Gaia, GREAT JOB on losing 10 pounds!!!

I know! I'm loving it! My goal is to lose another 21 by the end of the semester (another 11 weeks) so that for Christmas (Yule for me anyway) I can get the butterfly tattoo on my thigh in honor of my mother (she's not thrilled with it, but I thinks she's secretly flattered).

Breakfast:
whole grain bagel
2 tbsp Greek style hummus
small banana
1 cup skim milk

Snack:
1 oz light cheese

Lunch:
1 cup microwave polenta
2 cups veggie chili
1 oz light cheese

Snack:
small nectarine
light string cheese

Dinner:
tuna
1 cup couscous made with 1/3 tbsp olive oil
1 cup steamed veggies
2 cups salad with 1/2 cup diced tomato
2 tbsp light raspberry pomegranate dressing
small apple

Snack:
cucumber slices with 2 tbsp reduced fat ranch dressing
small orange

Totals- 2096 calories, 38.5 gms/fat, 42 gms/fiber

You can tell that around lunchtime I started getting tired, but I hit the store and got enough veggies and fruit until Friday when I have to stock up for the weekend. It's my new system.

Oh, and funny thing when you start exercising... your muscles protest. I thought my phone was vibrating in my pocket when I realized that my thigh and hip muscles were spasming. They've been doing it all day and I almost didn't answer my phone when they weren't spasming. -sigh-

I am pretty proud of my dinner tonight... I had leftover gimme lean sausage from the pizza from 2 days ago so I decided to make a "meaty" tomato sauce with the gimme lean sausage, mushrooms, onions, garlic, diced tomatoes, tomato paste and some various italian spices. I then sliced up some polenta and baked it in the oven and I also roasted some green beans in the oven.

The polenta baked nicely and I covered it with my "meat" sauce and served the green beans on the side. It was a pretty good dinner

Breakfast:
12 pieces vegetarian sushi
6 oz sugar free yogurt
small apple

Snack:
1 oz light string cheese
16 whole grain Wheat Thins

Lunch:
2 cups salad greens with 12 tomato, diced, 2 tbsp whole almonds, 1/4 cup light feta cheese, and 2 tbsp light raspberry pomegranate dressing
medium baked potato with 1 tbsp Brummel and Brown, 2 tbsp fat free yogurt, and green onions

Today has been ridiculous. Its gray outside, I dropped 2 more pounds in 48 hours (no idea how it happened, I'm going by the scale. Maybe I was retaining water or something), and my body is absolutely aching, so I took the bus to class today. Feel mildly bad for it, but I can always make it up on Saturday.

Tonight we had leftover polenta with the hearty tomato sauce and a slow baked potato on the side. I got the recipe for the slow baked potato from here:
http://kitchen-parade-veggieventure....-potatoes.html

I have a toaster oven so I cooked them in that rather than the oven. I think they only needed a little over 2 hours in the toaster oven so that is what I did.

Dinner:
tuna steak
1 cup couscous (I LOVE couscous!!!)
1 cup steamed veggies
nectarine
banana

Totals- 1801 calories, 46 gms/fat, 29 gms/fiber

Not too bad today, even though its been weird... dieting when the red menace is visiting should be illegal. It just should.

Breakfast (part 1):
1 cup skim milk
banana

Snack:
light tall mocha Frappacino

Breakfast (part 2):
Gardenburger
1 cup couscous
1 cup steamed veggies

Snack:
small apple

Lunch:
1 cup couscous
Gardenburger
salad (2 cups salad greens, 1/2 tomato, 1/2 cucumber, 1/4 cup feta cheese, 2 tbsp raspberry pomegranate dressing)
orange

Dinner:
2 slices thin veggie pizza
1 cheese breadstick
nectarine

Totals- 1891 cal, 51 gms/fat, 33.5 gms/fiber

Breakfast:
1 slice thin crust veggie pizza
1/2 breadstick
orange

Snack:
6 oz sugar free yogurt
1 cup couscous

Lunch:
Gardenburger
1 cup couscous
1 can carrots
banana

Snack:
small apple
coffee

Dinner:
2 slices thin crust pizza
1/2 breadstick

Total-1847 cal, 46.5 gms/fat, 29.5 gms/fiber

Breakfast:
whole grain bagel
1/4 cup Eggbeaters
1 cup skim milk
orange

Lunch:
1 slice veggie pizza
1 cup raw veggie mix with light ranch dressing
orange

Snack:
16 reduced fat Wheat Thins
1 wedge Laughing Cow cheese
2 tbsp hummus

Snack:
1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
apple

Dinner:
hummus sandwich made with whole grain bread, hummus, 1/2 tomato, sliced, and pickle slices
mushroom soup
apple

Snack:
16 reduced fat Wheat Thins
1 wedge Laughing Cow cheese

Totals- 1919 calories, 57 gms/fat, 36 gms/fiber

Its a wee bit high in fat, but I think all the extra fiber sort of balances it out. I'll just watch it for the rest of the week. I wanted to go out walking, but I didn't even get up until 12:45 today! I'm going to be forcing myself to sleep at 10 tonight. Oh well.

Breakfast (part 1):
1 cup Go Lean Crunch
1 cup milk

Breakfast (part 2):
orange

Snack:
1 oz raw almonds
small banana

Lunch:
1 slice veggie pizza
1 cup raw veggies
2 tbs hummus
apple

Snack:
16 reduced fat Wheat Thins
2 tbsp hummus

Dinner:
1 slice veggie pizza
1 can green beans
nectarine

Snack:
32 reduced fat Wheat Thins
2 wedges Laughing Cow cheese

Total- 1569 cal, 51 gms/fat, 28.5 gms/fiber

I know that my last snack was weird, but I actually wasn't eating enough and was a good 300 calories under where I needed to be. There are worst things to eat than Wheat Thins and reduced-fat cheese.

There's nothing weird about that snack at all! You ate to stay within your plan and that is what matters!

Gaia - Congrats on the 10 lbs!

I am bloated like crazy from bad food. After my race on Sunday I had a "can't stop eating" day and yesterday was a little better but I still had a couple totally unnecessary items (like the chips and salsa and 2 scotch ales )

Drinking water like mad today, 64 oz already and it's only 10am! Trying to get a good flush going here, a run this afternoon should help too.

Today's menu:

B: Kashi GoLean with about 1/2 c mixed berries, soymilk

S: Watermelon

L: Seitan veggie stir-fry w/ brown basmati rice
Baby lettuce salad with apples and walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette

S: watermelon, apple

D: Probably BBQ baked tofu with mushrooms and onion on a sprouted wheat bun

The stir-fry I made for dinner last night tuned out really well, after I sautéed the seitan and veggies in the wok in some sesame oil I tossed together a sauce using Thai peanut sauce, Thai sweet chili sauce, juice of 1/2 lime, minced fresh garlic and ginger, and seasoned with coriander, garam masala, black pepper, dash of cayenne and some fresh cilantro. Can't wait to have leftovers for lunch!