No comment from me re: my own eating, but nice work everyone else!

Ok I *think* I did well today:

B: Slim Fast chocolate shake with skim milk
L: 1 small homemade whole wheat tortilla with spinach and 1.5 oz brie cheese
D: 1 small homemade whole wheat tortilla with lettuce wrap filling (chopped up vegetables with soy sauce and other Chinese seasonings), 1 steamed veg dumpling, 1/2 c steamed rice, 1/4 c random Chinese seasonings (which I think were mostly spices and broth, no indication of cream, etc), 2 small jalebis (Indian sweet)
Snacks: 1 homemade whole wheat tortilla (lol), 1 morning glory muffin, 1 tsp Nutella, 1 sheet nori.

Exercise: 1 hr walk, moderate pace

Total: 1368
Exercise: 160
Net: 1208

I was extremely careful with portion size today and didn't graze much at all. Drank a lot of water so I'm hoping hoping hoping I'll see the 120s tomorrow! *fingers crossed*

indiblue -- so many wheat tortillas!! i totally get it, those are VERY delicious. The only thing that seems to be missing from your diet is protein -- are you vegetarian? How much protein do you try to get in a day?

One of my nutrient goals is to get 25-35g fiber and 70-100g protein a day. I usually fail at least one of them but try to come close. I'm not veg right now, though. Curious to see how nutrient balance works for you.

Well, I didn't exactly eat great today. I guess it was a cheat day.

Breakfast: 2 eggs (160) and a slice of wheat toast (90). tea with almond milk, raspberries.

Lunch: mock chopped liver with green olives, herb salad on a slice of whole wheat bread.

Dinner: slice of pizza with caramelized onions and yellow pepper. Salad of herb mix, grape tomatoes, green olives. glass of homemade sangria.

Snacks: 3 (smallish) cookies. About 5 of these Japanese peach flavored gummy candies.

Sunday is usually a scary day for me because my favorite high-calorie foods appear at lunch and dinner in the dining hall -- brunch in all its temptation, followed by specialty butters & fresh artisanal bread at dinner. So the irony is that I thought about dinner -- penne pasta with shrimp and zucchini, and sweet potato fries -- ALL afternoon. I even looked up calories and entered it into my LoseIt tracker. And in the end, other students finished it long before I got to the dining hall after yoga, so I ended up staying on plan anyway. Funny how things work out...

B: didn't happen. Ate a mini Clif bar at 3 am last night, though: 100cal
L (brunch): peach "tea bread" (cake); coffee; no-cheese veggie egg white omelette; fruit salad of canned pears, strawberry topping, and spinach. 330cal
S1: bowl of kashi heart to heart cereal; 1% milk. 200cal
S2: 2oz tempeh, 100 cal.
D: big bowl of veggie soup + 2 oz black beans + 1 cup-ish spinach; 1/2 chicken breast, no skin; coffee. 280 cal
S3: about 1 oz of a Starbucks doubleshot; cornbread with strawberry jam for topping (YUM). 170 cal.
all day: 3 cups of tea, 1.5 packets sugarfree sweetener.

Food calories: 1170. Was so vigilant with portion sizes, I'm pretty sure I actually overcounted a bit today. About 300 burned in my flow yoga class + physical therapy exercises = under 800 net calories.

lackadaisy, Wildflower Those look like awesome on-plan days to me. I swear one of these days I'll be cheerfully reporting success in this thread again.

lackadaisy that's a good point about the protein. My Slim Fast, morning glory muffin, and milk, and cheese were all decent sources of protein. However, on looking back at my calorie log, it calculated 30 g of protein for my lettuce wraps! What the heck! I do NOT think there was much of any protein at all there. I just looked at the total tally at the bottom and saw it as over 70 g for the day. I need to be more cognizant of the automatic calculations it makes.

You are definitely right that I need to up my protein. I'll try to get in some eggs and lentils into my diet today. Maybe that's why I've been tired lately. Thanks for the input!

