Tue (8-28) TOTAL CALORIES: 1073

Coffee, two cups (By the way, I only list drinks that have calories. I put enough creamer in my coffee that I have to count it.)
Breakfast:Toast with sugar free marmalade

Early Lunch: Homemade soup

Snack: Apple
Coffee
Late Lunch: Baked Potato with bacon, onion, and green pepper. 1/2 cup milk

I fried the bacon and cooked the onion and green pepper in the bacon grease. I put it on top of the baked potato. It was good.

I learned a long time ago that one way to keep a baked potato from being so dry-- instead of adding sour cream and butter-- is to add water, a teaspoon full at a time. Mash it into the potato and it gives enough moisture that the lack of butter and sour cream are not as noticeable.
Later: Collard Greens and a boiled egg


Tue, Aug 28 2007
coffee 40
Toast and sugar free marmalade 110
soup 250
Apples - Fresh Fruit 80
coffee 40
baked potato 110
bacon, one slice 35
onion and pepper 25
onion and pepper 25
Fleishmans olive oil margarine 30
coffee 40
milk 1/2 cup 60
Total Calories Consumed 845
toast with sugar free marmalade 110
Collards, 1 cup 40
Egg, Whole - Cooked, Hard-boiled 78
Total Calories Consumed 1,073

Responses to this blog

I didn't even think of putting a counter on my blog when I began it six weeks ago, but this week I did. I have been quite amazed at how many people are dropping by. Not like for someone "famous" or anything, but certainly more than I'm getting daily on my baSfsoGp blog.

Anyhow, I got a comment this morning from Big Daddy D so I went right over and checked out his site. It looks like it will be a wonderful resource and motivation for continuing on my diet. And I appreciated his comments.

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Postscript: I went back and delved further into his site plus went to some of the links of those who commented there and it looks like I have been provided with a positive "gold mine" of information.

This is really going to help me because I've been thinking ahead to how I am going to maintain my weight loss and I'm convinced that I will HAVE TO watch what I eat MOST days. That means I need a good supply of alternative eating than what I usually indulge in.

Back in 2004 I lost the weight I am trying to lose again. I used what I called a "modified South Beach" approach. (I watched my carbs but not my fats. I worked to keep my carbs at around 100 a day.)

It worked.

Maybe it shouldn't have, but it did.

I lost around 25 pounds.

The problem was that I went back to eating like I had always eaten after I lost it and I went back with "gusto" I guess because I ended up heavier than I was before.

All this weight stuff has been a problem for me because up until I was in my mid forties, I was very satisfied with my weight. (I was about 155 in 1992. And I liked being that size. It was 15 pounds less than what I'm going for now--as seen in my goal weight picture.) I could eat like I wanted to and not worry about weight.

When I started gaining (at the rate of 3/4 a pound a month), I had this misconception in my mind that-- since I'd never had a problem with my weight before-- I would reach a plateau and stop. That didn't happen. I just kept going up to the tune of about 8 pounds a year.

Up until then I had done a lot of walking but I began to have problems with my feet and had to stop that. No doubt that was one of the reasons I had been able to keep my weight down. Without the walking to offset my eating, I kept on gaining. By 1999 I had gained over fifty pounds!!!

In 2004, using that "modified South Beach" approach, I lost down to 170.

That may sound like a lot (and it still throws me into the "overweight" range) but it is really as far as I care anything about going down to. (It is the weight I was in my goal picture). I doubt I'll change my mind about that.

If I can get back to the size I am here, I will be happy regardless of the fact that 170 SOUNDS big.

But after I got the weight off, I had a birthday and a number of my friends -- at different times-- took me to my favorite Mexican restaurant. And I ate everything I wanted to eat.

I could not bring myself to go back to limiting my carbs. It was such a radical change from what I wanted to eat. I like Mexican food. I like corn. I like buttered bread. I like popcorn. I like cornbread and pintos. I like baked potatoes--loaded. And from time to time I like a big ol' piece of chocolate cake with plenty of icing. Or cobbler.

So when I'd think of losing my weight, the thought of not enjoying my carbs held me back. That is why I ended up taking the calorie counting approach.

Silly.

Because when you start counting calories, it doesn't take long to realize that a whole lot of what is high in calories is high in carbs. So if you are going to be successful, guess what?! You have to cut carbs. The cakes, cookies, doughnuts, and cobblers have to go. You can't just eat all the corn on the cob you'd like to eat heaped with butter. You have to pass on the loaded baked potato (not the potato, just the load).

The thing I liked about my "modified South Beach" diet was that I didn't have to count calories. I was watching WHAT I ate, not how much. I don't remember getting hungry when I did that diet.

But I learned a VERY IMPORTANT LESSON that I'm trying hard to keep in mind now. I cannot just diet and then be done with it. If I really want to keep my weight down, I will have to be careful about what I eat MOST OF THE TIME for the rest of my life. (LA-Lifestyle Adjustment)

And that is one reason I am thrilled to have been given this resource, and this one, and this one, and this one to find good recipes that will satisfy my taste buds and not blow my diet and also the motivation to keep on watching what I am eating.