Friday 6/25

Breakfast
Breakfast sandwich (English muffin, 1/3 cup egg beaters, 2% cheese slice, veggie breakfast patty)

Lunch
Lean Cuisine meal (chicken carbonara)

Snack
Fruit-on-the-bottom low-fat yogurt, 8 oz

Dinner
1/2 turkey sandwich on French bread from Panera Bread (with fat-free mayo)
1/2 chicken oriental salad from Panera Bread

Snack
1 oz cheddar cheeeeeeese

Scuttle - thanks for starting the journal! The site wouldn't come up for me earlier today.

friday 6/25

exercise
45 min weights
30 min treadmill

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

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

snack
peach = 1

dinner
steak = 4
bun = 1
corn = 1
fruit = 2
wine = 2

snack
hot choc = 3
marshmellows = 4

daily total = 28
flex balance = 35-4=31

Saturday 6/26

Breakfast
Oatmeal

Lunch
Veggie wrap (veggies, cheese, tortilla, sauce) from the grocery store

Snack
6 oz cubed watermelon

Dinner
Healthy Choice dinner, something with beef and teriyaki dipping suace, potatoes, veggies
1 cup lowfat chocolate milk

saturday 6/26

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

lunch
popcorn = 10

dinner
pork chop = 5
corn = 1
pineapple = 1

snack
hot choc = 3
marshmellows = 4

daily total = 29
flex balance = 31-5=26

Sunday 6/27

Breakfast
Oatmeal

Lunch
Turkey and cheese sandwich on bakery-bought sourdough bread, LF mayo, veggies

Snack
Watermelon
2/3 oz cheese

Dinner
Healthy choice frozen dinner (chicken chardonnay or something)

Snack
Bread and butter

Monday 6/28

Breakfast
1/2 cup egg beaters, some diced onions and green peppers, 1 oz (or less) 2% cheese
8 oz-ish OJ

Lunch
Healthy choice meal (stuffed pasta shells and broccoli)

Snack
6 oz LF yogurt
3/4 oz cheese

Dinner
Firegrilled chicken salad from BK, with the croutons and sweet onion vinegarette dressing

sunday 6/27

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

brunch
egg = 2
bacon = 2
bread = 1

dinner
salmon = 6
corn = 1

snack
hot choc = 3
marshmellow = 2

daily total = 23
flex balance = 26

monday 6/28

exercise
45 min weights, abs
60 min tennis

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

lunch
salad = 0
lf parm = 1
lf cheese = 1
almonds = 1
hot choc = 3
marshmellows = 2

snack
powerade = 3

dinner
pasta = 5
sauce = 1

snack
popcorn = 4

daily total = 26
flex balance = 26-2=24

Tuesday 6/29

Breakfast
1 cup raisin bran (200 calories0
1/2 cup 2% milk (50 calories)
2 tsp sugar (30 calories)

Lunch
6" chicken teriyaki sub, sweet onion sauce, American cheese, on white, from Subway (450 calories)

Snack
1 oz peanut snack bag (minus a few that others ate) (170 calories)

Dinner
Panera Bread's black bean soup (150 calories)
Panera Bread's half-portion of tomato and mozarella salad (400 calories)

Hrm. Lot of fat today, but usually I eat pretty lowfat so I'm not worried. Maybe my body was craving fat? Who knows. It was pretty healthy, though, not junk food. Total Calories: 1450. If I was doing WW points it'd likely be huge, the mozarella and tomato salad with dressing had so much fat. But it was good for a change of pace from my normal dinners.

tuesday 6/29

exercise
1 hour tennis

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

lunch
salad = 0
lf parm = 1
lf cheese = 1
almonds = 1
hot choc = 3

dinner
grilled chicken = 4
bun = 1
potato = 3
lf cheese = 2
steamed brocolli = 0

snack
hot choc = 3

daily total = 24 (right on target)
flex balance = 24

Scuttle - what is your typical amount of calories? How does that work for you?

wednesday 6/30

exercise
45 min weights, abs
30 min bike

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

lunch
salad = 0
w.chicken = 3
bread = 4

snack
hot choc = 3

dinner
grn beans = 0
pasta = 5

snack
hot choc = 3
cheese = 3

daily total = 26
flex balance = 24-2=22

Eh. I count with rough estimates at times, but I tend to center around 1600. Sometimes I'm over by a few hundreds, sometimes under by a few hundres. Really, it's just a guess, but so far I'm losing about 1.5 pounds a week, but it's only been a month. I'm very sedentary and haven't worked on the exercise aspect yet.

I have no idea if I should be eating more or less or what. I sort of aim for 1600 simply because some sites I see estimate 2000 calories as an average, and 1600 is under that. Plus, 5 or 6 years ago I dropped from 270 to 170 eating about that range. I'm not concerned if I top 2000 as long as it's not all entirely junk, since my aim for now has 'eating more normally (less binging and junk)' as its first priority, and 'losing weight' as the second. So I try to eat when hungry, vary what I eat to include different food groups, and limit 'junk foods' (like the Oreos I just scarfed down) to occasional treats. Based on my menus so far this week, I consider it the first 'junk food' of the week.

Breakfast
Oatmeal
Veggie breakfast patty

Lunch
Turkey (3 oz) and cheese (2% cheese slice) on white bread (sour dough from the bakery) with Miracle Whip light

Snack
6 oreo cookies in a snack pack (should've shared!)

Dinner
Small cheese steak sandwich from Philly Connection

Okay. Hrm. Not the healthiest day with lack of fruit and vegetables. D'oh!

Scuttle - 1.5 lb per week is great. WW always says you should aim for no more than 1-2 lb/week. I like your idea of just trying to eat healthier and it seems to me from occasionally glancing at your menus, that you do.

thursday 7/1

**ANOTHER POUND GONE**

exercise
1 hour tennis

breakfast
oatmeal = 2
sugar = .5
peach = 1
hb egg = 2

lunch
chicken = 3
lt wht bun = 1
cheese = 3

dinner
pasta = 8
bread = 2

snack
hot choc = 3

daily total = 25.5
flex balance = 22-1.5=20.5

Yeah, healthier in a relative sense is easy compared to the junk I used to eat! I still eat fast food tons and even things like the occasional cheese steak or cookies, but I think doing that once a week is working out a lot better than once (or more!) a day.

This weekend is going to be not-so-healthy I'm sure as I'm going to a big huge party where people come from all over the country and bring all sorts of regional food treats, and there's a huge banquet, and pizza and fried chicken, alcohol, etc. I've decided that my goal isn't to avoid it, as I'm pretty sure that would put me into binge mode on day two, but just to avoid binging.

I'm curious looking at your menus what weight you're at. Given your amount of exercise and the amount of food, I thought a point was roughly 50 calories? And then maybe another 100 or 200 calories of 'freebie foods and fiber' if you're eating low fat. So it looks like you're at about 1200 calories a day? It just seems like I'd be rabidly starved eating that.

Thursday 7/1

Breakfast

2/3 cups egg beaters, scrambled
2% cheese slice on top
6 oz lowfat Yoplait yogurt

Lunch
Baja chicken wrap at Applebee's (wrap was good, fruit was horrid, one shriveled strawberry and three slim slices of mangy-looking pineapple)

Snack
Banana

Dinner
Greek salad from Panera Bread