Words about Food...

"If it comes in a bag, box,
squeeze pack, spray can, etc.
it's probably not your friend."

Taken from Rules to Weight Loss

Week Four --Day One

Breakfast-- Egg and Toast (210)

Break-- an apple(80) and a few nuts(85)

Lunch-- corndog (200), some potato chips(150), a few carrots, a chunk of cheese(80) and a Diet Mountain Dew

Snack -- another apple (cuz someone stole my yogurt) and a few more nuts (85)

Supper-- Salmon (200) and a salad
The salad calories that added up were:
120 ....1 Tbsp olive oil
60......... Tbs grated cheese
16........1 tbsp salad topping
13......1 tsp Hellman's light mayo
43......1 tbsp sunflower seeds
252 without counting the lettuce, radishes, onion, carrots, and bell pepper

The salad was probably 300.

Week Three- Day Seven

Breakfast Egg and Toast

Lunch: Kentucky Fried Chicken-- the Bar
2 chicken thighs, fried
1/3 cup pintos
1/3 cup limas
a biscuit
slaw
also a little-- couple tablespoons of broccoli casserole
cherry cobbler with lemon dessert on top

Snack after church Sunday night: a whole grapefruit

Week Three--Day Six A Worse write off

Breakfast/lunch: Rotisserie chicken with bbq sauce, peas, and slaw

Lunch: Birthday party cookout
Hotdog with mayo, potato salad, baked beans, macaroni salad, a few tortilla chips and dip, a small piece of water melon, a glass of root beer

Snack: Corndog, a few chips, milk, and three hazel nuts.

Diets Don't Work

I was surfing around again. Actually I had googled something along the line of how many dieters maintained weight loss. I came across a blog that led me to this study in which much care was taken to see just how effective diets really are. As I read it, I came to this conclusion:

For MOST people diets DON'T WORK in the long run.

EXERCISE IS WHAT KEEPS WEIGHT OFF. And it's most likely what gets it off too.

Week Three- Day Five -- a write off (JULY 4th)

I guess it could be worse....

Breakfast: Multi grain cheerios with milk and a banana (340)

Lunch: I ate with the Huntsville Nordstroms. Jef bought a new BBQ grill and tried it out grilling ribs, polish sausage, hot dogs, burgers and corn in the husk.

And Jeni fixed baked beans, potato salad, and peach cobbler.
















I was well fed.

She made some of the yummiest BBQ sauce.

It was a very simple recipe of ketchup, white vinegar, black pepper and some Worcestershire sauce.

There are 15 calories in 1 Tbsp of Heinz tomato ketchup. I ate many tablespoons, but in all fairness, that was diluted with white vinegar. There are 4 tablespoons in 1/4 cup.

I'm sure I didn't eat a half of a cup of BBQ sauce. 1/2 cup of nothing but the ketchup would have been 120. So, I guess it's better than eating mayonnaise even if you eat a bunch of it. (One tablespoon of Kraft mayonnaise is 50 calories. A half a cup of mayonnaise would e 400 calories.)

I'm afraid I really pigged out on the BBQ sauce and the ribs.

While googling for these pictures I ran up on this recipe for BBQ sauce that really sounded like something I'd like to try.

Week Three- Day Four

Fried egg(100) on toast (110)

Banana (105)

Chicken wrap (390)

Yogurt(100) and a medium size peach (38)

Pintos(200), slaw (40), Hebrew National hotdog (100) and onion(15)

Toast with 1 tsp margarine (20) and 1 tsp blackberry jam (17)

1235 plus my coffee

Week Three- Day Three

Peanut Butter Toast (300)

Banana(105)

Chicken(160) wrap(100) with lettuce and mayo (40) and a stick of cheese (80), yogurt (100), milk(122)

Nuts (85) and an apple (80), part of Will's chicken quesadilla(200) from Red Robin, Diet Mt Dew

Supper: 1/2 cup Luck's Pintos (90) , 3/4 cup slaw (40) , small-medium baked potato brushed with margarine, (100) onion

Snack: Mini bag of Acts II 97% fat free popcorn (100)


With my coffee and the lettuce and onion I didn't count, it's probably very close to 1800 calories for the day. But this was freight day and I do quite a lot of physical work on that day.

That's My Story and I'm Stickin' to It

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