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June 28

The cheese puffs and dates last night were a planned indulgence. It was nice to see I could eat 1 oz. of cheese puffs without flipping out and eating everything in sight. It helps that I bought a 1 oz. single serving, so even if i had wanted to continue to eat them, there were none available.

Menu
Breakfast: Baked tofu; strawberries; half banana; jasmine tea
Snack: Two apricots
Lunch: Sauerkraut; salad (lettuce, half cup cottage cheese, kidney beans, red bell pepper, green onion, two tomatoes, lemon juice)
Snack: Popcorn (salt, cooking spray)
Dinner: Three tortillas with almond butter; bok choy (karela, low-sodium soy sauce, ginger, garlic, cayenne); nectarine; white wine
Snack: Corn tortilla with peanut butter and honey; granola bar; four hard candies

Exercise
10,000 steps; 10 push-ups
 
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Want2Lose said:
It was nice to see I could eat 1 oz. of cheese puffs without flipping out and eating everything in sight. It helps that I bought a 1 oz. single serving, so even if i had wanted to continue to eat them, there were none available.
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That's the way to do it!! I wish I could be so disciplined! Your meal plans are always inspiring! I don't know how you continue to do so good day after day - keep it up!!
 
Mmmmm.....I want me some baked tofu. LOVE those things.

You are doing so well. Good luck this week.
 
June 29

Menu
Breakfast: Baked tofu; two apricots
Snack: Nectarine
Lunch: Hard-boiled egg (salt, cayenne); celery; broccoli; sweet potato (2 oz.)
Snack: Apple
Dinner: Three corn tortillas with refried black beans, lettuce, salsa; sauerkraut
Snack: Three corn tortillas with almond butter; raisin bran; granola bar; nectarine; baked tofu; water crackers

Exercise
Walked 10,000 steps; 10 push-ups
 
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You keep putting the baked tofu on your meal list and you know I'm gonna try it.

But the saurkraut is definitely out. Sorry. Can't do it. I tried my wife's reuben sandwhich a couple of years ago....I couldnt swallow it lol. Terrible stuff...my wife goes bananas for reubens. (its one of our little differences lol).

One more thing...have you ever had dried figs? I love them....more than dates. And they are cheap like borscht here....like 1.00 for a ring of 16 or so.
(I gotta find the calories in them because the last time I had em, was last winter before my diet.

Anyways...keep up the great work and congrats on holding back on the cheese puffs. (One of my faves since I was a kid....and yes, they had them back then too lol.!)

Take care!
 
June 30

Menu
Breakfast: Nectarine; two apricots; six almonds; apple-cinnamon oatmeal
Snack: Apple
Lunch: Hard-boiled egg; spinach; sweet potato; black tea
Snack: Soymilk; raisins
Dinner: Salad (lettuce, tomato, onion, honey mustard dressing); sauerkraut; stir-fry (10 shrimp, swiss chard, garlic, ginger, lemon, cayenne, hoisin sauce)
Snack: Four apricots; four figs; two oatmeal cookies; two tortillas with peanut butter and strawberry jam; raisin bran

Exercise
Walked 10,000 steps; 10 push-ups
 
July 1

Menu
Breakfast: Two corn tortillas with fat-free refried beans, lettuce, tomato, half-ounce cheese; nectarine
Snack: 20 almonds; apple
Lunch: Hard-boiled egg (salt, cayenne); sweet potato; spinach; green tea
Snack: Soymilk; nutribar (200 calories)
Dinner: Salad (baked tofu, lettuce, two tomatoes, half carrot, onion, four figs, apple cider vinegar, honey mustard dressing)
Snack: Raisin bran; two corn tortillas with peanut butter; crispy Asian noodles; blueberries and cottage cheese; sweet pickles

Exercise
Walked 10,000 steps; 10 push-ups
 
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July 2

Hello, Flumes. Sorry for the delay in responding. I am not big on dried figs. I love the fresh ones, only available here a few weeks a year. They are great plain, in a salad, with some cottage cheese, baked with honey and walnuts. So many ways to enjoy them. Fresh or dried, they are one of the best sources of fiber around. That's neat you're trying the baked tofu. Let me know how you like it.

Menu
Breakfast: Yogurt with protein powder, blueberries, walnuts
Snack: Iced decaf coffee with saccharin
Lunch: Tuna salad (broccoli, carrot, celery, onion, zucchini, honey mustard dressing, apple cider vinegar, black pepper)
Snack: Popcorn (cooking spray, salt); iced jasmine tea with saccharin
Dinner: Bok choy (lemon juice, ginger, low-sodium soy sauce, cayenne); bean salad (kidney beans, black beans, green beans, olive oil, sugar, apple cider vinegar); 15 cherries
Snack: Baked tofu; half apple

Exercise
Walked 10,000 steps; 10 push-ups
 
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I'm trying every day to be more like you!! :grouphug:! So consistent! I love it! I am trying to step every single day on my treadmill. :D!!

