Bring on the weekend ...

... and why not? It's not like it matters to me. Being unemployed, the weekend is just like any other day. The major difference is that all of a sudden your friends are very willing to do activities. Hmmm! :)

I'm still being good. Looking forward to getting on the scale on Monday - how weird is that?



I baked up a ton of chicken yesterday - so that served as yesterday's breakfast. And I have about three or four meals of left overs - total cost was about $7. Dinner was steak and salad (I apologize for the poor pic quality - took it with my cell phone. I was bragging to a friend!) I found a T-Bone in the Reduced for Quick Sale section of the grocery store's meat department. The steak was thick and quite the value. I have a cast iron grill pan - I used that to cook the steak in the oven - thank you Alton Brown! I thought I had ruined it, turned out it was nearly perfect. I used VERY little of that A1! Didn't need it. Sure, a real grill would probably have given me better results, but the pan did an amazing job! Not a bad meal for cheap(er) meat!



Breakfast this morning was fresh fruit. (Those black bowls of mine do get around, don't they?) A friend of mine over the weekend expressed her fears that I wasn't getting enough fresh fruit. As a low carb person and as a person watching his sugga and sugar intake, fresh fruit is often a no-no. However, I've been eating a lot of canned fruit recently as a replacement for candy and other sweets. So, going to fresh fruit didn't seem like such a jump. Besides, the fresh fruit with soy milk I had for "dinner" the other night was really good! The weight seems to be coming off, maybe a little fruit isn't so bad? We'll see. One of these days I need to check my blood sugar! Haven't checked in in more than a month.

But, let's think about what I actually ate here. I have:

2 Bananas
1 Pear
1 Cup Grapes
1 Cup Soy Milk
Ton of Splenda (Darn my sweet tooth!)

All told it's about 550 calories, give or take. It's also about 65 to 70 grams of sugar. So, yeah, it's a lot of sugar, but it was a lot of fruit and a good deal of protein. It's been three or so hours since breakfast and I'm still full. As per always, I need to watch my portion control, I could have had just one banana, and been 110 calories lighter and 15 carbs less. I'll probably have a decent dinner with a friend tonight and still come in well under the 2000 calorie mark.

Hopefully, the fruit was a good trade off. The scale on Monday will tell the tale. I'll let you all know!