Accountability

Breakfast: Toast w/peanut butter, strawberries, grapes, banana, oj

Lunch; Pizza margarita, vitamin water

Dinner: Cedar Lane Enchilada dinner, salad

Snack: small piece of candy

Exercise: Bike 6 miles! 34 minutes. 1650 calories

Breakfast: Scrambled egg, toast, oj

Lunch: Turkey spaghetti

Dinner: Hamburger patty, salad w/lots of vegetables, slice french bread

Snack: small piece chocolate, apple

Exercise: Bike-34 min, 6 miles (I went faster today). 1725 calories.

I notice in looking back over my meals that I’m not doing as well as I should for the food pyramid thing. Overall I think I’m getting enough protein, some days less but like today I had to much. I’m doing pretty good on the vegetables. I put a lot in my salads - peppers, cucumber, carrots, broccoli. Grains I do better good on also. Where I’m really bad is fruit & dairy. The funny thing is that I like fruit, I just forget to eat it. I’m going to start eating cereal more often, that way I’ll get a cup of milk in the morning (& I won’t throw so much away). I bought some calcium tablets today & the clerk - who was about 25 years old - said that after age 26 you are supposed to have 500 milligrams a day. I was going to say I was in big trouble because I’m way past 26 but I was hoping she thought I was younger (like 39).

I agree w/Colleen & Stephen & am going to change my goal to 1800-2000 calories a day. I think that sounds reasonable. Today’s meals:

Breakfast: wheat toast & orange juice

Lunch: turkey sandwich on wheat bread (I’m stressing that wheat bread, it isn’t my favorite thing but I know it is better than white bread).

Dinner: Lean Cuisine TV dinner, salad, slice of french bread.

Snack: 1/4 c. trail mix.

I only had about 1300 calories today but I think I did ok - I didn’t really feel like eating lunch or dinner, I’m feeling kind of sick but I made myself eat so I thought that was good.

Exercise: bike 31 minutes, 5 miles.

I’ve been trying to lose weight for a very long time. Mostly without success. I think that one of the things missing has been help & accountability. This blog is a shameless bid for both! I’ll be posting at the end of each day with a list of what I ate that day & how much I’ve exercised. I’m hoping that readers will do a couple of things. First encourage me and second, hold me accountable. If I eat badly or don’t exercise let me know what you think!

So to jump right in - today I did not so great. I ate a piece of bread w/some pimento spread cheese for lunch along with a cookie. For dinner I had a hamburger made w/lean meat and about 15 chips (french fries for non-anglophiles). Oh yeah & a glass of champagne before dinner.

Overall not so bad calorie-wise. I’d like to stick to 1200 calories a day & this was about that, but nutritionally I know it wasn’t great.

Exercise: I rode my bike for 20 minutes, 3 miles. This sounds good but I know I could have gone longer.

So this is my start. Please comment, make suggestions etc., etc.

Thanks!