Breakfast: Half of a breakfast/granola type bar thingy, green tea

Lunch: Single from DQ, Diet Coke

Dinner: Baked halibut, broccoli/cauliflower conglomeration
Large coffee, apple-cinnamon donut

Did I mention that my new job keeps a refrigerator stocked with bottled water for us?

celery-carrot juice
ww bagel w/ lite cream cheese, lettuce, onion, cucmber
coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2

low-fat apple bran muffin
1 oz. cheddar
apple

Salad [lettuce, vegs, salsa, ff ranch, veg. 'chick' patty, a few crumbled corn chips
5 chocolate covered strawberries

snax: banana
1 cup soup

calories: 1420
fiber: 35 grams
fat: 40 grams

exercise:25 min. Pilates
3 miles treadmill
30 min. step video

This is a great idea so I guess here it goes.
Breakfast: Atkins morning cereal with a little 2% milk, 2 coffees black
Lunch at a conference it wasn't easy: salad, 1 slice of dark rye, 1 slice of cheese, turkey, ham, lettuce and tomatoe, 1 little scoop of macorni salad.
of course I had to have a little slice of choc. peanut cake it was good!
Dinner: steak kabas on the grill with mushrooms, onions, salad with blue cheese balsamic vinegar dash of olive oil
1/2 of a fudgies had my husband eat the rest of course he can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exercise: Tues. nite at Gram's I chased 4 grand kids around gotta count for something.
I plan on being good today, and exercising at the gym. We'll see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sugar free? Huh.

Last night I answered the call of the Powdered Gatorade...this morning I awoke and poured the rest of it out into the trash.

So, today is Day 1! Again!

Eydie, clarifying: I'm not going sugar-free, exactly. Just refined, unnecessary sugar is out. And I still get chocolate, as long as it's fine. And dark. I know the difference, trust me. For instance, today I'm having lovely organic hemp granola that is sweetened somehow (not sure exactly how), but I'm eating it because it's granola, dammit, and I'm not adding any sugar. I'm talking about candy, sugar added to cereal, coffee, etc. Ice cream. Gatorade .

If I want a sweet treat I have to bake it with unrefined sweetener. Is this making any sense?

Yesterday's eating:

Breakfast: yucky blended green tea/honeydew latte.

Lunch: leftover Ethiopian, 1 cup total (assorted beans and spinach in curry-type dish), and accompanying flatbread.

Dinner: large amounts of pizza, Gatorade.

Snack: granola, soymilk.

Sigh. Will keep trying.

Y'know, Splenda's not that bad...

Breakfast: Apple cereal bar, tea
Lunch: Leftover chicken breast, handful of dry roasted peanuts, diet coke
Dinner: Still comtemplating. Just had 2 Starburst candies, but that's really not enough. I'm thinking Japanese.

Splenda's my salvation!

Ok, I'm down to only one pkg of pb cups today rather than the binge I just wanted to have ... in thy honor, Cerise, I did NOT buy a second package.

Nay, Wildfire, methinks two Starburst candies are definetely NOT enough for dinner!!! Japanese sounds good!!

Ok, back with report later, sorry to clog up the journal thread as I seem to be doing today. Gotta stay on the straight and narrow here!

Thanks for the clarification, Cerise--makes perfect sense and it sounds more realistic than going 100% sugar-free 'cause the stuff's everywhere! I try to do this myself--I call it being a food snob--I try not to have it unless its real high-quality stuff; it's the main way I avoid empty calories, I think. You're doing great!

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Welcome, Skyfirefly.

Today - (excuse me) - urp!

1/2 rye bagel spread thinly w pb
2 Viactiv
tuna melt (2 sl whole wheat, 3 oz white tuna, 1 sl Swiss)
1 1/2 svgs red beets
lite ice cream
lettuce and peppers topped with 1 serving spoon of cole slaw
3 strawberries, 3 chunks cantelope, 4 chunks honeydew
6 oz sirloin tips w/peppers and onions
6 onion rings
bread pudding (approx 1 in x 3 in) w/raisins
2 cremesavers & six little anise mints
1 spoonful of some kind of green fluff that wasn't worth it
1 small cup (well actually one half of a large cup) of cheese soup; I usually love this but today something wasn't quite so good about it and somehow I suspect it's me - that my taste buds have changed enough I won't go for this again or not for another year or so anyway. It had been a long long time so I thought I could have about half what I'd had in the past but it just wasn't the same old thrill. Hooray!

I SHOULD be done for the day but may need to edit later. Still hope to get in a walk

EDIT: Did get in the walk (phew!) - add about 40 calories pretzel stix.

Orange/carrot juice
ww bagel w/ lite cream cheese, lettuce, peppers, cucumbers
coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2

Salad [lettuce, vegs, ff feta, ff Italian, veg. chik patty]
3 chocolate covered strawberries

Tomato soup
2 ww toast w/ ff cheese, spinach, pepeprs, carrot, onion
1 oatmeal cookie

snax: Pria bar
1 cup strawberries w/ lo-fat ice cream sandwich

Calories: 1420
water: 10 glasses

Exercise: 3 mile walk AM
3 miles treadmill [afternoon]
300 crunches
20 min. yoga
20 min. dumbells

Third day keeping calories under 1500. Feeling very hopeful about getting down to 130 pounds!