Damn scale

I still can't find my digital scale. Had to take two of the kids for check ups at the peds' office today and it was sooooo tempting to jump on their digital scale but I resisted :)
Food for today
B - McD's english mcmuffin and hashbrown, no clue on cals and not going to bother to look it up
L - roast beef sandwich
Snack - Lara bar pecan pie flavored
D - Zaxby's blacked blue chicken salad
Snack - 1/3 serving dark chocolate with raspberry filling
I am so sick of eating fast food, going to get the kitchen in some semblace of order today
Exercise - not much if at all today I swam but had baby with me so it was mostly hanging out with him. I did get a few laps in and kicked around quite a bit pulling his floaty. I hope to get some more formal exercise in tomorrow whether it's a walk or weights or something.
So, the tally this week is unexpected move, car broke down that same evening (think I forgot to mention, thank goodness turned out to be an easy fix) and now today a part of one of my frigging teeth broke out. Well, actually several small parts. What the hell?! The only cavity that I've ever had was a pinhole cavity in my teens. In looking at the pieces that liberated themselves it was definitely a cavity. Shit. Thankfully it didn't and doesn't hurt but I do have a dentist appt. on Monday. I have a confession, haven't been to the dentist since that cavity at around age 14. i know, I know but life has gotten in the way and like I said I've never had any issues. I'm hoping that as things come in threes that this is the last bad thing for a while. As I said in the beginning I took kids to the dr. today. Poor boo-boos. My 1 yr old had to get 4 shots and my 12 yr old had to get his 2 7th grade shots. None of my kids have ever cried when getting shots but babe ended up screaming. He was already a grumpy gus so I suppose that threw him over the edge. I have a photo shoot tomorrow, first one in a while and I'll be using a new camera. I picked it up today and am excited for the shoot tomorrow. It's a childhood friend and her family so the added bonus is that I get to see her :) No great plans for the weekend. Still more settling in and I think we're bbq'ing with my sister in law and her husband who are living next door to us and will hang out by the pool. I could definitely get used to this pool thing.
I've been neglectful in adding pics this week so for completely gratuitous picture sharing~
I present to you hot soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo

Mooooooooving

Pardon my absence yesterday but I was rather busy busting my arse.
We have moved, my family that is. It was kind of a last minute thing and the mostest wonderful part is that we didn't have any where to move to. Things went whacky with the house we were renting. Were we either a smaller family or were not opposed to spending butt loads of money on rent, finding a new home wouldn't be so awful. However, with 5 kids and a limited budget, it ain't that easy. We are currently in a studio apt. until we find something. Thankfully my sister in laws in laws (make sense?) had a studio apt. for rent for super cheap that we have access to. So, in an 8 or so hour span yesterday we moved a 4000 square foot house into a studio apt. and a storage place. Good god. We have to find a new house post haste. Anyway, I cannot find my scale. I actually have two that I use, 1 upstairs and 1 downstairs. I don't know which one is right. My digital scale usually weighs me at at around 4 lbs heavier than the older type. I go by the digital one just to be on the safe side but can't find the danged thing. I weighed on the other one today and it says up 5 lbs. Grrrr. I know that I busted my butt yesterday, up and down stairs, lifting heavy things, etc not to mention my working out on Sun. and 30 day shred Mon. and Tues. I did however eat like total poo yesterday and only drank about 16oz of water. I'm hoping that it was the sodium/cal/fat overload yesterday, swollen muscles and no water combo. Hoping to get back on the downward trend in the next few days.
Anyway on to today

Food -
B - fast food hell, not even going to bother to elaborate (cals off the charts)
L - McD's southwest grilled chicken salad, didn't eat the whole thing(cals 378)
D - Subway club (320 cals) jalapeno chips (200 cals), 1 serving Ghirardelli chocolate (210 cals)
(in case it isn't obvious, the kitchen is a mess, no microwave, no clue where half my utensils are)
Exercise
Obviously, or maybe not, yesterday I didn't get any 30 day shredding done, nor did I today
We've gone from brighthouse cable with free exercise on demand to Direct Tv and I have no clue if it's on there, I'm thinking no
I did however swim for 30 minutes today
I'm so proud of me :), 5 days straight of exercising. If I can't find exercise tv on Direct TV I'll go buy the 30ds dvd tomorrow.

I'm pooped.

the end.

