Day 326

Breakfast: Artichoke/Goastcheese Strata with veggie sausage, tomato and green onion (250+80)

Day 325

Breakfast: Strata (250) with tomato and green onion and veggie sausage (80)

Lunch:  My tamale casserole (330) with leftover salad (30)

Snack: Chickpeas (50)

Ice Cream (120)

Dinner: BMD Asian Beef/Noodle Dinner (420) with almonds (70)

Gym: 30 min on elliptical = 2.2miles and 30 minutes on the treadmill = 2.5 miles, middle 2 jogged @5.5mph.  Also did strength exercises.

Snack: Banana with PB (200) and almonds (35)

Daily Total: 1585

Day 324

Breakfast: Ham, Cheese, Apple Muffin (250)

Lunch: Ham and Turkey DInner (420)

Ice Cream (120)

Cheese with ham (100)

Dinner: Tritip with salad and corn.  No bread, no butter. (600?)

Day 323

Up late and headed to a brunch bridal shower at 11, didn't eat breakfast

Brunch: Salads - Chipotle Chicken over Lettuce, Chinese Chicken, lots of fruit, cream cheese marshmallow fluff dip, aspargus with balsalmic, 2 cupcakes

Snack before Gym: tortilla with ham, artichoke dip and 5 almonds.

GYM:  2 miles on the elliptical, 30 minutes.  And 2.5 miles on the treadmill, 30 minutes.  Also did strength exercises.

Plum

Dinner:  BMD Chicken burrito bowl (300) with a tomato, mushroom and 2 TBS FF sour cream

Ice Cream (120)

Celery with PB (100)

Day 322

Breakfast (900):  Turkey, avocado, apple, bacon muffin (300)

Lunch (1230): sack lunch... 3-inch Togo's turkey sandwich with mustard (250), Chilicheese fritos (160).  Hit the jackpot on the chips, those are my favs.  Also include a bag of choc chip cookies (280), but I didn't eat them... yet.

Snack:  Helped make/frost cupcakes for a friends bridal shower... had a yogurt (190), some pita chips with hummus (100), and tastes of cupcakes (250?)

Dinner:  BBQ at a neighborhood clubhouse... hamburger (300?) with baked cheetos (200).  Included a soda which I took but will give away.  Also had a maitai(200) and 2 vodka tonics (350)

Daily Total: 2300?  Lots of estimates today...

Day 321

Breakfast(800): Cinnamon sweet potato pancakes with turkey sausage and lite syrup. (320)

Lunch (1230): Mexican place -- one chicken taco - not deep fried (300?).  1/2 cup refried beans (180?), 1/2 cup of mex rice (120?), 4 tortillas chips (50).  no margarita.  Really wanted to just order two tacos, no beans or rice.  But that would have required quite a bit of explanation since the lunch special was taco with beans/rice and there was no a la cart menu.  Would have done it still if I hadn't been eating with people I don't know that well.  Still didn't eat all the beans and rice... and I'm not entirely sure the taco would have been better.  I think so, but not sure.

Snack (530): Celery with 80cal of peanut butter

Dinner (745pm):  BMD Asian Pork with pea pods, veggie and rice noodles.  (400)  Added 5 almonds
Dessert: Applesauce and a small plum (60)
Celery with peanut butter (80)

Daily Total: 1525

Day 320

Breakfast: Ham/Apple?cheddar Muffin (250)

Lunch:  Worked at Loaves and Fishes today, wasn't going to eat, but it can be a wee bit offensive to refuse the food... Ate 1/4 of a big chicken quesadilla (lots of burrito like meat with some cheese) and lettuce (300?) with 60 cal of sour cream.  And 3 bites of choc chip ice cream (80)

Snack: Corn tortilla (50) with 1 oz turkey (35), 80 cal of dip and almonds (50)

Gym:  Met with a trainer for a free mini session.  He suggested that I need to be doing cardio for 45-60minutes for fat-burning.  Introduced me to the elliptical, which I will try to incorporate, but still sorta hate right now.  Did manage 25 minutes when I thought I'd barely make 10.  Finished off with another 20min on the treadmill, walking at an incline.  He also showed me 4 strength training exercise to do instead of the machine circuit.  I can feel it more in my muscles today, so I'm happy to pick these 4 moves up and forgo the 12 different machines...  Will try this for a while -- will probably alternate between elliptical and treadmill and maybe even the bike.

