Week Three- Day Two

My day off from Hobby Lobby but I'm working somewhere else today.

Breakfast: toast and a fried egg
Snack: About 1 tbsp of peppered cashews
Lunch: Jason's Deli Salad Bar compliments of Sister Debra-- a late birthday lunch--shared with Sisters Katie and Tesia. Besides a loaded salad, I had yogurt

Supper: 2 tilapia fillets (130)

The box said that there were 16 servings included. It contained 24 fillets, not 16. Each serving was counted as 98 calories. 16 x98 = 1598 divided by 24 = 65, so each fillet would be more like 65 each instead of 98.

English peas, 1/2 cup (70) with 1 tsp margarine (20)
Slaw (80)

Total count: 300 calories

Week Three- Day One

Food

2 bananas (210)
1 piece of peanut butter toast (300)

Snack: Peach (40) and string cheese (60)

Lunch: Corn dog (200), about 3/4 cup of cottage cheese (120)

Snack: A few nuts (102 Nuts add up in a hurry; the mixed nut can gives the break down at about 17 calories for every two nuts. I probably ate a dozen. 6x17=102 ) and an apple (80)

Supper: Rotisserie chicken (160) and a Bacon Baked Potato (306)

• Baked potato(150) seasoned with
• three slices of crumbled bacon(105) ,
• one small onion sautéed,
• a small amount of sautéed green pepper, and
• 2 Tbsps fat free cream cheese (30)
• garlic salt

Snack: I came home from Nicky and Jeremy's and started eating potato chips and dip!! (???) I thought: "This won't work" so I popped a mini bag of 94% fat free popcorn and ate it to handle my munchies. popcorn (110)

Even without the chips and dip I was over 1600. (1688) It's a good thing I STOPPED eating those and went to the popcorn.

By the way, I'm not even bothering to count my coffee. It counts because of the way I drink it, but at the end of most days I suppose I'd just have to add 80 calories for coffee. (It's creamer not sugar that makes it that high.)
Exercise

Week Two- Day Seven

Food
bowl of golden graham cereal with a banana
Lunch at Amigo's courtesy of Shane. I had a grilled chicken quesidilla. Of course, there were chips.

Before bed: Bowl of multigrain cheerios.

Exercise

Week Two- Day Six

Food

Banana (105)
Sandwich wrap(100) with lettuce, roast beef, turkey, shredded cheese, grilled onions, mayo, and about 1 Tbsp (Newman's Own Light Balsamic Vinaigrette ) dressing 2 Tablespoons =45 calories
Half a glass of mil

Checker burger

Checkerburger® (Beef patty served on a toasted bun with all the toppings of mayonnaise, ketchup, pickles, onions, lettuce, tomatoes and mustard)

Big Taste Taco Obviously it's big calories too (420)
Snack pack of sweet tarts (probably 120, if there were 16 pieces)
Corndog (200) Frosty Morn
FRESH FROM THE GARDEN Squash cooked in vegetable oil with onion, seasoned with garlic pepper and salt

Exercise

Week Two- Day Five

Food
Banana(105)

Breakfast
Boiled egg with a little mayo, hot sauce, and mustard (just over a hundred)

Lunch: Chicken and rice (about 300), a few beets (15 calories each, about 45)

Supper: Five Guys (Hebrew National) Hotdog (285 alone) with mayo, mustard, grilled onions, green peppers.......and Will Clem came in to eat when I did and gave me his Cajun fries.... was that a favor? (Fries are 310 for HALF an order.)
I ate some then and the rest on the way home from work ( I heated them in the MW before leaving. They were limp, but the flavor was still good.)

Going by what that Daily Plate site says, it looks like I racked up a thousand calories just by eating a hotdog and the fries.


Exercise

Week Two- Day Four

Food
Breakfast:
Peanut Butter toast
Banana

Snack: Peanut butter cracker

Lunch at Jason's Deli-- Salad bar, water with lemon, a little yogurt
I had cottage cheese, some grated cheese, sunflower seed and raisin toppings, also some other nutty toppings so this was not a low calorie salad. However, I did use just vinegar and olive oil for my dressing.

I decided that an investment in some "good" olive oil would be forthcoming so I'd have some at home.

Snack: Diet Mtn Dew


Supper: Tuna patties, blackeyed peas, waldorf salad

Later: Water with lime juice

Exercise; I went to bed early (9 o'clock) because I lost much sleep Wednesday night. Blake spent the night and got "scared" wanting to sleep with me, which with my aches and pains, just doesn't work out well. At 3:30 I moved to the couch and slept a little before getting up just after six.

