Yay, I'm starting the thread this week!

B - muesli, milk
S - apple
L - spinach, chicken w/walnut sauce, green beans
S - minneola, yogurt
D - fontina and parmesan bread pudding
S - apple sauce
Total - 1389
Exercise - none, I was a bum

Another week!

Monday

B - Trader Joe's fat free Greek yogurt with honey, about 3/4 cup of frozen wild blueberries I let defrost a little (cutting back, not buying fresh until they are reasonably priced again!)

L - I made asian chicken salads for this week. Very crisp baby spinach, purple cabbage, shredded carrot, mandarin oranges, sliced water chestnuts, edamame, grilled chicken, a little wontons for the top for crunch. Trader Joe's spicy asian peanut dressing (70 calories per serving, I'm going to take a measuring spoon to work to make sure I don't use too much, it's delicious stuff and goes great on this salad!)

S - tangelo

S - little container of dill pickles, string cheese

D - home made meatloaf with extra lean beef, asparagus, baked sweet potato.

Another week! We can put last week behind us...which is GOOD, because apparently, I haven't solved that whole "stress-eating" bit quite as well as I'd hoped! But our houseguests are gone, my fridge is stocked, and I'm ready to go.

B - 3 egg whites scrambled w/ broccoli, turkey bacon, and salsa, double fiber english muffin
S - Apple, laughing cow
L - Leftover Chicken Chili w/ beans and tons of veggies
S - Yogurt w/ berries
S - Popcorn
D - Roasted pork tenderloin, sauteed cabbage, wild rice and bean pilaf blend (kind of excited...picked it up in the store so it's easy, but it is organic and pretty low in sodium for a pre-packed mix).
S - NSA Ice Cream Bar

E - 45 min Tae Bo, 40 min Biggest Loser Cardio, possibly a 30DS with Sarah tonight.

I've been suffering from intermittent internet outages here today. I posted earlier, but it didn't "take".

E~60 minutes on the treadmill (4 miles, 540 calories burned)
B~Rice chex with banana and ff milk (245)
S~apple (100)
L~Soup (120), crackers (240), clementine (35)
S~yogurt (70)
S~grapefruit (80) or peapods and carrots (45)
D~egg white egg "mcmuffins" on ww (250-ish), hash brown (100-ish), melon (50-100 depending on how much I eat)
S~ff, sf pudding (25)

Today:
Exercise - planning to run on the way home, even if snow flurries are falling!

B: Smoothie, coffee
S: string cheese
L: don't know yet - still haven't eaten.... at one of the restaurants doing payroll, so will probably grab a salad somewhere when I leave here
S: almonds, granola bar from my purse if I'm still out, kashi go lean if I get back to my office
D: ground turkey tacos
S: breyers light ice cream sandwich

I'm still feeling squishy from yesterday's sugar-pa-looza.

Yay, Shannon! We'll make a northerner out of you yet.

B - cheerios w/walnuts, 1/2 banana, skim milk; toast;
S - ff latte; 1/2 egg salad sandwich on ww
L - homemade chili (7% ground beef) with added zucchini, rice
S - orange
D - some sort of leftovers from the weekend, won't be home til late

E - 30-40 min treadmill or elliptical between work and 7 pm meeting

I ran too! 2.75 miles on the treadmill, burned 260 calories (according to the treadmill, which I take with a grain of salt). I ran for 8 minutes straight - a personal best! 40 minutes of workout total. I also ran at 5.5 for a song, which is another personal best (I normally alternate walking at 4.0 with jogging at 4.5 and running at 5.0).

I also went DURING work. My company has a nice little gym downstairs. I went at 3 - completely deserted (as a note, it's packed at 5). I worked out for 40 minutes, took a quick shower, I was away for my desk for about an hour. It was pretty great!

Alright, today was MOSTLY OP...had to add an extra two snacks due to actual (not head) hunger, but they WERE healthy snacks.

Planning for tomorrow:

B - 3 scrambled egg whites w/ broccoli, turkey bacon, and salsa, toasted english muffin
S - Asian pear w/ laughing cow
L - Leftover pork tenderloin, tuscan beans and rice pilaf, sauteed cabbage
S - Popcorn
S - Yogurt w/ frozen berries
D - Shrimp stirfry w/ tons of veggies, brown and wild rice.
S - NSA Ice Cream Bar

E - 50-60 minutes step cardio, 60 min strength training

Tuesday

B - Trader Joe's fat free Greek yogurt with honey, about 3/4 cup of frozen wild blueberries I let defrost a little (cutting back, not buying fresh until they are reasonably priced again!)

