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New month, new start. I have updated Fitbit worksheet for last week's average (not the worst week I've ever had, but close and used WW to record breakfast.

I need to go by the YMCA today and get it squared away - when I lost purse and cancelled credit card they didn't get paid either.

I should be able to increase my steps and perhaps get to the Y soon.

New month and fresh start for me too.

Tracking spreadsheets are refreshed and ready to be used in April. Let the games begin.

I continue to monitor and log weight. It took a spike up after a church picnic Sunday afternoon where the food was atrocious. I intended to not eat all I had on my plate (no way to take just smaller portion) but I was talking with friends and looked down to see plate was empty.

It must have been high sodium and the spike up came back down in another 24 hours. My goal for this month and next if I need more time since I lose so slowly is to get back to what I was when I was last at the doctor's. And I've spent some time looking at my supplement bottles and reading stuff on Internet and have tweaked what doses I'm taking. Between that and my diet changes, my numbers have to be better this time around - fingers crossed!

Yesterday was a good start. I stayed aware of portion sizes and didn't over eat. Fitbit steps = 6438 The scales took a huge drop this morning (2.6 lbs) but I know most of it was water weight from the day before (caused by eating waaay too much sodium).

I stayed within my goal for calories, fat & sugars, but went over goal for carbs, protein, cholest, sodium. I was under goal for fiber. There was only 5 fruit & vegetables in yesterday so that is one thing I will work on doing better today.


Meal Foods Calories
Breakfast Coffee - Brewed from grounds 3 cup (8 fl oz) 7
Breakfast Simply Right Wellness & Nutrition - All Natural Enteric Fish Oil (1200mg) Vitamin D3 (2000iu) 1 softgel 15
Breakfast Centrum Silver - Multivitamin/Multimineral Supplement 1 tablet 0
Breakfast Now Foods - Psyllium Husk 500mg Caps 2 caps 4
Breakfast Egg Large - 1 Large Egg 1 egg 70
Breakfast Onions - Raw 0.5 medium (2-1/2" dia) 23
Breakfast Chobani - Plain Nonfat Greek Yogurt 2 oz 35
Breakfast Cornking - Hardwood Smoked Bacon 0.5 Slices (15g) 23
Breakfast Dole - Blueberries (Frozen Fruit) 0.15 Cup 12
10am Snack Big Train - Fit Frappe Coffee Protein Mocha 8 fl oz. 65
Lunch Ragu - Chunky Pasta Sauce - Garden Combination 1/2 cup 90
Lunch Sargento - Shredded Mozerella Cheese 4 oz 100
Lunch Sara Lee - 45 Calorie Healthy Multi-Grain Bread 1 slice 45
Lunch Smart Balance - Natural Buttery Spread Original 0.3 tbsp (14g) 24
Lunch Meatballs - Baked Meatballs - 93% Lean Beef 5 Meatball 225
3pm Snack Dunkin Donuts - Coffee- Black 28 fl. oz 10
Dinner Monterey (Costco) - Chicken and Mozzarella Ravioli 6 ravioli 230
Dinner Ragu 1/2 Cup 128g - Chunky Tomato Garlic & Onion Sauce 1/2 Cup (128g) 90
Bedtime snack Apple - Large 1 whole 70

There are some new games in town on the web. They are called social dieting.

I just joined one that's called Dietbet,

The idea is you join and then bet a small amount of money that you will reach your goal during a "challenge".
I joined the Jullian Michaels one on Dietbet because I am already doing her dvds.
I need to loose 4% of my body weight in 28 days.... That calculates to 5lbs if I round it up. This challenges cost me $30 to enter. If I reach my goal, which I hope to pass, I will win back all my money minus 25% which goes to the judges and admin people. If I pass my goal, I can win more money.

Some of these challenges go for six months, others are short one like this. We'll see how it works.

Off to do my exercise ...cy'a

breakfast prep
egg cup of mix: - buckwheat, quinoa, millet = 19g
cashews - 10g
sunflower seeds - 10g
fig - dried and chopped
4 cranberries - dried
ginger - chopped
epsom salts 1/2 tsp, glass water, dash of apple and mango juice
goat yoghurt - 90g

chia seeds - 15g - soaked in 600ml water - to drink through the day

lunch
banana, 305ml goat milk, 5g carob powder
afternoon
cashews - 10g
dried fig

dinner
1/3 lebonese cucumber
basmarti rice 1/3 cup - uncooked. I have not eaten all that I cooked
carrot
green beans
Kale
celery
pork spare rib
tumeric, s&p

pear
hot carob goatmilk

Did a medium long walk today.
Yd. Wk. Mon. Ex.

