Day 6 - 66

Hello my friends!

It's another work week here and I did my usual run to Starbucks and McDonald's for breakast.  If you are wondering why I go through the trouble of going to both, you should know that it isn't much trouble.  As you can see, they are directly across from each other,  4 minutes away from my office:

BREAKFAST - 340 370 Calories

Starbucks didn't have their caffiene yet as they gave me a grande when I ordered a tall.  I was a little disappointed because I knew this meant 30 extra calories for me.  Now I know what you are probably thinking, "But Caresse, you do not have to drink the whole thing.  Why don't you drink the same amount as a tall?"  BECAUSE IT IS WASTEFUL and I have no willpower.  I had the Turkey and Egg White Breakfast bowl again and it was delicious as always.

LUNCH - 204 Calories

For lunch, I made a sandwich...protein style.  So I layed out an outer leaf of lettuce and put in Delifresh Cracked Black Pepper Turkey Breast (56g), 1/2tbsp of Best Foods Light Mayo with Olive Oil, 2 thin slices of a hot house tomato and half of an avocado.  I sprinkled a little salt and pepper on it and presto!  A delicious and quick low calorie lunch.  I had this with Jasmine Blueberry Iced Tea.  I am one of those weirdo people lucky enough to like unsweetened tea.  Because it was so low in calories I had 14 Rold Gold Original Pretzel Thins.  Now, I waited to log lunch til I only had about 5 minutes to get back to work and that's when I realized the pretzels brought my total calories for the day to 666 calories. GASP! OH NO!

  So naturally, I ran to the cupboard and grabbed 4 Mexican Hot Chocolate Almonds and ate them.  PHEW... 688 calories...  CRISIS AVERTED.

DINNER - 220 Calories

It has been five days since I started this journey out of junk food nation (heaven) and into low calorie hell but I will give it this, I come home feeling ok.  Now 'ok' is kind of a big deal at this point because when I was eating whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, come the time I was getting home from work I was ravenous for food.  I was mean to my sweetheart and that is just sad.  It was a feed me or feel the wrath of a hungry and angry scorned woman situation.  But today I got home and took a shower.  Perused pinterest recipes..and ultimately gave up because Pinterest couldn't help me when it came to what was in my fridge.  I finally just went in there and pulled a few things out that I thought would go together which is how I came up with this beautiful dish below.  

I don't know what to call it... Spring Vegetable Medley?  It is 2 leaves of Swiss Chard, 5oz of Baby Bella Mushrooms, 1 Cup of Yellow squash (all chopped), 5 Chive Blossoms and 1/2 cup of Bertolli Italian Sausage, Garlic & Romano Tomato Sauce.  I sauteed 1 minced clove of garlic in water and then threw in the chopped veggies, added a little more water to keep them from burning and shriveling, tossed in the chive flowers and once the veggies were cooked I poured over the tomato sauce.  When the sauce was warm I plated it in a bowl and sprinkled a dash of parmesan and topped it with 2 fresh chive blossoms.  It was DELICIOUS.  And I cannot believe it is only 220 calories.  That is insane.  

If you are wondering why I am eating flowers now, let me correct you, these are imposter flowers.  They taste like straight up onion.  My breath still stinks of onion as I type this.  In fact this would be great to eat before you go out with someone you would like to offend with your breath.  I picked these chive blossoms up at the Farmer's Market on Sunday, so I was excited to finally cook with them.  The reason I gave up on Pinterest was due to the lack of pin diversity for Chive Blossoms.  I just saw a bunch of fried crap recipes.  So, if you have a recipe for these that would fit my current journey, you tell me about it.

I might do a few teeny strawberries and almonds for dessert...we shall see.  I still have 427 calories left out of my 1360 calorie budget so I probably should.  I was thinking of going somewhere to walk but then I remembered that I am this type of person:

So I will stay here, lift my 3 pound weights and play some games before I go to bed.  I bought those new sheets so I am looking forward to cuddling up to my pillows in them.  And then thrashing.  That is how I get my exercise.  We all have our thing.  Here is this little guys thing:

Work for it baby...work for it.  We'll get it.

Til tomorrow! <3