Day 24

The Breakfast Menu:

• 1 whole wheat bagel
• 1 oz. low-fat cream cheese
• 1/2 banana

My bagel had a little bit more cream cheese on it than that, but I dropped it face down and half of it stuck to the floor :(

The First Snack:

• 1/2 oz. raisins
• chicken salad

The chicken salad was delicious!! It was just 2 oz. of chicken breast (cut up and cooked), 1 T. light mayo, 1 tsp. Dijon mustard, some finely chopped celery and red onion, light salt and pepper. With the mustard, the salt wasn't necessary. Very yummy!!

The Lunch Menu:

• 1/2 a whole wheat pita
• 1/4 cup homemade hummus
• 5 carrots
• 2 tsp. natural peanut butter

I felt like the meals and snacks were switched today. The chicken salad makes more sense as a lunch, and this makes more sense as a snack. But hey - it kept my stomach happy all day, so whatever. I didn't realize I was out of cumin, so I ended up using taco seasoning in the hummus. I was afraid that would be weird, but it was pretty good. Natural peanut butter is really starting to grow on me. :)

The Second Snack:

• 2 cups chopped romaine
• 2 T. light Italian dressing 

Boring. I didn't take a picture.

The Dinner menu:

• beef kabobs!

The photo was pre-grill. Dinner was actually supposed to be beef-only kabobs, but what fun is that? We were also supposed to have parsley red potatoes and gingered carrots. I decided to pre-cook the potatoes a bit and add them to the kabobs (kebabs?). I also decided to skip the carrots and use up some veggies that have been in the refrigerator for awhile.

The marinade was only okay. There are plenty of others that I would prefer. And I don't know why I thought a 2" chunk of onion would taste good.

How did these go over?

Quite well!!

The Third Snack:

• baked cinnamon pears
• 2 oz. low-fat cheddar cheese

I love how this program turns fruits into desserts! These pears were quite delicious. I was supposed to have swiss cheese, but I didn't want swiss on my pears, and I didn't want it plain, so I swapped it for cheddar.

Everyone was very happy with the menu today, which makes me happy :)

Oh, weighed in this morning. I had a not-so-great diet week last week, so I was pleased to see I was still down a pound from last weigh-in. Slow progress is better than no progress.