Day 151

New Year's Eve!
Breakfast Protein bagel with 1.3 T of almond butter (went by grams) (140+120)

Went to school for morning. Left aroun 230.  Lunch around 1.  Chicken stuffed with spinach and feta with peas, mushroom, corn and asparagus.  I really like the gravy on this one. (340)

Snack - 1/2 cup of rice.

Dinner at a Hibachi Grill.  Had two small drinks made with shochu (35cal = 2oz) (150cal) We ordered apps.  I had one coconut shrimp(125), 3 potstickers(250), and 75cal of edamame.  We ordered dinner - Hibachi chicken (4-5oz) (no teriyaki sauce at least, saved some sugar cals), fried rice, and stirfried veggies (cabbage, zuke, beansprout, broccoli, mushrooms).  Got full and took half the meal home.  Did not eat the dessert.

NYEve - 1 glass of white wine(100), 1/2 vodka tonic(75), bread (180) and dip (150)

Daily Total = 2320 est.

Day 150

Breakfast = Protein Bagel + 2 T of almond butter (140+190)

Lunch out at Pasta Pomodoro - Shared a small salad (100) and an order of butternut squash ravioli (225), ordered the Vedure (roasted veggies - love!!!) w/chicken (350+100) had a bread stick (150)

Snack - Small Gelato - Dark chocolate and raspberry (250?)

Dinner out at Dave and Buster's.  Got there for happy hour -- not hungry (and why would I be, I'd already eaten 1500cal today!), but had two small potato skins.  THought I was being reasonably good, not ordering a full app for myself.  Surprised to find that the 2 small potato skins totaled to 750cal!  :(  Had 2 6oz drinks of vanilla vodka, malibu, and pineapple juice plus a root beer with vanilla vodka (800?)  Later had a jicama/cabbage/orange salad and shared 3 chicken street tacos.  Wasn't really that hungry for any of the mexican food - ate like 1/3 of the salad and 1.5 tacos plus 1/3 cup of rice.  I was soooooo stuffed - uncomfortably full.  And I used to eat a LOT more before I felt uncomfortable.

Daily Total - 3200?

Day 149

Up late, not too hungry given that I ate that salad at 1030 last night!

1100AM - New Meal!  BMD Pork Tenderloin in Asian Plum Sauce (450) - Pretty decent.  Really liked the snap peas in seasame seeds.  The pork is good, the sauce is good, the rice noodles get overcooked...  Added a few almonds (50)

1230 - 200: Ate half a bakery cookie (150), a small bit of trail mix (50), a couple of bites of see's candy (100), and a string cheese (80) I know, I know.... So, I left the TV.  For some reason, I don't feel munchy in front of the computer.

500PM - Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf with carrots, spinach, yucca and a 1/3 cup of corn (450+36)

Later = ??  Can't remember
Daily Total: 1361 + ??

Day 148

Ate the burger for breakfast...  Tried to eat the sweet and sour shrimp from BMD for lunch, but couldn't do it.  Too shrinpy and way too gingery.  Had already cooked rice, so I cooked some frozen veggies and 3 turket meatballs.  While I waited for that to cook, I ate most of the rice with some butter.  Full when eating, so only ate 1.5 meatballs.  The rest went to the dogs (saved 90cal).  Had a couple of cookies in afternoon.  Meeting at night.  Got Wendys salad on way home.  New style of french fries advertised - tried them out.  Didn't like them as much as the original (thank god!).  So ends my fast food binge of Dec 2010.  Ready to get back to school next week and on a normal routine.  Not stressing about the rest of the week, but not going crazy either.  Goal weight is to maintain 239 this week.  2011 starts next Saturday - weighin day one of 2011.

Day 147

Wasn't hungry in the morning after my fastfood feast last night...  Ate okay throughout the day.  DInner was problematic.  I was pretty hungry, but the waitress wasn't bringing me a menu (got there after the order went in) and that irritated me, so I didn't order anything.  I did eat bread and butter.  And then I stopped at a burger place on the way home.  Tried to be okay, ordered the smallest burger with no mayo or cheese and the smallest fry (which I see later is listed as two servings on their nutritional page.  Not that I thought it was one serving, really, but it irritates me that I could NOT order a smaller size.)  So I ate the fries, but was really full, so I'm saving the burger for tomorrow.  A small victory.

And add a small vodka drink to that total.  And a couple of bites of nachos...  Let's just round it to 2000.

Day 146

800AM - Started the day off with a cupcake and a small piece of fudge (225cal).  Wasn't prepared with breakfast food.

930AM - Home now.  Spinach Ricotta Crepes (280) with 40cal of cheese.

100PM - SantaBarbara (BLTA) Small Sandwich at Beach Hut Deli with no mayo and easy on cream cheese (est 500) with part of a beer (100cal)

330PM - 2 Jack's Tacos (350) - totally caved, but tried to be decent.

500PM - 70 cal of light popcorn - really munchy today...

700PM - Dinner Broccoli and Beef Dinner (360)
Driving home from somewhere - can't remember where...
JackintheBox - Bacon Cheddar Wedges (710)
JackintheBox - Breakfast Pita (425
Daily Total = 3050cal - nice.

