September 3, 2008

Although I have not been reporting all my food intake. I have been doing fairly well, eating several times a day, comsuming fewer calories and less sugar. I wish I could say I have elimintated it altogether but I haven’t.  Maybe one day soon.  I am definitely feeling better stomach wise, less heartburn. Yeah!  I am not sure if I am consuming few enough calories.  If I can ever find time or make journaling food a priority I am sure that will tell me how I am doing.  In the meantime I feel better about my eating habits and positive thoughts about food.

August 29, 2008

Breakfast – 1 cup raisin bran, 1/2 cup 1% milk

Snack – cottage cheese, 1 tangerine

Lunch – bean and veggie soup, 3 pieces flat bread

Snack – home made hummus, ezekial pita bread, carrotts and celery sticks, 1 Hershey mine dark chocolate

Dinner – chicken breast, broccoli with olive oil, fruit, 1/2 cup plain yogurt

Snack – 1/2 cup milk, 1 fat free fig newton

“You are obese.” August 28, 2008

Yes, those are the exact words of my new doctor.  With a BMI of 31.5 I am obese.  He also said the words “increased risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, etc.”   So what am I going to do about that?  I am going to eat right and and exercise.  Nothing fancy, just right. So here is what I ate today.

Breakfast – 1.5 eggs with low fat cheese, i slice whole wheat bread

Snack – 1 piece string cheese, water, 1 piece ezekila pita

Lunch – 1 cup bean and veggie soup, 3 pieces flat bread

Dinner – 3 ounces turkey, spinach, green beans

Snack – 1% milk, 1 fat free fig newton.

Carolyn,  thanks for checking my blog and holding me accoutable.  Honey, you too!

Another day August 7, 2008

Exercise – I skipped the gym and opted to clean my house at 5:45 this morning.

Breakfast – 1 slice 9 grain bread, 1 tlbs peanut butter, 1 cup papaya and blueberries

Snack – nuts and raisins

Lunch – 2 slices 9 grain bread, 2 slice turkey, 1 lauging cow, 1/2 avocado, 1 ff, sf pudding

Snack – 5 saltines

Dinner – 1/2 chicken breast with breadcrumb crust, 1 cup green beans w/ evoo, 1/4 cup of sweet potato

Snack – berries with whipped cream

Another busy day August 6, 2008

exercise – treadmill, legs

Breakfast – 2 eggs, cheese, coffee w/ cream, soysage

Snack – laughing cow cheese, crackers

Lunch – 2 ounces chicken, 1/4 cup beans and rice, salad w/ dressing, 1/4 brownie

Snack – peach, cottage cheese

Dinner – Frozen chicken and pasta dinner, salad

Dessert – 1 WW snack cake, 1/4 milk

I hope that with as busy as work is getting I can still manage to eat right.

Thrown off track August 5, 2008

Exercise – NONE – I took a Advil PM the night before and and could not wake up!

Breakfast – mixed berries and papapya, 1 homemade waffle, 1 tlbs. peanut butter

Snack – Coffee w/ cream, cherries, nuts

Lunch – Black Bean Soup, 1/2 Fandango Salad, with 1 tsp fat free dressing, 1/2 serving of bread, bread samples

Snack – Cottage Cheese, fruit

Dinner – Broccoli, Rice Pilaf, Chicken cutlet, sugar free pudding

I have been kind of off track off since Friday night.  I have been quite busy and have not been able to eat regularly and have not really cooked from myself.  I started to feel guilty and started beating myself up but my wonderful husband encouraged me just to get back on track and that slip ups are OK.  Thank you honey!

August 4, 2008

Exercise – 20 min. treadmill, 15 min. strenth training – not enough

Breakfast – (270 calories )two eggs, low fat cheese, 1 sausage patty, coffee w/ cream

Snack – (185 calories) one laughing cow wedge, 13 Mary’s Gone Crackers

Lunch – (360) two slices multi grain bread, 2 slices turkey, i slice munster cheese, 1/2 small avocado, a little light mayo

Snack – (281) sugar free pudding, nuts, peach

I’m Back August 3, 2008

Breakfast: 1 homemade, who grain waffle, a little bit a syrup, coffee and a soy sausage or as we call it “soysage”

The past two days have been so full of activity  I have not really had time to think about eating.  Friday was good up until dinner.  I had planned to make that my free meal. Although I would have rather used that for a nice dinner out with Dave, it was a delicious taco bar made by my friend Debbie for a student ministry house party.  I did have a couple of brownies and cookies with dinner and did not feel so good afterward.  I guess because I had not had sugar for a while.  Yesterday I went to Wannado City with my nephew and friend Ivanna and her kids.  We had a great time.  We went to Ikea before hand and had lunch in the cafeteria.  I did good there too, I had a small great salad, small bowl of chicken soup and 1/2 of a dinner roll.  Breakfast was OK too.  But about mid afternoon, my stomach was growling and the only thing in sight was a leftover chicken finger from Lance’s lunch, which I consumed on our way to Wannado.  A cold chicken finger.  I could have planned better.

Anyway, I am back in the saddle today.  I still have not figured out a good way to have my yummy homemade waffles w/o syrup.  I try to make them as healthy as possible using oatbran, buckwheat, oatmeal some white flour and canola oil.  But they are just not complete w/o real maple syrup.

This afternoon we are going to Dave’s parent’s house for lunch which is always a healthy experience and I am not being sarcastic.  Everything my mother-in-law serves is very low fat, whole grain, fresh and healthy.  I just need to limit the amount of pasta.

July 31, 2008

Breakfast – (260) 1 light English muffin, 1 tbs peanut butter, 1 cup papaya and cherries

Snack – nothing – boo-hoo

Lunch – (309) Salad with two slices of chicken, Catalina dressing, 1/2 avocado, 1 cup cherries

Snack – (125) cottage cheese, a few nuts

Dinner – (450) Bean and pasta soup,  French twist and milk

Total Calories – 1144

I resisted the homemade snickerdoodles that someone brought it today but I did seriously think about having one. I am glad I didn’t have one.  Also, I wanted to go out to dinner tonight and share a hamburger with Dave because I was just wiped out and did not want to cook.  Dave was not feeling well and really did not want to go anywhere.  Thankfully I had a can of soup beans and I was able to easily pull together and healthy and very fiber filled dinner.

3 Pounds Lost this Week July 30, 2008

I got on the scale on Tuesday morning and my total weight loss for  a week was 3 pounds.  Yeah!