I did okay on Saturday but Sunday pigged on meatloaf and mashed potatoes. It was so good!!!!

MONDAY

EXERCISE:
45 min treadmill (3.3 miles)
10 min abs & stretches
30 min rollerblading (5 miles)

BREAKFAST:
ff sf yogurt -2
banana -2
24 oz water

2ND BREAKFAST (was still starving!)
1 biscuit & gravy -8

LUNCH:
cup of soup -2
ham sandwich -3
apple -1
diet pepsi -0

DINNER:
salad -2
leftover meatloaf -6
steamed zucchini in lf italian dressing -1
mashed potatoes -4
16 oz water

31 pts. -- thank goodness for exercise pts.

No food challenges today! After a very bad eating weekend, I'm ready for a week of boring, low-points eating.

Monday
1 cup Special K with Berries 2
1/2 cup 1% milk 1
Subtotal = 3

Snack
1 granola bar 2
1 piece cake 7
Subtotal 12

Drat that cake! And they sprung it on me after I had already eaten my granola bar. It was a co-workers birthday cake, and I only ate it to be social. I have a plan to make up for it though.

Bailey, good luck cutting back on the butts. Never had to conquer that myself, so I can only imagine how tough it must be. You can do it, though! Did you bring any green beans for a snack?

Lunch
1 cup oatmeal 2
1/2 cup 1% milk 1
1 cup apricots 1
Subtotal = 16

Hey Liz, we're both up to 12 points before lunch! Good luck with the hunger pangs!

Snack
Handful of gummy bears 3
Cliff bar 5
Subtotal = 24

I needed the Cliff bar before I went to play tennis from 5:30 - 7:00.

Dinner
Grilled cheese 7
1 cup tomato noodle soup 3
Total = 34

Would have been much better if not for the cake, gummy bears, and Cliff bar.

Monday 04-22-02 Goal = 20-25

Breakfast
Slimfast 4
Yogurt 2
Subtotal = 6 For breakfast?

Hi all - am going to try to cut down on cigaretts today - but also am determined to keep my points down - so expect a LOT of low point foods (now that my dairy is out of the way )

Lunch
6 sushi 3
diet coke 0
2 prunes 1
Subtotal = 10

Dinner #1
2 oz chicken 2
gravy 1
1 can green beans 0
Subtotal = 13

Dinner #2 (plan)
1 C tomato soup 1.5
2 slices light bologna 3
2 c lettuce 0
1 T dressing 1
little feta .5
Subtotal = 13 + 6 = 19

Snack
1 peppermint patti 1
1/4 C ice cream 2
2 T chocolate sauce 2
1 peppermint patti 1

Total = 19 + 6 = 25

Bank = 0
Weekly Bank = 0

Fruit = 1
Veggies = 6
Milk = 2
H2O = @2 L
Alcohol = 0
Exercise = +

Lee: sorry about the cake! Oh, well, Just try to be good tonight - tomorrow is a new day! and yes, as a matter of fact I do have a can of greenbeans for snack. When those afternoon hunger pains set in I plan on pulling my can opener out of my middle drawer, opening the can, draining the liquid and eating them cold with my fingers right out of the can. MMM good. Not even Martha could top that for classy! So far so good on the butts, I figured I would try to have 7 before I got home from work. It is 2:15 and I have had 5. I need 1 for the drive home at 6:00, so I will just have to be strong - if I weren't thinking about not having one, I wouldn't usually even have one between lunch and going home!

Liz: I agree, when starving after breakfast - biscuts and gravy are the way to go!

Bailey,
Cutting back on cigs and points???? Wow!!! Don't be too hard on BF.

YOU GO GIRL!!!!!