Haha I know I went a little overboard with the wheat tortillas. Fortunately are about 1/2 the size of the ones back in the US. They are actually chapatis, which is a small Indian flatbread, made with just whole wheat and water. Sources put them at 66 calories per chapati. Not sure if that's accurate, but I think the bigger ones in the US that come packaged are around 120-150 so I think it's pretty reasonable. Anyway my fiber has been low recently so I really have needed to up my sources. Another reason to ramp up the lentils this week!

And yes, echoing krampus' kudos to you and Wildflower for your meals- they both look great.

Guys I was at 130.2 this morning! Ok, that was after my Slim-Fast and a bunch of water and my yoga class, so it wasn't my usual weigh-in time. But still!!

Oo sorry for the back-to-back posts, but I'm really excited about my food choices today and wanted to share:

Breakfast: Slim-Fast with skim milk
Lunch: 1 veggie burger with vegetable topping and no bun, 10 homemade french fries, approx 3 tbs ketchup
Snacks: 1/2 c yogurt with 1 tsp honey
Dinner: 1 c steamed spinach, 10 pieces of shrimp, 1 frozen banana with 1 tsp Hershey's chocolate sauce.
Beverages: 2 6-oz cups masala chai with splash of milk and 2 packets brown sugar each, 1 6-oz cup coffee wth splash of milk and 2 packets brown sugar (I know that's a LOT of sugar... I'm working on cutting down)

Exercise: 45 minutes of light yoga= 100 calories

Total: 1337
Exercise: -100
Net: 1237

I feel realllyyyyy confident about the portion sizes today. I never felt full after each meal and counted almost everything I could. lackadaisy I also focused on your recommendation of upping the protein and, because of the veggie burger and shrimp, I think I got in 69 grams today. The only thing I am missing from today is fruit. I only got 2 servings in from the large frozen banana I had.

Also, I learned that shrimp has 5 calories per medium-sized piece. FIVE!! That's like, less than a stalk of celery. Tons of protein and SUPER low calorie- I will definitely be incorporating them into my diet more often now.

Ppssssh, why have I not noticed this thread until just now?! It is absolutely perfect for me! I will be checking in tonight with my daily log. It's kinda cool to see what everyone else is chowing down on.

I've been eating late at night due to writing until 4 or 5 am, so I've been eating snacks that aren't in my accountability posts earlier. This is me being super accountable: each of those days included another 100 cal of a late night snack, so about 1200-1250 between "bedtimes."

Today has been & will continue to be risky. It's true that when you're sleep-deprived (I only slept for 4 hrs) you eat constantly. I'll be relieved if I just stay at/below 122 from now until March 9th, when this thesis is finally over...

B: 2 Suzie's spelt & flax cakes, topped with lox/red onion and egg whites/refried beans; almost 1 cup cantaloupe; Starbucks doubleshot. 310 cal.
L: Tomato basil grilled chicken on 2 cups raw spinach with a bit of red onion and 6 oz steamed green beans, dressed with a tbsp of red wine vinegar. 230 cal.
S: I really regret this: a tablespoon of granola, half a banana. Not filling at all. 170 cal.
D: 1/2 cup chicken risotto, 3/4 cup steamed broccoli, a spoonful each of tomato sauce and black bean soup for topping. 210 cal.
S2: Clif mini, blueberry. 100cal.
S3, after midnight: 2 more Suzie's cakes, 4 tbsp 3-layer hummus, 1 tbsp salsa. 140 cal.

Took a nap after class ended at 8:30 pm instead of reaching for food, though I made myself a decadent trail mix that I then let sit at my desk -- I'm becoming quite a hoarder. Just woke up and took a Clif mini. Can't decide whether I'd rather sleep or work for a few hours before trying to sleep again... hedging by working in bed with my laptop on my knees. Today might work out alright after all.

Total: 1,1170. Hopefully I won't eat any more today.

Lackadaisy, your day looks great!

Here is my today...I tried to get a good balance of carbs/protein but alas, I've been starving all day. Dinner didn't even begin to fill me up and it's not even 6 pm here. Sigh.

