WEEK 9 - WEIGH IN

So, another week gone by. Nothing new this week, well, that is not exactly true, I had three days where mom and dad were gone to DISNEY camping. I didn't stick to the pre-planned menu very well and we didn't have a clear plan on dinners to begin with.....I mean, I didn't eat anything bad, or run through McDonald's or anything - I think I was just bored with routine. Anyway, this week, I plan to get back on track with the plan......it was all good though when I weighed in this morning and lost......

4 pounds !!

Still staying in my 4-7 pounds goal range so I am happy. JoLynn gets in town this weekend and I am really excited to see her. I'm going to try hard to hit the bigger end of my goal range this week.....stay tuned.

WEEK 8 - WEIGH IN

So, with my blip in blogging here, I have kept the weight loss total at the top up to date but not the weekly weigh in posts....I am fixing that today. This morning was our weekly weigh in and I lost....

5 pounds !!

Woo hoo. I am alway glad to lose in the 4-7 pound range so this was a good week. We have been increasing our walk every week and this week we are walking about 0.7 miles starting tomorrow. We'll give that a couple of weeks and then we'll up it to a mile.

Anyway, it was a good week.

Menu update !!

OK - So, I have become lazy about updating my menu - suffice it to say, I have cereal or oatmeal most mornings. Usually one day a week I have 2 eggs, turkey sausage and 1 slice of wheat toast, a little treat. All days have juice and some have some fruit.

For lunch I typcially have a salad with some topping [chicken, shrimp, tuna salad, etc.] w/a light dressing. I have soup w/cottage cheese and tomatoe about twice a week and every now and then a half sandwich w/small salad.

For dinner, we usually rotate pork chops, chicken, fish, salmon, shrimp, turkey burgers, turkey loin, etc. NO RED MEAT. We have one veggie and a salad or two veggies most nights. Occasionally we throw in a high-fiber legume to mix things up. The main thing about dinner is portions, we try to keep them small and reasonable.

Fo snacks, we stick to sugar free jello or pudding, sugar free fudgesicles, popcorn, yogurt, fresh veggie or fruit.

So having revealed all of this - I am going to stop posting everything I eat every day and will only mention new items or particulary good items when we have them because with past menus and the above, you can get the point.

Oh, and just for the record. We make up our 7 day menu on Saturday night or Sunday morning for the next week and do our grocery shopping for the week.

Ooopsss.....blog blip !

Here I send out an email inviting everyone to come look at my food diary and then I quit updating it....sorry about that. Somehow, I got distracted.

So, I am starting it back up today ... I have updated TOTAL POUNDS lost so stay tuned.

Friday - September 5th

Breakfast - cereal, juice
Snack - jello
Lunch - soup, cottage cheese, tomaotoes
Snack -
Dinner -
Snack -

Notes :

Exercise : morning walk

Thursday - September 4th

Breakfast - 2 eggs, turkey sausage, wheat toast, juice
Snack - jello
Lunch - lettuce, turkey, dressing
Snack - cucumbers
Dinner - mahi mahi, corn, apple salad
Snack - none

Notes :

Exercise : morning walk

Wednesday - September 3rd

Breakfast - cereal, bananas, OJ
Snack - jello
Lunch - shrimp, salad, applesauce
Snack - cottage cheese
Dinner - pork chops, cauliflower, cucumbers
Snack - none

Notes :

Exercise : morning walk

Tuesday - September 2nd

Breakfast - cereal, juice
Snack - cottage cheese
Lunch - leftovers - spaghetti squash, tomatoes, salmon salad
Snack - none
Dinner - yogurt
Snack - granola

Notes : BINGO night, no time to eat before we went so I took a bottle of water, some yogurt and my granola bar. I ate lunch a little late anyway. Oh, and I won one game, $9.

Exercise : morning walk

WEEK 5 - WEIGH IN

Well, even though this is the week 5 weigh-in, I kind of consider it my one month mark because I arrived here on July 27th and started the diet the next day, so I kind think of the first month as being August. So, now it is September and a new month has begun.

I felt good going to the weigh-in today. We went camping over the weekend and I walked a bit more although not structured. I also didn't eat as many snacks, not really because I was trying to cut back, but because I just wasn't in the habit while we were there.

Anyway, weighed in - lost :

7 pounds !!

Woo hoo.....another great week and more inspiration for the remaining 47 weeks of this project.

Monday - September 1st

Breakfast - cereal, OJ
Snack - ?
Lunch - turkey cheddar sausage, cucumber salad, crunch cole slaw
Snack - ?
Dinner - crunch cole slaw, salmon salad, tomatoes
Snack - ?

Notes :

Exercise : morning walk