lucylee my thoughts in my sleep are coming out to what I thought plus some added ones.
One thing I discovered was a post from Harmony that I read again and I want to post something in healthy habits when I finish your spread sheet.
I made BIG discovery and it isn't good.
I can't add and multiply in my head like I could before. I woke you up didn't I. I couldn't help it.
So some of the numbers are higher than I posted. So it is smart to do the spread sheet for the calculations. Also I can go back and just copy pb crackers and granola bars and 2 slices of cheese and triscuts.
What I Ate
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Re: What I Ate
lucylee remove Sunday from all of your calendars. You and Sunday don't get along so if you don't have Sunday on your calendar it is better. Why don't you have 2 Monday's? No? How about 2 Friday's? Just not Sunday.
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lucylee
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Re: What I Ate
Well, I know this Sunday was pretty terrible -- but remember we were on the road for breakfast and then it was a birthday party for supper.
I wonder why Sundays are worse than Saturdays? I usually eat soup for lunch on Sundays, so I thought I'd be doing better on Sunday. We always go out on Sunday nights, but we eat out 6 out of 7 nights anyway...
Hmmm... I'm fascinated w/what you're discovering, Indiana.
I wonder why Sundays are worse than Saturdays? I usually eat soup for lunch on Sundays, so I thought I'd be doing better on Sunday. We always go out on Sunday nights, but we eat out 6 out of 7 nights anyway...
Hmmm... I'm fascinated w/what you're discovering, Indiana.
Tomorrow is another day.
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Re: What I Ate
What I ate Thursday Aug 5th = 7.6 starches
1.6 starches - Fiber Bar @ 6am
0.0 starches - Pecan halves (4) & dried Cranberries @9am
2.0 starches - Mexican casserole (LeftOvers) @noon
2.0 starches - Cheetos (1 oz bag)
2.0 starches - Potatoes, onions, bacon @5pm
0.0 starches - grape juice (1/2 cup)
August Daily Starch Tally -
5.6 starches = 1 August
6.1 starches = 2 August
7.1 starches = 3 August (3 lb weight loss)
3.6 starches = 4 August (weight flux now = 1.4 lb loss for this month)
7.6 starches = 5 August = 3.8 weight loss (cumulative)
I'll enjoy the thought of this new lower weight for another 24 hours....before it goes back up. The scales seem to swing. I average the last 7 days on my weight tracking spreadsheet to help even out the swings (both high & lows).
Harriet - yesterday sweet potatoe WAS because of your comment. In a good way
I try to keep s potatoes on hand to feed LO (easy meal when we have something he can't eat). Your comment reminded me of them and that they could be on MY menu too. Somehow I had developed a mental block that the s potatoes were for LO only. You are a good influence!
I'm watching the eating posts with much interest and with an attitude of learning. I am thrilled to be doing something about my excess weight. It is an energy booster to be working on the problem instead of continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Who know just counting starches would make such a huge difference?!?!
1.6 starches - Fiber Bar @ 6am
0.0 starches - Pecan halves (4) & dried Cranberries @9am
2.0 starches - Mexican casserole (LeftOvers) @noon
2.0 starches - Cheetos (1 oz bag)
2.0 starches - Potatoes, onions, bacon @5pm
0.0 starches - grape juice (1/2 cup)
August Daily Starch Tally -
5.6 starches = 1 August
6.1 starches = 2 August
7.1 starches = 3 August (3 lb weight loss)
3.6 starches = 4 August (weight flux now = 1.4 lb loss for this month)
7.6 starches = 5 August = 3.8 weight loss (cumulative)
I'll enjoy the thought of this new lower weight for another 24 hours....before it goes back up. The scales seem to swing. I average the last 7 days on my weight tracking spreadsheet to help even out the swings (both high & lows).
Harriet - yesterday sweet potatoe WAS because of your comment. In a good way
I try to keep s potatoes on hand to feed LO (easy meal when we have something he can't eat). Your comment reminded me of them and that they could be on MY menu too. Somehow I had developed a mental block that the s potatoes were for LO only. You are a good influence!I'm watching the eating posts with much interest and with an attitude of learning. I am thrilled to be doing something about my excess weight. It is an energy booster to be working on the problem instead of continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Who know just counting starches would make such a huge difference?!?!
