[MaggieShines]

I hope no one minds, but having a daily thread on here for this seems to help me. Feel free to comment on my food, add your own... whatever. I didn't count points, as I said, before, I just tried to not eat like an ***!

It was a busy morning, so I got a late start (note to self: don't do that again)

Coffee with light cream and light sugar

Lean Cuisine pizza

Fruit salad: about 3 cups of mixed friut

Handful of "Just Veggies" snack (dehydrated vegetables, no added fat or anything)

Tofu salad with peppers and vinaigrette (about 1/4 of a dinner plate)

Curried wheatberry salad with raisins and almonds (about 1/4 of a dinner plate)

Mixed veggies (squash, peppers and carrots -- about half a dinner plate)

4 meringue cookies

Herbal tea

40 ounces water

[MaggieShines]

Ha... turns out I am an *** after all. My "smart eating" day? I went to FitDay and it came out to 2010 calories, 58 grams of fat and 22 grams of fiber for a whopping total of 44 points! How in the **** can that be? Wow, all of a sudden I feel defeated. I thought I was being so smart about it today. Numnutz is what I am.

[iowasteph2]

Misty, I'm not so sure how that could so many points! Are you sure? I think it looks good!!

I didn't get a chance to respond to your other post, but I wanted to let you know that if I knew the right words to say, I would certainly say them!! I have so much faith in you. I know in my heart and in my mind that you can succeed. Now that you have realized some of your obstacles and how to overcome them, now it will be that much easier. Just remember that one flub up doesn't mean that you've lost the battle, or even the entire war. Hang in there, my dear!!

[MaggieShines]

Thanks for the encouragement, Steph. It was me, not Misty, who was whining!

I used FitDay for the calculations, and those are the numbers it came up with, but it's hard to figure when you eat things that are pre-made, like the tofu and the wheatberry salad. So it might not have been THAT much.

Anyway... here's for today.

Coffee with light cream and light sugar ... 2
2 packs banana bread Weight Control oatmeal ... 6
2 cups ff milk ... 4
8 pieces of sushi ... 6
1 cup watermelon and about half a cup of kiwi ... 2
13 MINI Mrs. Meringue cookies (equal to 4 regular) ... 2
Tofu and veggies ... 5
Beets ... 0
1 serving Just veggies ... 1
4 regular Mrs. Meringue cookies ... 2
Herbal tea ... 0
58 ounces of water

That's 30. I also walked 12 blocks today amd took my supervitamins. You know, the kind that give you happy pee. Hooray! I hope everyone had a great, in-control kind of day!

[iowasteph2]

Sorry, maggie. I knew that it was you, hon. I just typed the wrong name, because I'm NOT SMART! lol

You're putting so good food in your body!! Pretty much everything looks healthy and yummy!

[MaggieShines]

Thank you, Steph! (BTW, how are you doing? -- Trying to sound like Joey from Friends!)

I'm feeling much better physically even after only three days of eating better and taking my happy-pee vitamins.

Here's for today:

1 packet oatmeal -- 3
1.5 cups ff milk -- 3
1 serving Just Veggies -- 1.5
4 Mrs. Meringue cookies -- 2
Coffee with cream, no sugar -- 1
Lean Cuisine Pot Stickers frozen dinner -- 5
Shrimp with cocktail sauce -- 4
Salsa -- 0
Soy crisps -- 2
Fruit -- little bit each o' pineapples, blackberries, mandarin oranges and banana -- 3
60 ounces water

24.5 -- low today but maybe that will balance out the big-points day on Monday.

[MistySeptember]

Good Morning! You are doing great, Maggie!!!! I take Flintstone gummie vitamins LOL What are super happy pee vitamins? I feel I need to take something but not sure what.

[MaggieShines]

Misty, I take these vitamin that I get from the chiropractor. They come in packs and you take one pack a day. They have a lot of omega-3 in them, which is supposedly very good. I call them happy-pee vitamins because they make your pee this outrageous shade of yellow! I take them at lunch time and then make it my goal to drink enough water to make my pee clear again before the end of the day! Yeah, I play games with myself. So what?!

[MaggieShines]

OK, got a little off track Thursday and Friday, but let's see how it pans out. I still want to write it down, even though I can't figure out the points for some of it.

Thursday:

Oatmeal with ff milk -- 5
Coffee with light creamer -- 1
Spinach with lf butter sauce -- 1.5

Then the bad part: a meal at Applebee's, but not the WW menu. I had:

2 pieces of quesadilla
1 mozzarella stick
3 chips with spinach dip
2 small boneless buffalo wings
1/4 of a rack of ribs
Some baked beans
Some cole slaw
Chocolate cake and ice cream, but I didn't finish it.
Unsweetened iced tea

I know that was a bad dinner, but for me it was still a victory in some ways. I split an appetizer sampler with someone (and still left about a quarter of it uneaten) and then shared the ribs entree and didn't finish it all. We each had our own dessert, but I didn't finish mine. Used to be, I would hae my own appetizer, my own entree and my own dessert and finish everything. So I am counting this as a NSV! So I am giving myself a

Friday:

Oatmeal with ff milk -- 3
Coffee with light creamer -- 1
Spinach with lf butter sauce -- 1.5
Vietnamese beef soup -- 9 (estimated)
Part of a weird Vietnamese shrimp roll -- 5 (estimated)
Part of a small Vietnamese spring roll -- 4 (estimated)
Mrs. Meringue cookies -- 6
Herbal tea -- 0

29.5 .. though I think this is low. It might be more like 33-34. I'm just not sure.

My first official weigh in (at home, not going to meetings) is Monday morning. I sooooo want to see movement on my slider -- in the right direction, of course!

[MaggieShines]

I know this is boring for everyone, but it helps me. Feel free to ignore!

The weekend was rough, and it spilled over into Monday and Tuesday! Dumb! Anyway, back on track today. I have no idea how many points I've had, and I'm about to figure it out.

Oatmeal with ff milk -- 5
Coffee with light cream and sugar - 2
Lean Cuisine frozen dinner - 6
2 mini Kit Kat bars - 3
1 avocado - 7 (YIKES!)
1 HC hot dog on 1 slice WW bread -- 2
Grapes - 1
FF pudding with FF Cool Whip - 3

For a total of 29. Not bad! Yay!

[MistySeptember]

Maggie, just wanted to say you are doing great!!!! Even though you "got off track" it could have been WAY worse!!!! Plus, you got back on track!!! Great Job!!!

[MeRam2]

hi Maggie! Just wanted to tell you that I admire your determination and am sooooo proud of you! Keep up the good work!

[MaggieShines]

Thank you so much, ladies. Your support is invaluable to me!

[MaggieShines]

For today:


Oatmeal with ff milk -- 5
Coffee with light cream and sugar -- 2
Soy crisps and salsa -- 2.5
LC frozen dinner -- 6

Pepper shooter on a hunk o bread -- 5
1 slice cheese -- 2


5 shrimp with cocktail sauce -- 2
2 small pieces of bread with B&B -- 8
Grapes -- 1

Total: 33.5

Ugh, over by 3.5. But it could be worse. Much worse.

[MaggieShines]

Once again, another day where I didn't add as I went along. Here's hoping for the best:

Oatmeal w ff milk -- 5
Blackberries -- 1
Coffee with light cream and sugar -- 2
LC frozen dinner -- 6
Pepper shooter on small piece of bread -- 5
4 shrimp with cocktail sauce - 2
raspberries -- 1-- with ff pudding -- 2 -- and ff cool whip -- 2

That's 26! I can have another snack!