Week Two- Day Three -- Freight day

Food
Breakfast:
Peanut butter toast
Banana

Snack: One String cheese and later, a few nuts

Lunch: Sandwich of turkey breast, roast beef, and lettuce Diet Mt Dew

Snack: Yogurt

Supper: Grilled chicken, black-eyed peas, sliced tomato

In church: two hard candies

Before Bed: grapefruit

Exercise: Not yet

Was at work by 7AM in order to work on a layout that must be done by Friday.

Week Two- Day Two -- Late work day

Food
Breakfast: Banana
Lunch: Part of a porterhouse steak, green beans, and a small potato
Supper: The rest of the steak in a sandwich with some steak sauce on it
Snack: An apple and a yogurt
After work snack: small piece of fish and tomato "sandwich" made with ONE slice of bread, mayo and tomato.

Exercise: None

Week Two- Day One

Breakfast Peanut butter toast

Snack: a few nuts

Lunch: Sandwich wrap made with tortilla, turkey breast, roast beef, lettuce, shredded cheese and dressing

carrots, radishes, peach

Snack: More nuts and a diet coke

Supper: Fish, slaw, and green beans

Snack: Dressed up slaw ( Same slaw to which I added apple, raisins, pecans & another packet of sugar substitute

Week One- Day Seven

I was down at least 4 pounds this morning! Maybe 5. My scale jumps back and forth on its "diagnosis".

Breakfast: one banana and a piece of peanut butter toast (with a little margarine on it)

In church snack: three pieces of sugar free hard candy

Lunch: Ryan's mega bar
a small piece of steak, two ribs with BBQ sauce, one small ear of corn (buttered), turnip greens with pepper vinegar. Salad with a dressing of olive oil and vinegar. One buttered roll. Two cookies, a very small portion of cherry cobbler and some vanilla ice cream

I'm hoping I can convince myself that water with lime juice in it is all I need before going to bed.

Week One- Day Six

Breakfast a banana


Lunch: Porterhouse stead

Snack: cantaloupe

Supper: Chicken and rice,
Cooked apples-- cooked with cinnamon and sugar substitue

Snack: A bacon-egg-cheese-onion sandwich

Week One- Day Five

Breakfast: a banana

Lunch: Porterhouse steak
Green bean salad
Cantaloupe

Snack: a few mixed nuts

Dinner: Chicken and rice
Green bean salad
cantaloupe

Snack: 2 (cold) chicken wings) salad made with raisins, sunflower seeds, croutons, grated cheese, radishes, carrots, onions and lettuce Dressing: jalapeño vinegar, olive oil, sugar substitute, garlic pepper, salt.

Week One- Day Four

Breakfast: Coffee, banana (105) and a breakfast bar (140)
Snack: a few nuts(100) and pork skins (160)

Lunch: chicken and rice with carrots, celery, onion, and water chestnuts added
eaten with a stick of celery (400) (1 cup of white rice is about 200; add another 100 for the chunks of chicken; and another (100 for everything else just to be on the long side)

Snack: Cheese stick (60)

Supper: 5 chicken wings (120) and a very small potato, raw (50)
Cup of raspberry cappuccino (75).
snack: apple (80) with peanut butter (3 Tbsps-140)
10 mixed nuts = 86

Week One-Day Three

Breakfast: Peanut butter sandwich

Snack: nuts and diet coke

Lunch:Chicken and rice to which I had added cooked green pepper, onion, & crushed pepper

snack:yogurt and a peach

Supper:Salad with radishes, carrots, onion, grated cheese, boiled egg and sunflower seeds and golden raisins

Dressing made with white vinegar, sugar substitute, some mayo, garlic/pepper seasoning, also ground red pepper.


Snack: The rest of last night's tomato soup to which I added some sautéed onions, garlic, and celery and some crushed red pepper.

Week One- Day Two

Breakfast:about a cup of Oatmeal with milk and a banana

It didn't hold. I got hungry at 10:30; maybe because I usually get a snack at work at this time every day.


Early lunch: Ate rice and chicken cooked with onion and green pepper
small piece of cantaloupe


Afternoon Snack: two cheese sticks and a grapefruit

Before bed: Tomato Soup

Week One-Day One

Breakfast
2 boiled eggs
1 banana

Snack
a few mixed nuts

Lunch
Sandwich wrap made with Basil Tomato wrap (100) and lettuce, turkey, roast beef, some mayo, and a salad dressing
Baby carrots and radishes

Peach
Diet coke

Snack
an apple

Supper
Tilapia
slaw
mixed vegetables with some margarine

Getting Back in the Saddle Again

Hopefully while I'm off from work this week, I can take some time to chart out my meals and their calorie counts.

The 7-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan

This book seems to be aimed at people who have had a degree of success with low carb dieting but have fallen "off the wagon." But it is for anyone who wants to lose weight.

