Tuesday Eats

Tuesday is here and with it another lunch box and run down of the things I am eating today.

Breakfast: whole wheat toast (1)  with 1 teaspoon of peanut butter  (2.5)
Breakfast total 3.5 points
Tuesdays at the office are tricky for staying on target since the company picks up starbucks coffee with an array of pastry for us. The plan have a smallcoffee because I need it today if I plan on staying up until 10 pm for the CVMC general meeting.

The makings of a  healthy lunch box

Lunch today is a dinner repeat really  1/2 cup of pasta (4)  a side of salad greens , no dressing no extras (0), hard boiled egg (2) I also packed a snack of 20 almonds (3 ) and a  1/2 cup of seaweed rice balls from Trader Joe's (2)

Lunch total 11  although  5 of these points count for a snack.
 On the agenda  as far as fitness and activity goes today I am still on the fence. it's raining this am so I am not sure if I am really up for walking in the rain this afternoon. I feel a cold coming on and don't want to make it worse.

Lunch packed up in the box.

Pre Holiday Weekend Eats

Last day at the office before a long weekend and holiday fun. Oh how I can not wait to get the heck out of this place and spend time with my little family.  On the menu today:

Trader Joes , peanut butter crunch bar- 3 points
Yoplait lite  blueberry yogurt-3
1/2 cup pasta a la E (E made dinner for me last night thx honey!) 5
Side salad -0
1/4 cup pineapple chunks 2 , I will proably  chop these down further and put them on my salad since I  do not use any dressing and I could use a  new take on side salads these days .

Hope you have a  great day. I have lots of plans for blogging while I am on a break and for the new year.

Tuesday and Wednesday Lunch Boxes

Tuesday Lunch
Slice of turkey and side salad with no dressing
2 pt blueberry mini muffin (tj's)
Cheese stick
Kashi Crackers

The only thing I ate from this lunch on Tuesday was the crackers. (3)  I had too much coffee at the office and was full.


So I saved the energy in making a  new lunch last night and just did a repeat minus the crakcers. I replaced that with a 5 point Larabar Cherry pie. Not the best option but Something I can eat before my massage session this afternoon to give me fuel to get through the work, or palpating muscle and tissue.  I also got a 1 point hot chocolate  from the not so great taco truck that visits my office and an order of toast.

Lunch LAST Week

Monday




Tuesday


A small glimpse of what my lunches looked like last week. I am taking a break from posting about my  daily eating for the week. Since it's Thanksgiving week and I know I am going to be eating way more than  I should come the end of the week I thought I would just keep what else I am eating tight lipped for now.

Dinner and Lunch

                                              Dinner : rice, salad, and one chicken leg



     Lunch : Salad with carrots and salsa, chicken leg,  HB egg and fig newtons, and raisin crunch cereal

Tuesday & Wednesday Eats

Tuesdays Lunch Box
Mini bagel (2)
Chicken sausage(3)
White beans (3)
Laughing cow Cheese (2)
I also packed  some tofu and orange slices  but did not eat them

Todays Eats
 Breakfast: Muscle Milk smoothie (3), rice cake with peanut butter (2)
 Snack : Orange slices (2) fruit strip (1)
 Lunch: Half of a chicken breast (2.5) 3 tablespoons of mashed potatoes  and gravy (1), WW 1 point bar.

Soggy Day Lunch Box

What an awful day already. Woke up late thanks to a little that snuck into bed with me and threw my internal body clock off with his  wiggling in the middle of the night.  As I was rushing to work in the soggy weather I was harrassed by a police man ... I was going the speed limit but he still choose to flash this big light on me  make me pull over and then he drove right by me . I guess I should be happy that it was a little warning  to slow down and not a ticket but that made me even more late. I gave into cold weather temptation and got a latte and a nibble  from Starbucks I did not even finish because the both tasted nasty.


Now on to the box.

Breakfast. I give up on that points wise . Forget about it
Lunch: brown rice, black beans and chicken  (4), cheese stick (2)
Snack : a choice of a lara bar  cherry pie (5) a tj cereal bar (3) or a rice cake (1) depending on how this day goes will be the deciding factor.

