Day 8 - The Whole Day

Weigh-in day! I'm not really sure what happened here, but I apparently lost 10 pounds the first week. I don't look like it. I don't feel like it. My clothes don't fit any differently. So I decided my scale was defective. We bought a new digital one today, and interestingly enough, it shows the same weight that the old one did. So I must have had a bad day last week when it showed 175. I was 165 this morning.

Schedule- and food-wise, it was a weird day. I slept late and had to be somewhere by 10:30. I missed breakfast.

Morning snack was an apple and 2 low-fat string cheese sticks. I wolfed one of those down while I was making lunch.

Lunch was supposed to be Pesto Pizzettas made with a polenta crust. Our grocery stores apparently don't carry polenta anymore, so I had to improvise. I ended up making the same pizza recipe, but used whole grain English muffins as the crust.

The pizzas were a little different. Definitely more "gourmet" than we are used to, but it wasn't too bad.

• English muffin crust
• 1 1/2 T. tomato sauce
• sprinkle of Italian seasoning and garlic salt
• sliced artichoke hearts
• red pepper strips
• pinch of low-fat mozzarella cheese

We were so desperately starving that I didn't even stop to take a picture. This is exactly why we are supposed to be eating 5 times a day - so we never reach the point of desperate starvation. Not that we TRULY ever reach that point anyway, but you know ...

Afternoon snack was supposed to be a turkey sandwich. Instead, I had my other string cheese and apple from morning snack.

Dinner was tilapia, broiled Roma tomatoes sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and pepper, and milk.

Tilapia was new to me. I really enjoy salmon, but I wasn't sure how I would like the tilapia. I made a seasoned garlic butter to brush on it. It was pretty good. It was a mushier texture than the salmon, so I only had a small piece, and I don't know that I would go out of my way to have it again, but if someone served it to me, I would politely eat it.  The tomatoes were okay but slightly undercooked. I also added about 1/3 cup brown rice, because my plate looked pathetic without it. :)

Later in the evening, I ate the turkey sandwich that I was supposed to have for my afternoon snack. It was on 7-grain sprouted bread. It was fine. Odd to have a whole sandwich for a snack, but after our tiny dinner, I was grateful for it :)


I completely failed to exercise.