Friday Food & stuffs!

Once again, the breakfast is letting me down. I need to eat more.   

We are off this afternoon to head into the wild west of Texas.  Dog is coming on his first big roadtrip with us.   Should be fun!! 

I'm promising myself that I am going to make better choices on food. except tonight.  We are rolling through College Station and there is a fabulous restaurant there that we get to once a year.  However, I think we are going to get a main and 3 appies to share and a dessert to share.  Its a wonderful local, fresh chefs place and we like to indulge there.   Since we will be getting plaenty of exercise this weekend walking around, we are going to splurge tonight. 

Anyway. here is what happened today so far.

Bfast (380)

Egg biscuit - 350

Coffee - 30

20 jelly beans (fudging beans!) – 100

Lunch ( 765 )

1 blackened basa fish - 217

2T tartar sauce - 95

1c beets - 75

1/2c squash casserole - 85

1 roll - 84

1T icbinb – 45

1c banana pudding - 164

Thursday Foods!

I'm feeling a little more positive.   I think that setting the bar too high is as bad for me as too low.  I had a couple chats with the husbeast about it. And I need better moderation of all things.  Less swings and more "manageable" changes.   I hate that when I go off diet I then just lose all control.   Not good.

The main thing that I've noticed on my last few weeks is that my breakfasts have been getting smaller again.  I know that if I eat closer to 600 or 700 in the morning then I dont eat 1,000 calorie dinners.

Must make a better effort to get back to that.

Thursdays food:

Bfast (380)

Egg biscuit - 350

Coffee - 30

Lunch (721)

1c Pasta - 174

1 Egg - 78

Pasta sauce w/ meat - 260

Bread - 209

Coke zero - 0

Snack (370)

Jelly beans – 20

Yogurt – 140

1/2c dorset – 210

Dinner (1,122)

2 eggs - 156

2 spicy Italian sausages – 320

1/4c onion - 12

2 small potatoes – 322

10 stalks asparagus - 32

2 slices cheese – 160

2T HP sauce - 120

Snack (150)

1.5c kashi cereal - 150

Total:  2,743

Wednesdays Food

Woke up this morning and I was actually hungry!!   Its been a few weeks since I was actually hungry and not just presumptively eating to ensure that I was never uncomfortable.

I think that I’ve done enough wallowing for this month, and its time to put on my big girl panties and start buckling down again.  Where is the me that was all “this is going to be hard, I know that, and I want to do it anyway”… I want her back.

The best time to plant a tree is 40 years ago; the second best time is now.

Bfast (380)

Egg biscuit – 350

Coffee – 30

Snack (40)

8 jelly beans – 40 (when am I going to give this a rest?)

Lunch (646)

1.5c low fat cottage cheese – 300

1c pineapple – 140

Three quarters of the listed below - 206

1 yogurt – 120

1/4c dorset cereal – 105

1/2c kashi almond flax crunch - 50

Snack (220)

Lime popcorn - 220

Diet dr. pepper - o

1286

Dinner ( 685)

Whole wheat fusilli - 320

Tomato Sauce - 70

1.5 spicey italian sausage (jenni-o) - 240

Veggies - 55

1971

Food Report - Tuesday

Yesterday I managed to send myself into CRAZY-LAND by not eating anything from 10 until almost 2pm but some 40 mini jelly beans.  Hello Sugar Induced Psychotic break.  Nice to meet you.

I ended up eating chocolate and half a box of Kashi cereal on the couch because that was the best thing that was going to keep me from eating a bucket of ben & jerry's.  

Sad.

8am

Bfast – (350)

Oatmeal – 170

Raw oats – 150

Coffee – 30

10am 

Snack (230)

Coffee – 30

40 jelly beans – 200

1.45pm

Lunch (440)

1.5c low fat cottage cheese – 300

1c pineapple – 140

4.00pm …. Snack (1,000)

3c Kashi almond crunch - 600

1 lrg reese PB cup - 190

1 kit kat - 210

6.30pm

Dinner (501)

2 eggs - 156

4 asparagus - 10

2 slices deli turkey - 100

¼ onion - 10

1 slice cheese – 80

2 slice toast – 100

1T icbinb – 45

2,521

Ahh, daylight savings... how I hate thee

Blarg, I've felt like a run over rat all day.  I couldn't get to sleep last night, I couldn't get up this morning.  Phew... time change is hard on a poor sleeper like me.

