Thoughts: I have been a cereal-eating fiend all week long.
I plan my meals, dutifully add in the recommended fruits, brown rice, whole grain bread, and sweet potatoes for my carbs, eat on plan through meal 4, and then when meals 5 and 6 roll around, I am diving for the Kashi GoLean and a handful of raisins like a starving horse in an oat pail! I still keep my calories and portions correct so I’m not blowing my plan entirely, just substituting, but it was really bugging me that I couldn’t lay off the dry cereal.
This morning, however, I realized that I’m on my last week of pink BC pills which means–ta da!!!!–I’m PMS’ing. 
Other women seem to get the raging chocolate munchies around this time of the month; I apparently turn into the Grainy Cereal Monster.
Is it possible to have fiber cravings?
On the up side, this means that I’m also retaining water, so my scale weight of 134 lbs will most likely take a dive in about a week or so once my systems are back in balance, and the PMS-pseudo plateau goes away. 
I’m also overdue for a new set of progress photos for the Great Creatine Experiment. I’ll take those tonight and get them posted as soon as I can. I think I’m actually getting some results from the GNC Creastack now. My upper body strength is increasing more and more each week, and well, I had a lovely, Skwigg-like “Batman” moment last week as I was passing the mirror in the ladies’ room at work. I saw the reflection of my right arm and there were shadows and bumps where my triceps and biceps met my shoulder!
One final thing–I’ve decided to make a change to the way I post my meals in my blog. I’ll still post what I *plan* to eat daily, but if I deviate from the plan during the course of the day, I’ll edit the post the next day to reflect what I actually ate. I know…it’s anal-retentive, but in case of another catastrophic battery failure in my handy Handspring Visor, I’d like to have an accurate log of what I ate so I can reconstruct my food log in my Diet and Exercise Assistant PDA software.
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Nutrition (1700-1800 high day)
1: Apple banana smoothie (Strawberry cottage cheese with Kashi GoLean)
2: Chicken, broccoli, and raisin walnut mashed sweet potato
3: Apple banana smoothie
4: Chocolate walnut bar (Apple banana smoothie)
5: Stuffed green pepper with chicken and pumpernickel bread
6: 3×1 veggie omelette with side of Kashi Go Lean and raisins
Supplements:
Multivitamin with iron
Calcium 500 + D
1 T. flax seed oil
1/2 serving GNC Creastack
Calories eaten and deficit for yesterday = 1259 / -912 (target -337)
Water: 13 cups
Ratios: 46% carb / 43% protein / 15% fat
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Workout:
7:55 am treadmill run (5 mph / 0.5 incline / 5 minutes) (warm-up)
8:00 am UBWO
9:05 am treadmill run (6 mph / 0 incline / 10 minutes)
8:30 pm (optional stretching) Ball pilates level 2 tape (45 minutes)
9:15 pm Upper body “OARS” exercises for eDiets challenge (3 exercises, 3 sets of 15 reps each followed by stretch)
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The Awful Truth:
1. Replaced planned NYC ballet workout with mat pilates workout.
2. Couldn’t find yoga cd, so I did 2 lower body OARS exercise/stretch assignments for my eDiet’s Life’s Odyssey challenge instead.
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Brownie Points:
1. Did not blow off last night’s evening stretching exercise session.
2. Stuck my pictures into my GNC/EAS challenge packet (it finally arrived!)
3. Ran for 15 minutes at a moderate 5 mph to 6 mph pace and didn’t hate it.
4. Still 100% on BFL core workouts!
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Short-term Goals:
1. Make appointment for semi-annual dental cleaning.
2. Fill out challenge packet.
3. Complete one tutorial each day for Paint Shop Pro 9, Satori FilmFX, or Painter 8.