Pumpkin seeds (50)

Dinner:  salad with chicken breast, tomato, peas, red bell pepper, mushroom, beets, garbanzos, and kidney beans with a TBS of ranch (300?)

Ice Cream (120)

Half a hot dog in biscuit (@Moms) (150)

Late: String cheese in ham (90)

daily Total: 1615

Day 319

Breakfast (800AM): Turkey/avocado/apple muffin (250)

Snack(1030) - a few pumpkin seed (50)

Lunch(1200) - Leftover Corn/Potato Salad with a piece of bacon (125+50)  Followed shortly by a BMD Salmon with quinoa/veg (200) added broccoli (30)

Snack - 1 Chocolate Sphere (70)

Snack - Half an apple (35) with 1oz caramel sauce (85)

Snack - Carrots with hummus (100)

Snack - Ice Cream (120)

Dinner(730ish) - Frozen CPK pizza (440) with added mushroom, tomato and green onion and a salad with lettuce, celery, mushroom, tomato, radish and dressing of FFsour cream mixed with a bit of onion soup mix. (50)

Nothing after! (Cause I ate so much before that I wasn't hungry after!)

Daily Total: 1605

Corny Potato Salad

Made a potato salad to take to Father's Day dinner.  Really wanted to avoid the mayo -- I'd hate it even if it wasn't chock full of calories.  The texture and taste have always been bad to me.  So, I needed a no mayo potato salad.  However, my dad doesn't like vinegar-y things... so, that made finding a good potato salad difficult!  I stumbled across this one on foodgawker (fun site to browse, btw).  The original recipe can be found here.  I made some changes...

CORNY POTATO SALAD

serves 8 side servings

*27oz red new potatoes, cooked till fork tender (I boiled them)  And the 27oz was just what I used... Orig recipe called for 2lb.
*2 Tbsp. dijon mustard (or to taste)
*2/3 of a 14oz can of creamed corn
*1 Tbsp. capers (forgot these)
*1 celery stalk, diced
*1 small red bell pepper, diced
*3 radishes sliced
*2 tsp. fresh dill
*1.5 cups of frozen green beans, thawed and dried
*3.5 slices of bacon, cooked super crispy in the oven and chopped

I cooked potatoes ahead of time and cooled.  Mix mustard into creamed corn.  use more or less, to taste.  Could need more creamed corn too, depending on potato volume.  Add potatoes and other veggies and mix gently.  I garnished with chopped crispy bacon.  Would also be good with different veggies -- especially cherry tomatoes!  And it could have used a bit of onion. 

Nutrition:  Calculated the quantities/products I used... Each serving came out to about 130cal.  I thought this salad was great.  It has a creamy/dressed quality with out added any extra calories.

Day 318

Breakfast: Strata (250) - came back from frozen pretty well -- and a piece of reaaalllly crisp bacon (50?).  Added 3 cherry tomatoes and a couple slices red pepper.  The strata is much tastier with a bit of fresh/acid on it.

Snack: Carrots and dip (100)

Lunch(230): My tortellini meal (330).  Cheese tortellini, tomatoes, spinach, green beans, a couple TBS of leftover pasta sauce and a half TBS of parm cheese.  Also added a sliced mushroom.  350 total?

Snack(300PM) - Ice cream (120) and a few pumpkin seeds (50)

Dinner (730PM): TJ's Provencal Cod with ratatoulle and rice (400).  Added a serving of broccoli.  Trying to eat early wnough I can comfortably go to the gym later...  The cod was decent for frozen -- a tiny bit fishy and a bit bland, but the juice of an ENTIRE lemon helped that! ;D  The ratatouille was good and the rice was... rice.  Added 30 cal of broccoli.

