oh, Violet

So this morning was a bit of a rough start for me. I went to bed plenty early and should have got up before I did. I finally got out of bed around 9:45am-ish. Kevin had decided he wanted to sleep in a little bit longer and would be late to class. I tried to wake him up but he was too sleepy. Finally he got up and had a bowl of cereal, but then went back to bed. I attempted to make my breakfast, which for the most part turned out ok.

Breakfast:

I tried to hard boil two eggs, but I was being impatient. So, I threw the first one away and decided (after I threw the first one away) that I could just eat the egg whites. I was bummed out about the first one, but oh well. One large hard boiled egg white has about 17cal. I also had half a red d'anjou pear (50cal), strawberry yoplait light cup (100cal) and a 1/2c bowl of oatmeal (150cal) with a 1/2tsp splenda/brown sugar mix (10cal) and 2Tbsp raisins (about 43cal). Total for breakfast: 370cal. It really filled me up too.

Snack:
By the time I needed to eat, I was running out the door to go to school (about 12:45pm); so I grabbed some on the go food: strawberry banana Naked Juice (240cal), strawberry Special K 90cal bar and the other half of my pear (50cal). Total: 380cal. I was also forgoing lunch because I thought we were going to have dinner at Kevin's family's house after his keyboarding lessons, but I thought wrong.

On the way to keyboarding lessons from school, we were going to stop at Wendy's so Kev could get a cheeseburger, but the car had died. Luckily we got it started again and went to a gas station. We've been having issues with the car starting when it gets hot outside and it's below like 1/2tank of gas. After we filled it up with gas though it didn't want to start. So we waited awhile and finally it turned back on and we decided not to go out to Roseville for keyboarding or to his family and just go straight home. We drove the back streets and I was stressed out the whole time. We made it home though.

Snack:
While I was making dinner I got a little hungry so I had a Laughing Cow cheese (35cal).

Dinner:

I made chicken, rice and green beans for dinner. I tried to do something new with the chicken by filling a pan with broth and carrots and onions and covering it with foil and baking it for 25 min, but the chicken didn't look right and I wasn't sure if it was cooked all the way. So I decided to saute it to make sure. The first result of that was not good. It smelled like formaldehyde as soon as I put it in the pan, but after putting garlic powder on it and pepper it was much better. The chicken (about 150cal) was a little tough, which is what I was trying to avoid, but at least it was cooked. I had my 1cup of rice (213cal) with a teaspoon of margarine (20cal) and 3/4c green beans (30cal). Total for dinner: 413calories. I could probably even round it down to 400 because my piece of chicken was probably not 4oz.

After dinner I watched Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. I'd have to say, Private Practice had the better show tonite. At one point, Kevin and the two cats decided to come hang out with me on the couch. Pretty funny as Jasper (the black one) never likes to curl up ON somebody. Next to, yes, but on, no. That's Pogo's job (the grey/white one).

Total Calories for the Day: 1163 calories Pretty low today, but I was kind of stressed and didn't feel like eating much. I also didn't drink much water today. I was feeling my abs being a little sore though! Not a whole lot so I guess I needed to workout a little harder. Eh....we'll see.