WOW, September 19 already! Less than a month till I move!!!!

I won't go into what I ate on my business trip or over this past weekend--just know that it was not horrible, yet not wonderful, and now I've got a few pounds of water weight to lose to get back to where I should be. Here's today's eats:

• pineapple chunks
• peaches n' cream instant oatmeal (reduced-sugar, made with water)
• banana bread instant oatmeal (Weight Control, made with water)
• lowfat chocolate milk
• Ruby Tuesday Asian steamed dumplings w/thai peanut sauce

9 servings plain water, 4 servings Diet Coke
total: about 1600 calories
exercise: 30 minutes on the elliptical at the gym between jobs, 3.5 hours of waitressing at night

Sunday was frustrating. I wasn't feeling good. Not bad, really, either. I think I have the beginnings of an ear infection. All day I had that semi-vertigo, spacy feeling like my balance wasn't quite...there... I could function, but just wasn't myself, you know? On top of that, it's ToM, and I wanted something SWEET!! I ate a caramel-covered marshmallow from my husband's stash, and a Tastykake butterscotch krimpet (cupcake thing)... and I don't even LIKE those things. *sighs* (marshmallows are only redeemed when they are toasted over a campfire and married to chocolate and graham crackers... or in Peeps, which are a completely different matter) Then later, I had a big bowl of ice cream with caramel. (Can you tell DH is a caramel guy? These are all his treats, and I am usually not even interested. )

Fortunately or not, it was my "free" day, where I try not to obsess over what I eat. I was still within my calorie range for a free day. But that doesn't give me license to eat CRAP, either.

But today I'm back on the wagon, with my cottage cheese and fruit breakfast, and looking foward to a bike ride this evening.

SUNDAY


Breakfast:
cheese bread, toasted, with butter

Lunch:
sauteed mushrooms, carrots, green beans in olive oil with rice

Afternoon snack to keep the Beast at bay:
Tasty Kake butterscotch krimpet (cupcake thingy)
skim milk

Dinner:
steak
hot dog
tortilla chips with red pepper dip and salsa

Snacks throughout the day:
ice cream with caramel topping

Drinks:
water
tea
diet soda
coffee

Calories: ("free" day)
about 2200

Exercise:
rest day

Synger - Sunday is usually my 'free' day when I don't stress over going to 1800 cals or so. However, lately I think I just use it as an excuse to pick all day. I was reasonably good yesterday, but didn't update the software las night... but thinking it might end up being closer to 2000. I'm thinking I need to move my free day to another day because weekends are usually my downfall.

Breakfast
- egg substitute, egg whites, cheese blend, onions
- nectarine

Morning snack
- multi-grain toast with apricot jam

Lunch
- salad (mixed greens, tomato, pepper, cucumber) with FF Red Wine dressing
- peach

Afternoon Snack
- grapes, dried cherries

Late-afternoon Snack (hey it was alcohol or snacks...)
- baked tortillas, cheese blend, salsa

Dinner
- BBQ pork souvlaki
- salad (mixed greens, tomato, pepper, cucumber) with FF sun-dried tomato dressing

Evening snack
- peach, nectarine

Total calories: will update tonight when I get home - 1920!

Exercise: day off for treadmill, 30 mins light swim

Jillybean, I love your warning on last weeks thread to stop and come here! Smart girl, no more double journal threads now! I just wanted to tell ya, since I thought it was cute!

Beverly

I love that warning too, Jill!

My hubby's a real sweetie monster, but like you, Synger, it doesn't usually tempt me. There are some days though, usually just before TOM, that I can welly into his chocolate Smarties. Stinkin' hormones!

I did much better yesterday after Saturday's drink-and-scoff-everything-in-sight (mis)adventure. The last few weeks of unstructured mayhem has knocked me way out of kilter, and I'll be extremely fortunate if tomorrow's WI is favourable. Still, MIL and FIL are returning home in the next few days, and I have Unruly SIL well and truly installed in her own place now! So, now I have no excuse not to concentrate on myself again.

Sun 18/09:

Breakfast: Shake (5 oz banana, crushed ice, vanilla extract, ½ cup 2% plain yogurt).
Lunch: Cheese* & Marmite toastie (2 oz whole-grain bread, 3 oz gouda, 1 oz butter), pile of raw veggies (broccoli, carrot, cauli, celery, radish, tomato).
Dinner: 500 ml Campbell's Chunky soup (Chicken/Pasta), 8 Wheatine crackers.
Snacks: 2 oz seedless raisins, ½ oz almonds.
Drinks: 1 litre coffee, 2 litres water

Total kcals: 1533 (plus free veggies)

Exercise: 1.71 mile walk.

*Much nicer (and cheaper in kcals) with Laughing Cow Light triangles, but still delicious.

I know what you mean about the business trips. It's hard to stay on plan when you are on the road. I gained 9 lbs while traveling last week. Since I have been back home 3 lbs a day has come off so I know it was mostly water. I am still up 3 lbs but by Fridays weigh in that should be gone and maybe some more.

