the other kind of work

If I'm going to really make an effort to lose weight, going to the gym isn't enough. I've got to put my diet on a training schedule as well.

This isn't as easy as it may seem - I can eat well enough during the day, even with the limited fast foodish options I have. But coming home at 7:30 pm and having to make supper usually becomes a hassle when I've still got to work in a post-gym shower and some semblance of the kind of lazy I prefer when at home.

Or I can switch it up - eat a better meal at lunch at work, and then hit Taco Bell for something off the Fresco menu after the gym.

I know that's not really the best option, but I'm working on that.

On the weekend I can cook. I don't mind cooking at all, as long as it turns out. The picture above is a chickpea ragout from a recipe I picked up on a messageboard, and a orange/artichoke sauce from a lemon-artichoke chicken recipe in this month's Clean Eating.

As it turns out, the lemons I thought I had were oranges. I used them anyway, and it turned out pretty great.

So this is what I'll eat at work this week. And maybe for supper I'll have a salad. Or a fresco bean burrito.

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The other pans are for brownies that Gina made to torment me with.