Enough about that. I need to get back to working out, I need to get back to regular blogging, I need to get back to tracking my food all day.

I've also not weighed in and I know why. Because if it was made of food, I've been jamming it in my pie hole.

Food Today:
bfast (405)
egg biscuit - 350
coffee - 30
5 jelly beans  - 25
lunch (988)
1 can beans - 300
1 egg
2 slices toast - 100
2T HP sauce - 120
3 servings rice chips - 390
snack (105)
coffee - 30
15 jelly beans - 75
dinner (660)
1/2 roasted chicken - 420
2 broccoli spears - 20
1c roasted veg - 100
1natural sugar root beer - 120

total calories today: 2,155


I'm miserable right now. I've had lots of sugar today and I want to stick my face in a cake and never stop eating.  I'm going to go and drink water and watch tv for an hour, then go to bed.

Friday Food - Catch up

Bfast (548)

Egg biscuit – 350

Coffee – 30

Brownie – 168

Lunch (689)

Which Wich Sammich – buffalo chicken – 479

Jalapeño chips – 210

Diet coke – 0

1,237

Small orange - 55

Snack (320)

Pack oatmeal – 170

Raw oats - 150

Dinner ( 293 )

Salmon - 233

Salad – 30

dressing 30

Snack ( 765 )

terra chips – 390

terra chips - 375

Total – 2670

Friday... getting better by degrees

Right, for the last 2 weeks I've hardly had more then 3 glasses of water a day.  My water bottle at the office has sat dry as a bone all day and I've just soldiered on. 

I've felt like a$$ and that is the main culprit.  How am I supposed to feel good when I am all dehydrated.

ANYWAY.   Water today is getting consumed and I'm feeling good.

Co-worker brought in homemade brownies and I ate one.   F**ks sake.  Is WEAKNESS MY MIDDLE NAME.   the sugar cycle is a killer. So that is the only sweet that I will have today.   Already gone before 10.30am. 

Okay - back to work.

Thursday Food

Bfast (410)

Egg biscuit – 350

Coffee x 2 – 60

Snack (50)

5 jelly beans – 50

(1078)

3 oz BBQ beef - 185

2oz bbq sauce - 43

1 sausage – 360

2 slices bread – 120

1/4c beans – 70

1/3c potato salad - 95

1/3c cole slaw - 60

4oz lemonade - 145

6oz bunt cake - 400

Snack (320)

Oatmeal – 170

Raw oats – 150

dinner (337)

Salad - 20

Avocado - 234

Tomato – 23

Dressing - 60

snack (320)

Popcorn - 200

Natural sugar root beer - 120

2,915

Exercise was a 10min walk with the dog.   Not good enough.   I'm going to get onto a better schedule.  I'm struggling to make my body move, and the less I move, the more it hurts.   Its a vicious negative cycle that I've created the last 6 months.  Must make a change.

Wednesday Food - Catching up

OMG... catching up and starting to blog again is hard.  But, as the next three posts of food happenings have shown...not tracking is a big issue for me.  I'm a consumption specialist.   As soon as its over the lips, I've already forgotten that it went down.

Bfast (690)

Egg biscuit – 350

Liberte coconut yogurt – 280

Coffee – 30

Coffee – 30

Snack: (80)

8 jelly beans - 80

Lunch (635)

4 slices bread - 200

2T peanut butter – 190

1 small banana – 90

1T jam – 65

1tsp pb - 90

Oatmeal (320)

1 pck – 170

1/2c raw oats – 150

Dinner ( 660 )

Salad – 30

Dressing – 60

½ avocado - 117

½ tomato – 11 (218)

2 eggs - 156

1 sausage – 160

½ red onion - 23

1 slice cheese – 80

1/2T FF creamer - 15

4 cherry tomatoes – 8 (442)

Snack (560)

1 grande skim milk chia latte – 160

Pistachio muffin - 400

2865

did anyone get the number....

of the wagon that ran me over?!


