Friday Theft?

It’s FRIIIIDAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!  Do you know  what this means?!?!  It’s our first Gionino’s Friday in many weeks!  Alas, that will have to wait til after work…..

I was having technical difficulties while working on last night’s post — but good news! I was able to add the video I wanted.. Check it out if you want a laugh!

Just for fun this friday, I used snapshots of my personal myfitnesspal page to show the stats on my meals.  Yes, that qualifies as “fun” in my mind 🙂

Breakfast #1

Fun fact about me:  I steal…. Um… let’s call it “hoard.”  Yes, hoard.  I hoard the Smucker’s Blackberry Preserves from our free office breakfasts.  “Steal” is too strong of a word for single serving preserve packet…  Right???

I love these blackberry preserves…  They have little bits of seeds and taste awesome:

Today I brought a Sweet Wheat Alternative bagel from home, and then we ended up having free bagels from Panera at work!  I stuck to my guns, and went with my Alternative bagel topped with about 1 tbsp of Panera’s low calorie walnut & honey cream cheese, and 1 packet of Smucker’s blackberry preserves:

Check out the comparison on the sweat wheat Alternative Bagel and a whole wheat panera bagel:

Sometimes, life is just about compromises!   It’s crazy how different those stats are, and the Alternative bagel actually tastes like a real life bagel (unlike bagel thins).

Sad news though.  I only have 1 of my blackberry preserve packets left…. I hope we get some more soon!

Stats:

Breakfast #2

Was the breakfast I accidently left at home yesterday!  It consisted of some dannon vanilla greek yogurt and slice up strawberries:

Perfection!

Stats:

Lunch

In anticipation of having PIZZZZAAAAAA for dinner tonight, I figured I’d go with a healthy salad for lunch.  Today’s salad consisted of:

  • 1/2 bag romaine lettuce
  • 2 ounces chopped up grilled chicken (heated up in the microwave)
  • 1 hardboiled egg
  • 1/2 a green pepper
  • 1 roma tomato
  • 1/4 cup red onion
  • 2 tbsp Ken’s Steakhouse Lite Italian Romano Dressing

Giant salad:

Stats:

Delicious lunch, but lets be honest.  All I can think about is pizza now….. 

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(much needed) Return to healthy eating

Things are always a little hectic the first few days back to work after a vacation.  So last night I scrambled up some eggs and veggies.

For three servings:

  • 7 Egg whites
  • 1 whole egg
  • splash of water
  • S&P
  • Franks red hott
  • 1/2 green pepper
  • 1 large zucchini
  • 1/2 cup white mushrooms
  • 1 large green onion

I portioned the scramble out into three containers, and had one of them with some ketchup for my breakfast #1 at work:

Stats on B#1:  141 calories, 13g carbs, 1g fat, 19g protein, 3g fiber

Breakfast #2

Dannon Strawberry Greek Yogurt + 1/4 cup blueberries + 3 medium strawberries

Stats on B#2:  163 calories, 25g carbs, 0g fat, 12g protein, 2g fiber

Lunch

HUGE salad consisting of:

  • 1/2 bag fresh express romaine lettuce
  • 1/2 green pepper
  • 1/2 a large roma tomato
  • 1/2 a large cucumber
  • 1 hard boiled egg
  • 1/4 cup sliced red onion
  • 2 tbsp Ken’s Lite Northern Italian Romano Salad dressing

I LOVE hard boiled eggs on salads!

Stats on Lunch:  206 calories, 20g carbs, 10g fat, 11g protein, 7g fiber

Snack

On the way home from Charlotte, we st0pped at a Publix so I could pick up some Western Bagel Alternative Bagels.  Finally!!!  I had a blueberry bagel with 1/2 laughing cow swiss cheese wedge for my snack:

Stats on Snack:  128 calories, 27g carbs, 1g fat, 8g protein, 7g fiber

Dinner

Grilled chicken and roasted veggies:

Stats on Dinner:  245 calories, 17g carbs, 7g fat, 27g protein, 8g fiber

Dessert

FRUIT SMOOTHIE!  I mixed up a big batch for me and  Jarrod to split:

  • 1 cup fresh frozen strawberries
  • 1/2 cup fresh frozen blueberries
  • 1/2 cup stonyfield farms fat free plain yogurt
  • 2 packets truvia
  • 2 cups fresh spinach
  • 1 cup Almond breeze unsweetened vanilla almond milk

Stats on the smoothie:  95 calories, 20g carbs, 2g fat, 6g protein, 5g fiber

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