Delicious meal tonight :-)

I seem to have gotten a little away from what this blog is for (well partly what it's for) and that is to keep a record of what I am eating each day. So, today I will tell you what I had today. Breakfast - cheerios with raspberries in milk, lunch - red bean salad over rice with peas, snack - half a bagel with cream cheese and scoops with salsa, supper - chicken with spaghetti, peas and carrots. When I served up this meal, I thought it looked like it was too much and yet it was within my calories, etc. It was too much (yes, I ate it all anyway) and I knew afterwards that I should have taken half of it and eaten it for lunch tomorrow. I do that when I go to restaurants with friends - I order a meal and ask for a takeaway container and put half in right away (or sometimes just put half aside and put it in a container later). That is what I should have done today and in the future I will to do that. I am learning a lot as I am on this journey and one of the things I am learning is that sometimes I have to do something once before I learn a better way to do it (like tonight). I also made sure to get in my ten minutes of cardio tonight - Mike and I walked to the grocery store at Krystal's to pick up some things that were on sale. I find that by keeping my goals in my thoughts, I can often find a way to reach my goals. Even like entering this blog tonight - I made sure to stay downstairs to write it rather than taking my laptop up to my room and laying down in bed to enter it. I have found that once I get into bed, I am quite tired and therefore have found myself not entering a blog each night. Also I am finding that sometimes at school I am forgetting to either fill my water bottle in the morning, or refill it at lunch time. I think that I am going to go to Walmart this week and buy another bottle and keep two at school. I will fill both in the morning and leave them on my desk - that way they are a constant reminder to drink and I don't have to worry about running out of time to refill one or forgetting to do it until I am back with the kids and have no time to run out and fill it. I weigh in tomorrow to find out how much I have lost in total this month and to find out if I have won the Tim Horton's card for this month (whoever loses the most weight in the month between myself and Jessica at school gets a Timmy's card from the other). I have yet to win it so it would be nice if it was my turn this month. :-)