Day 133 - 145

I've been remiss at posting on the blog.  It's too many days to try to recreate, so I'm just going to start up again tomorrow: 12-26-10, Day 146.  I have been sorta keeping track on another calorie logging site, so I haven't been completely out of it.  However, I have definitely NOT been tracking everything or eating as carefully.  That includes holiday sweets, but also includes things like Cheetos and buttered bread.  It does NOT include any trips to fast food places, so at least that habit is more or less gone.  [Update: That habit is apparently NOT gone, see days following.  Though it was diminished and didn't taste as good as I thoguth it would.]  Also, I felt horrible physically from eating too much crap -- too much grease, not enough fiber/veggies.  Weight reflected a small gain from 237.5 up to 243ish (see, I wasn't even weighing carefully -- I can't even say for sure!), back down to 239 today.  Lots of factors contributing to this issue - winter always gets me down because there's not enough sunlight, stressed about work, icky birthday emotions, holiday sweets, got cold/flu sick for a few days, and I think I may have some sort of hang up about the weight number.  I haven't weighed in the 230's for YEARS and 230 is my lowest post-college adult weight.  It's sort of tough to wrap my head around.  Every weight after that is unchartered territory and I don't really know what to expect - it sort of freaks me out.  Anyways, hopefully the last SIX weeks at around 240 stabilized me somewhat and it won't be too tough to move on now... maybe I'll even get a little mini-woosh effect this first week!

Day 132

Breakfast - Ham, apple, cheese muffin
Lunch - 3 mini muffins, 2 oatmeal cookies, 1 egg roll
Snack - finished the plutos salad from friday.
Dinner - Zucchini, small potato with 1TBS of shedd's, 5oz? of meatloaf

:(

Day 131

Breakfast - Ham, cheese, apple muffin
Lunch - Bday party - ladle of tomato soup, ladle of chicken chili, cupcake, two bites of cake, fruit, broccoli salad, cheesy garlic bread
Snack - 3 egg rolls, 2 satsumas
DInner - 2 smallish pieces of pizza
Snack - 2 egg rolls, coffee with a shot of baileys and whip cream

Yeah, not a great day, but could have been a lot worse.

Day 130

Breakfast - Berry Crepe (365)
Lunch - Ham and TUrkey with couscous (400)
Snack - mandarins (65), Big Spoon Yogurt with a bit of chocolate and choc candy toppings (250?)
DInner - Salad from Plutos with garbanzos, edamame, tomato, broccoli, seeds, chicken, beets, sprouts, and foccacia bread.  Ate half the salad with balsalmic vinegar.

Total - ?

Day 129

Day 128

Normal day, went fine.  Not real hungry in morning, had a bagel.  Lunch was a new one (forgot to take camera or phone to have pics) -- Rice with Chicken and Lentils.  Added a cup of raw spinach which wilted down.  Thought this was pretty good!  Overallt he day was pretty light on calories.  Until the eve -- Met friends at Bell Bru.  Had already eaten dinner.  Ordered tea.  Ate some bread and had half of a friend's steak slider.  Then I ate part of a corn dog at my parents house.

Day 127

Day 126

Breakfast with out of town friends.  Thought about getting oatmeal, but wanted more protein.  Ordered a veggie omelet, requested only two eggs.  Dissappointed when it came because the veggies were cooked in olive oil and they'd added unadvertised pesto.  Made the best of it, ate half the egg. (And all the potatoes!!)  Shopped a bit, then went to rehearsal.  Left around 1, made a stop at TJ's to get some lunch.  Ended up with the vegetable sushi (spinach, carrots and tofu in rice) and some satsumas.  Ate dinner at home.

Day 125

Too tired to retype... see below.  I had a concert today in the eve and brunch in the morning.  I feel like I worked around the brunch incredibly well.  The concert always screws with me because I'm committed from 430-1000 and I hate to play on a full stomach.  Brunch at 900AM.  While I did order a not-too-healthy meal, I didn't overeat AND I monitored my hunger the rest of the day and didn't eat until I got hungry.  I ate a BMD meal at 330PM.  Played concert at 730.  Ate string cheese and rice cakes at 830.  Ate soup and crackers at 1000PM.  Not an ideal day, but I think it's the best way to handle the situation.  At the end of the day, I was only up a pound and that may be gone by tomorrow.  So, I was able to have my cake and eat it too today.

I really liked this meal - the barley was good!

Daily Total says 1593.  I want to add 150, because I think the breakfast count is low.

Total: 1743



Day 124

Breakfast (700am):  Chicken Mushroom Crepe(270) with 60 cal of avocado

Snack (1000AM): String Cheese (80)

Snack (1230PM): Tomato Soup (120), CHocolate Cheerios (40)
Lunch  (300PM): Chicken Burrito Bowl(300), with 60 cal of avocado and some Fat free sour cream.
Dinner part 1 (600PM): 2 Corn Thins (44), 1 oz of ham (30), a string cheese (80), almonds (100)

Dinner part 2 (1000PM): 1/2 cup broccoli (15), 1/3 cup of green beans (10), baby potato (35), 30 cal of chick peas, 20 cal of kidney beans

Daily Total: 1294

Day 123

Breakfast (700AM): Protein Bagel with egg and ham (150) + 1/2 oz of cheese (60)

Snack (1030AM): String CHeese (80)

Snack (1200PM):  Apple (80)

Lunch (200PM):  CHicken Marsala with Mushroom Risotto (410) - Yum!  I love the risotto!

