i made this

and it was delicious and you should too.

My Shopping List for This Week

I'm going to purchase everything found on this list. Superfoods! Including: berries, spinach, broccoli, eggs, tea (HA already have those two), yogurt, and nuts. Nuts is just funny, yes?

Not only are these all superfoods (which is like...a super trendy term for "healthy") but they all also happen to be on weight watchers lists of filling foods - keep you full now and make you eat less later. BOOYAH. Goal for the week is to have every meal include one or more of the things on that list. Then, be skinny and hot, and get revenge on boys.

Counting Calories and Why I Hate It

First off, this is helpful in trying to figure out how many calories you should actually be eating to maintain and then how many you should less than that to lose. HERE! (You can also sort of do your weight X 10, but they have a little formula on that website that seemed more legit and also more fun. That formula also included something where you can factor in exercising.)

As an FYI, I'm aiming for anywhere from 1,000 to 1,400 a day in order to lose a pound a week. Ideally, I'll be doing 1,200 a day so that I don't have any days where I over eat and even worse, any days where I under eat.

I'm also keeping a food diary on the Microsoft word where I'm writing down everything I eat and an attempt at how many calories it has. Myfitnesspal has a TON of restaurants information listed, and also comes with a handy dandy app (thanks nette-dawg) that's fun for countings.

I'm hungry.

Breakfast of Champions

If you all hear me saying that I ate anything other than what I'm about to list for breakfast over the next few weeks, punch me. And more importantly, EVERYONE EAT BREAKFAST. And eat more than you think you should, it'll keep you from eating more later in the day. You might get hungry faster, but you'll fill up faster too.

As a side note, the amusing thing to me is that I know all the tricks about staying and eating healthy, but I just won't do them. I'm probably just helping you all win faster. Whatever.

Acceptable breakfast menus: egg, 2 pieces of turkey bacon, veggie juice. OR 2 eggs, a glass of milk and a glass of veggie juice. OR 3 pieces of turkey bacon and veggie juice. If I'm super starving, a piece of 35 calorie bread toast. (BTW, 2 pieces of that is just 1 weight watchers point. excellent.)

THATS IT. ok?! No Spadlings and no Frosted Mini Wheats (Sob) and certainly no real bacon.

Today, I'm Only Eating Cheese, Turkey, and Pickles

That's because I ate approximately 1000 calories worth of Bourbon and Toulouse southwest etouffe (that's a word, I just don't think I can spell it) and white chili. And bread that was painted with butter. That was my lunch. WHOOPS.

Most of my posts will consist of me listing off the stupid things that I ate for lunch and why I'm being forced to starve myself for the rest of the day.