunch:

leftover meatloaf

pears

dinner:

roasted garlic and lemon chicken (breast meat, no skin)

squash

broccoli

I think I munched more granola in there somewhere. Awful stuff!