So far, so good this whole week. Some days even two workouts. :) My eating is getting better ....but your damn recipes and originallity are killing me!! They look so low salt and YUM!!! :)

The salt part is killing me. I think the whole week trying to limit my salts, made me cave last night into chips and wine! Excuses. LOL!
 
Hi Alta. I am not doing so well with salt, fat, carbs myself these past few weeks. But I am trying to get back on the wagon.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released their annual report on obesity in America, "F as In Fat".
 
I'm with Alta on this one. Your consistency is really contagious. I always think of you when I look at my pedometer and think of the 10,000 steps you take. I think I'm gonna introduce pushups too. Was looking at the 100 pushups a day program- i think you slowly build up to 100 push ups.

Hope you have a great healthy weekend!! Talk to you on Monday.
 
July 3

Thank you Juni! I have seen that 100 push-ups progam. That would be really something to be able to do 100!

Menu
Breakfast: Yogurt, protein powder, blueberries, walnuts; iced jasmine tea with lemon and saccharin
Snack: None
Lunch: Salad (kidney beans, black beans, green beans, celery, carrot, onion, red bell pepper, basil, apple cider vinegar, olive oil)
Snack: Baked tofu; plum; peach; popcorn (salt, cooking spray)
Dinner: Rapini and shrimp (garlic, dried mushrooms, cayenne, hoisin sauce)
Snack: Two corn tortillas with lowfat cheese, lettuce, miracle whip; two corn tortillas with peanut butter, orange marmalade

Exercise
10,000 steps; 10 push-ups
 
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July 4

Menu
Breakfast: Yogurt, protein powder, blueberries, sunflower seeds; jasmine iced tea, saccharin
Snack: None
Lunch: Salad (lettuce, tomatoes, carrot, celery, onion, cucumber, black olives (50 cal), balsamic vinegar, dulse); baked beans; sweet potato
Snack: One corn tortilla with peanut butter; plum; half apple
Dinner: Egg salad (hard-boiled eggs, celery, onion, cucumber, miracle whip, apple cider vinegar, black pepper, salt), lettuce, tomato, corn tortilla
Snack: Stewed fruit (rhubarb, blueberries, 25 raisins) with cinnamon & 1 tsp. honey

Exercise
Walked 10,000 steps; 10 push-ups
 
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These all seem good to me as breakfast is the most important meal of the day and you're all having it. A little indulgence here and there can only aid weight loss.
I've generally been good have my 3 meals and hardly any thing else but I have had some cake, biscuit and ice cream in the last few days and now balance it out by avoiding them in the near future.
 
July 5

Menu
Breakfast: Yogurt with protein powder, strawberries, blueberries, sunflower seeds
Snack: None
Lunch: Salad (baked tofu, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrot, green pepper, onion, lime juice, balsamic vinegar); gazpacho; cottage cheese with strawberries & pumpkin seeds
Snack: Six corn tortillas with peanut butter & marmalade; granola bar; Kashi bar; raisin bran; chocolate pistachio toffee (90 cal.); 4 pieces hard candy (40 cal.)
Dinner: Half cup popcorn (salt, cooking spray); peach
Snack: None

Exercise
Walked 8,000 steps; no push-ups
 
Just following your thread and enjoying your food regime.

Well done.

Hope you have a fantastic hump day!
 
Hello?? W2L??

Either you are on vacation...or just not eating! lol

Miss your perfect food journal posts hun!

Hope you find your way back....you were a big inspiration! :Angel_anim:

Miss ya!
 
Been exactly a month since you last posted. Hope you are well. We miss you around here. Come back soon!! Sending you hugs.
 
September 4

Hi, all. Sorry for dropping out so suddenly. The daily food recording was becoming less of a help and more of a burden. I also seemed to be thinking about food and weight loss more than was healthy, so I decided to take a break.

I have not recorded my food in about 2 months. At first I gained a fair amount of weight, up to 125, which isn't a bad number in itself, but I seemed to have lost control. I have managed to get back down to 120.

Maintenance is difficult. I can go along for days eating approx. 1800 calories (I eyeball it now) of healthy, clean food, but then I will suddenly give in to a craving. I think some foods, like ice cream and cheese puffs and pizza, have to be off-limits for me, even in maintenance. They are "trigger" foods and seem to set off a chain reaction of cravings for other high-calorie foods.

I am currently experimenting with the "No-S" method of eating, "no snacks, no sweets, no seconds, except on days that start with "S" [=weekends]". I divide up my meals into approx. 600 cal/ each and don't snack in between. I find I obsess less about food when I do this, probably because there are fewer eating occasions in the day.

On the exercise front, I am still doing push-ups and walking with the pedometer. On weekends, I try to do 15000 steps instead of 10000 to make up for the extra calories I indulge in on the weekends. I also got hula hoop. I recommend this to anyone who likes to watch tv in the evenings. I use the hoop during the commercial breaks. It is fun and more challenging than it looks.

I probably won't check in here too often, maybe once or twice a month, but I did want to give an update and say sorry for disappearing so suddenly.
 
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