Comments always welcome, Empress. Truthfully I don't think I went WAY HIGH but certainly it wasn't a weight loss day. And I did pass on the fresh bread and the butter and the most rich of dressings for the salad. But the delicious cream of crab soup was very creamy and the cheesecake was just luscious. I do find days like these are sometimes helpful to me if I don't go nuts and binge because if I'm too tight with me then I tend to lose it and eat empty calories or things I don't really enjoy all that much. Believe me, I enjoyed what I had for dinner. Nice restaurant, good friends and no alcohol.

Fresh Start Tomorrow! Will not weigh in, for sure.

High day, but that's ok! I'm still miles away from as high as I was last week at this time, so I have hopes!

EAS van CC shake 100
Myoplex Lite bar 190
Hydration/electrolyte drink (for day) 15

Super shake: Nutritional soy drink w/DW pro pwdr 220

Mini Greek pizza (tomatoes, Fontina cheese, spinach) 250
EAS van CC shake 100

EAS van CC shake 100
Myoplex Lite bar 190

EAS van CC shake 100
Myoplex Lite bar 190

2 white choc pb cups 230
Carlos V bar (white choc) 120

Lf cheese stick 80
Crackers & pb 250
Edited: 1/2 c nutritional soy beverage 65

Total 2200

Exercise: 10 min , 45 min weight room (LB), 15 min walk at home at noon, total: 60 min

Amarantha, Great work out good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your cheese cake recipe sounds good if you get a chance would you share it?
Well I haven't really moved my scale but I haven't raised those numbers either and so thats okay. This week I need to exercise and encourage myself to eat well and healthy. Yesterday I worked in the flower beds for 2 and half hours digging up big plants and seperating them and re planting. So that was a good work out. But my evening dinner was a bit high.
Monday: yogurt with 2T. granola and almonds
1 slice of cheese with a slice of ham
coffee
1 cup pasta with roasted vegetables and grated cheese
2 cheese slices with ham and cuke rolled up
1/2 of a sub a few pieces of choc. little candies
1 handful of baked chips
Not awful but the sub is lots of carbs with the bread. But after all my gardening I wasn't cooking supper that was for sure. I love my gardens but its a lot of work but a great work out.
Skyfirefly Good luck everyone and everyday is a new begining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yo! Realized that instead of the EAS I'd listed for last night, I'd substituted a half cup of the soy drink, for 35 less calories, so my average for the week is looking better.

Hi, Skyfirefly!!!! I haven't made the cheesecake yet ... I used to make them by whirling ff cottage cheese in a blender and adding lemon and a bit of sugar. These days I might use Splenda. I made a crust out of a few crushed graham crackers, some Grape-Nuts and some of what I used to call "diet butter" ... these days, I think I'd just go whole hog and use a premade graham cracker crust (the lowfat kind). I'll have to think about it.

Ok, May Journal Challengers, let's go out there and win one for the Journal Gipper (or something)!!!! Huzzah!!!! Let's make this the greatest weight management and fitness journaling day in history!!!!

I, for one, am declaring a challenge for myself to eat in the 1500s range, although I do intend to have my daily dose of white chocolate!!! Huzzah!!!

Tuesday

slimfast shake
half a choc covered donut
8 saltine squares sandwiched w/pb
4oz yogurt
1/3 of a poptart
2 scrambled eggs w/ham
3 English muffin halves w/apricot preserve
1 1/2 svgs lite ice cream

Such balanced nutrition! No water, no exercise

EDIT : ADD 2 MARSHMALLOW PEANUTS

Monday

2 slices ww toast topped w/cottage cheese
tuna salad w/cheese & BACON (2 SLICES) on grilled rye
asparagus
2 strawberries, four grapes, 2 bites orange
1 and a half grilled cheese sandwich
several slices of banana and several of apple
ice cream sandwich (190)
cake - modest

more good nutrition! No exercise, not enough water.

