Back to the real world!

After a wonderful spring break and more time than normal to plan meals, cook, and all that jazz, today I went back to the real world.  Back to early mornings, quick breakfasts, the occasional school lunch, and of course the exhaustion that follows these long days.  Today I did pretty well though, minus my choice to eat in our cafeteria in hopes of munching on their roasted veggie sandwhich and being completly disappointed when they had none and I was forced to choose a low fat version of a bean and beef burrito.  It wasn't particularly tasty, but I guess it did fill me with protein, but certainly limited my plans for a mainly vegetarian day. 

The most exciting part of my day was my chance to use my new pink boxing gloves!  I was able to try them out at kickboxing and in the process burn a crazy amount of calories and get all of the aggressions of dealing with hormonal 7th and 8th graders whose spring fever and attitudes have reached an all time high for the year!  I'm pretty sure I enjoyed punching that bag a little too much, but it's all for a healthier lifestyle right? :)  After a great workout, I got a great adjustment from the chirpractor and came home in time to make my first home made spaghetti sauce from scratch, no recipe, just some ideas and I must say I think it turned out pretty great. Hopefully I got the recipe right when I tried to write it down.  I didn't measure a thing, just poured and tasted as I went!  I love cooking that way, but then always have no clue exactly how to re-create it!

Here are the stats and recipes for the day:
Breakfast: protein fruit smoothie - 226 calories
Mid morning snack - 3/4 cup of lucky charms cereal (not the best choice I know!) 83 calories

Lunch: low fat bean and beef burrito w/wheat tortilla   431 calories (this was hard to calculate so i hope I'm not too far off)

Snack: 1/2 cup of carrot sticks - 26 calories
1/2 bag of creamed spinach - 88 calories

Supper:  1/2 cup of brown rice pasta (you could use whole wheat also, but we like this) 100 calories

Spaghtetti Sauce and Ground Turkey

1 lb of ground turkey
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1/4 onion, minced
29 ounce can of organic tomato sauce
1/4 cup of diced fresh basil
1/2-1 cup of sweet red wine (Llano Sweet Red)
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp dried thyme
1/4 tsp dried rosemary
1/4 tsp dried minced garlic
dash of parsley flake

Cook turkey with garlic and onion.  Drain, but do not rinse.  Add tomato sauce and the remaining ingredients and simmer for 20 minutes.  Makes about 6 servings (1/2 - 3/4 cup each serving 175 calories)

Served with 1/2 cup of pasta and about 1/2 cup of sauce, and a dash of Parmesan cheese 300 calories!

Evening snack: 
1 cup of mixed pineapple and strawberries 100 calories

Total calories for the day: 1254

Exercise: 50 minutes of kickboxing with co-workers burned 597 calories!!

All in all it was a great day for dieting!!  I hope all of your Mondays started out as positive as mine!