Friday was higher than anticipated because we stopped at Sonic on the way to Va Beach (we don't have them up near us, so it's always a Va Beach trip treat). Now, here's a good example of why I don't normally post my food on the weekends...

Friday:

• instant oatmeal (peaches 'n cream flavor, reduced-sugar, made with water)
• cheese pizza (either 1 giant slice or 2 normal slices )
• reduced-fat chocolate milk
• Sonic grilled chicken sandwich (grilled chicken, lettuce, and honey mustard on bun--343 cals), 2 mozzarella cheese sticks (152 cals), and a strawberry cream pie milkshake (about 600 cals --now that I just looked it up, I'll probably never have one again! )

Total: about 2630 calories

Saturday:

• 2 mini cinnamon bagels with Country Crock spread
• reduced-fat chocolate milk
• protein bar
• 1/2 ham and swiss sandwich
• Captain George's buffet restaurant for dinner (fried scallops, corn on the cob, manicotti, crab salad, potato salad, cornbread, desserts...)

Total: oh, about a million

Sunday:

• 2 slices French toast w/Country Crock and light syrup, 2 small sausage links, light orange juice (the 50% less sugar and calories kind)
• small slice of apple pie (about half the size I would normally have) with 1 scoop light vanilla ice cream
• apple
• home-made chicken cordon bleu, alfredo noodles, and corn
• ColdStone milkshake (mint ice cream w/oreos mixed in)

Total: entirely too many

Back on track for today:

• strawberry yogurt (light, no sugar added)
• instant oatmeal (banana bread flavor, Weight Control, made with water)
• frozen fish filet
• grilled cheese and tomato soup

Total: should be about 1200, I think (I'll double check, though)

Wow! 600 kcals in a milkshake!? Then again, I think nothing of spending that on a bottle of wine, so there's no room for me to talk!

Sun 02/10:

Breakfast: 500 ml coffee, 1 cup Optimum Slim cereal, 1 oz seedless raisins, ½ cup 0% milk.
Snack: Shake (6 oz banana, ½ cup 2% yogurt, crushed ice, vanilla extract).
Lunch: 4 oz pork loin on 2 oz whole-meal pita, 1 tblsp. Phili Light, romaine, tomato, 500 ml water.
Snack: 1 oz granola, 500 ml water.
Dinner: Baked falafel with raw veggies (broccoli, carrot, rocket), ¼ cup hummus, 500 ml water.
Extra Drinks: 1½ litres water, 250 ml Reduced-Salt Oxo, 250 ml green tea, 500 ml diet cola.


Total kcals: 1503 (plus free veggies)

Exercise: 4 miles WATP.

Today's plan:
Other than my usual brekkie, I have no idea!

Wow! It's shocking when we find out what we've really been putting into our bodies, isn't it? I cringe when I think back to the pints of Ben & Jerry's, or the 20 packs of Chicken McNuggets and fries I've eaten with nary a thought of their nutritional value. It's downright scary! But, what's done is done. Just chalk it up to a lesson learned, and try to do better next time. I know the weekends are hard for you JillyBean, I wonder if perhaps, Howie's weekend challenges could be re-instituted? Since so many others also struggle with weekend eating, maybe you guys could encourage each other to get through the weekends clean. Just a thought...

Beverly

[QUOTE=jillybean720]Friday was higher than anticipated because we stopped at Sonic on the way to Va Beach (we don't have them up near us, so it's always a Va Beach trip treat). Now, here's a good example of why I don't normally post my food on the weekends...
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I live in Richmond, and I know what you mean about Sonic. When we go to Williamsburg or Va Beach, we always stop too One of my favorite things that I ALWAYS get there is a Route 44 Diet Cherry Limeade. At 40 calories, it's a keeper!

