10/21/05 - 22 days till my wedding!

<<< Photo from my bridal shower a week or two ago.

Ladies and gentlemen.... 200!!!!!

Which puts me one.... count it, one! pound away from my wedding goal. Go me!!! Who'd a thunk a few years ago that I'd be this excited to see the scale say "200"?!

I've been sick all week and subsisting on soup and carbs, not very SB-friendly, but despite the food and mopey-ness, I still lost a pound!

But you don't want to know what I've been eating....

Phase One, Take Two, Day Five

My wedding dress had to be taken in an entire size or more! :D

I'd like to apologize to a few people (who know who they are) for neglecting them lately and not replying to their emails, or replying like a week later. I'd like to apologize to my SMAO buddy in particular, who I am supposed to be there for to support and encourage. All I can say is I wish there were about 10 more hours in each day. With the wedding less than a month away (!!!!!) things are REALLY starting to get crazy, and I've been taking time off work, then staying late to make it up, then running around like a headless chicken after work: to the shoe store, to the WalMart, to the craft store, to another shoe store. I know that you all understand, but I feel like apologizing anyway. I am thinking of you.

Anyway....
Today's menu:

Breakfast: Same as yesterday.
Snack: string cheese
Lunch: Another salad w/leftover london broil, jello
Snack: Fresh mozzerella and tomato drizzled w/O+V
Dinner: Catfish, summer squash & onions, side salad.

Phase One, Take Two, Day Four - Wedding Dress Fitting Today!

I've made some changes in my mealtimes so that it now looks like this:

9am breakfast
11:30 snack
1pm or so lunch
4 or 4:30 pm snack
7:30 or 8 dinner

and it seems to be working out well. I was previously eating lunch at noon, which made having a snack b/w breakfast and lunch rather silly, as they were only 3 hours apart. And I was having my p.m. snack so early that I was STARVING by the time I got home, let alone by the time I made dinner and got to eat it!

Another thing that is a pain but has been so helpful has been making weekly menus and shopping for the majority of the food at the beginning of the week. This forces me to stick to the menu, and I can't say "I don't feel like cooking; let's just go out" because I've already purchased all the ingredients.

I've been having the most divine and easy breakfasts this morning. In a coffee mug, scramble an egg. Add 1/2 slice chopped Canadian bacon and some chopped tomato. Microwave 2-3 mins. on high. Today I added a little chopped feta. DIVINE.

Day One, Phase One, Take 2

Maintaining at 203!!!

Breakfast:

• omelet w/sauteed onions & peppers and 1/2 slice LF cheddar
• 6 oz. spicy V-8

Snack: String Cheese

• Lunch: Chef salad w/balsamic vinaigrette
• SF red jello

Snack....oops! I'll go eat it now!

For dinner: grilled wasabi/mustard tuna steak, steamed asparagus w/soy sauce and sesame seeds, and tomatoes and cukes w/O+V.

Climbing Back Onto The Face Of The Earth - Rough Fall!

Bet you thought I was gone forever, eh? Nah, I'd never do that to my dear readers.
Bet you thought I fell off the wagon too, huh? Well, I did, but only this past week, and not by choice.
I have been so overwhelmed with work and wedding plans, and then I found out I had to take 4 days of work-related continuing ed classes this week right in the midst of it all!
I won't tell you how badly I ate this week, but it was pretty bad. The coffee and donuts were free and there was no healthy food in sight, even for a high price. So yeah, I was pretty bad.
Today I'm trying to catch back up at work after 4 days out. Monday I'm going back on Phase One. At this point I am SO SICK OF CARBS anyway that I think Phase One will be a welcome treat.
Mashed cauliflower, here I come!