No Records Kept This Week

The bad storms and tornadoes, power outages, etc. have changed my schedule drastically and I have in house company, so I've not been keeping track of what I'm eating.

Week Six/Day Two (Tuesday)

 About 11:30   Cheese toast with some onion and hot sauce on it and a glass of diet green tea.

Lunch:  I bought a "4.99 special" from Popeye's of their crawfish.  I thought it was a shrimp basket when I got it but something I read later made me think it was crawfish.  I didn't eat the biscuit (yet)  and only about half of the fries.

Then I ate some pintos and cornbread with butter, and before bed a bowl of cereal.

Week Six/ Day One (Monday)

Oatmeal with a banana and milk(325)
Lunch: Salad and a t-bone steak
Supper:   Michelina's dinner (330) with some pineapple in it  (probably around 70)
Snack:   Onion and lettuce sandwich with a piece of cheddar cheese and a little milk and four hot chili peppers.  (Hope I sleep tonight.)

Week Five/Day Seven (Sunday)

English muffin with sausage and a fried egg

Lunch:  Yesterday's leftovers.

Week Five/Day Six (Saturday)

Off from work today.  Easter Dinner at Tesia's
I was back down in my weight.  My total weight loss this morning shows up as 12 pounds since March 21.   That's an average of 2 pounds a week.  If I could keep on losing two pounds a week, it wouldn't take me a whole year to get down to where I want to be.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with milk
Lunch: ribeye steak and a roll
Supper:  Ham, broccoli casserole, corn casserole, green beans, corn on the cob, macaroni and cheese, sweet tea, rolls, lemon pie.

Everything was very good but I took smaller portions and I didn't go back for seconds on anything... not even the pie and I only got a SMALL piece of it.

Week Five/Day Five (Friday)

I was back up that 1½ that I was down before.   Oh, well.  That's the way it goes.  To my way of thinking, I shouldn't have been because I didn't eat much yesterday.  But maybe the way it works is that what I ate on Wednesday won't show up that quickly.... although that hasn't been the case in the past.

I'd say it's more likely the fact that I got so busy yesterday doing a reset at work that I didn't stop and drink water like I normally do.  Probably all the drinking I did for all day was my coffee in the morning, my drink at lunch time, and my drink at supper.  I grab a sip of water when I went to the bathroom.  But if I don't drink water, then I retain more fluid.   So I don't imagine the weight gain is a real gain and perhaps the loss is not a real loss.  It's just a fluid fluctuation.

Breakfast:  Oatmeal and a banana
Lunch: A t-bone steak cooked in my halogen cooker
Supper:  Cottage cheese and pineapple and a 3-cheese lasagna by Michelina. 
Snack: One apple pan cake sweetened with powdered sugar

Week Five/Day Four (Thursday)

Breakfast:  Peanut Butter sandwich with a little butter on it.
No snack
Lunch:  Michelina's dinner, yogurt and fruit cup
No snack
Supper:  A salad with chicken breast from the chicken I cooked in the halogen cooker and an egg and a sandwich round.  Diet Green tea

Week Five/Day Three (Wednesday)

I was down 11½ pounds this morning.

Breakfast:  Peanut Butter sandwich

Snack:  Banana

Lunch: Pasta, Broccoli, and chicken (270), yogurt and fruit

Snack:  almonds and Diet Mt Dew

Supper   Black-eyed peas, cornbread with butter, and onion.

After church.  Cornbread and milk.

Week Five/Day Two (Tuesday)

Breakfast: Oatmeal with  a small apple  (probably around 300)
Snack:  Yogurt and a sugar cookie  (There was only one left and they were so good. 
I think this brand of yogurt is about 120 a cup and those sugar cookies are 70.  I looked them up yesterday.)

Lunch.  Another Michelina's meal.  I think it was called Chicken Alfredo Florentine.  It was 260.
And a Cherry mixed fruit cup.  70

When I came home I cooked a whole chicken in my halogen cooker and ate mainly just chicken.  I did mix up my own brand of Burger King's Zesty sauce although I didn't get complicated with the recipe.  I noticed the ingredient that made it "zesty" was horseradish so I had bought some of that.    I just mixed that with ketchup and mayonnaise and used it on some of the chicken I ate.

Before bed I had (just four) chunks of pineapple and a little cottage cheese.

