Here's your challenge: Take at least ONE DAY to write down everything food related that passes your lips for one entire day.

Keep track the best you can. It's up to you to see how detailed you want to be. At least, write what food you ate and the amount (ounces, piece, etc). If you'd like to get detailed, you can journal like I do:

food - calories - fat - carbs - protein - fiber - calcium

If it's a prepackaged item, all the nutritional information is right there on the package. Just write it down. If it's an item like fruits, nuts, meats, veggies, chicken-stuff that's not prepackaged and has no nutritional info, check out a site like CALORIE KING, just click the link: http://www.calorieking.com/foods/

For those of you who use FITDAY.COM, you can make your journal public for that one day, if you wish.

Any day this week is fine, doesn't matter. I think this will be a great way to show others what we eat, while some people who don't ever journal; may have a eye-awakening experience to see how much they are really eating.

I wish everyone luck-any questions, don't be afraid to ask!!!

Debbie

Ok, I really made an effort to remember to write down what I ate today.

Breakfast: 1 large bowl of special K with 1%milk
1 really big coffee with 1 tbsp agave and 10% cream

Snacks: 1 apple
1 slice deli roast beef
6 triscuits
piece of cheddar, 1"x3"x1/2"thick
5or 6 dill pickles
fistful of cashews
tea with 1% milk
Dinner: homemade jambalaya made with ham, chicken, brown rice, celery, onions, garlic, green pepper, canned tomatoes, spices
12oz glass of 1% milk

After dinner: 6 more triscuits
couple more dills
hot lemon drink made by adding bottled lemon juice to a mug of boiling water, sweetened to taste with agave.

While typing this at midnight: couple more spoonfuls of jambalaya

I didn't really have lunch, but just kept snacking thru the afternoon. I drank about 12 cups of water, I think. I keep refilling a 2 cup water bottle and lose track. I drink lots of water.

This was a good exercise for me cause I felt like all of you were standing behind me watching what I put in my mouth. Kept me legal for the whole day. Looking forward to other menus so that I may get more ideas for what I can eat.

This is what I ate yesterday.

B. 1/4 cup oatbran with 7 oz 2% milk, topped with 12 raspberries (frozen). Coffee with 1/2 oz 10% cream.

Sn. 2 Clementines

L. Pan fried trout - 6 oz. 3/4 cup cooked carrots. (Since reading the article about the new gi values given for cooked carrots I eat them frequently). 1/2 cup canned pears in juice.

Sn. 2 Rye crispbread with 1 tbs low fat cream cheese and 1 tbs fruit spread. Coffee with 1/2 oz 10% cream x 2.

D. Chicken Enchiladas on WW Pita Bread: about 6 oz chicken breast, few pieces of mushrooms and red pepper and ss salsa with one whole piece of pita. Green Salad. 1 glass red wine.

Sn. 1 oz cheese, 1/2 cup canned pears in juice, 1/2 cup granola, 2 pieces Lindt 70% chocolate.

Lots of water but didn't count the glasses. Just keep filling up my glass.

Pita Bread: Cal. 258, Protein 8 gm, Fat 1.5gm, Carbs. 40 gm (Fibre 5gm) per 75 gm serving.
Wasa Rye Crisp: Cal. 81, Protein 2.2 gm, Fat 0.4 gm, Carbs. 17 gm, (Sugars 0.4gm, Fibre 3 gm per 2 slice serving.

Well here it is soooo far (12:30p.m-going to work tonight soo i will post what i AM going to eat!)

breakfast
1 whole grapefruit with sweet n low
1 pc of rasin bread (3 grm sugar) not legal
1 lg coffe from Dunkin Donuts milk with snlow

Lunch
3 egg whites
1 can mushrooms 20 cals (new fav snack)
9 black olives

Dinner
salad with dressing Paul newman light Italian
3 oz chicken breast

Snacks
triscuts -7
p.butter 1-2 tabs
1 orange or apple

International coffee sugar free

thats probably it wish me luck!

Breakfast: 1 cup lowfat cottage cheese
1 pear
1/4 c. 1% milk in 1 1/2 cups mixed
caf-decaf coffee

Snack: 3 slices turkey breast
1 apple

Lunch: 1 cup home-made chili (96%lean
hamburger, chick peas, black beans,
white beans, ns added tomato sauce

Snack: 1 protein smoothie: 21 grams protein
1/2 c. frozen rasberries
1/4 c. non-fat plain yogurt

Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast (4oz?)
large salad w/ red peppers, celery,
carrots, 1 spray olive oil, 1tsp. red
wine venegar
1/2 c. steamed brown rice

Snack: 2 tbls. natural SF peanut butter (not
BFL legal)

about 150 oz. water
Note: not enough vegies today.

mel

Wow! 2 days in a row writing down what went in my mouth.

Breakfast:
Special K with 1% milk
large coffee with cream and agave

snack:
glass of 1% milk
handful of grape tomatoes

Lunch:
bowl of homemade jambalaya

Snack:
1x3 inch x 3/4inch thick piece of cheese
triscuits
grape tomatoes
dill pickles

Dinner:
spicy chicken wings
WW macaroni sprinkled with parmasan
salad
milk

Evening Munchies:
triscuits, triscuits and more triscuits

I think I need to add more veggies and some fruit to my everyday eating.

