This week was full of cheats!! =(
I have been having bad reactions to greek yogurt and cottage cheese lately. This is a HUGE bummer because they were major protein sources for me. I can only guess that it is the lactose intolerance coming out in me again.
So, I am desperately trying to reach my calorie goals each day, focus on protein, and eat very little dairy. It's been SO hard!
I sometimes ate the yogurt or cottage cheese just to have calories and/or protein and endured the stomach ache.
I had major cravings for oatmeal and quinoa this week. The weird one is quinoa because I didn't eat it very often before this no grain challenge... One day when I had a bad stomach ache I made a little bit of oatmeal. I put only raisins and a little vanilla extract in it. It hit the spot and my stomach ache seemed to settle pretty quickly after I ate it.
I ate oatmeal again on Saturday for lunch. We were in between baseball games and stopped at Panera. They have a power quinoa/oatmeal with honey and almonds. It said cinnamon topping as an ingredient and I didn't think to ask for details on it (I just assumed they top it with cinnamon). But, I'm pretty sure it's a cinnamon/sugar combination. It tasted grainy like there was sugar in it. And it was sweet. Maybe it was the honey, but I'm not sure. They didn't put almonds in it, but there was strawberries. It was good, but I wish I would've said no cinnamon topping and made sure there was almonds in it before I left.
Jeremy and I went to the movies on Saturday and we shared a medium popcorn. I LOVE movie theatre popcorn, but both Jeremy and I had stomach aches when we left the theatre. That was a bummer because we were really looking forward to that special treat.
Also on Saturday I had a pumpkin chocolate chip bar (yes - those are STILL in my freezer). I can't believe something that I would've personally finished by myself in one day is still in my freezer 2 weeks later!! Even though I had one and it's a no-no, I still consider that part of it a WIN.
Another thing I noticed this week is the "little" bites I sneak. I had a nibble from Rori's granola bar a couple times this week, I had a nibble of her cheese quesadilla and rice from Chipotle yesterday, and I grabbed a couple cocoa puffs one day and a frosted shredded wheat from JJ another day.
It just goes to show that if I slack a little it becomes OK or acceptable to me. I believe this is how this would snowball into constant junk food in the past. But, I am determined to make this week different.
The Vegan Chocolate Shakeology seems to be great for me so far (today is day 2) so I'm hoping that will replace the yogurt and cottage cheese that I was depending on for protein in the past. Fingers crossed. The bonus is that this shake tastes GOOD to me. I had the regular chocolate Shakeology before and it was OK, but wow - this one is yum! I'll be sure to update more on this if it continues to work for me.
I'm going to concentrate on being good this week.
I am hosting my first ever Challenge Group in November as a Beachbody coach. So far I have 4-5 people interested. I'm hoping for a few new people to join in, as well. If you are someone that would like more information on what the Challenge Group entails, please leave me a comment.
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