No Excuses! Food and Exercise Accountability 11/3 - 11/9

[mandalinn82]

Hey Everyone! Happy Monday! How did the extra hour of sleep treat you? This weekend was about half of the time on, and half of the time off. Not great, not bad. HOWEVER, it's TOM and my scale is showing some serious damage. Hopefully it starts to level out soon.

Plan for today:

B - English muffin, cheese, canadian bacon, Pizza Sauce
S - Asian Pear
L - Leftover chicken chili. Sarah made it. It is SPICY (figure my metabolism will be on fire...)
S - Popcorn
S - Greek Yogurt
D - Grilled chicken skewers, butternut squash with pumpkin butter, brussels sprouts
S - NSA Ice Cream Bar

E - 70 min strength
55 min elliptical

[midwife]

I'm gonna get a handle on my food this week. There has been no scale damage but I have not been 90% on plan, more like 75%

Today:

2 eggs, zucchini, small flour tortilla, red chile, cheddar
granola with skim milk, protein shake
1 hr with trainer
protein shake and plum
dinner--turkey based somethin'---chili or chile stew over veggies

[alinnell]

B~quesadilla
S~nuts
L~salad (mixed greens, pomegranate arils, chicken, pecans, bleu cheese with lf raspberry dressing)
S~apple, Activia yogurt
D~burgers with raw veggies and dip

[WaterRat]

Weekend was decent except for a small run-in with some cashews at Friday night's party....

B - cheerios w/1% milk, walnuts; small cranberry scone,
L - veggie soup; turkey sandwich on low carb/cal bread
S - apple
D - Salmon chowder I made with the leftovers from Sat night dinner; salad

Allison - I have a pomegranate that I need to open, and your salad sounds delish - in fact if I get ambitious and grill a chicken breast, I may have that instead of the salmon chowder (which I already had last night).

[mandalinn82]

Today was OP. Onto tomorrow!

B - Steel cut oats w/ fresh pumpkin, protein powder
S - Apple
L - Leftovers - Chicken breast, butternut squash cubes, brussels sprouts
S - Popcorn
S - Greek Yogurt
D - Election party with two soups. I am contributing the vegetarian option (curried roasted pumpkin soup, garnished with roasted pumpkin seeds) and a loaf of no-knead bread. The other soup is a homemade Mexican Chicken Tortilla. I plan to sample some of each - planned for 2 cups of the pumpkin and 1 cup of the Mexican Chicken Tortilla, and a slice of bread.
S - Depends on what I eat at the election party and how late it goes. May be a glass of wine instead of dessert.

E - 60 min elliptical

[midwife]

Happy Tuesday!!!

Yesterday was 90% on plan. I did have a small portion of dessert but my calories were within range.

Today:
1/2 bagel, cream cheese, protein shake
plum, cheddar cheese stick
leftover turkey chili stuff
dinner??
exercise: 3.5 mile run, done!

[rockinrobin]

Was doing great yesterday, until, hmmm, until, well, until my husband picked me up from work and had my very favorite ice cream in the car. One scoop of Jamoca Almond Fudge and one scoop of Pralines and Cream from Baskin Robbins. I don't know what the heck he was thinking. He NEVER does things like that. Well, without hesitation I DOVE right into it. Managed to stop myself with having eaten a little less then a 1/2 scoop of each. I'm estimating it to be about 400 calories of damage. I gave up my evening snack to try and compensate for the dairy disaster. Whatever. On to today.

[fiberlover]

Originally Posted by mandalinn82

and a loaf of no-knead bread.

What's this?

[alinnell]

I started the day with 20 minutes on the NordicTrak

B~egg white omelet
S~crackers
L~Smart Ones entree, apple
S~Activia yogurt
D~either soup and sandwiches or eggs, ham, cantaloupe and toast
And 1 hour at the gym this afternoon (I've decided that twice a week at the gym, 5 days a week on the NordicTrak and 1 hour-long walk per week will be my exercise)

[mandalinn82]

Only the best. bread. ever. It's basically french bread, but it cooks and rises in such a way as to get that lovely, crusty exterior. Really, really lovely. You cook it in a hot pot in the oven.

http://steamykitchen.com/blog/2007/0...ead-revisited/

I'm only allowed to make it for occasions where others will help me consume it. Otherwise I'm sure I'd eat it all in one sitting.

[Megan1982]

Hey all! I haven't been here in a few weeks not because I haven't been OP (actually have had the longest 95% OP streak I've had in quite a while) but b/c I realized that whether I post here has little affect on whether I'm going to be OP or not, and I already have a paper food log and fitday. But having not been here, I realized I do miss the conversation and encouragement of this thread - just here for food, and we pat each other on the back for being OP or to help each other get back OP!

