Daily Food Diary - January

[Harriet]

helia, SlimFast helps me take my supplements very comfortably (a thick drink) and puts a treat in my hand, serving to keep me from drinking any less-healthy drink. It tastes good and maybe keeps me from hunger for a while (research shows it will keep you from hunger for longer than a burger, but that is all about impressions, really, lots of variables). When I'm alone here, it helps keep me from dirtying more dishes or spending as much time on meal prep. When I have one, I usually add one of my half-sandwiches, which makes the lunch meal they picture on their site for my weight range's daily meal plan. (I actually got the idea for half-sandwiches by reading that site.)

Monday Eating -
6 large frozen strawberries, warmed, over Special K waffle
with 1/4 cup chocolate chips, 1 cup 2 % milk
egg salad and lettuce half-sandwich with SlimFast
chicken strips (3), roll, sugar-snap peas
enchilada
maple oatmeal for dessert
small Pepsi

Tuesday Eating -
Kashi Apple Orchard cereal with milk
egg salad half-sandwich with lettuce, SlimFast
Cheeseburger, small Pepsi
Large tossed salad
1/4 large avocado, 1/3 cucumber

Wednesday Eating
apple
egg salad half-sandwich with lettuce, SlimFast
1/2 cup potato salad
small serving of Pad Thai
small serving of pinto beans
slaw, 1/2 cup
small Pepsi

[helia]

Thanks Harriet. I swore I posted a reply to you here but I can't find it. I wonder if I posted it somewhere else? I might try slimfast and see what it does for me.

Tuesday, Jan. 13

Breakfast - tea, sm. bowl of All Bran complete 2.5/3 pts.

Lunch - wrap w/ ham, tomato, and onion, banana, grapes 5 pts.

Snack - 1 orange, bowl of oatmeal w/ br. sugar and cinnamon, handfuls of popcorn, 1 candy cane 6 pts.

Supper - 1/2 cheese tamale, about 3/4 cup of rice, salad, lots of cheese over everything, 1/2 avocado 14 pts. The avocado killed me - 4 pts. I LOVE avocados.

Snack: cookies 3 pts.

Exercise: 1.5 hours shoveling snow.

This was too much. Not good.

[lucylee]

Almost forgot about Monday... but here goes... aggravated b/c weight is inching back up, after the almost 3-pound loss during Aunt Flo's visit...

Monday, Jan. 12
banana, pb crackers, diet coke
Special K snack bar, flavored water
turkey, cheese, Triscuits, carrot sticks, flavored water
salad w/Italian dressing, crackers, hamburger steak, baked potato (plain), diet coke
2 Pillsbury cinnamon rolls
crackers
No exercise

Tuesday, Jan. 13
banana, Special K protein cereal, diet coke
flavored water
turkey, cheese, carrot sticks, flavored water
almond crunch granola bar, pb crackers, flavored water
Burger King small hamburger, some French fries, some onion rings, diet coke
Hershey pie
grapefruit w/approx. 1 tsp sugar
21 minutes "walk away the pounds"

Wednesday, Jan. 14
banana, Special K protein cereal, pb crackers, diet coke
2 slices pizza, 10 chocolate pretzels, diet coke
(I do better when I'm at school. I also need to drink some water.)
bar-b-que pork, baked beans, 1/2 small bag of potato chips, diet coke, coconut pie
bottle of flavored water (16 oz.) -- about to have some more, too...
6 wheat crackers, slice of low-fat cheese -- had a 'weak spell" -- low blood sugar attack -- after exercise
23 minutes "walk away the pounds"

Thursday, Jan. 15
banana, Special K protein cereal, diet coke
flavored water
turkey, cheese, Triscuits, almond crunch granola bar, flavored water
pb crackers, a bunch of chocolate pretzels, flavored water
hamburger, small fries, diet coke
can we say stupid small Oreo McFlurry

[Indiana]

Today

Breakfast: cheerios, 1/2 banana and milk
Snack: 1/2 banana
Lunch: Strawberries and orange and 1/2 bagel with cream cheese
Dinner: meat loaf, macaroni and cheese and fruit salad
Snack: pumpkin pie filling, reindeer chocolate leg

[helia]

Wednesday

Breakfast - tea, 1 slice cinnamon swirl toast plain 2.5 pts.
Lunch - orange, wrap w/ ham, tomato, onion 3.5 pts.
Snack - 1 clementine, popcorn (lowfat), tea 3. 5 pts.
Supper - 1 cup rice, 1/2-ish cup of lentils (in tom. sauce w/ ham), cheddar, mixed veggies, 2 slices breadmaker bread w/ jam (no butter) 13.5 pts.??

I'll likely drink a cup of tea tonight.

No exercise; just didn't get to it.

I ate OK today.

[lucylee]

I do eat a lot, don't I? I mean, I'm looking at what I'm eating compared to Indiana & some of the rest of y'all, and I'm thinking... ooohhh...
But it doesn't SEEM like a lot when I'm eating.

[Indiana]

Wednesday

Breakfast: cheerios, 1/2 banana, yogurt
Snack: fruit salad
Lunch: pumpkin pie filling, banana, V8, orange
Snack: vegies
Dinner: fruit salad, bagel, yogurt
Snack: candy cane Kiss

[helia]

I agree, lucylee. Not that you eat a lot but that Indiana doesn't eat very much. I'm concluding she must be a small person. Are you a small person, Indiana?

[Indiana]

No I'm not small. I'm 5'10. I'm trying to get back to my normal eating.

I went too long not eating and it became a habit.

I'm getting there. My normal calories when eating enough are 1600 to 2000 per day.

When you made the comment lucylee I looked at what you eat compared to what I eat when eating normally.

lucylee PLEASE I'm not being critical comparing what you eat and what I eat. Each of us has our own eating habits. We do what works for us.

You are eating what works for you. What works for me is different.

There are some differences. I eat more fruits and vegetables and milk. I also eat different starches. My starches are more "natural" bread, and vegetable starches like potato, peas, corn and grains than processed starches. Also I don't eat as many sweets. I do eat sweets but they are a different type of sweet like fruits, yogurt, jello, SF pumpkin pie filling, apple calfouti, baked apples, etc. They aren't the refined sweets. Maybe my chocolate kiss at night is considered refined.

[lucylee]

You are eating what works for you.

Well, that's the thing, Indiana... I don't really think it IS working for me, but it's very difficult to change much. I could eliminate a lot of sweets.
I am not a small person either, but I wish I were.