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OK, wanted to get started while the momentum was there! All I've had today was a big bowl of vegetarian split pea soup for lunch...more later!

Later...

Dinner:
2 Tamari patties
Steamed (frozen) broccoli with some mozzarella on top

Grazing...
2 pieces grilled salmon sushi
banana

Big downfall/evening snack...
4 pieces toast with honey

Breakfast:
1/2 of a fair-sized bagel - 3pts
2 tsp Smuckers No Sugar jam - 0 pts
TEA that I walked to the corner store to buy!!!

Lunch:
3 oz water packed tuna - 2 pts? I don't feel like looking it up.
1 tbsp FF mayo - 1 pt
1/2 Claussen Kosher dill pickle chopped and mixed in - 0 pts
2 regular bread, toasted - 4pts

Dinner:
Shepherd's pie planned

Had one piece (4x4"), figure it worked out to about 6 points. (Extra lean ground beef, gravy from a mix, instant potatoes, frozen veggies...told you I was low on groceries!)

So I'm at approx. 16 points today. Kinda low...guess I'll have a cup of tea and a few crackers or something later.

Ew, today won't be pretty since I'm sick...
I'm following a loose version of WW (I worked there for 3 years - I know how it works well enough to be creative).

Breakfast: 1/2 banana (1pt) and 1/2 a cuppa mint tea (0)

Lunch: Most likely a bowl of mashed potatoes (4ish pts) and some butter (2pts)

Dinner: Who knows at this point. I can pretty much promise it will be bland and soft though! Currently I'm thinking it'll be rice with cream of mushroom soup in it...

I should feel better tomarrow I hope

Terri

Here's what's on the menu for Wednesday!

Breakfast:
1/2 banana (1pt)
Slim Fast shake (3pts and GROSS - I think these things are outta here!)
1 Yoplait ff yogurt (2pts)

Lunch:
2pc sourdough bread (2pts)
light lunch meat (1pt)
REAL cheddar!!! (3pts)
salad w/ dressing (2pts)

Shnack:
Totsie pop! 1pt

Dinner:
Polenta (3pts)
grilled veggies(0pts)

Ok, need to plan more for dinner 'cuz I'm only up to 18 points. I need about 10 more to make it "good" for the day.

Off to drink my oodles of water now!

Terri

Ok, here I am too.

Tuesday:

1 grapefruit - 2
2 bran toasts - 1
3 egg whites - 1
yogurt - 1

Rice thing from the night before - 4
Salad - 1
yogurt - 1

popcorn - 2

tons of miso soup for supper - 3 ?

one glass wine - 3

Wednesday:

1` grapefruit - 2
4 melba toasts - 2?
1/4 c hummus - 3?
(lost my WW points book!)

Later:

Miso soup for lunch - 2?

Salmon patties for supper - 5
Salad or swiss chard - 1 or 0
Oven baked 'fries' - 4?

Snack?

we'll see.

Breakfast:
1 tea biscuit - 3pts
1 tsp butter - 1pt
Smuckers No Sugar Jam, 2 tsp = 0pts

Lunch:
Leftover Shepherd's pie - 4pts
1 cookie - 3pts

Dinner:

Well, I have a max of 27 pts, used 11, so that leaves 16 for dinner. We're having pizza. I'm going to have 2 slices of veggie pizza and call it a night.

I didn't end up having a snack last night, so it should all even out in the end.

Ooooooooohhhhhhhh....I don't even want to talk about what I ate today...What I ate? What didn't I eat? Let me try to remember everything...
1 egg cracked over sliced onions sauted in a little olive oil
2 slices whole grain toast w/butter and (the evil bear strikes again) honey
Bowl of Kashi with raspberries and skim milk
4 pcs grilled salmon sushi
2 more slices whole grain toast, this time with PEANUT butter and honey
Baked potato chips dipped in hummus

I'm still stuffed...but I did make a delicious and healthy carrot-parsley salad today, so if I eat anything later it'll be that.

