Good Morning!
I'm watching a Indigo Bunting on my bird feeder as I'm typing this post, beautiful bird. Yesterday we had 8 bright yellow males and two female finches fighting to get on the finch feeder. I see the sweeties are back, I should purchase another feeder, mine only has 6 perches.

Thanks for the recipe Mickey, I have some frozen peaches in the freezer, I'll try the recipe with the cinnamon. Is there a cake brand that's lower in calories than others? Does anyone have a homemade recipe for cake using splenda? Oh, dummy me. The splenda site has lots of recipes, I'll check that out and let you know.


Friday's Journal

Calories... 1,202
Fiber... 62 grams
Water... 10 (8oz.) glasses
Exercise... Strength circuit at Fitness Center
Fun... Stopped by an old friends house for a short visit.

Menu
Breakfast:
Vitamins/Fish oils
Fiber One, dry
Pumpkin dessert with ff cool whip and Fiber One

Lunch:
Toasted Flat Out
Turkey breast (2oz)
lettuce

Snack: Frozen Chocolate dessert

Supper:
(Submarine sandwich)
low cal bun
3 oz. turkey breast
ff cheese slice
ff mayo
lettuce
Veggie dip with celery, radishes and cukes

Evening snack:
Kettle corn (100 cal)
8oz. skim milk
19 almonds
Hostess mini Applesauce cup cakes

We're going to my dad's 93rd birthday party this afternoon. I wanted something other that cake and ice cream but everyone thought that would be enough. Sooooooooooooooo, I'll skip the ice cream and maybe eat a small piece of cake and scrap off the frosting. Yuk! I hate frosting!

Have a good one, Bobbi

Tomorrow -

Fun - Going out to a restaurant and eating.

Diet & Exercise - Forget it.

Happy Mother's Day, Everyone.

Lynn

Lynn,
I agree...
NO Diet & Exercise!
Fun... What ever happens.
Had mine today with my kids. They work Sunday.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY GIRLS

Happy Mother's Day!

Saturday's Journal
Calories... 1,127 (I goofed, thought I had my 1200 calories in but after printing my menu this morning I noticed I counted my apple twice)
Fiber... 61 grams
Water... 12 (8oz.) glasses
Exercise...None
Fun... Went to my dad's 93rd birthday party and had a blast with cousins I see once a year. I just had coffee, skipped the cake and ice cream. I've worked too hard to eat junk that doesn't even appeal to me and it was fun to be able to let my will power control me.
Breakfast:
Vitamins/Fish Oils
Fiber One, dry
Apple

Lunch:
Turkey hot dog (40 cal)
Lt. hot dog bun
mustard/dill relish
Applesauce w/ff cool whip and Fiber One

Snack: Pumpkin Dessert w/ff cool whip & Fiber One

Supper:
Flat Out toasted with refried beans, salsa, tomatoes, ff cheese slice
and veggies
lettuce salad with Crab delights and Sesame Ginger dressing

Evening snack: Peach
8 oz. skim milk
5 almonds

Bobbi

Happy Mothers Day,

No diet today for me either. DH is grilling out a steak for Mothers Day dinner, we are off to church and lunch.

I totally forgot about this thread this past week....sorry Lynn.

yesterday\

B. toast, cheese stick, fruit
L. Progresso beef & barley soup, 6 low fat crackers
S. package of chive crackers & 1 cheese stick
D. pork (grilled), 1/4 baked potatoe, green beans
S. small handful thin pretzels

exercise - walked 1 mile
fun - went to the casino and lost $12.00......BAD

Phyllis

For today -

Fun - be with/walk with my gf
Exercise - walk in the park
Diet -
Breakfast - lt ww toast w egg & canadian bacon
Lunch - salad & half a sandwich
Snack - apple
Supper - fish, tomatoes, broccoli
Snack - yogurt & peanutbutter

Lynn

Good Morning Girls!
Sunday's Journal (If you can call it that, not very accurate)
This is from my Fitday:
Calories... ????????? Under 1200. ( I looked everywhere for the calories in Hot braised chicken stir-fry but couldn't come up with anything, I put the lunch down for 500 calories )
Fiber... 40 grams?????
Exercise... None
Fun... Had Chinese Take-out with DD, two Grandsons, DH and Mil. I got a beautiful hanging basket of flowers, two knee pads for gardening and a long nozzle for watering flowers. Then we watched the final 3 hour show of "Survivor". Love that show.
Sunday's menu:
Vitamins/Fish Oils
Fiber One, dry

Lunch:
Chinese Hot braised chicken stir-fry
1 Egg roll with hot mustard sauce
2 fortune cookies
(I skipped the fried rice, noodles, etc.)

Supper: Too full from lunch to eat, had 1 bag of 100 calories Kettle corn, glass of skim milk.

Evening snack: pistaschio pudding with ff cool whip.

I'm off now to exercise at the Fitness Center than going to go through 60 years of stuff at MIL, we're going to have a rummage sale later on in the summer.
I dropped 1.5 pounds this morning and got to change my ticker and a new Maxine joke.

for Mothers day

Breakfast:
Homemade breakfast borrito and Bowl of Organic cereal

snack:
carrots

Lunch:
Tuna salad on 2 sl of whole wheat bread
Homemade cabbage soup and bowl of Pineappe

Dinner:
Shrimp cooked with mandrian oranges and Ginger & Garlic sauce.
Baked yam and a very large salad also with oranges

snack:
Dannon, String cheese and 5 Kashi crackers. 2 pc. dove choc.
12 glasses water.
Fun: visiting family
Workout. None!

