Jen--veggies are most difficult for me, too, but I don't worry about it. I just plain don't like 'em But I've survived nearly 24 years already without enough veggies, so I don't stress over it.
Yesterday, I ended up not having my SmartOnes meal at work--just my 2 sandwiches. Then I had a yogurt at home (80 cals), some SunChips with dinner (120 cals), and some fruit salad after dinner (estimating 80 cals). Oh, and honey mustard on my burgers (est. 80 cals), so I still ended up around 1600 calories for the day
Today is TOPS weigh-in night, so here's the drill:
honey bunches of oats, banana, and skim milk
pbj sandwich
Subway sweet onion chicken teriyaki on honey oat, 2 cookies (AFTER TOPS, of course)
That keeps me below 2000 calories for the day, plus I'll be drinking my minimum 2 liters of water (ha, see? no veggies today, either--just some iceburg lettuce and tiny bit of red onion on my sub).
Okay. I am going to try to return. I've not quite recovered from my last 2 months, I keep doing well for a few days, then sliding, then doing well, etc. I'm going to start TOPS next week (maybe) and go to the gym (hopefully) and see if I can regroup, following my vacation.
Today wasn't the best day, but it wasn't the worst.
Wednesday
Breakfast: 12 oz can of Coke
Lunch: 6" turkey and cheese with light mayo, from Subway, and Baked Lays
Snack: 10 packets of American-style Smarties
Dinner: One bite of a roll, and some shrimp etouffee (half-portion of what they served for dinner, it looked reasonably sized on a plate at home)
Thanks, Jill! I actually like veggies, and really any food (though I will not eat a mushroom ). However, I've really upped my exercise this week (SO is out of town and I have to stay busy or I'll get mopey), and I was HUNGRY yesterday, and I wanted PROTEIN. If I had passed a cow on my walk home from the gym, it wouldn't have had a chance. Even my cat was looking pretty nervous (lol, the rabbits too, but they always look nervous ).
The Good News: I was at 303.8 on Monday, I'm at 300.2 as of this morning!
Today's meals:
fortune cookie rounds (112)
Egg McMuffin (300)
World's Largest Turkey and Roast Beef Salad (take that, veggies) (500)
Soy Crisps (100)
homemade tuna veggi pizza+
sauteed green beans (600)
Grand total of about 2400 calories for the day. Ya know, I thought it would be higher, so I hope those are accurate estimates (I checked the pizza hut site for dinner, so I know that number is correct). The bagels were free at work in the morning--figures, I couldn't leave them alone!
^^I was up half the night with a tummyache. 4 extra strength Gas-X pills later, I felt a little better. Hardly any sleep though. At one point I was sure I was going to throw up.
today:
1 SuperSized Sprite--this is what I needed. I needed to burp.
1 chocolate-frosted donut @ work (we worked today, last minute, and someone brought them in. about 3 hours into my shift they started to look good. I, too, have a VERY hard time saying no to free food.)
I am getting a new bed on Friday!! I am looking forward to no more back pain. So my best friend & I just spent the last 2+ hours cleaning, it looks great!!
1 cup decaf
1 milk
1 McDonald's cheeseburger
64 ounces water
2 turkey burgers with 2% American cheese, lean bacon, low-fat mayo, honey mustard, lettuce, and onion on light wheat buns (SO good!)
about 1/2 cup each potato salad and macaroni salad
Grand total of about 1910 calories (per fitday). Also drank a liter of water (plus 3 diet sodas), which isn't enough, but is still more than I normally have on a weekend day
That all comes to about 1560 calories per fitday (I got the calorie counts for Panera and Pizza Hut both from their websites--hooray for the internet! ). I may add a smoothie later this evening, which would bring me up to about 1815. Still below 2000, so that's EXCELLENT for me for a weekend!
But I've survived nearly 24 years already without enough veggies, so I don't stress over it.
, mindydaisy!!
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such a pretty face for the welcome I'm really excited that I found this site 