Snack (430PM): Bread with a bit of Shedd's Spread (150)

Dinner (615PM):  Cheese Tortellini (390) with 20 cal of cheese

Snack Almonds (40)

Lil Drum (135)

Daily TOtal: 1515

Day 122

Breakfast (700AM): Stuffed French Toast (360), set meal on top of car and it slid off!  i caught it on the way down and managed to only lose the sweet potatoes and half the veggie sasage.  I'm claiming 300cal.

Snack (1000AM): String Cheese (80)

Snack (1200PM): Apple (80)

Lunch (200PM):  Ham and Turkey Dinner (400)  I'm never excited about eating this one, but it always tastes better than I expect.

(530) Ate 4 marshmallows on the way home (100) Thankfully, they are all gone now.

Dinner(630PM): Beef Tips with Mushrooms. (300) Decent.  I really like the spaghetti squash and the noodles, the beef is good - though not plentiful.  The mushrooms were super chewy for me - maybe I overcooked?  Okay overall, but didn't leave me super satisfied.

(800) Corn Thin (22cal) with a TBS of Artichoke dip (80) and a slice of ham (30)

(900PM): Ice Cream (135)

Daily TOtal: 1527

November WrapUp

November 2010

$ at grocery = 90/45
$ at restaurant = 118/80
fast food trips = 1/2
pounds lost = 5/10
exercise miles = 13.3/20

Complete this!!!  Soon!

Day 121

Breakfast (7-10AM):  Spinach and Mushroom Omelet (240) with 4 grape tomatoes and one chopped raw mushroom.  Cooked and mixed it all up.  Ate bites throughout the morning.

Snack (1200PM):  String Cheese (80)

Lunch (145PM):  Turkey/Beef CHili (440) with 5 grape tomatoes.  Tasty!  The corn pudding is a great add-on.  I remember not liking it much a few months ago...

Snack (430PM):  4 marshmallows (100) and 2 small slices of deli ham (30)  I did not eat these together...

Dinner around meeting again (615PM) Predinner snack: 1.5 oz of ground turkey (50cal), green beans and broccoli = 40 and 1.8 oz baby potato (35cal), chili powder (125cal total)
(930PM): slice of pugliese bread (120), with 80 cal of mozareall melted, a sliced roma tomato, pepper and basil.  Also an lil ice cream (135)

Daily Total: 1350cal

Day 120

Breakfast (710AM):  Back to work, didn't feel like eating as early as normal, but got hungry after I got to school.  Sweet POtato Pancakes with syrup and sausage (320)

Snack (1030AM): String Cheese (80)

Snack (1200PM): 50 cal choco pretzel snack

Lunch (145PM): Apricot Pork (315)  Decent

Snack (430PM): 1/2 cup of popcorn (40), corn tortilla (55), 1 oz of ham (25), and 20 cal of cheddar cheese

Dinner (845PM) PRe-dinner snack (630) - 1.7 oz potato, broccoli, 1 turkey meatball (100)  Meeting threw off the schedule.  Curried Chicken with cous cous.  (380) Added 25 cal of fruit and 25 cals of almonds.  Kicked out carrots and subbed in green beans.

Dessert (945PM):  Ice Cream 135

Daily Total: 1620

Day 119

Breakfast (830AM): Stuffed French Toast (350)

Snack (1130):  1/3 of a bagel (60)

Snack (100PM): String Cheese (80)

Lunch (200PM):  Cheeseburger MEatloaf (490) + 30 cal broccoli and 20 cal cheese

Snack: Alomnds (50)

DInner (630): Taco Salad - 4oz ground turkey breast (140cal), lettuce, tomato, cheese (30), FF sour cream (20), avocado (50), chick peas (30), mushrooms, cukes  TOtal = 270

Late Dinner (945):  BRead (80) with turkey (40) and cranberry (20)

Late Late DInner (1030): 2 oz baby potato (30cal), veggies (30) and lemon juice

Marchmallows (100)

Daily Total:  1650

Day 118

Back on the tracking wagon...
Breakfast (900AM):  Mcdonald's Sausage Biscuit (430) and half a hashbrown (75)

Snack (1130) - Carrots (25)

Lunch (330PM): Split pea soup, homemade with peas, carrots, onion, one ham bone.  2cups?  (400?)

Snack ()Chocolate Cinnamon almonds - homemade (100)  Mocha with low fat milk (350) and popcorn (100)


Dinner (630PM):  Leftovers!! 4oz of turkey breast, 3/4 cup of mashed potato, 1/8 cup of gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce (400?)

Snack (800): ice cream (135)
Daily Total: 2010
So, back on tracking... sorta.

Day 117

Breakfast (900AM): half a slice of cranberry nut bread (150ish)

Lunch (300PM): Asian beef and vegetable dinner (390cal) with 30 cal of corn, 20cal of broccoli, and 40cal of almonds.

Snack (500PM): 10 dark chocolate M&Ms (50cal)

Dinner (730PM) - Lucca's - Pomellini (champagne with a bit of pomegranate juice - 100cal), fried zucchini chips (shared among 4, 150cal), and chicken risotto that was amazing (??700??)

