Gretchen's WISH Journal-Take 2!-Update 1/20

[bellebookworm9]

The "Lean Line" sounds great as does having a salad. Any time you can have a salad, veggies, milk, water, or fruit, I highly recommend it. The pizza was very doughy and very heavy on the cheese. I rarely ate it. The cafe served a lot of French fires. I tried to avoid them. I did have a salad bar with loads of veggies and diced ham, chicken breast, tuna, stuff like that. I just had to be careful with the dressing. They were homemade and a lot of them were cream-based. Meats were another story. My cafe was always trying to dress them up somehow. I stuck to chicken if they served tacos. I tried to limit my pasta to once a week and almost always added veggies to it. Sometimes I'd eat the vegetarian option. It was pasta a lot of times, though, so not that often. Also, my cafe served hamburgers and veggie burgers every night. That or a deli sandwich would be my fall-back plan. At least I knew what when into either of those options and the 2 burgers were grilled.

Also, I highly recommend that you get a pedometer if you don't already have one. The reason I say this is that WW considers so many steps Activity Points earned. A few months ago, I learned that I really need to count my walking because I was eating so few of my weekly point allowance that I may have been stalling my weight loss. Also, if your school has a pool, swimming laps is great. Sometimes, I would hit the pool before showering and I always felt so much better about the day when I did.

Hope that helped. Have a great semester!

Well tonight for dinner, I had peas, vegan 7 bean chili, a few spoonfuls of mashed potatoes, a small slice of pizza but didn't eat the crust, a piece of jello cake with whipped cream, and an ice cream cone. I drank water and apple juice. I am increasing my veggie intake. That and cutting back on the sweets are going to be the two most difficult things.

I generally don't eat the french fries at school, maybe once in awhile. Our salad bar is decent-I don't know if it has the meats and stuff though. I do know our dressings are Ken's brand. I don't really like tacos, so that's not a big problem. Our meats aren't all that bad, I'm just picky. Tonight it was Italian chicken. Generally, they just marinate it in something, but don't add a lot to it. We also have a "grill line" with burgers/veggie burgers. We also have a stir fry option which I might try, as it is customized to order. My friend eats it a lot, and she gets rice, grilled chicken, mini corn cobs, peppers, etc.

My iPod doubles as a pedometer, believe it or not. I walked around the whole campus today, approximately equaling 2.14 miles. I measured that using Google Earth though. We do have a pool, I'm just not a very strong swimmer. I also can't swim very many laps without getting really tired. I might take up Zumba again, as that was fun the few classes I did it. Or I might just keep walking everyday.

Thanks for the tips. I'll keep them in mind!

 

[bellebookworm9]

Overall good day today!

Breakfast 9am
-One bowl of cheerios with skim milk
-Apple

Lunch 12pm
-Pepperoni pizza focaccia
-Carrots & celery dipped in a little bleu cheese

Snack 2:30pm
-Package of trail mix (Peanuts, almonds, cashews, raisins, chocolate candies)

Dinner 6:30pm
-Cheeseburger with one squirt each of ketchup and mustard
-Cream of broccoli soup
-2 cups Loganberry
-One small cupcake
-One small cookie

Evening Snack
-Snack pack of Twizzlers

I also walked about 2.6 miles today, just my daily travels, no actual thought of "I'm going to go for a walk now."

 

[OrganicApples]

I love turkey burgers too.

 

[cclovesdis]

Isn't technology amazing? Sounds like you had a good day.

 

[bellebookworm9]

Eh, iffy day today.

Breakfast 8:45am
-One bowl of Cheerios with skim milk

Mid-morning Snack 10:30am
-Banana
-Cinnamon Bun

Lunch 1pm
-Half a Turkey BLT wrap (with LOTS of lettuce and very little mayo and bacon)
-Chocolate Chip Cookie

Afternoon Snack 3:30pm-5:30pm
They were out of trail mix and I'd been eying it for awhile:
-6oz bag of chocolate covered pretzels I did eat it over 2 hours though.