OMG, what a nightmare 2 weeks.  I was away and managed to get strep throat again... and was laid out at home on meds, sweating, groaning and feeling very sorry for myself.

Then back to work, where I was swamped... but enough about all the excuses.

I fell off the tracking and managing wagon... and have spent the last 4 days avoiding blogging and weighing in because I'm so scared of what those 2 weeks of lounging around has done.  Especially since I was eating badly, not drinking much water, and generally lazy.

*sigh*   back on the wagon tomorrow.  Starting with a weigh in.   Ug.   Habits... you are so hard to keep the good ones???  WHY!!! 

:)

AFK!

I have my food tracked from  yesterday, but I'm headed out of town this morning and I just haven't found time to put it all down here.

I'm going to be logging my calories this weekend.   Being out of town isn't an excuse for me anymore!

TTFN!

Wednesday Food

so much better today!

Bfast (610)
sm banana - 90
Egg cheese biscuit - 350
coffee - 30
chiobhini mango yogurt - 140
lunch (643)
2c coleslaw - 187
4 deviled egg halves - 256
1 sm bag pop chips (pepper) - 100
Diet Dr. Pepper - 0
1 baklava - 100
snack (140)
Chiobhani pineapple yogurt - 140
Dinner (510)
1/2 roasted chicken (most skin removed) - 420
3c salad greens - 30
1T dressing - 60

Total calories today:  1,903

Its almost 10, I feel full and satisfied.  What a change from yesterday.  Eating more in the daytime is defiantly where its at for me.  More breakfast and lunch!!   I actually had to force myself to get my yogurt snack this afternoon. 

okay.  bed time!   Resting up for a big weekend!!

Better!

Wow, do I feel better today with my eating.  Yesterday at this time I was panicked and freaking.  Today, I've had two 600 calorie meals and feel so much better.

Well - breakfast was spread out.   Banana at home.  Egg biscuit at the office at 8.30.  Coffee at 9.  Yogurt at 10.30.   So I guess its grazing.  (610 calories)

Just finished my lunch about 20 minutes ago.   4 deviled egg halves, 2c coleslaw, 1 bag of pop chips, 1 diet dr. pepper, I piece of baklava.  (643 calories)

I have my oatmeal and another yogurt for a snack this afternoon - but I'm not likely going to need both, but if I did it would be (310 calories).

Tonight's dinner is the super yummy, super low calorie meal of spaghetti squash, with ground turkey, onion & pasta sauce, with spinach side. (375 calories)

So Today is looking like an awesome 1,938 calorie day!  Super pumped!

Balancing my Daily Calories

Man, I was DRAGGING today.   I just could not get enough sleep last night.   I can't wait to hit the hay tonight.  But first... blogging my food.

I didn't get any real exercise today, I was beat from all the walking yesterday.  So I'm hoping to get a good nights rest and be chipper tomorrow.

Okay - Food:
bfast (520)
1 pkg better oats - 170
1/2c raw oats - 150
coffee x 2 - 60
chiobhani Peach yogurt - 140
lunch (512)
1c rice - 242
1c Tammy's dog food - 230
1c Salad greens - 10
1tsp dressing - 30
coke zero mini (half) - 0
snack (360)
1 pkg hot chocolate - 110
coffee - 30
5 gummies - 50
1 pkg better oats - 170
dinner (700)
5 raw almonds - 35
2.5 Jennie O turkey Bratwursts - 425
2 slices toast - 100
5T yellow mustard - 0
1 1/4 c peas - 140

total calories: 2,084

Funny.  I'm REALLY glad that I did this today.  This is one of the better calories days I've had.  But this afternoon I was totally ravenous. I just couldn't figure it out. I felt almost out of control hungry. I had my "poor mans mocha latte", then I had some gummie candy, I really felt like I was on the verge of freaking out. 

But looking at this I realize that my problem is that I had TOO LITTLE food in the morning.   My lunch was too small.   I need to make sure that I get in a big breakfast and getting into the 600's for those meals so that I don't have horrible afternoons of snack attacks. 

