This past weekend, we went to Philadelphia, so my diet consisted of McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, Subway (not horrible, but still very high in sodium), and a few poor convenience store snacks for the ride. At least I ended the weekend on a good note with whole-wheat pasta with homemade sauce last night for dinner, and we did lots of walking during our trip, so maybe that will help to balance it out slightly
But, onward and downward! I'm back to my weekday routine for today. Here's the plan:
8oz V8
EAS carb control strawberry shake
EAS carb control chocolate shake
1/4 cup dried cranberries
some sort of crock pot mixture of potatoes, spinach, and turkey sausage for dinner
Via Ffitday, I estimate it to be about 900 calories or so, but as always, I will update if I add anything
My weekend went as planned except I didn't get in the amount of exercise I wanted to on Friday. Here's what today is shaping up like:
Monday's Plan
B - Boiled egg, cottage cheese with crushed pineapple, coffee
S - raw veggies
L - turkey sausages with garden green salad, light Italian dressing
S - Apple
D - grilled salmon with steamed veggies and baked tomato
E - 45 mins eviliptical
My weekend was pretty good, though I did have a couple slices of pizza Saturday after my rugby game. It tasted soo good, especially after running around in the rain and cold for 5 hours! (We had two games that day)
My plan for the day:
B - weight control oatmeal - banana bread (a new thing for me and not as yummy as I had wanted it to be, but oh well - I think I'd rather have zero sweeteners than have splenda!)
L - herbed chicken breast quarter with veggies
S - piece of fruit before my board meeting tonight
D - who knows, they'll have food at the board meeting but it's always fatty - I may just wait and eat when I get home late tonight
E - goddess willing, I will do an hr on the elliptical tonight once I finally get home!
This weekend, I went on a 3 mile hike with lots of climbing up and down. My legs are really sore today. Tonight may be weights only at the gym, depending on how my legs will do on cardio.
Food plan today:
Protein breakfast shake (ff yogurt, ff cottage cheese, protein powder)
Yogurt with a couple pineapple chunks
Leftover chicken kebob with rice
apple
baby carrots
cucumber, tomato, chick pea salad
Chicken breast in a tomato sauce, brown rice, some veggie
Salad
Protein shake snack
Puffy burgers? What's a puffy burger? Also, water is going ok. I am tired of peeing my pants (a once a week occurrence now!) so I've got to stock up on some pee pads. you asked. I'm up to about 2 gallons per day now, hard to measure beyond that as I drink a half gallon (64oz) during the night. A gallon during the day. So it'a about 2 gallons.
Jill, all that walking MUST have made a dent. Besides, it's not like you eat like that every weekend. Vacations should be a little bit of treat time, too.
today:
1/2 cup decaf, with half & half
1 packet cinnamon granola bars
64 oz bottle water
1 packet 100 calorie cheezits
1 cup broccoli, cooked
1 lean cuisine mac & cheese meal
started drinking my gallon
another 1/2 cup of decaf coffee.
appetizer before dinner:
1 serving tater tots (get your own tots, gosh)
more than 1 serving of mayo
dinner:
a little over 2 cups angel hair w/healthy choice garlic spaghetti sauce
bedtime snack:
handful of unsalted peanuts
8 dried plums
Last edited by SuchAPrettyFace; 04-11-2006 at 02:35 PM.
Military exercises. Hoo-ah! Back on the fast food diet. I'll try to find some fruit tomorrow, tonight I was busy settling into the hotel (and eating chocolate, but planned chocolate).
Monday
Breakfast: Low-sugar oatmeal, it's hard to force myself to eat something at 5 am!
