daily report 2/9/09

Breakfast:

TJs bar

Lunch:

1 small pita

hummus

clementine

Snack:

soft pretzel w/ a teeny bit of cheese

Dinner:

2 chicken sausages

1 egg

broccoli

Nightcap:

1 scotch

daily report 2/8/09

Breakfast:

1 egg, sunny side up

2 strips of bacon

Exercise:

3 mile walk

1.5 mile run

Dinner:

borlotti bean mole

with corn tortillas and queso fresco

Snack:

milk and 2 cookies

popcorn

1 scotch

daily report 2/7/09

Breakfast:

TJs Oat and honey bar

Exercise:

50 minute stationary bike

30 minute run (2.25 miles) on treadmill

Lunch:

leftover butter beans with caramelized onions

Glass of wine at a gallery

Dinner:

Homemade fajitas: 6 blue corn tortillas (the little ones), 1 chicken breast, green peppers, onions, black beans, queso fresco

beer (2)

3 Manhattans

glass of rye

daily report 2/6/09

Breakfast:

Oatmeal

Lunch:

Leftover butter beans with caramelized onions

Happy hour:

1 Mojito

1 Caipirinha

1 tapas (mini rice croquettes)

Exercise:

brisk 1 mile walk

Dinner:

Brined pork chops with polenta and kale

Beer

Nightcap:

Manhattan

Rye on the rocks

daily report 2/5/09

Pre-exercise snack:

8 almonds

Exercise:

30 minutes stationary bike

1.5 mile run on treadmill

Breakfast:

Oatmeal

Lunch:

(lowfat homemade) hummus and veggies on pita

Dinner:

Butter beans with caramelized onions and bacon

Dessert:

Milk

2 Joe-Joe cookies

Snack:

Popcorn

cooking

It's not revolutionary, but a few things I've read recently have stressed the benefit of cooking for yourself instead of eating at restaurants.  I know this, and I enjoy cooking, but one of the dangers of where we live is that you can get anything delivered to you in 30 minutes, or take your pick of delicious restaurants just a few minutes away.  In the fall, and particularly over the holidays, G and I were ordering in at least once a week.  Even when we ordered from the healthy Mediterranean place--and often it was the pizza joint or wings or Chinese--I know that the calories were much higher than if I had cooked myself.  One of the things I'm most pleased about with our progress in January and a few days of February is the lack of ordering in or eating out unless there's a good reason.  We haven't ordered in once, and we've only eaten out when other people were involved.  Over time, even if I weren't being scrupulous with points, I think this would make a big difference in our health.

Here's one of the articles.  It's about Biggest Loser contestants struggling to cook.

daily report 2/4/09

Breakfast:

Oatmeal

Lunch:

Baba ghanouj

small pita

a little feta

veggies

Exercise:

Bob workout video

Hip hop body shop

(40 minutes total)

Dinner:

Spaghetti squash

3 turkey meatballs

gravy (or marinara sauce)

Snack:

Popcorn