G goes on a diet

Sh!t Just Got Real

Okay…my diet today was less than spectacular, but I’m pretty sure I’ve managed to be around 1 600 calories. Not too shabby, but not what I want.

Two words: soft caramels and mini marshmallows. Those two things. Yes, I am PMSing.

Tomorrow, though, I am going clean. Yessir, clean. If I crave something I will drink tea, because tea is yummy. And because my friend is bringing me more chai. I will have salad for lunch ( we have chicken breast, that’s going to top it for protein), eggs for breakfast (pre-make egg white baked fritata tonight), drink 2L of water. Nothing store bought (veggies and tea excluded). My treat, will be a small price of toast and cream cheese (I should change this blog’s name to The Cream Cheese Chronicles…maybe I’ll make an other blog with only recipes). No Starbucks, Second Cup,my school’s cookies (I swear those things have something put into them to make us eat them and want them all the time. I bet they’re patented), caramel, mini marshmallows, milk chocolate. If I absolutely need chocolate, 70% and over. None of the high fat pepperoni we have in the fridge, or those kryptonite scones I made. I’ll bring them to school, give them away or toss them out. Oh, no smoothies (I get addicted and add chocolate which defeats their purpose) unless there’s veggies in them and if I’m sharing them. I’ll do my own workout everyday. I’ll be adding five everyday! And invent more. More workouts. But not everyday. Maybe I’ll make a BBC workout calendar. Sherlock, Dr. Who, Luther, Jekyll and Hyde (I highly recommend it, written by Moffat…need an other blog for BBC rants).

Re-reading the first sentence it sounds as if I’m quitting drugs or cigarettes. I’m quitting unhealthy food. Going cold turkey…never understood that saying…

Twinings, M&Ms, Universities and Snow

I am writing this right after eating too many Fritos and M&Ms. But though I feel guilty, I do not regret it. I am PMSing, babysitting and researching universities in the UK ($_$). I allotted myself a cheat. I’m going on a detox diet, starting tomorrow, will let you all know how it goes.

Anywho- tea update. My friend handed me a zip lock full of teas so, I’ll be trying teas everyday…when you think about it its a ziplock full of weeds….bad joke. So tonight its Twinings Honeybush, Mandarine & Orange. Its good. Not sweet, but great. Its snowy out now, and this ‘tisane’ is warm (duh) and comforting. Great cold, cough and flu fighter too!

Today so far, Yesterday so long

Yesterday went better than the day before. I cheated, but not as badly as I normally do. Need to drink more water.

So far today:

Plain yogurt :40 calories
Grapes :40 calories
Two of the cookies I made yesterday: 88 calories
Total from breakfast: 171 calories.

I’m going out prom dress looking (like I have the money to buy one now) and having lunch out. Already know what I’ll have and checked the calories. Jugo Juice’s southwest chicken wrap, 499 calories and water. Because there’s a Laura Secord there and I’m bound to get ice cream.

Day one….flop into the slush on the side of the road.

So, last night I stay up later than usual, that’s OK, I have no school, but then, Mother bloody Nature wakes me up at 6:20 with EXCRUCIATING abdominal pain along with….the ‘usual’. Feeling down I had a, although healthy, big breakfast. Three muffins ( no crap or oil in them-homemade raspberry almond) and 1\2 cup banana raspberry smoothie….not too bad. But being tired and bored ( how much is there to do at 6:20 a.m with out waking up the family, really?) I added chocolate chips. 1\4 cups. So, I thought, don’t worry, I’m going skating. I did. For around an hour. Then my friend who invited friends and I skating, brought us back to her place (after a peanut butter cookie at the café) to her place where she had prepared a FEAST. Cheese fondue (you dip pieces of white bread in melted cheese, common in Quebec), chicken salad (only healthy thing….not too good taste-wise), party mix and BBQ ruffles ( sneak foods are the bane of my existence….that and winter),these little phylo pastries filled with goat cheese and cranberries (God, they were good) and to top it off, chocolate cake and ice cream. I’m achy from mother Nature and its ‘slushing’ out (slush, the kind you find on the road in the very early spring, falling from the sky). Not to mention the 2 hour Driver’s Ed class Just had to take. I hate myself for saying this,but there is no way that I can find the motivation to workout tonight not even if I stare at a picture of Andrew Scott in the hopes of one day meeting him…..FLOP.