The Report: Saturday, January 5, 2008
This report will be quick, because I’m not getting to it until late in the day. I had an evening hanging out with friends, and it went a tiny bit off the rails, but it wasn’t TOO bad.
BREAKFAST: Whole-Wheat Bagel With Cream Cheese
Now and then, I really, really want a bagel and cream cheese from the cafe around the corner. This morning, that’s what I had. I tend to scrape almost all the cream cheese off when I get it home — I really leave just a very thin layer, the same way I’d butter a bagel. It didn’t feel too sinful, though I wish I’d had some fruit.
LUNCH: Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich
Once again, I didn’t eat “lunch” until late in the afternoon, at which point I wanted to just eat something, knowing dinner wasn’t until after a friend arrived for the evening and probably wouldn’t happen until 8:00 or so. So I had about two tablespoons of peanut butter, a little gob of low-sugar strawberry preserves, and two slices of double-fiber bread. It was just filling enough. To my credit, I poured out a bowl of potato chips for the friends, and I had all of one chip. Or possibly two. That part was a triumph.
DINNER: Pepperoni Pizza
Yeah, so…I was with friends, and we ordered pizza. One slice would not have been enough. Two may have been a little much. It wasn’t a perfect solution. I also had a beer — specifically, a Killian’s Irish Red.
SNACKS
Four Hershey kisses and a medium margarita. More than one drink in a day is something I almost never do, and should not do, for several reasons, not the least of which is that it’s not good for certain health risks I watch out for, so that’s on the list of not-so-goods for the day. But the list of goods for the day includes (1) not eating a hundred cookies; (2) not snacking for most of the day; (3) passing up the potato chips; and (4) not having a third piece of pizza, though that’s more a REALLY unwise thing I didn’t do than a particularly difficult thing I did.
Overall, I can live with the way it went, though I really do want to get back to some of what I originally had in mind. The last day or two have been…not backsliding, exactly, just kind of feeling out what it is I’m trying to accomplish and what I need to do to get there.
