Bumblebee: Your day at the park with your dog and family sounds really nice! Keep resisting the cake and Easter candy... and maybe ask your family to help support you by not keeping too much of that stuff around the house!

Saturday, April 9
140 1 0 Grande Skinny Caramel Macchiatto
190 8 3 Luna bar
200 4 0 Grilled chicken
110 8 3 Spicy salad greens, bok choy, and bean sprouts
146 5.5 1.8 Four pieces spicy tuna sushi (1/2 of a roll)
151 0.9 9.2 Strawberry, raspberry, and blackberry smoothie
203 1.7 6.2 Pulled bbq chicken and arugula on honey wheat sandwich thin

1140 29.1 23.2 22.97%

Exercise: abs and upper body, + 40 minutes on the treadmill


Sunday, April 10
90 2.5 5 Fiber One bar
120 0 0 Fage yogurt
316 7.1 5.4 Multigrain flatbread with pulled bbq chicken, roasted red peppers, arugula, parmesean and light blue cheese dressing
130 2 4 Popcorn
180 5 4 Luna bar
260 9 6 Multigrain vegetable lasagna
140 1.5 3 Skinny cow ice cream sandwich

1236 27.1 27.4 19.73%

Exercise: 3.8 mile walk outside

PHAT and Bumblebee: Way to work at getting right back on track! I know it can be hard. Bumblebee, avoiding convenience-type foods is one of my biggest challenges. It can be really tough when you get busy and hungry.

I am seriously exhausted - and it's clearly affecting my cognition, as I just wrote the above note to "PHAT and Chickadee"!!! I will be so happy when this grant proposal I've been working on is done and submitted tomorrow. Unforunately, then it's right on to the next thing... multiple meetings on Wednesday and Thursday, performance reviews to write and conduct that are already 2 weeks late, and a (thankfully short) presentation to prepare for a half-day meeting on Friday with my employer's board of directors - yikes! I need some good rest and sleep. For a week. I need a vacation. And I NEED FOR TOM TO GO AWAY!! I've had it for 16 days straight. Enough already!

Sorry, I just needed to vent somewhere. I'm really not as cranky as I probably sound, just tired and a bit overwhelmed. S'ok though; this too shall pass.


Monday, April 11
100 1 0 Grande iced skinny caramel macchiato
90 2.5 5 Fiber One bar
120 0 0 Fage yogurt
48 0.6 6 Raspberries
260 9 6 Multigrain vegetable lasagna
170 5 5 Luna bar
180 14 3 Raw cashews (1 oz.)
70 0.2 2.5 Two clementines
175 6 3 Multigrain wheat thins with laughing cow light

1213 38.3 30.5 28.42%

Today was a bad, bad day from a veggie perspective. Oh well.

Thanks PHAT! I hope you had a shorter day today, and are getting some more rest tonight!


Finished submitting the proposal late tonight, and so went out to dinner at about 11pm with my husband to the one non-chain restaurant that is open late around here. The only reasonable entree on the late night menu was lobster, lol. So that's what I had, with asparagus and spinach instead of fries and coleslaw since we had our favorite appetizer. I was starving by the time we finally got some food (I'd only had about 350 cals all day), and ate every bite I was served. Really looking forward to things being back to normal tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 12
160 1 0 Venti Skinny Caramel Macchiatto
120 0 0 Fage yogurt
53 0.5 3.3 Strawberries
435 25 2.5 Truffled potato chips with french onion dip
213 1.3 0 Lobster (1.25 lbs) with lemon
126 8.6 5.5 Asparagus and spinach
240 0 4 Haagen Dazs raspberry sorbet (1 cup)

1347 36.4 15.3 24.32%



Totally off-topic, but my husband has The Colbert Report on right now, and his comments about John Kyl and the "Not intended to be a factual statement" thing are hilarious. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publ...cle_8214.shtml "John Kyl once ate a badger he hit with his car"

OK, if either of you are ever in the DC area, I am taking you out for lobster!!! But it's going to have to be a planned higher-cal meal than mine last night, because it's MUCH yummier when you eat it with the butter it's served with instead of just lemon.

PHAT: You could definitely still lose weight on the higher calories, and if you're feeling hungry and have more energy when you eat a bit more then I think you should shoot for a range that's a little higher. It can only help keep you on-plan when you're not feeling deprived, you know? I eat at the range I do only because I seldom feel hungry, but if I felt hungrier I would definitely up mine a bit.

Bumblebee: I'm glad you'll be less busy soon! I definitely understand that one. Let's all dream of some time off, preferably somewhere exotic and sunny:





Wednesday, April 13
140 1 0 Grande Skinny Caramel Macchiatto
90 2.5 5 Fiber One bar
260 9 6 Multigrain vegetable lasagna
35 0.1 1.2 Clementine
41 0.2 1.1 Mango
309 7.4 0.6 Grilled chicken and salad with light blue cheese dressing
140 1.5 3 Skinny cow ice cream sandwich

1015 21.7 16.9 19.24%

Exercise: 60 minutes on the treadmill

I need to eat something more before bed, but not sure what yet.

P H A T ... your tulips are gorgeous!!!

I have a question because I have a hard time finding something filling for breakfast and generally just skip it:
When you have the 2 eggs/bacon/hashbrown for 250 is that a frozen thing like from Jimmy Dean or something?? I WANT this breakfast but can't get it down to that low in calories.

Bumblebee: That sounds painful! My very first workout with the trainer at the gym left me with a ton of pain in my quads, and I sought some advice from others in the exercise forum here. They advised that continuing to do light workouts would actually help in getting rid of the pain, as the movement would help to work all the water out of the swollen muscles. I skipped a day at the gym and then got back to walking on the treadmill, and the walking plus plenty of water and a little Advil definitely helped my quads a lot. I hope you're feeling more comfortable soon!

Sorry I've missed a few days of posting my intake! All three days are below.

Thursday, April 14
180 6 4 Luna bar
308 5 0 Grilled chicken
246 8.5 2.7 Arugula salad with chicken, zucchini, tomatoes, hot sauce and light blue cheese dressing
163 0..4 4 Greek yogurt with raspberries
100 1.5 9 Vitalicious muffin top

997 21 19.7 18.96%

Exercise: abs, upper body, lower body + 30 minutes on the treadmill


Friday, April 15
140 1 0 Grande Skinny Caramel Macchiatto
90 2.5 5 Fiber One bar
120 0 0 Fage yogurt
320 8.7 5 Spinach and ricotta ravioli with spinach, marinara sauce and parmesean
249 1.4 15.3 Strawberry raspberry smoothie
100 1.5 9 Vitalicious muffin top
200 4 2 Roasted red pepper and tomato soup

1219 19.1 36.3 14.10%

Exercise: 30 minutes on the treadmill


Saturday, April 16
180 6 4 Luna bar
115 0.6 5.4 Raspberries and green grapes
400 20 6 Ginger and green papaya salads (1/3 of each salad; estimate)
400 15 2 Crispy fish with tomatoes, onions, cilantro and 1/2 cup white rice (1/3 of entrée; estimate)
250 0 0 Two glasses white wine
100 1 9 Vitalicious muffin top

1445 42.6 26.4 26.53%

Exercise: 45 minutes on the treadmill