Day 13 & 14 - Let me explain....

So, you may have noticed I did not blog about Saturday.  Well, it was a messed up eating schedule.  I stuck to the plan limits however, I did not eat at normal times.  It was a bad night! But, I am allowed to have them every now and then.  I did not eat anything I was not suppose to eat.  I just ate what I was suppose to at odd times of the day/night. Now, on to today!


How I did for today?

• Weigh in was this morning. I am very happy with my results!                   13 lb loss in total. Yeah ME! That makes me proud of myself.
• Simply wonderfully.  Ya, I did great. Got myself immediately back on track with scheduled eating.  I even went to a birthday party with cake, chips, more chips, some awesome looking potato skin cheese finger foods and spagetti and sauce.  Did I eat any of it? Nope, I brought my own food. I did eat the salad and licked my finger when A. got frosting on it! Man, that was sweet!

Meals and such...

• Breakfast
• Vanilla protein shake
• Lunch
• Luna Bar - Nuts over Chocolate
• Mid-afternoon
• Chocolate protein shake
• Dinner
• 3 oz piece of frozen Tilapia
• 3 oz of jumbo whole shrimp
• 2 oz of carrot coins
• 2 oz of green beans
• all tossed together and microwave steamed with a fish/seafood seasoning and some dried chopped onions
• a small salad (i'd say 5 oz worth) with Italian dressing.
• Snack
• red delicious apple

What I can change...

• I don't like using the microwave steamer to cook my food.  I used a Tupperware microwave steamer by putting all the ingredients into the steamer basket portion and added a little water to the bottom.  It took a lot longer to cook than when I used the steamer bags but, that may have been the ancient microwave I was using. LOL.  Also, when I finally got all the fish cooked and put everything in a plate to eat, everything was dried out in seconds and it didn't really taste like the seasonings.  Those same seasonings cooked in the steamer bag came out much more juicy. The moisture/frozen water on the fish and/or shrimp forms a boiling broth that keeps the seasoning flavor locked in.  I didn't want to keep buying the bags because well, I am trying to go more green. I figured it was such a waste to use them once and toss them away.  I plan to try another approach to steaming. I've purchased some reusable microwave bowls to see if they work better than the Tupperware steamer. The bowls will keep the broth from straining like it does in the Tupperware steamer since there is not a strainer in it. If it works as well as the bags, all is good and I don't have to purchase the bags.  If not, well, I think I am going to continue to buy them because I really don't like the way the food tasted from the microwave steamer.  I guess I can just wash the bags out and reuse them a few times before they end up in the landfill.  

Inspirational Thoughts

"When your timing is off, so is your stride."
-Rodney Milburn
(appropriate)