Everything Eaten Yesterday

Jimmy Dean biscuit sandwich w sausage, egg & cheese
apple cider
roast beef on oatnut
2 clementines
granola bar
wine, ketchup shrimp, tofu with oyster sauce, rice
egg nog

four miles at a reasonable pace

Monday
B: fiber one, skim milk, banana, hb egg white
L: leftover chicken barley chili, celery & carrots
S: mini bag of 94% ff popcorn, grapes
E: 25 min elliptical, 10 min bike, weights
D: broccoli, ff cottage cheese, ww hi fiber bagel w/sf jam
S: apple, ff yogurt

day 469/163.2/-9.4

Yesterday, I hit every single goal (fat, calories, sodium, vitamins, everything, lots of stuff I don't show on this topic). That's rare.

Oh and we'll be away for a few days, in the minefield of eating known as Thanksgiving. Be back on Monday; I doubt either of us will be able to check in before then. Hugs to all!

Yesterday:
Breakfast: Cheerios Cereal, 1 cup
Walnuts, 0.5 oz (7 halves)
sensible foods apple harvest, 1 serving
sensible foods cherry berry, 1 serving

Lunch: Jespah's Bean Soup (slow cooker), 1 serving
Quinoa, 0.25 cup
Broccoli, 2 cups
2 Turkey Burgers

Dinner: Rice Cakes, 2 cakes
Smart Balance Buttery Spread, 1 tbsp
Jespah's Bean Soup (slow cooker), 1 serving
Skim Milk, 1 cup
14 oz mixed greens salad

Snack: Apples, fresh, 1 medium
Fruit Salad, 1.25 cup
Yogurt, Stonyfield Farm fat free plain (6 oz)

CALORIES 1612 CARBS 216 g FAT 45 g PROTEIN 93 g Sodium: 1474 mg

Jimmy dean biscuit sandwich w sausage, egg & cheese
apple cider
ham & cheese on oatnut
2 clementines
granola bar
Dunkin Donuts latte (yuck!)
banana
wine, cashew shrimp & chicken, bok choy, rice
gatorade
egg nog

3 miles along the bike trail at noon and a gym session with Rhys at night

Happy T-giving everyone! Good luck with the food minefields.

Tuesday
B: fiber one, skim milk, banana, hb egg white
L: big salad w/spinach & other veggies, grilled chicken, a small amount of lf balsamic dressing
S: mini bag of 94% ff popcorn
E: 35 min elliptical, 20 min bike
D: 1/4 rotisserie chicken, green beans, ff cottage cheese
S: ff yogurt

day 470/162.2/-9.4 (lost the pound I gained last week)

It doesn't take much... .
Thanksgiving. I thought I was doing okay.
B: roll and coffee, a piece of banana bread
L: (which was pretty much from 11AM to 4PM)
Some cheese and crackers, nuts encrusted with something gooey, and a slice of baked brie, a glass, no, two, glasses of wine.
E: tramped through the woods with the nieces and my sister. mebbe 3/4 mile.
D: turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, two glasses of wine, potatoes and gravy, slivers of apple, pumpkin and my own creation, brownie/cheesecake pie. A glass of dessert wine that my brother has been trying to get rid of for years. (mostly sugar).
Friday:
B: coffee/bagel
R: ran a mile and half (lovely, but freezing cold wind)
L: chicken and salsa, leftover slice of apple pie, milk
S: two pieces of fudge
D: lamb stew and two beers.
487/181.5/that's a four pound gain. Crap! And Happy Holidays to everyone!

Oh, I almost forgot, I also drank in the laughter of my friends and family, feasted on their wit filled company and tried to serve up as much of my love as their plates and hearts could hold.

Joe(Cheers!)Nation

I weighed less on my home scale on Thursday morning than I've probably weighed since I was 14 (161). But that's unofficial. I'm up 1 1/2 now. All my pre-T-giving focus was working. I need to apply some more of that and see where I am for the official weigh-in on Tuesday.

Wednesday
B: fiber one, skim milk, banana, hb egg white
L: leftover chicken barley chili
E: 35 min elliptical, weights
D: 1/4 rotisserie chicken, green beans, ff cottage cheese
S: ff yogurt, air popped popcorn

Thursday
B: banana, ff yogurt
E: walked an hour
L: leftover chili
D: a little turkey; lots of cauliflower salad; dabs of: spinach madeleine, buttered rutabaga, sweet potatoes; plenty of fruit salad. Hours later I succumbed to a sliver of my sister's pumpkin cheesecake. There were six desserts including the two kinds of cookies I brought.
S: apple

Friday
B: banana, fiber one, yogurt
L: leftover bulgur & veggies
S: mini bag of 94% ff popcorn
D: chicken/brown rice/black beans, spinach, ff cottage cheese
S: apple

days 471-473/162.2/-9.4

B: Coffee and banana and a bagel
L: omelette, salsa, cheese
E: 3 hard miles. (not enough)
D: Chicken and gravy and cranberry sauce
S: two beers and a piece of cheese/brownie while watching Notre Dame's coach and Kansas' coach coach their last games.
484/181.9/ ok . THAT's it for this holiday. Not waiting until tomorrow. four pounds up. Crikey!

