Sis boom and bah!!! I'm bumping this in happy anticipation of all the great reports of perfect eating/exercising days we're gonna post here for Thursday!!!! Huzzah!!! Let's go out there and win one for the rational eating/fabulous fitness gipper!!! Yowza! No food allowed! Well, ok, maybe a little! Well, ok, maybe a lot! Whatever, Amarantha!
Last edited by Amarantha2; 05-06-2004 at 01:48 PM.
Reason: Need a little more sis boom bah!
Breakfast: zip
Lunch: small Mr. Sub turkey sub on whole wheat (235 calories), snack size plain potato chips, (240 calories), diet coke
Dinner: Rotisserie chicken, garden salad with ff Italian.
Slimfast meal bar
half garlic bagel w/margarine
viactivs
half cup cottage cheese w/tspn apricot preserve
half cup applesauce
pretzel stix
Dinner is to be
half chicken breast
cob of corn
lettuce salad w/Greek dressing
EDIT - ATE LESS CHICKEN (ABT 3 OZ) AND ADDED 60 CALORIES OF CROUTONS TO THAT SALAD.
And then ---------
I found the H.C. caramel i.c. sandwiches mentioned recently by the Empress. I PLAN to ration them carefully. They were on sale plus I had a coupon to triple a .50 off coupon so I felt the shopping gods wanted me to have them.
Did 50 minutes in the pool today and walked the silly grocery store about an hour. I wish they'd stop rearranging stuff for a week or two. But my body's telling me I've moved the last several days.
celery-carrot juice
ww tortilla w/ lite cream cheese, boiled egg, spinach, peppers, onion
coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
[I know it's weird that I have fresh juice and coffee 20 min. later. ]
tomato soup
2 ww w/ lite cheese, spinach, peppers, onion
1/2 Mojo bar
It's a quarter to two and there's no one in the place except me and you ... well, me, actually, as I'm assuming all of you are asleep. Just got in from council meeting and accidentally failed to save my Thursday food log so I could post it here. I had 1670 calories, though, and no pb cups. However, I DID have the BK French toast. The rest was whole wheat Eng muffins, EAS and sf ice cream. Not balanced, no vege. Have to do better but calories are the basic thing I'm trying to get down right now. Exercise was 45 minutes on and 15 minutes abs/back in weight room (including crunches, planks, yoga for lower back ... can't remember the name of the pose). Avanti, all! I'll have a menu report for Friday!
This isn't as bad as it looks caloriewise, as I'm not actually eating the whole ice cream bar about half the time. I'm just craving the crunchy outside.
Exercise: 10 min speedwalk, 50 min weights, all with trainer
I've had NO candy or BK breakfast stuff today!
Last edited by Amarantha2; 05-08-2004 at 02:22 AM.
Reason: Ate more ...
This was a strange food day for me. Once again, I had that feeling of TOTALLY running out of energy so I kinda panicked and started eating whatever was close at hand to get me going. Didn't work. Late evening I finally got it togther enough to make some juice and that perked me up a little. I wonder what's going on? It's gotten suddenly hot here, so maybe I'm adjusting to that?I really don't like hot weather.
Ok, I deleted my earlier post about working up a weekly plan. It's not in the cards for this week. If I can develop a good spreadsheet for doing it, it might be a good idea for my next initiative.
Here's my menu report for now. I'd like to stop eating right now, but will edit in any changes. Yowza!!!
BK French toast sticks/syrup 470
Orange juice 140
Lf milk 100
1/4 roasted chicken breast 60
2 whole wheat rolls w/butter spray (for day) 250
Sf white choc ice cream bar 100
2 whole wheat rolls w/butter spray (for day) 250
EAS van CC shake 100
EAS van CC shake 100
EAS van CC shake 100
Total 1810
Exercise: Rest Day!
Last edited by Amarantha2; 05-08-2004 at 11:27 PM.
Reason: Adding more food ...
Bumping this!!! My weight shot up astronomically, so I need this thread more than ever!!!! Straight and narrow, no BK breakfasts anymore!!!!! Ok, bye!!!
