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.

Week Three/Day Six (Sunday)

Breakfast:  Oatmeal with banana and milk

Lunch:  Cooked celery, green pepper, and carrots with grilled chicken (in olive oil) Slaw w/ horseradish and pineapple

After church:  Cottage cheese and pineapple,

Week Three/Day Seven (Saturday)

Breakfast: Onion sandwich on hamburger bun

Lunch:  BBQ, potato salad, slaw, baked beans

Supper: Macaroni

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.