Preparation is the key!

Weight: 164.2
I’m cooking today. I’ve got brown rice in the rice cooker, chicken breast out and ready to grill on the George Foreman. I bought Egg Beaters and reduced fat cheese. A cantaloupe to cut up. I’m going to make my own denver bowl and southwest chicken and rice bowl. I have fruit for a [...]

Monday’s FEW

Today was the kids’ first day back to school. I worked all weekend, so it wasn’t my first day back on the job. But with the weekday routine back in place, it sorta felt like it. I like routine. It makes me happy.
FOOD
Preworkout snack: Fiber One Oats & Peanut Butter bar (150)
Breakfast: Oatmeal Pancake Muffin [...]

Wednesday’s FEW

FOOD
Breakfast: Oatmeal muffin pancake thing (198)
Lunch: Grilled Chicken Salad (220)
Dinner: 2 Jenny-O lean turkey patties (320)
            Green Giant Vision Health Veggies (90)
Nighttime Snack: Fat-free hot cocoa (25)
Total: 853 calories
EXERCISE
A.M. - 90 minutes elliptical
P.M. - 60 minutes jogging treadmill (3.25 miles)
          30 minutes elliptical
WATER
gallons of tea

Saturday FEW

FOOD
Breakfast: Oatmeal muffin pancake thing (198)
Snack: Yoplait light raspberry cheesecake (110)
Lunch: Carl’s Jr. Low Carb Burger, no cheese or mayo (390)
Snack: 10 almonds (90)
Dinner: grilled chicken salad (220)
Total: 1008 calories
EXERCISE
Elliptical: 60 min a.m.
WATER
Lots of tea, does that count???

Monday’s FEW

I’ll update this as the day goes on.
FOOD
Breakfast: Knudsen’s cottage cheese doubles with peaches (130)
Snack: 11 wheat thins (90)
Lunch: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamer Roasted Chicken Marsala (240)
           Green Giant Immunity Blend Steam Veggies (100)
Dinner: Arby’s Melt (303)
Total: 863 calories
EXERCISE
Strength Training: Jillian Michaels’ Shape-Up Front DVD (20 min)
Elliptical: 60 minutes
WATER
64 oz today (plus several cups of tea)

Now THAT’S better!!

Finally the scale caught up with all my eating right and exercising. 156.2 today! I find irony in the fact that I ate twice as much yesterday as I had the previous two days! My brain just will NOT accept that I have to eat to lose. Yet there it is, in big flashing digit [...]