830PM - TOrch Club - Vodka TOnic (150)

930PM - Shady Lady - Veiux Carre Cocktail - Didn't love it, didn't need the calories, so I didn't drink it.
1030PM - Burgers and Brew - shared a small order of chili fries (300?)

Daily Total: 2080 -- Didn't try not to eat earlier, didn't feel super hungry going into evening.  Would have saved half the risotto if I'd known I wouldn't be stuck carrying it all night.  Got satisfied and thought about stopping, but... eh.

Day 116

Breakfast - Blueberry bagel with cream cheese

String Cheese, slice of ciabatta bread

200PM - Chicken Fajita Pita - no fries or soda

630PM - Thanksgiving dinner - white meat turkey (2 slices), cranberry sauce, 1/3 cup of stuffing, 3/5 cup of mashed potato, steamed string beans, 1/4 cup of sweet potato casserole, 1/4 cup of sweet potatoes cooked in pecan sweet sauce, 1/4 cup of gravy from mix, 1/2 serving of strawberry/sourcream jello salad, no appetizers, no bread, no butter, no wine, sliver of carrot cake and half a piece of pumpkin pie.  No seconds.  Felt comfortably full, not stuffed.

Day 115

Walked to Breakfast and back via the river - 1.5 mi
Breakfast(1000AM) - Breakfast buffet - hashbrowns, bacon, cantaloupe, bad waffles (uneaten), bad eggs (uneaten), bad biscuit (uneaten), 1 sausage link, 1 pancake, more hashbrowns, more cantaloupe, grapefruit juice, no dessert

Lunch - other half of last nights melt sandwich.

Walked to dinner and back - a bit over a mile
Dinner - Sushi - Ate equivalent of 1 fancy roll with small portion of edamame and a Blue Moon Pale Ale.  Sushi = California roll - ate one piece, decided it wasn't worth calories.  Elvis Roll = Tempura shrimp with crab and avocado - the best! - ate little over half the roll  Basil Roll = tempura shrimp, cooked tuna, cream cheese, jalapeno, basil sauce, salmon sashimi, and tombiko.  Good, interesting flavors - Ate a little less than half the roll.  I was seriously full at this point!

Concert - Vodka Tonic

Evening - Tomato Soup, Pirate;s Booty, and pretzels - sick food.

Daily Total - no idea, but much of the calories from dinner and drinks won't count because I lost it at the concert.  Not sure if I ate something bad or if I just ate a really bad combination of too much food that I'm not used to anymore...

Day 114

Breakfast - blueberry bagel with cream cheese, madarin

Snack - apple, string cheese, cheetos

Walked to lunch and back - bit over a mile.
Lunch - Brisket salad at Smokin' Geckos BBQ

Walked to dinner and back - bit over a mile.

Dinner (800PM):  Grilled sandwich with turkey, tomato, green chilis, cheese and no spread.  Sweet potato fries.  Saved half the sandwich.

Drink: 40 oz of diet pepsi with vanilla vodka, and a coors light.

Daily Total: ??

Day 113

Breakfast (715AM):  Fruit Crepes (365) - yum!  Added a few frozen blueberries to the sauce - I like it tart!

(900-930) - Did Day 1.3 of C25K.  1.5 miles in 25 minutes, 6 running minutes.  Running is easier aerobically, but harder on lower legs than when I first started.  Taking it easy to see if the lower leg pain is normal and goes away or if it's more serious.  Also looked up some post-run stretches. seems to help.

heading up the hill to Reno for a few days...  flying solo on the food... So, three days off BMD culminating in Thanskgiving!  What a week.

Lunch (1200) - Turkey sandwhich with lettuce, tomato, avocado, cheddar cheese, mustard, pickles on ciabatta roll. (400?)  with some cheetos (200)

Walked to dinner and back - a bit over a mile.
Dinner (700PM):  Grilled ham and cheese sandwich with side salad and french fries.  (??)

Day 112

Recreating from memory
Breakfast: English Muffin with ham, cheese, apple (220)

Snack:  Apple, string cheese and a bunch of bread - 460

Lunch - frozen veggies with 2 turkey meatballs - 200

Snack - carrots and hummus, lil drum, ?

Dinner - rice (400), hamburger meat (150), tomatoes, asparagus

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Daily Total (min): 1700

Day 111

Breakfast (800AM):  Omelet with veggie sausage and peaches (260).  Didn't eat the peaches yet. (-45)  Added 45 cal of cheddar cheese, a chooped mushroom, half a chopped tomato, and some green tomato salsa.  Oh, and two corn tortillas (110).  Total: 370

Snack (1030AM)  At 1115AM, just starting to get hungry.  Think I'll push off snack and just eat lunch at noon instead of 100PM.

