Eating Out Thursday

I started off Thursday with a healthy breakfast. I changed things up a little bit and made an egg wrap with a 100% whole grain tortilla, scrambled egg whites, a little bit of sprinkle cheese, and a sprinkle of light ranch dressing. I also had a banana with it. Needless to say, it was really yummy and I'll be having one those for breakfast the next few days.

I took a picture open so you could see the good stuff that I put on the inside.

My whole breakfast.

I also attempted to make another oatmeal breakfast cookie as a morning snack. It is actually pretty good for you with oatmeal, Greek yogurt, and nuts. Protein and whole grains. Mine still doesn't look like the picture on the blog I got it from, but it tastes pretty good.

Attempt #2 at the cookie.

After breakfast I went to run a few errands like stopping by the post office and returning more stuff to the store. This time it has nothing to do with returning things I'm not using for the bathroom reno. I was looking at my motivation closet, and I found some clothes with tags still on them. My shredder is jammed, so I haven't shredded receipts for a long time. I decided to pull out some of the more casual summer clothes and return them if I could find the receipt. I did this because I'm not going to fit into them before the school year starts. Once the school year starts, I won't need many casual clothes since I have to dress up four days a week. I think part of it has to do with the frustration I have with myself for not doing better with the weight loss this summer too.

Three bags of clothes to return. It is a shame I haven't fit into them yet, but I did get about $70 back.



I was environmentally responsible and made some Crystal Light lemonade in one of my reusable mugs for my trip instead of buying bottled water or pop.



The fates tempted me with a coupon off of candy bars! I went home and threw the coupon away immediately.

My hubby and I decided to go out for lunch at a restaurant that is about a five minute walk from my house called Lucrezia's. Here's the website if you are interested: http://lucreziacafe.com/. I have never been there before, but my hubby has with my FIL. The food was good and the service was also great. It was also fun to sit outside to eat as well.

The outside eating area. We were the first ones of the day there.

They gave us bread and oil to start off with. I had two of these small pieces of bread.

I also had a house salad which was very yummy.

My main course was minestrone soup. Also very good!

After lunch my hubby needed to take his car in to get his breaks repaired, so I followed him out there so he could have a ride back home. The rest of the afternoon was spent sanding the walls again. We are getting closer, and should hopefully be done with the walls on Friday.

Yes, this again. If my same picture is annoying you by now, imagine my boredom in doing this activity again.

I also went out to eat with the hubs and FIL for dinner at a local restaurant called Bronko's. I didn't take a picture, but I did get the two piece white meat chicken dinner with a baked potato. Bronko's chicken is really good. So good in fact we had it at our wedding!

As you can see, I did do a lot better with the eating today. I had one downfall and that was snacks. I ate around five granola bars today! I know that is insane, but I think that admitting and documenting this online might help me to get myself back on track. I tried on a couple pairs of work pants today for some more motivation. They both technically fit on my body, but it doesn't look too good. I might even pop a button or bust a seam! I'm hoping to build on my small successes today and have an even better Friday.

A Good Tuesday

Tuesday started off with an Egg McMuffin and driving to meet my sister to do some shopping.

I had a banana instead of a hash brown.

She is getting a new place that has to be gutted down to the studs, so she was pricing what she could find at Bailey's.

Here's something that I usually don't drive by- a sunflower field.

Another thing I don't see as often is mint.

My final destination.

Although I wasn't shopping for myself, I did find a couple of good deals including some cheap batteries I'm going to keep on hand for work, a big bottle of dish soap for $1.99, and a big bottle of clear store brand Softsoap for $1.99. My fun find was a shower curtain rod. I had already bought one that was curved, but this one has details that exactly match my towel bar, hand towel holder, robe hook, and toilet paper holder.

We also went to a flooring store, but didn't find any great bargains.

We then went to a furniture store that was liquidating their inventory to see if we could find a sofa (which there were a few okay ones, but didn't buy anything). After all of this shopping we were hungry, so we went to Subway. I got my usual turkey on wheat with lettuce, tomatoes, provolone cheese, onions, green peppers, and honey mustard. I was a good girl and passed on the raspberry cheesecake cookies that I love.

After lunch we went to the Family Dollar and Alco. I was expecting to find a few things that grabbed my attention, but I didn't. Then it was off to home to work on the bathroom again. Here are some pictures of the sights on the way home:

I just love driving down roads with trees draping over them. I don't know why but I do.

I spent my afternoon mostly using a palm sander to try to get this horrible latex paint smoothed out. It kept coming off in globs and messing up my sandpaper. I sure hope that all of the walls aren't this difficult to sand.

There are some tight spaces, so I had to use the old fashioned way as well.

My dogs were also busy this afternoon...

I stopped for a snack and decided to try an oatmeal breakfast cookie I saw on a blog. It was pretty good, but mine didn't look quite like the pictures on the blog I found it.  

My hubby helped me cook up some yummy chicken for dinner. It wasn't too hard at all and we just cooked up the chicken in the wok with seasoned salt, pepper, bay leaves, thyme, and rosemary. I had a bag salad and a 90 second rice pack, so I added those as my sides.

It was such a nice evening outside that the hubs and I went on a short bike ride after watering all of our fruit/veggie plants. It was a good way to end the day. Almost all healthy eating and lots of walking and a bike ride is a nice change of pace from the usual days I've been having.