Yikes, stay safe Diana, and hope you have some good R & R!

The cruise I did was through American Cruise Lines. They do small ship cruises on American/Canadian Rivers. It was a paddlewheel riverboat with 115 passengers on the Columbia river, like Lewis & Clark ; ).

The food was fantastic overall. Breakfast was prepared to order and there were two choices of appetizer and entree for lunch dinner, and also a cocktail/ hors d'oeuvres hour. There was always a diet-friendly choice & you could have sauce on the side, etc. The portions were on the small side with the option of either both entrees or seconds. (I think that's why I didn't gain wt). The presentation was exquisite. Not many veggies though. I didn't think to ask ahead for that--just wanted to see how I managed without special planning.

There were fruit and carby snacks available all the time, which I quickly learned to avoid: Sun Chips, Honey Granola bars, etc. Also warm cookies mid morning...During the evening entertainment, the staff would carry out sundaes and root beer floats, popcorn. That was after the freshly prepared desserts with dinner; there was also a great selection of ice cream. One day they had a mid morning buffet of local foods like salmon, cheese, huckleberry ice cream, huckleberry vodka, etc. I brought my protein shakes just in case, and that made it easier to avoid high calorie snacking.

All of their cruises have regionally themed food, I think.

Thanks keli :hug: Good to see you :)

Diana always :) :hug:

Yesterday's meals went pretty well.
B: lean bacon-4 slices, 4 eggs-2yolks included.
L: fiber 1 meal bar, cherries, cup of almond milk
S: greek yogurt, pear
D: lemon herb chicken with whole what pasta (very small portion)

Looks like everyone is hard at work! I hope everyone is off to a great start in july!

Now I want to go on a cruise, it sounds lovely!

Well, I like what I'm eating alright, I just need to scale it back some.

Tuesday's Tracking
Target calories: 1500
Exercise: Ran 1 mile! Walked 3.5 miles.

Breakfast: Coffee w/Splenda and half-n-half, cottage cheese with pineapple, 1/2 slice plain whole wheat toast = 225
Lunch: Tuna salad sandwich with hot peppers, bowl of vegetable soup = 578
Snack: Walnuts, couple strawberries = 155
Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast, small baked potato, tons of roasted asparagus, big salad with blue cheese crumbles and Italian dressing = 834
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Total: 1792 -- 292 calories over

Yesterday's Calories: 1535

B - Dark Chocolate w/ Chili + 1/4 Bottle Sobe Lifewater Pacific Coconut
L - Wheat Bread w/ Chicken Breast, Swiss Cheese, and YumYum Sauce + String Cheese
S - Cocoa Peanuts
D - Whole Grain Potato & 5 Cheese Pierogies w/ Olive Oil + Steamed Corn
S - Homemade Buckeyes

Did fairly well with calories yesterday. I made homemade buckeyes last night, but I only ate 1 of the completed buckeyes because I licked the spoons that had the peanut butter, butter and powdered sugar mixture on them. I estimated calories for that, but it should be fairly close.

morning everyone!!! Scale moving down again :D 157.4 today, almost back to the 156.4 I saw over the weekend.

This friday (4th of July) is mine and DH's 8th wedding anniversary, so the weekend may be a challenge for me diet-wise. But I did pretty ok in Vegas so hopefully it won't be that bad!

Today:
B - Belvita breakfast biscuits
L - kale salad/organic grilled chicken breast
S - still have those cherries
D - school tonight - quick leftover filet mignon and some of those colorful little potatoes from Costco. I'll nuke them :)

I'm determined to be more active this month!
Day 29
Breakfast: 4 crackers, yogurt, banana
Lunch: salad, almonds, cherries
Dinner: salad, blueberries
Exercise: 30 minutes

Yesterday was hot! 90+ F in the house. The cool morning breeze is so nice after that.

Food-

Egg, kale, mushrooms, cheese and bean dip on toast
Bacon
Coffee with milk

Lunch and dinner will probably be the bean soup. I cut up two giant nitrate-free hotdogs into it and it still comes out low cal.

Weightlifting plans for today.

My teeth clenching has rev'd up again. I slacked on the vitamins with magnesium that is supposed to help. I'll start that again and if the clenching improves I guess I'll know it really helps.