Lunch (1230PM):  Turkey Bolognese (340cal), added 2 chooped mushrooms, 4 chopped green olives and 1 TB of ff cottage cheese Total = 400cal

(130): Lil' Drum ice cream (135)

(200PM): Leftover pumpkin puree cupcake (150cal)

(300PM):  Carrots with hummus (80cal)

(430PM): Peaches from breakfast (45)

Dinner (630): Taco Salad (Lettuce, tomato, kidney beans, ground turkey breast, avocado if I can find a ripe one, FF sour cream, tortilla strips) Margartias

Daily Total: 2000

Day 110

Breakfast (800AM):  Buckwheat panckaes with ham and berries (320)

Snack (1030) String Cheese (80), satsuma (25)

Lunch (1230):  Salisbury steak (290)  Should have just stayed in my classroom and eaten the meal I brought, but I felt like I was being antisocial.  Lunch was catered with a Thanksgiving feast. 
Turkey breast? Picked two small slices = 100cal.
Mashed potatoes? Gone, scraped the bin for about 1/3cup (80cal)
Gravy?  Took like 1.5 TBS (20). 
Fruit salad? covered in some sort of creamy white sauce, nixed. 
Rolls with butter? nah uh. 
Grean beans?  Swimming in butter, none. 
Cookies? none. 
Soda?  nope. 
So I managed to scrape together a 200 cal meal that consisted of turkey and potato, no veggies, and I'm gonna be hungry again very shortly.  (edit: Actually, didn't get too hungry...)  Damn that salisbury steak is looking good...

Snack (400PM):  5 oz new potato = 100cal, 30 cal of broccoli, 20cal of corn, 2 mushrroms, 4 grape tomato, and a bunch of lemon juice.  Yum!  A giant bowl of filling food forright around 150cal.

Dinner (630):  Steakhouse Wrap (405) with 30 cal of corn, 40cal of cheese, 2 mushrooms, half a chopped tomato.  Decent, needed some sourcream instead of cheese... next time.
Drinks (830): Ended up not going, kinda disappointed, but kinda relieved.  Won't have to moderate food and drink.  Ate 150 cal of bread and a cookie (100) at church and Mom's.

Daily Total: 1500

Day 109

Breakfast (730AM): English muffin (130), 1.5 oz ham (37), 10g of cheddar cheese (40), slice of apple Total = 207

Snack (930AM): Bypassed the crossaints, muffins, granola bars, even the yogurt, but did eat quite a few red grapes (110)

Snack (1030AM): String Cheese (80)

Lunch (1200PM):  Chicken Fresco (410) - Decent, love the risotto and the green beans.  Chicken is standard.  The artichoke hearts have a weird vinegary taste to them, the sundried tomatoes are a bit much for me, and the "sauce" on this one is... wierd.

Snack (330PM):  Apple 6.4 oz of slices. (90)

(545PM): Treadmill - 1.8 mi, 30min, 8min jogging at 5mph.  A little easier than last time because I knew I could do it...  Walked the walking sections a little faster, ran all 8 running sections this time.  Aerobically not so bad, but the outsides of my calves hurt.  :(

Dinner (630pm):  BBQ Beef Brisket (400) - love! love! love!  Added a small potato (60) and 2 chopped mushrooms.

Dessert (815PM):  Lil'Drum (135)

Daily Total: 1492cal

Day 108

Breakfast (615AM):  English Muffin (130) with 1.5oz deli ham (37), 60cal of cheddar cheese and a slice of apple Total = 227

Snack (1000AM): Satsuma (25)

Snack (1200PM):  String Cheese (80) and part of Apple (65)

Lunch (200PM):  Turkey with cider gravy, stuffing and carrot souffle (390).  Pretty darn good once you mix it all up!

Snack (500PM): Bread with a bit of shedds (150)

Dinner (630PM):  Salmon with quinoa minus the red pepper puree (200), added 30 cal of corn, 30cal of broccoli, and 2.5 oz of baby potato (half of one) (50cal) added lemon juice to everything!  Especially good on hot potato - it soaks the lemon right up - yum!  Also ate 50cal of almonds (predinner and with dinner total)  Total = 360

(800PM):  Decided to eat the other half of the lemony potato with some broccoli instead of dessert (80)

(930PM): Woke up from a little nap and inexpicably pounded a small bag of pirate's booty.  ?   Not quite sleep-eating, but I wasn't fully awake either.  (130cal)

Daily Total: 1507

Day 107

Breakfast (700AM):  Omelet with ham and apples (180) Added 30 cal of cheese, 4 grape tomatoes, and 3 chopped mushrooms.  The veggies and cheese totally rocked the egg!  I was thinking about cancelling the omelet dishes, but adding the veggies really helps!

Snack (1100PM): Tried to eat a Satsuma, but it was bad :(

Lunch (1215PM):  Dragonfly Chicken (330)  Pretty decent - loved the rice.  The chicken and broccoli were standard.  The sauce that made it "dragonfly" was pretty good.  Sorta tropical (coconut and fruit), but asian too and a little spicy.  I liked it, but thought it needed more veggies.  This meal is new, but no camera today, so no pics.  Next time!

Snack (300PM): Veggie sushi from grocery store (250?)
Snack (500PM): Chocolate covered almonds and cranberries (250) 
Damn good thing breakfast was so small!

Dinner (700PM): Not hungry at all...  eat a full frozen meal? or cobble together something smaller on my own... hmm.  2 pieces of bread at mom"s house with a bit of shedds (250?)

(900PM): 1 turkey meatball (60), 1 small 3oz yellow skin potato (60), and 30 cal of frozen veggies.

Daily Total: 1440cal

Day 106

Breakfast: (700AM): Spinach Mushroom Crepe (365) with 4 grape tomatoes.

