My in-laws tell a story of when they took my DH and his best friend to Sizzler for all you can eat steak and shrimp. Four platters of shrimp later my in-laws finally said they had to stop eating.

My son really isn't a garbage disposer unless it is something he really likes. He can easily polish off 3 or 4 portions of pasta, but given something less desirable, he'll eat a normal portion (or less) and be done (only to dive into the ice cream an hour later).

DH and his brother are also bottomless pits, and I'm sure they were worse as teenagers! DH can eat an entire box of cereal in one sitting and still be hungry.

Luckily all the recipes I cook make at least 4 servings!

Stupid treadmill! I decided to change from my usual random program to a "weight loss" program and it was pre-programmed to stop after 20 minutes. I did do a 5 minute cool down and a higher speed, though. Only got 1.75 miles in this morning. I must remember to check the programs more thoroughly!

E~25 minutes treadmill
B~egg white burrito
S~grapefruit
L~I'm thinking of a salad and splitting a pizza with DH
D~chicken, beans, breadsticks

Yesterday, OP but dinner was very late.

Today:
B - Egg whites w/ turkey bacon, bell pepper, and zucchini, light sourdough toast
S - Apple
L - Leftovers - Giant salad w/ grilled veggies, flank steak, carrots, cucumber, a few croutons, light dressing
S - Plain yogurt w/ strawberries
S - Popcorn
D - Chicken skewer, broccoli, lentil and brown rice pilaf
S - NSA Ice Cream w/ Strawberries

E - 60 min cardio (in two sessions), 60 min strength with cardio intervals.

oh wow, speaking of all you can eat - anyone ever go to the olive garden when they have the "never ending pasta bowl"? One time I managed FOUR bowls of pasta. Obviously prior to watching my weight!!

Friday plan:
currently drinking my coffee!
B: yogurt, english muffin w/ PB
L: egg white salad sandwich, carrots
S: string cheese, berries
D: made by a friend - looks like lasagna is the plan

I've never done the never ending pasta bowl. I have had the all you can eat soup and salad--although I stopped at two bowls of minestrone.

I've done the never ending soup and salad... just once.... stopped at two bowls of the chicken gnocchi...

Allison - I did the same thing on my treadmill last week... I don't think I have a random program, which was what I was looking for - I might have to design one... does your random change both incline and speed?

Yesterday - meals were exactly as planned. Extra junk - candy, some of the chocolate cake (that I tried to give to four people and no one would take!), Guinness Draught... No exercise... No excuses, just lazy.

Today:
B: smoothie, coffee
S: pb&j
L: grilled chicken salad
S:kashi go lean crunch with some lowfat vanilla yogurt
D: grilled chicken salad
S: peanut butter graham cracker or south beach bar

Exercise - some strength training and treadmill when I get home... I swear.

Okay another new person on board.. So here is what I plan on eating today and the exercise.. I eat every 2hours so I will place all my snacks together. I try to do a high protein and fiber and stay around 1500 calories..

B- Protien Body Fortress shake 52 grams protein
Lunch - Kashi Vive cereal with fat free milk
Dinner - Grilled chicken breast, brown rice and steamed green beans
Snacks - Fiber one bar, sugar free apple sauce, weight watchers cream cheese and melba toast, carrots, apple, Kashi TLC bar
Dessert - Live active sugar free jello puddin

Exercise tonight - going to the staium and running 3 set of stairs and walking inbetween for a total of 2 miles when we are finshed.. We changes our routine every night..

Welcome sunshinez! I love Fiber One bars, but they don't like me very much...

Shannon~no my random only changes the incline--every 30 seconds. However, at any time during the program you can change the speed. I try not to do that as I get too tired and then end up going slower and that defeats the purpose. I usually choose 4.3 mph most days although when I feel up to it I do 4.5. Mind you, I don't usually jog. If I jog I go anywhere from 4.8 to 6 mph (but can't really maintain 6 for long!). I do have a program--the 30 minute walk--that changes the speed and incline, but not as often. I set it at 4.5 mph and for the first 5 minutes it is 3.5, then 4.0 for 5 minutes, 10 at 4.5, 5 at 4.0 and 5 at 3.5. For whatever reason, though, this one doesn't change the incline as much as I would like.

Friday:
B - raisin bran, strawberries, milk
S - yogurt
L - two slices of papa john's pizza (@meeting at work) -- one cheese, one veggie
S - apple, orange
D - probably leftover rice and chicken, plus roasted asparagus
S - frozen fruit
E - none planned, just taking Carter to the dog park

Changing the exercise plan - my shoulder started hurting 2 reps in...think I overdid it on a particular yoga pose and now it's throbbing. To compensate, I'm adding 20 min to my cardio (total of 80) and will do non-interval lower body strength only.

Holy cookie nosedive! I know what happened...a perfect storm of stress, pain, and hormones. Still, though, WTH was I thinking? All I got was a bloated tummy and a headache. (Though on the plus side, I invented a -really- good cookie recipe...orange-flavored sugar cookie with dried cranberries, coconut, and pistachios).

Today is another day.

B - Pita chips and tzatziki - weird breakfast, I know, but I woke up with a migraine and nothing else appealed, but I knew I needed to eat to stabilize the cookie-sugar-rush.
L - Chicken skewer, lentil and brown rice pilaf, broccoli
S - Apple w/ Laughing Cow
D - Not sure - we're going to Trader Joes (it's 45 min away, so this is a VERY BIG DEAL) and getting ourselves something both lovely and healthy)

E - So much cleaning and yardwork...already did 2 hours of weeds/mowing/raking, and have more cleaning/scrubbing/etc. to do.

Today got unintentionally off track... darn Longhorn Steakhouse...

Exercise - 2 miles on treadmill, 10 miles on stationary bike

B: Kashi Go Lean Crunch in lowfat vanilla yogurt with blueberries & strawberries, a banana,
L: grilled chicken & strawberry salad at Longhorn for 950 calories, strawberry limeade, 1 slice of bread...
S: skinny vanilla latte
D: ground white turkey tacos, rice

Today was a much more 'in control' day... is it too early to go to bed to head off later evening snacking?

Exercise: 1:40 minutes of swiss ball, kickboxing, calisthenics, 2.0 miles on treadmill
B: B: Kashi Go Lean Crunch in lowfat vanilla yogurt with blueberries & strawberries, a banana, ,
L: ground turkey enchiladas & rice
S: 1/2 serving of lightly salted peanuts
D: sandwich (double fiber wheat bread with 1 svg sliced ham, .75 svg sliced turkey, 1 slice velveeta, 4 slices turkey pepperoni, pickle), light fat free strawberry yogurt, protein chocolate milk
S: peanut butter graham cracker or vanilla wafers projected