Lunch time!

Lunch today was leftovers from yesterday so unfortunately it was the same as yesterday. Very filling but I hope that we have something interesting for dinner tonight.

Lunch today:
3oz chicken breast, skinless - 150
1 cup steamed broccoli - 50
1/2 medium bake sweet potato - 75
Lunch total: 275

Afternoon snack:
1 Soup in hand chicken noodle - 80
4 saltines - 50
Total: 130

I think I'll be having a starbucks frappacino - ya know, those that come in the little glass bottles. I normally have a coffee with lots of milk and sugar to get me through classs but goodness knows how many calories that has.

I'm taking the approach that nothing is off limits to me because I'm not on a diet. I'm eating and living. Amazingly, this takes the desire/anxiety about eating certain foods completelyout of the equation. My thinking is very different when I tell myself I can't have something versus knowing that I can have something, but that it may not work towards my goal. No food is good or bad, and eating certain foods does not make me a bad or good person. Certain foods get me closer to my goal, others don't. Period.

I wouldn't try to go through a semester without ever studying, but at times I slack off a tad. Eventually, I make it up by buckling down and studying my little heart out. I've decided to view my eating the same way. I don't have to be perfect, I just have to be reasonable in my actions. I can eat cake every day. No one and nothing will stop me from doing it if I wanted to, but I also know that if I did that I wouldn't be healthy or in shape or be able to kick ass. All things I really want to be. So, cake is good but it doesn't work for my goal. And that's the important part to remember.