Glory, I feel the same way when I pick up the pineapple chobani! I have to remind myself also that 20 cals is not a huge deal, and fat is not actually the enemy. It sounds like you did great with the Vegas meal - enjoyed yourself and had a treat but didn't go overboard.
Amanda, how did your treadmill trial go yesterday?
Jessica said in another thread she was leaning out of the wagon the other day when she had two pieces of cornbread. I feel like I'm running alongside the wagon, one hand on it, hopping on and off as I please. I frustrate myself sometimes. After feeling like I didn't have much healthy stuff planned last week, I over-planned for this week. I made delicious, homemade, healthy stuff. And what did I want? Bread and cereal with milk. (Yes there is a carb theme here... detailed analysis is going on in my head but I won't bore you.) The "uncomplicated" will reign next week. I will eat pita pizzas and frozen veggies. Because pizza sounds really good. Though I've been having trouble sticking to my plan, the scale has blipped down to 157 briefly and back to 158 today.
Friday
B - coffee w 1 T h&h, 2 homemade lowfat pumpkin muffins
Mid-AM snack - 6 oz. lowfat yogurt
L - Chinese Chicken salad
S's as needed - cran orange relish, salt & vinegar roasted chickpeas, hm larabar, tea tea and more tea (Arctic blast overnight makes this really appealing once again)
D - Yippee-Ki-Yay Spicy Southwest Chicken Chowder (hungry girl recipe already in the slow cooker), homemade whole wheat bread, big salad bc a friend just gave me some home grown lettuce
Yeah, let us know how that chicken chowder turns out.
Dinner last night was a cheeseburger from Wendy's with 3 fries. Could've been worse, I suppose!
Today:
B oatmeal with pnb, bacon
L scrambled eggs, zucchini, tortilla
D TBD
E TBD I'm very behind on some things so I need to catch up! See y'all later.
B - 1 egg, 3 egg whites, cheddar, spinach, 1/2 toasted bagel thin, kiwi (hmmm, I sense a trend!)
S - Greek yogurt w/ berries
L - Leftover tostadas
S - Protein Shake
D - Split appetizer (a grilled hot link with a sauteed cabbage, really good!) 4 ways with friends, 1/2 cup spinach salad, approximately 1.5 cups of the best beef stroganoff I've had in recent memory, and 1 cup sauteed broccoli.
S - Small brownie, still w/ friends
E - 75 min treadmill (yesterday's trial was a tentative success! I do have to take a small break after 45 min to put the foot up or it gets swollen, but if I give it 15 min, it's just fine), 60 min strength training (I have to tweak my program now since my midwife (not OUR Midwife!) says no more weights over my head, lest I topple over under the weight of the belly.
Friday:
B - oatmeal, flaxseed, walnuts, banana, skim milk
L - leftover curry, leftover cornbread
D - pastitsio
E - 25 min "wog" (I put it in quotes because it was so snowy and icy I jogged about the same speed as I walked), 20 mins weights
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B - Chobani 2% mango yogurt (also a winner) - (160 calories)
S - green leaf lettuce, bbq chicken, red cabbage, chopped tomato, a few tortilla strips for crunch, fat free ranch, just estimating 500 for the whole thing, probably a little high, but whatevah
S - 3 small clementines (100 calories)
D - Panda Express - mixed veggies (70 calories), mushroom chicken (160 calories), beef & broccoli (120 calories), 2 fortune cookies
L - Subway - 6" BLT on wheat, baked lays (450 calories)
S - tall non fat latte - 100 calories
S - 3 clementines - 100 calories
D - we have a new restaurant near the house and they have a "lite" menu with a lot of great choices under 500 calories. Will report back!
Went to Cool Hand Luke's Wild West Grill. I can't find the exact menu online, but it had a 500 calorie section. I got char fired tri tip and steamed green beans. It came with a garden salad (got low calorie caesar on the side). Did not eat the warm sour dough bread served as a starter but it was tough because I was STARVING. Very tasty, would go again.
