December 9

I haven't stopped eating--just recording my food intake. Scary--I just bought two pairs of pants which looked big enough to fit a hippo--and they don't fit!

So I am resuming my food intake blog. I know it's weird, but it keeps my appetite in check.

Somewhat.

Today: br:small peach lowfat yogurt. L: bowl of Italian wedding soup, bean salad, one slice bread.

Nov 12--wed

Br: yogurt; no lunch: a few apple slices with peanut butter as snack; half a spicy Italian sub for dinner--the rest later that evening. Candied ginger, small amount kasha.

Tues, Nov 11

br: egg, two pieces rye toast, mayo, relish. L: large hamburger, guacamole, mayo ketchup, bun, 10-12 fr fries. D: kasha, cheese, dried peas, yogurt, sugar free tapioca.

Monday, Nov 10

br: cereal with dried fruit and milk, coffee w half and half. L: omelet with spinach, tomato, and cheddar cheese, small amount of grits, 1 sl lightly buttered rye bread; mid-aft: piece of cheese, apple; D: beef and beans in barbecue sauce (390 cal), yogurt; snack: large piece of apple nut bread.

Nov 6

Br: oatmeal, fruit. A couple of chocolates, perhaps 4, over the course of the day. L: 1 serving veg soup, 1 tuna sandwich, 1 pkg (100 calories) chips. Later: chips.

Nov 5

Br: cereal, dried fruit L: milkshake, cream cheese pretzel, celery; D: butternut squash soup (awful). Several pieces chocolate, apple, c yogurt w strawberries. Late night: chips--about 20, 360 calories.

Sunday, Nov 1

Br: Yogurt; l: lunch, won ton soup, egg roll, small amount of veg, pork and rice; later:
a whole lot of dried fruit and nuts, 1 piece cheese.

Friday--Halloween

Br: 2 pieces toast, peanut butter L: roast beef sandwich with sauteed mushrooms, potato salad, 1 cookie. Afternoon, 2 pieces candy.

Disaster day--Thursday

No breakfast, so I ate e cream cheesy bagel and a cup of coffee in the car, none too successfully. L: Bacon and tomato sandwich, cookie and coffee for lunch. D: lots of pizza--v hungry. Tonight, as we speak: nibbling on slivered almonds. No way is this going to be a weight loss day.

Wednesday

Yesterday was a lost weekend kind of day. Let's forget it.

I was up in the middle of the night drinking juice and snarfing down nuts and potato chips. Consequently I did not eat breakfast. My big problem is that I'm always hungry late at night. Solution? Go to bed early. More easily said than done.

Today; NO BR; LUNCH: BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP, cream cheese filled pretzel. D: 1 slice meatloaf, not terribly hungry. Now (7:25) I'm getting there.

Sunday

Br: Oatmeal, dried fruit (I"m getting awfully sick of this, couldn't finish it. L: yogurt, cauliiflower, pretzel
Mid-afternoon: pear

Friday

B: oatmeal with dried fruit, milk, coffee w cream; snack: 1 chocolate frosted donut, coffee, creamer. L: soup (beans, pasta, veg,), salad w vinegar and oil. Later: a few pretzels, granola bar. D: 2 Leanpockets egg & cheese pockets, 1 piece of cheese, pear.

Evening: Another 100 cal granola bar.

Late night: apple with peanut butter

back from California

Br--oatlmeal with dried fruit, milk; l hamburger, lettuce, onion, tomato, catsup; a few pretzels, nibbling on French fries all evening, snack--small vanilla yogurt.

I'm seriously considering eating an apple.

I did eat an apple, plus six pretzel sticks.

Oct 2

br: a c yogurt (60 calories)

L; cream of corn chowder, bean salad, chocolate chip cookie

snack: green grapes

oct 1

b--2 waffles, peanut butter.

4 pieces dried pineapple--oops, finished the whole package.

Dinner, meatloaf, salad, garlic potatoes.

Later: 1 piece cornbread, 25 or 30 almonds, butterscotch pudding (80 cal), 1 granola bar (100).

late at night: salad, pretzels, Wheat Chex

Sept 30

B: farina and dried fruit L: tuna sandwich, cole slaw, 5 small pieces candy D: 2 hot dogs on buns.
Snack: 12 pretzel sticks, 1/2c pineapple.

I'm always hungry at night.

Sept 28

Yesterday, as far as I can remember: B: Ricotta cheese and pineapple; L; black bean soup and romaine with salad dressing, 1 piece bread. D, 1 granola bar, crudities, cooked sweet potato, 1 cheese.