Bailey, sounds like you're doing great on the cigs. I read a tip to control eating snacks that works for me sometimes that may work with the cigs. You put your granola bar, or cookies, or whatever you have planned to eat in front of you (or next to your computer) and tell yourself that you're saving the snack until 3:00 (or whatever time you want to wait until). Then, I talk to the snack all day, like tell it "Man, I can't wait to eat you at 3:00. You are going to taste so good at 3:00." If you keep reinforcing the time you're going to have it, it kind of works at making you hold off. Whatever works, good luck!!!

Liz, looks like you're having a great Monday!

I hope nobody has a birthday here on Tuesday!

TUESDAY

Well I went rollerblading last night to make up for that big breakfast I had. I'm feeling much better but I think all this jogging/running is giving me a larger appetite. Is it doing that for you Bailey?? After my workout I am STARVING!!!

EXERCISE:
30 min treadmill (2.36 miles)
40 min weights
10 min abs & stretches

BREAKFAST:
eng muffin w/honey -3
ff sf yogurt -2
24 oz water

LUNCH:
cup of soup -2
turkey sandwich -3
24 oz water

SNACK:
popcorn -4
24 oz water

MASS GRAZING/DINNER:
salad -2
baked potato -4
corn -2
juice popsicle -1
dry cereal -2
16 oz water -0
8 oz skim milk -2

27 pts -- wow!! I thought it was going to be worse than that. I'm probably forgetting something.

LIZ: I have been so hungry for a week and a half now - I think it must be the running! The only time I am NOT hungry is for the hour just after I do it!

Thanks for the support guys - LOL Lee, I did that yesterday without even knowing it was a strategy! I thought I was just crazy - Made it through with 0 points to spare. Goal was 15 cigarettes, had 17 - Pretty good in my opinion. So, today I will go for 16. (Note to self:* I get 2 that are not in "my pack")

Tuesday 04/23/02 Goal = 20-25

Breakfast
blueberry muffin 10 (MMM good)
Subtotal = 10

Lunch
1 1/2 c pasta 4.5
1/4 c white sauce 2
diet coke 0
Subtotal = 16.5

Later
clams on the half shell 1
Nacho's (about 11?)
ice cream with chocolate sauce (about 6?)
Peppermint patti 1

So, think I was OP

Total = 35.5

Banked = -10.5
Weekly bank = -10.5

Fruit = 0
Veggies = 0
Milk = 1
Alcohol = 0
H2O = some
Exercise = +

Tuesday

Breakfast
1 cup Special K w/Berries 2
1/2 cup 1% milk 1
Subtotal = 3

Snack
1/2 peanut butter sandwich 3
Subtotal = 6

Lunch
1 cup tomato noodle soup 3
1 yogurt 3
Subtotal = 12

Dinner
Wendy's Taco Salad Supreme 10 (yummy!)
Total = 22

New and Improved Butt-kicking plan to get back with the program:

1) Will not have anything else to eat until I have had 2 Fruits and 3 veggies. Once these are eaten, 2 dairy's will be allowed. Once those are done, 3 more veggies. Only then can I have all the things that have been making up my whole diet as of late.

2) NO beverages of any kind until 2 liters of H2O have been consumed. Then, can have my slimfast, but still no soda until another liter is gone. Limit: 1 soda per day (try to work back down to 0-2 a week). Alcoholic beverage limit for week = 4.

Wendesday 04/24/02 Goal = 20-25

Breakfast
1 yogurt 2
1 apple 1
1 banana 2
*yes, I had the yogurt before any of the veggies, but it helped get the fruit down!
Subtotal = 5

Lunch
3 C lettuce 0
1 T dressing 1
2 C tomato soup 3
2nd L of H2O
Subtotal = 9

Snack
Slimfast 4
Subtotal = 13

Snack #2
1 can green beans 0
calcium chew .5
3 clams 1
Subtotal = 14.5

Dinner
Clam cake 2.5
2 t oil 2
diet coke 0
Subtotal = 19

Dessert
meringue cookie with ch chips 4
Subtotal = 23

Banked = 2

Fruit = 2
Veggies = 7
Milk = 2
H2O = +
Exercise = +
Alcohol = 0

WEDNESDAY

Bailey, good luck with your plan!! You can do it!!! Lately I've been as hungry as a grizzly bear. I can't stop putting stuff in my mouth but so far my choices have been good. You will notice no alcohol on my list for Tuesday. I resisted by going outside and watering plants, yard, flowers, and trees for an hour and next thing I knew my urge was gone.

