Grocery Shopping

Stopped at grocery on the way home...  Spent a bit more than planned, but many of these things will be used for weeks to come. (listed in order of longevity)
2 Jazz apples
2 medium bananas
2 nectarines - decidedly unripe, fingers crossed
3 tomatoes
Spring Lettuce mix - salads don't come with frozen meals!
Greek Yogurt Plain - been wanting to try this.
Fat Free Cottage Cheese - decent snack
Skim Milk
Yoplait yogurt, 8 kid sized - only 90cal each instead of the 170 for full carton. (can't stand the sweetner taste in FF)
Wasa Crisps, Multigrain - good snack component
EggBeaters - occasional breakfast/bagel to replace one of those horrid muffins.
String Cheese - snack
Tillamook Cheddar cheese - added rarely to some meals and more often to bagel breakfasts
Frozen Brown rice - an occasional odd meal is low on carbs when I think it should have some. Usually I'm okay with a low-carb meal, but rarely there's a meal that just seems to be missing a carb.

Grand total: $33.34 -- oops!  a bit over the $20, but that might not be reasonable if I'm going to buy decent snacks.  And a lot of this will bleed over into next month. (Crisps, cheese, rice, egg - they cost $15 on their own.)

Day 37

Breakfast (730 - 1000AM):  High Protein Bagel and Almond butter (140 + 90cal)

Snack (1200PM): Blueberry yogurt (170cal)

Lunch(130PM):  CHickens tuffed with feta and spinach, served with roasted carrots and greenbean almondine.  (300cal).  YUM!  Still one of my favs.  I like the tomato sauce with the chicken/spinach/feta combo.

Snack(330PM): Wasa multigrain cracker (45cal) with 1 TBS artichoke dip (80cal) and half a nectarine (35cal)

Dinner (630PM):  Salmon in Red/Yellow Pepper puree with spinach/quinoa. (220cal)  Added 80 cal of frozen peas and corn.  Not a huge fan of the salmon -- really fishy.  But I ate it anyways.  Really liked the spinach/quinoa side.  The pepper puree was okay.

Snack(830PM):  1/3 cup brown rice (54cal), 1/4 cup pot roast (50cal), 1 bite of berry pie(30cal).

Daily Total: 1294cal

Surprised today when I thought about the variety of what I'd eaten.  Tomato, spinach, carrot, green beans, nectarine, peas, corn, red pepper, yellow pepper, multi-grain cracker, whole grain bagel, flaxseeds, quinoa, brown rice, chicken, salmon, beef, almonds, blueberry, yogurt, feta... whew.

Day 36

Breakfast (915AM):  Up late, only sorta hungry.  Spinach Mushroom Crepes (330cal) Good, but not the best. It's a little too saucy/creamy for me.  Still good though.

Lunch(1245PM): Picadillo (435cal)  - Very good!  The plaintains were on the sweet side, but the picadillo and peas were great.  Added 5 chopped almonds and 2 corn tortillas (30+110cal)

Snack(330PM): half an apple (45 cal) with 100 cal of peanut butter.

Snack (430PM): 70cal of popcorn

Dinner I (530PM):  Finished last nights Vietnamese noodles (200cal)

Dinner II (730PM): Pork in Apricot/Mustard glaze with rice and spinach.(270)  The spinach is inedible for some reason - tates old/tough?  Kicked it out(minus50ish) and ate 1/3 cup of frozen corn(50cal) and 1/3 cup frozen peas(35cal) instead. 

Daily Total: 1620cal

Day 35

Breakfast/Snack(715AM):  Bagel Thin(110cal) with 40cal of Light cream cheese.  Heading off to brunch at 1030AM.  Don't want to show up starving.

Brunch(1030AM):  Goal: Less than 8 glasses of champagne ;) , no sausage and no eggs.  I will eat the french toast, hashbrowns, bacon, and one bread item.  No lunch - this is lunch.  100cal snack and 270cal dinner.  Switched dinners with tomorrow to get a lower cal one.
Okay, here's my best attempt at calories...  See Day 7 for pics.
5 glasses champagne - 450cal
2 pieces of bacon, crisp - 100cal
the top of a mini muffin - 50cal
a sourdough roll - 100cal
french toast - 250cal
home fries - 200cal
fruit - 30cal

Snack (500PM):  Frozen Yogurt with chocolate toppings and almonds - 250cal

Dinner(600PM): Vietnamese - 2 veggie summer rolls (tofu, noodels, vege) with peanut sauce - 200cal
A small part of lemongrass chicken with vermicelli rice noodles, brought most of this home.  Actually stopped eating when I got full! - 100cal  (online average is 375cal for whole plate).  Pictures are just samples...

Forgot to write about (conscious or unconscious - not sure?) the french fries that I ate.  Ordered a fast food meal for someone else who didn't want to eat it, so I ended up eating the small french fries. (350cal)   They were good, but I could have stopped half way.  They didn't taste as good after that - diminishing marginal utility and all that.  ;)   Counting this a 0.5 of a fast food trip.
Daily Total: 2230, seems low - I'm just going to throw it up to 2400 cal.

