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Ok....1 day Challenge...1 day fast today...Tues Feb 3!!! ...water and juice...1 coffee at morn...which I am currently drinking. And a lot of praying...JEEZ.

Ceara :doh: :drill:

Thanks for the recipes, Amarantha! I'm thinking that one could use most any flavored protein powder? They sound really good!

Ceara, you're really fasting? Let is know how that goes--witout food I'd be a big ol' Crabby Appleton by noon!

Wildfire, Good save by not having french fries! I think you made the best choice available.

Monday--Feb. 2
 

coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
1/4 scrambled egg beaters and soy sausage sandwiched between 2 oat bran pancakes

ww roll w/ lite cheese, lettuce, onions, peppers
lentil-barley soup
4 lo-fat cookies

roasted onions, carrots, zuchinni
soy 'chicken' patty w/ pizza sauce
'skinny cow' ice cream sandwich

snax: 3 ww crackers w/ peanut butter

calories:1570
exercise: 3 miles treadmill
20 min. yoga and bellydancing

tryin'
 

I am by no means emmaciated and maybe this will immancipate me from the :devil: hold that food has on me...at least for one day. I have to go buy some apple juice tho' after my programme.

Ceara :doh: :drill:

Yo, Slayers!!! We be looking sturdy and in fighting form for battle with :devil: Foods and summoning activities with :angel: Foods!!!!!

Ceara, hope thy fast works out well for thee ... so long's thy body be getting what it needs so the metabolism keeps on ticking ...

Eydie, yea any protein powder will work ... I keep mentioning Designer Whey because that's what I'm using ... there's no appreciable sugar in it but it has a good flavor and quality protein (sorry, 3FC, it's not spam, don't work for them, just what I'm using to experiment with). The cakes are good but I forgot to add extra baking soda to compensate for the whole wheat flour, so they are more brownie like ... also you can really taste the whole wheat ... somthing I'm trying to get used to.

I'm looking good for my challenge today but haven't written down a menu, just kept track of points ... will post a menu tomorrow again.

Eydie, what flavor of Skinny Cow do you get? I don't really like these a whole lot but was eyeing the pb ones as a substitute for the dreaded Reese's.

Later, gators, er, slayers!

Amarantha's Food Missions

Completed: Three Day 28-Point Challenge (Days 3)

Progressing: Seven Day 28-30-Point Quest (Day 3, counting)

Total Mission Days Completed: 5

Amarantha, you really are a splendid person to share these recipes. I'm a person who doesn't have much experience with cooking (especially baking), but I don't like what I see on processed food labels (esp. for breads) and want to make my own stuff. Thank you so much for your help...

Just had a delicious cupcake that a friend at work offered me. Compensated, nutritionally and points-wise, by having a large salad for lunch with mixed greens, spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, kidney beans, chickpeas, and FF dressing. Feel very OK about the cupcake.

Funny that 2 PB cups are 5 points. That's about the same amount as 1/2 cup of popcorn, unpopped. That's a pretty standard snack for me at night - 5 pts. worth of air-popped popcorn. That's a pretty big bowl. Wish it were lower.

Anyway, have a good afternoon, sweeties.

Om shanti, Demon Food Slayer Cerise ... I am so with you on not liking what I see on processed food labels, although I'd say my butter spray, Splenda and some of the other things I'm using in my latest experiments are not the most natural things in the world. They are a means to the end, though. I'm determined to get some healthy food into my body and change my bad eating habits. I know that's why my weight went down instead of up last time.

I think a lot of the recipes I've been making up are related to the Body For Life idea of small healthy balanced meals and making what we crave (like brownies) healthier for a bodybuilding lifestyle. I went to their website today and got a lot of new ideas I will be trying.

The PB cups aren't really all that bad for candy, I guess. The problem is when I eat 14 of them! :)

My seven-day 28-30 point challenge ended because I couldn't resist my own healthy brownies ... I'm already at 34 points and refuse to give up my planned dinner of salmon w/dill, corn and brocolli. In fact, I think it'd be counter productive for me to not eat dinner. So eat I will ... I know that starving is not the answer and everything I've eaten has been quite healthy today.

