Day 10 Thursday

Breakfast: I was crazy busy Thursday and I'm shocked at how I stuck to the plan for the most part. I had to tear out of my house as soon as I got up to run some pretty important errands (which ended in multiple fails, but that's a whole other blog that I'm not starting up) so I didn't have time to sit and have a full breakfast. Luckily it happened that breakfast was a Chewy Chocolate Granola Bar. Understandably after that last one I was scared. But this one was good. It was kind of like a Quaker Chewy. However, in the non Nutrisystem world I tend to only eat granola bars with 100 calories or less. Since I literally ate this on the street, I have no photo. When I finally got home I had my dairy/protein: a 50 calorie 4 oz Fiber One strawberry yogurt (that was the snack food I got at the discount store instead of the crap I usually roll home with).

Lunch: Pasta Parmesan with Broccoli. Sounds good in theory, it's in the vein of what I would get in the freezer section of the grocery store. The picture on the container doesn't look so good. I don't think there was any sort of lighting or angle to make this look good. As with the pasta alfredo the other day I planned to add more veggies to it, and since I get protein I also wanted to add chicken. So while the sauce was setting up I cut up and heated some Perdue Short Cuts Grilled Chicken Strips (super handy to have around, I add it to salads, diet meals like this, I make chicken quesadillas with it and sometimes DH just eats it out of the bag as a snack). As well as about 1/4 cup of frozen broccoli and sliced up about 6 cherry tomatoes. Either I was too impatient and didn't let it stand the full 6-8 minutes or it's just like some of those other meals-goop. So my additions were perfect in taking up some of that sauce. Technically the broccoli and tomato are unlimited and counted as one serving so I should have had another veg but I kind of forgot. I bulked it up enough to be quite filling.


Snack: I had thought of this afternoon snack the other night in bed and I was so excited about it. I diced up a nice Fuji apple (the whole shebang instead of the half I've been having) and sprinkled it with cinnamon and gave it a whirl in the microwave. When it was a bit soft and squishy I added half of my 100 calorie fat free Vanilla Yoplait Light yogurt. Mmmmmm, good. Tricked my tastebuds into thinking it was apple pie or cobbler.

Dinner: We've seen dinner before. It was a Grilled Chicken Breast. Although I should have taken a photo, it looked a bit smaller than the last one. Prior to heating it up, I juiced 1/4 of a lemon over it to perk up the flavor a little more. I tossed it in a salad with my usual veggies (though I miss adding corn and black beans to my salad. They count as a carb on Nutrisystem and I'm not on a plan where I can add one to my meals). I was allowed a 100 calorie bread with it but I didn't have it. I bulked up on the veggies moreso than usual.

Dessert: Fudge Brownie I was excited about this. Brownies are awesome. While this dessert was good, it didn't live up to the other desserts I've had. It also didn't live up to the brownie title. Picture definitely looks better. I was wrapped up in what I was doing so I missed the fruit and fat serving. Oops. Even bigger oops. DH decided to eat super late and got pizza. It was sauceless and cheeseless (it had grilled chicken, pesto, diced tomatoes and olives) and I ate almost half a slice. I've officially called the DH mean for inhaling a pizza pie right next to me after having watched me eat a salad. Wonder if I had enough calories that I didn't eat during the day to cover that. (I know it's not really his fault. I should have had more willpower...or he could have put mushrooms on it so that I couldn't touch it, ha!).