I've been having trouble getting up. I thought the daylight savings switch might "correct" to getting up on time, instead of an hour late. Nope. I slept through it all. Sigh.

Robin, my BF occasionally tries to throw chicken wings or garlic bread at me, but he's not into desserts. I'm so glad!

I was gone for a funeral over the weekend and came back really frustrated because I actually did eat as on plan as I could - avoided all the desserts and mayo-laden salads as funeral foods - and I still came back 3 pounds up in weight. Not sure what/if anything might be making me retain water, but I just input everything into fitday and averaged ~1750 cals a day - should be a maintenance range! So I'm hoping it's some freak water retention???

Monday - (edited to reflect what really happened - but I didn't have to edit b/c I stayed OP!)
B - western alt bagel w/ 1 T. lt. cream cheese, 1/2 Tbsp. red pepper jelly, 1 c. skim milk, coffee w/ 1 T. h&h
S - small banana
L - 8 grain tortilla, 3 oz. lean deli ham, 1 c. carrots & 1 c. broccoli
lunchtime walk - ~2 miles
S - "Waldorf salad" (ff plain yogurt, med. apple, stalk celery, sweet yellow pepper, carrots, a few raisins), small tangerine, 1/2 - 1 oz. raw sunflower seeds
gym - heavy legs workout, elliptical 55 minutes
D - sort of shrimp creole w/ shrimp & sausage, 1/2 c. brown rice
chorus rehearsal
S/rest of dinner when I get home - 1/2 large artichoke w/ dip made from 1 T. light mayo & vinegar
Actual - 1480 cals (Woo!)

[paperclippy]

I fell behind!!! Someone give me a kick in the butt!

Sad attempt to catch up:
Friday:
B - muesli, milk
S - apple
L - chicken and rice
S - yogurt? I don't remember
D - two pretzel fingers, two spiced shrimp, one chocolate custard w/cookie, two fun size candy bars, small slice of chocolate cake, one pita chip with pumpkin dip, small handful of spiced peanuts, two tomato halves with mozzarella balls, four grapes with amaretto mascarpone cream, one phyllo cup with cheese slice and olive, one mushroom, small amount of fondue cheese, two "dark and stormy"s (rum + ginger beer), two cups spiked apple cider (rum + apple cider + lemonade), one baked apple half
Total - ?
Exercise - 30 min dog wog (c25k w5d3#2), core

Saturday:
B - muesli, milk
L - leftover chicken and rice
D - lean cuisine sesame chicken
S - two chocolate custards
Total -
Exercise - 3.8 mile bike ride, one hour walk

Sunday:
B - shredded spoonfuls, milk
S - yogurt
S - bagel, handful of grapes
S - one small frosted chocolate cookie
D - chili, pasta, one beer
S - chocolate custard
Total -
Exercise - 20 min walk

Monday:
B - oatmeal squares, milk
S - apple
L - chili w/pasta
S - banana, yogurt
D - 2 pcs toast w/tub margarine, lean cuisine butternut squash ravioli, sip of apple cider
Total -
Exercise - 36 min dog wog (c25k w6d1)

Tuesday:
B - oat bran w/raisins, fruit, milk, brown sugar
S - apple, banana, hot cocoa
L - lean cuisine chicken ranch flatbread
S - caramel apple
D - cooking light chicken pot pie
S - grapes
Total - 1697, I ate two servings of dinner but skipped my yogurt
Exercise - 20 min walk, UBWO 4lb 12rep

[Megan1982]

Originally Posted by paperclippy

I fell behind!!! Someone give me a kick in the butt!

[rockinrobin]

Good morning.

Megan, doesn't make sense about the 3 lbs. Surely it's just water weight.

Jessica,

Pleased to say that when DH picked me up from work yesterday, the car was ice cream free. So given that, Tuesday was POP.

Have a great day everyone.

[Megan1982]

POP yesterday! Some of the stupid scale weight disappeared today... grumble water weight!

Tuesday's plan: (edited for what actually happened)
B - western alt bagel w/ 1 T. lt. cream cheese, 1/2 Tbsp. red pepper jelly, 1 c. skim milk, coffee w/ 1 T. h&h
S - small banana
L - 8 grain tortilla, shrimp, 1 oz. reduced fat cheese, 1 c. carrots & 1 c. broccoli
S - "Waldorf salad" (ff plain yogurt, med. apple, stalk celery, sweet yellow pepper, carrots, a few raisins), small tangerine, 1/2 - 1 oz. raw sunflower seeds
gym - too tired to do much. walked 3.5 miles on the treadmill @ 4mph.
D - beer club w/ friends - 6 oz. NY strip steak, 1 c. steamed broccoli, small green salad, 1 T. oil & vinegar dressing, teensy tiny piece (really 1/2 a small piece) gingerbread
Plan for the day - 1400 calories - actual intake 1580 calories - not bad