And been there, done that at Captain George's too

Monday October 3rd
Breakfast-
2 small eggs fried
lt multigrain english muffin
1 tbs honey butter
Lunch-
1.5c sliced polish sausage
1 small onion cut up
1/2 c spinach
1/2 c chicken broth
1/4c noodles
Snack-
1/2 c grapes
Dinner-
1/2 c grape nuts
1/4 c milk 1%
1 small banana cut up
Snack-
1 100cal snack bag popcorn *not yet but probably here soon*
Exercise-
2 mile walk
Weigh In- 239lb *down 2 lbs but still on TOM so maybe I'm down more*

Hi Folks,

My reality check was when I asked for the nutritional menu at Baker's Square (do they have those in Canada?). A piece of carrot cake... 1200 kcals!!! I had no idea

Today was a pretty mundane day for me food wise, although I had a yummy silk snapper recipe for lunch. BTW, I tried a variation on the 1 point WW muffin w/ devil's fook cake mix, 1/2 cup OJ or water and a can of pumpkin. (no eggs or oil as on box) Yummy for when you want a low cal chocolate treat, although I liked the cranberry orange ones better. Have fun DCM

P.S. I keep meaning to ask, what is Tim Horton's?

Tim Hortons (aka "Timmys") is a coffee/donut shop that boasts great coffee (although Howie says in Ohio the Timmys coffee is bitter), great 4 point chili, yummy 1 point "Timbits" (donut holes) and donuts to die for (especially the Canadian Maple - though nobody here indulges in them anymore ). Tim Horton himself was a Canadian NHL hockey player who was tragically killed in a car accident. At the time of his death there were a few franchises operating, but now there's a Timmys on just about every street corner in Canada!

Okay folks, that's enough! There's too much food porn going on in this thread already, and its only Monday! Enough with the milkshakes, carrot cake (1200 calories?!?!) and such, ya hear?!

Monday
Points
Morning
1 - Weight Watchers 60% whole wheat bread, toasted
2 - 1tbs. peanut butter
0 - large mug of earl grey tea
Mid morning
1 - clementine orange
0 - bottled spring water
Early afternoon
4 - flax flatbread, with
3 - lentil veggie pattie, crumpled
1 - fat free cheese slice
0 - lettuce, tomato, mushrooms, green pepper
0 - salsa
0 - club soda
Mid afternoon
1 - seedless grapes
0 - Perrier water
Early evening
3 - chicken breast (skinless) baked with low-fat mushroom soup
2 - basmati rice
0 - mixed frozen veggies
1 - Astro fat free sugar free yogurt (vanilla)
0 - bottled water
Late Evening
3 - 1c 1% milk with 1tbsp. Nestles Ice Java (cappucino flavoured)
22 total

Exercise: Morning walk with dog (20min) Evening walk with dog (30min), vigorous scrubbing of entry and hall walls in preparation of painting.

10/03
B: Crunchy Quaker Corn Bran with soymilk; 1 banana
L: 3/4 piece of multi-grain flat bread with american cheese and turkey, topped with BBQ sauce
D: Nacho-Cheesy Turkey Stratta (1 lb. ground turkey-browned then rinsed with water to remove as much fat as possible mixed with chopped onion and red pepper layered with diced multi-grain bread cubes in a 8x8x2 square baking dish, then topped with a mixture of 1 can nacho cheese condensed soup, 1.25 c skim milk and 4 eggs. Cover and put in fridge for 1-4 hours, then bake at 325F for 50 minutes)
S: 3 cups lowfat popcorn sprinkled with cinnamon sugar
Beverages: 70 oz water; 20 oz diet pepsi
TOTAL CALORIES=1318
Exercise: AM 20 minutes Stretching/Core Program Exercises and Strength training
PM 1 hour Tae Kwon Do

Happy to announce I had an entire day without any chocolate/pringles/other unsightly cravings..........then, of course, I read the food porn on this thread, and it all fell apart....ONLY JOKING!!!!

