A Realization

Today, I realized, my boyfriend, parents and friends are all a bad influence on my eating habits.  My boyfriend took me to the mall for lunch and I ended up eating a small quesadilla, a small taco salad and chips and guac with a soda at Qdoba.  Baaaaad.  Tasted good, but it was not only bad for me, it was bad for my wallet!  When I'm with friends we go out and eat, especially because we're usually shopping so we grab something at the food court.  My mom buys donuts like seriously twice a week and stocks the kitchen with sugary cereals, frozen waffles, strudels, and other stuff that's really really bad for me.  Thank goodness I live alone when I'm at school, but still, I eat with my boyfriend and my family way too often for it not to be a big deal.

Yesterday was good food-wise, though.  I did have McDonald's breakfast (long story, but it involved me having to wake up early to get Pokemon and make it to Church all unshowered. Yuck.), it was just a small parfet and the $1 burrito, so it could've been worse.  For lunch I had grapes, celery, tomato, low-fat cottage cheese, and melba toast.  For dinner I had noodles, green beans, and grapes.

I have decided I might be getting on a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet.  Basically, I just don't eat any kind of meat but I can have dairy products and eggs.  This is going to SUCK but meat has been making me feel sick.  I might still eat chicken, but the verdict is still out on that one.  

My breakfast will still be the same (eggs and toast), but my lunch and dinner will look significantly different.  Lunch or dinner will probably consist of any of the following: salad, pb&j, cereal, oatmeal, beans, rice, filling veggies (eggplant, spaghetti squash, artichoke, asparagus, broccoli, potatoes, spinach), and so on.  I am going to spend a lot of time once a week trying to think of good hearty vegetable based meals for dinners before I go grocery shopping.  I am craving artichoke like none other right now though so it might not be the end of the world!

I still haven't worked out since I've been home for break, but I'm not going to be too hard on myself this week because it's really out of my normal schedule and I am super busy to top it off.