Less than hot

Hey ya’ll.

I’m not quite feeling my best these days, so this may be short and to the point. 

For Breakfast today I had a serving of Cinnamon Barbara’s Bakery Puffins with some unsweetened vanilla almond breeze and rather than have cream in my coffee this morning I had some more almond breeze.  The whole shebang was a total of only 142 calories: I do enjoy these cinnamon puffins because they remind me so much of cinnamon toast crunch which I always LOVED.  But this breakfast’s overall  lacking in the calorie department was proportional to its staying power because I was hungry easily by 9:00!  So I had some seedless green grapes and a Cracker Barrel light medium chedder portion to tide me over until lunch time for a total of about 170 calories:

Lunch was something totally unconventional.  It was a mini naan bread that I bought at Pete’s (garlic and coriander flavour) topped with a pacific salmon pate that I bought at Planet Organic and then topped with thinly sliced english cucumber, red onion and some capers for a total of 299 calories:

Now here’s where my day started going wonky and off the rails.  I got into these little peanut butter cup friggers and instead of only having two, I had SIX for a reckless total of 400 calories.

And I gotta tell yas, yesterday and today I have felt totally off my game.  I have no desire to exercise and I generally feel lethargic.  I don’t like it one bit.  So I couldn’t bring myself to get an exercise session in after work even though I have just added some new additions to my “home gym” that I’m slowly starting to develop.  The Superstore had most of it’s exercise department on sale and I bought a set of hand weights (2lbs, 3lbs, 5lbs and 8 lbs), weighted resistance bands for your legs (for pilates), a skipping rope and a stepper! And they were ALL on sale. :-D  Step aerobics has always been up there with my favourite hardcore aerobic activity.  I always loved doing it and did it even when I was 300lbs.  I was excited that I found one and it was on sale for only $11.99 (down from $35)!  The only problem is that I have to take it back because the riser on it was broken, but I’ll exchange it for a new one.  So now I’m on the hunt for a good step aerobic DVD.  Anybody have any they would like to recommend?

For Supper tonight I put one of the recipes from the Eating Well magazine to the test.  It was “Warm Beet & Spinach Salad” which was such a great combination of fresh and “hearty” so it was perfect for supper.  The only thing I changed was I added some feta on top at the end and served it with a few mini chicken skewers for some added protein for about 260 calories:

Oh and then I frigged it all up because I got into the Breyers Double Churn ice cream cups and instead of just having one, I let my “woe is me” feeling get to me and I ate THREE and then that wasn’t enough and I also had a Smart Ones Strawberry Shortcake thing too!  This added an embarrassing 470 calories onto the previous 400 in the peanut butter cups I had after lunch!  Seriously????  That’s a total of about 1750 for the day.

Here’s the weird thing…now that I’ve blogged it and tracked it, even though it was a total waste of calories and complete junk, it’s not nearly as bad as it seemed.  1750 for one day isn’t the end of the world by any means!  I feel stuffed to the brim and I suppose I can take some comfort in knowing that my version of a binge makes me top out before 2000!