The Drive-in

I mentioned going to the drive in in yesterday's post but totally forgot to expand on that. I love the drive in. I know that they are few and far between now but if you have one even remotely near you it's a cheap and great family thing to do. My local one is the Silver Moon Drive In . There are however a few good and bad things about it, maybe it's just mine, don't know.
Bad
~ the bathrooms. I'm guessing that they're likely as old as the drive in itself.
~ smoking. It's outdoors so not restricted and it's fairly gross to have the smell of cigarette smoke waft into your car
Good
~ people watching at it's finest
~ cheap to get in, mine is 4 dollars per person 10 and up, 1 dollar per person 4-9. Seriously, where else can you see a movie that cheap. You get the added bonus of watching the 2nd feature for no added cost.
~ good, greasy drive in food and no where near as expensive as the indoor theatres
~ and lastly, and maybe most importantly for me, you don't have to worry about the kids sitting still and being perfectly quiet and I can take babe without worrying about him disturbing others
~ we met up with some friends there and got to chat until the movie started while the kids played and got to talk during the movie as well

On Saturday we saw G Force for the kids and The Proposal for us. The downside of watching G Force at the drive in is that we couldn't see it in 3D. It was mildly entertaining but I think would have been much more so in 3D. The kids liked it but weren't over the moon about it. The Proposal was the 2nd feature and was rated PG-13 so we felt that the kids would be okay. Babe fell asleep during G Force and my 6 and 7 yr olds feel asleep a few minutes into the 2nd movie. The only one still awake (12 yr old son was at grandma's) was my very soon to be 14 yr old daughter. It was hilarious, the quintessential romantic comedy. Ryan Reynolds is utterly dreamy and I adore Sandra Bullock. I totally recommend this movie.

Here's a site dedicated to keep the drive in alive, check it out to see if there's one near you Drive-In Theater, you'll be pleasantly surprised!

Jumping Jacks: thou art my nemesis

I've decided to expand a bit on my food entries by including calorie info as that's mainly what I'm watching. I'll preface this new addition by saying: I am keenly aware that it's all estimates for the most part. I'm no dummy. A bag of chips has x amount of calories per x amount of chips but not every chip is uniformly shaped to be the exact same size. What a restaurant has listed as it's calories for joe bob's pasta surprise isn't going to be exact. Maybe the person plating was feeling generous that day. All of this to say that again, it's all estimates. I feel like if I'm in the ball park for what I'm shooting for then I'm good.

On to today's food ;)



B - medium banana (105 cals) on 2 slices light Nature's Own whole wheat (80 cals for both) and a smear of peanut butter (100 cals). I have to expand on this a bit. I major big puffy heart peanut butter, but the combo of peanut butter and banana is crazy good. So yummy food that also happens to be a fruit, good source of potassium, fat, protein and grains all balled up into one sandwich that was only 285 calories is a winner for me.



L - Thai Kitchen pad thai noodles (390 cals) with 1/2 egg (36 cals)scrambled in. The box is 2 servings so the other half of the egg and the remainder of the noodles is put away for tomorrow. I typically add some onion and either shrimp or tofu to this but since I was out of shrimp and tofu and too lazy to cut up onion it was a simple meal, full of carbs and sodium but oh well. I also had 1 serving (1/2 cup) of Ben and Jerry's cherry garcia frozen yogurt (160 cals). I typically don't eat a dessert type food at lunch lately but today I was folding laundry and felt like snacking on something sweet and chocolatey.


Snack - my love, Lara bar apple pie flavored (180 cals). Cashew cookie is my fave but the grocery was out so I got some different flavors.


Dinner - Michelina's swedish meatballs (360 cals). Now I do tend to eat a lot of frozen dinners at night. It's just easier for the most part with my work hours and ease of preparing. I love frozen dinner swedish meatballs. I tried to make them homemade one time and it just wasn't the same. I'm all for the deliciousness of homemade food over frozen but not this time. Brought leftover Glory canned collard greens from Sunday and intended to only eat a cup or so but couldn't resist eating the whole danged bit. I had maybe a bit over 2 cups but to be on the safe side will say 3 (105 cals). Also had 2/3 serving Ghirardelli dark chocolate with raspberry filling (139 cals)


Snack - I will likely eat some colby cheese cubes for a snack and if I do it will be around 55 cals which is 1/2 serving



Total cals for the day if I calculated correctly, or if Fitday calculated correctly, 1704. I calorie cycle and my calorie goal for the day is 1876. I don't know if I've mentioned or not but I use Fitday.com to log calories and love it!