Lately, I've been realizing that I've been starving myself all my life in this effort to be thinner and it hasn't helped. What helps is eating BETTER and exercising SMARTER.

I am not discouraged. I completed two good days on this quest and have five successful "mission" days under my belt. I'm herewith announcing my WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 28-30 QUEST:

Amarantha's Food Missions

Completed: Three Day 28-Point Challenge (Days 3)

Game Over: Seven Day 28-30-Point Quest (2 Days Completed)

Pending: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 28-30 Point Quest (To Be Continued)

Total Mission Days Completed: 5

Monday--Feb. 2
 

coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
9-grain bagel w/ lo-fat cream cheese, lettuce, peppers, carrots, onion
2 clementines

3 tbsp. humuus w/ red peppers, carrots, cucumbers
Power Bar energy bites [these are quite good!]
banana

Lentil-barley soup
1 pc. cornbread
lo-fat ice cream sandwich w/ 1/2 c. strawberries, 1 kiwi

snacks: 3 ww crackers w/ peanut butter

calories: 1600
fiber: 33 grams
fat: 25 grams
water: 6 cups
exercise: 4 miles treadmill**20 min. yoga**20 min. dumbells**40 pushups**200 crunches

I try to make whole foods the bulk of my diet, organic and all that----but there's a few processed foods that I sneak in. Some of my favorites are: egg beaters or any fat-free egg substitute, fat-free 1/2 and 1/2, fat-free cheese slices [I know, I know, but sometimes nothing else will do!], and all the soy "meats", and lo-fat ice cream-y things. Oh yeah, and a new favorite is the butter spray Amarantha told me about.

I feel like a food-schizophrenic! Sometimes I'm vegan macrobiotic, others it's creamy cheesy comfort food, or 'spa' food. At least I never feel deprived! ;)

Congrats, Cerise, On dropping another pound!

Amarantha, I like all the skinny cows! And everybody's making lo-fat ice cream sandwich things thesedays---Klondike, Slim-Fast. I do so much better with single portion things at home. A 1/2 gallon of ice cream mysteriously disappears. Not good.

How was the fast, Ceara?

Ah! Morning
 

And I am in a much better mind set I think. I fasted 24 hours successfully. Not that big a deal, but it was for me. I managed to control 1 thing in my life for that time. Now onwards. T'day's challenge....just fruit and veggies and lots of water. Benefit of fast...I discovered that I like apple juice cut with 1/2 water (got ya there didn't I?) and hot....I'm just so cold these days....likely still a leftover from the extended TOM....chilled to the bone most of the time.....And I dress in mega layers!!!!

Am off to try Mr Treadmill again.... and then brekkie. Got the girls out in the runs already and have some runnin' around to do!

Congrats on the great losing guys.....I hope to join you soon...a lot of this is in the mind I hear....

Ceara :doh: :drill:

Ceara, I wish that my Garry would drink his apple juice cut with water. It's one of the little things we 'argue' about. He loves the stuff and I say it's just empty sugar calories, and have the apple instead. He's all grown up and I try not to say anything at all......oh well. It's such a burden being perfect and possessing the wisdom of the ages. :lol: :o :lol:

Ok now....
 

Feb 4--wednesday
 

coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
2 ww toast w/ peanut butter, ff cream cheese, lettuce, carrots
clementine

veg-bean soup
ww tortilla w/ gouda, roasted onion and zucchini
lo-fat ice cream sandwich

2 ww toast w/ boca burger, ff cheese, lettuce, onion, mustard, ketchup
1 box cracker jacks
3 ww crackers w/ peanut butter

calories: 1600
fiber: 34 grams
fat: 38 grams
exercise: 4 1/2 miles treadmill**40 pushups**200 crunches
water: 6 cups [I need more than this!]

Hmmm...one of those days where I just couldn't find what i wanted to eat. Nothing quite satisfied me. I could've kept up the search and eaten a lot more!