Snack (1100-1200):  Satsuma (25) and String Cheese (80)

Lunch (200PM):  CHicken with Greek Lentils (410)

Snack (600PM):  40 cal of dried fruit and nuts.  Then I walk/ran on the treadmill for 25 minutes = 1.5mi.  Alternated, ran 7-8 minutes total at 5mph.

Dinner (700PM):  Tilapia (330).  Scraped off the red pepper sauce(-25) before cooking and added a TBS of green tomato salsa.  The fish was perfect!  Added 30 cal of green beans and 1/3 cup of corn (35)

Dessert (800PM):  130 icecream

Snack (900PM): Pumpkin Seeds (30), pomegranate seeds (20), small piece of bread with shed's (80)

Snack (1100PM) Tortilla with 1.4 oz turkey (110),

Daily TOtal: 1660cal higher than I thought, but not too bad.  Exercise always makes me hungry.

Day 105

Breakfast (800AM): Protein bagel (140) and almond butter (90), Satsuma (25)

Snack (1100AM):  Tortilla with turkey, bit of artichoke dip, and grenn tomato salsa (120)

Snack (130PM): Satsuma (25)

Lunch (300PM):  Picadilla (225), added 3 chopped mushrooms, 4 green olives (20), and 2 corn tortillas (100)

Snack/Dinner (615PM):  Can't eat later, won't be free until after 9.  Not real hungry today, still full from yesterday.  Ate a tortilla with 1.7oz of turkey, bit of dip and green toamto salsa.  I swear, I like the turkey and all, but the only reason I've been so addicted to this sanck the last week is that green tomato salsa.  Homemade by a friend.  It is amazing!  (120)

Dinner/Snack (915PM): 1/2 cup of rice/turkey mix with 1/2 cup of peas (120cal), part of a cupcake, no frosting (50)

Throughout the day, I ate a total of 1/2 cup of roasted pumpkin seeds.  online says 120cal.  I'm counting 150.

Daily Total: 1185

So, still super full from yesterday.  One of the first times I can feel the effects of overeating on a previous day.  I'm actually not that hungry at all today, so... I'm not eating that much!!  I know, right?  CRAZY!  I really feel like I'm starting to get a handle on how eating makes me physically feel.  If I get up feeling like my stomach isn't empty, then I know I overate the day before.  I don't feel stuffed or too full in the morning, I just don't feel empty.  I actually like feeling like I have an empty tummy -- not hungry -- just empty.  Like I ate just the right amount at just the right time.

Day 104

Breakfast (745AM):  Sweet Potato Pancakes with turkey sausage and berry sauce. (320)

Snack (1000-1200): Satsuma (20), 130 cal pirate booty, 100 cal tortilla with turkey, 20 cal of carrots

Lunch (1230): Pork with Olive Tapenade (300) - New to me, not so tasty.  The orzo is just bland pasta, the aspargus spears were tough, 2 of the 3 pork pieces were fatty, the olive tapenade was just chopped up olives.  I chopped everything up (only about half the pork made the cut) and added half a chopped tomato, 1/3 cup of corn (30) and mixed it all up.  Would have been really funky without the tomato and corn.  Not a fav.

Dinner (630PM):  No idea on the timing of the evening, so here's a total list...
3 pieces of pizza, thinner crust (750)
Crackers (80)
Cream Cheese Dip (50)
Tortilla Chips (120)
Guacamole (70)
chocolate covered pretzals (100)
3 cupcakes (made with pumpkin puree, but still!) (350)
Cream Cheese Frosting on 2 cakes (300)
Cream Cheese Frosting on Graham Cracker (70)
A midori/vodka/pinapple juice drink (200)
Umm, yeah... I think that was it.  ugh.

Daily Total: 3010. nice.  First day over 3000 since August 1, 2010.  And I felt like crap too.

Weigh-In #15

Down 3 more lb this week, though I hit that on Wednesday and sort of coasted into today...  Still feeling pretty good.  Ate much better this week, wasn't really hungry for snacking.  Ate a lot more fruit and string cheese -- less carb-y snacks.  I just don't think the carb-snacks, like Pirate's Booty or crackers, are as satisfying for me.  PLus, I stayed after school more days working and that keeps me from snacking in the afternoon.  On the other hand, I did stay home an entire day and didn't overeat, so that's an improvment!  I tried to really be aware of hunger levels -- stop eating when I'm full and don't eat if I'm not hungry.  Drank more water (still not enough though!).  When I skipped Bistro meals and ate at Mom's or friend's or Chinese place, I still did okay, a little high, but not outrageous.  Overall, a decent week!  I also downloaded the plan for Couch 2 5k.  Thinking about starting to use the treadmill a bit more.  I like having the plan to follow - makes it more official and a bit like an experiment.  I'll report back when I actually start. 
I'm going to need a new tracking chart very soon! :D

Daily average for the week = 1620cal

Day 103

Breakfast (630AM): Protein Bagel (140) with 50 cal of ham, a slice of apple, and 50cal of cheddar

Snack (1000AM): Satsuma (25)

Lunch (1200PM): Chinese Place - 1.3 bottles of TsingTao (200cal), ate half the meal - estimate it to be 2/3 cup of steamed rice (175) and 2/3 a cup of chicken breast with vegetables (150?)  Fortune Cookie (25cal)  "Better to ask the way than to go astray."

