Daily Food Diary - January

[helia]

Indiana, it looks like you don't eat very much. I hope you're not unintentionally losing weight.

[Indiana]

helia I haven't been eating much. That has been a problem. Normally I eat a good amount.

My eating has been up and down. I wasn't losing weight because my body thought I was starving it. Not a good thing. I weighed my self today and I lost 5 pounds in the past week. That is too much in a week.

I really need to concentrate on healthy eating. I have all the things in place and some good ideas from Harriet and her Dad. Now I just need to do them.

[Harriet]

It may well be balancing out, though? Possibly that was your body's "catch up" week following a time of hanging on to weight in metabolic indecision! Now you get credit for it and it's a surprise. Another way of looking at it is that it's 5 pounds over a couple of weeks.

I have no expectations of seeing the scale change since I've increased exercise Jan 1. Later for that. That's fine.

Starting here with Friday for the rest of the week, which will work well for me. I plan to make my shredded squash/carrot wraps, plan to boil a bunch of eggs for egg salad.

Friday eating
egg salad half-sandwich with lettuce, 1 cup skim milk
carrot/squash filling on whole grain wrap with 1/3 cucumber
1 of dd10's recipe pizza toast
3/4 cup slaw, 1/2 cup potato salad
Cedar Lane burrito
small Pepsi

Saturday Eating
livermush half-sandwich with lettuce, 1 cup skim milk
carrot-squash filling on whole grain wrap with 1/3 cucumber
egg salad
very small serving lasagne - less than 2 ounces
3 Doritos
small Pepsi
Chocolate Santa candy - 3-4 inches tall and flat

Sunday Eating
banana
medium cheeseburger w/lettuce-tomato, 6 or 7 fries, small Pepsi
another chocolate Santa! (oops) they're gone now
Ritz Crackers - 10? (oops)
lasagna (small portion), carrot salad

[helia]

Friday, Jan. 9

Breakfast - tea, bowl of all bran cereal 3 pts.

[Indiana]

Friday - January 9

Breakfast: 1/2 serving cheerios, 1/2 banana and yogurt (I know it may seem boring to you but oh so good to me. No thinking and I can deconstruct it if I have the munchies.)
Snack: 1/2 banana
Lunch: 1/2 peanut butter sandwich, V8, 1/2 banana
Snack: apple
Dinner: banana, bagel, cream cheese, yogurt, orange
Snack: Part of chocolate reindeer antler

Harriet yes I think it was just a hold out from the previous weeks and balances out. I just don't like to drop that much in a week. It takes me back to the time I was dropping 7 - 13 pounds each week regularly and had to slow it down because it was too much too fast. Some it will come back which is ok.

[trish]

breakfast- oatmeal, yogurt
snack-cherries
lunch- fish, spinach, orange
snack-yogurt, cottage cheese
dinner- waffle, peanut butter, jam
snack- apple, carrot sticks, 1/2 serving oatmeal
exercise- biceps (weight lifted), walked one hour, ran two miles, did a cardio ball class at the gym.

[lucylee]

WEEKEND EATING
Saturday, Jan. 10
Breakfast, 10:30 --
Egg McMuffin, only ate egg white; additional egg white (b/c dh doesn't eat his); cinnamelts; banana; diet coke
Snack 12:00 --
pb crackers; diet coke
Snack? This better not be lunch/supper! 3:30
ch. chip/pecan cookie, diet coke
Snack 4:00
another cookie... this isn't looking good...
Supper 5:30
3 chicken fingers, French fries, 1 slice "Texas" toast, diet coke, Goo Goo Cluster candy bar
Movie -- 10:00
popcorn, diet coke
15 minutes "walk away the pounds" first thing after getting out of bed

Sunday, Jan. 11
Breakfast 9:30
pb crackers, banana, diet coke
Lunch 12:00
tiny bowl Campbell's chicken gumbo soup, crackers, diet coke
three cookies
Snack 3:30
three pieces hard/stick candy, low-sodium Triscuits, pb crackers, diet coke
Supper 7:00
2 Krystal hamburgers w/double meat (but not double bread), French fries, ice cream cone w/one dip raspberry sorbet & one dip nutty coconut , diet coke
21 minutes "walk away the pounds"

[trish]

I no longer am sure of Saturday but did well.
Sunday-
breakfast- oatmeal
snack- orange
lunch- slice beef, 1/2 baked potato, plain, veggie mix
snack- 1 piece almond roca, orange
dinner- 2 1/2 mugs veggie soup, orange
snack- 2 bowls cereal
snack- orange
exercise- 10 minute boot camp at spark people

[Indiana]

I didn't eat enough on the weekend. The breakfast, snack and lunch were good after that I didn't eat much.

I didn't get the fruit salad made last week and I didn't make the pumpkin pie filling so those are being made today. I'm getting more carrots, celery and radishes clean for snacking, cooking eggs for egg salad and thawing soup for dinner that we didn't have last week.

Monday - Jan 12

Breakfast: cereal, 1/2 banana and milk
Snack: 1/2 banana
Lunch: 1/2 peanut butter and honey sandwich, celery, carrots, radishes, 1/2 apple, hot tea
Snack: 3 huge strawberries
Dinner: beef vegetable soup and waldorf salad
Snack: other chocolate reindeer antler

[helia]

Monday

Breakfast - tea, coffee, sm. bowl of All Bran complete w/ milk 3/3.5 pts.

Lunch - wrap w/ ham and tomato, banana, a few grapes 4.5 pts.

How do you like slimfast, Harriet? Does it fill you up? Stay with you for a while?

Snack - grapes, low-fat popcorn, tea 3 pts.

Supper - 1 cup rice, chicken cacciatore (1/2 piece), veggies, roll w/out butter 14 pts?

Snack - 1 sm. cookie, coffee 2 pts.

A little over but not bad.