EXERCISE:
30 min treadmill (2 miles)
30 min bike (7.8 miles)
30 min elliptical (3 miles)
10 min abs & stretches
(got an extra 1/2 hour today cuz I had a dentist appt)

BREAKFAST: Ummmmmmm....
sausage egg mcmuffin -9.5
hashbrown -4
orange juice -2

LUNCH:
sushi -4.5
diet coke -0

SNACK:
ff sf yogurt -2
banana -2

DINNER:
more sushi -3
16 oz water

27 pts

HI ALL! I'M BACK!

TUESDAY

EXERCISE
2+ miles walking
weights
yoga class

BREAKFAST
oatmeal = 2
sugar = .5
mixed berries = .5

LUNCH
salad = 0
parmesan = 2
soy nuts = 1
olives = 5 (?)

AFTERNOON
ww ice cream = 2
tortilla chips = 6

DINNER
salsa chicken = 3
corn = 1
peas = 1

SNACK
ww ice cream = 2

DAILY TOTAL = 26
Banked = 1
Activity = 6
Milk = 2
Water = 8
Veggies = 7
Fruit = 1

WEDNESDAY

EXERCISE
2+ miles walking
weights (abs & back)

BREAKFAST
oatmeal = 2
sugar = .5
mixed berries = .5

LUNCH
salad = 0
parmesan = 2
soy nuts = 1

DINNER
lean cuisine = 6
corn = 2
lima beans = 2

SNACK
popcorn = 3
ww muffin = 3

DAILY TOTAL = 22
Banked = 5
Activity = 3
Water = 10
Veggies = 8
Fruit = 1

THURSDAY
Missed ya Rabbit!!

EXERCISE:
33 min treadmill (2 miles)
40 min weights (arms were so tired I could barely dry my hair!!)
10 min abs & stretches

BREAKFAST:
ff sf yogurt -2
banana -2
24 oz water

LUNCH:
chinese buffet -20 (I'm guessing??)
2 mini pork eggrolls
2 pcs sesame chicken
1 pcs chicken on a stick
2 pcs sweet/sour chicken
spoon of fried rice
3 yucky pcs of sushi (of course I still ate them)
flaky dessert w/whipped cream filling
1/2 cup ice cream
1/2 yucky brownie (I only ate 1/2 of it)
16 oz water

DINNER:
salad -2
grilled pork chop -3
rice -3
green beans -0
sf koolaid -0
juice popsicle -1

33 pts -- it's a good thing I banked 9 pts so far week!!

I'm on a food hangover. My sister and her husband arrived yesterday, and I prepared a feast for them. The good thing about it was that we started eating (and drinking!) and 1:30 and didn't finish until 4:00, so it was the only real eating I did all day. Here are the gory details:

Wednesday

Breakfast
1 cup Special K w/Berries 2
1/2 cup 1% milk 1
Subtotal = 3

Lunch/Dinner
Too many points to count, but here's a rundown of what I had.
Olives stuffed with feta cheese
Cheese and crackers
Crab cake (came out awesome!)
Rib eye
Rice
Carrots and green beans
Bread and butter
Chocolate creme brulee (incredible!)
3 beers
1/2 bottle of wine

Thursday

Breakfast
1 cup Special K w/Berries 2
1/2 cup 1% milk 1
Subtotal = 3

Snack
Yogurt 4

Lunch
1 cup oatmeal 2
1/2 cup 1% milk 1
Potato chips 5
Subtotal = 15

Snack
Carrot muffin 6
Subtotal = 21