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Breakfast - Toast with peanut butter, grapes
Lunch - salad with broccoli, cauliflower and grape tomatoes. A few crackers and some humus. Jello dark chocolate mousse.
Supper - some cooked veggies, popcorn, yogurt.
Steps - 4,210
Today I saw one of my doctors and I told her about my quest to learn how to stop eating when I am full. She approved of my quest and told me that her son is slender and always stops eating when he is full - even if there is just one piece of food left on his plate. He just can't eat another bite if he is full. However, her husband, who has a weight problem, eats everything on his plate and has no awareness of when he is full and/or he ignores that full feeling. For many of us with a weight problem, learning to stop eating when we are full is something we have to learn - it does not come naturally.
I'm taking a few days off from posting to this blog. See you next Tuesday.
Breakfast - toast and an egg, grapes
Lunch - bowl of soup, crackers, a few potato chips, 1/2 Skinny Cow ice cream.
Supper - salad with broccoli, cauliflower & grape tomatoes, last two leftover pieces of pizza from Friday, vanilla yogurt.
Steps - 5,215
Breakfast - I made some oatmeal, but after several spoonfuls I decided I really didn't enjoy it so I made a piece of toast and had some grapes.
Lunch - at Red Lobster - biscuit, salad, shrimp, baked potato.
Supper - small bowl of tomato soup, some crackers and a wedge of laughing cow cheese, some Pringle chips, and one small Halloween Kit Kat.
Steps - 2,176
Breakfast - toast with an egg
Lunch - small side salad, two leftover pieces of yesterday's pizza, two wedges of Laughing Cow cheese - the two new flavors.
The blue cheese had the strong blue cheese flavor which needed to be eaten on a cracker or stuffing a piece of celery. It was too strong for me to eat alone. The Sun-Dried tomato will make a good snack all by itself.
Supper - small portions of mashed potatoes, creamed corn, and stewed tomatoes. For dessert, yogurt and wheat germ.
Steps - 4,254
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter
Lunch - out with a friend to an Italian restaurant. We split a delicious salad of lettuce, tomatoes, roasted red pepper and artichokes. Then we split a wonderful pizza with sun dried tomatoes, goat cheese and artichokes. My friend not only paid for the meal, she sent me home with the leftovers! She offered to split a dessert with me also, but I said "no". I just did not need any more extra calories.
Supper - warmed up the leftover half sandwich from yesterday and the leftover French fries with truffle oil. I only ate half of the half-sandwich and just a few fries because once again I was worried about all the calories. I had a sugar-free jello for dessert.
The supper wasn't enough to last through the evening, so I had a snack of half an apple, a spoonful of peanut butter, and a light string cheese.
Steps - 4,145
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter
Lunch - out with friends. I had a panini sandwich of chicken, red peppers and onions. It was a huge sandwich, so I only ate half of it. The sandwich was accompanied by French Fries that were sprayed with Truffle Oil. The Truffle Oil taste was very slight, but increased the more fries I ate. They became addicting and I had to force myself to stop eating. Then the management of the restaurant brought two gourmet desserts to our table. (We were celebrating someone's birthday.) I had a taste of each dessert.
The lunch was delicious and for a while I was doing the "poor me" thought process. I really wanted to finish that sandwich and eat all of those fries, but I knew that it was way too many calories. "Poor me - I'm fat and not allowed to eat this fattening food." It is so easy to fall into that "poor me" trap and forget the progress I have made in recognizing when I am full. Yes, I was full. If the sandwich had been half the size, I would have been completely satisfied. Today it was just hard to come to the "enough" conclusion in my brain.
Supper - the leftover baked potato and veggies from last night. I had a sugar-free snack size jello for dessert.
Snack - one light string cheese.
Steps -3,202
Breakfast - toast and an egg, grapes
Lunch - at my favorite Cantonese restaurant......chicken noodle soup, vegetable egg rolls.
Supper - half a baked potato, cooked broccoli & cauliflower, vanilla yogurt with Wheat Germ.
Snack - one light string cheese.
Steps - 4,157
Breakfast - toast and an egg
Lunch - Subway tuna salad sandwich, Sun Chips
Snack - crackers and WW cream cheese
Supper - popcorn and grapes
Steps - 2,523
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter, grapes
Lunch - salad with broccoli and crab meat, Skinny Cow ice cream
Supper - chili with croutons. Dessert at a friend's - miniature cream puffs and grapes.
Steps - 2,640
Breakfast - toast and a scrambled egg, grapes
Lunch - leftover wrap sandwich from yesterday, leftover chips, leftover cole slaw, sugar-free dark chocolate candy.
Supper - leftover baked potato and carrots from yesterday, and leftover pumpkin fluff.
Snack - popcorn.
