Please join in and post your food and exercise logs!

Monday 3/17
B - multigrain hot cereal (150) w/brown sugar (30), milk (85)
S - two clementines (60)
L - lean cuisine sesame chicken (330)
S - apple (80), yogurt (150)
D - gnocchi with turkey ragu (317), salad (15) w/lf dressing (40)
S - full fat cherry vanilla yogurt (180)
Total - 1437
Exercise - 15 min bike@lunch, 30 min stair climber intervals, 5 min cooldown walk

Tuesday 3/18
B - raisin bran (200) w/skim milk (65)
S - banana (105), clementine (30)
L - leftover gnocchi turkey stuff (317)
S - clementine (30), apple (80), yogurt (150)
D - zucchini sausage casserole (568 for 2 servings)
S - oatmeal (150)
Total - 1695
Exercise - 15 min bike@lunch

Wednesday 3/19
B - raisin bran (200) w/skim milk (65)
S - banana (105), clementine (30)
L - leftover zucch. casserole (300-ish)
S - apple (80), yogurt (150), one piece of sheet cake (200)
D - ww ravioli and tortellini (450-ish), sauce (60), asparagus (20), salad (15) w/dressing (40)
S - strawberries (50)
Total - 1765
Exercise - 15 min bike@lunch, 30 min walk, 10 min abs

Thursday 3/20
B - raisin bran (200) w/skim milk (65)
S - carrot sticks (40)
L - leftover tortellini, asparagus, sauce (350-ish)
S - apple (80), yogurt (150)
D - "stuff in the closet" stew (beef stock, barley, tomatoes, rice, potato, frozen veggies, butter beans) (370)
Total - 1255
Exercise - 15 min walk@lunch, 30 min gardening

Paperclippy I applaud you! You come in here day after day, driven and determined posting your eats. I admire you for that.

I also love how you post the caloric values to each of your foods... Thank you for doing that. I am a WW points gal livening up my program by comparing points and calories. Trust me when I say its been very enlightening.

You inspire me so very much. I pop in everyday to see how your doing and I tell myself... I'm going to join her. Then one thing leads to another and I end up waiting for a new week. Well you can see where thats gotten me. I really would love to join you.

I lost 64 pounds while living in the States last year. Which put me 6 pounds from Maintainance. YaY me! I returned to Austria regaining 7 of those pounds. Life style change, different foods, going from a busy waitress to a sahm. My activity level has dropped dramatically. ( I know thats my key and my struggle. ) For the past two and half months I have been holding my own not gaining anymore then the intial 7. I am more then ready to commit again and finally shed the last 13!

So would you like some extra company? Because I would love to be it.

Sincerely,

Sassy

Sassy, you are absolutely 100% welcome to join me! So is anyone else! I feel like kind of a dork posting a whole weekly thread by myself.

Not all my calorie counts are totally accurate, some are guesses. I get most of my numbers from fitday.com or calorie-count.com, or if my recipes list them, from there.

Friday 3/21
B - raisin bran (200) w/skim milk (65)
S - carrot sticks (40)
L - leftover stew (370)
S - apple (80), yogurt (150)
D - rice (150), chicken (100), peas (30), tub margarine (25)
S - raisin bran (200), strawberries (24), milk (65)
Total - 1499
Exercise - 15 min walk@lunch, 35 min elliptical intervals

If being so driven makes you a dork... Then I want to be a dork too!! Driven Dorks Determined to be Diva's... I'm in!!

My calorie counts come from either, Myfitnesspal.com ( a tracker like fitday that I find easier. ) , the food packages themselves, or Masterchef for my own recipes. If you dont have Masterchef or a program like it, I would be happy to run any recipes through for you.

Yesterday was not an A-typical day for me. With Easter preparations coupled with a family fun night at the bowling alley. It was pretty easy to sway off the normal eats.

Friday the 21st:

Breakfast:

Kelloggs - Special K, 1 cup(s) 110 (1pt)
Milk - Lowfat, 1% milkfat, 1 cup 102 (1.5pts)
Bananas - Raw, 1 large (8" to 8-7/8" long) 121 ( 2pts. )
Sugars - Granulated (sucrose), 2 tsp 33 (.5 pt)

Snack:

pb&honey tst, 1 meal 261 (4pts)

Lunch:

Turkey ham - Sliced, extra lean, prepackaged or deli-sliced, 25 g 30 (.5pts)
Mozzerella Cheese, Low Moisture, Part Skim, 1 oz 80 (2pts)
New York Style - Bagel Chips, 7 crisps 130 (3pts)
Fresh Raw - Cherry Tomatoes, 6 each 31 (0pts)

Dinner:

Pizza - Cheese Pizza Slice, 2 slice 302 (8pts)

Snack:

Thompson Seedles - Grapes - Red, Green - Seedless, 30 grapes 102 (3pts)

Cal Total: 1,302... Pts. Total: 25.5(( 24 points is my aim))

Exercise: 2 hours Bowling

Sassy - mmmm, pizza!