On to exercise~ Did Level 1 Day 2 of 30 day shred and while I survived it I am still sore from head, well neck, to toes, literally. I reference the jumping jacks in my post title because well, I suck at them. I am not able to get through all of them in this sequence but hope to be able to by the end of the 10 days. Further, I look forward to the day, if it ever arrives, that as I said in yesterday's post my arse and thighs jump in concert with me rather than independently of me. That being said, I've never been good at jumping jacks. I think they take some semblance of coordination which I lack and combine that with my being totally and utterly out of shape, doesn't make a good combo.



I.need.to.step.away.from.the.Pampered.Chef.catalogue. It is currently sitting here staring at me enticing me with it's sultry bowls, delectable utensils, curvacious pizza stones and sizzling cookware. I have never bought anything from it because one, I've never been to a party but two, it's danged expensive. The lady in my office who is hosting the party just told me that she's not doing it until end of September/beginning October so I have a few months to save up, seriously. We had a luncheon at work last week and one of the males that I work with brought in this awesome bowl that I'll add a pic of below (have yet to figure out how to insert pics in between text). I love the lid on it. He said if you put a salad in it a week later it's still just as crisp. I need this set. Need it. If I had the funds I could easily spend hundreds of dollars. Damn the lack of money. This has been an extremely long post so I'll end it now and maybe entice you as well into the devilicious catalogue.

Major wedgie

Weekend recap ~ Saturday was my high calorie day yet I still ate fairly well. I'm blanking on what I ate for breakfast but lunch was 2 fresco chicken ranchero tacos (chicken, tomato, cilantro on flour tortilla) from Taco Bell. Dinner was at Chuck E. Cheese for the bday party we attended and had 1 slice cheese pizza, 2 buffalo wings and salad. We then went to the drive in and I had a handful of popcorn and 4 or 5 nachos with cheese.
Sunday was 2 egg whites and 2 slices turkey bacon on a flour tortilla for breakfast, cheese sandwich on wheat and ramen noodles for lunch and chicken and dumplings and collard greens for dinner as well as some fruit. I still had some calories leftover so I had some tres delicious Ben and Jerry's cherry garcia froyo.
Recall that I commited to exercise this weekend? Well, I did! I walked for 30 minutes then came home and did a 15 min. workout for the booty found in this month's issue of Fitness Magazine (http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/workout/butt/exercises/15-minute-butt-workout/and then another 30 with my weights and resistance bands. Now, the title of my post? Since losing weight whilst I've bought new pants and shirts I have not bought any new undergarments. Loose undergarments = tendency to ride. Walking in said undergarments = collosal wedgie that I suffered through for about 25 of the 30 minutes of walking. There was no sly way to dig said wedgie out and no way in hell I was going to just go for it. I suppose it helped me walk a tad faster thinking A. the quicker I get home the quicker I can remove the encumbrance and B. "good god can people driving by see this awful wad of material between me large arse cheeks?". Because I know you're all dying with curiosity, yes, it was removed successfully and without incident upon my arrival at home.

On to today~
B - 2 pancakes with sugar free syrup and 2 slices turkey bacon
L - Half a container of Campbell's light italian veggie soup and cup and a half or so of shrimp over a bed of spinach with tomato, onion and avocado
Snack - ginger snap Lara bar
D - Michelina's tortellini alfredo with broccoli, 2/3 serving dark chocolate
Snack - strawberries

Anddddddd a new section that you used to be able to find on my old blog, drum roll please.........
Exercise - day 1 level1 of Jillian Michael's 30 day shred. Now, it supposedly says that you can lose up to 20 lbs in 30 days. I however, know there's no way in hell I'll lose that much. I do hope to kick the loss up a notch and drop some inches. We shall see. I did fairly well, had to take a break during some of the jumping jacks otherwise I was hanging. Side note: how disgusting is it to feel the lard on your ass and thighs jump independently of the rest of your body? pretty damn disgusting. Hopefully this workout will aid in alleviating that issue. http://jillianmichaels.shop.sportstoday.com/Product.aspx?cp=14308_14361&pc=JIAM13

Tomorrow is school, keep on keeping on with eating and day 2 level 1 of 30ds (that's what all of the cool people refer to it as ;) )

Oh, forgot to mention the movies that we saw on Saturday. We went for the kids to see Gforce of whatever it's called. It was okay. At the drive-in 3D wasn't an option and I'm thinking it would have been slightly more entertaining had it been in 3D. The 2nd movie was The Proposal. We debated about staying but I'm so glad that we did. Super funny and just a good romantic comedy, give it 3.5 stars.

