Can one eat the same breakfast for the rest of one's life?

I like breakfast food. I really do. I love waffles and pancakes and muffins and eggs (cooked any way except scrambled) and English muffins and bacon (turkey or pork) and fruit compote for the pancakes and oatmeal and....well everything they serve on the brunch buffet at "The Grill" our local eatery. I like cereal too, but I have to eat it with soy milk (or non-dairy milk).

So why is it I find myself eating the same breakfast over and over? I guess because it is just easier that way.

November 8, 2014

Breakfast: 2 fried eggs with veggie cheese, 2 piece turkey bacon, leftover popover from last night

Orange juice

2 cup tea

I made oatmeal but didn't eat it

Taco Bell boritto, chips and cheese sauce (I know this is bad! Don't judge)

2 pretzel rods

5 blue cheese stuffed olives

Veggies - celery, carrots, pea pods
Pita chips

Leftover chicke thigh and tomatoes and onion

Sweet potatoes

Broccoli and balsamic vinegar and olive oil

2 handful chocolate chips

2 shots flavored vodka

Coctail with 2 shots flavored vodka

Pop corn with flavor salt and parmasean  cheese

Yesterday was bad...very bad

Yesterday was bad! I know this! Sometimes that hungry caterpillar comes out and I can't stop. I just need to make better choices than I did yesterday. I am still sick today, the mucus is coagulating and coming out my nose and mouth when I cough it up. So that is a good thing, right? I think I am on the down slope of this cold and hopefully it will be gone by Sunday.

One thing that I've noticed lately is that I am getting hungry at night. After the kids are in bed and I'm relaxing on the couch. That used to never happen. I typically have satisfying dinners and am good until the morning. What is my body trying to tell me? Maybe I should just try drinking more water. Can I drink any more?

So today is a new day and I will work on making better choices. I've taken an inventory of the refrigerator and know that I can go there for broccoli, red pepper, pea pods, grapes, pears, leftover chicken and pork for lunch, spinach salad. I'll work on staying away from the cupboard and the Scobby snacks, Halloween candy (most of the good stuff is gone now anyway), and crackers (because when the crackers come out so does the butter).

I am working through this. This record of what I am eating is working...somewhat. I just have to learn from it.

No weight today and that is probably a good thing.
November 7, 2014
Breakfast: Oatmeal with pear jam, ground flax seed, soy milk and light honey
Hard boiled egg
2 piece turkey bacon
Decaf coffee with half and half
2 cup tea
Grapes
Veggie cheese
Leftover fajita meat with onion and pepper
Leftover green beans and brussel sprouts with balsamic vinegar
More grapes (I have them sitting on the table and am grabbing one each time I feel the urge to get up and eat something, it is working to keep me at bay so far).
5 blue cheese stuffed olives
Sugar snap pea pods
Left over chicken thigh with tomatoes and onion

- My stomach is bubbly now, not sure why I don't think I ate anything bad that would cause that.
-  Also now I am craving something sweet to counter act my lunch, I just feel like I need something to top it off, I'll drink some water and tea and maybe that will help.
Celery

Pretzel rod
Red beans and rice with pop over

Fun size 3 musketeers 

4 shots flavored alachol 

2 shot cocktail 

Still a little sick today

Well, I woke up with snot in my nose and a sore throat and cough. So I'm still sick today, but I am at work and will hopefully recover. Orange juice always makes me feel better when I'm sick. I don't know if it is a left over from when I was a kid or the magical powers of the orange, but it just feels good to drink with a clogged nose and hacking cough.

No weight today. I've also thought about some motivation. My husband and I are going to Mexico in February. We will be in swim suits 80% of the time we are there. So that is some motivation to move on loosing some pounds. Although it will be tough with the holidays coming up. But let's see how it goes.

November 6, 2014
Breakfast: Oatmeal with ground flax seed, soy milk, honey
2 turkey bacon
almonds
6 ginger cookies
2 cup tea
1 glass orange juice
Decaf coffee with half and half
Triscuits
Tootsie Roll (long skinny one)
2 Fun size 3 Musketeers
3 pieces of Halloween candy (does it really matter what it was?)
Sugar free hot chocolate with whip cream on top
Chicken, rice and vegetable soup
Pita chips
Left over chicken thigh with tomatoes and onion
Chocolate chips
WHY DO I HAVE SO MUCH GAS?! 

