Wednesday, May 19 -- Week 20, Day 4

Today was a good day. I ate lots of good food and got lots of great exercise. Now if only I could apply that to housework, I think maybe everyone would be a lot happier!

BREAKFAST:

• 3/4 oz serving cream of wheat
• 1 cup skim milk
• 1/2 cup sliced strawberries with Splenda

This was very good. The taste of fresh strawberries has really grown on me. I really truly enjoy them. Too bad our latest box is gone. That will give me something to look forward to for next week though!

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LUNCH:

• Greek salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, tomato-basil feta cheese, light Italian-romano-red pepper dressing)
• 1 thin slice homemade wheat bread
• 1 tsp. margarine

Also very good!! I absolutely LOVE this feta cheese!! That's unfortunate, because at that price, I'll probably never buy it again. Something tells me plain feta isn't quite as delicious as tomato-basil...

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DINNER:

• 3 oz. sautéed chicken
• 1/2 cup brown rice
• 1/2 cup wax beans
• salad
• 1/2 cup sugar-free chocolate pudding

And now ... are you ready to feast your eyes on the most colorful dinner ever???

Or not. I can hardly wait until we decide on a stove. It's really hard to cook without an oven. This was supposed to be baked chicken. I just sautéed it in a skillet sprayed with cooking spray. I seasoned the chicken with only salt and pepper. About 5 minutes before it was done, I drizzled a splash of white cooking wine into the pan and cooked it until it was evaporated. It made it a little more moist than it usually is.

As much as I enjoyed the chicken salad I got from Sheetz the other day, I figured I might as well put my chicken ON my salad. It was really good. This dressing was light 3-cheese ranch. I think I opened the bottle roughly a year ago and it's still good! That's not an exaggeration. I really think it was about a year ago.

This chocolate pudding mix came from Fisher's Country Store. It is REALLY good! I used all skim milk, but it was still very rich and not at all grainy. I prefer the chocolate to the vanilla, but both are quite good! And only 23 calories each serving (I divide a 4-serving pack into 6 bowls).

For snacks today, I had 2 graham cracker squares and a big bowl of vanilla frozen yogurt. Before the yogurt, I was at about 812 calories, so it was a big bowl. I ended the day at 1082 calories.

I ran 1 1/2 miles this afternoon, which burned about 200. Then this evening, I biked 6.5 miles during soccer practice, which burned about 400 more. Hopefully the scale will be kind in the morning!