Dinner 7pm
-Pepperoni Pizza Focaccia
-Applesauce
-Small chocolate ice cream with Reese's Pieces (and I asked for less than the girl was going to give me!)
-20oz bottle Lipton Lemon Iced Tea

So decent with veggies , good with fruits, not so good with sweets. It's a journey though, and I am making an effort. I know I ate too much at dinner though, as I'm still full.

*I should point out that unless I say otherwise, I'm drinking water.

I walked about 2.64 miles today in daily travels (maybe a little more with all the stairs!)

 

[redlight]

It doesn't sound too bad. 6 oz of the chocolate pretzels might be too much, but you did eat that over two hrs. Maybe you need more protein there. Depending on how much you had, the pizza is a pretty good choice.

 

[bellebookworm9]

This weekend wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either. So, starting with this morning:

Breakfast 9am
-One pre-packaged serving of Total Raisin Bran with Skim Milk
-1/2 grape fruit

Lunch 1pm
-Applesauce with Cinnamon
-Chicken Popper Bowl (Fried Chicken Bits, Corn, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy-they have something similar at KFC)-I didn't eat the whole thing

Afternoon Snack 2:30pm
-Trail Mix

Dinner 6:15pm
-3 very small pieces of shrimp and a few bites of very bland, buttery linguini
-Peas
-One slice of cheese pizza
-One slice of cheesecake with cherry topping
-One M&M Cookie of medium-small size
-One cup of apple juice

 

[cclovesdis]

I think weekends are hardest on campus. My college only served brunch on Sat./Sun. It was lots of carbs. I tried to have as much fruit as possible. Still carbs, but much healthier than muffins, pancakes, French toast, and often pasta. Sounds like you did ok. Like you said, "not terrible."

Hope you have a great week!

 

[bellebookworm9]

Yes, we have brunch from 11-2 on Sat/Sun. It's difficult because I'm often up for 2-3 hours before that and there's nowhere to get breakfast. For Christmas, I got a Wegmans gift card, so today I'm going grocery shopping-also, I've spent more on my meal plan than I should have so far. My grocery list looks like this:

-Carrot Sticks
-Celery
-Cucumbers
-Apples
-Oranges
-Bananas
-Yogurt
-Wheat-Thins
-Cheese (to slice up and melt over the crackers)
-Peanut Butter
-Wheat Chex

 

[cclovesdis]

Your grocery list looks great! You may want to add milk and/or light soy milk (or something like that, rice milk, etc.) to your list.

 

[bellebookworm9]

Your grocery list looks great! You may want to add milk and/or light soy milk (or something like that, rice milk, etc.) to your list.

I already have milk-it's never gone from my fridge

But I bought:
-3 apples
-3 bananas
-3 oranges
-A bag of baby carrots
-A cucumber
-A "small" bunch of celery
-A box of wheat chex
-A box of raisin bran
-A box of reduced fat Wheat Thins
-Peanut Butter
-3 Light Yogurt
-A block of Colby Jack Cheese
-A Lean Cusine Panini which I am eating as I type this =)

 

[bellebookworm9]

Today was, overall, the best day so far, thanks to my grocery purchases last night!

Breakfast 9am
-1 cup raisin bran with 1/2 cup skim milk
-1 orange

Mid-Morning Snack 10am (for my boss' birthday)
-1 very small slice of breakfast pizza (cheese, egg, and ham)
-1 cup of orange juice

Lunch 12pm
-16 wheat thins
-1 stalk celery
-1 Tbsp peanut butter
-1 6oz. light peach yogurt

Afternoon Snack 2pm
-2oz package of Trail Mix

Dinner 5pm
-5 small pieces of lemon chicken (fried, sort of like sweet and sour chicken)
-1 small cup/bowl of cream of broccoli soup
-1 cookie
-1 ice cream cone with sprinkles
-1 glass of Loganberry

I was planning on going to the gym today, but it was in the negative temps with the wind chill Not going out unless I absolutely have to!

 

[cclovesdis]

Glad to hear you always have milk around. Sounds like you had a good day today. Happy to hear you got in a nice balance of foods.