Accountability

Breakfast: Toast w/peanut butter, oj

Lunch: Tomato soup, crackers, vitamin water

Dinner: Turkey patty, salad, slice bread

Snack: piece chocolate, grapes, strawberries

Exercise: Bike 4 miles. 1400 calories.

This is interesting. I wanted to go eat something tonight. Spilling your guts for 50 minutes makes you (well at least me) want comfort food. I decided that I could go down to Taco Bell and get something for my dinner. Then I realized that I didn’t want to do that. I didn’t want to make myself feel better with food. I did have my little 55 calorie piece of chocolate when I got home but it didn’t have any impact on how I felt. I think that I’m actually beginning to change my relationship with food. So this is good I think!

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).

Breakfast: Scrambled egg, toast, pineapple, oj

Lunch: turkey sandwich

Dinner: Salad w/vegetables, slice french bread

Snack: chocolate pudding

Exercise: 31 min., 5 miles. 1500 calories

Breakfast: oj, toast w/butter

Lunch: v-8 juice, vegetarian vegetable soup

Dinner: chicken rice soup, grilled cheese sandwich, v-8 juice

Snack: Hot chocolate

Exercise: bike, 15 min., 2 miles

I’m miserable & sick. 1085 calories. I’m thinking these first 5 days are not a very good start-it has been too easy to not eat a lot.