Snack: Luna Bar
Lunch: BK cheeseburger and small fries (which surprisingly filled me up, I should start getting Happy Meals for the toys)
Dinner: McDonald's grilled chicken salad with ranch dressing
Snack: Hershey Bar
Rabid--man, if I were back on the fast food diet, I certainly would have ended up with more than 1600 calories (possibly that much in one meal!) You made excellent choices for what you had available
Suzi--man, 2 games of rugby in THAT weather?! I had a hard enough time just driving 4 hours in that cold, rainy weather! I'd hate to see how muddy everyone was after that
Well, due to a frustrating situation last night with our apartment rental office (who somehow managed to lose my check but not Jeff's, even though they were in the SAME envelope), I wasn't cooking last night. I fed Jeff some leftover pasta, and I just had 2 bowls of cereal (granola with almonds and sliced bananas). I ended up with 1633 calories for yesterday with NO junk food at all!
On to today (I'm out of V8 and only have 1 EAS shake left, so let's get creative):
smoothie (2T peanut butter, skim milk, 2 small bananas)
EAS chocolate shake
1/4 cup dried cranberries
potato, turkey sausage, spinach crock pot experimental creation
Thank you activeadventurer for the encouragement about the water. I wish I could do that every day ~ I am only able to do it on my days off work, because it interferes with my sleep. I have had such a struggle with my sleep (night shift worker here), that the 4 glasses on work days will just have to do because I have to be able to get some sleep to go to work.
Monday ~
Calories ~ 1633 ~ an estimate ~ some of the stuff I ate I couldn't measure, and I think I may have forgotten to write something down. There were some stressful things the last couple days (maybe I'll share on another thread), and I kind of slipped a little into old habits ~ not a full blown mess up, and today ~ so far ~ I have done the right things.
Water ~ 8 glasses
Exercise ~ none
No exercise last night, I was way too sore to even think about it.
Food for today -
1/2 cup Oatmeal, 1/3 cup unsweetened soymilk and 2 egg whites (interesting combo, probably never again)
Plum
1 cup baby carrots
2 celery stalks, 1 lf laughing cow cheese wedge
2 cup mixed nuts and raisins (I went a little overboard but I needed to munch)
Chickpea, cucumber and tomato salad
1 cup shredded chicken breast, 1 cup of brown rice, zucchini slices (lunch)
1 cup shredded chicken breast, 1 cup of brown rice, zucchini slices (dinner)
salad
protein shake
Gym is planned for tonight. Also I'll probably put my food into fit day because of the munching on my homemade trailmix.
B - 2 pieces wheat toast w/ 1 tbsp PB and 1 tbsp strawberry jam
L - blackened chicken salad w/o dressing
S - banana
D - low-sodium chicken and cheese sandwich with piece of fruit
Puffy Burgers
You get 6 nice size patties with 8 oz. of beef
3 egg yokes
8 oz. ground beef
1 t salt
1/4 t baking powder
1 t black pepper
1 T minced parsley
1 small onion grated or finely chopped
3 egg whites, beated until soft peaks form
Beat yolks. Add next 6 ingredients. Mix thoroughly. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites and blend gently. Form 4-6 patties and cook in skillet until done, turning once.
Well I won't go into the details but I have had two OP days including exercise and a more than adequate amount of water. Working towards having many more.
Hi All! I didn't get a chance to check in yesterday, but I ate exactly the same thing as Monday. Boring, boring...
Wednesday's Plan
B - Boiled egg, yogurt, coffee
S - raw veggies
L - Chili with garden green salad, apple
S - Orange, nuts
D - grilled chicken & grilled veggies
E - 45 mins eviliptical
I ended up "taste testing" 2 muffins I made for Jeff last night and a heaping cup of frozen grapes, but my scale still seems happy enough this morning (I still only had about 1650 calories for the day). Here's the plan to keep the scale on track for tomorrow night's TOPS weigh in:
Weekly Journal Buddy Thread (April 10-16)
I'm up to about 2 gallons per day now, hard to measure beyond that as I drink a half gallon (64oz) during the night. A gallon during the day. So it'a about 2 gallons. 
You made excellent choices for what you had available 