Last edited by OKay on Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:25 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Indiana
Re: What I Ate
Oh OKay I read your post wrong the other day I read a 1.4 pound increase.
Congratulations on the 1.4 decrease.
You are steady on your course and their is no detouring you.
I enjoy sweet potatoes too with a little butter and a little pumpkin pie spice sprinkled on. They are a perfect food - essy to keep, quick to cook, can be eaten in their jacket with very little added.
Congratulations on the 1.4 decrease.
You are steady on your course and their is no detouring you.
I enjoy sweet potatoes too with a little butter and a little pumpkin pie spice sprinkled on. They are a perfect food - essy to keep, quick to cook, can be eaten in their jacket with very little added.
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Re: What I Ate
lucylee I don't see Wednesday...
I know you were on the road and eat out 6 or 7 nights a week. When I move I will be eating in the restaurant 6 or 7 nights a week. It is a regular restaurant menu complete with decadent desserts. However I will continue to eat healthy. I am not criticising what you ate I'm just saying it is possible to eat out as much as you do and still do well.
In fact you showed you can do well eating out with some of your dinner selections. The sub was a good choice.
lucylee eating out 3 meals a day is what got me into trouble. I didn't eat healthy and ate whatever I wanted thinking it would be fine. 180 pounds later it wasn't fine. I have been eating healthy since 1999. I am not considered a diabetic anymore I am considered "normal".
I have been eating healthy for 12 years and haven't looked back. It will become the normal way to eat for you and you will have to think very little about it.
For now lets forget Sunday's and concentrate on writing what you eat. Also concentrate on trying to get your starches down.
From July 25 to August 4 you averaged 14 starch a day. Ideally it would be great for you to go immediately to 6 starch a day but if you can just go to 12 atarch a day it would be great. By tracking what you eat you will know where your starches are coming from.
I do notice on your eating each day that you are making better selections. Good for you. You have had a number of days with your starch count at 11 to 13 those are the days you are eating more fruit I noticed instead of starch for a snack. Good choice.
I do notice no dairy - milk, yogurt, etc. Cheese and ice creeam is covered but not the others. Do you like milk?
Would you do me a favor? When you post what you ate if it was from a restaruant oplease not the restaurant so I can go in for the numbers. I have guessed the restaruants pretty close so far. Also when you have popcorn would you say if it is home or movie theatre. It makes a huge difference.
It is so nice to see that you are becoming more aware. Keep it up lucylee.
There is more to come but it won't be until later for now it is the starches and what you ate at least for 3 - 4 weeks.
I know you were on the road and eat out 6 or 7 nights a week. When I move I will be eating in the restaurant 6 or 7 nights a week. It is a regular restaurant menu complete with decadent desserts. However I will continue to eat healthy. I am not criticising what you ate I'm just saying it is possible to eat out as much as you do and still do well.
In fact you showed you can do well eating out with some of your dinner selections. The sub was a good choice.
lucylee eating out 3 meals a day is what got me into trouble. I didn't eat healthy and ate whatever I wanted thinking it would be fine. 180 pounds later it wasn't fine. I have been eating healthy since 1999. I am not considered a diabetic anymore I am considered "normal".
I have been eating healthy for 12 years and haven't looked back. It will become the normal way to eat for you and you will have to think very little about it.
For now lets forget Sunday's and concentrate on writing what you eat. Also concentrate on trying to get your starches down.
From July 25 to August 4 you averaged 14 starch a day. Ideally it would be great for you to go immediately to 6 starch a day but if you can just go to 12 atarch a day it would be great. By tracking what you eat you will know where your starches are coming from.
I do notice on your eating each day that you are making better selections. Good for you. You have had a number of days with your starch count at 11 to 13 those are the days you are eating more fruit I noticed instead of starch for a snack. Good choice.
I do notice no dairy - milk, yogurt, etc. Cheese and ice creeam is covered but not the others. Do you like milk?
Would you do me a favor? When you post what you ate if it was from a restaruant oplease not the restaurant so I can go in for the numbers. I have guessed the restaruants pretty close so far. Also when you have popcorn would you say if it is home or movie theatre. It makes a huge difference.
It is so nice to see that you are becoming more aware. Keep it up lucylee.
