Jan 19th

In every way, last week just sucked... I find that if I cheat during a week, I write off that entire week.. I need to get better about taking things one day at a time and if something bad happens, I can rebound the next day (and don't have to wait until the next Monday!)

Breakfast
3/4 cup LF cottage cheese
1 slice wheat toast
coffee

Snack
1 Apple
0.5 oz turkey jerky

Lunch
Left-over Chinese Food

Snack

Dinner
Chinese Red Cooked Pork with Rice and Broccoli

Jan 14th

Breakfast
Cottage Cheese
1 slice wheat bread
coffee

Lunch
Tokyo Express Bento box - terriyaki chicken, 3 pieces tempura, some rice, miso soup

Dinner
Chinese Take-out (home too late to cook)
Mu Shu Pork
Chicken and String Bean

Jan 13th

Snack
4 walnut halves + choco covered cranberries

Breakfast
2 Oatmeal Packets + raisins
Coffee

Lunch
Turkey meatloaf
Sweet potatoes

Snack
1.5 Specialty's cookies
1 apple

Dinner
Turkey meatloaf
Sweet potatoes
Small salad with Light Ranch
2 glasses wine

Jan 12th

Breakfast
3/4 cup LF cottage cheese
1 slice wheat toast
coffee

Snack
LF Ginger PUmpkin muffin + small decaf peet's

Lunch
TJ's Penne + meatballs + 1 slice wheat toast

Snack
1 Fuji Apple

Dinner
leftover pozole + 1 corn tortilla
5 crackers plus cheese spread
1 corn tortilla with cheese and LF sour cream
2 glasses wine
1 Almond Roca

500mL H20

I have been hungrier during the day and getting home after 8p.m. at night from work. Since I get up at 4:45 a.m. I don't stay up late. So, have been adding wine to my dinner to help me relax so I can get to sleep by 10p.m. I could probably find alternatives for the wine but am being a bit lenient with myself.. (tsk, tsk)

Jan 11th

Weekend wasn't good for nutrition

Breakfast
Coffee
2 soy sausage patties
1 wheat toast

Snack
1 coffee
1 oz turkey jerky
1 Chips ahoy cookie (tsk, tsk)

Lunch
Chicken Pozole (much better the day after as leftovers)

Snack
1 Apple
1 Specialty's cookie (wheat germ/Choco chip) - I was really craving it and decided just to do it rather than snacking on other things and getting more calories!
1 coffee

Dinner
Leftover Indian
2 glasses of wine
3 Almond Rocas

I only drank about 500mL of H2O today -- not the best day overall.

Jan 7th

Coffee
5 walnut halves + 5 choco covered cranberries

2 oatmeal packets with raisins

Crazy chicken sanwich -- bread, chicken, avocado, jalapeno, cheese, mayo..

1 Isreali chocolate (co-worker brought them in.. hey, how often are you going to be able to try chocolate from Israel?)

Sphaghetti squash spaghetti
1 slice sourdough bread
6 oz diet tonic H20

1 glass light eggnog with spot of brandy

Jan 5th, 6th

I got behind on my charting and remembering my food is even harder than remembering my workouts. I do know that I did very well this week.

no wine at all this week (yah!)

no treats at work

protein every meal, complex carbs..

Even made my favorite meal -- spaghetti squash spaghetti. Yum!

Jan 4th

Coffee
Cottage Cheese
1 slice wheat bread

Lunch
Ham
mashed sweet potatoes
apple/pear relish

Dinner
Big Salad - lettuce, cabbage, sweet peas, feta, lite ranch
3 oz tonic H20

1 mug of tea
12 dark choco covered cranberries

Thursday Nov 19th

Breakfast
2 packets instant oatmeal w/raisins
coffee

Lunch
Butternut squash soup + turkey keilbasa
coffee

Snack
1 pear

Dinner

Nov 18th

Sadly, it has been almost a month since I last posted in my nutrition log and it has been a bad month for eating (of course, there is NO correlation here )

So, I am going to take it one day at a time, but let's hope that I have a good run of healthy eating for the next month (and more!)

Breakfast
2 soy sausage patties
1 slice wheat bread
coffee

Lunch
Ahi Tuna Salad with Avocado, lettuce, sprouts, sesame dressing

Snack
gross orange
1 package anaimal crackers

Dinner
1 bowl butternut squash soup
turkey keilbasa sauteed with onion
small slice sourdough bread
4 oz diet tonic h20
3 oz OJ

1 glass hot cocoa with mini marshmallows

October 22

Breakfast
2 oatmeal packets with raisins
Coffee

Snack
1 orange

Lunch
Chicken piccatta + rice

Dinner

Wednesday October 21st

Breakfast
Cottage Cheese + 1 slice wheat bread
Coffee

Lunch
Salad from Lightening Foods
Lettuce, Cucumber, Feta Cheese, Green Beans, 1 hard-boiled egg
Stir Fry veggies + chicken
1 half- small red potato
water
Decaf coffee

Snack
1 yogurt with 4 walnut halves

Dinner
3/4 cup turkey chili w/ sprinkles of cheese, chips and LF source cream
Small slice leftover pizza
tonic h20
1 cup hot chocolate with really mini marshmallows

Tuesday Oct 20th

Breakfast
Oatmeal with raisins

Lunch
Sushi + miso soup + salad + tea

Dinner
LF chicken picatta with rice
tonic h20

Hot totty (hot water, lemon, honey, shot whiskey..) - I was coughing from the workout and this did a god job of easing my throat pain..

Monday October 12th

Okay, I am going to get serious again (yah, yah.. I know I said that 2 weeks ago (and 2 weeks before that and 2 weeks before that..))

Yesterday I weighed in at 160.7# -- considering my diet and exercise regime the last month, I thought I would be much worse. I FEEL much worse than 160.

Breakfast
3/4 cup LF cottage cheese + 1 leftover pumpkin spice pancake
Coffee

Snack
1 LF yogurt

Lunch
African Chicken Peanut Soup (one of my favorite Cooking Light recipes) - chicken, Red pepper, onion, sweet potato, black beans, rice, jalapeno with a touch of peanut butter. Low-Fat and hearty, good protein and colorful vegetables.

Snack
1 medium orange

Dinner
Turkey Meatloaf, Steamed Broccoli, mashed potatoes with brown gravy (from packet)
Tonic H20

Water = only about 500mL by the time I left work today

Tuesday Sep 29th

Breakfast
2 hard-boiled eggs, 1 slice wheat toast (plain)


Lunch
Minestrone Soup

Snack
1 Pear
1 BabyBell Lite Cheese

After work drinks with co-workers


Dinner