Food Bits

breakfast: 190cal
cereal - 130 cal
milk - 60 cal

snack: 80cal
1 piece string cheese

Lunch:280 cal
2 cup salad mix:15cal
1 egg: 70cal
1/4 C Cottage cheese: 55cal
1 tbsp ranch: 70cal
boca burger: 70cal

Dinner: 400cal
1 1/2 slices of papa murphy's large pizza - cut into 12ths
1/10th papa murphy's is 320, so 1/12 = 266

Daily Total: 950 cal

Breakfast: Burgerville Toaster biscuit sandwich w/ egg, sausage, tillamook cheddar
680 (holy cow)

Lunch: Round table salad bar - OK-ish, no way to be certain. figure at 400


Dinner: a handful of tater tots. 200cal

daily total: 1280ish

breakfast: noon
2 pieces of pizza schmizza pizza ?

dinner: 7pm
potluck @ a wedding reception - no way to tell.

daily total...dunno

Jason and I had a lil chit chat last night. Cause I came home, and was a WRECK. Food didn't help, relaxing didn't help. We determined i wasn't stressed or sleepy, i just wanted to CRY. I was an emotional basketcase.

Well, he came up with an alternative to my switching from jello to something else for afternoon snack. He doesn't think the food will fix it, since it didn't last night. I tend to agree with him. And he reminded me of something my doctor told me about a year ago - that if i could eat better and drop some weight, I probably wouldn't need the metformin. She wanted to check me when i got below 240.

Well, I'm below 240. So I'm going off the metformin. Jason and I will watch me VERY carefully, and I'm carrying it with me JUST in case. But we're thinking diet regulation PLUS med regulation is OVER regulation.

gods, i hope so. i would LOVE to be done with these pills

239.4

PROGRESS!

Today is the first day of spring!

Breakfast: 7:45 - 190
1 small red apple - 55 cal
1 piece string cheese - 80cal
1/4 C cottage cheese - 55cal

Orange Juice: 220 cal

Lunch: 1:15pm - 470 cal
Safeway Eating Right Mediteranian Chicken - 230cal
1.5 C choco milk - 240cal

Dinner:
one of those 'no way to tell' meals with other people. I was as careful as i could be.

Daily Total: 880 + dinner

note: not taking the metformin also means i'm missing an appetite suppressant. this sucks.

Breakfast: 7:30am -238cal
Salad Mix - 15cal
Tomato - 15 cal
Cottage Cheese - 83cal
salsa - 55cal
egg - 70cal

Snack: 11am - 10 cal
Jello

Lunch: 1pm - 540 cal
Safeway Eating Right Chicken with plum sauce & 5 grain rice. - 310cal
(it's ok. i'm digging the peas).
still hungry. and low on energy. grabbed food
2 pieces of sliced turkey - 60cal ish
1 piece of sliced ham - 30cal ish
2 pieces of sliced...i don't know. some sort of ham-like meat. - 60calish
some pepperjack, some provolone, some cheddar - about 80cal total

dinner ended up being one of those dishes where you're not quite sure what's in it, and the cook didn't keep exact track or measure. So i've got no idea. it was yummy tho.

daily total: ?

Jason went grocery shopping last night before I got off work. I'm always so afraid when someone else does the grocery shopping - what will they buy? Will they understand how dedicated I am to eating right and losing weight, or will they pick up crap?

Jason, I'm happy to report, gets it. He came back with:

• 1 small bag of salad mix - he likes to buy things in bulk, but I tend to not want to eat salad when it starts getting yucky. So he didn't. So I'll eat it. We'll get more when I run out.
• A ton of string cheese. Literally, the biggest package he could find. He noticed i was using it a lot, and so he picked up a bunch.
• Jello. He even remembered the sugar free variety. We both like saving money, and he saw a store brand that came in a bunch of flavors, but wasn't sure if i'd like it. So to make sure I'll actually eat the right stuff and NOT stop because my options taste like crap, he bought the real stuff. In the right flavors. And more than I expected - because, as he puts it, at 10 calories, i can just keep eating it when I'm hungry. I now have orange, strawberry, cherry, and black cherry.

He did NOT come back with:

• New high-calorie sauces I absolutely must try
• ice cream
• candy
• chips

In conclusion, support is awesome.

Breakfast - 7:45am - 270 cal
2 C salad mix - 15cal
1/4 C cottage cheese - 55cal
a tbsp or so of tomato - 5cal
1 tbsp baconaise - 30cal (i love this stuff)
3 tbsp salsa - 15cal
1 hard boiled egg - 70cal
1 piece of string cheese - 80cal

Snack: 11am - 10cal
Jello

Lunch: 12:45am - 230 cal
Safeway Eating Right Lemongrass Chicken
Note. I don't care for lemongrass sauce. good to know.

