Giving myself a kick in the butt and posting my calorie count for the day. I think I will post foods tomorrow as well.

August 22 - 1770 cal

i know its a pain but i think it will help you :huggs:

Good on you girl!! :clap:

Honey Bunches of Oats 260
Soy Smoothy 110
coffee with milk powder 75

Fibre Bar 140

20 Kashi Crackers 180
with light cheddar 90
and sandwich meat 150
blue grapes 100

fruit to go 50

1 c. rice 200
chicken leg 350
2 c. cucumber slices 32

1 sm apple 55
1 lg peach 61

Total 1853 (which I think is ok because I got plenty of exercise and according to calorie-count.com I burned like 1074)

Sounds YUMMY girl! and WOW awesome job on the exercise!! :bouncy:

Fiber Source Granola Bar (FSGB) 120
Peach 61
bite watermelon 10
coffee (with skim milk) 45

30 pita chips 130
salsa 45
cheese 90

chocolate soymilk 150
grapes 100
Second cup granola bar 140

bits of chicken while making supper 100 ?
1 tbsp of jam 100? (ok the urge overcame me :wacko: )

homemade whole wheat pizza about 550
cukes 16
instant cappucino 90

Total 1747

FSGB 120
coffee 45

All Bran Bar 130

1/2 whole wheat pita 130
2 eggs 140
cheese 90

FSGB 120
rice crackers with seaweed 100 (?)
fudge about 1" square 150? (direct from a Fudge making place in cottage country - and oh so good)

sausage 280
honey mustard 20
Mac'n cheese 300
broccoli 15

Watermelon 86
Welch's Fruit Snacks 45
sm apple 55

total 1826

Maybe not the best food choices today but heck it's Saturday :danceparty:

you are doing really good with your calories nic! :happydance:

Thanks Shy! As you can see I'm big on snacking. I think that was my problem when I was away - meal times were inconsistent and the snacks were too available and uncontrolled. :blush:

High zag day


1/2 ww pita 130
PB 100
honey 60
coffee 45

Chinese noodles with
with veggies and tofu 550

Hershey's Cookies 280
pudding 120

pork chops 350
rice 200
salad 50

fudge 100
watermelon 172

Total 2157

You're doing great, Nic! I hope you see great results from the calorie cycling. The Chinese noodles with tofu and veggies sound yummy! B)

me too!

just think if you were here we could go out happily for ice cream :lol:

LOL - that would be great Shy.
Sapphire - the best part about the Chinese noodles, dh cooked them and I didn't have to make lunch, he is a pretty good cook (my son even told his friend's mom that her fajita's were "almost" as good as his dad's wraps) :lol:

coffee 45
Granola Bar 140
0.5 coffee 25

blue grapes 100
cheese 90

sunripe fruit source bar 140
Kashi crackers 280
cheese 90

1 c. cantalope 60
rice crackers 30

2 small chicken fajitas 600 (? best estimate)
made with chicken breast, gr. peppers, cheese, salsa and lettuce and onions
Welch's fruit gummies 130
coffee 50
sm apple 55

Total 1835

Aug 28
sl. ww. bread 150 (? bread machine bread so this is an estimate)
jam 35
margarine (light) 35
coffee 45

ww bread 150
cheese 150
jam 35
sm apple 55

stuff from the Hershey's chocolate factory field trip 375
2/3 of a FSGB 80

rice 300
salad 50
eggs 100
mustard 20
blue grapes 40

10.5 Kashi crackers 95
with melted cheese 80

Total 1795

mmmm fresh bread is one of my downfalls, with butter and jam...yum yum

how you managed to eat that and the chocolate and still keep your calories at a good level is amazing to me!

i'm curious what a "FSGB" is?

FSGB - fibre source granola bar ( I was getting too lazy to write it out everytime). Not sure how come the calories still turned out ok. I guess my body is learning. Also it replaced my afternoon snacks and I didn't have a morning snack today.

In any case, for myself I bought Reese's snacksters (100 cal baggies) and the some dark chocolate sticks (60 cal ea) - I avoided my biggest temptation (caramel anything) because I knew it would be too hard to control portion sizes. I did buy some stuff for baking since school starts next week. Dh got twizzlers (which I don't really care for) and cherry blossoms (of which I tried one but found too sweet not worth the 210 calories each to me). My 5 yr old gave me one chocolate raisin which I accounted for :lol: as well.

High Zag day

FSGB 120
apple 55
coffee 45
sip choc milk (dd made me taste it) 10

ww bread 150
jam 45
marg. 45

1/2 stalk celery 5
apple 55
PB cups 280 :blush: (freebie from yesterdays field trip - last of the really naughty treats)

cheese 240
snackster pack 100

ww pasta 330
with sausage 120
broccoli 50
margarine 35
gr. beans 20

dark chocolate 60
snackster pack 100
2 c. frozen strawberrries 154

Total 2019

wow that sounds delicious! :D

lol

Aug 30

ww bread 150
cheese 100
jam 25
coffee 45
10 grain wild blueberry muffin 220
snacktster X2 200
apple 55
coffee 60
strawberry wrap 100
jam 25
chocolate 60
homemade chicken soup with
rice/rice noodles/veggies
crackers on the side 600(?)
Fruit to go 50
apple 55


Total 1745

Nic, do you find documenting your eating each day to be helping you?

You eat very well! :D YUM!

