I got through my blood donation yesterday! It was at our sister company {which I have never been to} so I looked the directions up on Mapquest before I went. Well, apparently Mapquest didn’t find the exact address, so it just took me somewhere completely different. Of course I didn’t notice until I had actually driven to the random location that it picked so I ended up coming back to work, then talking to someone who had already gone to donate, got directions from them, and then used their directions to find it. I was 10 minutes late for my appointment but they didn’t seem to mind. Except for the lady not being able to find my vein right away and digging around for it and finally asking someone else to help her, everything went well. I’m one of those people that have to turn their head away when they’re poking me and digging with the needle otherwise I think I would get sick. I also tried picking out the most nutritious snacks that I thought they had afterwards and picked Planter’s Trail Mix Nuts & Chocolate and a V8 Vegetable Juice, even though I’m not a huge fan of tomato juice.
Eating went ok yesterday, but could have been much worse. I did end up going above my calories and probably ended the day around 1800 calories, instead of 1500, but stopped myself from a binge! I got the munchies after dinner around 7pm or so and so I had some tortilla chips and salsa, then went to look in the fridge for more. I had a couple bites of light cottage cheese, and was thinking about making myself a sandwich and whatever else I could find, but I closed the fridge and went and sat back down. I’m getting stronger! I probably shouldn’t have had the chips & salsa and light cottage cheese, but at least I was able to stop myself there and not completely ruin my day. I also didn’t weigh today, so I don’t know if I had a small gain from yesterday, stayed the same, or lost! I’ll just have to wait until Monday!
Oh.. I tried mixing the Whey Protein Powder with my Great Value Nonfat Banana Cream Pie yogurt today and it was actually pretty good. I think I’ll continue to consume it that way until I get sick of it.
I couldn’t exercise yesterday because of the blood donation but I plan on getting one in tonight. Not sure what I’ll do yet though.
