Day 19

Breakfast (630AM):  Took syrup out before microwaving.  Cut up toast, sausage and peaches (all=260cal) and ate on way to work.  It was pretty darn good.  And I kept catching the scent of maple syrup from the trashcan! :D 

Snack(1200PM): Got a little hungry in the mid-morning. Apple (70cal)

Lunch(145PM): Pretty flippin good - chicken is good, risotto and mushrooms are excellent. Two small issues: "seasoned" means a TON of black pepper and the artichokes were super vinegary from being pickled? I eventually flooded the beans with water and let the pepper sink to the bottom, then skimmed the beans off the top.  Still, really liked this one, the mushroom risotto was so good Reminded me of cream of mushroom casseroles (in a good way!). (410cal)

Dinner(600PM): Chili's - Planned in advanced, looked up healthy options. Planned to get either fajitas w/ only one tortilla and no cheese (like 750cal) OR eat a healthy salad and get a cupcake at the cupcake place next door. Salad/cupcake option won - cupcake obviously, but also because the salad sounded good - no frozen salads come to my doorstep! I ate the Guiltless Grill Asian salad with the dressing on the side. I used about a TBS of dressing. (at most 400 cal total) Ordered an unsweetened ice tea. Really liked the salad. The cupcake was really good too. Chocolate with raspberry filling and a chocolate ganache topping (estimate 400 cal). A good evening!\

Daily Total: 1540cal

Day 18

Breakfast (645AM):  Repeat, but I really like it.  The crepes are good and the blueberry sauce is sooo good.  The sauage is okay.  Remembered to take the berry sauce out partway before it exploded! (365cal)

Snack (1200PM): 0.8 oz Pirate's Booty (104cal)

Lunch (145PM): Took longer to cook than anticipated - the meatloaf is dense. Liked the cauliflower better than I thought I would. The meatloaf had a weird texture, kinda mushy. Sweet potato puree is good! VERY minimal BBQ. Can see a little red, but not taste it. (430cal)

Snack(445-530PM):  100 cal of artichoke dip with celery.  Bite of carrot cake (80cal), Light Yogurt (80cal),  Peanuts (40cal)  Forgot to add the bite of Payday candybar at around 300PM (60cal)

Dinner (745PM): Pretty darn good.  Always like the chicken stuffed with spinach.  Veggies good, especially corn.  The mushroom gravy was sorta sweet tasting - some odd flavor.  Tasted good with the spinach though.  Added a chopped roma tomato (11cal) and a TBS of cranberry sauce (30cal).

Daily Totals: 1640 cal

Hungrier the last two days - didn't drink as much water either. Will try to drink up tomorrow. Also, got some questionable items for snacks - high density foods may be making me hungrier?  In retrospect, I think I need to plan to just eat dinner earlier and eat the snack later.  I think I kept eating random stuff because I wasn't really satisfied.  It's hard to get around the mindset of "dinner is big and last meal of day".  I should have just eaten the dinner at 530, even though it was only 4 hours after lunch.  I'm going to turn into an official early-bird eater!  :D

Day 17

Breakfast (645AM): Crepe was decent - filling was a little odd, not sure why, but not bad. Sweet potatoes okay. Veggie sausage had good flavor, but weird aftertaste. Not bad though - Texture okay. (300cal) Added .75 TBS shredded cheese (40cal) and half a chopped tomato (10cal).

Snack (1225PM): Apple (75cal)

Lunch (145PM): Chicken and Apples were very good. The root veggies are okay, but I don't like the onions and celery. So I just pick through that. I didn't even touch the broccoli souffle. (190cal?)

Snack(330PM): 1/2 of a PayDay candy bar. (120cal) Been saving it and figured I had room in cal count given lunch...

Snack(445PM): Bagel Thin (110cal), 1TBS cranberry sauce(30cal), half pkg little lunch meats (45cal). Didn't love it, for future reference.

Snack(530PM): celery with artichoke dip (100cal)

Dinner (800PM): I could eat this dinner every freaking week. It was soo good! The broccoli tasted fresh, the beef was good quality, the sauce was sorta eriyaki and sorta like a peanut sauce, there were seasame seeds! The brown rice was a little mushy, but I didn't care a bit (360cal). I added 6 almonds (42cal) and a sliced plum tomato (15cal). I'm diasppointed it'll probably be awhile before I get this again! And I'm full :D

Snack(930Pm): Two bites of carrot cake (100cal)

Daily Total: 1537cal

Day 16

Breakfast (715AM):  Protein bagel(resarched guess 110 cal) with egg and ham(guessing 90cal?), added 1.5TBS shredded chesse(83cal).  Good and filling.  Defrosted while getting ready (put egg/ham packet in water to defrost).

Snack(1210AM): Finished leftover breakfast and ate .8oz Pirate's Booty (104cal)

Lunch (145PM): Curry Chicken is great - good char on meat, sauce isn't overpowering. The "julienned" chicken was a full breast, but I fork shredded it. Couscous is dry. Needs more fruit and veggies -- carrots aren't my fav, zucchini would be great here. Would have doctored a little at home. Still, one of my favorites. 

