Day 9: Today IS an Eat Day

     Up and about early this morning, but didn't get around to my workout until about 11:30. As I hard boiled about a 1/2 dozen eggs, I also chopped up some strawberries and a couple of fresh cucumbers from the garden and stored everything away in the fridge. Morning coffee lasted a bit longer than usual, so breakfast didn't actually happen until 10:30 - greek yogurt (red) and the strawberries (purple).

     After letting breakfast digest a bit, I put on the DVD for today's workout: Upper Fix. Still can't handle the full 60-seconds on those planks, but I DID use my 1- and 2-lb handweights for the exercises that required them. It may not seem like much, but it's better than I did last week! But boy am I hungry!  Coffee table back in place, I make my way to the kitchen for lunch. I must say, I appreciate not having to move too much furniture around to do these workouts.

     Most of my food for the day winds up in my lunch:




I don't mind though, because it's delicious and filling. All three green~ 50/50 organic lettuce mix, sweet baby bell peppers, and cucumber slices; One red ~ 2 hard-boiled eggs; One blue ~ hummus; One yellow ~ black beans; One orange ~ black olives; plus a free balsamic and olive oil herb dressing.


I still have one purple, two reds and one yellow left for the day.



     By 5pm I feel like I'm starving, so I decide to have a baked potato and some of the rotisserie chicken we bought earlier this week. I've gotten really good at stuffing these containers, I guess, because when I put the chicken out on the dish, it looks like twice as much as I would have figured. As such, I decide that this will count as both reds that were left. The potato isn't very big, so even though it's supposed to be 1/2 a potato, I count it as the one yellow anyway. I put a little butter on it and count that as my teaspoons for the day.

     It's satisfying, but I'm still feeling a bit of a pang. This is not helped by DBF who is offering me potato chips - which he knows is my weakness - and breaded chicken cutlets. He sees I have just eaten. WTF? I hold off on answering the hunger call until about 7, when I have my last container for the day - purple - filled with pineapple. I enjoy the fruit as dessert with a few glasses of wine. Perfectly satiating!