I count an egg as 80 calories. LOL. There are different sizes of eggs -- I usually buy extra large.




It's so nice to have a team of four chefs who prepare dinner for me when I get home. George Foreman and Olive Oilsprayer teamed upon the vegetables, with a little help from Mrs. Dash (I'm sorry, I don't know her first name). And Mike Rowave, who is a little lazy, heated up some quiche for me.

More egg input!

Ezekiel Bread w/1 tsp pb, Cottage Cheese w/Pineapple, SO Delicious Pomegranate Chip, Chips & Cheese Dip : 518
Cranberry Juice: 60
FF Cheese Omelet **How could I resist after all the EGG TALK??**, NOW Protein Shake: 457
Sweet n Sour Chicken w/Miracle Noodles, PB2 Greek Yogurt w/granola: 411
TOTAL: 1446

Exercise: 439 + some walking at the hospital--going to be close to 650-700 by the end of the night.
Water: TBD

I seriously could strangle my hubby. I asked him 2 weeks ago, when the last of those dang tortilla chips were gone not to buy anymore of them. He remembers and hears things he wants to remember and hear. So, a couple of days ago, he waltzes thru the front door with 2 HUGE bags of On The Border chips & the BIGGEST cheese dip from Sam's that is sold.

He commented, "You have to LEARN to eat in moderation!"
If it were NOT in the house, I wouldn't have to worry about eating it at ALL!!

LA:
Breakfast
4 slices of turkey bacon - 25 calories per slice = 100 calories
2 scrambled eggs - 199 calories (according to 3 different food sites & Livestrong.com)
1/4 cup mozarella cheese - 90 calories


Snack - Oatmeal - 190 calories (was VERY filling. NO MORE COOKIES)

Lunch -
1 cup Weight Watchers Taco Soup - 134.2 calories
10 Stone Wheat crackers = 140 crackers
1 pack (32g) of peanut butter with dark chocolate - 170 calories (trying new brand)

Total so far = 1023.2

This is looking MUCH better to me!!! WTG dropping that cereal. I don't know why people think cereal and milk is a good choice for meals. You end up eating a ton of it before you're full. Then, in 2 hours, you're starving!

This is true! Unless you have a cereal that is super-high protein, and I have only found two -- the Nutrisystem brand, which I sometimes find at Big Lots, sold in individual servings, and Kashi GoLean (NOT the GoLean "crunch"), which I have to weigh on a food scale and then put the box away. I wouldn't buy any other kind, or if I did, I'd be really careful with it.

well, we went out to dinner last night as nothing in the house to eat. In Taiwan we have a hot pot. Sorta like an irol bowl that is set on a container that has some type of container with a small fire in it. Inside is your choice. So I chose beef. So there were about 4-5 semi thin beef slices, lots of cabbage and a few other things that well, I don't know the English for. I did not have rice or noodles with it all and only had like a small 4oz of Pepsi. I am guessing that it all was roughly 500 calories. Later that night had fresh squeezed lemon juice with a few dried plums in it and they added a little sugar.....guessing 70 (joys of not knowing this stuff.)

So yesterday,the guestimation is at 1662calories.....138under my goal.

Today I started out with Special K cereal
1.5 cup (is that 165 calories?)
.5cup low fat milk (55)
1 medium bananan (this is where I am thrown off....one place says 90 calories and one says 105)............

so breakfast roughly 310

NOW I see you all talking about cereal making you hungry and all.....great...well.... now I need to finish off the box before I do anything else!!LOL!!!

In Taiwan, you just can't get frozen diet foods and substitutions like you can other places, so well.....we'll see.

2200 calories burned so far today...

Happy Groundhog's Day Eve!

Today, Wednesday:

Breakfast: NS cereal, skim milk, Morningstar Farms Patty, orange

Everything else, packed into a large lunch tote for the day (I'm on the go):
NS minestrone soup
2 servings fat free coleslaw
4 oz baby carrots
11 oz low sodium V8
TLC chewy granola bar
Chobani Greek Yogurt
Babybel cheese
string cheese
Zone Perfect bar
2 Hershey's dark chocolate kisses

Total of above: 1218

The plan is to have my usual evening snack, and I should get at least 3 miles of walking today.

And I'm tracking my water today. I've gone back to using my phone app, because I have been careless about drinking enough water.

Today's Meals

Breakfast
4 slices of turkey bacon - 25 calories per slice = 100 calories
2 large scrambled eggs - 160 calories + 5 calories for Pam Cooking Spray
1/4 cup mozarella cheese - 90 calories

Lunch -
2 cups Vegetable Soup - 300 calories
7 Reduced Fat Triskets - 120 calories

Snack - Oatmeal - 190 calories
2 tbsp PB - 170 calories ______________ TOTAL = 1135 Calories

Not sure what I will have for Dinner. Maybe fruit or cottage cheese.

Does anyone drink the little powdered drink packets that you mix with water? Your thoughts on those.

Your FF Cheese Omelet sounds yummy. I will try that because I love eggs.

b: coffee, coffee yogurt, banana w/p. butter - 400
l: LC rice/beans and threw some leftover chicken in - 350
(too much running around today and I got back an hour later than I thought I would and was starving, starving hungry. The LC wasn't what I wanted -- too much sodium and I've been eating too much pasta and/or rice the past 5 days or so and the scale will not budge when I do that -- but it was fast and well, I was eying the cat crunchies as it was cooking so . . . yeah, overall probably not a bad choice!)
s: grapefruit - 75
d: steak, small baked spud, leftover carrots - 600

Total: 1400

I feel like that scale isn't going to budge this week. Birthday in the house tomorrow (plus another run-around day for me) and homemade spaghetti (didn't I just say I need to stay away from pasta?) and homemade chocolate cake have been requested. Ugh, just shoot me. Sometimes I was I wasn't such a good cook/baker!

I'm going to try the Oscar Mayer Turkey smoked turkey. That sounds delicious. Thanks for the tip on the Crystal Light.

yesterday I ended up with 1339 putting me 461 under my 1800 goal.

I am not sure how well to count though. Like for dinner, I made myself vegetable soup. Well, it had 4 cups of water and one chicken bullion (50calories), then I had 4 cups of chopped broccili, 1cup of chopped carrots and one cup of chopped tomatoes and added a clove of garlic, oh and one cup of cooked boneless chicken breast (I made the rest of the family curry and kept some meat for me). IT WAS GOOD!!! but only ate half of it and was stuffed!!! my guesstimation for it after searching was around 250 something (I can't find out where I wrote it).

Anyway, so far today breakfast killed me....522 but it was 4-5 hours later that I felt the urge to eat.

so far today:
682 calories.......

For me, my goal is not to go over 1800, and it is almost like a game to see how far under I can stay:-)......My . should be coming any day, so that isn't helping issues. Can't wait to see what Saturday holds as that will be one week of CC for me!!!

My birthday is March 12......is 20lbs by then too much? I don't want to set a goal that will put me up for failure. But I want to set a goal and if I meet it, then my gift will be the bike I want to start biking