chili

Yesterday Isaac and I made our way to Northern Virginia for another round of house sitting. It was fun, but only for one night this time and we are headed back home today. We also have my uncles b-day party to stop by on the way home.

I am very behind on my posts, but here is dinner from Thursday night (I had the Whole Food’s salad/hot bar) and the photo that follows was breakfast from Friday Morning.

I had a bunch of prepared salads on top of greens and then tofu. Sesame grilled tofu and tofu curry. It doesn’t look all that appealing, but it was good. 

Normal banana oats with some trail mix, flax, and crunchy pb.

Friday night we went to a Chili debate party. I brought some cornbread muffins (big ones and mini ones) which I made from Trader Joe’s brand Corn Bread mix. It was so sweet and good, with pieces of actual corn in it. We’ve had the box for so long so I was happy to get it out of our cabinet and it went perfectly with the chili my friend made. I drank a Pumking beer and one glass of wine.

Before we headed out early Saturday morning I made a quick egg white, veggie sausage, ezek english muffinwich.

I ate out for both lunch and dinner. Lunch was panera and dinner was thai. I was boring and didn’t take photos.

Tonight for dinner I had the left over thai and I got a picture! It was tofu and veggies. I love thai tofu – I know it’s fried and probably awful for you, but I still have a deep love for it. haha. And they served white rice, I wish they had brown, but they might have, actually – I forgot to ask. Opps.

There wasn’t much left over so I had a bowl of cereal as well. 1/2 cup puffed corn, 1/2 cup fiber one and 1/2 cup milk.

So on another note, UGH!!!

I’m a little discouraged because I don’t normally worry about the number on the scale so much – more about how I feel and fit in my clothes, But recently, I’ve weighed myself and realized I’ve put on some pounds. This is no good because just 2 months ago I weight 8 pounds less. It’s the most I’ve weighed in 5 years. I can tell in some of my clothes and now I really want to get back down to my normal size. I don’t know exactly what to attribute the weight gain to, perhaps being unemployed and staying home all day. I tend to eat more when I am at home- plus I was stressed looking for jobs. I did continue to run/workout though. However, I did stop  doing my normal 30 minutes of walking – which I was done during my lunch break. Sometimes I wonder if I spend too much time online blogging or reading blogs, when I could be up doing something active?

Isaac said that maybe I’ve gained muscle… that would be cool, but I think that is it. 

 Basically, I just need to get back on track. Here are some ideas I have:

-Start walking on my lunch break again

-Pay more attention and be better with writing in my food journal

-Buy a food scale (I’ve never used one before)

-Add more protein to my diet

-Make sure I am drinking enough water

- Amp up my routine at the gym

If you all happen to have any ideas that I didn’t think of let me know.

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