Week Five/Day One (Monday)

Breakfast:  Oatmeal and milk  (no banana)  225
Lunch:  Chicken salad sandwich  (600)
Someone brought in a dessert that was made with coconut on top and looked very moist and I ate some of that.
Dinner:  Michelina's  Meatballs with noodles & gravy.  I thought it was more like 320, but maybe not.
I ate more of the coconut dessert.

Snack:  Pineapple (about 70) and three (Publix) sugar cookies with sprinkles (70 each)

Before bed:   Toast with margarine and marmalade.  (Probably 250)


The coconut dessert would be what threw me out of the ballpark.

Week Four/Day Seven (Sunday)

Breakfast:  Chicken Salad Sandwich
About 1PM  :  a banana
About 3:30:  A Michelina's Cheeseburger Mac meal
Some cookies and milk... maybe three cookies

After church:  kraut and hot sausages (180 each)
One piece of bread, with mayo and onion. 

Week Four/Day Six (Saturday)

This should be fun.   I can't remember.

Oh, yea, now I do.  I remember that by the time I got to work, I figured I had already eaten 1000 calories.

It was oatmeal and a banana for breakfast
Then I made a chicken salad from this recipe and ate a sandwich of it as I drove in to work.  I figured that sandwich was probably 600 calories because the bread alone would have been 240.  (Arnold HealthNut bread)

At work I had an apple and some almonds for a snack, then for lunch I had a Michelina's Chicken Fried Rice meal, fruit and a yogurt.   At home I ate a salad that had some craisins, some sunflower seeds, some cheese in it.  

Week Four/Day Five (Friday)

I was down eleven pounds this morning.  

Oatmeal with a banana
Lunch: Sandwich, with radishes, hot peppers and yogurt
Snack:  Fruit cup and almonds
Supper: roast and mashed potatoes
Snack:  Salad with craisins and sunflower seeds and a little Parmesan cheese

Week Four/Day Four (Thursday)

Tamales-- a whole can-- 6 at 70 calories each.    With some cheese on top
Snack:  Apple and almonds
Supper:  Soup  and a slice of Italian bread
Snack:  Probably more almonds -- can't remember
Snack before bed:  Salad with radishes, onion, salad mix, and some walnuts

Week Four (Wednesday)

Breakfast: Peanut butter and banana sandwich
Snack: Yogurt
Lunch:  Fish dinner with rice and broccoli with apples, Diet Mt Dew,  Sugar free chocolate pudding
Snack:  Almonds Mt Dew
Supper:  Black-eyed peas, cornbread, onion, diet green tea
Snack:  Pineapple and cottage cheese

Week Four/ Day Two (Tuesday)

Breakfast:  Oatmeal with a banana
Lunch:  Salad
Supper:  Black-eyed peas and cornbread with onion.  Milk to drink.
Repeated for "snack "

Week Four/ Day One

Oatmeal with a banana and milk

Yogurt

2 Crunchy tacos (80 each)
Onion Sandwich with chilies

For supper I shared a pot pie with Caleb and Cathleen.  We drank lemonade.
Before bed I ate one of their left over waffles that was covered in syrup.  I toned down the sweetness with sour cream.

Week Three/Day Six (Sunday)

Breakfast:  Oatmeal with banana and milk

Lunch:  Cooked celery, green pepper, and carrots with grilled chicken (in olive oil) Slaw w/ horseradish and pineapple

After church:  Cottage cheese and pineapple,

Week Three/Day Seven (Saturday)

Breakfast: Onion sandwich on hamburger bun

Lunch:  BBQ, potato salad, slaw, baked beans

Supper: Macaroni

Week Three/ Day Five (Friday)

For breakfast I had a chicken sandwich as I was driving into work.


Snack:  a blue berry scone that was on the breakroom table.  I thought the calorie count on the scone would not be as high as a piece of cake-- which I have left alone all week-- or the chocolate covered cream filled doughnuts--which I have also opted out on, but it looks like even they may run as much as 300 calories apiece (or more if you get them from Starbucks) This one came from a grocery store, maybe Publix.


I came home-- volunteering to split my work day-- and ate fish and slaw for lunch.  