Random 100-cal Snacks Ideas

1. Half an apple with 2 teaspoons of peanut butter
2. An orange and a 10 dry-roasted nuts
3. 10 cashew nuts
4. 16 dry roasted almonds
5. 2 ounces of lean roast beef
6. Half a small avocado
7. 3 ounces cooked whole-grain noodles with 1 fresh tomato and 1/2 ounce hard cheese
8. 1 seven-grain Belgian waffle
9. 4 mini rice cakes with 2 tablespoons low-fat cottage cheese
10. 3 ounces low-fat cottage cheese and 3 whole-wheat crackers
11. 1/4 cup fat-free ranch dressing with mixed raw veggies
12. 6 Wheat Thins crackers with two teaspoons of peanut butter (or any nut butter)
13. 1 small baked potato with 1/2 cup salsa and 2 tablespoons of fat-free sour cream
14. Half a bag of Oroville Redenbacher Light Butter Popcorn
15. 1/2 cup frozen orange juice, eaten as sorbet
16. 2 large graham cracker squares with 1 teaspoon peanut butter
17. 3 handfuls of unbuttered popcorn, seasoned with herbs
18. 4-6 ounces of no-fat or low-fat yogurt
19. A 5-ounce tossed salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber and 1/4 cup fat-free dressing
20. Half a "finger" of string cheese with 4 whole-wheat crackers
21. Ciao Bella Sorbet Bars (60cal)
22. 22 dark chocolate M&Ms
23. Rice cake thinly spread with fat-free sour cream and sprinkled with TBS of bleu cheese. Goat cheese for me!
24. 1/2 cup of applesauce and 1 piece of toast cut into four sticks for dunking.
25.  An eight oz. low-fat yogurt or a fat-free chocolate pudding cup.
26.  Four Hershey’s kisses.
27. Two tablespoons hummus with 12 grape tomatoes.
28.  Medium banana
29.  Nectarine (70cal)
30. Celery with 3/4 TBS of Peanut Butter
31. 3/4 cup Oatmeal
32. 1 cup of grapes
33. 1 large apple
34. 1/2 cup frozen shelled edamame (120cal)
35. One graham cracker square with two marshmallows toasted, drizzled with choc sauce or 1 hershey's kiss
36. Half an english muffin toasted with 2 tsp jam
37. 1 grapefruit with a tsp of sugar
38. 2 cup of strawberries
39. 1/2 cup cottage cheese + salsa or 20cal of fruit.
40.

Day 34

Breakfast(645AM): Yes, on a Saturday, I'm up at 630AM for no real reason.  Partly dogs wanted out, partly I wasn't asleep anyways, and partly I wanted to weigh in!  Here's my post-weighin breakfast.  I think thism orning was supposed to be a corn muffin.  The last muffin was lacking, so i think I'll save muffin for snacks...  I took a leftover egg/ham (~50cal) and put it on one of my own pre-BMD frozen english muffins (110cal).  I added a big slice of tomato (like 2 cal?) and a small bit of sharp cheddar (40cal).   I saved the top of the english muffin for a tsp of tayberry jam (15cal).

Snack(930AM):  Not really hungry, but organizing the WW mini bars I bought.  Wanted to try the Red Velvet Cake bar.  It was sorta, eh... okay.  overly sweet though.  (70cal)

Lunch out (1230PM):  Salad at Jack's.  Romaine and mixed greens(30cal), tomato(15cal), beetsx2(30cal?), grapefruit(20cal), apple(25cal), and  garbazo/kidney mix(45cal).  Grilled Chicken (est 100cal) 1.5Tbs Ranch Dressing (120cal)  Purposely did not get croutons so I could get dressing. 

Snack (230PM):  Coconut Spice Chocolate Chip Cookie (300cal)  Knew going into lunch that I wanted to have a cookie - picked salad accordingly.  Love these sooo much and just found out there's a CookieConnection store a lot closer to my house than the one I knew about already.  Not good.  (UPdate: As of 10/10/10 I have not been back to the Cookie Connection, even though it's super close tomy house! :D)

Snack(515PM): Half a nectarine (35cal) and 100cal of Popchips.

Dinner(715PM): Pork in Papaya Sauce (390cal)  Veggies were great - bean mix and an edamame mix.  The pork was decent.  I'm not a huge fan, but I liked it.  The sauce was okay.  I liked the raisins and the fruitiness, but it was too sweet for me.  And the ginger flavor was strong for me.  I know I can request no ginger meals, but then I never get the asian meals and there the ginger's not so strong. 

Snack (830PM): Half a bag of Orville Redenbacher Light BUtter flavor popcorn (100cal) sprayed a tiny bit and sprinkled with paprika and garlic/onion powder.  I don't know why they make this label sooo difficult.  They tell you two sets of stats, one for unpopped and one for popped.  Does anybody really eat this unpopped???  Once you figure that out, they list the serving size as 5.5 cups popped, 2.5 servings a bag.  BUT then they give the nutrient stats for 1 cup popped!  (15cal)  By my calculations, a full bag should have 13.75 cups.  Half of that is 6.875 cups.  Cal for that is 103.

Daily Total: 1600cal

Weigh-In #5

As of Sept 4, 630AM, I'm down another 5 lb.  I'm pleased with the loss, but I worried that it's too fast.  I charted my weekly cal averages against the loss and there's a definite pattern.  On the weeks where my avg has been 1500, I've lost 5 lb.  On the two weeks where it was higher, I only lost 2-3 lb.  SO, I guess if I'm serious about slowing the rate down, I need to aim for 1600-1700 cal per day.  I don't really feel hungry or deprived at the 1500 level.  But, if I aim for 200 cal snacks instead of 100 cal snacks, that will bump me up.