Snack: 4pm - 10cal
Jello

dinner: 7:30pm - 544cal
6 chicken nuggets (5 = 220cal, so 220/5*6) - 264cal
about 2 servings of french fries (1 serving = 110cal) - 220cal
2 tbsp bbq sauce = 60cal
I should also note that the nuggets & french fries were deep fried. I'm sure that adds something.

Daily total: 1064cal

Breakfast - 7:45am - 190
3/4 C Safeway brand blueberry crunch cereal - 130cal
3/4 C fat-free milk (1 c = 80cal, 80/4*3) - 60 cal

Snack: 11:15am - 65 cal
1/8 C raisins

DID NOT WORK - got more food (nibbled @ snack, rest for lunch)
2 C of assorted low cal veggies -60 cal
1/4 C of ranch - 300cal

Lunch: 1:45 - rest of snack

Snack: 3:30 pm - 65 cal
1/8 C raisins

Dinner: 6pm - 305cal
we went to KFC. I had:
1 honey bbq snacker (210 cal)
1 corn on the cob (70cal)
1 indiv side green beans (25cal)

I totally recommend this meal. it's yummy as hell, it's eating out, and you feel like you're eating a LOT. where else can you get that combo? it sure as hell beats a burger that you have to leave the mayo and half the bun and the cheese off of!


Daily Total: 985 cal


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I'm out of Jello. Jason says he'll pick some up after work, but in the meantime, I need a snack. I think the jello thing worked out GREAT - it kept me from starving, and kept me well within my goal.

Today, I'm taking raisins. I brought 1/4 C raisins (130 cal) which i'll split between my breaks. Yes, it's a lot higher than jello. So i'm also going a little less on my breakfast snack and a little less on lunch. It'll work out. :)

Breakfast (8am):
1/2 of my leftovers from the Shepherd's Pie (1/4 a lunch portion) - 294 cal

Snack: (11am)
one jello! - 10cal

Lunch: (1:30pm)
1/2 of my leftovers from the Shepherd's Pie (1/4 a lunch portion) - 294 cal

Snack: 3:15 pm
one jello! - 10cal

Dinner: (5:30pm)
Salad. Lettuce (15cal), salsa (30cal), ham (60cal), cottage cheese (55cal), cheese (80cal) - 240cal

Snack: (8pm)
1 sugar free jello pudding - 60cal

Daily Total: 908 cal

Breakfast: 9:45am
Salad: 2 C lettuce (15cal), 2 slices tomato, diced (5?), some pepper jack (80cal), 1 tbsp baconaise (30 cal), 1/4 C cottage cheese (55), 3 tbsp salsa (15) - 200 cal

Lunch: 2pm
We went to Cheesecake Factory, for Jason's Parent's Anniversary. As this is a celebratory Dinner, I am making serious exceptions to my food rules. I intend to do the same for other important Dinners - Thanksgiving, Christmas...my Wedding. Also, Cheesecake Factory does not list their nutritional info online. Nor can I find what I ate listed elswhere.
Lunch size Shepherd's Pie - ate 1/2 of it.
Blueberry Cheesecake. I skipped the whipped cream (yeah, I know...that's the little parts).
Sheppherd's Pie is 1178 - 1/2 would be 589
Cheesecake is 785

It's 4:30pm, and I'm still SO full...I may just skip dinner tonight. Oi.

Dinner: 7:30pm
I was SO hungry.
Repeat of breakfast - 200cal.
Still hungry - Jello - 10 cal.
Waited 30 min, STARVING - had another salad, w/o the pepperjack - 120cal.

Daily Total: 1974

Breakfast: 8am
1 piece of combo pizza - 410 cal

Lunch: 12 noon
4 pc chicken nuggets & apple bits - 225 cal

Snack: 2:30 pm
(i was STARVING)
kids meal of saffron rice & aloo mutter masala from bombay express (?)
Rice: I had about 1/2 - 3/4 cup cooked. and bout 1/4 cup of the masala. the masala's all vegetarian - peas, potatoes, and a sauce - The rice would have been about 150 cal. and i'm not sure on teh masala - 100 should cover it easy, though. so 250cal

Dinner: 7pm
Burger (100cal) + bun (120 cal) + 1tbsp lite baconaise (30cal), + tomato (?) + lettuce (?) + Pepper jack (80cal) = ~350cal

