Thankfully, I had boiled two extra eggs yesterday. Yep, 2 hard boiled eggs and a glass of ice water - oops, I forgot, "I could have had a V8!" I'll do that next time! I also grabbed a granola bar as I headed out the door. One for the road, so to speak. That gives me a breakfast of about 360 calories, allowing for still over 1,000 calories for the day!
My morning was "fruitful", with my work going quite well. Once I completed that, I had time to stop by Wal-Mart to refill my pantry, considering I had given away all my "fat food" yesterday. Came home with fresh fruits, veggies, non-fat Greek Yogurt, boneless, skinless chicken breasts and some granola bars. I stopped by the kitchen appliances, looking for a blender or food processor. I found just the thing! The Ninja Master - this sweet appliance (no, I'm not selling for them, just sharing what I'm learning) does both! What a nice change to what had previously been contained in my pantry and refrigerator.
When I got home it was past time for lunch, so I got after it! It was time to play with my new toy and I chose to make a power berry smoothie. Here's the link, and I think you'll enjoy some of the other healthy shacks you'll find here: Power Berry Smoothie & Other Diet Conscious Snacks
The Ninja was fun and I thought I was smarter than the authors of the recipe on the link were so used ice instead of the water they suggested - just a hint stick with the water. The frozen berries make it smoothie enough and it was a pain getting the ice blended. I enjoyed about half of the smoothie and a Kashi granola bar. That really was enough to quench my appetite and I put the other half of the smoothie in the refrigerator for tomorrow's breakfast. Calories for lunch were 279 total (Actually less as I didn't drink the whole smoothie)
Dinner-time came and although I wasn't that hungry due to the late lunch of berry smoothie and granola bar, I figured I'd better get with it. Here's the ingredients (my own concoction)
1/2 Boneless, skinless chicken breast 224 Calories
1/2 Cup Sliced mushrooms 10 calories
1/4 cup sliced zucchini - 15 calories
3 green onions sliced - 10 calories
4 Tbsp Olive Garden Light Italian - 60 calories
TOTAL - 319 calories - can't beat that! For a total for today before my wine :-) of 958 calories!
No, I didn't share with the peacock! Anyway - I chopped the chicken into bite sized pieces, sauteed in 2 tablespoons of the Olive Garden Italian dressing (yes, only 30 calories per 2 tablespoons - you can buy this OG Lite Italian at WalMart) I added the chopped green onion and let it saute until almost done, then added the mushrooms. The zucchini I sauteed in another pan starting about the same time as the mushrooms. Used the other 2 tablespoons of dressing with the zucchini.
It all came together and voila! Actually, I couldn't eat it all, so half is left in the fridge for today's lunch. Thus, Here's my plan for today:
Breakfast - 1/2 fruit smoothie - 70 calories
Crunchy raisin bran - 230 calories including the milk
Total - 300 calories
Lunch - Left-overs from the chicken/zucchini - As the total cooked yesterday was 319, I'll just say 200 Calories. I'll probably add a salad to it.
Not sure about dinner, but I am beginning to think I will do better with the larger meal at lunch and something smaller at dinner. I'm leaning toward either shrimp salad or possibly a pear with cottage cheese. Will calculate that when the time comes.
Day 2 was Successful! I'm CONFIDENT!
Here's a question for you - Take your guess before you look it up:
Which has more calories, white rice, brown rice or long grain wild rice.
The answer might surprise you!
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