Rainy Day Eats

Tuesday Eats:
Breakfast : Muscle Milk Protein Shake (3), sourdough bread w/ PB (3)
Snack : I packed the same apples I proably will not eat. if this becomes the case I am just going to boil the apples I have a make apples sauce... is that how you make apple sauce? I don't know
Lunch: Brown rice with black beans and chicken (5) , mini bagel (2) , String Cheese (2), Fruit Strip (1)

* I also packed a rice cake  but may not eat it. I have found I am rotating eating some of my box items  during different parts of the day.I am also thinking a mini  bagel and a rice cake are not the most wise things to bundle together but I may save the rice cake for a pre workout snack to get me moving a little more at the gym this afternoon. I have been dragging butt maybe because I am tired and its a low energy part of my day... I will see how this works.

Monday Lunch

Monday Eats

Breakfast : Muscle Milk Smoothie  (3) , rice cake (1)
Snack: Chocolate Chip Cliff bar (5) Fruit Strip (1)
Lunch : Banana (2) String Cheese (2)  pasta (4)
I did not eat the apple.

Thursday Lunch Box

Thursdays  Lunch Box
Banana (2)
laughing cow cheese wedge (1)
TJ apple cereal bar (2)
TR juice (2)
Wrap with proscuitto, tortilla, sprouts,mustard and 1 tomato (3)

I also had on tall skinny vanilla latte and a pumpkin scone from starbucks. I only get startbucks on Thursdays now if I am up early enough to get it pnj my own adn not send a  girl  from work to fetch it for me . Points  I am estimating  about 8 but not sure for sure. I will be sure to go on a walk during lunch and then I have a massage session today  and that always burns calories believe it or notand depending on the strokes I use deep tissue, chops , etc I get a little mini upper body work out .I have to skip the gym today as it's E's b day and I need to get home to prepare for all of the fun. We are not having anything super special just our favorite take out and a little cupcake party with the littles. Then hopefully a nice night to enjoy each others company it feels like its been forever since we have sat on the couch together and caught up with each others lives.

Tuesday Wednesday Lunch Boxes .. and gym update

Tuesdays Lunch Box
String Cheese (2)
Trader Joes Apricot fruit strip(1)
hard boiled egg (2)
Beef Stew (4)
Banana I did not eat and a lara bar I did not eat either.

Breakfast was muscle milk  shake (3) and rice cake (1)



Wednesdays Lunch Box

Half of a santa fe burrito that I had for dinner last night from the burrito shop , not sure of points
sprout tofu blueberry salad (2)
string cheese (2)
hard boiled egg (2)
half a banana (1)
Tj's apple crusher (2)

I also had a muscle milk protein shake for breakfast (3)  with a rice cake (1)

If your just starting to read my blog the numbers in  the parenthesis after a food item is the weight watchers point value . hope that helps clear that up.

I will say that I feel hungry already. I don't know what it is about sitting in this office in the morning that makes me so hungry. It's frustrating since I am trying to be good  and don't want to blow my points. I had a great work out at the gym the last two days and since Monday I have earned  more than 15 activity points that I am able to use?   I think this is wrong  I was not sure I could earn so many and actually use them so I  am checking with my weight watchers leader this week. What did I do to earn those points... my lunch walk 30 minutes a day gets me 2 points. I worked out on the elliptical machine for 30 minutes and that earned me 5 . Free weight machines  Monday took a yoga class for 75 minutes and totally worked my butt off that earned me 6 .  Monday I also did 300 crunches.

I repeated the regimen on Tuesday, lunch walk , elliptical @ gym plus weights and crunches Skipped yoga as I was tired yesterday and had to run to Target. All in all its been a pretty successful week for  keeping on my plan and working out I hope it pays off on Friday when I weigh in.