At night: about 20 pretzels, grapefruit juice.
Middle of the night: several pretzels, cookies.

Today: B pancakes, w peanut butter, L: cup Italian wedding soup, salad, 2 meatballs.

several pieces of sugar-free licorice.

Tuesday september 23

B: oatmeal with dried fruit
l: cheese omelet, grits, 1 slice rye toast
6 strings licorice: about 200 calories
d: large salad, 1 tB oil, 1 ts vinegar, orange, 12 almonds.
later: granola bar. several pieces candied ginger

Sept 22

I've definitely gained some weight since I went off Nutrisytstem. Yesterday I watched it pretty much.

Food eaten today--so far: breakfast, oatmeal with dried fruit; after the gym, 1 pm--a few grapes, hard-boiled egg; mid-afternoon, granola bar; dinner: salad, 1 serving potatoes, small fruit salad, corn bread. Still hungry.

Plan of attack

Fact: It's not a question of losing weight. Or maintaining my (not ideal) weight. I am gaining weight, which makes me unhappy. This will not stop of itself, so I need a plan I can live with to lose weight.

Definite plans:

1. Weigh myself and put the numbers on this site.
2. Plan meals I can live with, including making the best choices when eating out. Favor fish, salad, an omelet (no carbs), small serving of meat.
3. Avoid dessert.
4. Avoid late-night eating. This is my biggest problem.
5. Snacks should consist of protein.

Possible ideas to consider:

1. Going to the gym twice a day--1 hour after lunch.
2. Going to gym for a late night swim.
3. Get personal trainer.
4. Take yoga or Pilates lessons.

Aug 21

breakfast: 1 yogurt
snack: granola bar
lunch: wrap with steak, eggplant, chickpeas, pea shoots
snack: green grapes, 8 cherries
dinner: other half wrap, 1 c yogurt, 1 small pudding, a few crackers

STILL HUNGRY! will have 1 ear of corn, see if that helps.

Aug 19

Breakfast: blueberries, jam and 2 waffles
snack: cherries
lunch; FALAFEL CAKES, veggies
SO FAR SO GOOD!

later: 1 small yogurt, grapes, ear of corn
later still, granola bar, 100 calories cookies, cherries

I forgot yesterday.

What in the world did I eat? breakfast: waffles; lunch, 1 egg, crackers, 1 large peach. snack: 1/2 c veg soup, 2 pieces bread, 1/4 c tuna salad. dinner: 2 granola bars. bedtime, 100 calorie pkg of chips.

That's why I want to write this down daily.

Today: toast w peanut butter, 1 small yogurt; lunch: noodles and three and 1/2 skewwrs of meat, wonton soup.

Snack: 6 pieces of licorice.

dinner: pkg of green beans and mushrooms.

2 more licorice sticks.

August 16

breakfast: 2 frozen waffles, marmalade
1 p.m. a few pretzels
lunch: 1/2 cheese biscuit, lobster, 3 shrimp, broccoli, butter
Around 7: 1 egg, a few crackers, a few pretzels, 2 small puddings

Aug 15, dammit

Not much written here lately. It demands tremendous energy to remember to write things down, so I haven't. 170 lbs is the result.

Tremendous energy is also needed to make sure you eat vegetables. I buy salad, eat some, and the rest rots. Many days there are no vegetables in the house.
I'll have to stock up on V-8. Fruit is easier. Blueberries last a long time.

Okay. For breakfast, I had Nutrisystem pancakes. Will stop at store and buy more fruit and veggies. Again. And yogurt.

Later: lunch at Harry's: 3 pieces of bread (excellent) w butter; 3 shrimp, 2 scallops, veggies, peach buckle.later: crackers, pretzels, 1 hard-boiled egg.

Late night: 2 plums, 2 bags popcorn, 1 ts butter.

Friday so far

Breakfast--nutrisystem pancakes, diet maple syrup; lunch; 4 little hamburgers on buns, iced tea; 5 o'clock: a handful of little plums.

July 16

breakfast, cereal and raspberries; lunch, two hotdogs on buns, sauerkraut, salad, mac and cheese. Dinner: hardboiled egg, three radishes, 10 baby carrots,1/2 dozen crackers, chickpea salad.
Evening: yogurt shake: 1/2 c yogurt, 1/4 c milk, rasberries and strawberries, 10 pretzels.

Popcorn (100 calories) and a bunch of chocolate cookies late at night.

More food adventures

After four days of moderate success in limiting my food intake, I had a bad day yesterday. There was ice cream in the house. Enough said.

