Amanda -

I'm feeling somewhat better, but still laying low with the food. Yesterday was fine, even counting my lunch calories of which I think I absorbed very little...I had grabbed a take out salad on the way to a seminar instead of my planned lunch...

Today:
B - greek yogurt, earl grey
S - 5 pistachios
L - roasted veggies, grilled chicken
S - kashi go lean or more greek yogurt
D - pasta in red sauce w/ veggies
S - greek yogurt or pb toast

Weekend catch up time, it's not pretty (but it was yummy!).

Saturday:
B - oatmeal, raisins, blueberries, apple butter, skim milk
S - string cheese, juice
L - @Perkins, biscuit (1) & gravy w/scrambled eggs (2), sausage patty (1), breakfast potatoes
D - @Indian food, 1 beef samosa, half mango lassi, 1 pc chef special naan, some rice, some aloo matter
E - brick workout, 1 hour negative split bike followed by 30 min negative split run, plus time walking around art museum in the afternoon

Sunday:
B - two bagels w/lite cream cheese
"S" (at 11:30) - another bagel, plain
"L" (at 3:30pm) - @Gold Star, chili cheese fries and a few bites of DH's chili spaghetti
S - a couple oyster crackers
"D" - pile of green beans
S - piece of chocolate turtle cheesecake
E - 30 min swim in the AM, walked around zoo PM

Monday:
B - oatmeal squares, blueberries, skim milk
L - leftover quiche
S - peach, apple, string cheese
D - chicken peach quesadillas, salad w/cucumber and salsa for dressing
E - rest day, dog walk

Weekend, didn't eat much, except at Morimoto Napa dinner, where I ate EVERYTHING.

Officially up 8 painkiller/steroid injection lbs. Have been POP and doing MORE exercise, so I know its not real. Still, I'd prefer it start melting off now.

Plan for today:

B - Bagel thin w/ turkey, cream cheese
S - Watermelon
L - Another week of salad bar in the fridge. Stocked up with romaine, cucumber, carrot, shredded chicken, grilled bell pepper, grilled zucchini, roasted corn, kidney beans, black olives, croutons, and reduced fat dressings.
S - Protein Shake
S - Popcorn
D - Another salad from the salad bar (you'd think we'd get sick of it, but no...in summer, it's just PERFECT. We prep once or twice a week and then dinner is in 5 minutes and does not require heating up the house)
S - NSA Ice Cream w/ NSA Fudge Sauce

E - 80 min cardio, 20 min LB, 10 min abs, 60 min water aerobics tonight

Weekend wasn't great...

Saturday -
B - yogurt
L - chicken fingers, toast
D - ice cream, vanilla cream soda
E - 5 hours putting up a closet organizer

Sunday -
B - greek yogurt
L - soy bacon BLT
S - popcorn, coffee, mini luna bar
D - spaghetti
S - greek yogurt w/ honey, unsweetened cocoa powder, dark chocolate granola
E - not a darn thing

Today:
B - smoothie, coffee
S - 5 pistachios, string cheese
L - roasted veggies, grilled chicken
S - kashi go lean
D - salad I think, or ground turkey and peppers over rice
S - greek yogurt concoction of some kind or frozen chocolate dipped banana
E -planning to cut the grass if the rain holds off, otherwise strength training and bike

Weekend went pretty well. Stayed on plan, but up a little, due to my cycle. If we end up going out to the Chinese restaurant for dinner on the actual birthday, yeesh, not gonna be pretty, temporary or not.

Sat:

Banana/nectarine smoothie
Bread, cheese, salad lunch (Farmers market day!)
vegetarian white chili
crudites & guacamole
galia melon

Sun:

Nectarine/blueberry smoothie
bread, cheese, salad lunch
hummous, pita, crudites, 2 small baked felafel
cantaloupe

Today:

banana/nectarine smoothie
tomato/lettuce/laughing cow cheese sandwich
vegetarian pad thai
watermelon
40 g All-Bran, 1/2 cup strawberries, 1/2 cup soy milk

Shannon, I am laughing at your Saturday as that sounds like something I would do (eating ice cream for dinner). Actually it sounds like you spent the day at Dairy Queen!

It does sound like DQ doesn't it? It was actually Zaxby's for lunch, a little late in the day. When dinner time rolled around neither of us were exceptionally hungry with the later lunch so opted for the ice cream for dinner option. Not the best from a health standpoint, but at that point it was kind of like damage control.

LOL, yeah, I was thinking of the chicken strips and texas toast basket at DQ when you said chicken strips and toast!

I do love the DQ chicken strip basket... As I remember it comes with gravy...

Okay, moving on from my food porn...

I've done well so far today - no extra snacks, ate my grilled chicken and veggies for lunch, have been drinking my water. I think the rain is going to keep me from mowing the grass tonight, so looks like weight lifting and stationary bike for me.

Tuesday:
B - raisin bran, blueberries, skim milk
L - leftover veg/chicken pasta
S - apple, plum, string cheese
D - stir fry with tofu, long beans, and gai lan
S - chocolate pudding
E - 30 min run this morning

Monday came in just fine. Had greek yogurt with graham crackers, cocoa powder, dark chocolate square & flax crumbled in for evening snack, a pasta concoction with ground turkey breast, tomato, pepper & onion for dinner. Cut the grass yesterday evening (got 3/4 done before the rain came back), did 35 mins of strength training & a 35 min lunar yoga flow before bed.

Today's plan:
B: smoothie, coffee
S: string cheese, 5 pistachios (I get the in shell ones so I have to work at it)
L: grilled chicken salad or grilled chicken sand on wheat bread, haven't decided
S: kashi go lean pre-run, chocolate milk post run (may have to be treadmill run though with the weather and a schedule change with DSS tonight)
D: No freaking clue, as I just found out we are going to have DSS. He will have already eaten before he gets to us, but we will have to eat something quick and earlier than normal
S: probably more yogurt
E: planning a run, maybe another lunar yoga flow

Oh man, I have a sudden craving for pasta with turkey italian sausage. Hmmm, I do have some turkey italian sausage in my freezer. Maybe that will be my pre-race dinner on Friday...

POP yesterday.

Plan today:

B - Bagel thin, cream cheese, turkey
S - Watermelon
L - Tuna melt on bagel thin, strawberries
S - Protein Shake
S - Popcorn
D - Giant salad from fridge stocks
S - NSA Ice Cream

E - 70 min cardio, UB workout, abs workout, water aerobics

It's the night of the birthday dinner, so I've been taking it extremely easy on the food, and tonight, I'm resigned to all the sodium, but planning on being very cautious about everything else.

B: Strawberry smoothie
S: 1 cup watermelon
L: 1 small flour tortilla wrap filled with about 1/3 cup leftover veggie chili, lettuce, tomatoes

I have no idea what I'm having for dinner, leaning towards a clear vegetable soup starter, and some kind of veggie/tofu dish for the main, and taking a pass on the rice and/or noodles. I plan on drinking LOTS of water.

I spent a couple of hours walking for exercise today.

Wednesday:
B - shredded wheat and oatmeal squares, blueberries, skim milk
L - leftover stir fry on rice
S - apple, plum, slice of ww bread w/PB
D - braised chicken thighs with chickpeas and tomatoes over rice
S - leftover pudding
E - swim tonight