Gym (930pm):  Did a round on the weight machines, then 3.4 miles.  Walked a 5% incline @ 3.7mph for 0.8mi.  Jogged 2 miles in 22 minutes... took just a 1/16th mile walk break in the middle.  Didn't intend to jog the rest, but it felt okay at each quarter-mile check.  Cool down walk for 0.6mi.

@ bites of brownie (50) and a 1/4cup of pasta with sauce (60?)  Ice cream (120)
Daily Total: 1560

Day 317

Breakfast - turkey avocado apple muffin 240 with a slice of bacon 50

Slice of bacon 50

Lunch: 2 pork ribs (300?), very small chicken thigh (80), yams (80), potatoes (200), salad (180), cauliflower and apple crisp with vanilla ice cream (300)

DInner:  1 cup of pulled pork shoulder (300), 100 cal of bread/roll, my corn/potato salad (155), corn on the cob (85), 5 olives (50), 2 glasses of wine (150) and a small chocolate brownie (125)

Recipe soon, basically uses cream style corn and mustard for dressing.

More chocolate brownie (200)

Daily Total (estimate): 2645 yikes!  Happy Father's Day indeed.  Oh well, back to normal tomorrow.

Day 316

Weighed in at 216.5lb this morn -- finally dropped down some!!  That's half a pound away from my 25% lost goal.  Next mini-goal after that is 202lb, which will give me a BMI of 29.8 and drop me to the "overweight" category. 

Breakfast:  1 TBS of peanut butter (100) -- planned on brunch at 10am, but wouldn't have made it without something.

Brunch:  Started meal with a few grapes, a slice of pineapple, a slice of cantaloupe and a small sourdough roll (150). Avoided the breakfast platter with french toast, eggs, bacon, sausage AND hashbrowns... Ordered a turkey sandwich instead.  Wheat bread with turkey breast, alfalfa sprouts, brie (not a ton though) and an apricot-fig spread.  Would have been even better to choose the side salad, but I got sweet potato fries.  Guessing 300 for fries, 200 for bread, and 200 for filling.  Also ordered the bellini add-on (which was really why we were there!).  Had 5-6 glasses of champagne with a touch of peach puree -- estimate 550cal.  Saved half the sandwich for later, but ate another sourdough roll (100)

Snack(300pm): Ate the last leftover sourdough roll (100)

Dinner (500pm):  Other half of sandwich (counted above.)

Wasn't sure a half sandwich at 5pm would do it for me today, but it did!  I wasn't purposely trying not to eat to counteract the morning or anything, but I just didn't get hungry... so I didn't eat.  Well, it's 11pm and I'm a bit hungry, but nothing I can't live with.  Tried to hit the gym tonight, but I didn't know it closed at 8pm on Saturdays. :(  Could have used the treadmill at home, but i didn't...

Daily Total: 1700 -- Not a real healthy day, pretty carb heavy with the breads and potatoes...  And let's face it, alcohol is just liquid carbs... but it could have been worse!  A lot worse!

Day 315

Beakfast (845): Stuffed French Toast (330)

Lunch(130):  Salad with chickpeas, olives, tomato, chicken breast, cucumber, mushroom, 50cal of cheese and 1 TBS of ranch dressing (75).  Also a piece of corn bread (200?)  Total around: 500?

Dinner (830):  Chcken with pearl couscous and veg (330)

Considered stopping at fast food on way home... would have stopped at a yogurt place, but it was closed.  Really wanted sweet -- thought about an innout milkshake, but they clock in a 590cal!  No bueno.  A burger is less than 400! 

Snack: last slice of bread (100), dip (80) and a slice of steak (25).  Also had a pudding (100)

Daily Total: 1465

Should have gone to gym tonight, but didn't get home in time.  Will go in morning if I wake up in time, otherwise will go Saturday eve.

