BREAKFASTS: 7/17-8/31

Eggs:
Two Hard boiled eggs (156)= 156

Fried Egg (93) and toast (80) = 173

Egg in a "nest" Fried egg(93), toast with butter (170) =263

2 slices bacon (103), fried egg (93), toast (100) =296


Sandwich: Sausage(220), fried egg(93), lettuce, tomato(7),
wheat bread (138), mayo (27)= 485


Peanut butter toast. 1 Tbsp Peanut butter (94), Arnold's bread (120),
sugar free marmalade (10)=224

Cereal:
Quaker's packaged oatmeal:  Apples and Cinnamon (130), milk (63)= 193

Post with Almonds (130) and a Banana (105), milk (63) =303

1 1/2 cups raisin bran (285), banana (105), 1/2 cup milk (63)= 453

 


At home mornings (tide me over until lunch)
Banana (105) blended with 1/2 cup 2% milk (63) = 168

Toast (120) with sugar free marmalade (10) =130

Nature Valley Oats 'n' Honey Breakfast Bars (180) = 180

LUNCH /SNACKS: 7/17-8/31

LUNCH: Sandwich and veggies-- almost every day.

Sandwich: The bread varies, therefore the calories vary accordingly.
The meat is from the Subway Sandwich packs that come from Sam's-- four slices of meat, two each of ham and turkey. (50) One piece of cheese (70) Sometimes lettuce, most of the time none.

Veggies: 1 7" stalk of celery (cut in pieces), about 4 radishes, 4 baby carrots


SNACKS:

1. Activia Yogurt (110) and an apple (65-85)
2. String cheese (60)
3. Banana (105)
4. Nature Valley Oats "n' Honey bars (180)
5. Green Tea, sweetened (80)
6. Peanuts, 1 Tbsp (108)
7. Nectarine (65)
8. Sugar free jello (10)
9. 1 peanut butter cracker-- 1 Tbsp peanut butter (47), 2 snack crackers (50)
10. Milk (63) Cereal (130)
11. 97% fat free Popcorn (120) and diet coke
12. 1 peanut butter cookie (50), 1/2 cup milk (63)

MEALS 7/17- 8/31

1. Ground beef patty (211) with Mushrooms (22) and Onions (46); Asparagus (30) with Fleishman's margarine (70) = 379
2. 2 Breaded fish fillets (320)
   Green beans (27)
   Slaw (21 for cabbage) made with vinegar, sweetener, 1 tsp mayo (20)= 388
   
3. Soup: 1 1/2 cups -- a can of Healthy choice Garden Veg mixed with Campbell's _?_Gumbo. One would have been 120 calories per cup, the other 140. I mixed them and ate a cup and a half =195
   
4. Salad made with lettuce (6) , radishes (1) , cucumber (1) , tomato (6) , 1 Tbsp sunflower seeds (50) , 1/4 cup grated cheese (110), 1 Tbsp Hellman's light mayo (50), vinegar & sweetener= 224
5. Homemade Bean Soup (2 cups =200)
   1 can chili beans
   1 can diced tomatoes
   1 can chicken broth
   2 Tbsp hot salsa
   1 large sweet onion
   diced green pepper, 1/4 cup
   chopped celery leaves
6. Taco salad made with lettuce, tomatoes, some mozzarella cheese and ground turkey cooked with taco seasoning and onion. Lettuce (8), Hunt's Original Diced Tomatoes (20),
   1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese (110), Onions (34), Ground Turkey ( 225) = 397
7. Tuna Salad (500 for the whole thing!!)
   One can of Starkist Tuna, drained
   Celery, cubed about 3/4 cup
   1 slice onion, grated
   2 boiled eggs
   1 pickle, chopped
   1 Tbsp pickle juice
   4 tsp. Hellman's light mayonnaise
   
   I figured the calories for everything that went into it and came up with total calories of about 500. I ate the whole thing as a breakfast/lunch combo before going into work at 12.
8. Tilapia (93) , slaw (40) , and green beans(18) and sugar free lemonade = 151
   Slaw
   Grated cabbage
   Diced Green pepper
   Minced Onion
   Salt, Pepper
   Jalepeno vinegar
   Hellman's Light Mayo, 2 Tbs
   Slaw made four servings
   about 40 calories each
9. Grilled Chicken breast (320) with Allegro sauce (12) and stir fry veggies (40) = 372
10. Beef ( 3.5 oz beef 315) and stirfry vegs = 400
11. Great Northern Beans ( 1/2 cup, 110), Baked Potato (163) , and Slaw ( 80) = 353
12. Salmon Salad
    1/2 cup canned salmon (180)
    2 stalks celery chopped
    2 Tbsps chopped onion
    2 chopped radishes
    1 Tbsp raisins
    1 Tbsp Hellman's light mayo
    1/2 jalapeño pepper chopped
    jalapeño pepper juice
    1 packet sugar substitute
    Total calories all ingredinets: 272
13. Glory Tomatoes and Okra over spaghetti noodles (220) topped with Parmesan cheese (40) = 260
14. Healthy Choice Chicken Noodle Soup (200) with some onion (16) and celery (9) added= 225
15. Glory Red Beans and Rice (3/4 c -135) and Slaw with green pepper, onion, mayo (83) =218
16. Progresso Chicken Noodle soup, 2 cups = 180
17. Spaghetti: Noodles (178) and meat sauce (1 cup 250) = 428
18. Broiled Tilapia (98) and Vegetable mixture (203) =301
    