Breakfast - 7 AM (430): 1/2 a bagel (estimated at 200 calories), 1/2 T of margarine (50), 1 cup of raspberries/blackberries (60 calories) with 1/3 of a cup vanilla almond milk (30), 2 cups of tea with almond milk (90).

Lunch - 11 AM (445): sandwich of 3 slices tofurky (60), 10 green olives (50), herb mix (10), mock chopped liver (estimated at 150 calories?), roll (175)

Snack - 3:30 pm (86): Small apple (50) and 6 almonds (36).

Dinner - 5:30 pm (400): 2 eggs over easy (160), 1 slice whole wheat bread (90), 1 slice tofurkey (20), 4 brown rice crackers (60), hummus (70)

Approximately 1361 calories.

Calories counting is such a pain in the butt, but I know it's useful, I just find it so tedious. I get the info from the packages but also online for the ones without packaging


B: 2 Weetabix, 1/2 cup light vanilla soy milk, 1 banana (130, 35, 172)

S: 1 cup strawberries (53)

L: 2 piece of whole grain bread, 1 slice of Swiss cheese, 2 slices tomato, small amount of lettuce, Boca burger, 2 tblsps light mayo & a small Macintosh apple (140, 60, 80, 30, 80) -didn't count calories for the lettuce and tomato

S: 1/4 cup sunflower seeds (190), 2 tblsps homemade hummus with 1/2 cup red bell pepper (62,15)

D: 2 cups spinach, 1/2 cup cherry tomato, 1/2 cup black beans, 2 egg whites, 2 tblsps low fat Italian dressing (14, 13, 110, 34 ,15)

Roughly 1233 cals total and I'm done eating for the day.

Drank 10 glasses of water so far

Walked dog for an hour, ran 4 miles, did 30 mins of crosstrainer (said I burned 356 cals) and did one hour of vinyasa yoga.

Today has been pretty rad:
B: Mango
L: a small cup of wanton soup sans meat, a small cup of vermicelli noodles with vegetables
D: homemade tuna salad over lettuce
Snacks: Wasabi peas, 2 squares of dark chocolate

I discovered ZERO CALORIE DESSERTS today. HUGE (think 2-3 Jello fruit cups) portions that take a while to eat and have chunks of "mystery fruit" in them, giving you something to chew. Agreeable fake-sugar flavor. My life has changed forever.

Today I said "to **** with it" and started March off right.

B: yogurt (56), oatmeal (100)

L: special occasion bento box, packed half away immediately to save for another day, + apple. gonna say 800 since I can't be sure on the bento calorie count.

S: generic Soyjoy bar (137)

D: 1 "head" spinach, 1 pack shiitakes, 100-130g (not sure exactly) of lean chicken breast cooked lightly in sesame oil, 1 string cheese, 1 zero calorie jello, 3 small strawberries (~400 if that)

Total calorie count: just about 1500

For exercise I did a Tae Bo Cardio DVD, 50 pushups, 100 crunches, and planks.

Funny enough, today was graduation day at my HS and I totally spazzed and forgot there was an after party. I really don't like work parties AT ALL so I was really happy to miss out on the inevitable being bored listening to the principal's speeches, drinking myself stupid and overeating.

Breakfast: 1 morning glory muffin, 1 egg sunny-side up

Lunch: Medium-sized Greek salad- feta cheese, cucumbers, red bell peppers, green bell peppers, lettuce, 3 tsp vinaigrette

Dinner: 1 cup pureed cauliflower (made with skim milk, a tiny bit of olive oil, way too much salt and garlic... blah), 4 tbs hummus, 1 large carrot, 1/2 pomegranate

Beverages: 2 cups coffee with a splash of milk and 1 packet brown sugar each, 2 cups masala chai tea with splash of milk and 2 packets brown sugar each. (I know... STILL a lot of sugar. Drinking coffee/tea nonstop today because was at a coffee shop all day working on my reports due this evening. Hopefully will cut out tomorrow.)

Total: 1317
Exercise: 0
Net: 1317

Things to work on: cutting back on sugar, upping protein
Things I'm happy about: No grazing!!!!!!!! Lots of veggies