Week 3 - Days 5, 6 and the spaghetti squash experiment!

Real quick, let me just throw out some stats for yesterday..

Day 5:

• total calories/points: 1718 / 30 - I splurged a bit at lunch yesterday and went to Cici's Pizza. It sure was delicious, and I was still plenty full come dinner time, so I just had an almond bar for a snack around 8pm which helped stay within my calorie range. 
• played some Wii dance with James for about 15 mintues - not much, but better than nothing.
• 0 cigarettes!
• 10:30pm bedtime - I was hoping real hard for a snow day, but even though the snow came I still had to get my butt to work in the morning so it was a good thing I hit the hay early.
• $7 spent on lunch

Unfortunately even though I went to bed pretty early, I was up most of the night because my kiddo started running a fever and was in my room every 2 hours for almost the entire night. He's still running fever now, poor thing. :(  I just hope we can all get some good rest tonight so nobody else ends up sick!

So for dinner tonight I made some little steaks with shrimp, mashed potatoes (the only vegetable Mike will eat) and some spaghetti squash to act kind of like a pasta to go with the shrimp. I don't think I cooked it long enough. It was.. crunchy. Which would have been great if I was going for more of a "squashy" thing rather than a "pasta" thing. Also the taste is a little nutty for me - I'm a big fan of zucchini and yellow squash, but I found this to be more of like a butternut or acorn type squash, of which I am not a big fan of. I think I'll probably try this again and cook it a bit longer, just to give it a fair shot. Also maybe I'll pair it with some chicken or fish filets next time instead of steak and shrimp.

I really wanted to hit the gym today, but we got some bad weather through last night and I pretty much just wanted to get home from work before the roads re-froze - then I was thinking I'd just do one of my workout dvds, or some Wii dance (which is my new most favorite thing ever, in case you hadn't noticed) but now I'm starting to feel super run-down and a little feverish myself. UGH! No fun. I really don't want to get sick right now, I really want to stay on track with my exercise since I'm doing so so well with my diet and have made such awesome progress during this 5 Week Challenge! As much as I am/was looking forward to going out at some point this weekend, I think I may just be taking it easy at home and shooting for a trip to the gym on Saturday to give myself a little boost for week 4.

Okay, now some stats for today..

Day 6:

• total calories/points: 1394 / 20  - this is so far, but I am so full of dinner right now I can't imagine that I'm going to want eat much of anything else tonight. I may have some herbal tea later but that is 0 calories, and hopefully that will stave off and creeping hunger that might start lurking around bedtime. 
• no workout - will probably do some crunches before bed
• 0 cigarettes - !!
• planning on 11pm bedtime
• $0 spent - lunched at home

I'm really really excited to weigh-in on Saturday - I really hope my good results have continued through this week! My biggest hope for this challenge is to finally come down to those size 16 jeans comfortably. I'm still in my 18s most days even though they're way too big just because the 16's are still just the tiniest bit too small to be comfortable. I'm really starting to be able to tell the difference in the way I look now and it's really motivating!