L - big salad - green leaf lettuce, grape tomatoes, red cabbage, carrots, adobo chicken, salsa for dressing, sprinkle of cheese, tortilla strips for crunch
S - tall non fat latte
D - oh ****. 2 mixed drinks. 2 small pieces of french bread dipped in the most amazing balsamic vinaigrette, 2 small pieces of cheese. Small piece of chicken cordon bleue, salad with honey mustard dressing, green beans almondine, serving of oven baked potatoes
Saturday -
B - Was running errands, ended up having a 110 calorie protein shake, a babybel light, and an apple.
L - Trader Joes Asian crunchy slaw with chicken - I am positively hooked on this, I only use about half the peanut dressing.
D - Pizza made with TJs whole wheat crust, grilled chicken, pizza sauce, broccoli, a little pineapple. Big salad on the side.
S - NSA Ice Cream
E - Cleaning and yardwork.
Sunday -
B - Whole wheat banana pancakes, 1 scrambled egg, one slice of bacon
L - Leftover pizza, salad
S - 2 babybel, 5 carrots w/ hummus, approx 100 cals of graham crackers
D - Roast chicken breast, roasted carrots, roasted cauliflower (just threw the veggies in the bottom of the chicken pan - yum).
S - 1/2 cup leftover canned pineapple from pizza
S - NSA Ice Cream
E - Big time closet cleanout, hauling, etc.
Monday -
B - 1 egg, 3 egg whites, spinach, and cheddar, 1 sliced kiwi, 1/2 toasted bagel thin
S - Greek yogurt w/ blueberries
L - Leftover roast chicken, carrots, cauliflower
S - Balance Bar
S - Asian pear, sliced cheddar
D - Pot roast, small potato, carrots and celery, side of cooked greens.
S - NSA Ice Cream
Saturday:
B - protein shake
L - leftover curry, atkins bar
S - blueberry popcorn (apparently such a thing does exist)
D - @restaurant - total about a pint of beer plus a little more, pretzel w/mustard, salad w/garlic dressing, chicken schnitzel w/mushroom gravy, red cabbage, and spaetzle, couple bites of DH's dinner to try, half of each of banana bread pudding, stout chocolate cake
E - 75 min yoga class, about 45 mins dog walking
Sunday:
B - oatmeal, flaxseed, apple, walnuts
L - leftover pastitsio
S - hot cocoa
D - salad w/homemade dressing, mushroom stew (cooking light)
E - about 60 mins dog walk
Monday:
B - oatmeal, flaxseed, apple, walnuts, skim milk
L - leftover pastitsio and veggies, atkins bar
D - salad, potato soup, clementine, string cheese
E - 25 min wog, 3:00::2:00 run::walk
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Chicken chowder review
Ease of prep: 5 stars
Cost/availability of ingredients: 5 stars
Taste: 4 out of 5 stars
The flavor was good, though not the most complex/rich tasting (what did I expect - very little fat involved!) It was a little spicier than I expected from the chipotle peppers. BF really liked this. I might make it again, but would probably reduce the amount of peppers/adobo sauce, and add a few more veggies (maybe a green bell pepper in addition to the red).
Jessica, salmon chowder sounds good too!
If you read my post in the weekly chat thread, I'm not quite sure where the weekend went. I didn't write any food down, and I'm not going to try to re-capture it here, rather work on writing things down despite being busy in the future. I did go out to dinner Saturday night and ate a pasta dish with cream sauce () - obviously not on plan - but ate very lightly the rest of the day. The rest of the weekend was pretty normal/OP eating.
Tuesday
B - egg sandwich - light English muffin, 1 large egg + 1 egg white, ~1/2 c asparagus chopped up in the egg, coffee w 1 T h&h
S - orange and strawberries
L - lean deli ham + 1 slice provolone on 1 piece whole wheat bread, ~1 c. asparagus, 1 slice chocolate cake w chocolate frosting (office birthday)
D - pita pizza on ww pita, part skim mozzarella, + salad w 2 T light dressing
E - 45 minutes stairmaster, varying intensities, ~3-3.5 mile wog w the dog this afternoon
Glory, I just got some cherries on sale too! Delicious! I also get really excited at this milestone. I just bought my first FL strawberries of the year, too.
) - obviously not on plan - but ate very lightly the rest of the day. The rest of the weekend was pretty normal/OP eating. 
