I printed out yesterday's food journal from SparkPeople because I had experienced a phenomenon: I only ate 1,300 calories, yet I wasn't hungry all day.

So what did I do differently? I made a deliberate attempt to eat more protein. And I'm not talking a huge change -- my diet broke down to 23 percent protein, 21 percent fat and 55 percent carbs.

One thing that I do regularly is to use hummus as a sandwich spread instead of mayo. It helps up the protein and it tastes yummy. And I don't usually use bread. I'm a big fan of Flatout wraps, which pack in a lot of protein and fiber for its 100 calories. To that I added 3 ounces of turkey breast.

I made a Costco run yesterday and bought a big box of Weight Watchers Cookies and Cream ice cream bars (c'mon, I have a 10-year-old!). I really wanted one at snack time, so I had one. But then I balanced it out with 1/4 cup of Egg Beaters and 2 tablespoons of reduced-fat cheddar. Yes, my snack was an ice cream bar and an omelet. Weird.

I was inspired by fellow weight-loss blogger Roni at Roni's Weigh, so dinner was a smoothie. She has a hilarious video of her and her son on her other site Greenlitebites.com, making a mango-banana smoothie. Mine was a cup of Cascadian Farms mixed berries, a cup of vanilla almond milk and a scoop of vanilla whey protein.

 After the kid's baseball practice, I was a bit peckish. Instead of the usual carb-heavy handful of cereal or something else carbalicious, I had 1/2 cup of cottage cheese ... with barbecue sauce (Don't judge, people. I love me some condiments.)

I'm working on getting the calorie ratio to more of a Zone-like 40-30-30. But that'll take more cottage cheese.

Speaking of cottage cheese, I'm loving Rachel's cottage cheese cups. They're the size of a yogurt and around the same calories as Rachel's yogurt, but it has twice the protein. There are 6 flavors -- 3 sweet and 3 savory. So far I've tried the Pear-Mangosteen and Lemon Verbena-Berry. They're not as sugary sweet as yogurt yet still very good.