Last nights dinner:
chunky chicken noodle soup; grilled cheese - and I didn't overeat even tho I was so hungry (it was so bad, it felt like someone stabbed me in the tummy)

B- piece of whole wheat toast with a very small amount of peanut butter with a bit of honey and sliced banana
S- coffee
L- salad with bacon bits, shrimp, balsamic dressing; crackers and salsa (might have this as a snack if I get hungry before lunch)
S- cherries
D- hmmmm not sure yet

4L of water and no exercise. An extra hour at work and a new puppy takes a lot out of you - I think the only exercise I will be getting in for the next while is 10 trips up and down the stairs everyday. I am doing my best to stay under 1500 calories - 1380 yesterday! woo!

Sotypical, what was the final decision on the name for your unbelievably cute puppy?

Here is my menu for Wednesday:

B - Flax Plus cereal with soy milk and blueberries
S - tea with splenda and soy milk (just got this new variety pack of African teas, it was a little pricey but the two varieties I've tried so far have been super yummy), fruit
L - ham sandwich: multi-grain bread, ham, laughing cow cheese, sage pesto, basil, tomato (if one is ripe), lettuce. cucumbers and cherry tomatoes
S - nutrition bar
S - fruit or possibly an English muffin
D - Treat meal--sushi! I love sushi and it is low in calories compared to ther restaurant food. I'm going to try to stay within my calories but I'm not going to worry about it too much. I haven't had a treat meal since mid-June.

Exercise: 1 hour with trainer

- Barbara

Today will be hard for me. I will be out of town on assignment with my lunch being on the paper. I have decided I will splurge and have a treat but because of this I need to keep my other meals in check. Must not go to starbucks I repeat must not go to starbucks...or if I do must be good and order normal coffee and not fru fru packed with cal kids coffee...

The Plan:

B: LF Bagel with LF CC (maybe coffee)
S: Graped (will bring with me)
L: Noodles and Company
S: Cashews (will bring with me)
D: Turkey Burger with LF Cheese and SB Barb B Q sauce
De: None since bad for lunch

WO: Will try to get a run in, but at least a walk...

i love blueberries!!

B-greek omelet
S-sf/ff latte, almonds
L-huge fruit salad, ry krisp
S-cut up veggies, hummus
D-ww pasta, soy meat balls, broccoli
S-Lindor ball

B - Hmmm... I guess lentil pancakes. This translation of indian foods is getting on my nerves.

L - going out for a lunch meeting so will have a vegetarian slice of pizza on a wheat crust. It sounds blah but it's actually pretty good.

S - banana

D - 1 slice banana bread that I baked yesterday (mmm mmmm)
1/4 cup white rice
various veggie curries

Maybe 40 minutes on treadmill and lunges.
I'm thinking of going back to being a vegetarian full time but I really don't want to give up my chickun.

Br: cottage cheese, cinnamon raisin toast
Lu: stir-fry chicken breast w/onions and red bell peppers, strawberries, kashi
DI: steak, tomato and avocado salad, potato (maybe)

2 L of water and SI6 Start it UP

Breakfast - steel cut oats w/blueberries, raspberries and walnuts

Snack - cottage cheese and pineapple

Lunch - brought bean and tomato soup but it's not looking very appetizing right now, so this might change, orange

Snack - peach, carrots

Dinner - going to a friends house for dinner so will be eating whatever they cook.

Exercise - rest day today.

Water - 2 liters+

Sunnigummi, I tried being a veggie back in high school when I went through my "Meat is Murder" phase. I couldn't do it either!

Let me see ... I haven't done this very successfully for a while ....
I've been for a walk but I think I'd like another couple of kilometres of something today.
0800 hrs-I've had my shake.
I have ff cottage cheese, soy cheese, tuna and salmon.
I have carrots, zucchini, mixed salad, raspberries and blue berries.
For each mini-meal I'll have one off each list.
1000 hrs-soy cheese and a plum
1230-ff cottage cheese and blueberries
There will be brown rice for supper and I have some nice tortilla chips if I must have an overt carb.

Brekky
Omlette with 1 egg and 2 whites, mushrooms and turkey

Snack
1/2 mozzarella ball with carrot sticks

Lunch
Hummus with 5 slices deli turkey, carrot sticks

Snack
1/2 mozzarella ball with cucumber sticks

Treadmill 3 miles

Dinner
home made turkey burger

Snack
possible popcorn or a bag of maltesers or something that's grossly healthy and yummy!

B-english muffin, egg whites, canadain bacon
s- snack bar
L-grilled chicken salad
s-snack bar

I am going to try that today...

Breakfast
2 pieces whole grain toast (organic, sprouted, 20 grain)
natural peanut butter

snack
peach
1/2 cup plain non fat yogurt

lunch
salmon salad (canned salmon, low fat mayo, onion, pickles), whole wheat pita, 1 tomato, spinach leaves

Snack
tall non fat sugar free latte

Snack
cherries

Snack
grape tomatoes
carrots
orange pepper strips
sugar snap peas

Dinner
Left over chicken-spinach quesadillas (made a big batch of filling last night). For the filling, I use a block of frozen spinach, 1/2 can of low fat cream of mushroom soup, diced grilled chicken breast, crimini mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, roasted garlic, onions, cumin, cayenne. 2 whole wheat tortillas, little low fat cheese, lots of salsa

lots of tea all day

B: 6oz low carb f.f yogurt, 1 med orange, 5 strawberries some blueberries, coffee black (200cal)

L: lean cusine meal (260cal)

S: 1 piece sargento f.f string cheese (50cal), 1 kashi bar (140c)

D: chicken and vegies mixed with tomato based sauce (300c)

S: 1/2 oats w/ splenda, berries and 1/4c egg beaters (200c)

Water: 80oz

Workout: Teaching 1hr yoga class tonight

I decided yesterday that I wanted to call her Guava and I went home and told my boyfriend and he said if I called her that he would kick her out of the house (he later said he would kick me out of the house and keep the puppy!) - so yah, still no name

sotypical, I like guava (probably because I have a guava tree in my backyard)! But, I like lots of the other names that were suggested. I guess it's an important decision, you can't really change it once she learns it. It's good to give it a few days, maybe she'll do something that will make the name obvious. Keep us posted!

Glory, those quesadillas sound might good!

- Barbara