Day 1: Oops

Weight: 164.2
Workout: Circuit training in a weight room 3 x 15 and 35 minutes on the stationary bike
Food Diary:
Breakfast- Multigrain Cheerios with Skim Milk
Snack: 1/2 a bag of Chocolate Quakes
Lunch: Digiorno's flatbread steak sandwich
Snack: Strawberries
Dinner: Chicken breast with spicy seasoning, tomatoes and cucumbers in olive oil and balsalmic vingar, 2 fluffy rolls and a glass of milk

Random Thoughts:

• So after inhaling 1/2 a bag of quakes like they were going out of style (which lets be honest I don't think they have seriously ever been IN style), you thought to yourself, 'Self, how many calories did you just inhale?' Shit. This is why nutritionists must tell you to plan your meals ahead of time. So you grabbed the bag and here is how it breaks down: 7 mini cakes equal one serving. Servings per container: 7. Already your mind is going shit, shit, shit. What will we have to cut out today? Each serving contains 60 calories of which only 10 are from fat. So if you figure you had 3 1/2 servings, you only ingested 210 calories. Still a solid 50-60 calories more than you want from a snack but not the end of the world. On top of that, these delicious rice cakes only have 1 g of fat, 45 mg of sodium and 13 g of carbs with 1 g of protein. Not the worst thing you could be putting in your body. HOWEVER, you will be breaking the bags into your own ziplock bags for the future. God, even snacking is a lot of effort.
• Now, you are panicking about the lunch you decided to bring. Frozen meals seem like a great idea when you purchase them. In fact, they are downright cheap when you have coupons which is how you ended up with the Digiorno's flatbread steak sandwich anyway. With 4 varieties to choose from, you decided to venture off your beaten path of CHICKEN and grab some red meat for the road. In the office, after 210 calories of chocolate covered rice cake, you are starting to wonder why you didn't make and effort to pack a better lunch last night. Luckily, the package contains only one serving so you can't eat more than one. Breath a sigh of relief for that one. Head over to http://brands.fraftfoods.com/digiorno and you can get some nutritional information before you shop. Gee, there's that brain when you need it! Anyway, quick breakdown of what you ingested today shows this lunch off your beaten path came in at 380 calories (yay you for keeping it under 400!) but with 45 g of carbs, 14 g of fat and 750 mg of sodium it was not your healthiest pick of the day. However, you did grab 19 g of protein which is why it isn't until 3pm that hunger strikes again.
• While sitting on the phone with Charter (30 minutes on hold to find out their server is down), you manage to eat 1/2 a basket of strawberries. Yummmmmmm. Ooops, ate more of that than you meant to there as well. At least you are putting some kind of fruit into your diet. Something about small steps. The problem with food like this is it doesn't have its nutrition stuff out there for someone like you. That and, often times, it goes bad before you use it- something about perishables in your apt does not work well. After some research on the internet, you appear to have ingested about 2 1/2 cups of strawberries. 125 calories, 2 1/2 g of protein, 28 g of carbs, and all kinds of nutrients that take away your guilt. For more information about strawberries head over to http://urbanext.illinois.edu/strawberries/nutrition.html (thanks, University of Illinois- we owe you one.)
• Gym time. You decide on weights. After a 5 minute warmup on the elliptical you get to it. God, why is that kid always in here watching TV. He doesn't actually work out, just sits on the damn machine you want to use and stares at the TV as if 15 people in your apt gym aren't trying to work out around him. When did kids stop showing anyone else any kind of respect? This is a fucking gym not a damn lounge. Go home ass-clown.
• The girl on the treadmill has some legs! But after a quick critique to make yourself feel better, she is pale to the point of being ghostly and it makes the tiny bit of cellulite on her thighs all the more noticeable. And she has no muscle tone in her upper body. Points to you for having the muscle tone of a 10 year old and the fat of a 40 year old. Still a winner! ( she will later return to do weights with her attractive but quiet boyfriend. Bitch.)
• There is a group of african american men in your gym. They kind of strut like peacocks and don't really do much.
• Some guy just came in- he was cute but he only worked on 4 machines and you think he was getting annoyed by you coming through on your circuit and changing the weights right before he used them. This is half the reason why if anyone else is in the gym, you refuse to do weights. You always feel as though someone is watching and judging you...probably because you do it to them so someone has to do it to you.
• Doing your laundry at the same time, has motivated you to stay in the gym for over an hour. Nice. Multitasking at its finest.
• For dinner, you have decided to make chicken. After your workout you are starving so there is no time to marinate. You crack out the extra spicy marinade courtesy of Mrs. Dash (and your bff who bought you spices for your apt as a house warming gift!) and spice up the bland chicken. Some people like bland. This is not a criticism. You prefer something with flavor and especially kick.
• To die for: Perdue is brilliant (Christ, you should be sponsored with all the name dropping you do...in fact, you will include their website as well: http://www.perdue.com/. Also, shouldn't that guy be dead by now? No way he is still kicking and looks that young. Does he have a kid?You digress). Anyway, you are probably wondering about the adoration for Perdue. You are lazy. There are no two ways about it, you're lazy. So you obviously, do not want to separate your chicken after going through the grocery store wishing you could have Ben & Jerry's but settling for Yoplait Whips (which coincidentally, you can freeze into sorbet? Who knew?). Perdue has solved this problem with PERFECT PORTIONS. Pre-separated so you just pop one boneless, skinless chicken breast out of the freezer and do with it what you please.
• Now you are curious so you head over to Perdue's website to check out the content of what you are eating. One filet (breast, friend) has 130 calories. Wow that is without my spicing. Hmmm. Something to consider. 29 g of protein. If you end up hungry before bedtime, then you have a problem.
• Fun thing you did with dinner: threw some diced cucumbers and tomatoes in some balsalmic vinegar and EEOV ( you hate Rachel Ray and seriously doubt she came up with this which she has registered but it is so convenient. Just like abbrevs.) into a container with a dash of salt and pepper. It sat in the fridge while you cooked your chicken and you ate half of it with dinner. Delicious and easy. You will do this more often since you hate veggies.
• Ooooh, next time add cheese.
• All in all, for day one you are proud. You had some hits and some misses but you stuck with it.