Dinner: pork loin roasted with pear, onion, and garlic

Roasted sweet potatoes

3 shots flavored alcahol 

Soda water with cherry vodka 

Bread with peanut butter and light honey

Scooby snacks

Sick and mad

Today is the day after the election and the measure I have poured my heart into didn't pass. I just have to say that fighting for conservation is hard. I am passionate about it and I get hurt when things fall on the other side. So today I am fighting depression and anger, plus I am also sick. I have a cough, sore throat and runny nose.
No further post today. I am going to try and rest and recuperate.

Election day...I stress eat

Something I have learned about myself over the years is that I eat for comfort. I eat when I'm stressed, I eat when I'm sad, I eat when I'm not even hungry. It's just...well, how I am. I'm not saying it's healthy, I'm just saying. The challenge is to make the right choices when I do eat.

Today is election day and there is a measure on the ballot (Measure 5) that I am really passionate about and I want it to pass. So today might be a bad day for eating for me. It is a measure to support conservation in North Dakota and it is necessary to keep our outdoors, water and communities healthy. So, until the polls close and we know the results, I may be on edge and putting things in my mouth that aren't necessarily the best. Or I may just over eat. At least I am aware of it right?

So I will stay away from my triggers, which shouldn't be too hard since I don't have any in the house. Oh wait, there is that Halloween candy and I did get some fun size 3 Musketeers bars half off at the store last night. I'm in trouble.

No weight this morning.
November 4, 2014
Breakfast: Oatmeal with ground flax seed, soy milk, and honey
Decaf Americano no cream or sweetener (from coffee house)
Part of an oatmeal raisin cookie that I shared with kid
2 cup tea
Triscuits and humus
Bowl of mashed potatoes
Pita chips
3 fun size 3 Musketeers
Dinner: Chicken and pasta with pesto sauce with roasted yellow squash, fennel, and broccoli
Baked pear 1/2 with cream cheese and ginger cookie

Went to Democratic post election party and ate lots of junk
8 meatballs with some sort of cheese substance on them
6 slices of sausage in bbq sauce
potato chips and onion dip
olives
cake with too much frosting

Sometimes I feel like the Very Hungry Caterpillar

Well another weekend fail at keeping records. I may have to concede to writing this blog during the week and manually writing down what I eat through out the day on the weekends. I love spending time with the kids and keeping active on the weekends. So, that may just have to suffice then update on Monday or something. 

This morning I am back to 204 pounds. Sometimes when I eat it just isn't enough. I want more and can't seem to stop myself. I don't know where this mentality comes from. Sometimes I look for stuff I can just pig out on. I've tried to work on switching my thought process and choose better things to gorge on like sugar snap peas and mini peppers. Veggies that are good for me and won't cause too much havoc on my body should I over indulge. I do know my triggers and try not to have them in the house. Carmel popcorn, Oreo cookies are just a couple of my over eating triggers.Pasta, I've already discussed my butter addiction, I'm sure there are more I am forgetting, but they are mostly sweets. Oh, Raisinettes are one too.

November 3, 2014
Breakfast: Oatmeal with honey, ground flax seed, and soy milk
1.5 piece turkey bacon
Hard boiled egg
Cheeze-its
2 piece toast and butter
Hot chocolate sugar free with whip cream
Decaf coffee with cream
2 cup tea
Fun size twix, snickers
Noodles with left over pot roast veggies and gravy
Sugar snap pea pods
Snack on noodles with the kids
more pea pods
Dinner: pan fried salmon with seasoning, mushroom tartlets with puff pastry, spinach, and feta
1 glass red wine

Happy Halloween!

I'm not even going to try and restrain myself today. It's Halloween and I know I will be eating lots of candy and probably be getting wasted tonight. So there. I LOVE Halloween! I love getting into costume and having parties. We haven't had an adult party in a few years since we have had kids. I've said I am going to focus my energy on having kid parties, but I think I might weight until they get a little older.

No weight today.

October 31, 2014
Breakfast: 2 turkey bacon, oatmeal with ground flax seed, honey, soymilk
Red pear
Almonds
2 piece veggie cheese, 2 piece veggie bologna
6 blue cheese stuffed olives
Celery with peanut butter
Pot roast with egg noodles
Several pieces of Halloween candy
Lots of drinking
4 shots
2 mix drinks
2 more shots
Hung over the next day