Total: 1215

I will start weighing in Friday afternoons

242.3 lbs

Breakfast: 8:15am
Sandwich (1 piece of bread - 70 cal, 2 pieces of ham - 60 cal, 1/4 C mushrooms - 15cal) - 145

Snack: 11am
Jello cup - 10 cal

Lunch: noon
Safeway Eating Right BBQ Chicken Pizza - 340 cla

Dinner: 3:30 pm
Protein Salad - 233 cal
(1 boca burger - 70 cal, cup of salad mix - 8 cal, tbsp of mushrooms - 5cal, 1 poached egg - 70cal, 1 piece string cheese - 80 cal, 1 capful of vinegar, worchestshire pepper, creole seasoning)

FOOD: 8pm
1 Piece of mushroom pizza - 300cal

Daily Total: 1028cal

I'm trying something different today. I've noticed that I do better with less time between meals. So today I brought a couple jello cups (10 cal each) and I'm going to eat them on my breaks and see how it goes.

Because Jason is awesome. (edited somewhat for brevity)

carisaacs: and he's changing my schedule
bostickjwork: oh?
bostickjwork: what now?
carisaacs: yep
carisaacs: 9-5:30
carisaacs: m-f
carisaacs: starts tmw
bostickjwork: kinda kills afterwork stuff..but
bostickjwork: u get to sleep in
bostickjwork: looks like I get to start prepping dinner
carisaacs: yeah
carisaacs: guess so
carisaacs: i'll be hungry when i get off work
bostickjwork: grill up some chicken and make side salads
carisaacs: that be good tmw
bostickjwork: kk
bostickjwork: can do that
bostickjwork: I try to make good dinners..promise
bostickjwork: not feed you junk

Breakfast: 7am
Apple Nutrigrain Bar - 130 cal

Lunch: 9am
Santa Fe & Rice Safeway Eating Right meal - 310 cal

Snack: 2:30pm
MCD Grilled Chipotle BBQ Snack Wrap - 260 cal

Dinner: 6pm
rest of my bbq nachos - 600cal

Daily total: 1300

I like visual representations of how I'm doing. Maybe you do too.

Breakfast: 4:30 am
Meatloaf - 300cal

Lunch: 8:30 am
Safeway Eating Right Orange-glazed Chicken: 300cal

NO.
I am in stressy mood and upset over my kitty, and I'm NOT counting calories tonight.

I went to Buffalo Wild Wings. I ate BBQ nachos and I ate potato wedges with cheese.
I came home and ate girl scout cookies and ice cream.
I did not measure. I did not count. Right now, I do not care.

I am going to go look at pictures of my kitty and be sad. I'm giving myself permission to not count today.

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edit: so regret's a lovely thing, and with my sister's help i figured this out
i ate about half the bbq nachos - 700 cal
tater wedges w/ cheese - 390
part of jason's tater wedges - 187
2 pepperoni kickers: 188
1 pb girl scout cookie: 53
1 thin mint girl scout cookie: 40
1 sugar free choco chip girl scout cookie: 53
2 lemon sandwich girl scout cookies: 114
ice cream: 454

Daily Total: 2779 cal

Breakfast: 7:45am
Oatmeal: 200 cal

Lunch: 9:30 am
Safeway Eating Right Chicken Poblano - 310cal

Snack: 11:30 am
Nutrigrain Blueberry bar - 130cal

Dinner: 5pm
Giant Salad - 350cal

Daily Total - 990cal

Breakfast: 7am
Insta-Oatmeal (Baked Apple Flavor) - 200cal

Lunch: 9am
Safeway "Eating Right" Butternut Squash Ravioli - 280 cal
Cup of coffee with Splenda & 1Tbsp of Chocolate Milk - 13 cal

Snack: 5pm
JITB Grilled Chicken Pita - 310 cal

Dinner: 7pm
meatloaf - 300cal
salad mix w/ salsa - 30 cal

Daily Total: 1133cal

Breakfast: noon
Arbys Bacon Cheddar Roast Burger, add Mayo
Arbys Loaded Potato Bites (small)
1/2 Arbys Moz Sticks (small)

Dinner: 8pm
baked potato w/ butter, sour cream, cheese, onion, salsa, and bacon bits.

Per my sister - Daily Total is around 1621 cal

Breakfast: 9:30 am
JITB Extreme Sausage Sandwich on sour dough
JITB Hashbrowns

Dinner: 5pm
Salad w/ hamburger patty

Snack: 11pm
1 apple slice (about 1/8 apple)
1 sugar cookie

http://www.quakeroats.com/products/oatmeal/oatmeal-express/baked-apple.aspx

Brought to you by the little free food cabinet at work.