Day 314

Breakfast (700):  Strata (reheated from fridge well) with extra spinach and tomato (250)

By the way, those are peonies in the background, that I got at Trader Joe's and they're gorgeous!!!

150cal of chocolate.

Chips and Salsa (150)

Lunch: Leftover Half Salad with balsamic vinegar (100)

Lunch:  Can of tuna (100) with 30 cal of mayo and 50 cal of crackers

Dinner: Chichken stuffed with broccoli/cheese, barley, and squash puree (400)

Ice Cream 135

Carrots HUmmus (80)

Bread with Dip (150)

Daily Total: 1595

Day 313

Breakfast (800): Goat Cheese Artichoke Strata (250) with spinach

Dentist and long wait to lunch.

Lunch (230):  Big Spoon Yogurt (200), piece of foccacia bread from Plutos (150), half of a "side" salad with edamame, broccoli, beets, cuke, tomato, garbanzoes (100?).  Basalmic vinegar for dressing.  Added 1 oz of steak (50)

Snack - Bread with artichoke dip (200), piece of chocolate (60), pudding (100)

Dinner - Asian Veg and Beef Dinner (360)  Ate veggies and half the noodle/beef before going to the gym and the rest of the beef/noodles after with extra green beans.  Added about 100 cal of almonds overall.

Messy plate, sorry!  Stirred it up on the plate...

Daily Total:  1590

Gym:  9:30 - 10:30 - Did a round on the weight machines to start.  Treadmill = 3miles, Walked for a mile on 4.5% incline.  Jogged a mile @ 5.5mph.  Last mile: walked 1/8, jogged 1/4mi @ 7mph, walked 1/8, jogged 1/4mi @ 7mph, walked last 1/4 mi.  All walking done at 3.8mph.  I really like the inclined walking as a warmup.  It gets my heart rate up and my muscles are really ready to jog without killing my first.  I'm able to get into the zone quicker.  The big deal today??  I actually jogged an entire mile without any walking!!  I've never done more than like 0.6mi before.  Pretty pleased! :D

Artichoke/GoatCheese Strata

Another Cooking Light recipe.  I wanted some breakfast ideas and stratas seem like they would freeze well (we'll see!).  Plus, I can get loaves of french bread for free, so...

Here's a link to the original recipe
And here's what I did...  (added mushrooms, swapped out herbs, used a different bread, used skim milk)

• 1/2 cup finely chopped shallots (about 1 large)
• 1.5 tsp of butter
• 5 oz of baby portabello mushrooms, thinly sliced
• 1 (10-ounce) package frozen artichoke hearts, thawed
• 1.5 cubes of frozen basil
• 1/2 tsp of dry mustard
• 1 3/4 cups skim milk
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 4 large eggs
• 1/3 cup (about 1 1/2 ounces) grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
• 10 oz extra sourdough bread, cut into 1-inch cubes (about 5 cups)
• Cooking spray
• 3/4 cup (3 ounces) crumbled goat cheese, divided

Preparation

1. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Cooking spray, add shallots, and cook for 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Remove shallots.  Sautee mushrooms in butter, until wilted.  Stir in artichoke hearts; cook for 8 minutes or until artichoke hearts begin to brown, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, and stir in shallots. Cool 10 minutes.

2. Combine milk, black pepper, salt, and eggs in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk. Add basil and mustard. Add Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and bread; toss gently to combine. Stir in artichoke mixture, and let stand for 20 minutes.  (Mine sat for 4 hours.)

3. Preheat oven to 375°.

4. Spoon half of bread mixture into an 8-inch square glass or ceramic baking dish coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle with half of goat cheese, and top with remaining bread mixture. Sprinkle remaining half of goat cheese over top. Bake at 375° for 50 minutes or until browned and bubbly.

This made six pretty sizable portions.  I used the nutrition info off my products and calculated this at 255cal per serving.

Not the most photogenic dish, but...

