coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
ww bun with scrambled egg sub., lite cream cheese

sm. cup lentil soup
veggie-pita salad [a warm pita with salad on top, lots of vegs, feta, and vinaigrette]
[at A Greek restaurant]

almond cookie

2 1/2 slices pizza [onion and spinach----had this at a little Italian place festooned with those rubber grapes--I love those!]
black and white cookie [as big as my face!!!]
afew chocolate covered cashews

calories: I shudder to imagine....
exercise: none

Friday
slimfast shake
banana
2 viactivs
half rye bagel (good size) w/peanut butter
2 carrots
1/2 cup serving Healthy Choice peanut butter cup ice cream
(seeing a trend here? Ok so it was a bit more than a
1/2 cup - came to about 150 calories)
3/4 cup Kashi Strawberry Fields (dry)
scrambled eggs (2) w/onion bagel and margarine!!!!
Slim a bear
pretzel stix

30 minute walk in the chill and the mist that passes for our sunshine these days.

Friday:
Aerobic exercise: walk 45 mins
Flexibility exercise: -
Strength training: N/A (3 times a week)
Energy work: -
Eat only at table when alone:10
Eat only when hungry: 10
80+ ounces of water: 8
No white stuff: 10
Vitamins: 10
Meditate: oops.
Journal: oops.
Fun: 8
Socialize: 5
Prayer: 7
9 fruits/veggies: 10
Small triumph: Went to a campaign launch and totally avoided the food. Had an impulse toward it, but realized that I didn't even WANT to eat. Thinking I would have eaten other times, without consulting self as to whether I wanted to eat or not. Habit!

Saturday so far

cereal (mix of two kinds of kashi and some Cheerios) w/2% milk
grilled cheese
pear
2 /viactivs
1 svg plus one teaspoon of Healthy Choice pb ic
1/2 svg pretzel stix
1 very small steak sandwich
3 tablespoons rice mix
broccoli slaw w/ Gr dressing
apple
slimfast meal bar
1 cremesaver

Can you tell I was mealmaking for two totlets and a restricted menu guy? I picked and chose between. Don't normally make the rice mix but it did taste good for a change.

Ok, I give....
I joined a weekend journal challenge so at least I can be honest

Breakfast:

1 boca burger: 2pts
2 homemade wheat bread: 2pts
4pts
Lunch:

2 wheat bread :1
1 slice swiss cheese: 1 (?)
1 tofu/burger ( made at the restaraunt) 2
pt for Russian dressing 1
Sauerkraut is 00000000 points 5pts 9pts

AND TADA !! I poured ketchup all over the potato chips ... I dislike ketchup so I didn't want the chips after that!

and I give myself 2 pts for lots of walking today....even talked DH out of using the pharmacy drive thru ( can you imagine! I told him that was for mothers w/ sick children or for sick people ...)

Breakfast:

1 boca burger: 2pts
2 homemade wheat bread: 2pts
4pts
Lunch:

2 wheat bread :1
1 slice swiss cheese: 1 (?)
1 tofu/burger ( made at the restaraunt) 2
pt for Russian dressing 1
Sauerkraut is 00000000 points 5pts

9pts


supper

romaine lettuce salad w/ cherry tomatoes, peppers, garlic, 1 tsp feta cheese
Wishbone no fat Red Wine Vinegar Dresssing ( I call it 2 pts but I think
that's too much)
1.5 cup of WW pasta 4 pts
1/2 cup peas 1 pt
1/2 cup cottage cheese 1.5
Tomato sauce 00000000
Tvp 1/4 cup .5 7pts 18


1 cup no fat sf yogurt 2
1/2 cup rasberries
1/2 cup blackberries 1 3pts 21


Think I'll do the yorgurt one more time......
or maybe not.....