Friday!!

It's Friday, it's Friday, do the booty dance, do the booty dance!

Didn't blog in the last day or two, combo of no time, tired and pissed :)

Today~
Food
B - nada
L - smoothie comprised of banana, fruit salad (made by sil), spinach and low fat vanilla yogurt. Super crazy yummmm. I even convinced my 12 yr old veggie/fruit hater to drink some
Snack - wheat thins, laughing cow cheese
D - Subway sweet onion teriyaki chicken sandwich, 1 serving dark chocolate
Snack - popcorn


I neeeeeeeeed to get off of my ass and exercise. I was doing so well for months and then tiredness and lack of time caught up. I commit to exercise at least once this weekend, whether it's walking, yoga or whatever. Something.
I decided today that I either wanted to go to NYC of DC in February with husband and kids and did some research tonight. It is way cheaper to do DC and the kids seem more interested in that any way so DC it is. I'm already so excited! I went as a teen but don't remember a heck of a lot for some reason so I'm looking forward to going again and experiencing it with my kids. It really is cool how pretty much everything, museums, monuments and such, that we plan to do is free, free, free. I read that you can get with your representative to get a tour of the White House so I am so doing that. To tour the White House alone is cool but a president in office (yes I'm aware that I won't see him) that I truly admire and totally rooted for in office while I'm there makes it extra cool.
Looking forward to no big plans this weekend. My 6 yr old has been invited to a party at Chuck E. Cheese (blech) but other than that, nada. And that is so a perfect weekend for me :)

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

The dress and my new love

Food first! (ha, if you've seen Kicking and Screaming, think "meat first!") Ah, I slay me.
B - 2 egg whites with colby on 1 slice wheat, banana
L - blacked chicken on 1 corn tortilla with pico de gallo and avocado and Campbells light italian veggie soup
Snack - 1 wedge laughing cow cheese with redued fat ritz-like crackers (blech, I need to restock on triscuits and kashi crackers)
D - Zaxby's blacked blue salad, I could seriously eat this daily but it's a bit high in cals and it's 7 bucks a pop which is a bit expensive for me to do daily
Snack - fruit salad, 1 serving dark chocolate
I bought my daughter a dress from Limited Too that *I* loved and she mildly liked for a dance in 6th grade. She put it out at the garage sale this weekend and I told her, kinda jokingly, that if it didn't sell I was going to wear it. I have it on right now! It's a girl's size 12, that's right a kid's size 12 :) The only issue with this dress is that it's also my for a 12 yr old girl's boobs. I have to wear a cardigan with it or I'm boobs mcgee and exposing majorly, not so fitting for work. I also tried on another dress today that I bought a couple of months ago. I haven't in the last month or so but occasionally I check out the local Goodwill and get some fairly good deals. Well I found a BCBG Max Azria dress for 8 bucks!! It is size 6 and so cute. It fit when I got it meaning I could get it on but now it really fits. You see with me I'm currently in a size 12 pants but I'm always able to wear smaller dresses. I can't wait for an occassion to wear the BCBG dress. Onto my new love ~ Anthony Bourdain. I love his show, his punk attitude and after looking a pics of him tonight I have a major crush ;) I'll have to add him to my refrigerator along with my pic of soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo.
Tis all for now!


~my new love~



~me in my daughter's dress~

Monday, monday, monday

(his bday cake :) )

I'm pooped.

The weekend flew by with a garage sale, babe's 1st birthday party, which we switched to Sunday and cleaning. I ate like total poo (fast food galore) on Saturday and while I did fine with breakfast and lunch on Sunday but did go over a bit at his party last night. Dh makes marvelous beef fajitas on the grill so that with rice, guacamole, refried beans, cheese, sour cream and pico de gallo as well as fruit salad, cake and homemade ice cream courtesy of my dad, well I ate gooooood. :)

On to today ~

B - banana

L - left over fajita meat on 1 small corn tortilla with pico de gallo, Campbell's lite italian veggie soup

Snack - reduced fat triscuits with 1 wedge laughing cow cheese

D - blackened chicken breast with pico de gallo and baby spinach, yellow rice, 1 cup fruit salad

Snack - 1/3 serving dark chocolate, popcorn

I sucked it up on my math test last week, blech. I have got to carve out the time between now and my next test on Thursday to study some more.