Dinner (550PM):  Pretty hungry - decided to eat dinner early, snack later.  Did eat 1/4 piece of carrot cake when I got home at 530PM (250cal).  Dinner was decent, lots of veggies prepared well.  The chicken was okay, but the bleu cheese was too strong for me.  Added 1/4 cup of edamame(60cal), 2TBS cranberry sauce(50cal) and some chopped green onion.

No Snack.

Daily Totals: 1457 cal

Day 15

Breakfast(730AM):  Still feeling a little sick.  Set bagel out to defrost while I showered - amazed at how quickly it defrosts.  Cut and toasted it.  Nibbled on half the high protein bagel with the almond butter throughout the morning (100cal total).  Like the bagel - especially the flaxseeds and the almond butter was good - didn't taste "maple" as advertised, but still good.

Lunch (1200PM): Not real hungry and time was tight - finished the bagel and almond butter (100cal total).  Probably should have tried to eat - forgot I had to leave immediately at 145Pm to go to a meeting, thought I'd have time to eat lunch then.  Pretty hungry during meeting.  Ate a FiberPlus bar (130cal) and drank water. 

Dinner (430PM):  Ate the Rock Shrimp I was supposed to eat at lunch yesterday.  I was afraid of the shrimp, but it was much better than I thought.  The wheat pasta was good, veggies good but meager.  Added half a plum tomato (7cal) and 1/3 cup of peas (35cal).  Turned out to be a PILE of food.  Pretty freaking full.

Snack(800PM):  Fully within caloric total, but not a very nutritious snack... A 240g potato (189cal), 2TBS Shedd's Spread Light (120cal), 2TBS shredded cheese (110cal), 1/3 cup of frozen peas (35cal), and 1/2 roma tomato.  Thought about taking and picture, but it looked ugly. :D  Tasted good, but not a good as I remember.  This is a meal similar to what I might have eaten before, but with restrictions on certain items.  Can't believe what the calories must have been before!  Also, thought about eating canned chili with potato, but decided against because of sodium and cal.  Full -- probably spiked my blood sugar all to hell, but...

Mistake!(1015PM):  Went shopping for snacks.  Ate a quarter of a square of carrot cake - estimate 250cal.  And two pieces of celery with 40 cal of artichoke dip.

Daily total: 1463 calories.

Never occured to me until I looked it up online that perhaps the Fiber bar made me feel sick... I guess we'll see tonight, since I ate another one today!

As of 9pm, I've had 72 oz of water, without really trying.  AND I haven't had a soda in about 10 days - also without really trying. 

Day 14

Breakfast(800AM):  Muffin hadn't thawed yet.  Ate BagelThin(110cal) with an egg(90/7/0) and chopped up half plum tomto with a bit of green onion.  Topped with 2TBS shredded cheese (55cal).   Yum!

Snack (1045 - 1130AM): Snacked on Vanilla Nut muffin (80cal/2g/3gfib). Very very dry and crumbly. Nut flavor ok -- little bits of nut. Would not be enough breakfast. Maybe with the hot chocolate? It has no nutritional markings, but found one online that says it has 80cal/1gfat/0fib/3g carb/15g protein. Haven't tried it yet.

Lunch(1230PM):  Mixed up days again - ate the egg this morning and the planned shrimp would have done in my cholesteral for the day.  Also, there are two servings of broccoli souffle tomorrow - I'd rather spread that out.  Turkey tasted better than it looked -- I like it on the dry side though.  The root veggies were okay.  There was a nice gravy with the turkey side, but it wasn't particularly pomagrant-y.  The broccoli souffle was ridiculously ick.  I like broccoli and I didn't like this at all.  The taste stayed with me for awhile.  Added 1/4 cup of frozen edamame (60cal) - made the broccoli almost edible.  Also added 2TB jellied cranberry sauce (50cal).  Pretty filling overall.

Not sure what happened to menu - I thought this was Lunch 7 -- I labeled it Lunch 7, but that's not what the menu has for tomorrow.  Confused, but oh well!  Possibly, I got this instead of the pork in papaya because I don't see that one.

 

Snack (330PM): Half an apple (35 cal) with 1 TBS of reduced-fat chunky peanut butter (90cal/6gfat/1gfib)  Finished the onther half of the apple at around 430PM.(35cal)

Dinner(630PM): Added 1/3 cup frozen peas (35cal).  Dinner looked pretty good and tasted pretty good.  Didn't love the bean stuff - it was okayish, but the chicken and the cheesyrice stuffing were good.  However, I think this is what made me sick for some of the night and little of the next morning.  Not sure why, but it's the only explanation.  Maybe I left it thawed in the fridge too long?

No snack.  Bed at 915pm - I was exhausted.

Daily totals:  1350 cal

Weigh-In Week #2

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