healthy living diary

So I realize I'm only in day 3 of my whole 'not eating like an idiot/exercising an acceptable amount' kick, but it's going pretty well. Yesterday I had planned to go for a walk when I left the office, but then (of course) as soon as I walked out of here it started raining. Great. So I stopped at the butcher and then drove to Target to get a grill pan (more on that later). I then made up for the fact that I didn't get as much working out in as I'd like by doing 50 minutes of aerobics/strength training/yoga on the Fit last night. And it's a good thing I skipped the gym, because it was basically a monsoon outside at the time I would have been walking home from there. Our softball game got cancelled last night, which was sad.

I christened my grill pan when I got home, and it is great. It feels like it takes longer than an actual grill to make chicken breasts, but I like it. All I did was sprinkle them with salt and pepper and throw them on there. I intended to serve left over pesto sauce on top of them, but I forgot about the sauce until we were done eating. They were good anyway. I also made a gigantic pile of steamed broccoli with lemon juice on top and a very small quantity of risotto. Blake complained about the amount of broccoli, but I informed him that this is how we eat now, so he'd better get used to it.

And now a warning to anyone who wants to buy a cast iron grill pan ($19.99 at Target!). It works great, you just spray some Pam on it before you throw the meat on there...but it gets really hot. And when you're done cooking with it, you're going to want to remove it from the stove and let it sit and cool while you're eating before cleaning it. I tried to run it under the sink when I was done and all I can say is that I can't believe our smoke detectors didn't go off. There was a lot of smoke. A 20 minute cool down was all it needed to stop doing that.

I can't tell if my problem is that my body is adjusting to smaller portions or that it's in the habit of having dessert at night, but despite my dinner of a grilled chicken breast, at least two cups of steamed broccoli, and about a quarter cup of risotto, I felt like I wanted to eat again like an hour later. I didn't. I think this was more out of habit than necessity, because I'm pretty sure I ate a large enough dinner that I shouldn't need to eat again. I did have a square of Dove dark chocolate with almonds, which helped a little.

I continued my Wii Fit morning routine today. I have a lunch date with Kristin, so this will be my one lunch out of the week. I'm going to try to behave myself. After work I'm hitting the gym for a 45 minute cardio/25 minute lifting session and then I'm making vegetable fried rice when I get home. It's a Cooking Light recipe, so it shouldn't be too awful for me. I just have to watch my portions. And of course, I made an extra chicken breast last night so that I can add it to Blake's rice because he wants to kill me when I try to serve him meatless meals.

Have a good day everyone!