Friday 7/9

Breakfast
Small "Hangover Over" smoothie from Planet Smoothie

Lunch
Lean cuisine (the chicken and mini-lasagna one)

Snack
Soy chips
Grapes (1/2 - 3/4 cup?)
Cheese (4 cubes, about 1/2 oz)

Dinner
Grilled chicken garden salad from BK, with the croutons and sweet onion dressing

Midnight snack
2 low fat perogies
1/2 T (more or less) Parkay

Saturday 7/10

Breakfast
Oatmeal
Veggie breakfast patty

Lunch
Boca burger 'pizza flavor'
English muffin
2% cheese slice
Ketchup

Snack
Small chocolate sundae from DQ

Dinner
Bean Thing (*)
Mexican rice (basically rice with seasoning and a can of chopped tomatoes, 1/2T Parkay per serving)

(*)Bean Thing: Chop up an onion, green pepper, red pepper. Saute with garlic in olive oil. Add 1 jar salsa, 1 can red beans (drained), 1 can black beans (drained). Add 'sazon goya' spice. Stir. Simmer half an hour. Serve over rice, in a burrito, on English muffins for pizza, on a potato, etc. Makes a ton.

Hi, I'm back! I had a wonderful vacation. Now time to eat right again.

sunday 7/11

breakfast
hot choc = 3
oatmeal = 2
sugar = .5

brunch
eggs = 4
bread = 1
bacon = 2

snack
cheese = 3

dinner
salad = 0
w/chicken, cheese,egg = 6
roll = 3

snack
hot choc = 3

daily total = 27.5
3.5 over

Rabbit: what do you end up eating while on vacation? Do you still journal?

Sunday 7/11

Breakfast
1/3 cup egg beaters, 2% cheese slice, english muffin, veggie breakfast patty, parkay on the muffin sandwich

Lunch
Scoop of Bean Thing and scoop of Mexican rice wrapped up in a 10" fajita shell

Snack
1 cup strawberries
Single-serving pop bag of buttery popcorn (~200 calories)
1 oz peanuts

Dinner
Lean cuisine meal (chicken and veggies, less than 200 calories)
Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, LF honey mustard dressing
1 oz LF cheese, croutons

Snacking
Handful of peanuts

For some reason I just ate and ate and ate today, but I mostly made sure it was semi-healthy things, at least. I don't know why I was so hungry, maybe I just was. Or maybe it's because I'm weaning myself off caffeine.

Scuttle - no, I did not journal while on vacation and I should have! Luckily I got a 'skinny post daily' about vacation today that made me feel lots better.

monday 7/12

exercise
40 min weights, abs
60 min tennis

breakfast
oatmeal = 2
sugar = .5
egg = 2

snack
banana = 2

lunch
salad (w/chicken, cheese,egg) = 6
cheese = 3

snack
hot choc = 3

dinner
turkey = 2
bun = 1
brocolli = 0
potato = 4
cheese = 2

snack
ice cream = 5

daily total = 32.5
8.5 over

Okay. I'm frustrated at journaling. I've eaten a ton for emotional reasons and it just seems silly to record all the food I've eaten, but anyway.

Monday 7/12

Breakfast
Breakfast sandwich (Eng muffin, bit of Parkay, veggie breakfast patty, egg beaters, 2% cheese slice)

Lunch
Medium smoothie (Hangover Over from Planet Smoothie)

Snack
1 oz cheese
4 oz LF yogurt mousse-style

Dinner
Huge steak fajita (homemade, about 1/4 pound steak, peppers and onions, sauteed in 1/2 T oil, on a 10" fajita, with about 1 oz 2% cheese and 2T light sour cream and some salsa)

(Now, at this point I'm pretty sure I was full but I had cravings and kept eating)
Munching
1-serving bag 'ultra butter' popcorn
1/2 oz peanuts
Hot fudge sundae from McDonald's

Scuttle - I'm right there with you on the overeating. I did it yesterday myself. Today I am back on track.

tuesday 7/13

exercise
60 min tennis

breakfast
oatmeal = 2
mixed berries = .5
sugar = .5
hb egg = 2

snack
1/2 powerade after tennis = 1

lunch
salad = 0
lf parm = 1
turkey = 1
hot choc = 3

snack
apple = 1

dinner
tettrazini = 8
corn = 1

snack
hot choc = 3

daily total = 24 (perfect!)

Tuesday 7/13

Another bad day. And Wednesday isn't much better. Okay, it'll be better when I get off this business trip and 16-hour workdays locked in a room with food shoved iin periodically!

Breakfast
Oatmeal
Veggie breakfast patty

Lunch
Turkey on rye bread, with mustard, tomato, and thin slice of swiss cheese
1/2 cup potato salad
1/2 cup cole slaw
1 1/2 chocolate frosted brownies (3" by 4" rectangles)

Dinner
Cheeseburger with mayo
Too many fries

Wednesday 7/14

Okay, this is all psychological now. There were plenty of healthy choices but I'm just feeling like I've blown things the past few days, I might as well continue. Ugh.

Breakfast
Cinnamon roll

Lunch
Portobello mushroom burrito (fairly small, or at least, not huge) with a dab of sour cream
1 brownie

Snack
1 cookie

Dinner
Horrible ceasar chicken salad -- only ate a little of the dressing-drenched leaves and the chicken

Snack
1 - 1.5 oz peanuts

And to continue the trend of tempting foods, they're catering lunch tomorrow at work. I've decided that if I have to work to eat treats I won't, because I don't keep them in the house. But if someone sets them in front of me, man, I'll scarf them down. I have the willpower of a gnat...

Ta da! Yesterday I had a perfect day and got myself back on track after vacation. The first couple of days were hard, but I can do it now.

Scuttle - hope you can get yourself straightened out!

wednesday 7/14

exercise
45 min weights, abs
30 min bike

breakfast
oatmeal = 2
sugar = .5
mixed berries = .5
hb egg = 2

lunch
salad = 0
lf parm = 1
turkey = 1
hot choc = 3

snack
peach = 1

dinner
fish = 3
bun = 2
tomatoes = 0
corn = 1

snack
triscuits = 3
hot choc = 3
peach = 1

daily total = 24

thursday 7/14

exercise
1 hour tennis

breakfast
oatmeal = 2
sugar = .5
blueberries = .5
hb egg = 2

lunch
salad = 0
lf parm = 1
turkey = 1
hot choc = 3

dinner
tettrazini = 8
corn = 1
peach = 1

snack
hot choc = 3
ice cream = 4

daily total = 27 (over 3)

Aha! Better. We still had pizza lunch and sorry, 1 slice doesn't satisfy me for lunch. And there was birthday cake, but I asked for a smaller slice than what I got which was more normal-sized, and just ate less of it. That's a personal victory for me.

Edited to add: And there was the late-night grazing.

Thursday 7/14

Breakfast
Oatmeal
Veggie breakfast patty

Snack
1 serving soy chips

Lunch
2 slices of Papa John's large veggie supreme pizza, original crust
Small slice of birthday cake

Dinner
Cup of vegetable soup
Sourdough roll

Late night grazing
Single serving bag of full fat popcorn
1 oz peanuts (probably less, I think I'm getting more than 6 servings from this can)