Driving back, I drank a root beer and ate some pork skins (240)


At work:  Frozen yogurt


At home:  two onion sandwiches prepared on WHITE hamburger buns with mayo, eaten with hot chilies.   (And, no, they didn't keep me awake.  I rested well.)

Week Three/Day Four (Thursday)

This is going to me by memory.. I didn't realize I'd got so busy that I missed a whole day of keeping track.

I went to get my car tags in the morning, went shopping at Walmart, then into work at 12.

I think I ate a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, a steak and a salad for lunch, and soup for supper.

Thursday evening when I got home from work... I don't even remember what I ate before bed.

Week Three/Day Three (Wednesday)

Breakfast:  Peanut butter sandwich
Snack:  Yogurt  and chips that were left from yesterday's lunch
Lunch: Soup  and sugar free chocolate pudding
Note:  I ate NONE of the cupcakes brought in because it was Ashley's last day of work.
Snack: Apple and almonds
Supper:  Chili
Snack:

I'm still thinking.

Week Three/Day Two (Tuesday)

I was down nine and a half pounds this morning!!

Breakfast/Lunch:  Oatmeal and a banana
At work, before I started on more resets:  A breakfast bar

Snack:  Pineapple
Lunch:  A egg salad sandwich from Publix.  ( I meant for Jef to get me one from Target but I said Publix, so he went to Publix and they made a "custom" one.  It was very good, but cost more than Target's would have.

An apple and almonds..

Grapefruit-- a whole one.

4 Pancakes made with a very ripe banana and pecans with powdered sugar on top

Week Three/Day One (Monday)

I ended my fast before my 24 hours were up because when I went to work instead of doing the usual Monday morning work of pushing a pencil, I was asked to help reset.  That involves a lot of strenuous work.   So, instead of eating at 2 I ate at 12.  And I had....




Lunch:   A "small" (meaning meat wasn't doubled) burger (without cheese) at Five Guys.   I had NO fries, but I did eat the peanuts they give free for you to eat while you're waiting for the burger.
And I drank water.

I had a real energy sack about 1:30.   But a Vitamin B12 with a cup of water got me back up to normal within 15 to 20 minutes.


Supper:   I cooked myself a steak and some asparagus in my halogen cooker.   I drank milk with it.   I ate only half the steak when I had supper and finished off the rest of it with more milk just before I went to bed-- which was VERY LATE. 

Week Two/Day Seven

Sunday
Breakfast:  an egg, 2 sausage patties, on an English muffin


Lunch:  Guadalajara
 Chile Relleño(405), chalupa(350), flauta (180), Diet Coke, and chips(450) with salsa
The lunch alone was probably 1400 calories.  (All those numbers are approximations found at MyFitnessPal as Guadalajara doesn't give caloric information on its foods. 
Nothing else for the day.

On Monday morning, two weeks after I began, I was down 8 pounds.
My knees don't feel sore any more.  I'm not sure if I'm ready to give the bicycle another shot or not.   


Maybe I just need to do a wee bit at a time until my knees are strengthened.

Week Two/ Day Six

This one is a bummer...


I didn't eat until about 11 and then I ate a bowl of oatmeal with a banana and milk.


At work I ate one piece of hard candy (25)

Snack: My oatmeal ran out.  I ate a yogurt and some Quaker  "Quakes"  -- the Cheddar Cheese kind.  A co-worker brought them in.   (18 pieces are 140 calories)  I probably ate ten.


Lunch:  Soup Progresso Chicken Pot Pie soup  180  I also ate a fruit cup and drank a flavored water.


Then for a snack I ate an apple and several almonds.   And a few bite size pieces of candy


When I got home I ate three pieces of fish doused in a sauce that I made trying to mimic Burger King's Zesty sauce... which I like.   Problem with the sauce is that it's mainly mayonnaise so that ran up my calorie count.

Week Two/Day Five

Breakfast:  egg and cheese on an English muffin
Snack:  Yogurt
Lunch:  Chicken sandwich with chili peppers, carrots, fruit cup.
Snack:  Almonds and an apple

After work , eaten on the way to the hospital to visit a friend:  Chick-fil-a spicy chicken sandwich (490)

Later Josh called me up and said he and Tesia would bring over some chili for supper.  So about 8PM I ate a bowl of chili with some cheese and sour cream put into it, a cheese biscuit with real butter, and a root beer. 

So today was  1600  calories for sure.