Steps - a pathetic 2,212 (Stayed home all day and the treadmill is broken - that's my excuse and it's an excellent excuse I think. My cousins won't agree, but they are younger than me and therefore probably not as smart. And now it is the weekend and calling for a repairman will have to wait until Monday. Yes, yes, I could walk outside. Ah - but tomorrow rain is predicted. Oh boy, I'm in for some lectures from my cousins. I can hear it coming. Maybe I can convince them that my pedometer is flawed.)
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter, grapes
Lunch - at a restaurant - half a chicken wrap sandwich, some chips, and a slice of dill pickle.
Snack - Starbucks Java Chip lite.
Supper - wasn't terribly hungry after having the Java Chip, but I prepared a baked potato and some cooked carrots. Only ate half of each item. For dessert I had some pumpkin fluff and again only ate half of the portion.
Snack attack later in the evening - had some of the new Wheat Thin sticks (addicting) and one piece of light string cheese.
Steps - 3,700
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter, grapes
Lunch - lettuce salad with broccoli and cauliflower, crackers & WW cream cheese, sugar-free dark chocolate candy.
Snack - almonds
Supper - ground turkey patty, cooked carrots & broccoli, pumpkin fluff.
Snack - skim milk
Steps - 3,659
Back to my normal life. I had a wonderful week with friends and then two not so wonderful days leading up to a medical test that ended in the happy news that I am healthy. Now it is time to start back reporting all the food that I eat so that I can continue to be aware and smart - which I intend will lead to less pounds on my body - which will make me even healthier.
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter and a few spoonfuls of yogurt.
Lunch - a sandwich and some applesauce.
Snack - popcorn
Supper - small bowl of leftover tomato soup, a green salad with cauliflower and broccoli, and some pumpkin fluff (a WW recipe).
Steps - 2,530
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter, grapes
Lunch - salad with broccoli, crab meat, tomatoes. Crackers and WW cream cheese. Dessert - Skinny Cow ice cream
Supper - half a baked potato, cooked veggies. Half an apple with light caramel dip.
Snack - a few crackers.
Steps - 3,009
I will not be posting on this blog for the next week as I will be hosting company all week. We will be going out for meals, seeing a play, going shopping, and laughing, laughing, laughing.
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter, grapes
Lunch - at Red Lobster, biscuit, cole slaw, shrimp, breaded fish, baked potato. Ate too much and was stuffed - uncomfortably stuffed. I knew better but didn't want to take food home and wanted to eat my money's worth. Stupid, I know.
Supper - Still full from lunch, but wanted something to munch. Had 100 calorie popcorn, grapes - and then still wanted to munch, so I had some crackers and peanut butter.
Too much food today and although I would like to beat myself up, it wouldn't do any good except to make me feel worse. Therefore, I will vow to be more aware tomorrow. That is the most positive thing I can do.
On top of eating too much, I didn't get very many steps in today either. I sat in church, sat at lunch, and sat at home reading.
Steps - 1,962
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter, grapes
Lunch - chili, TJs veggie and flaxseed tortilla chips (the broken pieces at the bottom of the bag), WW fudge bar.
Supper - salad with broccoli, cauliflower & peas, a turkey burger (no bun), Jello 60 calorie mousse.
Steps - 3,103
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter, grapes
Lunch - chili and TJs veggie and flaxseed tortillas. Dessert at book club - a delicious crumb top apple pie - one generous piece.
Supper - the leftover baked potato and veggies from yesterday and a small lettuce salad. One cookie for dessert.
Snack - almonds
Steps - 3,196
Since I had to go to the doctor this morning, which included a blood test, I couldn't eat until after my appointment. It was after 10:00am, I was very hungry, and I decided to treat myself to a McDonald's breakfast - a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit with hash browns. It was satisfying and filled me up so that I did not need or want lunch.
Supper - half a baked potato and some cooked veggies (carrots, broccoli and cauliflower). For dessert I had a Jello sugar-free chocolate mousse.
Snack - almonds
Steps - I changed clothes this afternoon after a hair appointment and forgot to put my pedometer in my pocket, so the steps registered for half a day is 1,500.
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter, grapes
Lunch - bowl of chili, some stale popcorn that I heated in the oven hoping the heat would take away the stale taste. Snack size applesauce for dessert.
Supper - salad with veggies and crab meat, some crackers, and half a nectarine.
Steps - 2,375
Breakfast - toast with peanut butter, grapes
Lunch - sandwich, snack size sugar-free vanilla pudding
Snack - a few crackers, a tiny piece of cheese and some grapes
Supper - salad with lettuce, grape tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower and peas. Ground turkey burger - no bun. Sugar-free Jello chocolate mousse.
Steps - 3,310
