Belly be gone!

i have several ideas in my head to jot down…

this one - bored eating.  i still have a problem of eating when i’m bored.  this bad habit popped up again recently.  i was in between projects at work.  and for some reason, late afternoon, i’d want to eat.  out of boredom.  :(    i tried to be good about what i ate - usually a 100 calorie 94% ff popcorn bag.  i’ve even tried chewing gum and eating small candy canes (the peppermint is supposed to help curb hunger).  so not too bad.  but…i knew what i was doing and where it came from — and i ate anyways.  i realized yesterday as i went non-stop yesterday afternoon - i had meetings and was catching up various people at the client’s office - that i wasn’t hungry.  and i didn’t feel the need to eat b/c i wasn’t bored.

i guess i just need to not be bored…

peanut.  butter.  blondies.

i found ‘em on a blog (not a diet friendly blog…but a food blog [which i’ve been looking at lots of lately], none-the-less).  i don’t know why, they just appealed to me.  i’m not that big on peanut butter desserts.  i like peanut butter and sometimes peanuts, but in certain ways.  can’t really spell out how i like my peanut products.  but for some reason, this recipe was a-callin my name!

i ate one - when it was still warm.  and it was yum-dilli-icious!!!  DH had one too.  i think we’re both having one more each, and then i take ‘em to work tomorrow!

i love dessert and sweets.  it can be a problem.  and i like to cook.  and i want to bake more.  but when it’s just the 2 of us, and when both of us don’t really need to be eating these yummy desserts, well, it makes baking hard.  don’t get me started on my mini-cheesecakes (yum-dilli-icous!).  so, i guess my co-workers will just get wind up enjoying some really yummy goodies! 

…and i made my first chicken salad this week!  i only discovered the stuff w/in the past year - before ww!  it was yummy - we had lots of chicken leftover (some rotisserie, some from chicken soup that was made b/c i was kinda sick - more on that in a minute).  so one night DH had a meeting and i decided i was gonna try my first chicken salad.  here’s what i did from a recipe:

chicken

mayo

curry

soy sauce

pineapple

grapes, cut in half

celery

almond slices

i didn’t want to open the water chestnuts, but the recipe called for it

i just threw it all in a bowl and mixed it up.  was pretty good!  so good that i made enough for the next day for lunch!!!

so, i’ve been battling a cold all week.  but it never fully developed.  that’s b/c i’m the worst when it comes to colds — i take forever to get a full-blown cold, and then it takes forever to leave me!!!  so i stopped working out this week - didn’t want to make things worse — and tried to get a little more sleep.  have been taking echinacea, vitamin c, cold eeze, airborne, alka seltzer cold.  you name it, i probably took it!!!  and, we made some chicken soup - with matzah balls, of course - this week.  i’ve had it for lunch just about every day!!!

i feel better - probably b/c i actually got a lot of sleep last night.  we’ll see how things go…i want to go to spin class tomorrow.  hopefully i’ll still feel this way in the morning!

AND…all that soup has led me to drop a couple pounds this week!!!  that, or all the liquids i was drinking trying to flush the bug outta me!

just got home from seeing juno.  hilarious movie!  all i knew about it was that it was about a pregnant teenager, and that it was supposed to be good.  it was hilarious!!!  it was all about the dialogue.  hilarious.  a little on the profane side…so if teenagers w/smart (i.e. profane) mouths is not your thing, then this movie is probably not for you.  hilarious!

it’s been a while since i’ve done that…

had leftover chili for dinner.  pretty good.  and had sweet potato chunks / fries.  not really sure how they were shaped.

and…i tried butternut squash.  i bought a little one at least a month ago and kept meaning to make it.  just never got around to it.  so i tried it tonight.  can’t say that i loved it.  half had salt, half had cinnamon-sugar.  it was ok…don’t know that i’ll make it again.  which bums me out b/c so many people like it!  at least i tried…

BUT, i just remembered that i usually like butternut squash ravioli!!!  yeah…LOVE it…i guess there’s enough sweetness in those that i can’t tell what it is….YUM!!!

…on all my faithful readers!

on my eating!

on myself!

on the scale!

with another interest!

ok…i realize i havent’ posted in a LONG time.  not really sure why…

partiaclly b/c i’ve gotten…cocky.  oh yeah - have i gotten cocky w/my eating.  i’m not even gonna start listing what i’ve been eating these past few weeks.  but my good ol’ dear friend the scale - yeah, the new one i got so i could measure these dang pounds to the tenth, since i obviously was not happy w/whole numbers but had to torture myself even more - knows what i’ve been eating.  b/c he measures it…every day.  he cringes whenever he sees my nekkid self step on him at the butt-crack o’dawn!!!

i keep trying to get back to core.  i really do.  it lasts about a meal!  but that’s it.

oh, and there’s more to my cockiness…it’s b/c i have been exercising the way i do, that i think ic an eat what i want!  well…hello, i cannot eat whatever i want!  that’s how i got into this situation to begin with.

so meanwhile…my latest interest…triathlon!  yeah, i’m ‘training’ for one.  i told some co-workers about one i wanted to do.  now they’re all excited, some have signed up already…and i haven’t yet!!!  i’m the one who got them thinking about it and excited about it…now i have to sign up for it!!!  so i’ve been spending a lot of internet time reading about triathlons and posting on some triathlon boards.

that…and i’m trying to spend time w/hubby (who’s making fun of me right now).  oh, and i got sucked into the ultimate soul-sucker of all — facebook!!!

so…see…that’s where i’ve been.

i’m going to try to be better about posting - and sticking to plan - and having posts about stuff that isn’t just a recipe.

oh…guess who got a new car?

hope y’all are enjoying the superbowl!!!!