"Serving suggestion"  :D

This is pretty good.  It reheated well from the fridge.  Haven't tested the frozen ones yet.  I like the sort of burnt or "very-well browned" crusty edges.  The goat cheese is good.  I don't love the frozen artichokes -- missing the salt of the canned variety.  Liked the addition of the mushrooms.  Need to get some new herbs.  All in all, successful and I like it, but it makes me want to experiment more with different veggie/cheese/meat to get a great version!  I also pulled recipes for sweet, frenchtoast/fruit baked dishes.

Day 312

Breakfast (800): Ham, Cheese, Apple Muffin (250)

Got a little hungry for a snack, but decided to just eat lunch early... however lunch took longer to prep than anticipated.  But I easily made it to 1230 without dying or overeating at lunch.  Good lesson, slight hunger usually goes away, especially if I drink some water!

Lunch (1230PM):  Cooked up a London Broil top round steak.  Just marinated and broiled in the oven -- looked up calories to be 150cal for a 3oz serving (totally trimmed and no extra fat in marinade).  Served with a Trader Joe's Vegetable Couscous (250) and extra broccoli, spinach and 3 cherry tomatoes.  I suppose with the extra veg it totals about 425cal.  And verrrry filling.

Cooking notes:  The London Broil steak weighed 14.25oz raw and 9.7oz after it had been broiled to medium.  I portioned out 3.1oz servings, some weight was lost with the juices.  Internet indicates 3oz of top round is about 150cal.  The TJ's couscous was pretty good -- convenient, but couscous with veggies wouldn't be that hard to make ahead and freeze.  With 28% of RDA sodium, it won't be a staple for me.  Also, by the time I added extra veg (and could have added more, like artichoke hearts and mushrooms), it could have been two servings.  At any rate, it was tasty, but probably not worth the extra $.

Tasted better than it looked, but still scary...

Snack (330) - Slice of bread with some artichoke dip (200)

DInner (645) - Chinese Food, tried to keep it light today to compensate.  However, there's no compensating for the sodium which I could reeeeeallllly taste now!  It was almost offensively salty to me (though I got used to it) and everyone else thought I was crazy!  Ordered to share laughing buns, a stirfried chicken dish with veggies and eggplant in black bean sauce (which was breaded and fried, like tempura)  Anyways, no idea on calories -- ate 3 slices of eggplant, about 2/3 cup of chicken mix, one laughing bun and 1/4cup of rice.  Doing a little internet research, I'd guess eggplant was 300cal, chicken was 200, 150 for the bun, and 60 cal for the rice.

Forgot to take a pic of the eggplant... here's an approximation.



Late - Cooked a strata recipe and taste tested right through most of a serving (200)

Daily Total: 875 Chinese .... with estimates I'd guess 1785 for the day, but estimates might be off.

Day 313

Breakfasst (745): Ham, cheese, apple muffin (235)

Somewhat hungry around 1100, but going to wait to lunch, not dying.
Lunch (1230): Jerlk Tilapia (350) and an ice cream (135)

Snack (200) - 1/4 of a Cantaloupe (120)

Snack (600pm) - iced coffee (no milk, half a yellow packet) and a lemon square (120)

Dinner - 2 slices of sourdough (180) with Shedds (60), a serving of MOm's Eggplant Casserole (300, calculated the recipe), and broccoli (20).

Snack (800) - Caramel Brownie Square (120)

Daily Total: 1640

Gym - 1000PM -- 15-20 rotating through the weight machines, wasn't sure if I was going to jog tonight, since I did yesterday, but I was sorta feeling it and I figured that it's been almost 2 days because I jogged in the morning last time.  I decided to mostly walk instead, walked at 3.8 mph, but boosted the incline to 4.5 - 5%.  It's a good little trick that works different muscles (more the back of the thighs) and gets my heart rate up, with out super exerting.  After about 10 minutes, I was feeling well warmed up and decided to do one mile of all out jogging and wrap up with a 1/4 mile cool down.  I jogged most of that mile at 6 - 7mph with only three short stretches of walking.  I was breathing pretty hard, but I was also feeling in the zone.  I was working, but I wasn't killing myself... My pace of that mile was 9:50.  That's my first sub-10min mile in... I think, ever.  Was still feeling pretty good.  Walked a bit, then jogged for an extra 1/4 mile at 5.5mph (which felt like a walk in the park!).  Then cooled down and stretched out.

