Yesterday was what I a call a “free day,”  meaning I could do absolutely nothing and not feel guilty about it! Usually, I feel bad if I “waste” my weekend by not getting anything accomplished (ie: laundry, dusting, vacuuming, scrubbing the kitchen, painting, applying to jobs, mani/pedi, catching up on correspondence with out of state friends). And yesterday I didn’t do any of that! Well, I did work on my website (which is sort of like applying to jobs?), but all in all, we did nothing productive and it was awesome! As I mentioned yesterday, we started our day with IHop, then came home and watched Batman – the REAL ORIGINAL Batman! Then both of us, separately, surfed the internet on our iPads, then I started working on the website again. Then before we knew it, it was 5:30pm. So then what? Time to order carry-out online from Chili’s! In the midst of the change to a healthier lifestyle, this is my “maintain” week, so I wanted to indulge myself – as it was Independence Day and that’s the epitome of being a (free) American anyways. I wanted a flippin’ bacon cheeseburger! And that’s what I got! I did only eat half of it and half of the fries, so I didn’t feel terrible about myself. And that was enough to fill me up! Unfortunately, getting on the scale this morning – I had gained back the 2 lbs I lost Tuesday. But hey, it all evens out as this was a maintain week and it was just a bonus that I lost 2 lbs the day before. I’m okay with it. Today’s menu consists of apples and cinnamon oatmeal breakfast, veggie soup lunch and fruit snack. Dinner will be quesadillas made with shredded chicken (the boyfriend is starting that in the crock pot this afternoon), spinach, reduced fat feta cheese, onions, peppers, and cilantro in a wheat tortilla. I don’t think this will be so bad for us? After going to the gym and burning a good 400 calories, I think I’ll be fine. And then next week we are back to the diet or rather the better way of eating – no bread, no cheese, no flour, no sugar.
This is the diet we use.

We actually stray from this some bit – I can’t really eat fruit for dinner or eat veggies for breakfast. And if I ate 8 bananas in one day, I would die! (No, seriously I would, I take Yaz and there is a warning of taking in too much potassium, so I have to be careful of bananas and potatoes.) But the day of fruits and veggies is awesome! And we have even made the Fowl and Tomatoes day work – wrap-less fajitas with fresh salsa (tomato diced, onion, cilantro). Granted we are adding in a little more veggies, but whatever, it’s still better than the alternative! And for weekend breakfasts, we make our own hashbrowns (just shred up a potato, cook it in some olive oil or safflower oil like we have) and then dump in diced veggies like peppers, onions, zucchini. (Can you tell we like peppers in this house!?) All in all its not a bad diet. And if I can think “hold off on the cheese and bread, you can have it next week” then I’m okay to stay on track. Although I have found that I don’t WANT the cheese and bread all that much anymore. And that makes me really happy!! Unfortunately it is pretty costly to do this. To keep a lot of variety during the week, you have to buy a LOT and some of it doesn’t last more than a week so it gets spoiled. But we’ll figure it out and make it work. Now on to work on the website so I can add it to the rest of the social media blitz and get it on my resume and cover letter. And then it will be fingers crossed for actually landing a new job!