Hmmm... it's almost 8pm and I'm picking at my salad. It's really hard to get on the treadmill when you don't get in the house until after 5:30 (usually I'm in at 4pm). Oh well, where does the time go. Today:

Breakfast
- baked egg cup (egg white, egg substitute, cheese blend, sun-dried tomato)
- peach

Lunch
- salad (mixed greens, cucumber, pepper, tomato) with FF red wine dressing
- lean pastrami
- nectarine, grapes, orange

Afternoon snack
- 1 oz guiltless gourmet potato crisps

Dinner
- spaghetti with meat sauce
- salad (mixed greens, cucumber, pepper, tomato) with FF sun-dried tomato dressing

Snack
- plums (unless I run out of time )

Calories: 1573


Exercise: 30 minutes (1.5m) on treadmill, 15 mins light swim

B: orange, kashi w/ soy milk, 12 almonds
S: 100Cal Nabisco snack
L: Flatbread, turkey, swiss, lettuce sandwich; with baby carrots
S: brownie
D: Rice, beef strips, broccoli, soy milk

Monday September 19th
Weigh In
-242lbs
Breakfast-
1 cup cheerios
1/4 cup 2%milk
Lunch-
1 slice pizza with veggies and cheese and NO MEAT
Snack-
1 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup frozen fruit
1 banana
Dinner-
1.5 cup Poor Man's Golabki (cabbage, rice, spaghetti sauce, groundbeef and onions)
Snack-
Peanut butter and banana sandwich
Exercise-
25 minutes on exercise bike (5.76 miles @ 13mph)
20 minute dog walk

9/19
B/L: poached cod fillet; sweet potato, mashed with brown sugar and margarine
D: large salad with 1/4 c sharp chedder cheese, 10 croutons, 2 TBS fat free ranch and 2 TBS fat free western dressings; 2 grilled ham'n'cheese sandwiches (whole wheat bread with lean turkey ham and fat free american cheese)
S: peanut butter and chocolate chips on saltine crackers
Beverages: 1 liter calorie free lemonade (from ALDI, only $.60 and very tasty!!); 70 oz water; 10 oz soymilk
TOTAL CALORIES=1957
Exercise: 1 hour Tae Kwon Do; 15 minutes core exercise; 15 minutes strength training

Not 100% sure what I'm having today, but here's the plan as of now--I'll come back and edit it later if needed [edited the next morning]:

• pineapple chunks (packed in juice)
• instant oatmeal (peaches n' cream, reduced-sugar, made with water)
• instant oatmeal (banana bread, Weight Control, made with water)
• lowfat chocolate milk
• grilled chicken and provolone wrap
• Asian steamed dumplings with Thai peanut sauce (my last meal as a Ruby Tuesday employee!)

10 servings plain water, 2 servings Diet Coke
total: probably about 2000 calories?
exercise: 20 minutes on the elliptical at the gym between jobs, waitressing at night

Ok, I was totally back on track yesterday, now I just need to keep it going.

2 - coffee w/milk
3 - luna bar
1 - egg whites
5 - zone bar
2 - coffee w/milk
1 - 1 pt bar
6 - LC chicken
0 - sugar snap peas
3 - WW choc mousse
23 pts (out of 26)

Have a great day everyone!

9/19
2 cups coffee
2 cups skim
1 packet raisin kashi oatmeal
2 meatless breakfast patties

1 serving tortilla chips
1 round sammich from subway, turkey cheese, tomato & black olive, &
mayo
1 small lemonade (5 calorie stuff)

1 serving hershey kisses
1 bottle blueberry baby food, warmed up
1 serving tortilla chips

1 cup green tea, 1 cup peach tea

1 can chunk light tuna
2 Tbsp mayo
2 shakes Worcestershire sauce
4 panels AkMak crackers

2 T peanut butter
1 nectarine

water

MONDAY

Breakfast:
walnuts (pre-commute)
cottage cheese
half an apple ("Delicious" apples....aren't)

Lunch:
taco salad thingie -- rice, seasoned chicken, salsa, cheese, sour cream
tomato vegetable soup

Afternoon snack to keep the Beast at bay:
protein bar

Dinner:
toasted cheese bread with butter
hamburger patty

Snacks:
one brown sugar cinnamon Pop Tart (first time I've only eaten one from a sleeve of two)
glass of milk

Drinks:
coffee w/cream
water
diet soda

Calories:
about 1700

Exercise:
walking, stairs, walked home from auto shop where I left my car, 30 minute bike ride

Mon 19/09:

Breakfast: 1 cup Optimum Slim cereal, ½ cup 0% milk, 1 oz seedless raisins.
Lunch: 2 oz lean ham on 50 g whole-grain bread, cauli, celery, radishes, tomato.
Dinner: 6 oz steak, 1 cup mashed potato, broccoli, carrots.
Drinks: 500 ml coffee, 2¼ litres water, 500 ml red wine.

Total kcals: 1522 (plus free veggies)

Exercise: 2.24 mile walk.