Day 143

So I only weigh myself on Saturday's.  It takes some of the pressure off during the week and at the same time gives some incentive to try to do better.  By that I mean that if I don't know if I've lost or gained pounds, then I am always striving to eat right and go to the gym so that on Sat the scale will reward me. I bring this up only because I broke the rule today (Sunday) due to yesterday's weigh-in and the fact that I hardly ate anything.  At least like I normally would on a typical Sat.  So yesterday morning weigh-in was 242 and this morning was 240.  Here's what went in my belly today as I try to keep the weight off:

Breakfast: The typical breakfast for me today.  Egg sandwich with tomato and turkey on a skinny bun.  Banana and 20oz of cold water.

Lunch: I admittedly went big for lunch.  I got a sandwich from a local sandwich shop that makes their own bread and serves up some of the tastiest sandwiches around.  I had a TBA which is a turkey, bacon, avocado, on an 8" wheat sub with all of the veggies.  Condiments were pesto and shredded Asagio cheese.  I also had some trail mix with the sandwich that was just nuts and bits of chocolate.

Snack: Big bag of popcorn

Dinner: My Sunday dinner fave, Mexican salad from TJ's.  Today spruced it up with some cottage cheese and a small slice of turkey/sausage meatloaf.  Two big handfuls of the trail mix.  That got away from me as I didn't just put it in a bowl but kept the bag next to the computer while I was watching a show.  Not the best thing to do and I knew better but still did it.  Ah well.  The meatloaf I made today is for next week's lunches and it turned out great.  I mixed up a bit more than a pound of ground turkey with a bit less than a pound of apple garlic sausage and I chopped up a half a pound of mushrooms and sauteed them with some yellow pepper and bit of tomato.  I then mixed it all together with an egg, some Panko bread crumbs ( that's a Japanese bread crumb, it's not quite as oily), some seasoning, and a quarter cup of enchilada sauce ( I found it hiding in the back of the refrigerator and figured it would add some zest).  I used an 8"x8" pan and it filled it up nicely.  Squirted some ketchup on the top and baked it for an hour.  It came out great.  Calorie wise I have no idea but it shouldn't be crazy and will satisfy the craving for meatloaf.  I bought some baguettes from TJ's and will make sub sandwiches for lunch all next week.

I did get in a work out today.  Normally on Sunday I've used it as a rest day but felt like doing something this time.  I ended up doing the kettlebell work out and brother it makes me sweat.  It's only about 20 minutes but if you do it correctly it's quite the workout.  I did that before I ate the sandwich from Da Vince's.  Dinner this week will be salmon/spinach salad with cauliflower and some peppers.