Everything Eaten Yesterday

B: uncooked steel-cut oatmeal w/plain ff yogurt, splenda, & cinnamon (sits overnite to soften up); hard-boiled egg; banana

L: chicken barley chili, a few carrot sticks

S: more carrots, a few grapes

D: chicken curry over whole wheat couscous, ff cottage cheese w/blueberries

S: air popped popcorn w/ 2 tsp evoo

60 oz water throughout the day.

E: 1/2 hour elliptical, 1/2 hour weight circuit - squeezed it in before the gym closed early due to the upcoming weather.

My official weigh-in is on Tuesdays, but tomorrow's meeting is cancelled. Edouard's really messing with my schedule.

1/172.6/0

Hold on tight, Mac11, better days, osso.

Coffee with milk
1/2 grapefruit
1 piece toast
3 slices turkey
3 slices ham
2 bananas
Coffee
biscotti
Two swallows of orange juice right out of the container.
Salmon w/capers on bed
of steamed spinach.
1 qt seltzer with a little gatorade mixed in.

6.3 miles -- 950 cal (My watch tells me how many CAL per mile)

4/199.5/-.6

What I like about this is what shows up. K's three donuts per year,(right) someone else's "I hardly ever have.", osso's stress induced mis-order(fishcakes so far from the sea.) And check out my biscotti - sucker has 7g of fat - i read the label AFTER I dipped it in the coffee feeling smug because I hadn't gotten the Chunk Cookie.... better days to all of us.

Joe(heading out to a beautiful 73 degree morning)Nation

Yesterday:
Breakfast: 2 packets, Quaker Instant Oatmeal
1 Fish Oil Capsule

Lunch: Dr. McDougall's Black Bean w/Lime, 1 serving
Sensible foods sweet corn, 3 servings

Dinner: Banquet Skinless Fried Chicken, 4 oz
Skim Milk, 1 cup
Mixed greens salad (14 oz)
Asparagus, 4 spears, medium (5-1/4" to 7" long)

Snack: Mixed Fruit, 1 cup
Stonyfield Farm Fat Free Key Lime, 6 oz
1 medium gala apple

CALORIES 1608 CARBS 284 g FAT 26 g PROTEIN 63 g Sodium 2659

Salt and carbs were a little high but it was "cheat night".

Found myself hitting a bag of corn chips and munching on cheese late last night. It was purely stress/emotional eating. I should have gone to bed.


Food:
first thing - 8 oz cranwater with 1 TBS ground flax seed
coffee - black, unsweetened

breakfast - poached egg on a bed of steamed greens, red peppers and onions.

late morning - 1 ea. peach, nectarine, and plum.

late lunch - mixed salad with Santa Fe dressing and 2 oz turkey breast

pre-dinner - 2 glasses red wine

dinner - bulgoki and Korean side dishes

late night - too many corn chips and too much cheese that didn't even taste good as I was eating it. Taste had nothing to do with it. Shoulda gone to bed.

3/177.5/+1

bao
banana

ham sandwich on 12 grain bread

nectarine

crunchy granola bar

wine

baked salmon
brown rice
garden salad

2 small eclairs (very small, teensy, miniscule, hardly worth mentioning,
really)

guava nectar with selzer and vodka.

3/171.2/-0.4

Oh boy, does that ever resonate!

B: shredded wheat & bran, skim milk, cherries
L: chicken curry, whole wheat couscous, broccoli
S: ff cottage cheese
D: artichokes avgalemono, a bit of feta, 2 bites of bread
S: air popped popcorn w/ 2 tsp evoo

48 oz water throughout the day

E: used my exercise bands for the first time - 30 minutes or so

2/172.6/0

B:Coffee with milk
1/2 grapefruit
1 piece toast

S:Coffee
Bagel

L:Yogurt w/blueberries

S:Banana/Choc Vivanna 250c
Cookie 420c*

D:Lamb stew (tomatos, onions, eggplant, garlic no fat or oils. yum)
Diet coke
Mileage 5.15/ 692cal Did a little work on the weight line too.

5/199.5/-.6

*snack frigging wiped out the mileage. hm. what was i thinking?


Joe(better days for all us of today)Nation

Better days, amen.

Yesterday I definitely underate.