Today, I had a couple of granola bars for breakfast, an apple for snack, and meatloaf and mashed potatoes for lunch. A rather large serving, smothered in gravy. Not very good, but I was hungry and I ate it.

Around six o'clock I had: yogurt with strawberries and blueberries, a glass of diet grapefruit juicer; a serving of asparagus, an ear of corn, and a few radishes.

I am now going to have an egg salad sandwich on rye bread and go to bed.

The verdict: mixed.

Sunday April 27

breakfast: 1 yogurt, 1 macaroon
lunch; apple & celery salad, mayonnaise, walnuts, 1 yogurt, 2 sq chocolate

I missed a few days: Sunday, April 20

Breakfast: waffles, jam, coffee, cream
Lunch: meatloaf
I've been cooking all day, and now am unreasonably hungry. Dinner will be late (a Seder).

Wednesday, April 16

Breakfast: cereal, blueberries, strawberries, milk
noon: tomato soup, buttered roll, pineapple chunks, celery
4:30 1/4 Sub
7 o'clock: sweet potato chips, about 40
10:00 1/2 Sub

Tuesday, April 15

Breakfast: cereal, flaxseed & Chex, blueberries
snack: granola bar
lunch: ham & cheese subway, mustard
snack: yogurt
dinner: other 6 in ham subway

Monday, April 14

breakfast: granola bar
hungry all day--don't remember what I ate.

Sunday, April 13

Breakfast: 1 granola bar
Lunch: 1/2 large roast beef sandwich, chickpeas, choc chip cookie
Snack: Small yogurt
Dinner: cauliflower, parsnips, snow peas, other half sandwich, 4-5 potato chips
Snack: energy bar, apple

Saturday, April 12

Breakfast: blueberries, 1 t jam, waffles, coffee with cream
lunch: Small helping spaghetti with olive oil and garlic, cauliflower w cheese sauce, salad
snack: yogurt w T jam, orange
Dinner: 1 and 1/2 egg sandwich
1 energy bar

friday, April 11

breakfast: waffles, jam, blueberries, coffee, half & half
Lunch: 2 pork chops, mashed sweet potatoes, veggies, roll with butter, dessert
Dinner: egg sandwich, mayo, pickle relish
1 small yogurt
1 energy bar

Thursday, April 10

Breakfast: waffles, blueberries, jam, coffee w h&h.
Lunch: Weight Watchers rice and beans
snack: 2 servings yogurt
dinner: hard-boiled egg, cauliflower, snow peas, grapefruit juice
later: 100 calorie cookies, granola bar, potato chips, apple--about 500 calories (?)

Wednesday, April 9

Breakfast: blueberries, waffles, 1 ts jam, coffee with cream
Lunch, soup, three dumplings, 1 serving chicken breast
Snack: 6 crackers, 4 sheets of pomegranate stuff
Dinner: egg salad sandwich with rye bread, 1 T mayo
Another snack: large helping of yogurt with jam, 1 pkg cookies, apple

Tuesday, April 8

breakfast: coffee, half and half, blueberries, waffles, ts jam
Lunch: c of peas soup, salad (lettuce, beets, celery, cauliflower, raw onion, seeds, 1 TBs ranch dressing, cottage cheese, 1/2 peach), mousse.
Dinner: 1 cup yogurt, hard boiled egg, apple
snack, 1 c yogurt, jam, apple, noodles
snack: 1 granola bar, glass of milk

Monday, April 7

Breakfast: waffle, blueberries, 1 ts jam, coffee with half and half
Lunch: 1 six in ham subway with vegetables and mustard
Dinner: 1 six in ham Subway with vegetables and mustard
Snack: ?

April ६, 2008

Breakfast: 2 waffles, blueberries, 1 ts jam, coffee with half & half
Lunch: Escarole soup, one slice bread with butter, salad with dressing, lasagna
Afternoon snack: large helping of eggplant with buttered crumbs
Dinner: 1 egg, 1 small yogurt, 1 small orange
2 squares chocolate

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Breakfast: two whole grain pancakes, 1 ts jam, 1/4 cup blueberries, coffee w half½
Snack: 1/2 c green grapes
Lunch: 5 shrimp, 1/2 tomato, 1 c cooked rice
Snack: yogurt, a few grapes
Dinner: tabouli, 1/6 bar dark chocolate
Later (second dinner): fruit cup, pumpkin soup, 2 helpings jelly roll, small piece chocolate cake
Evening snack: Brussels sprouts; eggplant casserole