Their FIRST objective is NOT to lose weight. They tell you right up front that if you are wanting a quick fix, this is not the book for you. They are aiming for a change in the way we eat and that is what they work to introduce in their "7-Day" Plan.

The 7 Days actually can grow to more than 7. It would have been more accurately called a 7-Step Plan. Probably they wanted to reel in more readers with the idea that it was something that could be done in a week BECAUSE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT IT COULD BE.

The seven steps are done one at a time with the next being added only after the previous are being done comfortably as the plan dictates.

The point, reiterating, is to change the way we eat. Since that is not so easy to do, they took a workable approach. Before they subtracted, they added.

These are the seven steps:
One
Continue to eat as you have been eating, but add one low carb protein to every meal and snack. (They give a list that you can choose from.) There is no limit to how much you can eat or there is no designated amount of the amount of low carb protein that you add. The idea behind it is that you are going to add into your diet an element that is going to help stabilize your blood sugar for a longer period of time than what you were previously eating did.

Two
Continue to follow the guideline of One. In addition, add on low-carb vegetables and/or salad to lunch, dinner, and snacks. Make sure the vegetables and salads you add TASTE GOOD. The amount you add is not as important as being consistent. ADD these to what you would have eaten BEFORE the plan. You don't add anything at breakfast; just continue with guideline One at breakfast.

Three
Continue with guidelines One and Two. In addition, BALANCE all meals and snacks. That is, include a good portion of low-carb protein, vegetables, and/or salad in relation to high-carb foods that you would normally eat. Use the amount of protein that you eat in a meal to determine the amount of high carb food that you eat. You don't need to weigh or measure; just use your eye to balance the portions. To get a good balance, for breakfast the protions can be divided up to half high-carb foods and half low-carb foods but never more high-carb than low-carb.

At lunch, dinner, and snacks, continue the same balance: eat only as much high-carb food (including starches and sweets in total) as you eat of low-carb protein at that meal. You may choose to eat more low-carb protein than high-carb foods but never the reverse.

Four
Continue guidelines One, Two, and Three. Additionally, at all meals and snacks, eat TOWARD your carbs. Hold on until you've finished your low-carb protein, vegetables, and salad before you begin to eat your high-carb foods.


Five
Continue guidelines One, Two, Three,and Four
Hold on and save all of your high-carb foods for meals only.
At all Snacks, eat only low carb foods.

Six
Continue guidelines One through Five. Additionally, at all snacks AND at one meal eat only low carb foods. Hold on and have all of your high-carb foods at no more than tow meals daily.

Seven
Continue One through Six. Additionally, at two meals AND at all snacks eat only low-carb foods. Hold on and have all of your high-carb foods at only one meal each day (which they call your "reward meal").

Continuing Success
Whenever you experience intense cravings, chances are something you ate is throwing your insulin levels out of balance.

Going back to the beginning, let me say here that Beginning Success is geared to enjoying what you eat. They emphasize making the things that you add to your meals taste good to you or you will not keep on with the changes that you make.

So, I'm supposing that they feel it it more an imbalance of the wrong foods over the right ones that leads to weight gain.

Oh, I will have to check this out. (I haven't finished the book yet.) But I think that they also say in there somewhere that as the foods you are adding cause you to be less hungry, cut back your portions.

The end result of that is smaller portions of food that is balanced. Or, in other words, a healthy eating plan.

Eureka!!

I went by Dollar Tree on my way into Huntsville last evening. I had my grandboys with me and was letting them "shop" for some treasures. I meandered on over to the books. There was one there that caught my attention.

The Seven-Day Low-Carb Rescue and Recovery Plan

I picked it up and started browsing through it.

Pretty good.

Hmmm. For $1 I might get MORE out of this that I do for the $2 I spend on Woman's World ever week. (They always feature some diet.)

When I finally got home I settled in and began reading it.

I must say I'm impressed.

I'm much more impressed by what they had to say in this book that I was when I checked out their other book. They also wrote the Carbohydrate Addict's Diet. I took a quick look at that and dismissed it entirely. I'm not sure which book was written first, but I sure like their approach on this one a lot better.

So much so that I got up this morning and started off doing what they suggested.

If you forgot to brush your teeth last night

If you forgot to brush your teeth last night, did you decide this morning to throw in the towel and never brush your teeth again? Since you're obviously a slob who doesn't have enough self- discipline to remember to brush your teeth, why bother brushing them at all if you forgot to last night?

Of course not.

So if you had ice cream for dinner last night, or didn't exercise yesterday, or gained a pound this week, don't throw in the towel! Make a healthier choice for dinner tonight by eating something lean. Go for a short walk. Weigh in again next week.

Just do NOT give up.


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