Edited/add-on: Been thinking about the weight gain. It could be muscle, as I've been lifting heavier. It could be hormones. It could be water, since the temp has gone up here but I've been drinking less water. It could be the BK French toast breakfasts are more calories than the book says they are (because the amount of oil absorbed in the French toast sticks seems more than would be warranted by the calories listed). It could be my calories are just too high. Also, I did not even reach my goal of 350 minutes of exercise, even though I'm lifting heavier, so I need to do that this week. It could be the d&&&& scale's wrong (it's not, it's extremely consistent).
Ok, my calories are just too high, even though I did better this week. So I'm challenging myself to get the average weekly total between 1500-1799 AND I'm doing a mini challenge to see how many days I can go no higher than 1699!!! This is day one! I'll be back with my report tonight. I realize it's Mommy Day but I'm gonna get back into the 140s this week or die trying ... ok, not die. I apologize for putting this in the menu thread when we're trying to stay focused and not discuss, but it has to do with EATING! Sheesh!!! I hate that Scale. He's just this close to being turned into a lamp!
Last edited by Amarantha2; 05-09-2004 at 04:07 PM.
Reason: I'm lonely and talking to myself!
slimfast shake
2 viactiv
SMALL PIECE OF PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE THAT MADE IT IN MY HOUSE FOR TWO DAYS (ACCORDING TO PLAN) BEFORE BEING CONSUMED AS A MOTHER'S DAY TREAT
ground steak burger on roll w/lettuce
carrot
few slices cucumber
small piece apple pie
1/3 of individual package of taco chips
half rye bagel w/pb
applesauce
2 servings lite ice cream w/cherry sauce
allowing for either pretzel stix or cereal snack later
No exercise today but did walk last night (forgot to report)
Take heart, dear Amarantha! Do you have a plan of some kind for next week? I find it helps me immeasurably to plan my meals the night before; it's not written in stone, but it's a plan!
No plan, E! Was going to do a week's meal plan and post it, but it just isn't happening. It's very hard for me because my work schedule is so haphazard and all over the place. I do have my spreadsheets (and this thread) for journaling what I'm eating and I just plan to bring the calories down and up the exercise. My day one of under 1699 calories didn't quite work ... I'm at 1700, but I can live with that! But it doesn't matter because I DO intend to get back into the glorious 140s soon. May hop on in the middle of the week and if it's down, I'll take that as my official weight for the week ... whatever works! I am not discouraged ... I think it's just that I had several binge weeks and then didn't cut back enough last week, even though I did better, so it caught up with me. If I hadn't done better last week, the weight gain could have been more.
Here's my report. I don't intend to eat anymore and am still not feeling like exercise, but will come back and edit if either occurs:
Whole wheat Eng muff w/butter spray (counted for day) 140
2 whole wheat rolls w/butter spray 260
Giant white choc pb cup 140
EAS van CC shake 100
2 EAS van CC shakes 200
2 whole wheat rolls w/butter spray 260
Huzzah! Yo!!!! Hey there, hi there, ho there!!!
I'm bumping this in happy anticipation of all the great reports of perfect eating/exercising days we're gonna post here for Thursday!!!! Huzzah!!! Let's go out there and win one for the rational eating/fabulous fitness gipper!!! Yowza! No 
food allowed! Well, ok, maybe a little! Well, ok, maybe a lot! Whatever, Amarantha! 
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and 15 minutes abs/back in weight room (including crunches, planks, yoga for lower back ... can't remember the name of the pose). Avanti, all! I'll have a menu report for Friday!
Yo!
Ok, bye!!! 
E! Was going to do a week's meal plan and post it, but it just isn't happening. It's very hard for me because my work schedule is so haphazard and all over the place. I do have my spreadsheets (and this thread) for journaling what I'm eating and I just plan to bring the calories down and up the exercise. My day one of under 1699 calories didn't quite work ... I'm at 1700, but I can live with that! 
