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.

Week Two/Day Four

I didn't eat breakfast.


Lunch:  chicken sandwich made with grilled chicken from Sam's lettuce and two slices Arnold's Healthnut bread.


Snack:  8 almonds  (10 almonds are 70, so about 56 calories)


Supper:  Progresso Rich and Hearty Chicken Pot Pie Soup which says it has two servings in a can. I ate both of them. 140 calories each, so my supper was 280 calories.


Later I ate an apple (100) with a snack treat of sesame seed almonds.  They have the taste of peanut brittle, but it's almonds and sesame seeds.  Dandy Pak Cashews Sweet Sesame

1/4 cup is 160 calories.   I don't really think I ate that much... but maybe I did.


Before I go to bed, I'm going to eat me a bowl of oatmeal with a banana and some milk.

Week Two/Day Three

Breakfast:  Oatmeal with a banana and milk

At work: a "cutie" that was sitting on the table BESIDE the box of Krispy Kreme Chocolate covered FILLED doughnuts-- that I love and would have chosen to eat any other Wednesday morning freight day!!

Mid-morning Snack:  Yogurt

Lunch:  Chicken breast Sandwich with carrots and Diet Mt. Dew
AND a slice of banana nut bread brought in by a co-worker that was so good I'd have had two if I wasn't counting calories.

Snack:  An apple and two bite size Snickers


Supper and Snack:  a whole can of saurkraut (100) and three hot sausages links (180 each!!)

I ate half before I went to church and the rest when I got home.


Around midnight:  Pineapple and some of its juice.   (Hoping the pineapple would act as a diuretic.)


I haven't drunk as much water as I should be drinking this week.

My knees were very sore most of the day.   I couldn't understand why.  I haven't ridden the exercise bike again since last week.  I thought that was what was causing my problem.   Maybe not.

Week Two/ Day Two

I was down SEVEN pounds this morning!!


SEVEN in eight days! That's a good start.


And, if you're paying any attention at all to what I'm eating you can see, I'm NOT starving myself. I had intended to eat only 1600 calories a day but I didn't get down to that most days.


I'm home today. It's generally easier for ME to eat less when I'm at home alone. Maybe that will hold true today as well.


I finally got around to eating at LUNCH time so I decided to skip eating a "breakfast" meal.


I had leftovers from my fridge: roast with potatoes, field peas and a Arnolds sandwich round lightly buttered.

For SUPPER I ate two pieces of fish cooked (coated with egg and panko bread crumbs) in the halogen cooker my brother gave me. And slaw. I wanted something sweet so I ate a sugar free chocolate pudding.


I read most of the day and when I read, it's hard for me to tear away and go eat.   And I just didn't.  


SNACK:  Oh, at some point today I did eat another "cutie" and I also ate three almonds before I'd even realized I'd stuck my hand in the bag and got them out.

SNACK #2:  Before bed I ate a WHOLE grapefruit.

Just KNOW TO ADD 80 calories every day for the two cups of coffee I drink.   The calories are from the creamer because I use artificial sweetener.

Week Two/Day One

Breakfast: English muffin with egg, cheese, and 2 slices of ham
Lunch: Burger King Chicken sandwich with their Zesty sauce. (That Zesty sauce is GOOD!) with water. I ate a VERY FEW onion rings and french fries--less that half a dozen.
Supper: The rest of the Lasagna and Chicken Casserole that Josh and Tesia brought over. With a glass of orange drink made from those sugar free packets that go in water.

Before bed snack: an apple.

Week One/ Day Seven

Breakfast:  Oatmeal
Snack: Breakfast bar  (160)
Lunch:  More Lasagna, Chicken Casserole and Salad

After Church:  I'm still thinking about it.

Later: I ate chicken breast on an Arnold's sandwich round with just a little mayo and a whole lot of hot peppers. (That should help me sleep well!!) And a half glass of milk.


I'm encouraged with my weight loss for this week. It has been down lower at times than it is tonight but, nevertheless, I've lost enough to be happy with my efforts.



I would like to do more on the bicycle but I guess my knees are going to have to be strengthened gradually.

Week One/Day Six

Woo Hoo!!   I was down SIX pounds this morning from my starting weight on Monday!!!

Breakfast:  Oatmeal with milk.  I didn't eat breakfast until about 11AM

Lunch:  A salad

Dinner:  Josh called and asked if I' d like him and Tesia to bring supper.

"Yes.  Of course."  

They had leftovers.  Lasagna.  Pizza.  Chicken casserole.  And Tesia also brought some romaine lettuce for salad.   So I partook of their generosity (in moderation, meaning I didn't eat as much as I could have or would have liked to). They left me the rest of the lasagna and chicken casserole. (I divided it into two portions to eat later.)

We were talking about dieting while we ate, in particular the HCG diet and Josh said, "If the people who gain weight and then go on these extreme diets to lose it, would just eat all the time in moderation, they could always eat what they enjoy and not ever have to go on a diet." Now that makes so much sense everyone should have already thought of it. But if you're enjoying food and want more, you don't always stop and think of that.

There's a lot of discipline required in "going on a diet". So if you can exercise the discipline necessary to "go on a diet" and lose weight, you ARE capable of exercising discipline. Just choose to exercise it every time you eat and you can eat smaller amounts of any food you enjoy and not have to worry about weight gain. How cool is that?

