Day 21 Monday

This is the end of week three and at last weigh in it's just about 10 pounds. However at this point in the plan we combine it with the settling in of PMS symptoms. There are three things I want at these points in time: cheese, chocolate and lush fresh (multigrain) bread. And I can't eat them in the comforting PMS doses. So we'll see how I hold up. I'm also not weighing myself as regularly for a while. I might want to kill myself.

So after a weekend of barely eating I started my day off with a hardboiled egg before heading to the gym for an hour on the treadmill (4 miles). I wasn't hungry before I left the house, but after showering and such I got super hungry. My breakfast options set out for the next few days involve milk which I don't have. I had a pear while doing some work online. Before I knew it the clock said 12:00 and I didn't see the point in adding another breakfast item. However come 1:30 I was wicked hungry. It's catching up to me there.

Lunch: Oh look, something new. New to taste and oh so hopeful: Black Beans & Rice. Just in case it didn't work out I had a few lunch options left over from days I didn't eat. So I wasn't super worried that it could be gross. It's beans and rice. I grew up on that; though we were more of a kidney bean household than black beans. But I do like to use black beans in salad and in quesadillas (I use canned Goya but I always rinse that liquid stuff off). I kept picturing this as more of a soup than rice and beans because on the picture there are decidedly more beans than rice. Happy to say it was a good mix of both. It set up very well, and though it doesn't look pretty and it was a little spicier than I would have preferred (thanks to chili powder at the bottom of the ingredient list) it was very tasty. Perhaps the next one I will add a little fat free sour cream (which I didn't have on hand). I wound up taking a long walk to my brother's house and picked him up some Wendy's on the way (not torture since I don't eat fast food anyway) and while there I got myself a side salad to at least complete some of the veggie requirement. I missed a dairy/protein though.


The tummy ache that I thought signaled hunger was still annoying me by early evening leaving me to wonder if I was hungry, my insides were mad at me or this is just the joy of the onset of PMS. Regardless, John had made plans for us to meet up with some people for after work drinks and we left too early for me to have the dinner entree I set out, which I really want to try and for some reason only have one. My plan was to hopefully be able to get some sort of small salad and have the dinner when I got home. Unfortunately, the salad turned out to be a pile of lettuce which is so incredibly unfun. By they time we got home it was 10pm and a little late to have a dinner entree (damn!).

Of course I had the dessert: Chocolate Nougat Bar with Peanuts and Caramel. Where has this been? It was just like a snickers bar. I loved it. I'd put it between the Peppermint Cookie and Thin Mint Crisp in terms of taste, texture and satisfaction. This dessert really delivered.