Muse--Getting more fruits and veggies is something I am always working on. Some days I do better than others. What has been helping me are the Steamed Veggies that I believe Bird's Eye makes. I know, I know...I could buy the veggies fresh and buy steamer bags myself but that is not happening. I'm going to the store today and I am planning to buy steamed veggies, raspberries, blackberries, and bananas.
Sheesh i never did get back to everyone today, and its almost 10pm. Havent watched biggest loser yet, that may have to wait till tomorrow darn it! I had another on plan day thats 2 down for me!! How's everyone else doing?
Okay, kids dont seem to want to go to bed so I must tend to them. I'll 'see' you all in the morning!!
Here's how todays menu turned out (Nothing like what I planned)
Breakfast: fruit bar
Snack: ww amaretto yogurt with 1/4 c bran buds
Lunch: 1/4 cup lentil roast
1 small honeycrisp apple
1 egg omelet with cheese
Snack: popcorn
Supper: turkey burger, 1 slice cheese, ff honey mustard on a wheat bun
1/2 cup baked beans
Hello everyone. I hope we're all sticking to plan. I am, kind of. I'm not eating as much as I should, but I'm still watching what I eat. My throat hurts, so that's pretty much why. Here's what I ate Tuesday.
11/13
Breakfast: 8oz Silk Pumpkin Spice Soy Milk
Lunch: Pomegranate juice and grapes
Dinner: Lentil Soup with a side of broccoli and cheesy rice
Snack: 4 mini cookies and a tiny piece of fresh mozzarella
Yesterday's Menu
BF--oatmeal, veggie sausage, coffee with sf flavored creamer
S--sf pudding
L--Smart Ones meal with yogurt
S--snackwells
S--100 calorie pack
D--chicken with steamed veggies
WW--26+2 flex points=28 pts
Another on plan day.
I will post my almost planned menu for today. I have a program today and I will eat with them so I just don't know what the points are yet for my two afternoon snacks.
Today's Menu
BF--waffles, veggie sausage, coffee with sf flavored creamer
S--100 calorie pack
L--Frozen Meal and yogurt
S--fruit salad
S--mini pizza
D--turkey italian sausage and ww couscous
My Thursday and Friday menus will be almost planned too. I have a workshop that I'm going to. I helped organize it so I'm going Thursday afternoon to help set up, stay the night, and the workshop is all day Friday. Thursday night after set up the whole group wants pizza. Of course they do. On Friday lunch is catered. All I can do is set points aside and use my extra flex points and hope I don't go over. When I went to that conference a few weeks back that worked. I actually didn't use all of the points I set aside so hopefully that works this time around too. I hope so. I don't have any worries about gaining I just don't want to post another maintain. I want a loss. We shall see.
Good morning evryone. I am JUST now watching TBL. I already know what's gonna happen because I read Izzy's myspace blog, so I am "sort of" watching. All I know is now I want some damn Krispey Kreams! grrrrrrr
Ok, here's what I ate yesterday:
B- Coffee w/cream & Splenda
5 oz Fruit medly- Canalpoe-pineapple, grapes
Ham & Cheese omelette
TBSP Olive Oil
1 c. 2% Milk
S- 100 calorie carrot cake
D- lemmon pepper Fish filets
Summer squash sauteed in Olive Oil (2 TBSP)
S- Ham & Cheese rolled up
LOTS of Water
It all came out to 1507 calories & 68 Carbs. Not too shabby.
LOL Diva...you made me laugh this morning!! You dont need no stinking Krispy Kremes! They did look good though didnt they?
Good Morning Girls!
Here's what I ate yesterday:
Breakfast: scrambled eggs w/ ham, coffee
no snack(was in classes all morning till 2pm)
lunch: all beef hotdog, mustard, cucumbers, slice of cheese
snack: diet rootbeer, leftover steak slices, celery stick
dinner: chicken tender, broccoli, alfredo sauce
I need to be putting my stuff in fitday, I know I'm sticking to plan because I am watching my carb counts and thats the plan but I should pay a little better attention to make sure I'm eating enough. Thats the trouble with this plan is I'm not hungry so I just have to make myself eat during the day and I grab whatever.