    I wanted a potato. So I cleaned and cut one (128) into small pieces (chunky slices) and started cooking it in about a teaspoon and half of Fleishmann's olive oil spread (35). Veggies - green pepper, onion, three baby carrots,celery and some jalapeño peppers (40).

19. Baked Potato (110) with bacon (35) , onions and green peppers (50) = 195. Small baked potato (warm water added for moisture),
    salt and pepper and a topping of
    1/3 cup green peppers, chopped
    1/3 cup chopped onions
    1 small jalapeño pepper sautéed with
    1 slice of bacon
20. Glory Collard Greens (40) and a boiled egg (78)= 118
    
    

Post workover

I can see that if my "diet journal" is going to be any help to me, I'm going to have to go back and re-work the way I have things listed so that I can more easily find the calorie content of something I prepared for myself in the past.

Either that or I can go back and do a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly listing. Maybe I'll do it that way.

Comments

I'm not trying to work out my "Carb Cycling Turbo" days or even my "Wendie" days so that they actually fit the framework that someone has created that seems to know more about what they are doing than I do. (By the way, the Wendie plan is supposed to be an acceleration for Weight Watchers and the Carb Cycling Turbo plan I linked to is supposed to accelerate loss on a LA WeightLoss diet. Both feel the concept can be adapted to other diet plans.)

What I am doing by having "low carb" days and "Wendie" days is keeping myself from getting "burned out" over how I am eating. I am doing this because I know that I am going to have to figure out a way to make watching my weight something I do for the rest of my life. I do NOT want to get so tired of depriving myself that I just give up on it all.

So this is how I figure it: If I can splurge a day a week -- or change to another "plan" so that I can eat something I'd like to eat that the plan I am using is depriving me of -- and NOT gain lasting weight because of it, then it will help me to stick to a long term plan for getting my weight down to where I want it to be and KEEPING IT THERE.

While it would be nice to just stick to something and see the weight come off faster, I would not really be gaining anything by doing that if --when I reach my goal-- I'm so sick of watching what I eat that I stop watching and go back to eating whatever I want to eat.

I'm trying to set myself up for long-term success rather than reaching a certain point on the scales and then throwing weight watching out the window. That is what I did in 2004 and I ended up bigger than I was before I went on that diet. I DO NOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN AGAIN.

Sat (9-1) TOTAL CALORIES: 1141

Coffee, two cups
Breakfast: Oats 'n' Honey bars
Snack: 1/4 medium cantaloupe
Lunch: Sandwich and salad

Sandwich was on two 100 calories each slices of bread with 50 calories of meat
Salad was 80 calories of Ranch done right dressing and the rest and estimate of the salad ingredients

Snack: Yogurt
Snack: 2 string cheeses

Supper: Tilapia fillet, broiled and slaw

Slaw (94)
1 cup cabbage (21)
1/4 cup chopped green pepper (7)
2 T onion, chopped (8)
1 jalapeño pepper, finely chopped (4)
4 baby carrots, chopped (14)
1 Tbsp Hellman's lite mayo (4)
lemon juice
packet sugar substitute

1/8 piece of cantaloupe

Calorie Count Log:
Sat, Sept 1, 2007
coffee 40
coffee 40
Oats&Honey Breakfast bars 180
1/4 Melon, Cantaloupe 47
1 string cheese 60
1 string cheese 60
Sandwich 250
Salad 120
Yogurt 110
Total Calories Consumed 907
Cabbage - Raw 89 21
1/4 cu chopped Peppers, Sweet, Green - Raw 7
2 Tbsp Onions - Raw 8
1 Pepper, Jalapeno - Raw 4
4 Medium Baby Carrots, Raw 14
1 Tbsp mayo 40
4oz Tilapia Fillet 93
1/8 of cantaloupe 46
Total Calories Consumed 1,141