Wow, I was just telling this to the dd's the other day. When they were home from school, I did notice that we were eating on the same schedule. I read somewhere that it's not until the age of 4 or so that kids turn off their natural sensations and learn to eat for other reasons. Is it any coincidence that age that age they enter structured school programs that eliminate morning snack and make kids wait til lunch to eat? I told them that I am now eating naturally, as are they, and explained to them that artificial demands of a busy life is what causes us to change nature. On that note, I had to send a note to school on day 2 this year bc they had the 4th graders waiting until 12:55 to eat lunch! I sent in a livid note asking how they could expect kids to go for 5 hours without eating - that it wasn't even healthy for adults to do so! And heaven help the before care kids who are eating at 6:30! A note came home in the backpacks that nite announcing they would now get to bring a non-carby snack that they can eat at 10:00!

Very true for me as well. When we do these kind of plans we are often isolated without a support group who knows the challenges of being successful on something like this!

Fran, I know this is part of the problem we have with the middle school kids who come in after school. Some of them have lunch as early as 10:45 am! When I get them at 2:15 they haven't eaten for nearly 4 hours - and unless their parents send them with snacks or $$ - and most don't - they won't eat again until 5 or 6 pm! I'd love to have a vending machine with healthy snacks but I can just envision the problems that would entail!

Glad your kids can now have snacks in school.

I worry about my kids too, whether they eat often enough at school....


My meals for today:
2 eggs, english muffin, cheese
orange
turkey sandwich (ahem, serving of coffee ice cream....I swear I have been off plan more this week than in a long time)
greek yogurt, blueberries
turkey slices, tomatoes, pickles, laughing cow cheese
tilapia, broccoli, marinara sauce (works for me!)

2 miles sprint intervals woven with squats, lunges, step ups, hops, skips, and planks.

Okay, I'll bite - was the marinara sauce on the fish or the broccoli??

My day was reasonably as planned,though since my morning snack morphed into a ff latte, my cottage cheese afternoon snack didn't get eaten (but the apple and cheese did). I had my planned dinner after the gym, and now at 9:20 I'm growling stomach hungry. I think some pb toast with a cup of tea will hit the spot.

DId I tell you how pleased the doc was this morning - both with all my various numbers (BP esp) and the fact I'm down 2 lbs. He really "gets" how hard weight loss/maintenance is.

Fran: overhere kids in elementary school take a mid morning snack and their sandwich lunch with them, as do most middle schoolers. most adults pack sandwiches for lunch as well and only get a soup or milk from the cafetaria at work. My DD especially always packs a lot of food and snacks into her school bag. She knows she has a tendency to migraine if her blood sugar gets too low.

My meal plan for day 6:
m1: yoghurt, OJ, yeast, bran, pp (eaten)
m2: ff cc with cherries from a pot
m3: grilled cheese sandwich, maybe a soup
m4: ff cc with cherries
m5 3/8 of broccoli cheese quiche leftover from yesterday
m6: ???

:lol: I layer it, Pat. Broccoli, then fish, then sauce and eat it all together.

How's it going with that volcano up there?

Morning. The volcano is kinda lurking. It's causing some seismic activity, but still in a "Watch" mode by the Volcano Observatory. What is here again is SNOW! About 5" already and still coming down. MY DH has gone to Anchorage, and I hope the roads are clear. He drives a small Toyota pickup with a shell on the back, but those things have notoriously bad traction.

Meals today, hmmm.

B - rest of yesterday's oatmeal with fixin's; ww toast with Laughing Cow Light
S - cottage cheese with strawberries
L - shrimp salad (i.e. green salad with shrimp on it)
S - pear, cheese
D - spruce grouse; brown rice; broccoli (or other veg)

Exercise: active rest day - square dancing tonight

:crossed: Wishing safe travels for your DH Pat. Wow. Volcanic activity. I really need to plug into current events more.

Midwife: I'm having tilapia tonight too. Sans the layered style though. I like my food to be separate. :lol:

Fran: That is a crazy long time for kids to go without lunch. Fortunately, my DS has scheduled lunch at 11:05. They are also allowed to graze in the classroom if they need to as well. (It's a rather progressive elementary school. I'm so glad he's there.)

Food today: I've been crazy busy a couple of my meals were eaten on the run. Good thing tomorow is my FREE DAY! :woohoo:

M1 Protein Oatmeal
M2 Pure Protein bar :rolleyes: It was post workout (two hours at the gym) and between the grocery and pickup from preschool
M3 4 oz of turkey with taco seasoning over lettuce
M4 Lite cheese stick, 6 almonds
M5 Tilapia, 1/2 c long grain brown rice, broccoli, and fruit
M6 1/2c cottage cheese 1/2c applesauce, warmed

Today:

2 eggs, english muffin, cheese
orange, cottage cheese, blueberries
turkey sandwich
cottage cheese, blueberries
string cheese, tomatoes
greek yogurt, blueberries
1 hr CORE CAMP! Dd is excited, me I'm terrified!!
protein shake
hmmm.....tilapia and spinach. yum!

Today my choices were:

1. 2 Beaters scrambled on ww tortilla wrap. I threw in a slice of lf cheese. This meal did not sit well w/me for some reason - I felt very uncomfortable, full in the chest afterward. Perhaps it was too much food since I doublled the amount of eggs plus added the cheese. Oh well, it had to get me thru volunteering at dd's school this morning.

2. Grocery store salad bar. Which promptly made me sick 1 hr later for about 4 hours. Hmm, fun times. Not. Obviously can't be doing that anymore.

3. Muffin (sshh!) I bought these at the store for my free day on Sunday, but needed something portable to get thru swim team practice tonite (away from home from 5-9, didn't want to drag a lunchbox!)

4. An unmentionable dinner, chosen at 9 pm not at home, that proves the best choices are not made in a lurch. May have to reconsider bestowing my free day to day. :rolleyes: Clearly the salad dressing was too high in fat if it put my stomach on red alert, so the whole day outside of breakfast was a wash - altho pretty much planned it that way.

Fran, do you think you might have a stomach bug? Sounds like you were a little queasy all day.

Today:
granola, small amt skim milk, protein shake
2 eggs, black beans, small potato, red chile, cheese (I am very proud of this as the rest of the family is having breakfast burritos from a local restaurant--DD has been asking for one for several weeks---she works out 3 times a day most days of the week and is a calorie furnace---I chose to NOT have one from the restaurant and prepared a reasonable alternative. :drool: Yeah!!)

The rest of the day will be on plan. I'm going to the store so I don't have specifics but I will be well stocked for the upcoming week.

Exercise was a 4.5 mile run. About 2 miles into it is a set of 3 hills, about 50 yards each, that are steeper than a stairway. At the top of each is a little platform before you turn and go up another hill. That was my HIIT for the run. I would plow up one hill, recover, plow up the next, recover and plowed up the third. Whoo! It's a little neighborhood in the foothills and the street is named Puma Place, or some such. Yea, runners and pumas are the only critters that would even try it on foot.

Hey Lydia, well, they're separate. I eat the egg whites whole. :D Sorry to disappoint you in a fabulous new creation! Hope you had a good weekend nonetheless.

I've decided to repeat my meals starting tomorrow, so I may have nothing new and exciting to post unless I create some super delish combo I want to tell everyone about! My egg wrap on Saturday went much better. Left off the wrap and ate clementines instead. Also added extra protein to my eggs via ham.

I'm really happy with my progress in the first week - hope everyone else is seeing good things too! So happy you all joined me on this journey! :hug: