Okay, here I am, dragging myself kicking and screaming back to the thread!
Glad to see membership has kept up and that we're now diligently working towards eliminating the excessive eating behavior (in other words, I'll kick your bum if you kick mine!!) I honoured my commitment to better eating by pouring the rest of the egg nog down the kitchen drain!
I'm so glad I made it back in time to learn of Beth's celebratory dinner with PT...You'd better not leave out any details, girlie, ya hear??!!
I wasn't bad today, but I wasn't good either (on the other hand, compared to the last few days I was positively ) I've decided to ease myself gently back into the sensible eating fray and have not obsessed on counting points, but rather have concentrated on avoiding sweets and including some actual nutrition today (wouldn't want to go straight into "points" mode and put my body into some kind of shock - that can wait until tomorrow)
Wednesday
Breakfast
1 cup Raisin Bran cereal, with 1/2 cup 1% milk
1 slice 100% whole wheat bread with 1 tbsp. peanut butter
1 coffee with cream
Snack
1 clementine orange
1 Quality Street caramel stick
Lunch
Wrap consisting of spinach tortilla filled with lettuce, tomato, green peppers, mushrooms, hot peppers, grilled chicken and topped with salsa
Snack
Mug of Carnation Lite hot chocolate
Dinner
Spicy Black Bean Soup (President's Choice "Too Good To Be True" brand)
3 garlic bread sticks
Caesar salad (no bacon and with light dressing)
Snack
1 Quality Street orange cream chocolate
Beverages: several glasses of water (bottled, mineral and club soda)
Exercise: 15min. morning walk with dog and 1/2hr evening walk with dog. Does wrestling into a certain pair of pants while getting dressed for work count?
The rice lunch fell through so we went to a tofu restaurant instead. We had silken tofu soup, fried tofu with mushroom in red pepper sauce, tofu mixed with red paste in a boiling pot, soy beans toasted with spices and five veggie side dishes including a bowl of rice. Korean style restuarants you eat out of common dishes. It's like a chopstick of this....a chopstick of that.....etc. did pretty good actually. I ate only half my healthy bean rice and then had a sugar free chocolate bar for dessert.
Ahhh well..........Jan. 1 is coming soon and I will be on my own once again.
Hello! Been a long time since I posted my eats here. Tired of hovering right between 222 and 225 lbs! I can see ONEderland just over the horizon, but I don't want to just see it-I want to live there. LOL Posting my food here will help in soooo many ways.
December 28, 2005
Breakfast/Lunch: 3 chocolate chip pancakes; plain, no butter or syrup
Dinner: About 1/4 of a 16 inch Supreme pizza (orange and red pepper, onion, mushroom, sausage, pepperoni and cheese)
Snacks: 1 Rootbeer float (3/4 cup vanilla ice cream in 9 oz of rootbeer); 2 cups chocolate ice cream with 4 TBS Hershey syrup
Beverages: 9 oz rootbeer (in float); 30 oz calorie free orange drink; 40 oz water
Exercises: 50 minutes Fat Blasting Cardio Tae Bo
Thanks guys! After all these months just not sure what's going on?
We had a wonderful dinner, we talked so much, I didn't even get to eat most of my food! - Now that never happens to me, especially at this amazing steak place. I did, however, have a little too much wine, my head still hurts.
From what he said, he enjoys my company as much as I do his, and I think we'll do this again, soon. But outside the resturant, it was a little weird, he leaned over and kissed me on the check near my lips, but definitely NOT on my lips, and I kissed him back on the cheek, then we said good night and that was it. The attraction is definitely there, but who knows?
I'm seeing him at 8 for PT, we'll see if he says anything.
Needless to say, I don't really know how to count last night's dinner, but I had 15 points left before it, so I should be ok. Today is a new day.
Beth and PT sittin' in a tree...definitely keep us posted!!
Well, I'm trying to get back on track now that I am home from vacation in CT. I'm definitely up a few pounds, but I'm still down by at least 30 from this time last year, so all was not in vain! Even at only 30 pounds a year, I will be at goal before I'm 30, so it would still definitely be worth it. Hopefully, I'll be able to pick up the pace a bit, though
I'm trying very hard to make better food choices right now. I think a few weeks of eating everything and anything has messed with my stomach a bit in that I am constantly feeling hungry. I need to re-train my stomach to know that I do NOT have to eat every 30 seconds! I'm still eating more than usual, but like I said, I'm trying for BETTER calories (even if it's just a 90-calorie Special K bar instead of 3 chunks of fudge at 100 calories each) and to space them out more appropriately. I'll get back to counting the calories officially in the new year.
to you, Darlene! All that Korean food all sounds delicious.
Good to have you back, Jilly, Laura, and Sheila.
Ooh, Beth! How exciting! I'm glad you had a good time last night. Call me old-fashioned, but I think it's rather sweet that he went for the cheek. Gotta save something for the second date....
I'm trying to do similar to you, jillybean, in going for better choices before I get back to restricting my kcals. I still need to work on my portion control though.
I didn't do so well yesterday. My food choices were okay, but I went overboard with everything bar my morning cereal. That's what happens when I neglect to weigh and measure out portions.
Weds 28/12:
Breakfast: 1 cup Optimum Slim cereal, 1 oz seedless raisins, ½ cup 0% milk; 500 ml coffee. Lunch: Turkey breast and Phili Light on whole-wheat pita, red cabbage, cucumber, tomato. Dinner: Home-made bean & ham soup, Triscuits. Supper: Cheese and more Triscuits. Snacks: Tangerine, nuts.
Drinks: 1½ litres, 250 ml pomegranate juice, 250 ml cranberry juice, 250 ml green tea, 250 ml un-sweetened chai (with 1 tblsp. 0% milk), 250 ml lemon, honey, & clove drink for my sore throat. Exercise: 30 minute walk.
Last edited by DishyFishy; 12-29-2005 at 10:13 AM.
Welcome back, Jilly, Laura & young Jilly. Beth, you never know! This could be the start of something big!!
today:
1 liter water
2 MSF breakfast patties
2 more of those dang multigrain pretzels. i have now cut myself off. just because they are here & free, doesn't mean I have to eat them.
1 cup decaf, 2 ice cubes & a packet of sweet&low
1 liter water
1/2 sour cream chive baked potato
1/2 grilled chicken, mayo & lettuce only sammich
1 cup 2% cows milk
1 liter water
1 container mandarin oranges
mcdonalds fruit salad (no walnuts, no yogurt)
2 1/2 multigrain pretzels ( http://www.utzsnacks.com )
1 liter water
other half chicken sammich
other half baked potato
about 10 or under chocolate covered blueberries (they were in my stocking)
1 serving white rice
1 serving salt free chicken & vegetables chinese food
1 fortune cookie
1 cup decaf orange spice tea
more water
Last edited by SuchAPrettyFace; 12-30-2005 at 01:14 PM.
Oo la la, being a voyeur at heart, I like this thread! Sounds like a great date. You know when you don't eat all your food that you're having a good time.
My eats for the day:
1/2 c ff cottage cheese (2)
1/2 c blueberries (1)
pumpkin muffin (3)
4 oz. salmon (4)
Breakfast: 3 homemade blueberry pancakes with some light syrup and LF margarine, and 2 soy sausage links
Lunch: Tuna fish salad with 3/4 oz cheese slice on 2 slices whole wheat bread
Snack: 3/4 cup grapes
Dinner: Leftover angel hair picatta with 3 oz chicken
Snack: 8 wheatsworth crackers and 2 squares laughing cow light cheese
Yep, its great to see a busy thread, not just because its nice that everyone's getting back on track, but it provides some yummy eats ideas (and a little juicy gossip). By the way, Beth, I think its terribly sweet that the first date ended with a "near, but not quite on" the mouth kiss.
Thursday
1 slice 100% whole wheat toast spread with 1tbs. peanut butter
1c grape juice
Astro vanilla yogurt
Celery/carrot sticks and green/red pepper slices (fat-free ranch dressing for dipping)
Seedless grapes
December 29, 2005
B: Uncle Sams cereal with soymilk and raisins
L: Ham and swiss sandwich
D: big salad with turkey and cheese, ff western dressing and bleu cheese dressing; 5 baby carrots with 1/2 TBS veggie dip;
S: 4 cups microwave popcorn; 4 small choc chip pancakes with hersheys syrup; homemade chocolate milkshake
Beverages: 60 oz calorie free orange drink; 12 oz can diet mt. dew; 16 oz water; 16 oz choc milkshake (listed in snacks as well)
Calores=2100+ OOPS! I am aiming for an average daily calorie total of 1800 calories. So I should have skipped the milk shake, the extra cheese on my sandwich, the choc chip pancakes and the bleu cheese dressing! Will do better tomorrow.
Exercise: 1 mile run (Ran that one mile as fast I could without killing myself so I could time it. LOL 11 minutes 50 seconds!! A mile in under 12 minutes! YAY me!)
Ack. Continue to be bad at exercise, I've just been lazing about, went shopping, reading, playing new video games, too many distractions from Christmas gifts!
Friday
Breakfast: 1 cup raisin bran in 1/2 cup 2% milk, and 1 oz cheese
Lunch: Chicken BLT salad from Wendy's with croutons and LF honey mustard dressing
Dinner: Lean Cuisine meal with a gooey good caramel apple dessert built in
Snack: Hot cocoa (mix with water)
I honoured my commitment to better eating by pouring the rest of the egg nog down the kitchen drain! 
) I've decided to ease myself gently back into the sensible eating fray and have not obsessed on counting points, but rather have concentrated on avoiding sweets and including some actual nutrition today (wouldn't want to go straight into "points" mode and put my body into some kind of shock - that can wait until tomorrow) 
Been a long time since I posted my eats here. Tired of hovering right between 222 and 225 lbs! I can see ONEderland just over the horizon, but I don't want to just see it-I want to live there. LOL Posting my food here will help in soooo many ways.
to you, 
Jilly, Laura & young Jilly. Beth, you never know! This could be the start of something big!! 