There is more to come but it won't be until later for now it is the starches and what you ate at least for 3 - 4 weeks.
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Re: What I Ate
Here's Wednesday, Indiana.
11:00 a.m.
PB crackers, banana, granola bar, diet pepsi (3.5 starches)
3:30 p.m.
apple
5:30 p.m.
4 fried shrimp
2 small pieces fried fish fillets
french fries
2 hush puppies
Today, so far (Thursday)
2:00 p.m.
PB crackers, banana, diet pepsi
3:00 p.m.
orange
2 choc. chip cookies (Pillsbury, w/added pecans)
bottle of flavored water
5:30
6" Subway sandwich, club, no mayo/etc, just meat, lettuce, bell pepper
-- on 9-grain wheat bread
bag of baked chips
1/2 of the chicken from a Chick Fil A sandwich
diet pepsi
* NO we did not go both places... dmil sent the Chick Fil A over.
Obviously, my salad has sat untouched in the refrigerator this week... * sigh * I just don't think about it until I've finished whatever else I'm eating for supper. And the last two days, I've eaten breakfast so late that I just haven't been hungry for it. It really seems that I can go a long time without eating at all, if I try, but the minute I put that first bite in my mouth, then it's "Katy bar the door." LOL.
Indiana, I don't drink milk. Dmom said when I gave up the bottle, that was the end of milk for me. I take calcium supplements and I'll eat cheese, but that's about the extent of dairy for me -- except of course, ice cream. I don't like yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.
I also do not like a lot of vegetables, and these sweet potatoes you all (Harriet, etc.) are talking about all the time... nope... not gonna happen.
I'm still afraid you're going to be seriously disappointed in me after you've spent all this time, but I am willing to watch the starches, definitely. I just don't know how much further I can go, you know? When you say, "There's more... but for now..." -- well, that kinda scared me!
11:00 a.m.
PB crackers, banana, granola bar, diet pepsi (3.5 starches)
3:30 p.m.
apple
5:30 p.m.
4 fried shrimp
2 small pieces fried fish fillets
french fries
2 hush puppies
Today, so far (Thursday)
2:00 p.m.
PB crackers, banana, diet pepsi
3:00 p.m.
orange
2 choc. chip cookies (Pillsbury, w/added pecans)
bottle of flavored water
5:30
6" Subway sandwich, club, no mayo/etc, just meat, lettuce, bell pepper
-- on 9-grain wheat bread
bag of baked chips
1/2 of the chicken from a Chick Fil A sandwich
diet pepsi
* NO we did not go both places... dmil sent the Chick Fil A over.
Obviously, my salad has sat untouched in the refrigerator this week... * sigh * I just don't think about it until I've finished whatever else I'm eating for supper. And the last two days, I've eaten breakfast so late that I just haven't been hungry for it. It really seems that I can go a long time without eating at all, if I try, but the minute I put that first bite in my mouth, then it's "Katy bar the door." LOL.
Indiana, I don't drink milk. Dmom said when I gave up the bottle, that was the end of milk for me. I take calcium supplements and I'll eat cheese, but that's about the extent of dairy for me -- except of course, ice cream. I don't like yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.
I also do not like a lot of vegetables, and these sweet potatoes you all (Harriet, etc.) are talking about all the time... nope... not gonna happen.
I'm still afraid you're going to be seriously disappointed in me after you've spent all this time, but I am willing to watch the starches, definitely. I just don't know how much further I can go, you know? When you say, "There's more... but for now..." -- well, that kinda scared me!
Tomorrow is another day.
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Indiana
Re: What I Ate
lucylee don't panic there is more but it is easier than what you have accomplished. You are already doing some of them without knowing.lucylee wrote:I'm still afraid you're going to be seriously disappointed in me after you've spent all this time, but I am willing to watch the starches, definitely. I just don't know how much further I can go, you know? When you say, "There's more... but for now..." -- well, that kinda scared me!
Just keep counting starches.
Wednesday's numbers are:
9 starch
4 fruit
4 protein
9 fat
you consumed less calories than what it takes to maintain your goal weight.
Thursday's numbers are:
8 starch
4 fruit
4 protein
8 1/2 fat
once again you consumed less calories than what it takes to maintain your goal weight.
You don't want to do too less too often or your body will rebel by storing the calories.