Tuesday 22nd January

B. 1/4 cup oatbran with 7 oz 2% milk, 1/4 cup raspberries, coffee with cream

L. Chicken enchiladas: 3 ozs chicken with salsa on 1/2 pita bread. Green salad. Strawberries with 1 tspn fructose.

Sn 1/2 cup granola

D. 1 cup chili with 3/4 cup basmati rice, lettuce, cucumber and celery. Fruit cup (canned in juice), 4 oz 2% milk.

Sn 1/2 cup pears in juice. 1 oz cheese

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Wednesday 23rd January

B. Toasted BLT with fried egg on ww bread. Coffee with cream.

L. Chicken enchiladas: 3 ozs chicken with salsa. Lettuce, celery and cuc. Fruit cup. Ovaltine with 6 oz 2% milk. 1/2 cup granola.

Sn 6 strawberries with 1 tspn fructose.

D. Hamburger (about 5 oz), mushrooms and onions with salsa on 1 pita bread Green beans. Coffee with cream.

Ovaltine with 4 oz 2% milk.

Drank lots of water to-day.

Wends
breakfast

1/2 orange started out as a whole kid ate half!
1/2 wheat pita
1/2 oz boiled ham

Lunch
I forget????






Dinner
Salad w/olives
3 oz chicken
1 tab Paul Newman light

snacks-bad!

Med coffee milk with s n low

1 sugar free klondike-hmmm
3 sugar free cookies
1 Apple
I drink tons of water and i had 2 diet caffine free pepsi

Thurs-
so far!

1 whole grapefruit
1 wheat pita
1 scrambled egg in pita
1 pc rasin bread----not legal

I think i am full

Lunch

Tuna
salad
dressing

dinner

chili w/gr turkey and beef
veggies of some type

snack

klondike-1 left gotta have it before anyone else!

coffee probably milk one sweet n low

cookies?

OK. Here's what I ate Thursday. Started out good, but went slightly down hill.

BREAKFAST
ww bread with peanut butter and cheese (I know it sounds gross, but it's really good and sticks with you.)

SNACK
carrot sticks

LUNCH
tuna salad (2 cans of tuna with a little mayo and red bell peppers - mucho protein)

SNACK (here's where I got off)
4 apple newtons - hey, at least it was fruit, kind of

then later a couple of handfuls of cashews - I had the munchies last night

SUPPER
steak
green beans

Thursday 24th January

A.m.
Coffee with cream.

Breakfast
2 Clementines
Toasted cheese on SGWW bread.
Finished off morning coffee

Lunch
4 oz hamburger with mushrooms, onions and salsa (leftovers from yesterday)
1/2 cup raw carrots
1/4 cup granola (time to make some more)
1/2 cup mixed fruit in juice

Snack
4 Digestive Cookies

Dinner
Baked halibut, about 6 oz.
Coleslaw
Garden salad

Bedtime
Ovaltine with 4 oz milk/4 oz water. I know this is not legal as it contains barley malt but it has no added sugar and total sugar of 2.8 gm per two teaspoons serving. Trying to avoid coffee in the evening.

OK, I'm trying to get used to actually allowing myself to eat. I was so unsure of what I could have, that I haven't been eating enough, and I've been really tired.

Breakfast:
1 scrambled egg with a splash of milk, some salt and pepper, cheddar cheese, and some chicken left from last night's dinner mixed in. (I used to eat a chicken egg and cheese biscuit every morning for breakfast... I guess I just cut out the biscuit!)
4 oz milk

Snack: 1 orange, handful peanuts (low salt)

Lunch: 1 can light tuna in water, a little mayo, mustard, some cheese, and 3 pieces of dill pickle.
A few more peanuts

Snack: Some peanuts and pickle

Dinner: Chicken Breast (last of last nights leftovers), and some stir fry veggies minus the baby corns. With a cup of decaf herbal tea and my first ever package of splenda.

NO snacks after dinner for me... I know I ate too many peanuts today, but I had the munchies and I figured overdoing it with something legal was better than cheating!

My boss started this a day after I did... and I guess I'm so determined to not cheat, because I'm sort of competitive and I don't want to be the one to mess up...LOL I know

Can someone tell me if the Dextrose and Maltodextrin in the Splenda are bad? I went to the website and it says that the sucralose isn't recognized as a carb by the body and isn't absorbed by the body and doesn't affect blood sugar levels, but it doesn't mention the other 2 ingredients on the package.
(Or.. just smack me and tell me to quit worrying so darn much!!)


OK... I'm done..LOL!

Ok, here goes...
Y'all PLEASE telling me if I'm eating anything wrong!

Bkfst:
1/2 Grapefruit
1 carton SB Yogurt
1 Diet Coke

Snack:
A handfull of mixed nuts

Lunch:
Turkey and Muenster on WW Bread
2 String Cheeses
1 Apple
1 SB Yogurt

Snack:
4 sugar free Nilla Wafers (9 is a serving)

Dinner:
1 Pork Chop marinated in Golden Mushroom Soup
1/2 Carton frozen spinach with lowfat cream cheese and margarine

Snack:
A BIG bowl of No Sugar Added Ice Cream

Snack: (This will probably be right before I go to bed)
String Cheese

(The Ice cream is ok, right? Does it count as a starchy carb?)