Saturday 3/22
B - raisin bran (200), skim milk (65)
L - lean cuisine sweet and sour chicken (300)
D - chicken and mushrooms in garlic white wine sauce (400), broccoli (30), glass of wine (60)
S - mini clif bar (100), ww toast (110) w/tub margarine (50)
Total - 1315
Exercise - 3 hours walking around museums and galleries, but it's not really exercise.

Oh I know! Children's choice that night. Had that pizza been at home though, it would of been topped with all sorts of veg.

I would consider your 3 hour cultural excursion exercise. You were moving and giving your eyes a visual treat! Most people do that with an IPOD for their ears. Same premise though, movement and mental stimulation to keep you moving for longer. 3 hours is a good stretch even if you did pause here and there.


Saturday the 22nd

Breakfast:

Kelloggs - Special K, 1 cup(s) 110 (1pt)
Milk - Lowfat, 1% milkfat, 1 cup 102 (1.5pts)
Bananas - Raw, 1 medium (7" to 7-7/8" long) 105 ( 2pts. )
Sugars - Granulated (sucrose), 2 tsp 33 (.5 pt)
Strawberries - Raw, 0.5 cup, halves 24 (.5pt)

Lunch:

Cream Of Wheat - Hot Cereal - 10 Minute, 3 tbsp (makes 1 cup) 120 (2pts)
Raisins - Golden seedless, 0.25 cup, packed 125 (2pts)
Sugars - Granulated (sucrose), 2 tsp 33 (.5pt)
Generic - Cinnamon, 1 tsp 6

Dinner:

Schnitzel, 100 grams 233 (5pts)
Squash - Zucchini, includes skin, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt, 1 cup, sliced 29
Potatoes - Boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, with salt, 1 cup 134 (3pts)
Milk - Lowfat, 1% milkfat, 8 fl oz 102
Canoleo - 100% Canola Margarine, 1 Tbs 100 (3pts)
Jams and preserves - Apricot, 1 tbsp 48 (1pt)

Snacks:

Grapes - Raw, 10 grape 16 (1pt)

Cal Total: 1,297... Pts. Total: 23

Exercise: 30 minute walk

Sunday 3/23
B - raisin bran (200) w/skim milk (65)
L - wrap with: 1 ww tortilla (210), 1/2 C mixed greens (3), 3 Tbsp salsa (5), 1/3 C rice (66), 1/4 C beans (55), 1.5 Tbsp cheddar (25), 1/2 a red bell pepper (20)
D - thai noodle salad (336)
S - half an orange (30), ww toast (110) w/honey (64), milk (85), 2 hamentaschen (255)
Total - 1529
Exercise - just some cleaning around the house

I cooked yesterday for the Holiday. Which is a good bad thing... Good because I get to choose what goes on the table. Bad when a major spread is due to on the table by 2:30-ish I dont eat before hand. ( Saving my calories/appetitite. Twisted thinking from years gone past. ) I kept telling myself no worries dinner is early enough I would snack later. But what wound up happening was that I ate one huge, albeit healthy meal...

Sunday the 23rd:

Spinach Salad W/ Strawberry Vinegarette, 1.5 cup 102 (1.5pts)

Turkey - Dark meat, cooked, roasted, 100 g 187 (3pts)
Green Beans, 1 1/2 cup 75
Red Potatoes - Boiled, cooked in skin, flesh, with salt, 0.5 cup 68 (1.5 pts)
Rolls - Dinner, plain, 1 roll 200 ( 3pts)
Milk - Lowfat, 1% milkfat, 8 fl oz 102 (2pts)
Strawberry torte. 1 slice 200 ( 3pts)
Cake - Pound, 0.5 piece (1/10 of cake) 58 (1pt)
(( My 13yr. old daughter baked it special... I hadda ))
Dove Chocolate - Milk Chocolate, 1 pieces 44 (2pts)
(( Okies didn't Have too... :lol ))

Cal Total: 1,036... Pts. Total: 17