Alrighty then.

Well.  Eating well over the last two days has been almost impossible.  The Red Lobster dinner was DELICIOUS, so very very good, but alas - the cheddar bikkits were in fact my downfall, as I predicted.  Last night, my boyfriend's parents took me out to a casino buffet.  Although I did manage to have a salad, I also managed to somehow scope out and consume every single fried item offered (detecting fried foods must be my sixth sense). 

Today, I had a small bowl of cereal, grandma-made french toast (the best kind), two glasses of milk, a bag of Doritos on the road back to school, and then sushi at my now-favorite restaurant.  Not much fruit, and not much veggies - the kind of eating that got me in trouble in the first place.  But the sushi I got was pretty healthy.  I also had a little 80 calorie cheese snack.

I also did some major grocery shopping tonight, and letting me walk into a Walmart with unlimited funds is basically like buying yourself a ticket to the greatest future-diabetic, one-woman show on Earth.  However, I am very proud of myself - I did not buy a single pack of cookies, bag of chocolate chips, box of frozen appetizers, or candy bar.  In fact, I bought fresh vegetables - broccoli, green peppers, and lettuce - and cut them all up nicely and FoodSaved them!  My grandparents bought me a little mini FoodSaver for Christmas, and I have to say, it really is the best thing since sliced bread or space heaters.  Not only does it allow me to save money by keeping fresh vegetables I would have had to otherwise thrown away, but it also allows me to actually eat fresh veggies!  I sliced the green peppers and broccoli up in perfect bite-size portions for my sammiches and salads, and can't wait to dig into them.  I also bought a few Healthy Choice dinners (all low in calories and fat, and very high in tasty-looking-ness), some vanilla soy milk, hummus, low-fat cheese snackies, deli bread, extra-fiber whole wheat bread, bananas, appples, mandarin oranges...basically, a whole hundred dollars' worth of really good healthy stuff.  I'm pretty excited.  I don't have to work tomorrow, so no cookie temptations will present themselves to me and I should actually be able to count some calories.

I feel like the greatest obstacle I'm going to face this semester is stress.  I'm taking sixteen credit hours, along with two hours a week of extracurricular dance classes and twenty hours a week of work.  With studying time added in, that's like working overtime every day at a full time job.  And I'm supposed to keep up a healthy lifestyle on top of that?  Luckily, my yoga class and dance classes will help de-stress me while providing some needed exercise, but I'm starting to wonder if I can actually do the 50-50.

I guess the best thing is to stay positive and have one of those "Si Se Puede" attitudes (Yes, it can be done!, more or less). 

Well, I'll check in tomorrow with some foodage and hopefully some exercise.  See ya.  : )