Snack? (330PM): Ate the other half of Chinese food rice and chicken/veg = 325cal

(600PM):  Ate an apple doughnut from Apple Hill -- sooooo good. (160)

Dinner (730PM): At a friend's house... Vodka Tonic (175), half a chicken breast(100cal), 2/3 cup of mashed potatoes(100cal), 1/2 cup of peas(50cal), 2 T of gravy(15cal). 

Dessert (930): Skinny Cow Mint Ice Cream Sandwich (140), an homemade apple sauce cookie (150)

Daily Total: 2030  Those darn sweets put me over the top today!  Oh, and the ginormous snack at 330!

Day 102

Breakfast (630AM): Spinach Mushroom Crepes (365) with half a grapefruit (40)

Lunch (1200PM): Curry Chicken CousCous - minus the carrots, add some drief fruit bits, pomegranate seeds, cinnamon, and nutmeg. (410)

Snack (330PM):  Fell asleep reading around 3pm, woke up at 6:15 and panicked a little.  It's almost winter, so it's dark all the time.  I didn't know if it was 6:15Am or 6:15 PM!  I wasn't quite sure if it was going to be Fri or Sat...  Did I have to get up for work??  Was it morning?  I couldn't remember eating dinner...  Finally woke up enough to figure it all out!  Too funny.  :D

Dinner (630PM):  Mom's house to pick up my dogs.  Nto intending to eat, but had just taken a turkey/rice casserole out of the oven... yum.  Pretty light (as far as casserole's go), really light on the cream of mushroom soup, white meat turkey, white rice, and celery.  Nothing else.  Ate around a cup.  Figuring 450cal.

Dessert:  Tiny portion of apple crisp with FF cool whip.  (200?)

Daily Total : 1465cal

Day 101

Breakfast (630AM): Berry Crepes (365cal)  Yum!

Snack (1100 - 200PM): 130 cal Pirate BOoty, 50 cal apple

Lunch (200PM):  BBQ POrk (410)

Snack (400PM): 30 cal of apple.

DInner (630PM): Turkey Bolognese (340) with a Tbs of FF cottage cheese (15cal), 40 cal of mozarella (less would have tasted fine) and 4 green olives (20cal)

Dessert (830PM): half a pomegranate (50cal)

Snack (930PM): tortilla (50) with 30 cal of turkey.

Daily Total: 1530cal

Day 100

Breakfast (700AM): Spinach Mushroom Omelet (240) added half a tomato chopped and 30cal of cheese.  Decent once it's all chopped up and mixed up.

Snack (1000AM): Satsuma Mandarin (25cal)

Lunch(1200PM):  Leftover half of curry chicken (220cal)

Snack (300PM): Tortilla with 2oz turkey and green tomato salsa (110cal) 10 almonds (70)

Dinner (700PM): Stuffed Chicken with spinach.feta, peas, asparagus, corn (340) with 3oz of french bread (200cal)

Snack (815) Ice Cream 135cal, 50cal of pomegranate seeds

Daily Total: 1420cal

Day 99

Breakfast (700AM): Spinach Ricotta Crepes with sweet potatoes and veggie sausage (365) + 20 cal cheese

Snack (1200PM): Small banana (70cal)

Lunch (130PM):  Med Chicken (250) - THis is one of my favs and it's only 250cal too!  I love the roasted zucchini and eggplant.

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Dinner(630PM):  New meal - Chicken Stuffed with Brown and Wild Rice (330cal), sides of peas and carrots and a pepper/tomato Rataouille.  This was a great meal!  The chicken took longer to cook than the veggies, at least it did from frozen.  Filling and tasty.  Added a Tbs of spicy green tomato salsa.

Snack (830PM): ice cream 135 and 100cal tortilla with turkey

Daily Total: 1270 cal - Dang, I wish every day could be like today.  Totally satisfied, not hungry at all!

Day 98

Breakfast (700AM): Omelet with Veggie Sausage and peaches (260).  Didn't eat the peaches yet (-50).  Added half a tomato, 40 cal of avocado, 30 cal of cheese, 55cal corn tortilla, Tbs of salsa - good scramble-like meal.  Total:  335cal

Snack (1100AM): apple (70), string cheese (80), trail mix (50)

Lunch (130PM):sushi (250), Half a curried chicken with couscous - jazzed with almonds, green beans, edamame, tomato, cinnamon, nutmeg (215)

Snack (400PM):corn tortilla (50), 2 slices of deli turkey (50), 40cal of artichoke dip, 175cal of veggie chips

Dinner (630PM):  2/3 cup of pot roast pices in gravy with potato bits and tomatoes, 2 pieces of bread (400)

Dessert (930PM):  135 - icecream, 100 - tortilla with turkey and salsa!
Daily Total: 1950

Day 97

Plan: Spinach Mushroom Crepe (365), Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf (490), Stuffed Chicken with Mushroom(340) + 305 = 1500

Breakfast (900AM):  Spinach Mushroom Crepe (365) love this!  Added 40 cal of avocado, but it was unecessary - this one isn't as dry as the spinach ricotta crepes.  Pretty full - didn't even start to get hungry until noon.

