Lotza Pizza

Breakfast: Jimmy Dean breakfast muffin, sm. banana, 1/2 glass milk.
Snack: 3/4 sleeve nuts
Lunch: Polenta with spaghetti, 1/2 pretzel roll, 8 or 9 olives
Snack: Snickers pumpkin (170 cal)
Snack: 1 cookie---a mistake---that snack made me hungry
Snack after walking home: about an oz of salami and 1/2 oz of cheese
Dinner: 1/2 wise guy calzone, 1 slice sourdough bread w icb and cheese, cabbage salad w feta and olives
Dessert: choc milk and 2 cookies.
Exercise: walk to work

The good the bad: As usual, breakfast is fine. I was also proud of myself for not automatically finishing off the nuts. I realized I was done with that flavor (lime and chili, my fav!). Lunch was ok and the snickers was planned.  Then things went downhill. It was a BORING day at work. I should have eaten the apple and string cheese, or the 100 cal popcorn. But I didn't want the popcorn because I knew I might make some tonight. The apple and cheese was....? I think I knew I wasn't really hungry but that I was bored, so I didn't want to eat because of that. An apple takes some eating, whereas a little cookie just sort of slides in without really "eating." Also, I think the cookie actually had fewer calories than the apple and cheese, but still, my body would have metabolized the healthy snack better. Next time I'll try and eat the apple.  The snack after walking home would have been ok, if dinner hadn't been so heavy. I think I really did need some protein, I took the long way home because I needed to stop at smiths.

Dinner was a problem. Friday pizza is the day I have most often relaxed on a diet. But I'm not on a diet. The error wasn't so much the food, as that early on in looking at it, I realized I'd probably be just fine if I only ate 1/2 of it. But salad is an awkward thing--I hate eating leftover salad, and this one was especially good. I've never left part of a calzone on my plate. Is that even a possible thing to do? What if I had eaten 3/4 and the other 1/4 wasn't enough to warrant saving? Then I would be MISSING OUT!!!!  Or so I think--or rather feel, is more accurate. What's to miss out? There is no calzone for me today. Whether I'd eaten it all, or eaten enough and thrown out, the result is the same. The only way to have calzone today is to have listened early on and saved it.  I think I didn't do that, because usually I'm "back on track" on Saturday and wouldn't normally want a calzone around to throw me off.

Such baby-ish simple things that undo me!!!!