What I ate Monday August 16th = 6.6 starches
1.6 Fiber Bar 6am
0.0 Coffee, Black (2 cup) 6am
0.0 Tea, mixture Green/black unsweetened (2 quarts) 7am-5pm
0.0 Banana 9am
0.0 Cottage Cheese (1/2 cup Fat Free) 9am
0.0 Pecan halves (4) 9am
0.0 Tomato Noon
0.7 Butternut squash (1/2 cup) Noon
0.0 Peppers, green chili (1 oz) Noon
0.0 Peppers, Bell green (4 oz) Noon
1.3 Beans, Ranch Style ( 1/2 cup) Noon
3.0 Rice (1 cup) 5pm
0.0 Stir Fry (chicken, onion, bell Pepper, mushrooms, rotel) 5pm
0.0 Green Beans 5pm
0.0 Milk (1 cup) 9pm
0.0 Grape Juice (1/2 cup) 9pm
My starches were about right (just a little high) but I was low on other categories. This is probably contributing to ABSOLUTELY no energy tonight. I don't eat after 6pm but I do drink so I am drinking a cup of milk before bed to up the milk category.
Today's final #'s - (goal) actual
Meat (6) 3.0
Fat (4) 0.9
Veg (4) 4.2
Milk (3) 1.6
Fruit (3) 3.2
Starches (6) 6.6
What I Ate
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Indiana
Re: What I Ate
OKay I think it is great that you were up only 1/2 pound after eating in restaurants which you don't normally do. I know I said it before and I'll say it again it is that hidden sodium that gets us.
Great job today. Mmmm I like some of your menu choices.
If you borrow from milk the .6 starch you will come out fine.
Great job today. Mmmm I like some of your menu choices.
If you borrow from milk the .6 starch you will come out fine.
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Indiana
Re: What I Ate
Monday
Cereal – 2 starch
Strawberries – 1 fruit
Milk - .5 dairy
Grapes - 1 fruit
Soup – 1 starch, 1 protein, 2 veg
Apple – 1 fruit
Crackers - 2 starch
Cheese – 1 protein
Apple – 1 fruit
Milk – 1 dairy
Tuna casserole – 1 starch, 3 protein, 1 fat
beets – 1 fat, 2 veg
Milk - 1.5 dairy
Shortcake – 1 starch
Strawberries – 1 fruit
Misc during day werths - .5 starch
1795 calories
A much better day today. I dropped the med I was cutting back on. I weighed the benefits of slowly cutting back (on ever 5 days and going to once a week and then ending) or not being afraid to eat because my blood pressure will drop too low - low 70s.
It is working out both ways. I haven't started retaining fluid and my blood pressure isn't dropping when I eat.
Cereal – 2 starch
Strawberries – 1 fruit
Milk - .5 dairy
Grapes - 1 fruit
Soup – 1 starch, 1 protein, 2 veg
Apple – 1 fruit
Crackers - 2 starch
Cheese – 1 protein
Apple – 1 fruit
Milk – 1 dairy
Tuna casserole – 1 starch, 3 protein, 1 fat
beets – 1 fat, 2 veg
Milk - 1.5 dairy
Shortcake – 1 starch
Strawberries – 1 fruit
Misc during day werths - .5 starch
1795 calories
A much better day today. I dropped the med I was cutting back on. I weighed the benefits of slowly cutting back (on ever 5 days and going to once a week and then ending) or not being afraid to eat because my blood pressure will drop too low - low 70s.
It is working out both ways. I haven't started retaining fluid and my blood pressure isn't dropping when I eat.
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lucylee
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Re: What I Ate
I know I've missed three days posting now. I'm not giving up -- I just haven't had time to check counts and I keep putting it off. I've got my foods in my notebook -- just haven't posted them here. Suffice it to say Sat. & Sun. were both pretty terrible but today was some better.
Tomorrow is another day.
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OKay
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Re: What I Ate
****CLAPPING***** because LucyLee isn't giving up.
Indiana - thanks for that suggesion. The carbs in the 4 categories (starches, veg, fruit, milk) have been my hardest part to understand. I suspect I am trying to make it too strict YES/NO.... BLACK/WHITE type of eating structure. I find myself saying (to myself) "Don't count the peas" then i laugh at that thought and relax my effort to keep a perfect tally. Your words of wisdom are a good influence.
