Friday's Food

Breakfast this morning was scrambled eggs (3 eggs, 3 egg whites split between two people) and 2 turkey sausage links each, topped with a little cheese, sour cream and salsa. This is a pretty standard breakfast for us. Calories: about 300.

Morning snack: Banana, slightly bruised. I'm trying to eat it slowly because it's going to be a long time until lunch today! I'm also having a Crystal Light (100 + 5 calories).

Afternoon Snack: Trader Joe's Greek Yogurt (I think 110 calories) and the Light Pom Super Tea.

Lunch: The last Smart Ones frozen dinner I have at work. My goal next week is to make some easy and healthy lunches I can bring. I'm pretty sick of the Lean Cuisines lately.

Dinner: A slice of pizza. Dinner is going to be on the go tonight since we are heading out for the weekend!


Today during lunch I went for a walk in the Pearl District. It was so beautiful outside! I definitely did not need my jacket and I even wished I was wearing shorts! I am sooo excited for nice weather to be here! Here are a few pictures from my walk:

If you aren't familiar with downtown Portland, "The Pearl District" is yuppy-ville downtown. Hipsters, Yuppies, Rich People Who Live In Lofts. But it's also got some cool upscale stores and restaurants too. I walked by Cupcake Jones and couldn't resist drooling through the window.

Mmmmm....cupcakes. Someday I will try one from there!

Training for Reach the Beach

Today was the perfect Portland day! The sun is out and it's absolutely beautiful. We went for a bike ride on the Springwater corridor. We did about 27 miles or so, and I burned 1,388 calories! It felt great. It was the first real bike ride on my new bike. I feel confident with more training, I can compete in Reach the Beach.

The Springwater corridor is nice because I'm not as comfortable on city streets yet and it's a pretty nice ride. I saw people walking horses too! We had to turn around prematurely because part of the trail was gravel! Boo!

After the strenuous 3 hour bike ride, we rode down to Sellwood to get lunch. Papa Haydn's was our first choice but alas, no bike rack free so off to Pizzacato! YUM!

Pizza

I've previously stated that I stopped eating pizza for two years. I did this because I could not trust myself to eat it in moderation. When I reached my goal of losing 100 pounds, my boyfriend Michael took me to his favorite pizza joint in Portland: Apizza Scholls on SE Hawthorne. It was a wonderful moment! We celebrated with slices and wine and he told me how proud he was of me and my amazing accomplishment. It was probably one of the sweetest things he's ever said. Aww...Anyways. I now eat pizza again. But I have learned to eat it in moderation.

We usually get a Papa Murphy's take and bake pizza when we're craving some fat. They have a new thin crust deLite pepperoni pizza that only has about 165 calories a slice! Excellent.

Last night we went out to dinner to one of our favorite Portland restaurants: Hub on SE Powell. http://www.hopworksbeer.com/. And yes, we got pizza.

I ate 2 slices (which was really 4 slices since the pieces were so large). I don't feel guilty for eating 900 calories of pizza though because the rest of my day had been great and I ended up coming in at my goal for the day!