Up 0.6lbs today to 168.8lbs. Calories will be about 1700. Yikes. But delicious.

Fat Calories Protein Carbs Sodium
Breakfast
oats 3 150 4 27
Flaxseed milk 2 19 0 1
dried apricot 0 32 0 9
honey 0 21 0 6
Coffee 3 25 0 1
Wild Planet Sardines 5 183 33 0
Coffee 3 25 0 1
Ekone lemon pepper oysters 6 165 17 12

Lunch
quails eggs 3 42 4 0
Baby squid in olive oil 17 272 25 5
Ocean harvest Dungeness crab 1 120 26 0
Ekone original oysters 5 165 17 11
Salted cod 0 80 26 0
Wild Planet White anchovies in water 6.75 135 18 0
Honey 0 64 0 17
Tomato 0 11 1 2
Mushroom 0 2 0 0
Red onion 0 8 0 2
Hummus 2 35 1 3
Kimchi 0 100 10 10

Total 56 1653 181 107 0
Weight 168.8
Protein/weight ratio 1.07
Targets based on weight Low High
Calories 2363 2701
Fat based on 20-30% caloric intake 37 55
20% less calories to cut 1891

Exercise: Did 50 minutes weight training before work. Ran 4 miles fast before lunch.

Yesterday I ate 1189 calories according to my fitness pal :).

Breakfast : Bacon & eggs, grape jelly
Snack : 2 scrambled eggs
Dinner : Yet another egg and a piece of ham
Snack : Coffee with creamer and 1/2 a small piece of pie

Hey Everyone...

Hope everyone had a great weekend (and a long weekend to the Canadian members)
Camping was awesome but I indulged so much and gained back the four pounds I lost ... I blame the beer, BBQ and the s'mores (was easy to eat since my three year old was having a blast making them) But i'm back at it today.

B: Left over vegetables from camping
L: 1/2 cup macaroni salad and left over pulled pork (no bun)
S: cucumbers
D: 1 cup potatoes and green bean salad and chicken

Bought myself a pedometer and tomorrow im' starting a 10 000 steps a day.. see how that goes and still going with my 30 day abs and squat challenge

It's so hot again! We did the weightlifting and during the bike ride home a 7-11 detour was made and a slurpee was acquired. :D luckily I'm still well within my calorie window.

It felt good riding bikes again with hubby...the first since his seizure. He seems to have adjusted to the new med and back to himself.

Hello all,

Diana was thinking of you while waiting for my car (oil change) watching the weather channel at OBX. Hope everything goes well for you.

OMG we had cole slaw, salad and sautéed Swiss chard, for supper, making me a little uncomfortable, toot toot :lol:

Took a teeny walk at work, thought I would get on the bike, but the day has slipped away...

:sunny:

Hi Everyone!

I ended up not working out today. I spent most of my time working on my month end books. Of course today, I am ahead of things, when I get back I will be behind, LOL. I probably won't do any yoga tonight. I just finished packing most of our things for our trip. I only need to pack the toiletries and I will do that tomorrow after we finish using things.

Have a fun but safe 4th! See you when I get back.

Total Approx 1370 Caloies + :coffee:

Breakfast (395 Calories + coffee)
spritz oil in pan
egg 70 cal
egg whites from carton 60 calories
Vegetable of choice
1/8 cup feta cheese 40 calories
Rudi's Whole Wheat English muffin 130 calories
1 teaspoon jam 20 calories
juice 75 calories
coffee w/sugar and cream

Lunch (375 Calories)
Rudi's 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Flatz 100 calories
3 Slices Hormel Natural Choice Deli Turkey 60 calories
Honey mustard/Lettuce 25 calories
Raw Sugar Snap Peas 90 calories
1 Apple 100 calories

Dinner (600 Calories)
Grilled salmon 400 calories
2 orders steamed veggies 200 calories

Exercise:
None

Looks like things are going well for everyone!
My day...
B: protein shake, cherries
L: 2 lean beef patties, 2 slices moz cheese, 1 T bbq sauce
S: strawberry banana smoothie, lite, with added protein
D: salad - spinach, chicken, strawberries, pear, avocado, almonds, and sf rasp vin dressing. Mmm mmm!