I have been pretty naughty for the past two days but the truth must be revealed:

Yesterday:

B - some cake from beans and eggs with a pear
L - half of a cake slice
S - Chicken Curry with yogurt
S - 2 digestives with toffee cream and peanut butter
D - Chicken curry with yogurt
S - walnuts and peanuts and yogurt

Today:

B (6.30am) - weird cake with yogurt and a pear
B2 - ongoing eating of cherries while driving around places at am time
L - Chicken curry (can't be bothered to make something else) with yogurt, cheese and chai tea

Thats mu naughtiness for the past two days, I completely swayed off plan, looking at my emotions because that is what leads to harmful eating. I am scared of the scale but I am arranging to have weight checked next week as I don't have a scale.

Cyndi- It just tastes...um, funky...lol maybe I should have gotten the vanilla kind... and its a bit gritty like it doesn't dissolve, which maybe it shouldn't. idk.

Zeff- Hope you are feeling better just checking on ya!

So my plan for today is:
B:Smoothie- 1/2 banana, 5 trawberries, 1c almond milk, 1T rice protien powder
S:raspberries
L: sauteed pea shoots with garlic, cucumber and edamame sesame salad
S: hummus and carrots
D: Mexican night- for real this time! lol

B- 1/2 cup roasted chickpeas (had an appointment with son's occupational therapist so grabbed the most quickest available thing)

S- apple with 1 tablespoon PB
can of rinsed greens with vinegar and teaspoon EVOO

L- Lots of shredded lettuce and chopped tomatoes, with 3oz turkey-taco mixture (ground turkey, seasonings, beans, and diced tomatoes) and 1/2 cup salsa. Topped with 1 tablespoon cheese & RF sour cream.

D- don't know yet!

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I have picked up a few things from the store here and there but still haven't been able to go out and do my big grocery shopping! I have a list made up (of SBD approved things of course) and DEFINITELY am hitting up Walmart grocery today! I'm feeling like trying some of that famous crack slaw today!


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Edit: Dinner was a grilled chicken breast over a salad of mixed greens, cherry tomatoes, red cabbage, carrots, with ranch.

Had a yummy cup of FF organic greek yogurt afterwards, mixed it with a little splenda and some cocoa powder. Heaven.

I picked up some soy flour so I'm going to learn how to make things with that next!

1. Smoothie:spinach, green powder, hemp protein, chia gel,coconut oil, ginger,frozen cherries,blueberries, banana, almond milk, ice

2. Finally made the "fried rice" and it was great. I also grilled some turkey cutlets. We ended up cutting up the cutlets and mixing it with the "rice". I think next time when I process the cauliflower, I'll through in about 1/2 stalk of green onion. My husband loved it. Would also be wonderful with grilled shrimp.

3.A seeded spelt flatbread with laughing cow and quacamole

4. Some kind of fruit later on.

Phase 1.5, doing a strict no grain week
B: smoothie with hemp powder, chia, cantaloupe, zucchini, & acai mangosteen supplement
L: refried beans, veggie, & salsa
S: cantaloupe
D: zucchini spirals, veggie sausage & fresh sauce with veggies
wine

exercise: getting that bike out!

Rikki - do you have a health food store or Co-op that might have samples? Mine gave me a pile of samples to try. Hemp Pro is the best dissolving hemp I've found. I tried a single packet of the brown rice and liked that too (forgot to check the brand yesterday). Most of the hemp brands are a little gritty but I've gotten used to that. Have you tried silken tofu instead of protein powder?

B: smoothie- banana, mango, blueberry, 1c almond milk
S: cantaloupe
L: salad with beans, sauteed pea shoots
S:
D: Amy's Bistro burger, broccoli with nutritional yeast sauce, maybe a salad

I have a friend in from out of town that I haven't seen in a couple years and we're meeting up tonight for drinks... I will be at my best! 2 glasses of wine and thats all!!!

Cyndi- I am not sure if we have one around here, I would imagine so but I will have to look around online and see... I saw a few sample packs at whole foods but they werent of any kind I would like to try... Do you prefer the hemp because of the flavor? I am probably just being a regular picky eater ;0) As for the tofu- I am trying not to eat a ton of soy so I try to only eat it a couple days a week. But, I am going to alternate days of using nutritional yeast and the protein powder... I never realized how much protein nutritional yeast had in it until I was talking with my mom the other day! And I really like it for sauces and gravies...

Nutritional yeast is sooo good, my dad's ex girlfriend ran a health food store and used nutritional yeast to top homemade alfredo sauces.
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B- 1 3/4 cup garlicked mustard greens, topped with 1 egg cooked in 1 tsp EVOO

S- FF organic greek yogurt mixed with onion powder, Mrs Dash seasonings and garlic, served with celery sticks.

L- big leafy salad with tomatoes, romaine, etc, dressed with vinegar and Mrs. Dash
1 slice turkey and 1 slice swiss wrapped in 1 romaine leaf with teaspoon garlic herb mayo.

