My Tuesday

Its amazing how easily I am swayed into cheating these days. The culprit? None other than myself. I sway MYSELF and talk MYSELF into cheating! All it takes is hubby asking me what are you having for dinner? And, my standard reply these days is pizza? Once again he chose not to give into my pleading and refused to go get pizza. Bless him :)

Sometimes we need someone to be strong for us when we aren't feeling strong enough ourselves. My mind just isn't into this diet thing lately and its a struggle to stay on track. But I'm still trying. I ended the day yesterday with totals of 26 points and 1,438 calories and about 100 oz. water. I know I was up using the bathroom at least 3-4 times last night. My goals per day are 26 points and 1,500 or less calories so I was within range. The 1,438 calories are a little higher than what I usually average. I track points as the priority and usually by staying at or under the 26 points per day, that brings me in at between 1,100-1,300 calories per day. Yesterdays calories were a bit higher and in looking over my journal I contribute it to eating a "fresh" lunch which had more calories than the packaged/frozen meals I usually enjoy. I'm cutting back to only 3 of those frozen meals per week so yesterday I had a chicken salad melt on a whole wheat sandwich thin with a slice of 2% cheese melted on it for lunch. The calories for that were 321 when my frozen lunch usually only averages about 260-270. But, considering that it is much more healthy to eat fresh, I'll take the few extra calories since I didn't go over 1,500.

I also realized recently that I have been neglecting to count the calories for gum and Crystal Light. I usually have 2 pieces of sugarfree gum per day (5 calories each) and 1 packet of Crystal Light in the afternoon (10 calories). So, I'll be adding 20 calories to my daily totals to allow for those. I drink plain water all day long but I enjoy my Crystal Light Lemonade with my afternoon snack.

Not sure what I'm having for dinner tonight but since I'm craving pizza I was thinking of making chicken pita pizza. However that would require a trip to the store after work and honestly I'm tired of going to the grocery store every other day! I have discovered that eating healthy causes me to be at the store ALL of the time to replenish fresh fruits and veggies. Not only does that impact my pocketbook but it also causes me to have to run out of the way every other afternoon on the way home. So, I'm craving the pizza thing but it would probably be easier and make better sense to go home and eat what is already there. That would be leftover turkey burgers or chicken. I've already been to the gas station, the vet's for cat food and the dollar store for hubby's shoelaces all on the way to work this morning, so I'm kinda just wanting to head straight home this afternoon. And you KNOW I have to be home by 4:00 to watch Y & R because it is SMOKIN' right now! LOL.

Okay, well hope everyone has a great day! Til tomorrow :)