For the most part, I behaved myself yesterday. Although I did have a coffee with flavored syrup in it for lunch, dinner was reasonable (although odd). I ate a couple of mangoes, some almonds, some hummus, and some yogurt with blueberries. I lost almost four pounds according to my scale.

For some reason, I’ve been really craving certain tastes. It seems like I expect every meal to be tasty, and that’s not an easy feat—especially on days when I’m eating salads or hummus or yogurt. I always crave sugar, of course, but I seem to be craving salt lately. I felt like an ideal breakfast this morning would be a slice of pizza (rather than just coffee).

I’m craving carbohydrates, too. The cafeteria at work serves a small portion of penne bolognese every day, and that was really tempting because I love pasta. I nearly ordered it but decided to stick with just my coffee to avoid the inevitable carbohydrate crash. But, knowing it’s there, my guess is that I’ll succumb to temptation one day just to try it. Once the idea of eating something new gets in my head, it’s hard to put it off indefinitely.

Yesterday was the first day of training class that was actually interesting (at least part of it), so I wasn’t as bored as I had been earlier in the week. Stress obviously leads me to eat poorly, but so does boredom, so I’m glad things are getting more interesting.

I don’t have much else to say today. I’m hoping to get back down to a weight below 250 pounds by the weekend. We’ll see…