Monday Eats

Monday lunch box

hard boiled egg(2), TJ's apple cereal  bar (3),  half banana (1),  half chicken bread sandwich with sprouts and feta (4) , 1/2 cup beef  stew (3) 1 slice laughing cow cheese  (1)

Breakfast : 6 oz  muscle milk smoothie  (3) opps I forgot my 11 am short vanilla non fat latte ... so bad  but I needed it today I was starving well before lunch time.... by the way why am I feeling like I am starving  early in the Am. I think I need to add some peanut butter to my smoothie or maybe pack a rice cake or something I don't know but I need to figure it out. I am not felleing like this meal replacement shake is replacing anything.... maybe I should be mkaing a bigger one? Any advice?

A not so exciting box but whatever its Monday. I got a head start on Monday night dinner by turning on my crock pot last night and making a yum yum  beef stew. It smelled so delish this am I cheated and packed a half cup for lunch just to hold me over until I can get home and enjoy this evening.

End Of The Week Lunch Box

Happy Friday to all! I plan on doing a lot of Blogging today so let's start out with a lunch box:

Salad greens, sprouts and black bean salad (1),  1 table spoon of peanut butter and 1 half apple (3), half a banana (2), Kasi Morning Sunrise cereal sample packet (1) ,one trader  joes organic lolly pop .. I bought these for the littles  but stole one since I am a little curious how they taste.  That's right,  candy in the house for a whole seven days and this is the first one I am going to have.  Snaps for me... 3 pops are 1 point , but I am going to count the 1 point anyways and a WW 1 point bar.

Whole box  is 9 points... I should go to calorie king and count all of these calories or keep a running tally  but its Friday I will start better habits next week. Breakfast,  btw was a 6 oz muscle milk protein shake in chocolate  3 points.

Tuesday Eats

 

Back at work after a long weekend. Breakfast was a a muscle milk chocolate protein shake  and a 1/2 a cup of  dry cheerios . Today's lunch is Morning Star veggie patty (3), side salad with black beans (1), a hardboiled egg (2) and  just in case I get a little  hungry an 18 rabbits  granola bar (4)  and I intended to bring this banana but forgot it at home oppps!

End of Work Week Lunch Box

 Thursday Eats

Breakfast: Muscle milk protein shake (3) and one fiber one blueberry toaster pastry(3)

                 Lunch:  Side salad (0) , the remains of my Santa Fe burrito from the burrito shop,

last nights dinner (points unknown)  A hard boiled egg (2)

Hump Day Box

Sandwich w/ turkey breast, mustard and muester cheese  (5)
Salad  (0)
1/2 cup yogurt w. blue berries adn dried cherries (4)
hard boiled egg (2)

* Breakfast was a muscle milk low calorie protein shake (3)
   One slice of hawaiian bread (2) because I was feeling a like I need a little more this AM.

End of Week Lunch Boxes

Thursday Lunch Box

WW chocolate smoothie, salad , hard boiled egg, beans and sausage and wheat thins


Friday Lunch Box
WW pb dream bar, 1 slice of pizza, salad, and pasta I proably will not eat.

Wednesday Lunch Box

Rice and beans with one chicken sausage, fruit strip, trail mix with almonds, dried cherries and yogurt raisins, hard boiled egg, cherry tomatoes, and a cliff  bar I probably will not eat.

A Lunch Box Collection

 

Last Tuesdays Lunch

                                                                 Last Wednesdays Lunch

                                                                    Last Thursday Lunch

 

Yesterdays Lunch

Last night I was running around  cooking dinner, taking yoga classes and attending a cvmc meeting so I forgot to pack my lunch. E thought he would help me out and pack something for me which is sweet but it was nothing to blog about. In fact he stuck a tupper in my lunch bag andthat was it. Oh well. I will pack a more interesting lunch tomorrow

Lunch Boxes

Monday  ... kinda exciting A full box side salad, sandwich, trail mix, tea bag. and fruit strip. Much more interesting to look at .


Tuesday... way boring. I was craving sleep last nigth and decided to just make my lunch box in the AM as quick as I could. It really shows huh?  What a boring lunch just looking at it is making me not want to eat it. sigh .