It's Hard to Get Back on Track

Once I get thrown off the routine of keeping track of what I eat, it seems like it's hard for me to get back on track.

However, I've not gained any weight back.  I'm just not losing.   I need to keep a closer watch on what is going in...

I take that back.  I've gained 3 to 4 pounds a couple times, but I've got it back off.   I'm sure part of it was fluid, but part of it was all that eating I did while having a house full of people here during the power outage.  My eating is just not the same when I've got someone else to feed and eat along with them-- especially grandkids.   I get kind of "junkie" then with chips, cookies, hotdogs, and such like.

Tuesday, May 10

I didn't eat anything until around 11 or after.  Then I finished up the steak, onions, and celery I cooked yesterday.

Around three I ate some pancakes made with cottage cheese and pancake mix.

Then for supper I had a Marie Callender's chicken pot pie, but this one was a ONE service pie--unlike some of the ones I have purchased in the past.   One serving was still around 600 calories, but that's better than 1200.   They are so good, I could eat the whole thing.  It wasn't until after I had eaten a couple of them that I looked more closely at the servings and saw that I was eating TWO servings.   Shame on me.  But that was back before I started this endeavor to lose weight.

I may eat some cereal, if I have any, before I go to bed.   (My cereal may have disappeared when the grandkids were here.

Monday, May 9 Getting Back on Track

The last post I made was April 26.  On April 27, our state--along with others-- made history.   We had the worst tornadic activity since records have been kept.   Power was out in North Alabama for many days.   I was fortunate that mine was only out for about 18 hours.   My son, his wife and their children came to stay with me until they got power back.   So, needless to say, it was not a time that I was thinking about calories.


Then came Mother's Day and I went out to eat three different times on that weekend.  I really didn't do so badly on the first two trips.   But when I went to Donato's Pizza, I ended up eating way more pizza that I should have.


So, yesterday I determined to get off the three pounds I had gained back as soon as possible.  I ate lightly yesterday.


Breakfast:  A breakfast bar and a banana
Snack:  Four nuts and a few Quaker Oats Cheddar Cheese rice snacks
Lunch:  A Michelina's dinner that didn't even have 300 calories
Supper:  Stir fried celery, onion, and steak with some pineapple slices
Snack:  An apple and about 3 peanut butter crackers.


On Tuesday morning, I was already back down to where I had been.

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.