Posting for accountability.

Yesterday went well - I'm still struggling with the binge type eating at bedtime. This time I "heard" the alarm go off in my head and became aware. I still ate too much so late at night but was able to restrain from falling into previous bad choices.

Yesterday's stat's
1290 - calories
3753 - Fitbit steps

Yikes! I didn't realize until now how much I didn't move yesterday. I spent a couple hours working on paperwork, a couple hours painting, a couple hours cooking, and a hour or so working with seeds. That is 7 hours of being productive but very limited movement. This is the type of stat that I need to see so I can become aware and seek improvement.

After seeing how few fruit/vegetables I ate the day before I did TRIPLE my fruit/veg intake yesterday. I made a chicken broth/vegetable soup that made it easy to up my vegetable intake. I'm going to try having a cup of this soup before meals and see how that goes.

Breakfast Pure Protein Plus - French Vanilla Protein Powder 0.33 scoop 43
Breakfast Prairie Farms - Vitamin D Milk 0.33 cup 50
Breakfast Well-Pict Berries - Sliced Strawberries(Frozen) 0.33 cup 17
Breakfast Blueberries - Frozen unsweetened 0.1 cup unthawed 8
Breakfast Libby's - Pure Pumpkin * 24.4 grams 6
Breakfast Spices - Cinnamon ground 0.5 tsp 3
Breakfast Dole Costco - Banana 0.3 banana 27
Breakfast Now Foods - Psyllium Husk 500mg Caps 2 caps 4
Breakfast Simply Right Wellness & Nutrition - All Natural Enteric Fish Oil (1200mg) Vitamin D3 (2000iu) 1 softgel 15
Breakfast Centrum Silver - Multivitamin/Multimineral Supplement 1 tablet 0
10am Snack Orbit - Gum - Sweet Mint 1 piece 3
Lunch Margaret Holmes - Seasoned Mixed Greens (Turnip & Musard) 0.5 cup 35
Lunch Del Monte - Blue Lake Cut Green Beans 8oz Drained 1/4 cup 8
Lunch Rotel - Original Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies 62.5 g (1/2 cup) 13
Lunch Generic - Grilled Sweet Onions 1/4 cup cooked 25
Lunch Generic - Sweet Potato - Boiled 0.25 cup cubes 29
Lunch Homemade - Organic Chicken Broth 2 cup 40
Lunch Sara Lee - 45 Calorie Healthy Multi-Grain Bread 1 slice 45
Lunch Smart Balance - Natural Buttery Spread Original 0.3 tbsp (14g) 24
Lunch Tones - Chicken Base 0.25 tsp 4
3pm Snack Coffee - Brewed from grounds 3 cup (8 fl oz) 7
3pm Snack Juicyfruit - Gum 1 piece 10
3pm Snack Big Train - Fit Frappe Coffee Protein Mocha 8 fl oz. 65
Dinner Ball Park - Weiner Beef 1 weiner 130
Dinner Potato - Homemade Mashed Potato W/ Whole Milk and Butter 0.75 cup 178
Dinner Margaret Holmes - Seasoned Mixed Greens (Turnip & Musard) 0.5 cup 35
Dinner Del Monte - Blue Lake Cut Green Beans 8oz Drained 1/4 cup 8
Dinner Rotel - Original Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies 62.5 g (1/2 cup) 13
Dinner Generic - Grilled Sweet Onions 1/4 cup cooked 25
Dinner Generic - Sweet Potato - Boiled 0.25 cup cubes 29
Dinner Homemade - Organic Chicken Broth 2 cup 40
Dinner Tones - Chicken Base 0.25 tsp 4
Bedtime snack Apples - Raw with skin 1 medium (2-3/4" dia) (approx 3 per lb) 72
Bedtime snack Sabra - Roasted Red Pepper Humus 3 Tbsp. 105
Bedtime snack Chip - Tortilla Chips 13 chips 140
Bedtime snack General Mills - Fiber One Original Bran Cereal 15 g (1/2 cup) 30

WTG, Okay, nice job on keeping track! I had an okay eating day - not best ever but an improvement over where I have been. I also got in 11K steps yesterday through the shopping and looking.

Interesting article which proves out Harriet's egg breakfast for dd: http://authoritynutrition.com/12-baby-s ... nutrition/