Before bed I ate an apple.

Week One/Day Five

Breakfast:Oatmeal with  a banana sliced up in it (about 325)

Snack:  1 Cutie (40)
Peanuts  (probably 300 calories!!!)  This is an estimate.   2 oz has   318

Lunch:  Marie Callender Roast, Carrots, and green beans.  (240)

Snack: Yogurt and an apple (200)

Home: Salad with lettuce, cucumber, radishes, green onion, craisins, sunflower seeds and a little grated cheese.   With my homemade dressing of Jalepeño vinegar, a packet of sugar substitute, and a couple teaspoons of mayonnaise mixed together.

Finished off my day with a bowl of field peas, green onions, and an Arnold's sandwich round with some Fleichsmann's margarine.

Week One/Day Four

Breakfast: 325
Egg, Cheese, and ham on English Muffin
Lunch: 600
Grilled chicken sandwish  (the bun was 110)

Snack:  Apple and peanuts  200

Supper:  Progresso Chicken Noodle Soup (240)
Tangerine

At Home:   Chicken leg and green bean "salad"

Week One/Day Three

Three almond butter cookies with honey peanut butter (400), coffee- 2 cups (80)
Banana (about  11:30) (105)

Lunch: Marie Callender's fish dinner  (440 calories)  Diet Mt Dew (0)
Snack:  Apple and sesame almonds (about 115 for both)
Supper:  Roast & half small potato (500), hamburger bun (110), some mayo 2 tsp (60)

About 1770... and I want a bite of something before I go to bed.

Week One/ Day Two

7:26 AM
Wow.  Even after the ice cream and eating close to 2000 calories yesterday, I was down TWO and A HALF pounds when I weighed this morning.

I wonder sometimes about certain diet claim... like how just taking a couple tablespoons of vinegar before a meal, will help you lose weight.  I was thinking of that when I ate that huge salad last night and used nothing but vinegar (pickle juice) and sprays of canola oil (with a packet of sweetener) for my dressing.

Coffee time.  (40)

Breakfast:  Oatmeal (160) with half a cup of milk (65)
Before going to work:  10 oz sirloin steak   (575)
Snack: Banana (105)
Supper: Marie Callender's Beef Tips in Mushroom Sauce (310)
Snack:  Apple (75) and Snack of a few bites of Sesame Seed almonds (about 40)
and a lemon drop (12)

Can of tomatoes, okra and corn, with some cheese on top   veggies(150) cheese (50)
Powdered drink mix added to my water (15)

About 1600 calories so far.... but I still want something to eat.  

I went by Food-4-Less and bought me some celery, carrots, radishes, lettuce, green pepper.   I guess I'll go get me a stick of celery.   I always like celery more than I think I will when I think about eating it.

I rode my exercise bike about 7 minutes this morning.  I'm trying to be careful.  It's a good thing I am.  I was afraid even that might have been too much later on in the day at work because one of my knees acted like it was going to go out on me.  But I made it.

Week One/Day One

Breakfast:
Coffee with creamer and sweetener
English Muffin(130) with sausage(110) and egg fried(102) in the sausage grease
More coffee
Water

Lunch: Hardee's Thickburger 570 calories

5PM Coffee, creamer and sweetener
Almond butter cookie with peanut butter (about 2 Tablespoons) (probably 300 calories)

Comments:

I've gone back and looked at what I ate when I lost weight before and I am looking at Leslie Sansone's Walk at Home Videos again. I'm somewhat "afraid" to take off trying to walk around the circle because my knees are giving me trouble and I'm afraid I'll get away from the house and they will start paining me and I won't be able to get back very well.

I suppose I'll try doing my exercise bike for a little while and then at least try to get through a half mile of LS's one mile walk every day this week.

I intended to be GOOD and have something like broiled fish and a vegetable to eat next but J called up and asked if I had ice cream and he and T, along with C, came over to eat some (and to take care of some stuff he was going to do for me). I ended up eating about a cup of Blue Bell Black Walnut ice cream (320 calories) in a cone (90 calories).

By the way, I passed on eating the coffee cake that was brought in to work this morning because I knew I was going to write down everything I ate today. If I hadn't decided to start this, I probably would have eaten at least 400 or more calories worth of that stuff.

Okay, so it looks like I'm already pushing 1800 calories for this day and I really didn't want to go to bed without eating something else, so what's a good choice?

Maybe I'll go for a salad. If... if I have the stuff to make it with.

I finished off a bag of Italian salad mix with pickle vinegar, a packet of sweetener, a few sprays of conola oil, a few craisins, a few slivered almonds, and less than a tablespoon of "salad topping" (20)-- whatever that is. (1 1/3 Tbsps = 35 calories)

Probably the whole salad was around !00 calories.

So.... My GRAND TOTAL for the day is going to be under 2000 calories.
And my exercise for the day was pulling the exercise bike out of the corner and riding it for about 5 minutes.

Starting Again 2011

I've decided upon a three part plan to start working my way back down to a reasonable size.
1. Drink more water.
2. Exercise almost daily.
3. Keep a food log of what I eat ( and, if possible track the calories)