December 2007

I’m sort of embarrassed to say that it’s 8:48PM and I’ve only had 444 calories so far today!! It’s been a busy day for me and I just didn’t take the time to eat everything on my menu. I had Fage Total 2% yogurt with side cherries and a banana for breakfast, then nothing until we got home about an hour ago. We’re about to have some alcoholic beverages in a little while, so I made sure I had my “peanut butter and jelly” sandwich first:

Kind of a wimpy sandwich but only 194 calories! This time I made it with: 2 slices of Nature’s Own 100% whole wheat bread, 2 TBSP (12g) PB2 powdered peanut butter, and 1 TBSP (18g) Smucker’s strawberry Simply Fruit (100% fruit spread). I usually like to have twice as much PB2 on it, gives it more substance but as is for only 194 calories is mighty tasty!

So, today I planned to eat lightly all day and then start drinking around 10:00PM and have some munchies, then of course tomorrow is a free day. Tomorrow we’re having filet migon — it was on sale today for only $7.99/lb, half price! I would buy all they had if we weren’t moving soon.

My husband, Dustin, and I went to Whole Foods this afternoon to pick up some essential “free day” foods, like: their spinach, crab, artichoke, and cheese dip, snow crab legs, small lobster tails, a miniature Chocolate Silk pie, another Panettone bread (love that), and some other snacky snacks. I can’t help but want to buy tons of other stuff for my everyday menus when we’re there, I love to try new stuff. Today I picked up some lower sodium teriyaki sauce; 160mg per TBSP, still high by my standards but not too bad. I was actually looking for low sodium soy sauce but had no luck. I nearly had a stroke looking at the sodium content of some of those Asian sauces! They ranged from 900mg to 2400mg per serving. I’d be the Goodyear blimp just from smelling them! So I just got the lower sodium teriyaki sauce and a bottle of sesame oil — I’m thinking Asian “something” in the next week or so. I wanna do some experimenting.

Oh, I found “Health Valley” organic canned soups with NO SALT added! I’m SO excited about them! I bought 5 cans which were reasonably priced at only $1.89/each. I got: mushroom/barley, tomato, potato & leek, and split pea. They have between 45mg and 80mg per serving (2 per can) and pretty low in calories; the entire can of barley/mushroom is only 180 calories, the whole can of tomato is 200 calories, the whole can of potato & leek is only 160 calories and the split pea is only 260 calories for the entire can and 18g of protein — that’s AWESOME! Soup is very filling and now I can have it more often without worrying about ingesting 4000mg of sodium per bite LOL. Yay!!

I was pretty well-behaved in Whole Foods considering I was starving and I had “free food time” coming. I managed to spend half of what I normally spend there but I’m glad I didn’t buy more; when we got home I realized I don’t have any room in my pantry! I need to stop stocking up so much and actually use things more often lol. That’s going to be one of my “New Year’s resolutions.”

Well, it’s party-time here! I’m going to start with a few shots — I hear fireworks outside, cool. It’s getting really cold out now, still doesn’t feel like winter down here in Georgia though. Now, NY has some winters lol. I can’t wait to be home again.

Happy New Year, everybody! Be safe. Cheers!!

Today’s menu:
Sunday December 30th 2007 – 1200 calorie day
Theme: 1200 calorie day until 10:00PM, semi-free day

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