I had to stop for gas on the way to work, so I decided I would pick up breakfast there - what better place to find a well balanced meal? ;-)
I quickly read through about 20 labels to find some type of bar that was low in calories, but had some type of nutritional value and I settled on a 110 calorie Pria bar. It had 5 grams of protein, but I'm pretty sure the entire thing was a big chemical chunk.
I ate the whole thing, and it filled me up. It wasn't that bad tasting, although the consistency was that of a 10 year old stale candy bar. I'm not sure if it was stale or if that's just the consistency.
Either way, I was reminded of the fact that I need to stay on top of my grocery shopping. I haven't been in a while, and I have no idea what I've been eating lately. Yesterday, I didn't eat much of anything until dinner time, and then I overate to make up for the fact that I hadn't really eaten all day, so that was dumb. The day before I had 1100 calories, so I certainly must have been eating something!
It's easy to let all the planning and preparation that are needed for success to slip away during a busy week or two, and all of the sudden, you find yourself making meal choices out of a selection at Mobil on the run.
It's not just about losing weight, it's about being healthy too. This weekend, I'm going to be sure to put together a meal plan for the coming week and do lots of healthy grocery shopping.
For today, the cafeteria is offering a vegetable chili soup for 100 calories, which I will probably have for lunch, and for dinner, I'm going to XO, so I will plan to have my middle eastern taster platter, which is the hummus, tabouli, etc...
I know I had a big loss last week, which makes this week all the harder, but I'm still going to do all I can to lose at least one lb this week.
2 comments:
A healthy, low fat breakfast bar found at the Gas mart... it's probably 4 years old, I'm surprised it didn't turn into dust when you bit into it.
But good job for at least making that your choice, I likely would have gone for the sausage english muffin.
The chili sounds good too and healthy!
This is probably why I am not healthy. Too much planning involved. I wish being obsessivley neat helped you lose weight, I'd have a 31 inch waist and washboard abs!
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