Two more weeks of focusing on learning how to count starches (end of August) then I'm not sure what my goal will be. I am planning to continue to count starches and hopefully will be ready to add in another category, Counting starches is getting easier as time goes by. However - I still have much to learn and KNOW. Last night I was feeling confident when i served supper. I knew I needed 2 starches and I THOUGHT 1/2 cup of rice was one starch, so I measured 1 cup of rice onto my plate. It looked like a LOT of rice and I almost stopped eating it a couple times because of the volume......but I THOUGHT it was the right amount. WRONG! Hopefully i won't do that again. I now know 1 serving of Rice = 1/3 cup. Due to my lack of KNOWING and my not checking before eating, I ate 3 starches instead of the 2 that I needed.
5 lbs weight loss since August 1
Indiana - thanks for that suggesion. The carbs in the 4 categories (starches, veg, fruit, milk) have been my hardest part to understand. I suspect I am trying to make it too strict YES/NO.... BLACK/WHITE type of eating structure. I find myself saying (to myself) "Don't count the peas" then i laugh at that thought and relax my effort to keep a perfect tally. Your words of wisdom are a good influence.
Two more weeks of focusing on learning how to count starches (end of August) then I'm not sure what my goal will be. I am planning to continue to count starches and hopefully will be ready to add in another category, Counting starches is getting easier as time goes by. However - I still have much to learn and KNOW. Last night I was feeling confident when i served supper. I knew I needed 2 starches and I THOUGHT 1/2 cup of rice was one starch, so I measured 1 cup of rice onto my plate. It looked like a LOT of rice and I almost stopped eating it a couple times because of the volume......but I THOUGHT it was the right amount. WRONG! Hopefully i won't do that again. I now know 1 serving of Rice = 1/3 cup. Due to my lack of KNOWING and my not checking before eating, I ate 3 starches instead of the 2 that I needed.
5 lbs weight loss since August 1
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Indiana
Re: What I Ate
OKay I thought "don't count peas" was the best thing for me to remember. I wanted my eating to be perfect and it couldn't be so "don't count peas" was a great reminder.
You have a great idea on changing focus at the end of the month. You will have starches under your belt and even though you continue to count and learn adding something else is a good thing.
OKay you are doing awesome.
You have a great idea on changing focus at the end of the month. You will have starches under your belt and even though you continue to count and learn adding something else is a good thing.
OKay you are doing awesome.
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Nancy
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Re: What I Ate
Got good readings b.s. yesterday. Yea!
Breakfast was fruit & an egg.
Lunch we dined out chicken taco salad.
Had peanuts dried blue berries and sunflower seeds and
a sug. free. fudge bar for dinner last night.
Breakfast was fruit & an egg.
Lunch we dined out chicken taco salad.
Had peanuts dried blue berries and sunflower seeds and
a sug. free. fudge bar for dinner last night.
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Harriet
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Re: What I Ate
1,620 calorie day
bfast - 1 peach 35
brunch - 3/4 C flax cereal - 255
1 C almond milk - 60
1/2 s potato - 50
margarine - 70
lunch - vegetable stew - 160
1 C almond milk - 60
cheese - 100
4 oz Greek Yogurt - 90
fudgsicle - 110
snack - Rice Kr. Treat - 90
Supper - salad - 0
McD's Angus deluxe wrap - 410
Pepsi 4 oz - 50
Rice Fortune Cookie - 30
1 inch of cake - 100
6 veggies/fruits and minimal white flour in the wrap and cake, so and okay day.
The cake and Pepsi was not my finest moment and blew my chance at "nearly God Made" for the day, but they were small.
Meant to answer about the Greek Yogurt - it's easy to spoon out approximately 1/4 cup from the 16-oz containers, but I sometimes have the small 4-oz ones too. The decision-maker for me at the grocery is often that they don't have a large selection. Last time I was there they didn't have 16 oz. and time before that that didn't have 4 oz. I try not to buy the fruit ones, just because i don't want fruit with other foods. The honey is okay but ups the calories, and that's what I had today. I won't be having these as often in the future - this is on advice of dr because of antibiotics before. Oikos brand has 5 different active cultures.
bfast - 1 peach 35
brunch - 3/4 C flax cereal - 255
1 C almond milk - 60
1/2 s potato - 50
margarine - 70
lunch - vegetable stew - 160
1 C almond milk - 60
cheese - 100
4 oz Greek Yogurt - 90
fudgsicle - 110
snack - Rice Kr. Treat - 90
Supper - salad - 0
McD's Angus deluxe wrap - 410
Pepsi 4 oz - 50
Rice Fortune Cookie - 30
1 inch of cake - 100
6 veggies/fruits and minimal white flour in the wrap and cake, so and okay day.
The cake and Pepsi was not my finest moment and blew my chance at "nearly God Made" for the day, but they were small.