Well, I had hard drive and/or server problems and couldn't get on here yesterday and as a result fell off the EFL wagon and went hog wild and I couldn't even tell you what I ate. Will post my weigh-in (probably will be up) and start journaling and posting menus again tomorrow!!! Exercise Friday was 110 minutes (10 recument bike, 10 60 weights w/trainer and a 30-minute walk in evening). Today was a wimpy 10 minutes of yoga in a deserted newsroom between interviews ... I won't make my 400 minutes of exercise, but it's close.

I know we're not really replying to each other on this thread but feel I should contribute since my journaling went away for awhile, so forgive me!

Everyone's doing great and posting away. Kaylets, it'll be great to have thee journaling with us at least on the weekends (though seeing thee here every day would be best for us IMO) ... :roflmao: at pouring ketchup on the chips!!!

Arabella: Huzzah on the campaign lunch and also the good handling of flexpoints!!!

Anagram: Mixing the kashi w/Cheerios sounds delicious! I need to try that! Oh dear, though, do they have pb cup Healthy Choice? I'm dead! Going to have to find that and bring some home for my EFL free day ... which is going to be Sunday even if I have been off the wagon.

Eydie, thank heavens someone else doesn't know how many calories they had recently ... I feel better!

Ceara: Congratulations on thy really great day Friday (or Thursday, anyway it was the stew day) ... do you have a recipe for the stew? That sounds so good ...

s, I'm really going to get going on posting daily to this thread. The combination not only of journaling but reporting in to a group on my menus has obviously helped me a lot ... the evidence being that when I couldn't get on, I just mentally went away and started the recreational eating and the stuffing down of my emotions with too much unhealthy food again. It only took a few hours before I lost the feeling of being connected with this journaling group and started wandering alone in the food universe.

Hopefully we'll be able to keep this thread going ... and hopefully anyone who feels it's getting too long will just jump in and start a new one and hopefully we'll even get more s (or neighbors) in here.

IN FUTURE, I PLEDGE TO RETURN TO JUST JOURNALING AND WILL NOT PONTIFICATE AND RAMBLE ON MUCH!

Later ...

Sis boom bah!

Yes, Empress, they really do and it is sinfully delicious at 120 calories a half cup serving. I always seem to need the additional teaspoon from the carton after I've filled my dish - that always seems so extra tasty.

Find it hard to get in that flavor sometimes, in fact I got last one this time. It was on sale though ($3.99) and pretty picked over. Has really helped my pb craving. And has more calcium than the pb eggs.

Sunday

1 whole wheat bread - 1
1/2 cup no fat sf yogurt -1 2

brunch....

3oz tofu burger 2
tofu burger mix .5
saurkraut, mustard, 0000000
1 whole wheat bread 1 3.5 5.5

guess that explains why I'm out of sorts and dragging....much less guess what just showed up!! guess this month I will have the breakouts, bloating AND the flow....wonder what tomorrow's wi will look like?? ah well, at least I know its on schedule!

Sunday

cereal w2% milk

lowfat yogurt (cappucino)
Slimfast Shake (cappucino delite)
(guess today's trend)

red beets
about two tbsps rice mixture from yesterday
2 viactivs

steak strips, rice, stir fried veggies

There will be either pbcup ic or a slim a bear yet, I'm sure.

At least that's the plan.

Exercise - up and down a zillion steps - nothing formal

NSV - sent home the remaining brownies that girls and I baked last night to celebrate anniversary - only one crumb passed my lips and that was instinct only.

Good luck on the pb Healthy Choice, Empress.

Hokay - Monday

Oatmeal w/2% milk
Broccoli slaw w/lite dressing and 1 oz cheddar
Half English muffin w/ abt half tspn apricot jam
2 viactivs
orange

chicken breast (half)
faux french fries (potato strips tossed w/lite salad dressing and baked in oven
green beans
canned peaches

slim a bear

Will probably yet have a serving of pretzel stix - I also had a half serving last night which I forgot to add to yesterday's menu.

Weekedn was a complete disaster, but back this Monday and better than ever:

tofu scrable for breakfast with tahini toast
lunch of cous cous and half a swiss creese sandwich with loads o veggies
coffee