Who votes for deporting the honey bear?


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February 7: Just as a note...I actually didn't eat anything the rest of the day. I actually limited myself to the 10,000 calories I had already eaten .

Oh Punkinseed, I meant to ask you, how do you prepare your polenta? I've only ever made it fried -- greasy and high fat, high calorie -- or more dietetic, like an eggplant parm, baked with low-fat mozzarella and sauce on top. I like it, though, so I'm curious to know what else can be done with it (and I have a package in my fridge that needs to be cooked soon).

Ruthie - To cook my polenta I use olive oil spray and my wonderful Wearever non-stick pans. I use just enough to give them a little crunch, but not slather the pan. I buy the kind that's already made and in really firm "logs" so it's just slice n' brown them a little.

Ok, food for the day...

Breakfast:
2 pc cracked wheat sourdough (yea Trader Joes!!!) (2pt)
butter (2pts)
cottage cheese (2 pts)
green tea with ginsing!!! Woooo! WHO NEEDS CAFFEINE????

Lunch:
homemade chicken noodle soup (6pts)
pretzles (2pts)
left over grilled veggies from last night (0)

Schnack:
bananananananana (2pts)

Dinner:
Sloopy Joes!!!
Meat n' sauce (6pts)
roll (2pts)
fries (2pts)
salad w/ dressing (1pt)

27 points... still need 1 more to be at the bottom of my range. I have FF pudding - guess I'll have a little something after dinner (if I remember). Isn't that amazing??? If I REMEMBER???? Like I'd ever see a day I didn't remember to eat.... LOL!

Breakfast:
Bagel with little bit of jam

Lunch:
Carrot-parsley salad
Tofu scramble
Banana

Afternoon and I felt starving, went to the vending machine:
Bag of Famous Amos cookies

Went out to dinner with DD:
Pickle
Onion soup
Salmon with some dill sauce
Little bit of mashed potatoes
Steamed broccoli

I'M STUFFED!

Ok, here's the nosh-fest scheduled for today!

Breakfast:
more TJ cracked wheat sourdough toast (ok, I need to get off this stuff!) 2pt
butter 2pt
yogurt 2pt

Schnacks (morning and afternoon):
apple 1pt
popcorn 3pt

Lunch:
baked potato 3pt
ff sour cream 1pt
butter spray 0pt
taco soup 2pt
salad 1pt

Dinner:
boca burger 1pt
bun 2pt
cheese 3pt
grilled veggies 0pt

23 points. The lowest end of my range is 28 - no wonder I'm not loosing weight. I looked at my journal and all week I've been 1-3 points UNDER my minimum. Add to that my short illness Tuesday where I ate maybe 10 points... ick. Well, this weekend I have some good meals planned.

Lunch:
Carrot-parsley salad
Tofu scramble
1 Veggie whole wheat egg roll

Dinner:
2 small slices nine-bean loaf
Garlic green beans
~15 broiled (frozen) French fries
~16 oz. orange juice

Grazing...
A few low-fat cheese cubes
2 slices whole wheat toast with butter and honey (only 2 slices ... that's actually an improvement )

"Brunch"

2 eggs - 4pts
3 slices bacon - 3pts
2 toast - 4pts
Smuckers No Sugar jam - 0pts
tea
small glass OJ - 1pt

Haven't thought about dinner yet. I'll be back to update later.

Edit: Fell asleep around 8pm, woke up at midnight. Didn't have dinner. Ate a sesame bagel (5pts) with 2 tsp. LF peanut butter (2pts) around 2:30am.

Lunch:
3 thin eggplant cutlets and cream cheese sandwich on whole grain bread
Tabboule

Snack:
2 slices organic white toast with butter and honey (the honey's almost gone)

Dinner (restaurant):
Tomato, onion and mozzarella salad
Couple small slices Italian bread
Ravioli parmigiana