Big and Beautiful

*resists the urge to sing*

 So, here are my food choices for yesterday:

Breakfast: An egg sandwhich with cheese, glass of milk

Lunch: So, I actually almsot forgot to eat lunch. When I did, it was about 3 o’clock, and I was just looking for something quick so I could put dinner in the crockpot and head back to campus. So, I ate a ham salad sandwhich, which while possibly not the best choice, I am going to use the piss poor excuse of: It’s in my refridgerator, and it can’t go to waste.

Dinner: So, lunch was at 3, and dinner was at 8. *waits for everyone to stop cringing*  This is just going to to be how it is on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Unlike yesterday, the rest of the week starting at 10:30, I go all the way through to 8:30 with 2 half hour breaks, and 1 hour break.  Not really enough time to come home.    However, Wednesdays I don’t have anything in the morning, so I can stay up later and just sleep in a little (except for this morning, which I’m supposed to be writing a paper that’s due tomorrow, but instead I’m on here.  I got my priorities straight, huh?)   So, what did I eat that I started cooking at lunch?  It was Roast Chicken, potatoes, and green beans.  After cooking, I did take the skin off the chicken to help decrease the fat content.

Evening snack: I was in a sweet mode, so I had half-a-cup of Breyer’s Slow Triple Chocolate icecream.  That stuff’s great.  It only has 120 calories for 1/2 cup serving, and the artifical sweetner they use makes it so sweet that my sweet tooth is satisfied for a couple of days.   Which, did I mention that since moving, I’ve had a Braum’s at the end of my street?  One of these days I’ll take a picture of the sign from my living room window to give you an idea.  The bad thing is, is right after moving in, I wouldn’t even WALK there… I would wait until I was coming home from running errands and then swing through the drive thru and get my ice cream. ARG!  Bad me! I’m hoping this Breyer’s will keep me away from Braum’s.

Here’s the recipe to this chicken dish, I had it posted once before, but that was BTC: Before the crash.

Janet’s Roasted Chicken

1 chicken

potatoes

green beans 

1/2 cup chicken broth

half a lemon

garlic powder

rosemary

I take the giblets out of the chicken, and set it in the crock pot.  I then put the potatoes and greenbeans in around it.  I measure out the chicken broth and sprinkle in the garlic powder to taste.  Usually I then heat up the broth just to help the powder dissolve a little. 

Then, I pour the broth over the chicken and the veggies.  I take the lemon, squeeze the juice out over the food, and then go put the leftover wedges in the pot for a little added flavor.  Finally, I sprinkle Rosemary (probably about half a cap, I’m not a big rosemary fan, but like a little) and put the lid over it.   On high, it takes about 4 hours, on low, 6. 

What I like about doing this (other than I can leave it all day), is that then I have chicken for sandwhiches, and then I freeze some of the leftovers until I want chicken and noodles. 

Ok, here I go again.

I got off the right path when I was home for those two weeks and essentially just gave up.  My parents were fixing all my favorite foods that just don’t taste the same when I try to cook them, and I found myself just eating and eating and eating.  To my parents, that’s a good thing because it means less leftovers (I actually heard my dad tell my grandmother that he likes it when my brother and sister-in-law come over because they eat a lot).   And then there were the desserts…

I tried to help somewhat and when I went shopping with my mom picked up the fat free versions of items when she sent me after part of the list.  However, unless she didn’t notice, she usually sent me back to get the “real stuff.”

So, I was home for a total of three weeks, and I’ve been here at school for two weeks.  The first week I didn’t even bother trying… I had gotten used to eating unhealthily again and while it was always in the back of my mind that I should be going back to watching what I eat, I was too stressed with unpacking, arranging my apartment, attending graduate meetings and parties (which for someone who isn’t social and probably would be diagnosed with a touch of social anxiety) means lots of stress eating.

Last Monday I finally stepped on a scale again to find that there wasn’t any damage done - I was still at 224. Yea!   That was a real boost to get me started back on the right track to find out that i was starting right where I left off rather than at the beginning (though I knew in the back of my mind that I wouldn’t have gained the entire 10 lbs back).  I made decent choices when going out with the other grad students (notice I didn’t say great, but decent, and I usually compensated when I knew ahead of time at breakfast and lunch).  Probably the really gray time in this past week was Friday and Saturday, … I had a mini pizza, two beers, and butter laden popcorn.  Saturday I once again had butter laden popcorn.  The popcorn is nothing but bored eating.  I still haven’t purchased any healthier snacks.  I havn’t been paid since early July, and the bills are starting to pile up.  I’ll get half a month’s pay on Friday, but because we’re paid only monthly that’ll be it until the end of September.  Once I get that paycheck, things will get a lot better.

Here’s the menu from today:

Breakfast: 1.5 cups rice crispies with splenda and half cup of milk; cup of milk

Lunch: Bowl of Ramen

Dinner: 5 oz pork steak; 1/4 cup (appx) beets; corn bread

Now for the sugar-free icing on the WW approved cake: I’m down to 221.5.