Today was a really crazy day~ Ended up taking a surprise road trip, driving 3 hours each way to help someone with a flat tire. Who knew even just being a passenger could be so tiring?
Even though I was on the road for most of the day, I kept my naughty eating to a minimum.
Breakfast:
1 egg with 1 cup of rice
Green tea
This kept me full for a long longer than I expected.
Lunch:
Very Berry Hibiscus Refresher from Starbucks
1 small fry from McDonald's.
And that is the start and end of my bad eating for today.
Dinner:
1/2 cup of the carrot kinpira I made a couple of days ago
1/2 cup of rice
1 tofu burger (1/4 of a block of tofu mixed with a tofu burger mix I bought at the Asian grocery store and tried for the first time- it was actually quite good.)
Mix with a block of firm drained mashed up tofu, shape into patties, fry. (Requires VERY little oil and I made 4 baby patties (each one 1/2 of a normal patty) to take to work and school tomorrow.)
It looks like not a lot of food but I did feel content, I am training myself to learn when I am actually hungry, and training myself to eat until I am 80% full. (One of the Japanese secrets to staying thin- they even have a saying about it: Hara hachi bu /腹八分 which literally means "belly 80 percent full")
I also took my initial weight today, but I will keep that to myself until I see a significant change.
For more info on the whole 80% full concept, wikipedia has some pretty interesting facts about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara_hachi_bu
I hope everyone had a restful weekend, tomorrow is everyone's favorite Monday~
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