Day 312

Got up early (620am!) in order to jog before I had to leave for church.  Did 1.9 miles in about 24 minutes, but it was rough.  I didn't feel like I could really push myself and my breathing was less in control.  I had no longer stretches of jogging (304mins max).  I was surprised the time was as low as it was.  I think I'm just not a morning runner.  That and the fact that I haven't been jogging every other day like I was for awhile. 

Breakfast(800) - Turkey, avocado, apple muffin (250)

Snack 150 cal of croissant (really, like 3 bites)

Snack: a stalk of celery with 60 cal of artichoke dip.

PotLuck Lunch(100) - mostly salads with little to no dressing, did have some KFC coleslaw though.  Also a pice of pork, a bit of chicken breast, a couple of bites of mac and cheese.  And a fair amount, but it was mostly decent things and I wasn't stuffed afterwards.  Did have a piece of chocolate cake (actually split two diff ones with a friend).

Snack (400) - Pudding (100)

Mowed the lawn, watered plants, and weeded.
Dinner (830) - Not super hungry for obvious reasons, but a bit so... I made a broccoli slaw spaghetti  (brocc-50, sauce - 50, parm - 50) with a piece of sourdough (100) and a bit of shed's spread (30)

Late (1000) - Ice Cream (135)

Daily Total:  In addition to the potluck (???), I ate 975 calories.  The munchings are more under control this week.  I think it was mostly a TOM thing last week...

Day 311

Brunch planned for 930 -- looked at menu ahead of time.  A couple of decent options, but I didn't realize until served that the portions were out of control!  I bypass the french toast and the "pancake omelet" (a pancake wrapped aruond ham, caramelized onions, apples and Gruyer cheese... sounds kinda yummy!).  Did order a mocha (a Mexican mocha with cinnamon and chile).  Settled on the mushroom omelet with mushroom, tomato, herbs and Gruyer.  It was ginormous.  Came with a reasonable portion of potatoes and a fruit plate.  Ate the grapes, potatoes, and 80% of the omelet.  Oh, and a slice of wheat toast (which actually was one of the best parts!  I guess I've been bread deprived, but I don't really miss it).  Not even gonna guess on calories.

They brought out so much food! Each of us just ordered one meal!

Didn't get hungry until about 4pm.  Could have held out until dinner, but planning on a light meal (fish and veggies), trying not to go hungry.  This is my tortilla ship avoidance meal... Ate a tortilla (55) with avocado and turkey (60).  And salad: I split another TJ salad (Vietnamese rice noodle, cabbage, chicken, cucumber, peanuts, a bit of vinegary dressing) and added lettuce and tomatoes.  (180)  Full salad is 320 w/o dressing and 380 with.

Dinner out with family - High-class Mexican place.  Planning on grilled fish marniated in chile and citrus with sauteed spinach in place of the normal rice.
And I had... grilled sturgeon with avocado/orange/radish salsa and a side of spinach sauteed with onion, chile and sesame seeds.  And it was so. freaking. good.  I've never had sturgeon before and I liked it a lot!  It's a firm, meaty, white fish.  The spinach was good.  I had 4 tortilla chips with my dinner; none before.  And I didn't not have an alcoholic beverage, though the Blackberry Lemon Drop was calling to me!  Again, not gonna guess at the calorie count, but feeling pretty decent!  Only difficulty was convincing myself that my fish/spinach was worth $16.95 when others were getting 2 burritos, rice and beans for $11.25!  ugh.  But it was delish and I was super happy in the end.  Now if I can just avoiding eating for the rest of the evening.

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Day 310

1230AM - 300 calories of brown rice.

