Wednesday 5/22

7:00 am. Breakfast: toast with a little butter and two slices of ham, French yogurt, and coffee with milk. 9 points.

2:00 pm. Lunch: spinach burrito with pico de gallo, jack cheese, rice and beans. 17 points.

3:00 pm. Sea salt caramels. 5 points.

7:30 pm. Dinner: a cocktail, some gourmet wings, agnolotti, and fried Brussels sprouts. Ate dinner with a friend and all plates were split, so the pics show way more than I actually ate. No real idea and probably low balling it, but lets call that 28 points.

That makes 59 points for today, 31 points over budget, effectively wiping out weekly points. 70 oz water. No workout.

Tuesday 5/21

7 am. Breakfast: 1 slice wheat toast with mayo and 2 slices ham, a hard boiled egg, a banana, and a cup of coffee with milk and a little sugar. 8 points.

12:30 pm. Two pieces of wheat bread with mustard aioli, turkey, cheddar cheese, lettuce and tomato, and an apple. 11 points. (Picture borrowed from yesterday, I ate before snapping a pic!)

6:00 pm. A slice of cheese pizza. 9 points.

Plus, I drank my weight in diet soda, as pictured. Despite exactly hitting my daily target of 28 points, this was my least healthy day in a week and a half.

No exercise officially, but I was running an event at work tonight and was on my feet running around from 4 pm to about 10 pm, and I am exhausted!

Monday 5/20

7:15 am. Breakfast: 2 slices of ham on toast with a little butter, a vanilla yogurt, a banana, and a cup of coffee with milk and 1 tsp sugar. 8 points.

12:30 pm. Lunch: 2 slices of Milton’s bread w/ mustard aioli, turkey, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and tomato, and 1 apple. 11 points.

2:30 pm. 1/2 donut. 5 points.

8:00 pm. Dinner: grilled chicken breast and a lettuce, cucumber, and tomato salad with homemade vinaigrette. Plus 4 Toblerone peaks. 14 points.

Sunday 5/19

8 am. First cup of coffee with 2% milk and 1 tsp of sugar. 1 point.

8:45 am. Breakfast: whole grain toast with a dab of mayo, tomatoes, and fresh mozzarella, and a banana on the side. I think I was going for a Caprese thing, minus the basil. 7 points.

1:15 pm. Lunch: Salade Nicoise composed of butter lettuce, tomato, red onion, garlic, green beans, red potatoes, olives, 1 hard boiled egg, and 4 oz of tuna. Salad dressing was homemade of olive oil and red wine vinegar, salt and pepper. 10 points.

8:00 pm. Dinner: 4 oz grilled chicken breast, steamed broccoli, bell pepper, and hummus. Dessert was 4 Toblerone peaks. 13 points.

I recycled yesterday’s Toblerone pic, hope you don’t mind.

That makes 31 points for the day, 3 over target. 41 weekly points left. Earned 5 activity points with this morning’s hike. Drank about 80 oz of water too.

Salad.

I’m going to post this in my food log again later on, but I had to share this super delicious salad I made for lunch today.

I grew up eating French food because my family is French, and it’s my go-to cuisine for just about everything.  We’re from the south of France, so I’m very familiar with the cuisine of Provence and Nice.  One of my favorite meals ever is the Salade Nicoise, a salad from the Italo-French city of Nice, and I’ve adapted a slightly healthier, less fatty version here.  This makes a big Salade Nicoise for one.  The only foods I measure are the ones that cost points, so most of the vegetables I just eyeball.

Butter lettuce
Tomatoes
Red onion
1 clove of garlic, minced
Cold steamed green beans
4 oz cold boiled red potatoes
1 hard-boiled egg
4 oz tuna, packed in water (not oil)
6-7 nicoise olives

I make the salad dressing from 2 tsps olive oil and 1 tbsp red wine vinegar, some salt and pepper to taste.  It’s just enough to cover everything, not enough to drip.  (I passionately, passionately hate bottled salad dressing, so all of my salads are dressed from scratch.  And they’re delicious and way, way, way lower in sugar, salt, and fat.)

This thing is huge, by the way.  I’m not sure if you can tell how big the bowl is, but it’s a pretty big bowl.  A nice, filling salad that will keep me going all afternoon.

I looked up a “traditional” Nicoise salad today, expecting to be smug and knowledgeable in my French cooking, but apparently a true Nicoise does not include potatoes or green beans, and does include anchovies and fava beans.  !!!  I’ve been to Nice many, many times, and I’ve eaten a Nicoise salad there many, many times, and all I can say is there is probably no definitive salad since half the restaurants I’ve been to there certainly included potatoes and green beans.  Whatever.  It’s good, no matter what.

A hike for a workout.

Today’s workout was a hike up Runyon Canyon.  I started on Hollywood Boulevard and busted ass up to Mulholland Drive.  See?

It took me a little over an hour, so my pace was something like a 17:30 minute mile, which is shocking.  I used to be able to do this hike in about 50 minutes.  I’ve definitely lost some spring in my step, but I’ve got all summer to bounce back.

It was a gorgeous, warm, sunny, hazy day, and many good-looking people were on the trail.  And many of the men were shirtless.  And I was happy.

Happy Blogiversary to me!

Two years ago, I (re)started this blog with this post.  Hooray!  Two years!

Hooray!