Healthy Choices Thanksgiving Challenge Day 2

Day 2 of our Thanksgiving Challenge to make healthy choices and eat smaller portions.  Today (Tuesday) I didn’t have any social obligations, so in theory it should have been easy, right?  Well…each day is it’s own, with it’s own temptations.

Exercise wise, I let the cooler weather and the stiffness I was experiencing prevent me from doing any serious exercise. I did do my morning stretching (otherwise it would be hard to move), and did end the day with more stretching, a plank, and a few bird dogs (core exercise).

Food wise, again I tracked both what I ate and when I ate it, simply because I have a HUGE struggle with eating early enough in the day, and I really am working moving the bulk of my calories/nutrition intake to earlier in the day. So here goes:

9:30 am Diet Coke (hmm… need to get back to work on starting the day with something other than a soda)

I had slept late, and woke quickly remembering that I had to be on a webinar in 30 minutes -oops… Grab a diet coke and run kind of morning, a habit that I thought I had overcome…hmm…

9:45 am a 2 inch square of my daughter’s garlic cheese bread, made on homemade, whole wheat, high fiber pizza dough. Only the dough is healthy here. She puts a lot of butter on this, but it was a quick favorful, quick breakfast snack.

10:15 am A corn muffin – my daughter made them for me, so I have no idea if she used whole wheat or white flour, but it was a quick breakfast while I was on the webinar.

10:30 am a 1/2 cup of Yoplait Vanilla Yogurt – my 10 son brought this to me, as a treat while I was working. Yum!

2:30 pm 1 sweet potato – made as sweet potato fries, so a little olive oil along with it.  This actually was a pretty filling snack that along with water held me for a couple hours.

4 pm 1 slice of cucumber and 1 broccoli floret (I was putting a veggie snack for the kids, and swiped a bite)

5 pm Stir fry veggies, 1 cup homemade chicken broth, and 2 cups rice. YUM! (veggies were 2 carrots, 2 cloves of garlic, 1/2 cup sweet onion, 2 cups sliced cabbage stirfried in a tablespoon of olive oil and seasoned with a dash of kosher salt and the chicken broth).

 I love this as a snack or even a meal, but it takes time to prepare and make.

7:30 pm It was Taco night – so for me that means Vegetarian Tacos. I prefer to use the Whole Wheat Toritilla with flax seed (for the Omega-3s).

I normally use either vegetarian refried beans or pinto beans, but I was out. So instead I grabbed some kidney beans from the freezer and used that as my base protien, combined with rice. 

 Then I topped the beans and rice with salsa, non-fat sour cream, sliced spinach (my kids won’t eat lettuce, but they eat spinach – go figure.), and a sprinkle of cheese. So before I folded it up, it looked like a big heap

But once it folded up just fine. And tasted yummy.

But I was still hungry, so I made a second one. But by that time my family had demolished off the spinach and most of the cheese, so the second one consisted of mostly beans and rice, salsa, and non-fat sour cream

This held me for the rest of the night, but my  hubby did tempt me with my favorite treat – popcorn. So we split a bag at 10:30 pm.

 The Verdict for the Day

All in all, this was a good food day from a choices standpoint. I’m still not starting off strong, and that’s causing me problems.  I’m also a little disappointed that I didn’t get any extra exercise in today outside my normal stretching and core exercises.  I need both healthy food choices and exercise to lose weight. Something to keep working on I guess. Tomorrow is another day.