DOG DAYS

Yesterday was a bad day… No water… only night time fiber vitamins… forgot morning multi and fish oil. My son did not want to go to his new pre-school and so I drove once… he cried, we came home. My husband put us both back in the car for round two and finally he stayed. By 11:00 am I was wiped out. No exercise… lousy food choices. Trips to the orthodontist, followed by volunteer crap at school number two, left me no time to picket, much less blog, much less regulate my food intake.
Here’s what happened:

Breakfast: half English muffin, a little egg… a glazed donut. Tall chai latte
Lunch.. A Subways roast beef sandwich, half bag chips, half chocolate bar
Snack: grapefruit
Dinner: salad, ranch dressing, spaghetti, meat sauce, wine, chocolate bar

Today was off to a better start. Remembered vitamins and two glasses of water. Cereal, banana and grapefruit. Joey went into the pre-school first try. There were tears shed, however I only made the drive once. I came home worked on magazine related projects as opposed to movie related projects then took a walk.
Lunch was a huge and yummy roast beef sandwich with gorganzola spread marmalade and roasted peppers on whole wheat. Plus chocolate.
Dinner I’m making chicken fajitas and rice.

My friend Jane imparted some diet wisdom on me this morning.

One: don’t eat after six pm…. Heard that before of course, but do think it’s true. I’ve never been a huge night time eater. I like dinner pretty early and dessert right away and then I’m pretty much done till morning. But it’s a good tip.

Then she told me about her son’s diet. The College Student Diet. Wake up at 1:30. Scratch your self, shower, wander… it’s 2:30. Eat cereal in front of TV (so it doesn’t count)…. Then eat only one meal. Dinner. Only dinner begins with a box of Triscuits and goat cheese. Then a full meal and then a trip to Pinkberry for a large… this takes more or less all night. Done – back to sleep. Lose weight.

I will say, I have heard a good night’s sleep helps one achieve perfect weight. Not sure I get a “good” nights sleep. But I do sleep at night…. Maybe even 8 hours on occasion. It counts for something.