YAY! Jen!!

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P2

1: cottage cheese with 1/4 peach (they are softball sized!) and cinnamon
2: lentil stew or black bean/salsa/avocado mix
3: tbd
4: quinoa and spinach pilaf, roasted sweet potatoes

exercise: 6 miles on the treadmill (RAIN go away!), lower body strength training

Today is going to be really challenging: When we meet for our monthly all staff, it's over lunch. I brought mine though and WILL resist! As motivation, I am wearing a shirt I bought 3 months ago that was a size too small. But it now fits!

b: yogurt, V8, RF cheese stick, coffee
l: 2 gardenburgers, salsa, spinach, salad
s: cucumber and snow pods with hummus and tzatziki
s: plum
d: grilled chicken breast and veggies
d: 2 c. popcorn

water with cucumbers today!

I have kinda-sorta been planning menus (and exercising) but not posting here. I have just been in a slump in general and need to snap out of it. It's annoying.

Phase 2
B - coffee with us almond milk. Peach/mango/yogurt smoothie.
L - shrimp salad sandwich with romaine lettuce in 1/2 a ww pita pocket. a "bunch" of teeny tiny Black Corinth grapes. Some dark chocolate. (w/ some natural pb. Yep.)
S - Pepper slices and carrot sticks with spicy hummus. Hard-boiled egg. Iced tea.
S - Dried green beans and walnuts.
D - Baked felafel with salad, grilled zucchini.
dessert - berries with small amt nsa frozen yogurt

Exercise: probably just walking ~ 1 hr. I have overdone it on the yoga recently and everything hurts today.

1: cottage cheese, banana ( pre workout)
2: choco orange yogurt protein smoothie
3: serving of cheddar
4: chicken broccoli curry
5: popcorn with nooch

not nearly enough water why is this so hard for me???????????
exercise: 45 minutes cycle, 45 minute elliptical

Way to go Jen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phase 1.5

B: coffee w/sf creamer, 2 eggs w/laughing cow cheese & 2 turkey sausage links
L: veggie lasagna & cottage cheese
S: raw veggies w/ranch
D: 2 ww greek pitas pizzas (cheese, can. Bacon, turkey pepp & mushrooms)

Probably should have stuck with just one pita pizza, but I was hungry...and hadn't planned very well. Will do better today at getting more veggies in too. Don't think I had enough yesterday.

Went to the doc today...her scale said I weighed two more pounds than my scale did this morning...what a buzz kill! lol

ugh, i know, i hate that!

p1.5
B falafel/parsley/tomato w onion dressing in 1/2 ww pita, cottage cheese, blueberries, iced coffee w truvia and 1% milk
S string cheese
S cherries
D taco salad (romaine, tomato, onion, avocado, seasoned ground sirloin, bean dip, lf cheddar, hot sauce)
S mango smoothie w almond milk

B: 1/2 bagel with cream cheese, fruit salad, coffee
L: spinach salad with cheese, evoo and balsamic, grilled chicken, cherries
D: steak, spinach with laughing cow cheese, baked sweet potatoes
S: no sugar added ice cream and sugar free chocolate syrup (maybe)

Thursday - at home
B: small amount of chia pudding and mango, hard boiled egg
S: plain kefir and carrots
L: zuccini/chick pea/feta toss up
S: edamame
D: chicken sausage with green beans

Phase 1.5 today -

B. strawberry cantalope green monster
L. tossed salad w/feta & avocado, no dressing
S. Greek yogurt w/chia
D. Swiss chard and cannellini bean stirfry
S. 1/2 cup coconut pineapple lowfat ice cream

ph 2

b: v8, coffee, 1/2 cup kashi heart to heart and 1/2 cup almond milk
s: apple with peanut butter
l: tuna, 1 tablespoon mayo, pickes and pea pods (odd combo, I know) on a WW/LoCarb wrap
s: pea pods and hummus
d: hamburger, mixed veggies
d: SF italian ice

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - Phase 2

Breakfast: Ricotta waffles w/ SF syrup – 1 cup 1% milk, 2 cups Coffee with 1% milk and sweetener - Vitamins

Lunch: Salad with lots of veggies; leftover steak; leftover black beans; 2% cheese, boiled egg, a few BC sprinkles and 2 T Homemade Ranch dressing

Snack: Apple with peanut butter

Dinner: Pot roast with cooked carrots and onions

Snack/Desert: Popcorn (100 cal pack) and Diet Root Beer

B: Coffee with cream and Splenda
Yogurt + Almond Milk + Protein powder smoothie
S: Lettuce Wraps made with lean Turkey lunch meat and LF cheese

L: Lettuce wraps with lean lunch meat and LF cheese
S: NS yogurt
D: Pork Roast and green leaf salad with cuc, sunflower seeds, blue cheese and Oil/Ving dressing

Phase 1.5

B: coffee w/sf creamer
L: 3 eggs w/laughing cow wedge & 2 turkey sausage links
S: 100 cal popcorn
S: nuts & cheese stick
D: tilapia filet w/parmesan topping & steamed edemame

Kind of a weird day yesterday...didn't really have b'fast...so then had b'fast for lunch...lol But dinner was delish! So delish that I'll be having it for lunch today!

<sigh> I am having dietary difficulties. I'm back to my old ways of eating what I had planned, then *supplementing* that plan with extra sort-of on-plan goodies (dark chocolate, too many nuts...) and then somehow justifying off-plan grazing. I am being such a baby about food.

I'm thinking a full Phase 1 is in my near future...

Phase 2
B - coffee with us almond milk. Peach/blueberry/psyllium husk/yogurt smoothie.
L - Shrimp salad on a bed of lettuce. Iced green tea.
S - Red pepper strips and carrot sticks with garlic hummus, hard-boiled egg, slice of mozzarella cheese
Yoga class, walking
D - A big ol' grilled zucchini Greek salad
dessert - glass of red wine. A slice of chocolate zucchini bread (one of the Kalyn's Kitchen versions) - pretty good! I didn't add buttermilk, though. I think maybe my zucchini was juicy?

p1.5/2???
B 3 egg omelet(!) w spinach and cheddar, coffee w splenda and 1% milk
S pineapple/strawberry/mango/peach smoothie w almond milk, nf plain greek yogurt, agave and chia seeds
L leftover taco salad
S cherries
D whole grain pasta w sauteed zucchini and roasted pepper/asiago chicken sausage