Do you think this will be easier when you are in school?
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Re: What I Ate
What I plan to eat Friday Aug 6th = 7.6 starches
1.6 starches - Fiber Bar @ 6am
0.0 starches - Coffee, black
0.0 starches - Pecan halves (4) & dried Cranberries @9am
0.0 starches - Tea, unsweetened (mixture of green-n-black tea) which I drink until supper
0.0 starches - Greek salad @ Altanta Bread @noon. I am planning to not eat the croutons or bread.
4.0 starches - Pizza (3"x3" thin crust - 4 pieces) @5pm
2.0 starches - Bday cake
0.0 starches - Ice cream
0.0 starches - grape juice (1/2 cup)
i feel like I should be running around shouting - DANGER DANGER!!! Today has the potential to undo all my effort this week.
LO has his 2 year old well baby doctor visit today and it has become a tradition to eat at Altanta Bread Co after finishing medical appt/procedures. I normally order their pizza since I like how they cook it but am planning to switch to Greek Salad today. That probably is still off the charts in calories, but if I leave the croutons and bread off maybe it will be fine for STARCH counting.
DGS15 and DGS13 will come home with me today. Ordering their favorite pizzas and picking them up on our way home is a typical Friday night meal.
We are expecting 20-30 people at our home this evening to help us celebrate LO's birthday. I plan to only eat a SMALL portion of cake (mostly to see what it taste like) and to limit the ice cream.
Did I mention I should be running around shouting DANGER DANGER!!
August Daily Starch Tally -
5.6 starches = 1 August
6.1 starches = 2 August
7.1 starches = 3 August (3 lb weight loss)
3.6 starches = 4 August (weight flux now = 1.4 lb loss for this month)
7.6 starches = 5 August = 3.8 weight loss (cumulative)
?? starches = 6 August = 2.6 weight Loss (cumulative)
1.6 starches - Fiber Bar @ 6am
0.0 starches - Coffee, black
0.0 starches - Pecan halves (4) & dried Cranberries @9am
0.0 starches - Tea, unsweetened (mixture of green-n-black tea) which I drink until supper
0.0 starches - Greek salad @ Altanta Bread @noon. I am planning to not eat the croutons or bread.
4.0 starches - Pizza (3"x3" thin crust - 4 pieces) @5pm
2.0 starches - Bday cake
0.0 starches - Ice cream
0.0 starches - grape juice (1/2 cup)
i feel like I should be running around shouting - DANGER DANGER!!! Today has the potential to undo all my effort this week.
LO has his 2 year old well baby doctor visit today and it has become a tradition to eat at Altanta Bread Co after finishing medical appt/procedures. I normally order their pizza since I like how they cook it but am planning to switch to Greek Salad today. That probably is still off the charts in calories, but if I leave the croutons and bread off maybe it will be fine for STARCH counting.
DGS15 and DGS13 will come home with me today. Ordering their favorite pizzas and picking them up on our way home is a typical Friday night meal.
We are expecting 20-30 people at our home this evening to help us celebrate LO's birthday. I plan to only eat a SMALL portion of cake (mostly to see what it taste like) and to limit the ice cream.
Did I mention I should be running around shouting DANGER DANGER!!
August Daily Starch Tally -
5.6 starches = 1 August
6.1 starches = 2 August
7.1 starches = 3 August (3 lb weight loss)
3.6 starches = 4 August (weight flux now = 1.4 lb loss for this month)
7.6 starches = 5 August = 3.8 weight loss (cumulative)
?? starches = 6 August = 2.6 weight Loss (cumulative)
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Re: What I Ate
OKay days like today are challenging. You compensated well. Enjoy the time with dgboys, group tonight and celebrating LO's birthday. You are doing vey well.
I like your idea of a spreadsheet. I have that too because I'm down to getting rid of a pound a month or two so it helps to see that there is progress. I'm no longer worried about going down my concern is going back up because of fluid. So it helps to track that.
lucylee I didn't say in my last post that your last 2 days have been fantabulous.
I like your idea of a spreadsheet. I have that too because I'm down to getting rid of a pound a month or two so it helps to see that there is progress. I'm no longer worried about going down my concern is going back up because of fluid. So it helps to track that.
lucylee I didn't say in my last post that your last 2 days have been fantabulous.