At dinner tonight I was only going to have 2 sausages, but then there was just one left and we were hungry so we split it.   However, if I had made better lunch and breakfast choices, I wouldn't have had to eat so much in the evening.

So... note to self.   BETTER BREAKFAST.

Its the old adage..... eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a lord, and dinner like a pauper.


15 weeks until my Iceland trip.  The rest of this week is for the Ponies!!!

Monday Lunch Mitigation

I did my 30min walk this morning, I did my weights right after, but that 1,600 calorie lunch was weighing on my mind.

My lunch buddy called, because I texted her the amount we ate at lunch and said that she was going to drive to the post office but thought that maybe I was interested in walking with her.

Umm, hell yes!   We ended up completing 5.5km (3.43miles).  It was good. I feel better about the day. 

Dinner is going to be smaller then I first predicted, so I'm going to try and shave off a couple hundred calories from there.

Monday Long Weekend!!

Ahhhh Long weekends are the best.  

Yesterday we had a big night with friends over and lots of food.  I need to make a better plan before we do that again, I don't need to eat 3.5 slices of pizza.  that is just crazy talk.

Today has been better.  Food is good.  I got convinced to go out for lunch again, which was poor on my part, but I'm not going to let that ruin my day.  She did try to get me to go out for dinner with them again this evening, but I told her that my diet doesn't allow for eating out that much in one day, so we would have to pass.  Felt quite proud of that actually.

I have 50lbs to go right now, and that's a big goal for 3 months. I can't be waisting it on eating out when we have a fridge full of great veggies that we bought yesterday!

Husbeast is at the office today, so I'll be making dinner and I'm about to go have a shower when this is done. 

I walked the dog for 30minutes at a good clip this morning. Hip is feeling good.  No soreness from the walking.   I then did my weights for the day.  Very proud.

Bent over row:
right arm: 3 sets 10 reps
left arm: 3 sets 10 reps
Military press
right arm: 3 sets 5 reps, 7 reps, 8 reps
left arm: 3 sets  5 reps, 7 reps, 8 reps
Upright row - 2 handed:
3 sets - 10 reps
Bicep curls:
right arm: 3 sets 4 reps
left arm: 3 sets 4 reps

I have my food planned out for the day, so I'm going to post it now so that I don't have to worry - this IS what I'm going to do for the day and that is that.

****O.M.G.  I just went to the website for La Mad and looked at the calories.  Sweet zombie jebuz, good think I worked out today.   That... is crazy.   I'm going to have to really buckle down this week.  REALLY.BUCKLE.DOWN.   Yeah, eating out is just really not worth it at all.


 Food:
bfast (370)
2 packages better oats - 340
coffee- 30
lunch (1625)
"La Madeline" cup of Tomato soup - 270
Spinach quiche - 1010
bread - 100
butter - 45
lemon tart - 200
snack (30)
coffee - 30
dinner (702)
1c rice - 242
2c "Tammys Dog food" - 460*

total calories: 2,697

*Tammy's dog food is - 2 onions, 1 pkg Jennie O ground turkey (97/3), pepper, taco seasoning, 3c frozen mixed veg. Looks horrible, tastes great!!!

Sunday Pizza night

We had a bunch of friends over for pizza on Sunday - I knew that it was going to be calorific, so I managed to keep my day of eating tightly under control, and then over indulged at dinner.  Which seems to be the theme of the weekend.

So yesterday was a big calorie day....yikes!   I have some hard work to do this week coming.

Food:
bfast (200)
1 better oats oatmeal - 170
Coffee - 30
lunch (616)
2 eggs - 156
1 jennie-o spicy sausage - 160
green onion - 5
2 slices toast - 100
HP - 60
coffee - 30
1/2 snack bag of chocolate mistrals - 105
snack (220)
1 coffee - 30
2 fat free gingerbread cookies - 190
dinner (1585)
salad - 20
dressing - 60
1 slice cheese pizza - thin crust - 383
1 slice spinach pizza thin crust - 162
1/2 slice meat pizza - 350
1 med cupcake - 350

total calories: 2,621

Saturday Review

Yesterday was a busy day!  Or, mostly busy.  Or, busy enough that I didn't get onto the computer, but.. that didn't mean that I wasn't counting!!!