Meant to answer about the Greek Yogurt - it's easy to spoon out approximately 1/4 cup from the 16-oz containers, but I sometimes have the small 4-oz ones too. The decision-maker for me at the grocery is often that they don't have a large selection. Last time I was there they didn't have 16 oz. and time before that that didn't have 4 oz. I try not to buy the fruit ones, just because i don't want fruit with other foods. The honey is okay but ups the calories, and that's what I had today. I won't be having these as often in the future - this is on advice of dr because of antibiotics before. Oikos brand has 5 different active cultures.
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OKay
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Tuesday August 17th = 4.8 starches
I didn't finish compiling what I ate until today. I didn't eat enough to meet my goals, but I wasn't hungry at all so I didn't notice.
1.6 Fiber Bar 6am
0.0 Coffee, Black (2 cup) 6am
0.0 Tea, mixture Green/black unsweetened (2 quarts) 7am-5pm
0.0 Banana 9am
0.0 Cottage Cheese (1/2 cup Fat Free) 9am
0.0 Tomato Noon
0.7 Butternut squash (1/2 cup) Noon
0.0 Peppers, green chili (1 oz) Noon
1.3 Beans, Ranch Style ( 1/2 cup) Noon
0.0 yogurt Light Yoplait fruit 3pm
0.0 Gum (2 stick) all day
0.0 Pimento Cheese Spread (2 T) 5pm
1.2 Crackets, Club (8) 5pm
0.0 Stir Fry (chicken, onion, bell Pepper, mushrooms, rotel) 5pm
0.0 Green Beans 5pm
0.0 Grape Juice (1/2 cup) 9pm
Exchanges (goal) actual
Free Foods (3) 0.5
Meat (6) 3.3
Fat (4) 2.4
Veg (4) 3.2
Milk (3) 1.1
Fruit (3) 3.2
Starches (6) 4.8
Calories/Nutrition counts (goal) actual -
Calories (1500) 1100.0
Fat (55g) 26.9
Sodium (2000mg) 1588.0
Carbs (125g) 163.3
Fiber (25) 25.0
Sugars (60) 75.1
Protein (55) 49.7
4.8 lbs lost since August 1 (yes, I gained .2 lbs eating 1100 calories yesterday) I'm ignoring it and hoping to see a weight loss show up sooner rather than later.
I didn't finish compiling what I ate until today. I didn't eat enough to meet my goals, but I wasn't hungry at all so I didn't notice.
1.6 Fiber Bar 6am
0.0 Coffee, Black (2 cup) 6am
0.0 Tea, mixture Green/black unsweetened (2 quarts) 7am-5pm
0.0 Banana 9am
0.0 Cottage Cheese (1/2 cup Fat Free) 9am
0.0 Tomato Noon
0.7 Butternut squash (1/2 cup) Noon
0.0 Peppers, green chili (1 oz) Noon
1.3 Beans, Ranch Style ( 1/2 cup) Noon
0.0 yogurt Light Yoplait fruit 3pm
0.0 Gum (2 stick) all day
0.0 Pimento Cheese Spread (2 T) 5pm
1.2 Crackets, Club (8) 5pm
0.0 Stir Fry (chicken, onion, bell Pepper, mushrooms, rotel) 5pm
0.0 Green Beans 5pm
0.0 Grape Juice (1/2 cup) 9pm
Exchanges (goal) actual
Free Foods (3) 0.5
Meat (6) 3.3
Fat (4) 2.4
Veg (4) 3.2
Milk (3) 1.1
Fruit (3) 3.2
Starches (6) 4.8
Calories/Nutrition counts (goal) actual -
Calories (1500) 1100.0
Fat (55g) 26.9
Sodium (2000mg) 1588.0
Carbs (125g) 163.3
Fiber (25) 25.0
Sugars (60) 75.1
Protein (55) 49.7
4.8 lbs lost since August 1 (yes, I gained .2 lbs eating 1100 calories yesterday) I'm ignoring it and hoping to see a weight loss show up sooner rather than later.
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Nancy
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Re: What I Ate
Breakfast was fruit [med. apple] & an egg.
Lunch we had salmon & veggies [1/2 banana]
Yes I measured it!
peanut butter for snack.
Dinner was shrimp salad & fruit 17 cherries, two ritz crackers & peanut butter.
Had peanuts for snacks.
Bs was low again today so I'm still working on decreasing my 24 dose of long acting insulin.
Lunch we had salmon & veggies [1/2 banana]
Yes I measured it!
peanut butter for snack.
Dinner was shrimp salad & fruit 17 cherries, two ritz crackers & peanut butter.
Had peanuts for snacks.
Bs was low again today so I'm still working on decreasing my 24 dose of long acting insulin.