Tomorrow -
Exercise - horseback riding
Fun - horseback riding
Food -
Breakfast: french toast w lt ww brd
Lunch: turkey sandwich
Dinner: thai turkey slaw
ww pita w hummus
Snack: yogurt w peanutbutter

Lynn

Tuesday,

Breakfast: Organic cereal, Eggbeaters w/2% Cheddar
Snack: carrots

Lunch: Tuna salad borrito with homemade Cabbage soup. And Cauliflower.

Dinner: Tbone, baked potato and a very large salad.
Snack ?

Excersise: Curves again. crunches. walk

Fun: maybe a movie with Magan.

I didn't write anything down...I didn't overeat. Just didn't make the best choices. I ate way too many sweets! Don't think I went over 1250 calories a day...just poor choices for what I did eat!
We were at the lake, so I got plenty of exercising in. Lots of walking! Worked in flower bed, burned trash, made a 'billion' trips from the house to the shore line. Plus walked down the road about 2 miles to look at the foundation of a new home that is going up. Then about half that far to see some neighbors who we have only seen once since last fall when we closed up for the winter.
Thursday, I leave again and will be back on the 20th. But will eat more wisely on that trip as I am going to our TOPS State Recognition Days in Waco TX. It is hard not to eat correctly when you have that many people watching you. LOL
Today 05/14/07
B. Slim fast 190, coffe/creamer 30
S. yogurt 45
L. chicken salad sandwich 250 (I made the C. salad and had it on ww tortilla50 cal.)
S. green tea, jicama slices, crackers, laughing cow cheese. 150
Dinner. chicken strips, yellow and zuchinni squash sauteed with olive oil cooking spray, 1/4 cup brown rice, 1 pat margarine.

I haven't added the calories, but don't think I did bad.

Has any one tried cinnamon capsuls to lower sugar level? A friend of mine has just started taking them, hoping to lower her glucose. I eat cinnamon on a lot of things, but had never heard of the capsuls.

More tomorrow!
Wanda

Good Morning!
My calories were low yesterday because I spent the whole day up in my MIL upstairs rummaging thru 60 years of junk. We're going to have a huge rummage sale this summer and I have lots to do over there. She doesn't have much food in the house, she gets "meals on wheels", has nothing low in calories. She did insist I have some cookies and brownies which I politely refused. I'm headed out again this morning, will take lunch with me again today, only more of it.

Monday's Journal
Calories... 1,066
Fiber... 52 grams
Water... 11 (8oz) glasses
Exercise... running up and down the stairs all day
Fun... Rummaging thru closets and dresser drawer and finding hidden treasures!
Vitamins/Fish Oils
Fiber One, dry

Lunch: FF turkey hot dog
mustard/dill pickles
low cal bun

Supper: DH had a large salad with Albacore Tuna waiting for me when I got home. I did a no-no and gulped it down in 5 minutes, I was starved!
Sesame Ginger dressing
dry Fiber One sprinkled on top of salad
Toasted Flat Out topped with pistascho pudding and FF cool whip

Evening snack: Kettle corn (100 cal bag)
8 oz. skim milk

P.S. Lynn, are you keeping track of how many times the challengers are reporting in or are we doing that ourselves?

Yesterday

B. toast, cheese, fruit
L. rice, cheese, turkey
S. rice cakes
D. grilled chick. beast, carrots, noodles
S. handful pretzels

Today

B.Toast, fruit, egg
L. chicken soup, 5 low fat crackers
S. Laughing cow cheese wedge, 8 low fat wheat thins
D. grilled fish, rice, coleslaw (a few bites)
S. Handful of pretzels

Exercise both days 1 mile walk
fun, playing games on the computer

Phyllis

Hmmmm. Mother's Day seems to have set some of us (me) back a bit in our posting on this here challenge-thingie. Well, I'll attempt to make amends.

Yesterday - Mother's Day

Food -
breakfast - none; had too much to do; bad choice, I know
lunch/supper-ish (we were at the cookout from @ noon til' six-ish) - five grilled chicken wings - seasoning but no barbecue sauce; a 50 calorie tortilla w/chicken salad & a handful of salad greens; two dishes (about seven or eight stalks per dish) of fresh asparagus right out of the next door neighbor's garden and steamed), some nibbles of raw green pepper & cucumber from the salad. THEN, when we got home, a cup of Fiber One cereal with a sliced banana and about a quarter cup of fat free skim milk.

Exercise - 30 minute bike ride in the AM
Fun - The cookout

Today - back to normal eating

Breakfast - a cup of Fiber One cereal, cut up fresh strawberries, a sliced banana, a quarter cup of fat free skim milk.
Snack - an orange
Lunch - TWO 50-calorie tortilla wraps w/ thin sliced deli ham, a handful of salad greens, and mustard
Supper - baked chicken breast, small baked sweet potato, steamed brocolli
Snack - Maybe popcorn

Exercise - 30 minute bike ride (leaving in a few minutes)
Fun - being home from work, riding bike

Oops! No bike ride! It's thundering, lightening and POURING outside! That came on kinda fast! Oh, darn!