Day 153 & 154: New Recipe, House Update and Food Pics

So yesterday’s after work work-out went well! I walked 2 miles, did abs and legs and went back for my last half mile to get to my 5.5 but there was a line 10 deep. BOO – I left. :( When I got home we had chicken parmesan for dinner and then settled in for a yummy dinner and some 30 Rock. After dinner I got online and saw that we had gotten a quote from the contractor. Basically, long story short, it was going to be $14,000 in basement renovations to fit the pool table and get it up to par. At the end of the day, we just simply cannot justify spending $14,000 out of pocket to fit a pool table. So we had a long…. LONG… talk and have decided after much deliberation to put this house in a bubble and let it go. I passed out – EXHAUSTED after all the back and forth and slept GREAT! I ended up at 1,536 calories, 217 carbs and 28 fat grams. Here’s what I ate.

Today I woke up feeling fabulous about our decision and ready to get to work, get on the day and get back to Amanda (realtor). I also decided today would be the day to start taking pictures of what I eat. I’ve tried before and am seriously impressed with all of you girls who do it each day – it’s so much responsibility!! Really – I always forget. So for breakfast I had a potato egg Morningstar sausage burrito. Then I called Amanda and discussed our decision and of course she understood and we came up with a new plan: she’s going to send us more listings, we’re going to narrow them down, and she’s going to call the listing agents to see if there is a 14’x18’ room to fit the pool table. If so – is there another room comparable in size for the den? If so – we go look at it. If not, it’s not for us. Hopefully this will work – I’m so excited!

I stayed busy all after and did have a granola bar around 11 then it was time for lunch and even though I brought chili I TOTALLY forgot we had a working lunch catered by Boneheads. Clearly, I couldn’t take pics of what I ate, but I had a small serving of rice, a shrimp/salmon skewer, two chicken skewers (they were TINY), a few spoonfuls of salad and a plastic spoonful of sauce (less than a tbsp I think). I found the calorie information for most of it on Daily Plate – then I just overestimated a bit on the rice and guessed on the chicken (probably high though – I mean these skewers were little guys!)

Anyway – it worked out – but no pic! At the very end of the meeting I couldn’t help it – I had an oatmeal/raisin cookie – yum!! When I got back to my desk I stayed busy all afternoon – and had 4 hershey’s kisses. Hehe I can’t wait until the girl who just moved in next to me runs out of chocolate – eek! Since the meeting was during lunch I couldn’t do cardio – but I did head to the gym and knock out 4 miles of cardio, then raced home for Pepperoni Pita Pizzas with Austin. These were amazing. I know I say that a lot, but I made these last night and put them in the fridge and they just congealed so well with the olive oil and sauce that they REALLY tasted like pizza!! Here’s how we made them:

3 Trader Joe’s white pitas (small)
6 tbsp Muir Glen tomato sauce
45 g of fat-free shredded mozzarella cheese
45 g of fat-free feta cheese, chopped
24 turkey pepperonis, chopped
3 tsp olive oil
Garlic Salt and Red Pepper Flakes to Taste.
*Each serving is 1.5 pitas so for two people, make three pitas

Spray PAM in a deep baking pan, and place three pitas in it. Coat each pita with 1 tsp olive oil. Then cover each with 2 tbsp tomato sauce, red pepper flakes and garlic salt, 15 grams of mozzarella, 15 grams of feta and 8 chopped up pieces of pepperoni. Cover with foil and put in refrigerator overnight. When you’re ready to eat, set the oven to broil and remove the pan from the refrigerator. After 10 minutes, remove the foil and place the pan in the oven for 7 minutes. Cut and serve! Each serving (1.5 pitas) had 384 calories, 45 carbs and 10 fat grams. If you want to cut calories/carbs – I’d take the olive oil back to .5 or .75 tsp on each pita. I wouldn’t reduce the cheese or pepperonis! Click on pic to make it larger!

During dinner we watched a 30 Rock then Austin headed out to poker leaving me to chill with Reuben baby and watch 90210, Secret Life of the American Teenager and Lost! I’ve just been bumming around, cooking a few meals for later in the week, dustbusting Reuben’s litter (he loves to play with it, i.e. getting it all over the floor), and reading your blogs! I did have another snack – Kettle chips – yum! I had a lot of crap snacks today – eek! At the end of the day I was VERY close to my ceiling – at 1,547 calories, 179 carbs and 52 fat grams. Here’s what I ate. K - i'm going to finish reading your blogs and pass out - i'm SO TIRED. Blah. Hope you all had happy Hump Days!