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

Monday Sep 28

Breakfast
Oatmeal + raisins

Snack
Yogurt

Lunch
Minestrone Soup

Snack
Orange

Dinner
Turkey Chili (can from Trader Joe's) + 2 corn tortilla
Sparkling Water

Dessert
1 almond biscotti
1 cup tea

Week ending Sep 25th
All in All I did fairly well this week
Tuesday and Wednesday I had no wine with dinner. Thursday I had half a glass only

balanced meals, no treats.. until I got to Friday morning (and then everyone brought in baked goods.. and I love baked goods... so I slipped some).

Sep 22

My post on Sep 8th said I was going to take nutrition seriously.. and then Chris' dad died.. so I fell off the wagon.. but I am back again!

Breakfast
Coffee
Cottage Cheese
2 slices of wheat bread

Lunch
African Stew (Chicken, zucchini, spices in a tomato-paste sauce over mashed sweet potatoes)

Snack
Red Pear

Dinner

Sep 8th

OK - my nutrition has been pretty poor the last month or so. So, I am making a comeback -- between now and Thanksgiving I am really going to be serious.

Breakfast
3/4 cup LF cottage cheese + 1 slice whole wheat bread

Snack
1 oz Turkey Jerky

Lunch
Chicken Marsala (3 chicken tenders) + steamed broccoli

Snack
Nectarine

Dinner
Whole Wheat pasta with turkey burger red sauce

Sep 3rd

Breakfast
Coffee
2 soy sausage patties + 2 slices whole wheat toast (dry)

Lunch


Snack


After work drinks
Old boss is in town from London -- meeting at Town Hall for a few drinks.

Dinner

Sep 2nd

Breakfast
Bagel with Egg & Cheese

Lunch
Pork and Broccoli

Snack
Oatmeal (1 plain, 1 low sugar maple)
*ugh.. now I feel really full... I thought I was starving**

Dinner
2 slices Papa Murphy's Pizza + 2 bowls salad
3 glasses of wine (tsk, tsk)
1 Almond Roca

Sep 1st

Breakfast
Coffee
2 soy sausage patties

Snack
3/4 cup cut up cantelope

Lunch
Achieve One Shake
Yogurt

Snack
Whole Wheat Crackers with Yogurt Chive dip (LF) and guacamole

Dinner
Chicken Fajitas with corn tortillas & guacamole
1 beer
1 glass Diet Tonic H20
1 Skinny Cow ice cream cone

Monday Aug 31

Breakfast
2 Instant Oatmeal packets (Original and sugar free maple) + handful raisins

Snack
1 oz turkey jerky

Lunch
Curry Pork with steamed broccoli (pork is a lot dry.. ugh.. hard to swallow - but lean protein and complex carbs.. can't get any better than that!)

Dinner
Big Salad, 2 leftover ravioli + 1 glass sparkling water
2 cups Decaf Coffee + 1 almond biscotti

I fell off the nutrition log wagon a few weeks ago. I'm back!

This week I did pretty well (for me). No wine on MOnday, Tuesday or Wednesday and I ate pretty well -- good balance of protein and complex carbs.

Friday 28th

Breakfast
1 hardboiled egg + 2 slices whole wheat toast (plain)
half a donut (it's friday!)

Snack
1 nectarine
1.2 ounces turkey jerky

Lunch
Left-over Chinese Food

Dinner
Steak and ??

Weigh-in yesterday: 161.1

August 13

Early a.m. snack
Few bites of birthday cake (tsk, tsk)
Coffee

Breakfast
2 Omega-3 enhanced hard boiled eggs

Snack
1 cup fresh blueberries

Lunch
Moroccan Chicken Crock Pot Stew

Aug 12th

I got a crock pot cookbook for my birthday (yah!) so many good for you things one can make in the slow cooker. I also got a Paleo book. I don't think I will be pure Paleo'er but I will try my best.. I'll do a Paleo/Zone thing. Key is more protein, less grains, less dairy, more veggies & fruits -- I can do that..

Breakfast
2 soy sausage patties
1/2 cupt fresh blueberries

Snack
Lemon LF yogurt
1/2 cup fresh blueberries

Lunch
Crock Pot Moroccan Chicken Stew (Chicken breast, pineapple, tomatoes, carrots, chickpeas, green beans, indian spices) -- yum!

Dinner
Big Salad - Lettuce, tomato, carrots, cucumber, chicken breast, turkey lunchmeat, feta cheese, LF ranch dressing (I know I am not supposed to have feta or ranch, but I have a hard time eating salad without these items).
Chocolate birthday cake
1 glass red wine