This is oatmeal, plain and simple. More of the free food I can get around here. This place can be pretty scary with the amount of free food - a diet can be hard to stick to!

Oatmeal makes a good breakfast though, when I'm running late and forget to grab something. And this is pretty good. We've got the Golden Brown Sugar & the Baked Apple varieties. Both seem to be the same calories.

It's a decent breakfast.

Breakfast: 7am
1 Quaker Oatmeal Express (Golden Brown Sugar) - 200 cal
1 Piece of String Cheese - 80 cal

Lunch: 9am
Safeway "Eating Right" Cheese Ravioli Meal - 280cal

Snack: 11am
1 C Fat-Free Milk - 90 cal

Snack: 3:20 pm
1 Piece of String Cheese - 80 cal

Dinner: 5pm
1 Big Mac - 540cal

Daily Total: 1270 cal

This is an awesome product. It's soup, in a little packet. You put it in a mug/bowl, add water, and have insta-food.

http://www.cupasoup.com/

The website shows the retail versions, but it also comes in big much-plainer packaging for businesses. Here at work, we have Chicken Noodle, Cream of Chicken, and Beef flavors free to grab. The Chicken Noodle one at work is only 50 calories. Which is a quick, easy (and cheap!) way to get some quick protein in.

Esp when, say, someone feels like they're going to pass OUT. My metformin's been wonky the last couple days. I think this saved me. Yay!

I did it! Yesterday, I DID IT!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Breakfast: 4:30
2 eggs, poached (2x70) = 140 cal
1 piece of string cheese = 80 cal
1 Tbsp Salsa = 10 cal

Lunch: 8:30
1 Nutrigrain Bar - 130cal
1 Lipton Insta-Soup, Chicken Noodle - 50cal

Lunch: 9:00
1 C Fat-Free milk -90 Cal
Safeway Eating Right Roast Turkey - 320 cal

More food: 11:00 - 1:30
Arby's All-American Roast Burger - 420 cal
Small order Arby's Curly Fries - 360 cal
1 Carls Jr Crisp Burrito - 217 cal

Dinner: 7pm
Potato Stroganoff - 300 cal

Daily Total = 2117 cal

Yes, it's all messed up today. My insulin levels went NUTS about 7am, and I spent the next several hours just trying to stabilize them so I wouldn't pass out. Since I only have pills I can take a couple times a day, I have to use food to stabilize. UGH.

I wanted something kinda stroganoffy tonight. But I'm out of sour cream, have no steak, and no noodles. Time to get creative! Here's what I got

1 Medium-Large baking potato (Leftovers FTW) my size is about 200 cal
1 lb ground beef. Mine's only lean, but I rinse and drain it - 620 cal *
1/4 Cup-ish of yellow onion, chopped. My sister says an onion is 110cal. I used about an eighth of one, which I estimate at roughly 1/4 C - 15cal
1 BIG Can mushrooms - 90cal
1 Can Campbells Mushroom soup - 250 cal
some Worchestshire Pepper (This is pepper flavored like worchestshire sauce - I LOVE it - no cal)

Total for dinner dish: 1175

Divide into fourths for portioning. Figure it at about 300 cal!

*see http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/reducedfatgroundbeef.htm on rinsing and draining

Breakfast: 7:15
1 indiv side KFC mac & cheese 180 cal

Lunch: 12:30
3/4 C Safeway Brand blueberry crunch cereal - 130 cal
1 C fat-free milk - 90 cal

Dinner: 4pm
Potato Stroganoff: 300 cal

Snack: 7:15pm
1/4 C of ben & jerry's PB Cup ice cream - 170 cal

Daily Total: 870 cal

Breakfast: 4:20 am. (UGH-o-clock)
1/2 C Safeway Brand Blueberry Crunch Cereal. 3/4 C = 130 cal, so 130/3*2= 87 cal
3/4 C fat-free milk. 1 C = 90 Cal, so 90/4*3=68 cal

Lunch: 10am
1 Chicken Enchilada - 425 calories (estimated by the daily plate. This one's from Chevy's, but they don't have it in their nutrition list.)

Dinner: 4pm
1 Baked potato (btwn med & large) - about 200 cal
Butter substitute (I can't believe it's not butter) - about 3 tbsp - 210 cal (and *I* need a new substitute. My god!).
A sprinkle of onion - negligible
A bout 4 tbsp of salsa - 40 cal
1/2 a baked apple/raisin thingy - 150cal?

Total Daily: 1175 Cal

I'm really proud of myself with this Chevy's thing. I mean, I KNOW it's throwing me over my cal budgets, but the three meals I've had off it are all part of what I'd normally eat as ONE meal.

