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February 9th

After having a dream about being in the same Sunday School class as Beyonce (we discussed Jesus and her dress, not in that order), I woke up and realized I had overslept.

So I ran around trying to get ready quickly.  This resulted in me putting on black tights with a brown dress and tan flats.  I went to work like that, and did not notice that I looked like a four year old who dressed themselves until I got out of my car.  But I STILL dressed better than half the celebrities at the Grammys.


After that, I had a headache that refused to be touched by hydration, Advil, or jamming my fingers against my sinuses.  Happy Monday! 

Breakfast was a piece of wheat toast with butter (75) and a clementine (35).  Snack was a handful of almonds, walnuts, and peanuts (150).  Lunch was two ounces of ham (70), another clementine (35) and a salad of lettuce, tomato, endive, and beets with a suggestion of a coworker's salad dressing because I couldn't find my bottle (75).  

I'm still not feeling the best, and I'm sick of being sick, so today I was just so whiny at work (which I'm usually not).  In the middle of my colossal meltdown over "why can't I find my Chapstick--WHHHYYYYY?!?!?" my boss actually gave me his Chapstick to keep.  I'm not proud of this fact, but he did have really nice Chapstick.  I guess you can afford the good stuff when you're the CFO.

Post-lunch snack was Chobani Yogurt with Stuff in It (200).  Okay, okay, that's not the real name.  It's a Chobani Key Lime Greek Yogurt Flip, which awesomely has 11 grams of protein, lots of calcium, plus ingredients you can pronounce, and not-so-awesomely has All the Carbs.  Fooducate gave it a B, so we won't dwell on it too much.

By the time I got home, I was STARVING.  Starving in a get-out-of-my-way-so-I-can-eat-all-the-chips type of way.  So while I was cooking of cheesy shells with turkey sausage (540), I cut up a big bowl of yellow carrots, cucumber, tomatoes, and avocado (250).


Total: 1430 vs. 1400.
Exercise: 35 minutes on the bike, even though I felt achy and tired.

I did okay, but I just wasn't feelin' it today, no matter how hard I tried.  Let's give it, oh hell, I don't know.  How about Anne in this crazy orange hat.




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