Hey, that mini greek pizza sounds mighty good. I will try to do that cheese pie up this weekend. I also have a strawberry one I'd like to try bought the stuff but I have been too busy in the gardens after work to make it. Yesterday I did pretty good with watching what I put in my mouth but its not easy!
Breakfast= 2/3cup of raisin bran cereal w/ a little milk
Snack= 1 piece of cheese
Lunch= 1 large salad with romaine lettuce, cheese, rolled up ham slices, red and yellow peppers, onion, cuke and balasmic vinegar with olive oil and spices.1/2 of a granny smith apple
Dinner= 1 bowl of homemade onion soup with a bit of cheese
1 piece chicken tender ooops!
1 low carb yogurt and some almonds
Not too bad of a day at least I tried. No real exercise worth counting yesterday I will try to fit it into my busy schedule today.
Skyfire fly Good luck to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like what I felt like for Monday & Tuesday (see above) but then when I wrote it all down it wasn't as bad as I thought, Empress. Not real good but not as bad as I expected it to be.

Wednesday

mix of Kashi cereals w/2% milk
1 half cup svg cottage cheese w/pineapple (100)
8 squares saltines spread litely w/pb
apple
light ice cream
6 pretzels (132)
ham & green beans (bought in a restaurant - a mistake - not much of it which is ok when you're watching what you eat, not very good, very salty so I'll be forever getting rid of that effect)
1/2 svg carrots
mashed potatoes
roll w/margarine
2 marshmallow peanuts

Will have approx 100 calorie snack yet.

Worked out well at pool - water up to snuff

Hmmmm...must be something in the air. I too have been feeling the primal need to stuff as much food down my dainty swan-like neck as I possibly can. Probably haven't gone over 2000 calories daily, but eeeeee, bad choices! Craving bread and butter and cookie-like things and chocolate, naturally---and here I am with a houseful of fresh veggies! Must be close to "my time" as my old granny used to say!

Also, I've been having some computer issues---the old machine's just slowing down. Unlike us---time for a second wind, friends! Let's see if we can finish out the week in grand style.

To catch up: here's Tuesday's efforts!

Coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
2 ww w/ ff cheese, peppers, onion, spinach
low-fat blueberry muffin

1 ww toast w/ lite butter

Salad [lettuce, vegs, ff dressing]
1 serving cheese crackers
coffee***biscotti

5 coconut-marshmallow cookies

asparagus w/ 2 scrambled eggs, chives, 1 tbsp. cream cheese

1/2 pc. homemade veg. pizza
low-fat ice cream sandwich

calories:1875

exercise: 1 miles treadmill
55 min. cardio/sculpt video
1 hour gardening

coffee w/ ff 1/2 and 1/2
2 w w/ lite cream cheese, peanut butter, lettuce, carrots

almond granola bar

2 pcs. homemade veg. pizza
1 choc. chip cookie

banana

lo-fat macaroni and cheese
steamed brocolli
chickpeas

low-fat ice cream sandwich

CALORIES: 1635

EXERCISE: 25 min. yoga
20 min. dumbells
45 min. walk

Hello everyone!
Well I just weighed in and the scale moved hooray!!!!!!!!!! Anything is better than nothing I say!
My goal is to lose at least another pound by next Monday! I figure if I try hard and stay away from that ice cream in my freezer and don't have my fried fish I'd like on Friday maybe I got a chance? My son and his wife are coming for a visit and we are traveling to Maine to a wedding so I'd like to look my best. I haven't seen them since Christmas and I have lost some more weight. I have to say only lost a total of 10lbs. but my goal for right now is another 9. It seems to me once I get to that then it will be another 5 and that would be wonderful. I don't feel deprived or hungry and have taken it off slowly, and if I feel like having something then I do and try to adjust the rest of my day or the next day. Well thanks for your support everyone and good luck and I will also need luck to continue my outcome goal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The big 50 is creeping in on me and I said its not going to keep me down. I feel good!!!!!!!! My daughter always says mom its cause your so busy and active that you don't look your age. Nice comment from your 30 year old daughter I'd say! Thank God for great kids!

2/3 CUP RAISIN BRAN
1 YOGURT WITH ALMONDS AND BIT OF GRANOLA

SALAD WITH TUNA, CHEESE , CUKES, PEPPERS, BALSAMIC VINEGAR , OLIVE OIL
1HARD BOILED MED. EGG
SMALL CUBE STEAK W/MUSHROOMS, CHEESE
1 ROLL WITH ROAST BEEF SLICE, LETTUCE , TOMATOE, ONION, HOT PEPPERS
BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1/2 CUP EDY'S ICE CREAM
LOTS OF WATER THROUGH OUT MY DAY .