Thursday Food

This may be pretty boring for you to read, but I want to keep track of my intake here for a few more days.

Oatmeal, craisins, pecans (now gone!), Splenda, cinnamon. 
Granny Smith apple with organic peanut butter.
Reduced-fat Triscuits with Laughing Cow cheese (50 calories, the spreadable wedge).
Two tangerines.
Gum!
Salad with chopped chicken breast.

Later tonight, popcorn!

That's five servings of vegetables and/or fruit for today.  Hooray for me.

Anyone want to share what they ate today?

Comments

[mrs darling]

I shared what I ate on my new diet blog. You can click on my name here and it will take you to it. I was good calorie wise but mercy I just discovered when I posted it that didnt have any fruit or vegetables today. Your day looks nutritionally much better! I love when you post what you eat.

[carrien]

I'm signing up for your next exercise streak.

I weighted myself at the in-laws last weekends and I was 130, (My lowest as an adult has been 125, and that looks really skinny.) which seemed impossible to me since I know that since Christmas my thighs and middle have gotten larger again, and strain at the seams of my pants. This leads me to one sad and inevitable conclusion.

I am out of shape. I must have no muscle mass at all to weigh 130 and still have a belly I can grab. I'm fine with the eating, mostly, but I've not been faithfully exercising every day for about 3 months. I think all the muscles in my legs are beginning to atrophy.
Time to get moving.

[mary]

we are celebrating easter on saturday and i'm with you as soon as it is over. i did no flour/sugar 4 years ago when i was diagnosed with thyroid cysts and it really was great. i did not reach my goal - 175 tripped me up! but, i felt so much better. sadly, one pregnancy later, i'm back to 196. you are inspiring. i wonder, what are your no sugar/flour criteria? i would have thought that dark chocolate was a no-no. would you blog about that?

[Janb]

I was doing good until bedtime - again my major problem. I had peanut butter. I don't know why I can't kick this peanut butter fixation. I wish I could get it out of the house, but the kids eat it. What do you suggest?

[liz]

Yesterday's food:
Protein Shake (low sugar/carb)
Progresso Light SW Veg Soup
3 slices LF turkey breast
Salad with 4 oz sliced steak (left-over from last night) with blue cheese & balsamic vinaigrette
Popcorn
100+ oz water

[liz]

Forgot to add RE: my protein shake breakfast...

I know many people who say drinking a meal is absolutely not the way to go. Although I am trying to shed some (a lot) of this weight I carry around, I am not drinking the shake because I expect it to solve all my problems.

I drink it because it's the most time-efficient, while still healthy, breakfast for me. (FOR ME, the key part. I hate eggs which is the other quick low-GI breakfast option.)

I have to get myself and my two kids ready and we leave the house at 6:45am to beat the DC congestion that piles up as the morning progresses. I just can't get up any earlier than I already do (5:30) to have time to sit and eat breakfast in the kitchen.

So I make a low carb/low sugar protein shake and drink it after dropping the kids off at day care. (I have a 45 minute commute after that.) With the milk I use, it comes to 200 calories, 2g fat and a whopping 23g protein. It keeps me full until lunch and allows me to resist the vending machine right next to the coffee in my office.

[Kristin]

I'm just doing this so you can think in amazement "she eats A LOT"! This is Thursday, which was a typical day.

*Pre-Y: Diet hot chocolate (25 cal) with instant espresso to get me going; small spoonful of almond butter "just because."
*Breakfast: 1/3 c. cooked oatmeal w/ 1/4 cup wheat bran, 1/4 apple chopped, a few dried cherries, 1/2 c. blueberries, 1/2 small banana topped with Fiber One cereal for crunch and fiber.
Veggie scramble with onions, bell pepper, mushrooms, lots of spinach, and 2/3 cup egg white from a carton, topped with salsa.
Green tea.
*A.m. Snack: Nonfat latte and South Beach 100 calorie bar.
*Lunch (mid-afternoon): BIG salad with spring greens, onion, bell pepper, cucumber, celery, asparagus, 1/4 small avocado, 1 oz. fat-free feta, 4 oz. chicken, 1 tsp. olive oil & cider vinegar, salsa.
*Late afternoon snack (before Y): 100 calorie whole grain english muffin, topped with almond butter & banana slices, almond milk latte with instant espresso (this is a pretty fancy snack for me, usually I'd go with a bar of some kind).
*Dinner: Big bowl of green soup (broth, kale, spinach, leeks, zucchini, tomatoes, spiced with tabasco sauce); 4 oz. salmon, asparagus, celery, chopped roasted eggplant.
*Bedtime snack: 1/2 serving lite & fit yoghurt, mixed with 1/4 cup cottage cheese, blueberries, a few dried cherries & raisins, wheat bran, fiber one.

Yes, I really did eat all that! (And diet coke too.)

[jane]

Thanks for sharing. I was going to start (again) with you, the day after Easter, and I didn't get the shopping or prep done. Also, I felt defeated heading into it because I had eaten so much candy. And, I was planning to do a no-carb thing but I decided it wouldn't work, because I just can't stick to it for more than a few days. So I am going low GI, 1300 calories per day. I am starting today. I started with oatmeal and splenda and some applesauce with a little milk on it to cool it down. If you don't mind, I'd like to report my meals, too, just as a Diet Naked accountability thing. Thanks.

[Cheri]

I love to read what others eat, often I get wonderful ideas of foods that I don't normally eat to add to my diet. I need to be better about keeping track of what I eat. Once my oldest son goes back home I'll get back on (better) track. I've really not done "bad" this week.

[Michelle in Mx]

NOT Boring - in fact I eat it up - as it were- cause I wonder if I could do the same? Could I?! So I am watching everything you put into your mouth. I don't want to make you uncomfortable there . . .sorry. Anyway - what I'm trying is not working and I don't feel like trying to read a book . . . a blog is more like it . . .
so keep it up, please!