You know (regarding my diet), I don't know what it is this go round but when I have a day or two of stupid eating it is so darned easy to slip right back into eating well. There have been times in the past that I would try to lose weight, have a bad day or two then three, then four and so on. I rarely pat myself on the back but I am now. I'm really proud of myself for doing so well. Sure, I would love to be at goal by my original date (09/16 my bday ) and I unless I lose 2lbs per week until then that's not going to happen. However, I know that I've made some serious changes in my life, not just for a temporary way to lose weight, but there's just something this time that I know that not only will I eventually reach the total success of reaching goal but I'll continue with my success by maintaining. I don't know what it is but I'll take it!

Reflections and my arse, somewhat related

First the food~

B - McD's bacon egg and cheese biscuit and hashbrown
L/snack - Lara bar
D - Tropical smoothie ginger chicken salad and raspberry banana smoothie. Salad was super crazy good and while the smoothie was good, just way too sweet. I managed to get half of it down.
Snack - 1/2 serving Ghirardelli dark chocolate

Yes, after my diatribe about carbs yesterday I ate at McD's for breakfast. Forewarning to readers of this thread, one, I ain't perfect but two, Fridays are run around days and usually consist of at least one or two fast food/restaurant meals.
Now onto the rest of my post :)

I have a confession to make, well two. Firstly, and I'm not sure why I'm sharing this at all, but hold the presses and make this tomorrow's headline, I've realized in the past month or so that my arse isn't nearly as large as I thought. Huh? Well, I don't know if this is something new or it's always been this way but whilst I have no issues with having wide hips and rear, rotundness wise it seems almost flat. What the heck? My frigging pants are drooping in the rear. Is this what happens as I get old? Flatish boobs can't be enough? I have to have a flat arse too? I'm 32, what happens when I'm 42? What will droop then? Ugh. As for the 2nd confession, you know those trash receptacles in bathroom stalls that are attached to the wall? If you have access to one and it's a reflective metalic, run, don't walk, to it as soon as possible. It makes you look skinnier! I swear. Since I drink most of my water at work it seems like I'm in there constantly and never fail to check out my reflection before I exit. Sad? maybe. Dorky? assuredly. The slightest of mood boosters? hellz yeah.
Now as for reflections of another sort, as of today I am officially 1.5 lbs away from being a normal weight according to my bmi, not obese, not overweight, just normal. Wow. My goal weight is still at least 15 lbs past that but still, I'm so excited!
Baby Adan's birthday party is tomorrow so I've decided to not only do all the cleaning and prep but to have a last minute garage sale as several other neighbors are and the security gates will be open. I am a woman of many talents and hopefully the talent of multitasking will serve me well tomorrow. Wish me luck!

til tomorrow (or Sunday night or Monday night)...

My eats, MyPyramid.gov and Carbs

Hello blog readers!
Food first, then other stuff.
B - banana
L - quesadilla made up of flour tortilla, tomato, cheese and cilantro, Campbell's light italian veggie soup
Snack - 1.5 serving reduced fat triscuit, 1 wedge laughing cow cheese
D - 2 Morning Star Farms ginger teriyaki veggie cakes, 1.5 cups baby spinach with tomato, avocado, feta cheese and salsa verde, small peach, 1 serving Ghirardelli dark chocolate
Snack - cashew cookie flavored Lara bar
I'm calorie cycling and today is supposed to be an up day but I'm not going to reach the number that I should. Ah well.
I found a link to MyPyramid.govhttp://www.mypyramid.gov/ this evening and have really enjoyed looking around. There's a section to customize your nutritional needs based on age/weight/height and/or you can base it on desired calories. I'm happy to report that I pretty much eat what I'm supposed to as far as grains, veggies, fruits and meat and beans. The only area that I lack in is milk. I hate drinking milk and I go through stages of liking yogurt and am not currently in that stage. Go there and check it out!
I wanted to touch on the subject of carbohydrates. I will preface this by saying that I am so not hating on low carb eaters but this is from reading that I've done and personal experience. I've done a low carb diet (Atkins) and was successful. I lost around 50 pounds in about a 6 month time period, butttttttt, for me it just wasn't sustainable. What I love about low calorie eating is that you can have a wonderful variety. Our bodies need carbs, good carbs. What's the difference between a good carb and bad carb you ask? Well, (and this is taken from goodcarbs.orghttp://www.goodcarbs.org/) the best of the best "good carbs" are unprocessed, or close to it, foods. This ecompasses fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds. Your second tier of good carbs is whole grains. Bad carbs are refined and processed foods including, white breads and pastas, candies, snack foods, etcetera. Why do our bodies need carbohydrates? Simply? Carbs are fuel for our bodies and the foods that this energizer are packaged in contain tons of nutrients, fiber, vitamins, etc. that our bodies need to function properly. All this being said, I do try to keep my carbs within a certain percentage but I'm definitely not turning my nose up at them, love them! The Lara bar that I professed my love for the other day contains 23 grams. If I'm remembering correctly, the daily allowance once out of the intro part of Atkins calls for no more than 20 grams per day. But look at the Lara bar that I'm about to eat, ingredients are cashews and dates. Two wonderful sources carbohydrates but also of fat, nutrients and fiber that are also incredibly important components for our diets that I would be missing out on if I was low carbing it. All this to say, please do your research before jumping on the latest and greatest dieting crazes, quick fixes, worked for Aunt Sally's fifth cousin, etc. You only get one body; do your best to run it at optimum levels.
til tomorrow, TGIF!
Oh, oh, oh, as this is a food blog and until I get a working camera again, I leave you with a picture courtesy of my camera phone of my fave food of the moment

