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Breakfast: Chicken strip pieces

Lunch: Turkey spaghetti, vitamin water

Dinner: Pav Bhaji (indian thing w/potatoes & vegetables), salad

Snack: Luna bar, trail mix, apple

1400 calories

Exercise: Bike 6 miles, 39 min.

Kiko asked about how I felt after exercising. Pretty tired mostly! I’ve been trying to ride faster although I didn’t go very fast today. It is really tiring though. My legs hurt while I’m riding but not for very long afterwards. Shouldn’t I be enjoying exercise by now?

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: Toast w/peanut butter, oj

Lunch: Sundried tomato wrap w/turkey & cheese & lettuce

Dinner: Beef curry w/rice, salad w/vegetables, cranberry juice

Snack: Trail mix, sliced pears

Exercise: Aerobic tape for 20 minutes. 1600 calories.

I have a Richard Simmons aerobic tape called Sweating to the Oldies. I didn’t do very well with it but I guess I’ll try some more.  I tried doing armlifts w/weights but I couldn’t find my 4 lb ones so had to use the 8 lb ones. They were a bit heavy for me. I think I did 2 lifts. I’m going to look for the 4 lb ones tomorrow.

An interesting thing occurred to me today. Since I started eating better I haven’t been drinking as much coke. I’m not consciously trying to drink less - I only drink diet so I wasn’t concerned about it. I’ve been drinking more water & at the most 1 coke a day, a couple of days I think I didn’t have one. This is good - I periodically wonder why I’m paying money to drink colored water, but it seems strange. . .

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:  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.

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!

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.