I need to go grocery shopping....booohisss!!
I think my dh has developed gallstones. He is doing lc w/ me but during the day if he doesnt get a lunch he'll go all day long without eating. So he's not really doing lc he's super low calorie then dinner is higher fat. Last night shortly after dinner (although dinner didnt have a ton of fat, just the 10 grams in the alfredo sauce) he got a stomach ache and then the pain was in his gall bladder area, he couldnt breathe, I thought he was having a heart attack....sounds like gallbladder right? Of course he wouldnt go to the ER, then about 45 mins later it was gone.
Alright I have to get minutes typed up from my parent meeting last night I want them there first thing this morning so I'll be back to check on everyone!!
Girlfriend, Krispy Kreme's and mexican food. Those are my 2 weaknesses right there. It is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard to go past them Donoughts that they are now selling @ my Walmart, grrrrrrrrrrrrr...Problem is , I can't eat just 1. They are like Lay's potato chips that way! LOL! I grew up with them damn donuts. My Dad used to bring them home all the time, but my weight problem didn't start until my late 30's so it was ok back then, lol!
I am trying very hard to NOT go over 70 carbs a day. I wish I could get it to less than that, but I just can't. I don't see how y'all can do 25 or less carbs a day but I do envy you. Maybe one day I can get to that. It's a goal. I guess I am doing a backwards Atkins, hehe! I cannot eat eaggs everyday. So I am finding myself choosing. When and where I want to have my carbs. Either @ Dinner or breakfast. It all is really going to depend on what we are having for dinner. Yesterday was excellent, today a bit harder. Lunch is easy because I have always ate veggies, so that's an easy choice. Sucks being poor. I can't always afford to eat differnt foods than the rest of the family, but I am trying. When they are having mashed taters, mac & cheesssse and Stove top, I am having veggies...squash, zucchini, brocoli, a mixed veggie bag from Walmart...Whatever..I thought I was gonna slip a 1/2 cup of mac & cheese last night until I saw how many carbs is in a 1/2 c.serving (33). I was like WHATEVER! LOL!
Anywho, I had a Carb breakfast (yup, had my Special-k), so I am gonna go try and burn some of that off with the WATP's and have NO more today.
Diva...I'm thinking you should take a different approach to carbs, because carbs really are very good for you, they give you energy and the are vital to brain function. I can completely understand the problem of having to make 2 different meals. I think you should not look so much at the number of carbs but work towards eating the right carbs. Like you said...mac n cheese...NOT good carbs! The thing with doing lowcarb is you either are or you arent. The point of eating that low of carbs is to put your body into ketosis which means you are burning fats and using those fatty acids for energy rather than carbs. So for instance I'm doing lowcarb and got into ketosis but then I eat higher carbs, I throw myself out of ketosis (probably have a little gain) but when I get back to doing lowcarbs it takes you a couple of days to get back into burn mode. So its not like with low cal you just burn off those extra calories. Does that make sense? I think you are doing great with your menus, if you want to have special K and skim milk for breakfast..do it! But saying no to white potatos, stuffing, mac n cheese is only going to get you that much ahead of the game. My opinion is focus on good carbs not low carbs. Cutting out the sugar and the flour is like taking the devil out of your body LOL! I just dont want to see you getting frustrated or thinking you arent doing good enough because from what I see on your menus it looks great. After thanksgiving I am moving into this same approach. More fruits and veggies and even some whole grains. Just no sugar and flour products.
Ann...have you tried the cinnamon struesel shredded wheat?? So yummy!!
Leeda...hows everything going? You didnt eat much yesterday I hope you are feeling okay.
Shay...what is couscous like? I saw in a lowcarb cookbook they show you how to make a cauliflower "couscous" but I imagine that'd just have the bitter taste of cauliflower.