L - I made asian chicken salads for this week. Very crisp baby spinach, purple cabbage, shredded carrot, mandarin oranges, sliced water chestnuts, edamame, grilled chicken, a little wontons for the top for crunch. Trader Joe's spicy asian peanut dressing (70 calories per serving, I'm going to take a measuring spoon to work to make sure I don't use too much, it's delicious stuff and goes great on this salad!)

S - tangelo (did I mention how much loooove tangelo season?)

S - little container of dill pickles, string cheese

D - I realized the broccoli I bought to eat with dinner tomorrow wasn't looking like it would make it, so I swapped dinners. We're having Amanda's baked parmesan chicken. I'm having mine over 1/2 spaghetti squash with broccoli. I already typed out all the stuff for pizza, so I'm going to leave it so I can cut and paste it into dinner for tomorrow.

*change until Wednesday probably* - making home made pizza. Boboli whole wheat crust, spicy marinara sauce, spinach leaves, kalamata, pepperocini, red onions, sun dried tomato a little fat free feta. I will eat about 1/3 of the pizza - about 500 calories.

Back from Colorado, where I made horrendous food choices and proved to myself once again that the part of me that eats junk just cause I am bored, uncomfortable, overly hungry, cause it's there, cause I deserve it, cause it's a vacation, etc., and the part of me that should be the "full switch" is totally busted, and the part of me that breaks my rules (no eating from the kids' plates INCLUDES not finishing your nephew's Belgian waffles!)----those parts of me are NOT gone, no matter how fabulously in control and on plan I have been for the last couple of weeks.

Thank goodness for routines!

Of course I am sick now. Have been fighting it for a few days, but cold, travel, lack of sleep, (poor nutrition?), have all collided and here it is.

So no early run for me today. Hot tea instead.

Protein pancakes
yogurt, fruit
pbj sandwich, cottage cheese, blueberries
red bell pepper strips, hardboiled eggs
1 hr weightlifting
protein shake
ground turkey over veggies

Mostly OP yesterday, no change in the scale.

E~45 minutes treadmill, 3.4 miles, 450 calories burned
B~TJ's chorizo and egg crustless quiche (190)
S~banana (100)
L~leftover casserole from Cooking Light (200), sourdough bread (100), clementine (35)
S~yogurt (70)
D~tuna casserole from Cooking Light (350), peas (100)
S~sf, ff pudding (25)

Hey Midwife - I totally have the same experiences when I travel. I know that I am always one peanut M&M from a total melt down!!

Thank god for routines!

Glory - I wish my office had a gym. Instead, it has onion rings and apple pie! We do have a shower up here for some reason, so I'm thinking about talking to my boss about running midday sometimes and coming back and showering when I'm done.

Midwife - I do the same thing on vacation...I feel like it is okay to eat because vacation doesn't count... Hope you feel better!

Yesterday ended up mostly OP - I had an ice cream sandwich for snack last night instead of whatever I had planned. I feel like I'm retaining some water today, but my legs are sore so I'm not surprised.

Exercise - no run like I had planned - legs are a little sore from last night, so figure they need a break. Planning to do some yoga when I get home while DH and friend move exercise equipment from upstairs guest room to garage.

B: smoothie, coffee
S: string cheese
L: I threw romaine lettuce, shredded carrots, small amount of shredded cheese and the leftover cuban flank steak topped with salsa into a bowl and brought with me today. If it turns out to be terrible I'll go back to my grilled chicken sandwich standby.
S: apple
S: Kashi Go Lean
D: turkey sausage over rice
S: hmm.. I should be honest with myself, probably the last ice cream sandwich in the box.

LOL - I had an OP day, so of course I gained 3 lbs of water over night. Because that is apparently what my body does.

I will not give up. I will not eat in "tantrum mode".

Amanda~I had a totally OP day after three less than perfect days. I seriously thought I'd see a dip from the 3 pound weekend gain, but no, nothing.

I'm starting to think I ought to count Fridays as my weigh in day rather than Monday. Ugh.