B: bagel and coffee, banana
E: 7 miles down the river, slow
L: chicken and salad, water
D: hamburger and spinach, diet coke, piece of cheesecake(!)
485/180.8/that's down but up for the week.

17 days until vacation.

Stuffing
Chicken
French Fries
Apple Juice
(had a busy day and nothing else was in the fridge :-D )

Saturday
B: banana, hb egg
E: walked 1:40
L: ww lite english muffin, sf jam, broccoli
S: apple
D: cup of seafood gumbo w/a little rice, green salad w/lite italian, 1 and 1/2 lite beers
S: orange, air popped popcorn

Sunday
B: banana
E: walked 1:10
L: leftover chicken/brown rice/black beans
S: apple, popcorn
D: brown rice sushi (salmon), broccoli, ff cottage cheese
S: ff yogurt

Monday
B: apple, fiber one, skim milk, hb egg white
L: leftover chicken barley chili, celery
S: mini bag of 94% ff popcorn, grapes
E: 35 min elliptical, weights
D: brown rice, broccoli, ff cottage cheese
S: ff yogurt

days 474-476/162.2/-9.4

Got a lot to report (and RP is going to want the PC soon) but we are back.

Will BBL. It was a good weekend and I did lose but man oh man I had to be really, really focused.

I also attended my 30th HS reunion. Will see about uploading a pic.

B: corn muffin (teeny one) Coffee, grapefruit
L: quesadilla, diet coke
E: lots of arm work, got my yoga mat out and stretched, ran 1/2 mile up the stairs and around the nabe to get bread and wine.
D: Minestrone soup, bread, wine. Roasted a turkey, stripped it and had a few bits of meat here and there. Cheesecake brownie. (the last one)
486/180.3/-19.8
just looked that's five pounds up from 60 days ago. arrgh.
17 days to vacation

Hovering at 147

Oatnut toast with butter smidge (got to make up some spicy hummus as butter substitute)
2 coffees, splashes

Homemade black beans, olive oil, jalapenos, garlic/pasilla chile pwdr/japanese rice/1/2 sliced bratwurst - good (have been eating that for days now since I made a big batch, keeping rice and beans separated).

lascivious slice of Port Salut on sesame semolina bread

glass of homemade near frozen limoncello with many ice cubes

gerolsteiner water

I don't really want to make this an enormous post. Most of the time I had oatmeal for breakfast and I had a buncha PBJs for lunch, or leftovers. Dinners were turkey-based, generally. Sorry if this isn't up to my usual detailed standards; I'm just mentally wiped. But - here are the averages for 11/25 - 11/30:

Calories 1577.66 (lower than usual)
Fat 25.33 g (very low)
Carbs 258.33 g (in range but I did have one very high day)
Protein 84.17 g (in range)
Sodium 2124.7 mg (in range but a couple of days were very high)

Original Weight: 346 lbs.
Current Weight: 178.6 lbs.
Difference from last week: down 2.8 lbs.
Overall difference: down 167.4 lbs.

In another 6 lbs. I will have lost half my starting weight.

Oh and here I am, this was taken right before my reunion on Saturday. The skirt is a size 12 and too big for me:

You do it, Jes.!

B: grapefruit, coffee, toast
L: ham/cheese/brownie crumbs/water
E: arm work and three miles in the blowing wind.
D: Hamburger/tomatoes/ tea
S: Brownies and milk
487/179.3/weight is down but the graph continues up.

@ the hotel (Montreal): scrambled eggs, raisin toast w butter, croissant, o.j.
@ Prete a Manger (Montreal) : braised beef hotpot, rice
black bean bun
@ Panera Bread (Woburn MA): half a tuna salad sandwich
and a bowl of cream of chicken soup, bag of chips

Thanks, JN!

Yesterday:
Breakfast: Cheerios Cereal, 1 cup
Blueberries, fresh, 0.5 cup
Jam, 1 tbsp
Jif Creamy Peanut Butter, reduced fat, 1 tbsp
Fiber One Country White Bread, 2 servings

Lunch: Tuna, Canned in Water, 3 oz
Fiber One Country White Bread, 2 servings
Broccoli, 1 cup

Dinner: Skim Milk, 1 cup
14 oz mixed greens salad
Slow Cooker Penicillen, 1 serving
Low Sodium Matzoh Balls, 1 serving
Rice Cakes, 2 cakes
Guacamole, 1 serving

Snack: Apples, fresh, 1 medium
Fruit Salad, 1.25 cup
Yogurt, Stonyfield Farm fat free plain (6 oz)

CALORIES 1630 CARBS 273 g FAT 30 g PROTEIN 100 g Sodium: 2224 mg

Jes, you look great! Congrats on the excellent week. I know you're glad to get back to home and a semi-normal routine.

Tuesday
B: apple, fiber one, skim milk
L: turkey, mixed veggies
D: leftover turkey meatloaf, green beans, ff cottage cheese
S: ff yogurt, air popped popcorn

days 477/162/-9.6 (down 0.2 from last week)

B:toast, coffee, grapefruit
E: ran five plus miles in the Heights (that mostly UP and down)
Did some serious yoga, some arm exercises too.
L: soup and the last of the brownies, Gatorade
D: Turkey and gravy on toast, tea
S: Bananas and a hot chocolate
488/178.9/down but the trend-line keeps headed up. -21.2