Muse...LOL, you sound like me when groceries are low..just whatever you can find! I hope you make it to the market, while you are at it would ya do mine too? Ugh I hate that place!!
Tera...I'm so sorry to hear that you arent feeling well. Tis the season for those darn colds, at least I hope thats all it is. I hope you feel better soon! Pumpkin Spice...YUM!!! Is it like eggnog?
Dream...I still need to look for that amaretto yogurt. I might just have to buy one of the Davinci sugar free amaretto syrups and make my own! LOL! Menu looks great you are doing fantastic!!
Okay...off to study! I'll check back on my study breaks!
Mel, thank you gf. I am trying. I get what you are saying, moreso after I googling ketosis! LOL! I want to keep the carbs low, but like you said when I DO have them, I want them to be good ones, from fruits and yes even my cereal. I am gonna alternate breakfast days..one day do the egg thing and then the next the Special-k thing. I figure if I can keep them below 70 or at the highest 100, I'll be doing good because that's what I did the 4 LB loss week. We shall see. It's like a game trying to see what works and I am learning fast what doesn't, lol! I DO feel less frustrated though since I started doing it this way. The calorie counting (which I still do, it's like an addiction) and the WW didn't work for me. I LOVE fitday. I've had to add most everything I eat in myself though, sometimes fitday is inaccurate(sp).
At least I've got the scale thing down to once a week, hehe! Ok, gotta go force myself to eat lunch now, lol!
Well girl if its working then run with it!! LOL! I think you are doing just great so keep it up! You know what you can live with and that is key to success!
Hey everyone,
I had to totally rework my menu for today bc one of my co-workers came in with a pumpkin pie she wanted us to try out. She needs to make them for the holidays so she wanted us to test it out. It was fantastic and she said she used low fat items so I felt better. Besides I've learned if I deny myself something I really, really want I pay for it later. Meaning I would eat everything in this apt to replace what I really wanted and you know what happens with that...if its not what I originally wanted nothing in my apt will meet that need so I would just eat and eat.
Okay I'm proud of myself. I reworked the menu and still was able to not use a ton of flex points bc I need them for Thursday and Friday. Oh yeah, at the pizza place here's hoping there are other options like salad. I'm picky with salad so we shall see and I don't have to have the pizza or I can have one slice of cheese or veggie with a salad.
Today's Menu
BF--blueberry waffles, veggie sausage, coffee with sf flavored creamer
S--slice of pumpkin pie
L--Frozen Meal
D--soup with baked chips
Melissa--Couscous tastes just like rice to me. It just looks different.
WW--26+2 flex points=28 pts
So I managed to stay on plan and I'm done eating for tonight so I won't post this menu again in the morning. I still have tons of water to drink bf the night is up.
So I am finding myself choosing. When and where I want to have my carbs. Either @ Dinner or breakfast. It all is really going to depend on what we are having for dinner. Yesterday was excellent, today a bit harder. Lunch is easy because I have always ate veggies, so that's an easy choice. Sucks being poor. I can't always afford to eat differnt foods than the rest of the family, but I am trying. When they are having mashed taters, mac & cheesssse and Stove top, I am having veggies...squash, zucchini, brocoli, a mixed veggie bag from Walmart...Whatever..I thought I was gonna slip a 1/2 cup of mac & cheese last night until I saw how many carbs is in a 1/2 c.serving (33). I was like WHATEVER! LOL!
I want to keep the carbs low, but like you said when I DO have them, I want them to be good ones, from fruits and yes even my cereal. I am gonna alternate breakfast days..one day do the egg thing and then the next the Special-k thing. I figure if I can keep them below 70 or at the highest 100, I'll be doing good because that's what I did the 4 LB loss week. We shall see. It's like a game trying to see what works and I am learning fast what doesn't, lol! I DO feel less frustrated though since I started doing it this way. The calorie counting (which I still do, it's like an addiction) and the WW didn't work for me. I LOVE fitday. I've had to add most everything I eat in myself though, sometimes fitday is inaccurate(sp).