Day 93

Plan: Spinach RIcotta Crepe(360), Chicken/Lentils (410), Chicken Risotto (300) + 230 = 1300

Breakfast (715AM):  Buckwheat pancakes (365) - a favorite!

Snack (1200-130PM): Apple (80), half a kitkat (100), rice cake (30)

Lunch (300PM): New meal!!  BBQ Beef Brisket! (400cal) It was soooo good!  The brisket was perfect, the BBQ sauce was great, the corn was good, and the broccoli was great light balance to the saucy side!  Loved it.  Added frozen green beans to help soak up the extra BBQ sauce (a potato would have been devine!)

(500PM): 400cal of potato chips
DInner (730PM): Kashi Tuscan Veggie Bake (260), decent tasting and very filling.  Not pretty, but good flavor.  Not as good as I expected after the Mayan Harvest, but still better than the average frozen entree.
(1130): Small baked potato (100cal)

Daily Total: 1735cal

Day 92

PLan: Buckwheat Pancakes (365), BBQ Brisket (400), Beef Tips with Mushrooms (300) + 435 = 1500

Breakfast (700AM):  Omelet with veggie sausage and peaches (260) - the eggs are pretty inedible for me.  Trying to make it palatable - used some of the eggs and turned them into breakfast tacos.  Added 2 corn tortillas (110), 1 T salsa, half an oz of cheese (60) and a sliver of avocado (50).  Total: 450  Too high, need to tweak still, but darn tasty now!

Snack (1200PM): Banana (80)

Lunch (430PM):  Totally ran out of time before the 2:30 meeting.  Not super hungry though, until 430.  Ate the Beef bourgoingugjsjkgn (380)  Better, but not great.  The meat is just super fatty, but the mushrooms and the sauce are good.  Some of the meat pieces are okay.  (COunting 340cal eaten)

Snack (530PM)  Not sure what's happening for dinner - Ate a teeny tiny baked potato (50) with 60 cal of cheese and 30 cal of margarine

Dinner (800PM):  At a friends for the end of the Giant/Rangers Game.  Grocery store stop - Kashi Mayan Bake (340).  Pretty good - liked the pumpkins seeds, grains and the plantains, good chile sauce.  Also had some salad with mozarella and balsamic (60).  Tootsie rolls (3) (40?),

 

Latenight (1000PM):  Mcdonalds ice cream cone (150),

LateLatenight (1100PM): ate 280 cal of potato chips.  I'm going to tape them up with packing tape tonight!

Daily TOtal: 1880

October WrapUp

Goal Tally

October 2010
$ at grocery = 89/45 (better, but needs to be lower)
$ at restaurant = 85/80 (could be off, too low, not sure)
fast food trips = 2.5/2 (eww. sausage biscuit, chicken nuggets, french fries, hamburger, french fries)
pounds lost = 8.5/10 (sigh.)
exercise miles = 3/20 (ummm... yeah. But I actually ran one of those miles!)

Not too much to say this month.  Sorta fell off the wagon... well, I didn't really fall off, but I did get dragged behind it for a few miles.  Had a few mis-steps, but I'm learning.  I understand more about trigger foods - I don't have the discipline to have a partial bag of chips in the house or a half-eaten pizza, so I just won't have them around.  I get that screwing up a little doesn't have to turn into screwing up a lot!  I get that I feel crappy when I eat crappy.  Not just that I emotionally feel bad, but I physically feel crappy.  I don't like feeling constantly full anymore - it makes me feel heavy and sluggish, not comforted.  I like the feeling of having an empty tummy before I put something more in it.  I like waking up in the morning ready to eat breakfast and not feeling like I'm still full from the late-night snacking.  I get that I'm really not missing out that much on fast food - it doesn't taste as good as I remember it tasting.  In the end, even if I wasn't losing weight, I like what eating right does for me - the wieght loss is a greatly appreciated added benefit.  I like that a coworker commented that my jeans were looking baggy and I had already switched to the next size down!  I like that I could actually run after my dog when she escaped out the front door last week.  On to November...

Blue = daily, Green = average

November Goals - pretty much the same as October Goals.

Exercise. Move. Get up.
Drink more water.
Sleep. Start going to bed early again.
Watch the snacking -- follow the timeline.
Bonus - Discipline.  If eating crappy makes me feel crappy, why do I still eat 2 extra pieces of pizza at midnight???

Day 91

Plan: Own Bkfst (250), Lunch, Beef bourgioger?(380) = 1300 Happy Halloween!
Not a good day for food intake...  sorta gave up, but will attempt to reconcile.

Breakfast (900AM): Oatmeal with 1t of brown sugar, 2T fruit bits, 4 dried apricots.

Snacks (time??):  Wasa with artichoke dip (120), corn tortilla  55, with 80 cal cheese and 25 cal ham, something else that I can't remember (120)

Lunch: Giant salad from Whole foods (450?)  Lettuce, tomato, peas(30), corn(30), cauliflower, radishes, cukes, orange pepper, roasted beets(50), toasted almonds (3T slivered - 80cal?)), 12 croutons(120?), 1/2 cup of chinese chicken salad(150).

Dinner: 200 cal potato, 2 laughing cow wedges, 2/3 cup peas, 1 slice of ham, 1 T fat free sour cream, 1T of shedd's spread margarine (60)  (500?)

Snack: 500 cal of potato chips.

Daily Total: 2150??  Crappy. :(  But no Halloween candy... :o

Day 90

Plan: Own Bkfst (250), own, own = 1600  2nd day on out of town retreat...
Breakfast (1000AM):  Double Fiber Muffin with ham cheese and apple (250)

Lunch (1230pm):  Vegetable Soup(120) with 3 oz ground turkey(115).  8 tortilla chips(120), 100 cal cheddar cheese.  corn bread (180).  salad with avocado, walnuts, and cranberries(100).  half a cookie (50)

Snack (330PM): Apple (80) and string cheese (80)

Dinner (630PM): Salmon(200), veggies, salad with cuke, tomato, red pepper, and avocado (50), quinoa (200) with peas (30)  Pumpkin/Chocolate cake (200), wine (60)

Daily Total: 1935

Weigh-In #13

Still didn't do great this week in terms of food choice and quantity of snacks, but still down a pound from last week.  And I was up higher than reported by a couple of days after the last weigh-in.  At least it's movement in the right direction.  It shows me that my body will still respond if I do the right things.  I want this coming week to be a clean week.  Biggest goal - watch less TV.  I won't munch if I'm working on something else.  My calorie average was 1771 for the week.  Most days were too high (1830, 1547, 1835. 1780, 2140, 1500, 1765).  However, I ate something other than Bistro for 5 out of the 7 dinners.  So, I guess I made decent choices.  I think I needed a break from the food, but I'm ready to get back to it now! 

I need to get back on track... I sort of had a built in cushion because my planned weight loss was slower than the actual.  BUT I'm eating into that cushion pretty quick here.  Two dead weeks brought me a lot closer to that red line.

Day 89

Plan: Bagel with Ham/Egg (200), Veggie Burrito (370), Beef bourgougksjbgo(380) + 530 Extra/snacks = 1600
Breakfast (700AM):  Bagel with almond butter (250)

Snack (1100AM): Banana (90)

Lunch (1200PM):  Veggie Burrito with some of the carrots (350)

Snack (300-500PM); Carrtos with hummus (150), ice cream (135), brown rice (70) with veggies (50)

Dinner (630PM):  Retreat with weekend - friends cooking meals...  Chicken Thigh (150), sauce from cooking (50), brown rice (120), bread heel (25), cesar salad - already dressed :( didn't take much (80), veggies from the app tray (15)  Dessert - peach cake with vanilla ice cream (took half serving - 200)

Daily Total: 1765cal