Planning for Tuesday Aug. 22

  • Stuck to it yesterday! On to today:
    • 6 small turkey breakfast sausages w/honey mustard
    • SmartOnes sweet n' sour chicken meal
    • egg salad (2 eggs, fat-free mayo, mustard, light Miracle Whip)
    • baked ham steak w/pineapple
  • B - 1/4 cup beaten rice with spices and stuff.
    2 glasses of water

    S - banana
    Leftover yogurt from yesterday that I forgot to eat.

    L - 1/4 cup brown rice with roasted veggies
    1 8oz dannon yogurt.

    S - 2 salad wraps with Boca Chick'n Patties
    Smoothie if fruits are around.

    D - 1/4 cup white rice with various veggie curries.

    Exercise: Just doing arms today and some yoga to de-stress.
  • Breakfast - steel cut oats w/raspberries

    Snack - cottage cheese, can of pineapple bits

    Lunch - venison chili, 1/2 cup brown rice

    Snack - peach

    Dinner - beef and bean enchilada leftovers, sauteed spinach w/cherry toms

    Water - 2 liters+

    Exercise - 30 mins on treadmill, 15 mins on elliptical before work. Would have been more but I got to the gym late .
  • I stayed on plan for the most part yesterday...

    B: 6oz low carb/low cal yogurt, 1 med apple, cantalope chunks (250cal)

    L: Lean cuisine meal of chicken and vegies (160cal)

    S: 1 plu, 1 piece light string cheese, 8 almonds (175cal)

    D: 3oz salmon, steemed vegies (200cal)

    S: 100cal bag popcorn, oatmeal w. fruit, egg whites (300cal)

    Workout: try to walk after dinner. have an appt after work so am not able to get to the gym
  • B: Bagel with LF Cream Cheese
    S: LF Yogurt
    L: LF Turk Sand with LF Cheese
    S: Pria Bar
    D: Turkey Burger with LF Cheese and SF BBQ sauce, veggies

    WO: Abs strength, light cardio and stretching
  • I don't think I ate enough yesterday. Despite doing 200 crunches on the AbLounge and a Curves workout I didn't loose a thing.....

    Today:

    B - Weight Control Oatmeal

    L - McDonalds Side Salad w/Asian dressing (1/2 the 90 cal pack) and plain McChicken cut up in the salad. *Yummy and much less than the regualr Asian chicken salad

    S - Lite n' fit yogurt w/walnuts

    D - Probably Lean Cusine

    S - 100 cal popcorn
  • Quote: I don't think I ate enough yesterday. Despite doing 200 crunches on the AbLounge and a Curves workout I didn't loose a thing.....
    I'd be willing to bet you a million dollars that NO ONE has ever lost weight every single day all the way to goal, even if they were perfectly on plan with food, water, and exercise. Our bodies just have so many things going on inside that food and exercise are NOT the only elements that affect the scale, so don't fret if you go a day or even a week without a loss--your hard work will catch up to you in time For example, if you did a lot of strength training, your muscles could be retaining more water than usual while they heal, which could cause the scale to not go down as expected.
  • Jill's right. That Tom Venuto fellow who wrote "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle" suggests sticking to your plan for at least a week and then taking a good close look at what you did and how it turned out.
  • Quote: Our bodies just have so many things going on inside that food and exercise are NOT the only elements that affect the scale, so don't fret if you go a day or even a week without a loss--your hard work will catch up to you in time
    My head knows you are right...it's my eyes that study the scale every morning!

    From what I've been reading, I should probably be bumping up my calorie intake. I haven't been starving but I've been staying under 1000 a day. My Dr. had at one time said to stay about 600 believe it or not.
  • Quote: My Dr. had at one time said to stay about 600 believe it or not.
    Oh...well...your doctor was an idiot Good luck getting propoer nutrition on 600 calories a day Assuming, of course, there was no extreme circumstance that may actually require such a strict/severe diet.

    It frightens me that so many doctors do not know the first thing about "dieting." Shouldn't they know well enough that we should be making healthy lifestyle changes, as in for LIFE, and not starving or crash dieting? I mean, who can honestly live on 600 calories a day for the REST of their life? Don't they know that those who starve/crash are MUCH more likely to gain the weight back (and then some)?

    Anyway, end of irrelevant tangent