Day 3-Thursday

That's it, breakfast pastries from Nutrisystem are just pretty nasty. Too bad I cluttered my breakfast selections with them. Loooong month ahead. If I do this for a second month I am swapping out all the pastries for cereal. I have hope for the cereal. I mean, how can you muck that up? Pastries I can see, but cereal? Today's blueberry muffin definitely didn't look like the package. See all those huge blueberries (or substitute blueberries?) on the package? Non existent in reality. Same texture as the last two as well. Barely a taste of blueberry, but somehow it smelled like blueberry. That's a little creepy.
I don't know if it's the breakfasts themselves or if it's me, but I'm having a hard time getting it all down without feeling sick. I don't typically eat a proper breakfast because it usually leaves me feeling the way I have felt the past few days-waaaaaaay too full. But this is part of the plan. Whereas I would go to the gym and then have a hard boiled egg or a yogurt or a piece of fruit, I'm now have to have all three. It's way too much food for me in the morning. But maybe I am supposed to get used to this? I think when I'm done with this program if I still have trouble with breakfast I'll go back to something small, but have something else in between breakfast and lunch rather than all at once and then waiting. (Or hell, I might start spacing out the breakfast tomorrow-half before the gym the other half after?)
Lunch was Chicken Salad which came in a pouch and I could add bread to. Hello 80 calories for 2 pieces of light whole grain toast. This was a let down visually. *Note on the picture-that's not blurry, that's the way it looks. On the package the chicken looks, well like chicken, out of the package we have goop again. I'm not deluding myself, though I rarely have eaten chicken salad I am a big fan of tuna salad and I know it can run on the goopy side. I expect that from a deli. I do not expect that from nutrisystem. I've also had those Starkist premade tuna salad pouches and though they have similiar stats nutritionally they are not similar in texture. I could make a better looking chicken salad myself with similar stats. Pluses were, the taste was good and there was a definite relishy kick to it, so I didn't add a pickle slice like I am inclined to add to my sammys. I added carrot sticks as my second veggie (slice of tomato and a lettuce leaf in the sandwich were the first) with a tiny serving of fat free tzatziki sauce. Yummy. It was a satisfying lunch if messy.

Midafternoon Snack: I ran errands so I didn't have this until about 4. I wasn't hungry but I'm supposed to have a dairy/protein and fruit. I had tossed a yogurt into the freezer earlier to make a fro yo which I had with a plum.

Dinner: This I am excited about. Pizza. I've tried all the diety frozen kinds-weight watchers, lean cuisine, healthy choice etc and they've all been pretty good. (My fave is the lean cuisine french bread pizza). This easily looks like the picture on the box.
I started off by having my 6 almonds for fat followed by my little salad of the greatest unlimited veggie hits. Then made the pizza. Though it makes perfect sense I was a little surprised at it all being in separate packages to assemble. Duh, I'm so used to frozen. It was good, however going forward I am going to cook it in the toaster oven instead of the microwave. It left it a little chewy. Otherwise it was everything I could expect from a diet pizza. Plus side-it was seasoned very well and the sauce was very good and there was a decent amount of cheese. Not sure why but the cheese as it came out did not look like the box.

Trying to incorporate the fruit serving as a kind of first dessert, so that I can have the nutristystem dessert a little later for the tv munchies. 15 Grapes was my serving.
Dessert: Chocolate Chocolate Chip pudding. Powder in a pouch to which I add 1/2cup of skim milk. I go into this expecting something equal to or greater than a jello sugar free pudding cup. I love those. It misses the mark. Maybe I didn't stir it fast enough but it didn't have a very creamy texture. A little grainy which could be lack of necessary stirring. Chocolate chips inside are yummy and a nice bonus.
Starting to wonder if I'm going to have a day where I enjoy all my meals.
At least I'm not hungry, and I've lost 3 pounds. According to my temperamental scale.