Life Gets in the Way

It's funny to me how I can start the day with a clear plan and them POW! life just gets in the way! I've got nothing if I don't at least keep my sense of humor, it seems.

So, about the whole "I'm going to have a quinoa and roasted veggie lunch and make a roasted chicken for dinner" yesterday?  Yeah, none of that happened.  However, I did manage to come in 500 calories shy of my maintenance number, so that's a great big leap in the right direction.  Here's how I did it:

• Breakfast was an HMR cereal packet with a banana.  That ended up being 315 calories.
• For lunch, I had the rest of the chicken kielbasa (to get it out of the way) and the rest of the roasted root vegetables I'd made earlier in the week.  Lunch ended up being 348 calories.
• In the mid-afternoon I snacked on some wasabi peas.  Mmmm...so good!  That was another 120 calories.  They're also pretty decent in terms of fiber (3g per serving) so they held me over until dinner.
• For dinner, I made a pot of fresh marinara sauce.  I actually measured the oil (which I never do) and only used a teaspoon so it wouldn't add a lot of calories.  I paired this with pasta and meatballs and a sausage ring.  All in my dinner was 700 calories.
• For dessert, I made a banana bread pudding with a banana, HMR cereal packet and an HMR vanilla shake packet.  That was 425 calories, but it also had 6.5g fiber so I wasn't tempted to eat the rest of the evening.

My totals for the day were significantly better than the day before:  

• 1707 calories
• 1462 mg NA
• 24g Fiber

I've got one more pound to go before I can make my first donation.  I can't wait to get there!