January 19, 2011

 Today was a fairly good day, but I did have a weak moment or two! Went to visit an adorable newborn, but the smell of the pumpkin bread baking in the oven was oh so tempting and most definitely made my mouth water, but I stayed strong ;) The real test of my willpower came this afternoon. Both boys were screaming bloody murder (so that I actually pulled off the side of the road to find pacis and sippys on the super dark part of Sabre between the gate and the shopette). It was probably the most stressful 5 minutes of my life. Koen got better, and Kye quit screaming, but was a total terrible toddler the rest of the night. I've always turned to food when stressed, and it took everything I had tonight to come home and eat a chocolate fiber one bar instead of stopping at the shopette for ice cream... but I made it and quite enjoyed my fiber one bar! Pretty uneventful day, but here's my dieting tip for the day for people who HATE water like I do.... fancy it up! I add fresh lemon slices and 2 packets of sweet and low to a bottle of aquafina (the only kind of bottle water I can stand to drink regularly). It's like my own little calorie free yummy lemonade! I've been trying to drink 4 bottles of water a day and without this little trick it would never happen!


breakfast
3/4 cup cheese and chive egg beaters-105 calories
1/2 cup fat free vanilla yogurt-55 calories
1/4 cup almond and granola cereal-130 calories
1 medium gala apple-80 calories

breakfast total
370

snack
caramel corn rice cake-50 calories

lunch
healthy choice cafe steamers red pepper chicken alfredo-260 calories

dinner
4oz lemon pepper baked tilapia- 170 calories
Mashed sour cream and chive red potatoes-171 calories
butter garlic sauteed green beans- 110 calories

dinner total
451 calories

dessert was a fiber one bar-140 calories

today's total 1271 calories


ahh dinner, the highlight of my night! No recipes tonight, nope, I pulled everything straight from my noggin and plugged it into the handy recipe calculator (see yesterday's post for link!) to get nutrition facts! Luckily for you guys, now there ARE recipes, because I made them up (yeah yeah may not be all that original! lol)

Fish
2 4oz tilapia filets
1 lemon, sliced in flat round slices
1 tablespoon country crock light margarine spread
salt and pepper

I cooked the fish in foil packs. I sprayed the foil with non stick cooking spray. Then I put down the fish, salt and peppered it. Then I put 1/2 tbs of the margarine on top of each one, then squeezed 2 lemon slices over it and laid the squeezed slices on top of the fish. I closed up the foil packs and baked at 350 for 25 minutes... DELISH!

Potatoes
6 red potatoes (my 6 came to about 25oz which is what I punched into the recipe calculator)
1/2 cup light sour cream
1/2 cup chicken broth
salt and pepper
fresh chopped chives (probably about 2 tablespoons worth)
butter buds butter flavor sprinkles-1 tablespoon

boil the potatoes, drain. Lightly mash the potatoes so that they're still chunky. Stir in all the other ingredients. They were quite yummy :) The fat part of me couldn't help but think how much better they would have been with a big fat spoonful of butter, but they were still good nonetheless, this makes 4 servings at 171 calories per serving.

green beans
13oz fresh green beans from the produce section
2 tablespoons country crock light
2 tablespoons minced garlic
salt and pepper

sautee the green beans in the butter garlic mixture until they're cooked to your liking (I like mine slightly crisp inside.. mmm) and then lightly salt and pepper to taste...super YUMMY! I am so excited that I've still been able to get buttery flavors without using my 'real' butter. The margarine really is quite good!