Sis boom and bah!!! I'm bumping this in happy anticipation of all the great reports of perfect eating/exercising days we're gonna post here for Thursday!!!! Huzzah!!! Let's go out there and win one for the rational eating/fabulous fitness gipper!!! Yowza! No food allowed! Well, ok, maybe a little! Well, ok, maybe a lot! Whatever, Amarantha!

Breakfast: zip
Lunch: small Mr. Sub turkey sub on whole wheat (235 calories), snack size plain potato chips, (240 calories), diet coke
Dinner: Rotisserie chicken, garden salad with ff Italian.

Walked for an hour under stormy skies. *Bliss!*

Thursday

Slimfast meal bar
half garlic bagel w/margarine
viactivs
half cup cottage cheese w/tspn apricot preserve
half cup applesauce
pretzel stix

Dinner is to be
half chicken breast
cob of corn
lettuce salad w/Greek dressing

EDIT - ATE LESS CHICKEN (ABT 3 OZ) AND ADDED 60 CALORIES OF CROUTONS TO THAT SALAD.

And then ---------
I found the H.C. caramel i.c. sandwiches mentioned recently by the Empress. I PLAN to ration them carefully. They were on sale plus I had a coupon to triple a .50 off coupon so I felt the shopping gods wanted me to have them.

Did 50 minutes in the pool today and walked the silly grocery store about an hour. I wish they'd stop rearranging stuff for a week or two. But my body's telling me I've moved the last several days.

celery-carrot juice
ww tortilla w/ lite cream cheese, boiled egg, spinach, peppers, onion
coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
[I know it's weird that I have fresh juice and coffee 20 min. later. ]

tomato soup
2 ww w/ lite cheese, spinach, peppers, onion
1/2 Mojo bar

2 ww w/ boca burger, onion, lettuce, mustard, ketchup
cucumber slices w/ ff Italian
strawberry popsicle

snacks: 1/2 c. cantalope***banana
1 btl. frappicino

calories: 1635
water: 8 glasses

exercise: 2 mile morning walk
3 miles treadmill [afternoon]
20 min. weeding garden

Friday
mix of Kashi cereals w/2% milk
2 viactivs
tuna melt (2 sl whole wheat w/tuna & 1 sl Swiss)
2 svgs fr yogurt
1 large fresh baked pretzel at the Farmers' Market
1 Zone bar
applesauce

Am satisfied right now but may have pretzel stix or Kashi cereal to munch if I stay up too late.

Have bought one piece of peanut butter fudge appox. 1 1/2 in square, expect to treat myself on Mother's Day. At least that's the plan.

Exercise was walking the Farmer's Market - at least 45 minutes.

Ok, posting this early in hopes to avert disaster. Still working but plan to quit eating. No healthy stuff, just kind of bingeing on sf stuff:

2 ww Eng muffs 260
EAS van CC shake 100
2 sf white choc ice cream bars 300

3 ww Eng muffs 390
2 EAS van CC shakes 200

EAS van CC shake 100

4 sf white choc ice cream bars 400

2 sf white choc ice cream bars 200

2 mixed berry smoothies (frozen berries, Splenda, water) 90

Total 2280

This isn't as bad as it looks caloriewise, as I'm not actually eating the whole ice cream bar about half the time. I'm just craving the crunchy outside.

Exercise: 10 min speedwalk, 50 min weights, all with trainer

I've had NO candy or BK breakfast stuff today!

coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
ww tortilla w/ egg sub., cheese, spinach, onion, pepeprs, salsa
low-fat cranberry muffin
1 c. strawberries and pineapple

blueberry bran muffin
1 oz. cheddar
1 ff fig newton

tortilla chips w/ corn-black bean salsa
5 baguette slices w/ cheese
Slim-fast bar

snax: low-fat ice cream sandwich
celry-carrot-apple juice

calories: don't know
exercise: none
water: 6 glasses

This was a strange food day for me. Once again, I had that feeling of TOTALLY running out of energy so I kinda panicked and started eating whatever was close at hand to get me going. Didn't work. Late evening I finally got it togther enough to make some juice and that perked me up a little. I wonder what's going on? It's gotten suddenly hot here, so maybe I'm adjusting to that?I really don't like hot weather.

Posting early to keep track

2 cinnamon buns
2 viactiv
2 svgs carrot, cauliflower, broccoli mix w Swiss cheese
Healthy Choice I.C. sandwich
1 carrot
Wendy's Taco salad w/0 the sour cream
2/3 of the single serve pack of taco chips
2 circus peanuts

Bumping this!!! My weight shot up astronomically, so I need this thread more than ever!!!! Straight and narrow, no BK breakfasts anymore!!!!! Ok, bye!!!

Edited/add-on: Been thinking about the weight gain. It could be muscle, as I've been lifting heavier. It could be hormones. It could be water, since the temp has gone up here but I've been drinking less water. It could be the BK French toast breakfasts are more calories than the book says they are (because the amount of oil absorbed in the French toast sticks seems more than would be warranted by the calories listed). It could be my calories are just too high. Also, I did not even reach my goal of 350 minutes of exercise, even though I'm lifting heavier, so I need to do that this week. It could be the d&&&& scale's wrong (it's not, it's extremely consistent).

Ok, my calories are just too high, even though I did better this week. So I'm challenging myself to get the average weekly total between 1500-1799 AND I'm doing a mini challenge to see how many days I can go no higher than 1699!!! This is day one! I'll be back with my report tonight. I realize it's Mommy Day but I'm gonna get back into the 140s this week or die trying ... ok, not die. I apologize for putting this in the menu thread when we're trying to stay focused and not discuss, but it has to do with EATING! Sheesh!!! I hate that Scale. He's just this close to being turned into a lamp!

Sunday

slimfast shake
2 viactiv
SMALL PIECE OF PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE THAT MADE IT IN MY HOUSE FOR TWO DAYS (ACCORDING TO PLAN) BEFORE BEING CONSUMED AS A MOTHER'S DAY TREAT
ground steak burger on roll w/lettuce
carrot
few slices cucumber
small piece apple pie
1/3 of individual package of taco chips
half rye bagel w/pb
applesauce
2 servings lite ice cream w/cherry sauce

allowing for either pretzel stix or cereal snack later

No exercise today but did walk last night (forgot to report)

coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
crustless low-fat cauliflower-muchroom 'quiche'
orange

2 veg hot dogs, 2 ww buns--mustard, ketchup
1/2 c. baked beans
1 lowfat lemon bar

ww roll w/ egg, lite cream cheese
1 cup cabbage-ramen salad w/ 2 tbsp. cashews
2 low-fat lemon bars

snax: 1 frappicino bar

calories: ?
exercise: none, but I got 1/2 the garden planted!

Take heart, dear Amarantha! Do you have a plan of some kind for next week? I find it helps me immeasurably to plan my meals the night before; it's not written in stone, but it's a plan!