Lunch (100PM): Cheeseburger Meatloaf (490) cooked in microwave until veggiew were just warm enough, the yucca tastes better not overcooked.  Cooked meatloaf on it's own a bit more, then toasted it in the toaster oven.  Tasted great, just like a buger!  added 25 cal of cheese.

No snack - Walked for a half hour today with both dogs.  Walked around IKEA.  Cart surfed for 15 minutes in the IKEA parking lot.

Dinner (630PM):  @ IKEA, Shared a plate of Swdish meatballs, mashed potato, lingonberry preserves, and a side salad.  8 meatballs (250cal), 100 cal of mashed potato, lingonberry preserves (35cal), cream sauce (45cal), Lettuce with tomato and cukes with italian dressing (50), Dr. Pepper (100).  Total: 630

Dessert (900PM):  Frozen Yogurt (100) with raspberries (15), 65 = random toppings.

Daily Total: 1680cal

Weigh-In #14

Sooooo, despite the fact that this week still wasn't great in terms of eating choices (including an entire 1660cal "extra" meal Thusday night and 1.25 bags of potato chips this week - that's full size bags), I still lost two pounds.  What?!  Looking back, everything else I ate was decent, so who knows?  My overage calories totaled about a pound, so maybe I just lost 2 instead of 3 pounds.  Whatever - I'm still pretty happy.  I didn't think I was going to lose anything this week and that would have been 3 weeks of flatlining.  Those two pounds take me down to my next mini-goal!  Next goal is only nine pounds away!  I had planned to get a haircut at a nice salon at this mini-goal and it's been killing me to wait the last two weeks, but I waited!  Making the appt this afternoon.  Next goal = an iPhone!  I was going to get the phone anyways when my contract was up in October, but I decided to make it a reward for mini-goal #4, which is about half-way through the weight I want to lose.  Hopefully I'll have my phone in December!  BTW, I'm down 4 inches on my bust, 5 inches on my waist, and 5 inches on my hips!

Daily average for the week = 1990cal

Box #13 Menu

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Day 96

Plan: Bagel (200), Curried CHicken (380), OWN (400) + 320 = 1300
Still felt really full from my late night "snack" last night... and I got up suuuuuper late today.
Breakfast:
Snack (1000AM): 4oz yogurt (90cal)
Snack (1200PM): High Protein Bagel with almond butter (140+90)
Lunch (300PM): Wasa Crisp with artichoke dip (1/2 serving - 60cal), 100cal of vegetable chips,  Skinny Turkey Meatloaf(405cal) with 2/3 cup of green beans (20cal)

Snack (500PM): Ice Cream (135)

Dinner (800PM): Beef Tips with mushrooms over egg noodles, spaghetti squash (300) added 30 cal of broccoli.  New to me -- pretty decent.  The meat was good, though it had a weird seasoning.  The noodles were the best part.  The spaghetti squash was eh.



(845PM): 50cal of M&Ms
Daily Total: 1420

Day 95

Plan: Stuffed French Toast (350), Skinny Turkey Meatloaf(405), BBQ Pork(410) + 335 = 1500

BReakfast (700AM): Stuffed French Toast (350)

Snack (1100AM): String CHeese (80), Rice cake (30)

Lunch (200PM): Chicken with spinach and lentils (410) yum!

Snack (?):

Dinner (530PM):  Going out with a friend tonight, decided to eat early to avoid the eating out issue.  Had  CHicken Marsala Risotto (scooped the marsala sauce off most of it.) (300cal).  Added 1/2 cup of green beans (15cal)

Ummm... Dinner #2? (900PM):  If I never left the house, this would be a whole lot easier.  If I never left the house, I wouldn't have to make hard decisions about eating out.  We ended up at a pizza place and everything sounded sooo good.  I got a hard cider (200), shared a plate of baby tacos (130cal each), and ordered a mini pizza (300 cal per slice).  I ate only one slice at the restaurant, but finished the pizza when I got home at 1100pm (900cal).  Nice.  I did feel icky the next morning -- I still felt full seven hours later and it was hard to wake up...  I guess I'm learning -- slowly.  I have noticed in the last 2 weeks that I never feel good after eating crappy.  And not just cause I feel guilty about screwing up - I'm actually more sluggish.  I never used to notice how food affected my body's processing.  Starting to get back on track the end of this week.  If I don't get on top of things next week, I'll have completely wasted my "cushion" on the losing timeline.  And I will have wasted a bunch of money on the food.... 

Daily Total: 2845cal

Day 94

Plan: Omelet (260), Cheese Tortellini (390), Blackened Tilapia (310) + 340 = 1300

Breakfast (800AM):  Spinach Ricotta Crepes (365).  Dry, so I added 30 cal of cheddar and 40 cal of avocado.

Snack (1200PM): Apple (80)

Lunch (200PM):  CHeese Totellini (390)

Snack (400PM):  Carrots

Dinner (630PM):  Blackened Tilapia with rice and veg (290)  New to me! + 30 cal of broccoli.  It's okay.  The fish was really fichy today... The spices are agressive and a little salty.  The rice/beans and teh broccoli were the best parts. 

Snack (800PM): 500 cal of potato chips, 100 cal chocolate

Daily Total: 1825