Up, breakfast brunching with friends, coffee, fun reflexology appointment for us, then hanging with the Husbeast, walking the dog, reading, and renting Planet of the Apes - the new one and early to bed. Ah, we are officially old folks!! ha

Can I just say, that the reflexology appointment was the best $45 (including $10 tip) that I have ever spent.   Hour long, neck, arms, hands, feet, legs and back. Total rub down. I felt like a million dollars after!   WOO!!   We are going to go back again for sure!

Food:
bfast (315)
2 slices bread - 100
1T peanut butter - 95
1 banana - 90
coffee - 30
brunch (714)
15 tortilla chips - 250
3T artichoke dip - 300
1 huge salad of greens (Petalluma from Barnaby's) - 65
1/2T ranch/garlic - 30
1T sour cream -  26
1T guacamole - 43
snack (205)
large skim milk latte - 110
fat free gingersnap - 95
snack 2 (30)
coffee - 30
Dinner (967)
Yum Apple spicy salad(Thai) - 175
Penange Chicken (Thai) - 550
1c rice - 242

Not the best paid out day in terms of calories consumed regularly, but I did good in terms of eaten over the day. Very pleased.

Total Calories: 2,231

Friday Food

Today was pretty good food wise, I am still very pleased with my hitting my goal weight today! Weee!  I took this afternoon off, as I had to go and renew my drivers license, OMG what a mess that was.   There is 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.  However, I am now renewed, and ready to rock and roll behind the wheel.

I am excited for the next time this has to happen and how much different my picture will look.

Okay - dog got a short walk this evening as it was pouring earlier, and we are tired now.  Quick 8 blocks, and back in the house.

Food Today:
bfast (610)
sm banana - 90
Egg Cheese biscuit - 350
coffee - 30
yogurt - 140
snack (120)
2x praline - 120
lunch (668)
1can progresso light new england clam chowder - 200
4 slices bread - 200
2 slices swiss cheese - 140
1T icbinb - 45
5 raw almonds - 35
1tsp peanut butter - 48
snack (233)
Grande non fat latte - 133
Starbucks fuit chew things - 100
Dinner (660)
gnocchi - 320
1.5 Jenni-O spicy italian sausage - 220
1tsp Pesto - 55
1.5c spinach - 65

Total Calories: 2,291

This is a bit higher then I have been eating, but totally in range.  Lunchtime I was stuffed, and these aren't my normal eating times, so I had already forgotten that I had a banana before I went to work when I was tracking my calories at the office.   Lunch lasted me through until 4pm.  I had a coffee and the fruit snack while waiting to pick up the Husbeast at the office, since I took off this afternoon with the car.

Once again, SUGAR, invaded.   However, on a good note - the damn King Cake from yesterday was waiting for me on my desk again when I got in.  I let it sit there most of the morning before I just took it into the office kitchen to let the "wolves" fall on it.  That was the last that I thought about that damn thing.  I should have done that way sooner.

Right, I have to get to bed early. I am going to get up and take the dog walking in the morning, I have a brunch and pedi with some girlfriends tomorrow at 11, so I'm going to have to get my tail moving in the morning to get everything in.

WEIGH IN GOAL!!!

Got up this morning, and had a good think about yesterday.  Lay in bed chatting with the Husbeast, and we agreed that we are pretty lucky people and have nothing to complain about.  Its true.

A case of the grumpies has been knocked back.

ALSO, today is goal day, and you are going to laugh at this.  I just realized that I made my goal weight yesterday.   296.6.  I was thinking my goal was 296.0    Jeez, pay attention lady.  

so I am happy to report this mornings weigh in!

295.8lbs

WOOT!!

I need to go in and adjust all my goals for the sooner date of my Iceland vacation, so I will do that today or this weekend. Where ever I can find the time. 

YAY YAY YAY!!!!