January 18, 2011 - More Challenges

I don't know what I did, but I did something to my back early yesterday.  Somewhere between my left shoulder blade and my spin ... there's a pinched nerve or a pulled muscle.  If I move in a certain way ... it hurts like someone is stabbing me.  >_<  It made it kind of hard to get the amount of sleep I was trying to get.  I mean, I certainly did try to go to bed at 9 PM ... and I did.  Then I woke up sometime around 11 PM.  Then around 2:30 AM.  At that last time point, I had to get up to take care of some business ... then I had a hard time falling back to sleep because my shoulder was bugging me.  =__=

I had too much sodium yesterday.  Eat the full can of soup totally put me over the top ... then I decided to gorge myself on salted sunflower seeds (in the shell).  I'm not going to go into too much detail on how much I had of that ... more than a cup for sure.

Lost 1.4 pounds since last week.  :O)

I wanted to try to exercise this week ... but I don't want to with this pain.  Yeah, I know - "Excuses, excuses!"  If I feel better Wednesday, I'll do Wednesday, Friday, Sunday.  Until then, here's my food intake for today.

Breakfast:

• 1 small wheat bagel (110 calories, 1g total fat, 180mg sodium, 22g total carbohydrates, 3g fiber, 2g protein)
• 1 Tbsp I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
• 1 package of apple and cinnamon instant oatmeal (130 calories, 1.5g total fat, 170mg sodium, 26g total carbohydrates, 3g fiber, 3g protein)
• fat free milk (1/8 cup)
• 8 oz of water

Snack:

• Twix - 2 cookies (250 calories, 12g total fat, 100mg sodium, 33g total carbohydrates, 1g fiber, 2g protein)

Lunch:  Umm ... lunch didn't happen the way I thought it would.  Because of various circumstances, my Employer paid for sandwiches from the Italian market.  I got my usual - "Steak-N-Cheese" with lettuce, tomatoes and ... something else (I forget what).  And I had a bag of chips as well as a can of ginger ale.  I really should stop drinking soda.

Dinner:  Because of the above, I didn't eat anything for dinner except for some Mike 'n' Ikes and some Cajun style trail mix.

Neither lunch nor dinner is truly conducive to losing weight.  BUT ... I did try out my Gold Gym's Dance Workout for my Wii.  I only did "just for fun" so it was only a 10 minute thing.  It's going to take some getting used to.