mcjenny23's Journal

30 Day Challenge
Oct 28 2009 10:29

I would like to challenge myself (and anyone else who would like to join) to journal all food eaten for 30 days.  Meaning to blog it and put it in for your calories. 

So far today I've had only 1 small brownie (from hubby's bday yesterday) and 2 cups of coffee with 2/3c. soymilk.  I know it's a bad breakfast.  I was so tired this morning, less tired than yesterday morning.  Ugh.  I got 2 night shifts this last weekend, which is GOOOOD cuz I've been getting 1 sometimes NONE.  Out of my available 3 nights, 2 is great :D  BUT bleh it's hard to go from nights to days.  1 night is super easy, but 2 is much harder.  Yesterday I laid on the couch with my 4yr old, making her watch TV, ugh...until like 11 or later!  So today I made myself get up and stay up even after getting my 6yr old to the bus stop.  Thus I drank a bunch of coffee and didn't feel that hungry.  Tomorrow I hope to try oatmeal with canned pumpkin puree, and pumpkin pie spice.  It sounds yummy.  I made pumpkin bread with mostly oats soaked in almond milk.  No butter or oil, only a little flour, and eggs, well of course salt and baking soda.  I kinda made my own recipe.  I'm pretty good at baking/cooking from scratch even without recipes cuz I know basically what it needs to come together.  It was super moist and yummy even without oil/butter.  I think if I make another I will use only egg whites to make it even better.  I think it was more moist than usually because I soaked the oats and barely used any flour.  So it was like a oat/pumpkin bread.  My husband doesn't like it when I use so much oats lol, neither does my veggie eatin, fruit hatin 6yr old.  But the 4yr old liked it.

I hope to lose some weight in the 30 days but mostly just challenge myself to journal everyday on what I ate and exercised or if I didn't.  Starting there should motivate me to stay on track.  I don't want to admit to being bad, so I will be good xP  I've maintained my weight, thankfully.  But I'd like to lose more.  I'm only about 10 lbs from being "healthy" weight.  It will be very exciting to get there, it's been over 10 yrs, I was a young teen and even then I was at the top end of healthy. 

I will post tonight or tomorrow morning with the rest of what I ate today.  Feel free to comment on what I eat.  Today isn't going well so far...1brownie and coffee....like I said, it should motivate me to be better.