Other healthy things I'm doing: I started taking 800mg of folic acid/day, on the advice of my Dr, who is happily NOT afraid of nutritional supplements.

I canceled my chiro appt for today - I feel FINE. I could do cartwheels (well, as well as I usually do).

I'm home today - I went to work, cause I feel fine, but I've still got this cough, so they sent me back home. I tried the baked apple recipe...only I didn't have splenda, so I used brown sugar twin. We'll see how it works. I think a good addition to the sugar/cinna mix would be molly mcbutter.

So...here's the deal. I don't seem to have a problem sticking to 1200 calories on a regular basis. it's that extra 300 btwn 900 & 300 that's the problem. Where do i cut it? obv, dinner is my problem....but...how? without feeling hungry all night? hrmm

Breakfast: 10 am
1 Cup Refried Beans - 275 calories
2 Tbsp Salsa - 20 calories
Tortilla Chips - about 150 calories

Snack: 1pm
1 chocolate bunny rabbit - 130 calories

Lunch: 3pm
1 KFC Snacker - 300 calories

Dinner 6:30 pm
1 indiv side KFC mac & cheese 180 cal
1/2 indiv side KFC mashed taters & gravy 1/2 * 130 cal = 65 cal
1 KFC biscuit 180 cal

Comfort Food with TV: 8pm (i got REALLY bad news from the dr)
1/2 C haggen daaz dulce de leche ice cream - 290 cal (at least it's out of the house now)

Total: 1590 cal

hmm..I'm definitly over budget today.

We eat @ OSF when Jason has had a really rough day or when he needs a treat. I like it, but he absolutely loves it. He always gets the same thing, whereas I like just about everything on the menu. I was surprised at how NOT bad for me some of this stuff can be, actually. I just have to be careful.

http://www.osf.com/menu/nutrition.htm

The idea behind this place is, you get a full meal, served in courses. They start you off with bread, then bring Soup or Salad, then your entree, and then desert.

So...Bread:
They bring out one loaf for everyone to share. This is apparently 4 servings, at 328 calories a serving. The loaf we cut into about 8 pieces, and I generally have one slice.

328x4/8= 164 calories. I think I'll skip the bread.

next, soup or salad. After scanning the list, I have two options - one for when I'm cold and want soup, and one for salad.

Minestrone soup: 60 cal
Salad w/ FF Honey Mustard: 120 cal

Next, the Entree. I don't have any one special, so this was just a matter of scanning the menu.

Spinach & Cheese Ravioli - 480 cal. I think I'll eat half - 240 cal.

And then there's desert - spumoni ice cream - 180 cal.

So, my total is 540 calories, or 480 calories.
either way, this is a little out of range for me. I can still do it, but I need to know ahead of time to adjust the rest of my meals to leave room.

Red Robin is one of my favorite restaurants. For years, they haven't had any sort of nutitional guide, but I found out today, they added a 'build a meal' thingy. So I used it.

• Garden Burger (no bun or sauce)- 141 calories. The bun adds 250 calories, the sauce 126.
• Lettuce Wrap burger (no cheese) - 332 calories. The cheese adds 90 calories
• Grilled Turkey Burger (no bun or sauce) - 262 calories. The bun adds 250 calories, the sauce 192.
• Crispy Fish Burger (no bun or sauce) - 217 calories. The bun adds 250 calories, the sauce 136.

None of these include the steak fries. The side of them is 390 calories by themselves.
They also include a salmon burger in their lighter fare section but I detest non-deep-fried fish.

stuff I usually like from them:

• Fish & Chips is 1067 calories. I can eat a third of it.
• Santa Fe Burger - 1042 calories. Not including the fries. OUCH. I won't remove the sauce, cause it MAKES the burger. Ditto on the sauteed onions and cheese and pablono pepper. But if I remove the bun, the tortilla strips, and the guacamole, i can get it to 680 calories, at which point I can eat half of it.
• Fajita Fiesta Pollo Salad - 1265 calories. Ow, Ow, Ow. So I take off the nacho cheese and the salad dressing and get it down to 652 calories. I can eat half of THAT.

Today, I'm not paying much attention to what I eat. Primarily, this is because I am rather ill and running a fever, and sleeping a lot on the couch while the TV's on. Jason's also sick and is doing the same.

Breakfast - IHOP's chicken fiesta omelette. I only ate 2 of the pancakes though. - no idea what time or calories.
Lunch - slept through it.
Dinner - Chevy's Chile Relano & a lil thing of corn. Left the rest of my meal for later.

Total Count - clueless, but I don't think it's too bad.