Friday, May 28 -- Week 21, Day 6

Today was a little cooler, thank goodness! The heating and air guy came today to try to figure out what's wrong with our air. He left here having fixed the heat, but not the air. ?:-\

We were able to stay home all day today too, which is always nice. Today was the last day of book school. We'll have a game day tomorrow, and an "educational field trip" next week to Nevada, but other than that, we are done!

BREAKFAST:

• 1 egg, fried in non-stick cooking spray
• 1 slice homemade wheat toast with spray butter
• 1 Breyers light vanilla bean yogurt

The egg and toast are old news. I have gone back to eating just the yolk though. I know, I know. The unhealthy part. I tried the white. Meh...

The yogurt.... I vaguely remember eating a yogurt about 2 years ago. It was a Yoplait white chocolate raspberry one. It was ok, but by the end of it, I was kind of gagging. So I wasn't really looking forward to this, but I figured as many strange new foods as I've endured over the last 4 1/2 weeks, that perhaps the yogurt will be more tolerably. But by golly, I actually liked it! I wonder if it was the difference in texture between Yoplait and Breyers.

LUNCH:

• tomato soup
• 3 oz. ham + 1 tsp. mayo in a wheat tortilla
• sugar-free chocolate pudding

I was eating this while the AC guy was here, so I was a little distracted. I have come to enjoy eating my meals more slowly, because they are smaller. The only way to make a smaller meal last is to eat little bites and put the rest on my plate in between bites. The soup was good. It was just normal canned Campbell's, but I sprinkled it with some pepper and Italian seasoning to make it have some flavor. Nothing else to say about the rest.

DINNER:

• about 3/4 cup SmartTaste Ronzoni spaghetti
• about 1/2 cup meat sauce made with ground turkey and fire-roasted tomatoes
• 1/2 cup green beans
• salad
• 1 pear half with Splenda
• half an onion pita toasted in a skillet with garlic butter and some mozzarella

This was all very good. The bread was kind of an accident. I was thinking I was allowed a bread with dinner, but after I ate it, I realized I wasn't supposed to. But oh well. Calorie count came out just fine. I just sprayed a skillet, spread the pita with minced garlic + butter spread + salt + Italian seasoning. Then sprinkled it with mozzarella and covered it until the cheese melted. It would have been better broiled, I suspect, but we STILL have no oven, and now we're coming up on a long holiday weekend. Sigh...

I will still have a small glass of skim milk later this evening, but then I'm done. That's fine with me, because dinner was a pretty big plateful of food. After the milk, I'll end my day at about 1125 calories.

I really need to go for a run. Maybe I'll try to do that before it gets too dark. Now that my stomach is full. :-\