Breakfast (800AM) - 100 cal of cantaloupe and half a english muffin (70) with 80 cal of PB.

Snack - carrots/celery/dip (100) -- rice thin with goat cheese (60)

Lunch(1200) - Jerk Chicken Meal (330) with green beans (30)

Snack -

Dinner -

Daily TOtal: DOn't remember evening details, but I was keeping track and finished the day at about 1600, even with that nasty 300 calories of midnight snack rice...

Day 309

Breakfast (800): Spinach Mushroom Omlette with sweet potatoes hacked to remove the egg and add broccoli, artichoke hearts, a mushroom, veggie sausage and a bit of parm.  (220)

Snack (1015) - a few flax seed tortilla chips with a tbs of hummus (100)

Lunch (100) - Chicken with brown rice stuffing, peas and ratatouille. (330) and yogurt with a few almonds (200!)

Snack - tortilla with artichoke dip and a bit of parm (150)

Dinner I (500) - Finished the TJ's salad from the other day (200)

Dinner II (900) - Quinoa (50) with cherries (50), goat cheese (40) and almonds (40)

Cantaloupe 1/4 - 120 cal?

Daily Total (1600)

Day 308

Breakfast (845) - Chicken Mushroom Crepes (270) with extra tomato, red pepper, broccoli and artichoke hearts (30)

Snack - none

Lunch (100) - Salmon with cranberry/spinach/almond/rice (400) + extra cranberries na almonds (50)

Snack - Coffee cake (100) Fritos (80) Cookie (100)

Dinner - Loads of celery with 50 cal of hummus, Orange Chicken (190max), 50 cal of white rice (really, like 3 bites!), 2 TJ mint chip ice cream sandwiches (120)

Late - Coffee cake (250), fritos with 2 TBS of chili (120), ice cream (135)

Daily Total - 1945

Ate late again, despite the fact that I wasn't really all that hungry.  :(  One thing that didn't work in my favor is that I ate what my friends made even though I'd brought a BMD meal to eat.  We were in a hurry and I wanted to be quick.  What I ate there wasn't that bad calorie-wise, but it also wasn't very filling because it was such a small portion, and didn't feel like a meal.

Day 307

Breakfast (800):  2 "Cheese" Blitzes (280) from Trader Joes.  These are an attempt to recreate the BMD Berry Crepe meal.  I added some frozen fruit (20) (no sweetner) and a veggie sausage (80).  The blitzes are made entirely with Tofutti cream cheese.  They are pretty good, but definitely miss the tang of the cheese crepes.  The crepe itself it very good and the filling is decent but slightly bland.  Overall reasonably successful and certainly easy.  Total 380.  A bit high for a meal that's not super filling, but not bad.

Pic of the crepe itself next time!

Snack (1100) - yogurt with almonds (200)

Snack (1145) - small piece of moms coffee cake (100)

Snack (1245) - 1 Reese's PB CUp (80)

Lunch (245-300) - My chicken with lentils and green beans (340)

Snack - 2nd PB cup (80)

Dinner (500) - 2 Lean Cuisine Spring Rolls (160) in a salad with lettuce, 1/3 of a tomato, pea sprouts, FF sour cream, 40 cal of avocado

(600) - Ice Cream (135)

(630) - Tortilla Chips (180)

I realized that the "snacks" were going to become my dinner when I kept eating, grawr!  Meeting from 7-9 and gym from 930 - 1015 kept me from snacking more. 

1030 - Hummus taco with tortilla, lettuce, cuke, tomato, pea sprouts. (100)
Daily TOtal - 1715
930 - Did circuit on weight machines and jog/walked 2.75mi in around 35 minutes.  Rougher today since I haven't been jogging for the last 10 days,especially on the shins/calves, but I did get to a good place at the 20 minute mark and I jogged @ 5.5mph for 7 minutes straight without walking.  That's a new PR, previous best was 5 minutes!