Breakfast: Instant Oatmeal, 2 packets
Fish Oil Capsule

Lunch (this was a salad nicoise): Tuna, 4 oz
Egg white, 1 serving
2 c. Mixed Salad Greens,
Green Beans (snap), 1/4 cup
Baked Potato, with skin, 1 medium (2-1/4" to 3-1/4" dia.)
2 tablespoons vinaigrette

Dinner: Parmesan Cheese, grated, 1 tbsp
Skim Milk, 1 cup
14 oz homemade slow cooker bean soup
14 oz mixed salad

Snack: 1 c mixed fruit
Stonyfield Farm Fat Free Key Lime, 6 oz
1 medium apple

CALORIES 1314 CARBS 221 g FAT 14 g PROTEIN 79 g Sodium 1333 mg

bolo bao
coffee

butternut crunch donut (someone brought them in to work - I was ambushed!)

ham and cheese sandwich on 12 grain bread

nectarine

crunchy granola bar

martini

boiled lobster
steamers
drawn butter
bottle o beer

2 small elcairs

14 dragon eyes

4/170.0/-1.6

Yesterday was not a good day. 'nuf said.

Food:
first thing - 8 oz cranwater with 1 TBS ground flax seed
coffee - black, unsweetened

breakfast - peach and berry smoothie with cranwater and whey protein.

late morning - the rest of the smoothie, reblended.

late lunch - egg salad sandwich.

pre-dinner - bourbon and branch

snacky dinner - fresh broccoli and ranch dressing, almonds, salami slices, swiss cheese slices.

late night - the rest of M's bacon pizza that she was bringing home from work after her shift at the local pizza joint. You see -- we needed to run to the grocery store and pick up a couple things after I picked her up from work, and the car smelled like bacon pizza which she was raving about, and she offered me one piece while we were driving to the store, and then we got stuck at the railroad crossing so I had one more, and then there was this very long red light, and then there was only one small piece left so we decided I should eat it so that she could throw away the box on the way into the grocery store.

5/178.5/+2

Dinner out tonight -- this is not going in the right direction.

cranwater?

1 oz pure cranberry juice with 7 oz water. Very refreshing.

No sweetener?

no -- that's why you only use 1 oz. I like it but it's pretty tart. Using it in a smoothie is sweeter due to the fruit -- or you can add a sweentener if you like it sweet.

No way I'm reporting yesterdays consumption. Not even sure I could remember.

I'm not being good today, either.

I'll get on track tomorrow. I'm sure you all will help me stick to that.

I stopped 'cause I was starting to obsess, and obsess + diet does NOT work for me. I really seem to do best when I just don't think about it.


Basically, normal is:

- Go grocery shopping, get a selection of food, mostly but not all healthy.

- Get hungry.

- Open refrigerator/pantry, take out food, eat food. (Mostly or entirely healthy.)

- Move on.


Obsessing is:

- Get hungry.

- Open refrigerator/ pantry, scan.

- See something unhealthy.

- Think "I shouldn't eat that, it's unhealthy."

- Commence to craving the unhealthy thing.

- Try to convince self to eat something healthier.

- Select healthier thing.

- Be unsatisfied with healthier thing.

- Glare at unhealthy thing.

- Do some complex rationalizations.

- Eat unhealthy thing.

I'm tellin'.

One thing ('cause I already posted). NY Times had something about making what is essentially insta-ice cream. Plastic ziploc bag of whatever you want to freeze, tucked inside larger plastic ziploc (think gallon size, with the smaller one being quart) filled with salted ice. 30 minutes in the freezer, take out and shake every now and then. Gonna try it this weekend.

We've been making smoothies; it's the fruit and milk at night, just blended together with ye olde stick blender. Very indulgent-feeling. But tonight is cantaloupe which I think we'll eat as God intended (with a spoon).

I will report on the results of the smoothie ice cream experiment, uh, whenever I do it.

My favorite smoothie:

- Chunks of frozen mangoes (I get mine from Trader Joe's, you could also make your own from fresh mangoes)
- Chunks of frozen bananas (I "make" these)
- Yogurt (I use lowfat vanilla organic yogurt)
- Milk

No real "right" proportion, depends on your preferences. I like to add just enough yogurt and milk to enable it to blend, but the end product is very thick.

The mangoes and bananas give it a really good texture and sweetness, but there aren't any added sweeteners.