Core Menus - November
 

Since the menu thread doesn't get a whole lot of attention, maybe we can have monthly ones instead of weekly? I didn't see a recent thread so thought I'd start up a new one.... These things really help keep me on track.


Thursday:
B: 2 eggs, 1/2 of a wrap, salsa (0.5)
L: lentil soup
S: plain yogurt, orange
D: potato, egg [my other planned dinner was a disaster :(]
S: a tiny bit of B&J ice cream (3 - even a tiny bit is so much!)

=3.5 pts

I will be converting to Core starting next week, going to use up the food I have on hand now for Core. Look forward to seeing you here, suitejudyblueeyes!

:wave: Hey Dominic!

Friday:
B: egg, toast (1), banana
L: salmon, carrot, kale, couscous salad, honeycrisp apple
S: plain yogurt
D: potentially the same as lunch. Will update if not.

=1 pt, -3AP earned (jog)

B: shredded wheat and bran with skim milk, cinnamon, and splenda
L: quinoa with chicken, green peas, and candied sesame teriyaki sauce (1 pt)
s: FF cottage cheese with pineapple
D: pork chop with A1 sauce; baked potato brushed with olive oil (to make the skin crispy!) plus lite butter (2 pts), garlic salt, paprika, and pepper
s: skim milk plus 1 T cocoa and 2 packets splenda

I also exercised, but since I don't eat my activity points I don't typically bother to calculate them

I started Core about a week and a half ago. I lost 4.5 my first week and I weigh in on Tuesdays. I've done WW before and lost about 46 pounds, but I did Flex back then. I'm just sick of counting at this point.

Welcome to Core chrgrl! Congrats on your loss so far, you are looking great! I'm with you on the 'sick of counting' thing... Glad you found your way here.

Saturday:

Today is going to have to be a non-planning day - I will keep track of what I have eaten and update accordingly. I am meeting a long-lost friend this afternoon and we may do lunch or coffee or something.


S: apple
B: oatmeal, soy milk, banana
L: salmon, couscous, kale, carrot. grapes.
S: banana, pb (3 pts)
D: egg drop soup, ben & jerry's (5 pts)

=8 fps used this week

I'll join in the menu thread.

Saturday:

Slept through breakfast!

It's 2 PM and so far I've just had coffee with milk, an apple and a banana.

I'm having dinner at a friend's and she is serving pork chops.

I'm making this a low calorie weekend as much as possible, having splurged at a party on Thursday night.

Rhonda

s: coffee with skim milk, cocoa, and splenda
B: shredded wheat and bran with skim milk, splenda, cinnamon
2 scrambled eggs with ketchup
s: sugar cookie (4 pts)
L: meatless core chili with soy cheese
D: spaghetti squash with 93% lean ground beef, spaghetti sauce, and soy cheese
s: soy milk with core crockpot apple pudding

today i've been in a funk. suddenly i started thinking, "this is stupid...why am i doing this? this is never going to work." i am depressed because i had lost 46 pounds at one point, and i have let myself gain back all but 15 of those pounds. argh.

tomorrow i'm going to my mother-in-law's house for her birthday, and i know there will be all non-core food there. i've only used about 10 WPA's this week (less than that, if i'm honest - i never take AP's into consideration), so i know that all i have to do is eat small portions and i should be fine. i continue to freak out anyway and almost pulled a "well if i'm going to cheat tomorrow, might as well stop today".....but i managed to stop myself after 2 pretzels.

ok, i'll stop with the negative stuff now. weekends tend to do this to me. i get out of my "routine" and feel all messed up.

I'm the same way with weekends... I struggle to keep my eating OP because I'm out of my structured work environment which forces me to eat at certain times and plan way in advance and stuff. Weekends are always my downfall. Good luck with your MIL's birthday.

Sunday's plan:
B1: slice of toast (1)
...then we had pizza, and I ate way too much and felt icky the rest of the day.

=unknown number of points used today, probably the majority of them are gone for the week.

Hi I'm going to join in. I need to get back on track, or the wagon or whatever.....

Monday

b - core waffle, frozen berries - heated, 1T maple syrup (1pt)
s - banana
l - wheat berry salad w/chicken and grilled veggies
s - pudding
d - l/o Italian (10 pts), salad
s - tea @ knitting group

Planned AP - walk dog 40 mins 3pts
daily WPA - 11 minus 3 = 8pts

Weekly WPA - 8/35

-Tech

Monday ~

B: oatmeal, soy milk, cinnamon, canned pumpkin
L: vegetable & black bean soup, small salad (1 for non-core dressing)
S: banana
D: pindi chana and basmati rice

E: 30min turbojam

Monday, Nov. 17

Not at all sure what I'm doing today, but I'll try for low calorie today.