Happy birthday to my sweet baby boy!

My youngest and last child turned 1 today and it's so bittersweet. Never again will I cuddle my own tiny infant in my arms, experience the first step of my own child, first word, etc. But my family as a whole is definitely moving onward and upward away from babyhood and toward our collective futures. Sure, my sweet Adan is still a baby, after all, he's still *only* 1 ;), but it's hard. He/we had a great day, met my mom for lunch, he got some gifts he had his first cupcake after dinner and now he's in sweet slumber (while I'm sitting here in math homework hell). We're doing his big party on Saturday so I look forward to that.
On to the food ~
B - 3 small pancakes with sugar free syrup
L - 6 or so small squares of thin crust bacon pizza
D - banana/blueberry/honey/spinach smoothie that babe absolutely loved too, 1 mini cupcake
Snack - Campbell's light veggie italian soup. Though I know it's slammed with sodium, at 100 calories for the container it's packed with veggies, yummy and filling.


I'm pooped so I'm going to end it at that.

Til tomorrow and Happy Birthday my sweet Adan!

First post :)

Hello world!

My name is Amy and check out my about me section over to the right to find out a little more about well, me :)
As I say there, my purposes for this blog are to share the little bit of knowledge I have about healthy eating and definitely to learn a lot more. I'll be chronicling my daily bites, new foods that I try and am always willing to field questions and provide any help or encouragement that I can. Just leave a comment below the post and I'll get back with you.

That being said, on with it!

Breakfast - 2 egg whites in 1 small flour tortilla
Lunch - 1 cup shrimp sauteed in olive oil on a flour tortilla with 1 slice avocado, copious amounts of cilantro and some tomato, Campbell's light italian veggie soup
Snack - cashew cookie flavored Lara bar
Dinner - Subway oven roasted chicken sandwich with veggies and red wine vinegar, Valley Fresh steamers broccoli with cheese (3 servings!) I was totally going to eat the broccoli with some rice and a pork chop that I brought to work but just wasn't feeling it. Also had 1 serving Ghirardelli dark chocolate with raspberry squares.
Snack - small peach, maybe some popcorn


Lara bar, Lara bar, oh how I love thee. If you haven't tried these yet, run (at a respectable pace of course), don't walk to your nearest store that carries them. They are the bees knees as far as totally raw, natural foods and at around 200 calories a pop make a marvelous, nutritious snack.
Check them out! http://www.larabar.com/food/about-larabar

As stated above in my daily bites, I had planned to eat a pork chop, rice and broccoli for dinner. However, I just didn't have the yearning to eat the pork chop and rice once dinner time rolled around. And that's okay. In our efforts to eat healthier, lose weight, maintain weight, etcetera, planning your meals is really key but it's equally important to allow ourselves to stray from the plan of the day. Note, I didn't run out and get a burger and fries but got a healthy, satisfying sandwich and still ate my broccoli. Listen to your body. If you are beginning your journey you may not trust yourself and that's fine. You and your body are on this journey together, learning and reprogramming yourselves. You will come over time to accept that things will vary, that you will stray but the key in this is to trust yourself and know that regardless, you can step right back into line and be essentially none worse for the wear.

til tomorrow,
amy