The Cheesecake Diaries

Yesterday, I think Maggie and I both did pretty well. I started off by wolfing down strawberry yogurt and that nature's path Flax cereal for breakfast, for a total of 2 points. I then had a tall bold coffee of the day from Starbucks and kept up with the water at regular intervals. For lunch I ate a veggie salad in some kind of italiany vinagarette dressing and a rather large turkey sandwhich. I don't know the point values for those, but lunch meat isn't that bad for you. Especially turkey. Dinner was the the worst however as I had a salad (nice) and both steak and shrimp, as well as garlic mashed taters and buttery asparagus. I couldn't tell you how many points that was, but I'm pretty sure I breached the point limit with desert, which was cheesecake. Maggie and I both had a long tiring day (especially Maggie, she's a trooper), and we figured we probably burned off some of the additional calories we ate during the course of the day.
Never fear though, as today I've repeated my delicious yogurt concoction for breakfast, and other than that I've been drinking lots of water and I ate a piece of grap fruit leather. It's almost lunchtime and I've only used up 5 points so far! (out of my alotted 28-35). I'm going to have one of them Cafe Steamers from Healthy Choice for lunch, and maybe some pretzels. Depends if i'm hungry or not. Then again, I'm pretty much always hungry.
The other day Maggie and I discussed the difference between "i'm hungry" and "i could eat". "I'm hungry" is the general state most people are in when its been awhile since they last ate. "I could eat" is the state most people like us are almost constantly in. It's not like I eat food because I need to, i eat food because I like food. I'm hoping I can sort of reverse that thought process over the next couple months.
I should also mention that today was the first day in a long time that I had a relatively easy go of it with getting out of bed this morning. I actually feel relatively well rested and I haven't even had any coffee yet today. Which is also a good thing. Here's to feeling relatively awesome.