I forgot to post yesterday with my menu. Sorry peeps. I got busy with things and didn’t finish out my day for you all.

I had 2 hard boiled eggs, an apple and peanut butter, popcorn, a Chicken Noodle Soup in one of those little cups by campbell’s, a coke zero and my coffee of course. That was my work day.

One my cute purchases last night. $2!

Yesterday evening, I met my friend Cara out at a smoothie and wrap place near us and had a strawberry/banana/papaya/yogurt smoothie and a hummus wrap. We did some hard shopping at Old Navy (almost all their stuff is either 50-75% off, or $2. It was NUTS) and when I got home I had a little tortilla chips and salsa and a glass of skim milk.

I ended the day at 63 grams of fat and 1834 calories. Not good, people….when I have been averaging about 1300 a day (the diet machine over at prevention.com suggested 1420ish). I did, however, work out at lunch per usual and that burned about 300 calories. Plus….DUDE. Shopping. Lots of exertion there. Seriously though, we’re all going to have days where a toe slips off the wagon. We need to just get our bearings again and get on with it.

TIP:  You can’t let yesterday bring today down.  You can’t take today into tomorrow.  With emotions, dieting, or anything like this.  Rollover minutes at AT&T work that way.  Not guilt.  Forgive yourself.  Every little bit adds up – good and bad.  So a little guilt, a little self-pity can snowball…just like 10 minutes walking, a few sit ups before bed.

At any rate, yesterday wasn’t a stellar performance by AshPash by a lot of criteria but there were bright notes. I did make it to my lunch gym sesh, but didn’t go afterwards with Cara. I had more fat grams than I wanted but I was at 92% of my daily suggested fiber (up from 37% the day before). Today I probably won’t get to it because the SM and I need to get to Dicks and get our gear for camping and surfing this weekend at the beach. It’s going to be cold as a witch’s tit, but we are going to bundle up and see what fun it brings. We can always make things fun.

All I know is that I have GOT to get outta Dodge for a day or two…this little one-tank trip down the Myrtle Beach should be just what the doctor ordered. Plus, paddling out to catch waves is a lot of hard work. Built in workout with my fun this weekend; stellar. Plus all the shivering we’ll be doing….that should tone us up, right? Here’s to Thursday being better than yesterday.

This prevention.com Health Tracker has been really helpful. Just today I figured out the ration of carbs to protein to fats to alcohol in my diet. Unfortunately, it wasn’t necessarily awesome news. This was the summation of my diet yesterday. Thankfully I made up for some bad decisions making with about two and a half hours at the gym. I ended up, all being said, eating the calories I should (1400-ish), without any exertion to lose weight, and tacking on an extra 1100 calories burned.

I am on a slightly better trajectory today with only 36 grams of fat. I can’t imagine eating another 26 before the end of the day (though I wouldn’t put anything beyond my awesome willpower). Sixty-two grams of fat yesterday. Jeez. But it says so long as I do about 1400 calories a day, I should get to my desired weight of 120 by mine and the SM’s 2 year anniversary, on St. Patrick’s Day, 2009. That’s not bad.

Point being:  Try to integrate more protein into your diet.  Its more filling and takes away time from eating carbs and fat.  Plus if you do have the time to work out, it helps with the building of muscle.  Protein is generally meat…so it makes sense to put more human meat on your bones, instead of fat, you should eat more protein.