Good morning! I changed yesterday up a little, but still came in within my calorie range. Put the edits into yesterday's post in red. Feeling fancy today.
Today:
E: yoga, then some stationary bike when I get home. Head was seriously congested this AM when I woke up...
B: smoothie,
S: pb&j
L: grilled chicken salad or salmon with corn tortillas
S: kashi go lean
S: apple
D: either turkey sausage over rice or going out to eat, don't know yet...
S: peanut butter graham cracker
Day 2 of my diet "experiment" is under my belt. Funny thing? I'm sleeping better. I guess it's working (also my weight is 1.5 down from Sunday, but that usually happens)
Yesterday - OP. Even got in my strength training. Now for the bad news...this is NOT allergies. This is a full out, 100%, feel terrible, throat on fire cold. Which is, of course, precisely what I need when I'm super busy and have 10 million things going on this week. No fever, so I've ruled out swine flu...just a terrible, terrible cold that turned 10x worse over night.
B - Smoothie w/ greek yogurt, strawberries, almond milk (mmm, cold...)
L - Leftovers - Penne w/ ground chicken and roasted veggies
D - Honestly, not sure. Maybe Sarah and the baby and Alicia will go to the farmers market and I'll bail and eat some soup.
E - Right now, getting up to pee feels like quite the workout...
If it's hard to eat volume, go for small quantities of high calorie, super healthy food. Add some walnuts or almonds or cashews or pumpkin seeds to your salad! A regular serving of nuts is about 200 calories and SO GOOD for you.
Well, yesterday went pretty much on plan - a slight deviation for a bite sized Reese's PB cup.... Oh, and I substituted brown rice for the sweet potato.
B - cheerios with walnuts, skim milk; about 1/4 pear; 1/2 ww bagel;
S - 2 bite brownie
L - salad with hb egg, turkey, blue cheese crumbles (few), tomato, ff dressing
S - ?? out of fresh fruit, maybe applesauce? or a Luna bar
D - shrimp, sweet potato, broccoli
Glory-- that's a great idea! I'm still unsure exactly how many calories I need to maintain. I am 23, 6', 140 lbs, and relatively active, so I'm guessing around 1800-- but that's really just a guess. I added nuts to my salad and survived
Eating an ounce of nuts more than five times a week can reduce the risk of coronary artery disease by an astounding 25 – 39%. (An ounce is 3 – 4 tablespoons of nuts.)
!!!! Nuts rock!
Definitely keep fiddling with your numbers. I'm only 5'7" 130 lbs and maintain on 1800!
Thursday:
B - raisin bran, strawberries, milk
S - banana
L - rice, mix of chicken, veggies, spinach, soy sauce
S - apple, yogurt
D - volumetrics risotto primavera
E - NRLW 1B @ lunchtime
B - Trader Joe's non fat Greek yogurt with honey, 6 oz blackberries (200 calories)
L - big salad - dark greens, shredded carrot, purple cabbage, pomegranate seeds, grilled chicken, fat free balsamic vinaigrette, fried onions for crunch (measured!!) (400 calories)
S - tangelo (100 calories)
S - cheese string (80 calories)
S - cocoa (50 calories)
D - Changed plans went out for sushi. I had miso soup, 7 pieces of yellow tail sashimi, 2 pieces of unagi sashmi, 1 piece of california roll and 1 piece of lobster crunch roll. And volcano orange for dessert!
Eating an ounce of nuts more than five times a week can reduce the risk of coronary artery disease by an astounding 25 – 39%. (An ounce is 3 – 4 tablespoons of nuts.)
!!!! Nuts rock!
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Love that article, Glory! I'm going to buy some of those candied walnuts or pecans from Trader Joe's and start putting in my salad at work I think. Mine is a little bland right now.
E~30 minutes treadmill
B~small grapefruit, 3/4 oz cheese (160)
S~hard boiled egg (100)
L~lean cuisine (300) small apple (100)
S~yogurt (70)
S~turkey w/lc cheese (85)
D~stuffed baked potatoes from my new cookbook (300)
I've been very, very good this week. Not 100% OP, but so much better than usual. My weight is down 2 pounds since Sunday and I have a feeling that with this program (and new cookbook) that I'll be able to maintain the loss over the weekend which is what needs to be done to continue to lose rather than yo-yo.
Last night I decided not to do the frozen diet entree with a salad. I made shrimp with creamy orange chipotle sauce, served it over ww pasta (I really wanted spinach linguine but couldn't find ANY!) and then sauteed some squash and red peppers. I made half a recipe that should have been 2 servings but there were leftovers (mainly because I wouldn't let DH have seconds).
Yesterday was POP - no candy, no extra snacks, nothing. I've had other OP days calorie wise, but this was the first POP day where I didn't deviate from my plan in a while. I did 45 mins of yoga and walked 6 miles on the treadmill, too. Woo hoo!
Today:
E: strength training, maybe some light cardio when I get home
B: smoothie,
S: pb&j
L: grilled chicken salad
S: pink salmon pouch
S: kashi go lean
D: pasta with red sauce & ground turkey breast
S: skinny cow dipper or peanut butter graham cracker
B: bean soup (I know, weird... I was having a craving) (300)
S: Babybel cheese, crackers (150)
L: Subway turkey salad, yogurt, apple (325)
S: Toast with almond butter (200)
D: Not sure; probably around 400 (with Andrew's parents, who eat very healthily)
S: SF ice cream (175)
S: Yogurt, banana (200)