Day 306

Breakfast (800) - Cinnamon sweet potato pancakes with turkey sausage and frozen berries instead of syrup (330)

Snack - 200cal = a few tortilla chips and a small handful of low-sodium pumpkin seeds (finally found some a Trader Joes!)

Lunch (1215) - Trader Joes - Mango Grilled Chicken pasta salad, but hacked.  As packaged, it's 340 w/o dressing and 380 with.  I used half the salad and half the dressing.  I added a bunch of lettuce, some pea sprouts, 50 cal of almonds, a mushroom, lime juice, fresh basil, mint and red pepper flakes.  Totals about 250, it was super yummy and filling.

Snack - Cherries (100) and tortilla chips (250)

DinnerI - Burrito (250) with tomato and avocado (40)

Ice Cream (135)

DinnerII - Trader Joes Veggie Pizza (250 for the whole pie).  Added red pepper, artichoke hearts and a mushroom.  Also a bit of parmesean cheese.  Totaled 300ish  Very good and filling for the calorie count.  Be aware that it doesn't have a lot of cheese, which is good, but might but unexpected.  Will definitely buy this again.

A few pumpkin seeds (50)  Did NOT eat any ice cream or yogurt, though I realllly wanted to.

Daily Total: 1905

Day 305

Missed a few days -- end of school year ate up a lot of my time, then the "recovery" period made me lazy.  Last day of school on Friday, home and slept from 3-5pm.  Then did a 5k Saturday morning in the rain.  Cuddled up under a blanket when I got home and slept from 12-5pm!  Always happens at the start of every vacation... sort of unwinding from the school stress.  Didn't eat great over the last 2-3 days... Didn't eat anything unhelathy, just ate too much of it.  Super munchy and wanting to just eat.  Partly TOM, partly just being me.  I've been right around 2000-2200 for the last three days, but did manage to deter myself from stopping at any fastfood places, though I was sorely tempted (a little of the well-it's-already-screwed-up-so-why-not mentality, but I fought it!).  More on track today, thought still not great, but I'm nearly so muchy this evening.

Breakfast: Mixed veggies (spinach, broccoli, mushroom, sweet potato, tomato) with a veggie sausage and a TBS of artichoke dip, also had the BMD side of apples/cranberry/walnut.  This is how I choose to hack the few Spinach Mushroom Omelet meals I still have left.  I feed the omelet part to the dogs.  (250)

Snack: Ice Cream (135)

Snack - 100 cal of pretzels with an oz of cheddar (120) a few almonds (60)

Lunch - Salad from Trader Joes (Pasadena Chicken - 180 without dressing, 240 with), it had lettuce, chicken breast, crunchy rice noodles with almonds, added extra lettuce, red bell pepper, cucumber and only used half the dressing with a squeeze of lime. (220)

Snack - Ice Cream (135) - yeah, I said I was "more on track today"

Snack - lettuce with red bell pepper, lime juice, avocado (40), and 2 lean cuisine spring rolls chopped up (160)

Snack (600) - chocolate pudding with a bit of reddiwhip (130) (see, TOM for sure.)

Not hungry for a full dinner (wonder why?!) -- Ate a tortilla (55) with 40 cal of hummus with cucumber, red pepper and pea sprouts.  with 100 cal of flax seed tortilla chips

Yogurt (190) with 40 cal of almonds

11pm - 2 tortillas (110) with 2 oz of ground turkey (60) with lettuce tomato FF sour cream and 40 cal of avocado.  why?  dunno.  sounded good, but I wasn't really hungry.

I think I had an ice cream too (135)

Daily Total: 2060 (and there's the total I've been seeing all week.) ugh.  My total was 1350 before I ate my extended "dinner".

I've said it a million times, but it's so hard to do... I've GOT to get away from the TV.  TV=eating for me.  And staying up late really screws me over too.

Day 301

Breakfast - Chicken Mushroom Crepes (270) with spinach and tomato

Snack (1200) - Tuna salad kit (150) and a brownie (170)

Lunch (200) -



Daily Total - 590