Monday

Porridge, banana, coffee
2 apples
Chicken risotto
Tuna and steamed veggies (carrot, broccoli, sweetcorn) in lemon sauce
Low fat hot chocolate

Food Porn! I'm THERE! <---- me licking the screen

Monday:

Breakfast:
Special K & 1% milk

Lunch:
Turkey sandwich (whole wheat bread, mayo, turkey, provolone, swiss, onions)
Whole Wheat pita chips

Dinner:
Grilled cod
Brown rice w/almonds
Carrots

Snacks:
1 bowl Kashi cereal w/1% milk and banana (long day, I was hungry :shrug good choice though )
sunflower seeds
granola bar

Drinks:
12 oz cola (a good thing - I think I'm going to have to switch to diet completely b/c the regular just tastes so thick and sweet to me now )
1% milk w/lite chocolate syrup
water

Cal: 2193

High calories - but then I've been up for almost 20 hours now. Loooong day. I'm on my way to bed and I'm sleeping in! WoooHooo!

Gotta get my tushie to the gym today--went home and crashed on the couch all evening yesterday, so double time on the elliptical!

Today:

• strawberry-banana yogurt (low-fat, no sugar added)
• stuffed sole (stuffed w/shrimp and crab and covered in a light sauce)
• instant oatmeal (reduced-sugar, made with water)

No soda this morning (even though it was diet) so I will drink more water--gotta keep flushing out the weekend sodium-filled crap!

Hi - I don't usually do journal postings but thought I'd try it. I actually made a good choice this am - up early with my eldest. I had bran flakes and skim. Really craving toast and PB but settled for celery and PB. Know what? It actually satisfied me. A good start for the day

Yeah, I agree that fast food can be a real problem. It's often a whole series of bad choices. I pick one, like chicken nuggets, and it can usually be worked into your plan. But if on top of that I eat the fries and a shake and a chocolate chip cookie, it blows my plan completely. So I have to keep reminding me that I can get the other things if I really want them another time.

For example, eating out at Popeyes (best fried chicken!!) always consists of chicken, onion rings, red beans and rice, and one of their wonderful cinnamon apple pies. But I can't eat all that at once anymore. However, I refuse to completely deny myself. So I'll get it all, and eat one piece of chicken and the onion rings, then the next day have the other piece of chicken and the red beans and rice (the red beans and rice have more calories and fat that the onion rings, can you believe it? no wonder they have such a wonderful "mouth feel.") I split the apple pie, or go without.

Strategies like this have really helped me face the temptations of fast food, since I know it's unrealistic to never go out for fast food again.

Anyway, on with my eats for yesterday:

MONDAY

Breakfast:
almonds
cottage cheese
apple

Lunch:
tomato and okra
roasted veggies - zucchini, peppers, onions, carrots
roasted chicken breast

Afternoon snack to keep the Beast at bay:
orange
Poppycock Just the Nuts (mixed nuts in toffee)

Dinner:
Roy Rogers RR Bar Burger (burger with ham and cheese)

Snacks throughout the day:


Drinks:
water
coffee w/cream


Calories:
about 1600

Exercise:
walking
stairs

I'm just (re)discovering Tim Horton's coffee. I'm a Starbuck's addict , but it's an expensive habit.

Welcome to the thread, Sherri! Hope you stick around.

Mon 03/10:

Breakfast: 500 ml coffee, 1 cup Optimum Slim cereal, 1 oz seedless raisins, ½ cup 0% milk.
Snack: 3 tblsp. pine nuts, 500 ml water.
Lunch: 4 oz lean roast ham on 2 oz whole-wheat pita, 1 tblsp. Phili Light, hot peppers, romaine, tomato, 500 ml water.
Snack: 3 green olives, 500 ml water.
Dinner: Cauli and broccoli florets with 2½ oz cheese (Cheddar, Double Gloucester, & Stilton), 3 oz whole-wheat English muffin, 1 litre water.
Snack: 5 Sour apple Altoids.
Extra Drinks: 500 ml green tea, 750 ml coffee with 2 tblsp. half & half.

Total kcals: 1455 (plus free veggies)

Exercise: 3 miles WATP, 20 minute bike ride.

Today's plan:

Breakfast: 500 ml coffee, 1 cup Optimum Slim cereal, 1 oz seedless raisins, ½ cup 0% milk.
Snack: Mixed berries.
Lunch: Tuna on whole-wheat pita, salad.
Snack: Banana shake.
Dinner: Leek and couscous "risotto" thingie. Not sure how I'm gonna make this yet.