Hi Teach, I had actually been tracking for a while but I thought posting here would give me an extra boost knowing you guys would read it. I think I still need to up the veggies and lower the treats. :blush:

yeah- i think the closer you get to goal weight (assuming goal weight is in the normal BMI range), the more careful you have to be with your food choices. I suspect the last 20lbs or so are the worst...

Aug 31
coffee 80
1.25 c. vector 215
soymilk 50

rice crackers 90

tortilla 100
peanutbutter 100
chocolate 60

snacksters 200

pudding cup 130

mostly vegetarian chili 561
2 tortillas 200

chocolate 60

Total 1846

So does that mean I have to be careful 24/7? :blush: lol

Just curious... What are snacksters and vector? I'm quite surprised your soymilk is 50 cals; the low-fat soymilk I used to drink was around 100 cals per serve (250 ml cup). It was my first time trying soymilk about a month ago, and the taste was alright, but I found that it was higher in fat than cow's milk. I also had to read through every label because most had added vegetable oil and/or sugar. I agree, you do eat well! :)

HI Sapphire the soymilk is 100 cal/250 but I usually just have half a cup with my cereal. Vector is a cereal that has high added protein (they call it a meal replacement but it's cereal). Snacksters are little 100 cal snack packs (this one has 2 kinds of cereal, Reese's pieces and pb chips) - so calorie controlled treats.

Sept 1
sort of high zag day

pudding 130
ww toast 250
marg. 35
honey 60
coffee 45

Mac'n cheese
with broccoli
& TVP 390

nectarine 80
1 chip 12
chocolate 60
snackster 100
homemade sub sandwich with
ass't sandwhich meat, lettuce, onions,
etc 450?

corn on the cob - 123
Welch's Fruit Gummies 90
apple 72
pudding 130

Total 2027

Ok I couldn't get to sleep last night and I was craving sandwich meat and cheese very strongly - I couldn't resist and caved - It was past midnight so to save myself a pity party I'm counting it today as uncountable since I was on a cross-border shopping trip. I did ok till we went to pizza hut and had a late lunch (salad and a 10" pizza yikes - well at least I didn't eat all my salad dressing). More snacks on the way home and after I got home too... Don't know my total but I know it will be a HIGH ZAG DAY no doubt. Thank goodness it's Monday tomorrow and I will aim for low zigs the next few days (Thurs and Friday will be write-offs because of the wedding) :blush: :blush: :blush:

Sept 3
balance bar 200
coffee 45

apple 71
cheese 100

cinnamon toast 350 ?

cheese 200
apple 55
snackster 100

porkchop 350
salad 100?

pudding 130

total 1701

Sept 4

balance bar 200
coffee 45

7 marshmallows 175 (the only thing there was to eat in the car :blush: )

1 fishie cracker 3
snackster 100

chicken curry 600?

pudding 130
watermelon 168
snackster 100

Total 1921 ish

BACK to tracking tomorrow - I MUST stop eating all this junk. You would all be appauled if you knew how much chocolate I consumed in the last 12 hours.
I hate PMS! Plus I'm so tired from the wedding/travelling weekend I have noooo willpower. I skipped breakfast this morning - I feel very stupid right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:huggs:

i'm not sure if i 'd be appalled or jealous :lol:

don't ever focus on what you have done in the past, it can't be changed...focus on the future and make healthy choices tommorow! :danceparty:

LOL - I know I know tomorrow's another day - but I had to get that confession out. I feel ill to my tummy right now. lol

A better day

Low fat honey bran muffin 140
coffee 45

medium apple 72
2 sl wg toast 250
2 xlg poached eggs 160

muffin 140
choc soymilk (1 c) 150
fruit roll up 80

rice 200
pork chop 350 (?)
1/2 c cherry tomatoes 15
green peppers 30

1 sm belgian chocolate 70 (?)
1 c. blue grapes 100 (?)

Total 1802 (?)

Honey Bran muffin 140
coffee 45
2/3 c. chocolate soymilk 100

muffin 140

leftover porkchop 350
med apple 72

granola bar 100 (these were new ones I found)
Honey wheat pretzel sticks pack 100

hazelnut spread (PMS anyone???) 200

rice 1.5 c. 300
M&M meatballs 140
sauce 40
2 c. cucumbers 32

Total 1759 + silouette drink 10 (it says low cal but no calories stated)
1769

:huggs: chocolate is SO calling my name right now... :(

Excellent advice our friend Shy gave, "don't ever focus on what you have done in the past, it can't be changed" :clap: Exactly!

OK girl, here is your 'kick in the butt' :joker: Now get busy being healthy!! ;) ( I truly need to heed my own advice, :lol:)

Sept 13

ww bagel 260
jam 35
margarine 35
coffee 45

cheesestick 60
sandwich meat 180
honey bran muffin 140
apple 72

Granola Bar 100
Gummies 45
Grapes 100

Chicken Stew 650???
(made with chicken breast, celery, bbq sauce, onions, potatoes)

1 wine gum 20?
cheesestick 60
pretzel sticks 100

Total 1912 ??? (again had the silhouette drink 10 cal???)

apparently the silhouette drink has 4.65 cal/500 ml so not too bad - don't think I'll buy it again, although I like the real splash of juice and Calcium/magnesium, it has sucralose -ick. Another indicator it's PMS time - craving for fizzy-junky drinks.