I'll start with eggs, then try salad, fruit and veggies for the rest of the day. I'll add some other protein along the way.

Rhonda

B: shredded wheat and bran with skim milk, splenda, cinnamon
L: spaghetti squash with core chili, 93% lean ground beef, and soy cheese on top
s: romaine salad with green peas, cucumber, and FF thousand island
1/2 banana
D: chicken breast and sweet potato

tomorrow's my weigh-in so my fingers are crossed. yesterday at my mother-in-law's party i did eat bad stuff, but at least i only had 1 serving of each and didn't drink any calories. once i got home i worked out for over an hour, so hopefully that made up for some of it!

Tuesday:

B: 2 slices of toast (2), egg
S: banana
L: leftover pindi chana and basmati rice
S: apple + ?
D: lentil soup

=2 points used but I plan on doing some yoga tonight to make up for it

Tuesday, Nov. 18

B: scrambled eggs and a piece of whole wheat toast (1 pt)
L: soup and lf cheese (2pt for cheese)
D: ham with veggies

snacks: fruit of some kind

Tuesday 11/18

B: egg sandwich (1pt)
S: banana
L: tomato soup; ham rolls (4pts)
S: apple
D: chipoltle & sweet potato shepherd's pie; salad

AP: work out at gym 35 min - 3pts

daily WPA: 5 - 3 = 2
Weekly WPA: 13/35

-Tech

Tuesday

B: oatmeal, chocolate pudding, water
s: peanut butter ww mini bar (1 pt) and diet coke
l: diet coke and 94% ff popcorn

I think I'm going to make white fish w/ lemon and oregano with a spinach and carrot salad for dinner and unsweetened applesauce w/ cinnamon for dessert

http://www.3fatchicks.net/img/bar-pi...5/140/166/.png

yay, i'm down another 1.5 lbs this week!

B: shredded wheat and bran with splenda, cinnamon, skim milk
L: salad with romaine lettuce, green peas, chicken, feta cheese (2pts), and FF raspberry vinaigrette dressing
s: small apple
D: brown rice with smoked salmon, green peas, and teriyaki sauce

i'm so glad that there are salad dressings and certain sauces (teriyaki, ketchup, etc) allowed on Core.

does anyone know if the Morningstar sausage patties are core?

I may be wrong but I remember reading that meat substitutes are all Core. That's what I've been going with, anyway :p

Thanks for the menus guys.I was wondering about what I will eat next week that's when I'm switching to core...be back then to post my menus.

Wednesday (wow, Wednesday already?)

B: oatmeal w/ spoon of pb and spoon of sf jam (3 for pb)
L: potato topped with veg chili
S: banana
D: 2 veggie burgers on toast (2 for toast)
+: beer with coworkers

E: 30 min run

Hello All,

Chrgrl - Congrats on the loss :D, Morningstar patties are technically not core, only the crumbles are. I however count them as core. I figure when I get closer to goal and need to tighten things up I'll worry about being stricter.

Wed (11/18)

B: egg sandwich (1pt); banana
L: salad w/turkey burger crumbled on top; mustard vinaigrette
S: pudding cup
D: chicken in a pot pie (2pts); salad
S: popcorn

AP: walk dog 45 mins (3pts)
Daily WPA: 3-3=0
Weekly WPA: 13/35

-Tech

Wednesday

B: banana and whole wheat toast with marg (2pt for bread and marg)

L: omlette with tomatoes and red peppers, 2 red skinned new potatoes (2pts)

D: we're having breakfast: Red River Cereal. I don't know if it's Core, but it's good!

Snacks: clementines and an apple

B: cream of wheat with lite butter (1 pt), splenda, and cinnamon
s: grapes (i bought some fancy kind and did not care for them at all...too sour)
L: core meatless chilii with spaghetti squash thrown in (trying to get rid of it)
s: FF cottage cheese with pineapple and one banana
D: scrambled eggs and potatoes sauteed in olive oil with ketchup (probably too much ketchup, but man i love the stuff!)

B: SF lime jello & diet hot cocoa
S: PB WW mini bar & ginger cookies (3 pts)
L: Pasta w/ tomato sauce, spinich, 1/2 tsp PB
S: 94% FF popcorn, 5 fruities
D: Cinnamon apple sauce & carrots


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I've been some what journaling on ww on line. I'm going to start posting here as well - maybe it will keep me honest!

Thursday 11/20/8
bf - no cook oatmeal with blueberries
snack - apple
lunch - small salad, core chili
snack - pear
dinner - salad with lean burger and ff dressing
snack - core chocolate cake and tea

Lets see if I can stick to that :)

Thursday

B: core waffle; frozen berries (heated); 1T maple syrup (1pt)
S: banana
L: wheatberry, chicken, grilled veggie salad
S: apple
D: baked potato soup (2pt); potato roll (4pts)

AP: 35 min weight machines - 3pts
Daily WPA: 7 - 3 = 4
Weekly WPA: 19/35

Have a great day everyone.