D- homemade whole-wheat/soy/flax/extra-virgin-olive-oil Veggie-Sausage pizza (heavy on the veggies, light on the lean mild italian sausage). Making homemade pizza sauce and using skim mozzarella.

Served with leafy salad and greens.

I'm sticking to my one serving of whole grain a day, to see how that goes. And I guess I was just retaining water because I checked the scale and have lost another 3 lbs. Although I'm going to make Sunday my official weigh-in day so I won't count that until tomorrow.

So excited about the pizza, been wanting to make that dough recipe for weeks now, and yesterday got the idea to use some soy flour with it as well because I found some in Walmart.

Thanks to CyndiM for her advice about the soy flour! I did and it's rising beautifully.. I can't wait to bake it!! This is fun.

Since we were going on an outing to the French Quarter today, I beefed up our smoothies just in case we didn't find something suitable to eat at the festival (of course we didn't!)

1) Smoothie: (split with my husband) 3 eggs, coconut milk, coconut oil, spinach, carrots, ginger, green powder, hemp powder, guanabana pulp, blueberries and a couple of dates.

2) Found a great restaurant and got a blackened shrimp salad.

3) Hit Whole foods on the way home and got some cut up fruit to eat on the way home.

4) Leftover "fried rice" later on.

Dranks tons of water with chias in 104 temps. We walked 2.5 miles from our parking spot to the convention center and the food network thing was nothing but blah blah talking and filming. Luckily some nice lady gave us a ride the 3 miles to the Satchmo fest. Met some nice tourists from Chicago at the restaurant and gave them some history lessons. Nice people!!

Cat - sounds like a great day! it HAS been hot!

Had a bit too much to drink last night and felt it this morning. ick. having a mostly raw day to cleanse. also have a really, really busy day so not much time for snacking

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1: green smoothie (honestly, i was in too much of a haze to remember what i put in it. i just dumped stuff in)
2: smoked fish, greens, avocado, tomato
3: a bunch of cut veggies and hummus, greek yogurt
4: a glass or two of wine

Phase 1, Day 1

The first day is always so easy .

The plan:

B - protein shake (an Atkins one; I'm making a cheese, mushroom and onion breakfast crustless quiche)

S - hummus and various colored peppers

L - chicken Caesar salad

S - yogurt (I've never found something to add to plain yogurt that makes it palatable. This time I'm going to try cinnamon and walnuts. Yogurt, for me, is my Hunger Queller. If I'm hungry and wanting this or that, I tell myself, in my mother's voice, "all right, dear. If you're hungry, you can eat some lovely, plain, low fat yogurt." As she advances with smiles and a spoon, I am suddenly not hungry at all)

D - a salmon burger from Whole Foods, asparagus

Activity: reading SB cookbooks and planning the week.

1. Smoothie: spinach, carrots, green powder, hemp protein, chia, eggs, ginger, guanbana pulp, blueberries, a date for sweetener, coconut milk and ice.

2) egg salad open face on a piece of ezekial with spouts

3) lentils and black rice with roasted asparagus

4) fruit and some almonds for tv watching

Phase III (Maintenance)

B: V8, Cinnamon omelet
L: Deli turkey, RF cheesestick, carrots, hummus
S: Tall skinny hazelnut latte
D: Leftover salmon with basil and roasted veggies, maybe a sweet potato
S: Almond butter, dark chocolate square

B: Cantaloupe smoothie
S: hummus with carrots
L: maybe at the wild cow if I can get DH up and out the door to the farmers market!
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D: salad, wild rice with broccoli, nutritional yeast sauce and quorn(which I have been avoiding because of eggs but I am going to test the waters and see if my body reacts!)

I've always found in the past that when I start losing, I really start losing! It suddenly all came off at once (which for me, usually slows down after a couple of weeks!) My body's weird like that! It's nice to finally see the rewards for my efforts and I realize that overeating the wheats and sodium just retained water for me. If eating 2-3 serving of wheats a day makes me bloat up, I wonder if I should talk to a doctor about it? Maybe I'm one of those who are sensitive to wheat? Anyway, down another few lbs, making for 11 total... yeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today's my daily weigh in that I count for the week.

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After reading a post Murphmitch made in another thread, I understand why the body retains water when you consume too many carbs so the above makes sense to me now!

B- (Mom came over, was drinking coffee left and right, no food, other than the fat free milk powder I used in my coffee) Bad Melanie! You must eat breakfast!

L- Turkey and Swiss on a whole wheat light wrap with romaine and garlic mayo.
Side salad dressed with vinegar. (I'm only doing one grain today!)

S- celery and natural SF peanut butter. Perhaps also a 1/2 cup greek yogurt to make up for lack of breakfast.

D- Big gigantic salad with romaine, green peppers, tomatoes, onion, can of water-packed tuna, with a homemade sesame oil/vinegar.
Will toss in a serving of beans in there too, I noticed I didn't have any planned in today's menu.

D- FF milk or FF cottage cheese