Week Six- Day One

At two o'clock I had a sandwich with lunch meat and cheese and tomato... and pepper cheese sticks on the side with a diet Mtn Dew. I also ate a piece of candy Will gave me.

For supper I had taco salad again-- fixed like it was yesterday, except today I put a little salsa on it too. I'm enjoying the fresh garden tomatoes my brother brought me on Friday.

I've lost eight pounds. That is about 1.5 pounds a week.

I really need to keep on watching what I eat until I lose about 30 more pounds. The hard part is finding stuff I enjoy eating that is not too fattening and that I don't get burned out on.

Week Five-- Day Seven (Sunday)

Breakfast-- a fried egg on toast with two slices of cheese

Lunch-- Taco salad with grated cheese, taco meat, cheese dip, and chips.



Then I didn't eat again because I began my 24-hour fast for the sick.

Week Five--Day Six (Saturday)

Breakfast
Hmmm.... maybe it was a fried egg and a piece of sausage and toast. Yea, I think that is what I had.

I can't remember what I ate before I went to work--maybe just a banana-- but I took two boiled eggs, two slices of bread, and a mixture of mayo and mustard to make myself an egg salad sandwich for supper.

I had an apple for snack.


Afterwards, I went back to Sister Debra's and ended up eating blueberry pie with cool whip, water melon, and... chips

Week Five--Day Four (Friday)

This is going to be an attempt to remember what I ate.

I didn't go in to work until 2PM.

My brother took me to breakfast at the Morgan City Cafe and I had a cheesy egg, two pieces of buttered toast and two pieces of bacon.

He came to my house to check on my lawn mower and helped me mow my yard.

He brought me tomatoes. I ate a tomato sandwich.

At work, I ordered a hot dog from Five Guys. (Yes, another one, just like the first.)

After work, I gathered up my stuff and went to spend the night with Sister Debra. I ate another tomato sandwich at her house. I doubt I stopped at that but my memory is not kicking in.

Week Five--Day Three (Thursday)

Breakfast Peanut butter toast

At 11 I ordered a hot dog from Five Guys Famous Burger and Fries. A hot dog with mayo, mustard, grilled onions and jalapenos

Later I ate a banana and some yogurt

When I came home I had a steak and a salad.

Up until then, I had done just okay....

Then there was Tesia's personal shower and all the goodies that everyone brought to feed us there. Taco makings, plus all kinds of dips to go with the chips, strawberry dessert, and brownies. Also I had a NON- diet Dr Pepper.

ut oh... I'm getting behind

I just wonder if I can even remember now what I ate yesterday.

Week Five--Day Two (Wednesday)

Freight day...

Breakfast: Peanut butter toast
Lunch: I ate early (11) and had leftovers. A chicken-pasta concoction. And about 1/2 cup of fruit cocktail. And a Diet Mtn Dew.

Snacks: An apple, yogurt, a few nuts. I think I forgot to eat my banana yesterday. Too bad, that's my potassium.

Supper: Went by Debra's to take boxes and had taco soup with some tortilla chips and a small piece of cheese cake.

Cleaned church after church. Got home close to eleven. Had a turkey-roast beef sandwich and went to bed

Weight loss progress

I'm losing more slowly than I did last year.

Well, actually, I was doing about the same until the events of the week sabotaged my efforts. The events didn't sabotage my efforts; all the dessert choices did. I was working hard and gave into trying out all the options of sweet things that were available plus I ate too much cheese and bread. That was mainly Saturday though.

Week Five-- Day One (Tuesday)

Breakfast: a steak

Snack: a FEW macadamia nuts (I was at Debra's and she had some. Ummm.)

Lunch: Salad. (Probably not the lowest in calorie, but better than eating cake. Sister Becky made it for us. It included boiled eggs, ham, bacon bits, plus lettuce, carrots, onion and RANCH DRESSING.) A bite of cheese cake.

Supper: Sandwich made with 60 calorie each bread, one slice of ham, two slices of cheese, and some Hellman's olive oil mayo. (Still from Sister Debra's stores.)

Snack before bed: A bowl of oatmeat with raisins and a little milk.

Week Four-- Day Seven (Monday)

Breakfast: Peanut butter toast and a banana

Snack: a nectarine

Lunch: Salmon/egg sandwich

Snack: Apple and a few nuts

Supper: Two left-over fish sticks from Captain D's ( courtesy of Ginger & Christie)
Onion, two hush puppies

Snack before bed: grapefruit

Week Four -- Day Six (Sunday)

Breakfast: Fried egg and two pieces of cheese on toast
Lunch: Captain D's Scampi dinner which had fish with rice, mixed veggies, hush puppies, and slaw. I had sugar free tea to drink.

Snack: an apple

Before bed: grapefruit

Week Four-Day Five (Saturday)

Sometimes when life gets turned around on you, it's not easy to stick with "good eating".

Breakfast: Banana
Lunch: Egg Sandwich
Supper: Salmon/egg sandwich (Mixed salmon and a boiled egg with mayo)
A nectarine
Snack: popcorn (130) and milk

Later: This is where I really "blew it".
Strawberry pie, some cheese cake, several pieces of cheese eaten on multi grain chips, a couple slices of ham, one dinner roll (used for a ham and cheese sandwich). Yellow squash cooked with onions (delicious). Diet Dr. Pepper

Week Four--Day Four

That was yesterday and I'll do good to remember half of what I ate

Breakfast: Egg and toast
Snack: Banana
Lunch: Sandwich wrap made with lunch meat, lettuce, cheese stick, mayo. (and I realized when I was eating the wrap that I was NOT enjoying it as much so I need to switch to bread for awhile I guess. I don't want "burnout" to start and end up causing me to dread what I've got facing me at lunch time.) A diet Mtn Dew

Snack: Popcorn (100) and milk

Later: A few multi-grain chips and spinach dip, A dinner roll with a slice of cheese and a thin slice of ham

Later Still: a Sonic burger and water

Later Still: Josh's "leftovers" from an out-to-eat venture. (My first taste of lamb. I'm not sure what the other stuff was)

Week Four--Day Three (Thursday)

Breakfast: Peanut butter toast
Snack: Banana and yogurt
Lunch: Chicken Wrap with baby carrots and radishes
Snack: 100 calorie snack size popcorn, milk
Supper: Chicken, noodle, cheese dinner (heat and serve) 1 serving 400 calories
Slaw

Hot tea
I didn't do my one mile walk with Leslie today.
I've got church tonight and had freight today. This will routinely be my skip the walk day.

Week Four-- Day Two ( work at 12)

Breakfast: Egg and Toast

Later: Salmon and later yet some Yogurt

Snack: Apple and peanut butter

Supper: Leftovers from out of the freezer
Turkey and dressing, potatoes with gravy, carrots

Snack: I tried something different. I had some fat free cream cheese (14 calories per tablespoon) and I mixed it with finely chopped carrots and onion and spread it on the thin slices of lunch meat I have (4 slices are 50) Added lettuce or radish slices, rolled it up and ate it.

a cup of tea

Exercise: for two days now I've done a one mile walk with Leslie

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.