-Tech

Tech- What's a core waffle? I've been craving waffles.. :)

B: Jello, PB mini bars (2pts)
S: Diet coke
L: WW chocolate dairy shake w/ skim milk, tsp of PB (2pts)
tentative: S: apple sauce w/ cinnamon
D: idk maybe oatmeal w/ cinnamon and vanilla? or maybe I'll have a fruit and veggie smoothie

http://www.3fatchicks.net/img/bar-pi...5/140/166/.png

Thursday:

B: WW banana oatmeal cake (not core: 5 points), coffee
L: zero point soup; lf milk
D: chicken breast, green peas, core cornbread, water

snacks: banana, pear, mandarine oranges

20 points

B: shredded wheat and bran with FF milk, splenda, cinnamon
L: brown rice with peas, carrots, soy sauce, and teriyaki sauce
s: FF cottage cheese
D: cream of wheat with 1 T lite butter (1 pt), splenda, cinnamon
1/2 chicken breast with A1 sauce
roasted chickpeas

Whoever came up with this thread is brilliant! I find that I go off plan when I get bored with what I eat... seeing how you guys eat, gives me new ideas on how I can shake things up. For example: I had no idea that Shredded Wheat Cereal was core... does it count as a grain? or can we eat it throughout the day?

You can eat it during the day, but as all dry cereals, you must eat it with milk.

Did great yesterday!

For Friday:
bf - 1/2 cup oatmeal and banana
lunch - core chili and salad
snack - apple or pear
dinner - steak, veggies
snack - tea and chocolate core cake.

i believe you are limited to eating it only once per day, and you must eat it with FF milk or FF plain yogurt

B: cream of wheat with 1 T lite butter (1 pt), splenda, cinnamon
s: roasted chickpeas
L: salad with romaine, green peas, cucumber, chicken, and FF raspberry vinaigrette; meatless chili
s: banana
D: steak (eye round) with A1 sauce and potatoes sauteed in olive oil with ketchup
s: one of those heat-up chocolate desserts (9 pts - yikes! i was having a major craving for sweets. at least i grabbed something that only had one serving!)

WAP for this week so far: 19/35

today i tried to go from level 1 to level 2 in the 30 day shred....unbelievable! mostly i just stared at the TV in disbelief about what was expected of me.

B: cream of wheat with 1 T lite butter (1 pt), splenda, cinnamon;coffee;scrambled eggs
s: roasted chickpeas
L: quinoa with green peas, smoked salmon, and 1 laughing cow cheese wedge (1 pt)
s: strawberry smoothie
D: soy milk

i've been such a lazy fartaround today! i've barely made it off the couch. i exercised for 5 days in a row prior to this; maybe i just needed a rest.

Rest days are good :)

Not sure why I haven't been posting menus, I have been wonderfully OP lately. Well, until I made bread for DH today and ate some :p (It was worth it. Yum.)

B: oatmeal, sf jam
S: pumpkin smoothie (ww smoothie mix + pumpkin + soy milk + ice cubes blended - YUM)
L: salad, chicken & vegetable soup
S: homemade bread (5)
D: crockpot ginger chicken and vegetables
S: soy milk

today i made this recipe for bourbon chicken, and it was really good! i used diet orange pop instead of the apple juice. i must be a picky eater, because i am usually disappointed with a lot of the recipes i try, but i thought this one was a keeper. my husband liked it, too!

B: shredded wheat and bran with splenda, cinnamon, and skim milk
L: brown rice with bourbon chicken (1 pt)
D: taco salad* (1pt)
snacks: popcorn, cocoa

*i remembered something i used to make a long time ago that was easily made into core....just mix up some chopped tomato (if you take out the seeds it works better), black olives (i just buy the sliced ones), red pepper, onion, and kidney beans (rinsed) into a bowl and mix it all up. you can eyeball the amounts and substitute other things you like. then, when you're ready to eat it, just add FF cheese (i prefer soy cheese myself), FF catalina dressing, and doritos (optional, but they add a nice crunch. i bought the baked ones and only used half a serving). it's really yummy! i guess you could probably add some lean ground beef, but i'm just not a huge meat eater and already had chicken today.

I love throw-together bean salad things like that. Sounds good, though unsure about the addition of Doritos :lol:

I have to buckle down and keep myself focused these next couple days if I want to lose anything this week (what a novel idea).

B: oatmeal w/splenda and cinnamon
S: banana
L: southwestern vegetable soup, homemade bread (2)
S: ff yogurt
D: pumpkin smoothie, bread with pb (4)

E: 30 min run