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: Bagel w/low-fat garden vegetable cream cheese, strawberries & grapes, oj

Lunch: Pea salad, vitamin water

Dinner: Chicken salad, french bread

Exercise: Weights 10 min.

About 1700 calories! I did good today! I ate, went to the store, worked, got a haircut, dyed my hair, talked to people, signed up for an online class & I still have a stomachache and a lump in my throat. . .

Breakfast: Toast w/peanut butter, oj

Lunch: Salad

Dinner: Turkey patty, french bread, pear fruit cup, v-8 juice

Snack: Trail mix

Exercise: Biked 6 miles, 36 min. 1400 calories.

I don’t feel like I did very well today. As I think about it though I actually did good stuff. I wanted pizza rolls this morning & didn’t go to the store & buy any! I made sure I ate a big salad for lunch before I went shopping so I wouldn’t be tempted to stop and eat something. It is just when I went to eat dinner I didn’t feel like fixing it or eating it. I ended up having something different than I’d planned but it wasn’t bad stuff. I really didn’t want to bother eating but I don’t want to do that. In the past I’ve done it and then later been hungry and had junk food. I’m trying (actually I think I’m doing it) to eat even when I don’t feel like it because I know it is good for me and I’ll feel better in the end.

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: Special K cereal w/milk & banana, oj

Lunch: Pita w/vegetables & cheese

Dinner; Chicken patty, salad, cooked broccoli (ok but I think I’ll stick to it in salad)

Snack: Trail mix.

Exercise: Walked up stairs?? I didn’t do anything today, my leg was hurting.  1300 calories.

Breakfast: Special K cereal w/banana, oj

Lunch: Went out for lunch, chicken cesear salad.

Dinner: Taco made w/ground turkey! it was really good. Brussel sprouts. Ok they weren’t as awful as I’d thought but there is a taste to them I don’t like.

Exercise: Biked 5.5 miles, 37 min.

Probably about 1700-1800 calories today.

I went to the store & got broccoli! & some wheat pasta. I’m going to chop the broccoli & add it to salad. I think I’ll like it fine that way.

Jamie - thanks for the comment! I appreciate the support & it’s great to know there is an expert around for questions!

Breakfast:  Toast w/peanut butter, cranberry juice

Lunch: Trail mix - whoops not so good .  .  .

Dinner: Minestrone soup, salad

Snack: Apple

1200 calories

Exercise: 27 min, 4 miles. I stopped because my knee was hurting. Now my entire leg hurts.

Breakfast: Banana, oj. I was in a hurry this morning & didn’t have a great breakfast.

Lunch: Chicken salad. Went out to lunch & did very well! I did snitch 2 french fries but otherwise good.

Dinner: Vegetable soup, slice french bread.

Snack: Apple

Exercise: Biked 33 min, 5 miles.

Thanks Kiko! The snack idea is a good one. It hasn’t been a problem so far because I’ve felt bad. As I start too feel better I know that I’m going to want snacks though. I did get some almonds & am going to go to TJ’s & get the trail mix w/little chocolate chips (like you had in England!), that way I’ll feel like I’m getting a treat w/the chocolate chips.

I’m trying to think of ways that I can deal with the inevitable temptations. I pretty much know what my weaknesses are - I just need to figure out how to handle them!

Glad you asked about Pippin & Mellifera. They have been very supportive & Mellifera is even thinking of joining my exercise program. She has grown a little pudgy lately but we don’t mention it in front of her because it hurts her feelings. As far as exercise, someone told me that I had to even when I was sick. I’m not sure who it was but I think it is the same person who signs a monthly check for me so I felt I had to agree!