Lazy Morning

Calories are more flexible than I think. Sometimes (most times), it feels as though I can hardly eat anything before the calories are all used up. Other days it's astonishing how much food I can pack into a calorie limit. You'd think then, I'd track those abundant days and eat like that all the time right? Well, no. Although I always try to make healthy choices, I usually simply want to eat what I want and I'd much rather eat a small amount of whatever that is, than eat a larger amount of some substitute.  So, no snacks today. Bummer.

It's a yummy food day nonetheless, even without snacks. I knew I'd want a solid breakfast. The plan was to get up when the alarm went off and get ready quickly so I could enjoy my food. I'm the world's slowest eater, but I usually have to inhale breakfast or eat on the run because I don't like getting up in the morning.  Not even close today. I didn't get up and I didn't want to rush so I didn't. Dave offered to take me to work and I jumped at it. Today is 1700 cal, and the idea is to have 500 for breakfast and lunch and then 700 for dinner. Ok. But even though what I'm eating sounds large-ish, it looks and feels small to me.  Thank goodness for gum. Here's the menu--

Breakfast:
A jimmy-dean breakfast sandwich
a big banana with PB2 peanut butter
milk with quik for chocolate milk.

Lunch:
chicken with Frank's buffalo sauce
salad
white tortilla (weird this--I actually prefer whole wheat, Catherine likes white and we get it for her sometimes, but I hardly ever touch it. Except last night. It had to be white. Maybe that's my inner junk-foodie demanding a fix. So long as it doesn't become a habit, fine.
1/4 cup blue cheese crumbles

Dinner--not exactly planned yet, but will have a Hungry girl chocolate chip scone, a huge omelete, bacon and maybe some fried potatoes if I have the calories for it.

So---hardly starving, but it feels small. But the good thing is that this is good practice. I want to get to the place where I eat some ONE thing--a wrap or sandwich or whatever, and I realize that I've just had a perfectly fine lunch. Every meal does NOT need to be a full blown feast. It doesn't need to be a sandwich AND chips AND a pickle AND a fruit AND some milk AND a pop AND some cookies. Honest. Provided the sandwich is reasonably healthy--a sandwich is ok. If fruit and a pickle show up--great, but truly, one item is ok.