Day 9

Menu:

Breakfast – Almond & Coconut Kind Bar

Lunch – Chicken & Spinach Wrap

Snack – Edamame

Supper – Leftover Clean Chinese Rice

Snack – 1/2 Quest Bar

 

An interesting Tuesday!

I’m officially in a routine. I know about what time each day I eat, take supplements, etc.

Today totally threw off that routine.

When I got to the office, I mixed up my Spark and took my daily dose of Catalyst (which is optional on the 24 day challenge) and ProBiotic Restore Ultra. 

I’m not sure what I was thinking — but I didn’t eat breakfast like I planned to before I left the office. I had to be at one of the stores for 8:00 am to meet with our sign guy. I didn’t think I would be there for as long as I was, but… I was.

So, at around 10:00 am, I’m near starving. I’m looking around the store frantically, but I can’t find anything to eat. We have full kitchens, so I could have gotten them to cook me some eggs – but I really wasn’t feeling eggs at all. Like we’ve established, I’m funny about eggs. We normally have baskets of bananas and apples, but they were fresh out and the delivery was coming the next day. Just my luck!

I go to the F’Real machine and start reading ingredients on the smoothies (strawberry/ banana, mango, or mixed berry). I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of those would work (they have very few, mostly clean ingredients), except – they have skim milk. I decided at the beginning of the challenge that I wouldn’t do dairy for the first 10 days (cleanse phase). So, I walk away sadly.

I start looking in the granola isle. It really amazed me how many self-claimed “healthy” bars have so many preservatives and un-pronounceable ingredients. I knew that Kind was known for being all-natural, so I checked those out. Impressive! I settled on the Almond Coconut bar, which only had a few ingredients including whole almonds, large shavings of coconut, and honey. It’s not the best Cleanse phase breakfast, but it’s better than a Sausage Egg and Cheese Biscuit. Ok?

And yes, since I didn’t even think about breakfast… you already know that I forgot my fiber drink too! 

When I got back to the office around 11:30, I had my fiber drink right before lunch. Kinda threw off my schedule, but I figured that taking it with lunch was better than not taking it at all!

For lunch, I had a whole grain wrap with chicken and spinach. I used a little bit of homemade Italian dressing to jazz it up a bit. I also had a few grapes.

I heated up some Edamame for an afternoon snack, and the girls at the office were freaking out because they had never heard of that. I made them all try it and they actually liked it! 

After work, I made my weekly trip to Wal-Mart. Oh joy! My buggy had a few unclean items in it this week because Zack was out of a few things that he had to have… Like white bread because he doesn’t like my new whole grain. 

When I got home, I was excited to find that UPS dropped off our new Dish receiver and the travel packets for our Dominican Republic vacation in June! Yay!

When Zack got home and attempted to hook up the new Dish receiver, it did the same thing that the old one did. 😦 An hour on the phone with customer service later, we have to pay an additional fee to get a tech sent to our house. Hopefully, we will get TV back soon! I’m dying.

For supper, I ate the little bit of clean Chinese rice that I had leftover. Not terribly exciting. I also took the OmegaPlex.

I was craving something sweet, so I ate 1/2 of the Brownie Quest Bar. It was ok, but it wasn’t as good as Chocolate Peanut Butter.

I ended the night with a nice soak in the bath tub.

 

Weight Update:
I am officially down 7 pounds! Woop woop! My clothes aren’t so snug anymore, I have energy, I feel great!