March 23-
I haven't been good about blogging the past few days, but I have done a really good job of eating. I've even increased my water intake, so I have had less headaches.

Today we had a luncheon at school, and it's amazing what a difference non-real food makes. I was anticipating this, so I tried to plan ahead. I still brought a morning snack (nuts & dried berries) and then when I signed up to bring something, I signed up to bring a dessert and made oatmeal raisin bars using some alternate ingredients to make it healthier. The only thing I didn't sub was the brown sugar, and it still was too sweet. Anyway, I'll log my foods so far today below, but I did want to comment that I let myself "slide" by getting a little bit of the regular pasta to go with my meatballs. (There was no whole wheat option). For dessert I had one small bar of what I made and then took a small piece of a cake that was there. Yuck! It was way too sweet. I should have just thrown the rest away but I didn't want to be rude so I did finish the small piece. This would have been something that generally I would have taken a second piece of, but not today- no way! It was much too sweet for my liking. And now, just 10 minutes after eating I already have a stomachache.  I forgot that non-real foods aren't only bad for you but they also make you feel bad too. What a cool reminder to keep it up. Tomorrow will be 1 week since this began, and I'm pretty stinking proud of myself so far that the only "cheats" were a small amount of regular pasta & small piece of cake. KEEP GOING!

Breakfast- 2 banana walnut whole wheat pancakes, drizzled with honey, cheese stick
Snack- nuts & berries
Lunch- pasta (X) with meatballs & sauce (X), salad, fruit, oatmeal raisin bar, cake (X)
Dinner- salad at Outback, honey sunflower icecream (X?) at Leo's

Tomorrow I weigh myself...I was 141.6 last weekend so anything that matches or is under that will feel good!