Catching Up

Whoo! its been a couple days.. Oh well... life gets in the way.. and then forgetfulness. but I'm back now. And my new companion. His name is Wesley. He is my new fish. I just like talking about him.. he is a Spaz fish. Which makes him a very entertaining fish. Anyway.. food. Its been going good. I have been staying on track. I even had to go back to the store last night because I ran out of food. As in I ran out of vegetables, I guess I didn't correctly calculate just how many I would be eating. On the plus side I can definitely tell that I feel better. More energy and such, I guess eating green stuff will do that to a person. I have also been eating a lot of orange stuff, Carrots. I eat at least a cup everyday. That is a serving a cup. They are the veggie I eat with my lunch. Bananas have also become a favorite. I have never been a big fan of bananas, but I am starting to like them.
This morning for breakfast I had a cranberry orange thingy.. well the package called it a pastry. but it so was not.. it was more like a really really really small loaf of bread. Although it tasted pretty good. Then for lunch I had cheesy potatoes and some carrots and tomatoes. oh and of course string cheese. Gotta have the string cheese.
Well for this being a catching up blog it had been pretty short. Oh well.. the point was to get back on and do it. So.. go me..
!Chelsea!

MMM. Chocolate

Today is day three. Whoo. This morning I tried out the cereal, and well it was actually pretty good. Along with some grapes. 15 grapes to be exact. who knew that 15 was a serving of grapes? I sure didn't it also seems like more than it is, maybe I just have exceptionally small grapes. For lunch I had Fettuccine Alfredo, and some carrots and bell peppers. oh and string cheese. gotta have/love string cheese. it is probably one of the easiest ways to feel like a child again.

I also have some exciting news regarding my afternoon snack. My cottage cheese had thawed out!! yay so I had organic cottage cheese and 15 more grapes. also some cherry tomatoes (I can have as many of those as I want in a day). I also added some of my super fancy whole foods pepper to it. Yummy yummy.

in the evening we( my suite-mate Dani and I) went to go see "the hangover" in the S.U.B. well this was my first experience in healthy snacking at a movie. I had a diet soda and fake M&Ms ala Nutrisystem. actually they are very good. and there was way more in the bag then I expected there to be. they did leave a faint cocoa powder aftertaste. but I am never one to complain about the taste of chocolate in my mouth.

chocolate also reminds me of something I didn't get to yesterday. One of my yogurts was chocolate, and I am now an advocate of chocolate yogurt. it tasted almost like pudding. but not.. it is actually kinda hard to describe the taste... but it was good. I know what I will be turning to in the middle of the day when I feel like I need a sweet fix. and with it being yogurt I get more of it than I would regular pudding.

oh! dinner, just ate it actually gotta love the schedule college puts on life. I had lasagna and a salad. oh and 15 grapes. I have had 45 grapes today.. go me..

my lasagna had peas and beans in it though.. which was really weird. it’s not that it tasted bad. it tasted like the ravioli I had last night. and both taste similar to Chef Boyardee. anyway... it wasn't the taste of the beans... but the random change in texture. its fun how sometimes the food tastes great but texture ruins it all. like soggy cereal, or beans in lasagna.

!Chelsea!

Are you ready? Are you ready for this?

Here we are day two of my weight loss journey. Oh no, what happened to day one? Well gotta love college students... I meant to start writing yesterday.. but put it off til today.. butthat's okay.. Who says counting must start at one anyway? Today in my math class we started counting at 20.. so I figure I am still ahead of the game.

The reason I am doing this blog is mostly to help myself. If I believe I have people waiting to read what I write I have more incentive to actually get on the computer and write. Granted, it is completely possible that no one will ever read this, but the point is I believe there are. So, Hello readers!

I have spent my whole life, all 19 years of it, struggling with my weight. I have tried many things, but always gave up after a while. Not this time. I will turn 20 in November, and officially not be a teenager anymore. It is time to grow up and take control of my life. Yesterday I started Nutrisystem. I chose this plan not because I want the work done for me, but so I can prove to myself that by only eating these things I survived and felt better than I would if I continued mymonstrous eating habits. Also, hopefully I will see some results which will give me incentive to continue.

So now on to what I had to eat today. For breakfast a very small cinnamon roll, a pear, and yogurt. Then for lunch black bean tortilla soup, string cheese, and come carrots and cherry tomatoes. I should probably add here that I am a vegetarian, so for a regular meat included Nutrisystem diet entrees will be different. For my afternoon snack I was going to have some grapes and cottage cheese.. well when I went into the fridge to retrieve my cottage cheese I found that putting it in the back was a bad idea.. it was frozen.. so I had another thing of yogurt.. which means I will forgo yogurt tomorrow, so I don't have to go back to the store quite so soon. I have not had dinner yet, but my plan is cheese ravioli and a salad, add bell peppers and onion. And of course my yummy Newman's Own Light Italian dressing.

Eating healthy is expensive, I can see why most Americans don't like it.. I spent almost $50 on produce alone.. not exactly what a college kid usually spends on food. but it will be worth it.

It is time to take control and make my exclamation to the world. I can go from being a miserable comfort eater, to an adult who leads a healthy life style

!Chelsea!