Day 38 - Some Secrets

Thursday,  July 30, 2015

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, even though I used to skip it all the time. Mmm, breakfast foods. And there are so many healthy options! Options I think are so tasty thy feel like cheating.

Oatmeal!  I love oatmeal to an excess. The flavored kinds that is. Except for raisin. Though give me a box of raisins and I. Am. Set.

So mornings usually start off well. I don't run into problems until later in the day.

If I'm running late I eat two oatmeal packets and call it a win. With an 1800 calorie budget I mix it up some. With the new 1200 goal I'm having to cut back a little. The new plan involves a breakfast budget of approximately 300 calories. A bowl of cereal with milk. Two packets of oatmeal. One packet plus one of the following: fruit or juice (like apple or cranberry juice), an egg, or a yogurt. Mmmm.

Too many calories to eat them all at once, but my stomach isn't big enough to eat them all at once anyway.

I'm evaluating my favorite "smoothie" right now. I don't have a blender, so I fill an old style thermos with a lid cup,  and I SHAKE. My two favorite recipes are these.

1.) Approx. 3/4 cup strawberry yogurt, 3/4 cup vanilla soy milk, 3/4 cranberry juice, and 1-2 scoops vanilla whey powder.  Queue the SHAKE. It's so op fun and stress relieving. Unless you over fill the thermos and there's no room left for the contents to shake...

2.) Same approx. proportions. Coffee, soy milk, yogurt, and whey powder. This one is also delicious, but smells a little like those funky brown cookies. You know the ones. I don't know exactly what they are. Some kind of shortbread. But you know.

I meant to exercise this week, but the hot and humid is intimidating me, which means, woe, no succeeding on that front.

Still weighing in at an unfaltering 191.6 lbs. WTF.

Yay! Approx. 1600 calories today! Progress!