Snack: peanut butter chocolate chip granola bar (100 Cal)

Me too! Rachael. Peanut butter with celery stick, sounds interesting. I don't have celery in the refrigerator. But, I do have some baby carrot. I will try it tomorrow. I have reached the cal quota for today already.

I have the applesauce+oatmeal as pre-workout meal. Started getting used to it now. It wasn't too bad even though it was not very tasty. Have a cup of soy milk and banana as post-workout meal and breakfast.

Lunch in Todai (Japanese buffet). It did not ruin my diet. I have controlled very well this time. I ate 3 plates. 2 of them were leafy salad of different kinds. The last plate were only sashimi. No pasta, soba, rice and salty soup of any kind. No cake, cookies and dessert of any kind as well. No soda also. Only green tea.

Dinner was OK. half ear of corn and 2 oz of tuna.

Snack on baby carrot and tangerine only.

I got carbs mostly from leafy veggie and have a lot more protein today.

Good job on the Japanese buffet, Glovia.

I just had a post workout calorie infusion of 15 raw peanuts and a 2-scoop , skim milk whey/cinnamon shake. Not exactly gourmet eating, but after that grunt work with the calisthenics, MUCH NEEDED.

I double checked this last night and I was wrong. The brand is Jif. And good job on the buffet, Glovia!! Btw, is sashimi as good as sushi rolls? I love sushi rolls, but I'm a little bit scared of the plain raw fish. *eek*

Yesterday:
Pre-work out snack: 1/2 cup Kashi Cinnamon Harvest cereal (100 Cal)
Dinner: 2 ounces whole wheat spaghetti, 1/2 cup spaghetti sauce, relatively large portion of chicken, 1 slice whole grain bread (1850 Cal)
Total: 1850 Cal I think a very good total considering my 45 minute spin + 30 minute run made me super hungry at dinner

Today:
Breakfast: 3 plain Kashi waffles with Cool Whip that was probably past it's expiration date. Oops. (400 Cal)

i had a great choclate protein shake after weight training ^^

Snack: 3 pieces of lean deli meat (100 Cal) And yes I know it has too much sodium but I haven't been to the grocery store in a while and I'm having to get creative.

Lunch: Barbecue - yuck! I went to a meeting that I got invited to by an high up guy in the company so I had to eat the provided food or I would have been rude, but I ate really really small portions. I had a small portion of potato salad, a reasonable size portions of baked beans, and a small portion of bbq - no bread, no cobbler. But it was still bbq and fatty and salty and yuck yuck. I had a liter of water with lunch and I've had .75 L since then. Trying to rinse it on through the system. I'm going to go with 450 Cal for this one since the portions were so small, but again, it's a SWAG. *shrug*

Supper: An insanely large salad of mixed bitter greens, carrot, onion, garlic, cherry tomatoes, white beans, a little grated emmental, and crumbled feta in a light vinegrette dressing. Plus a small glass of yummy Spanish red wine.

Later I had a Pink Lady, and she was faaahiiiiiiiiiiiiine!

I can't eat garlic. It just makes my breath too bad for days.

Snack: medium apple (50 Cal)

I feel like I have a lump of fat and grease and grossness sitting in my stomach from that disgusting lunch. It's amazing how much my tastes have changed since improving my eating habits.

Sashimi is good! In particular, I am practicing to cut carbs from white food (white rice, bread,...etc). Sashimi is pure protein. I like lobster, abalone sashime the most. They have more texture compared to fish type. For fish sashimi, I love snapper and salmon.
Rachael, you have good portion control in the BBQ lunch. It is not too bad.


Minu, will it taste better with roasted peanut?


This morning, I have the same old applesauce+raw oatmeal as pre-workout meal. (Start getting used to it now. It does have some texture afterall.) Then, I have banana+peanut butter as post workout meal. This time, I mushed them and add some soy milk. It was less sticky and taste good.

Lunch in Panera again: 1/2 sesame chicken salad +garden veggie soup+small apple. (I used to throw away all the chicken. I liked only the sesame dressing with lettuce.)

Snacking on a tangerine +healthy nuts(Almond, walnut. dried roasted w/o salt).

Dinner was great also: 4 cup of stir-fried red cabbage + 3 oz of orange rough fish + 1 slice of deli turkey

I won the battle against simple carbs today.

But, I am not quite sure if I have enough fat. In the past, I will just salad the red cabbage. I start trying to stir fried veggie with olive oil now.

Well, if by roasted you mean in oil and salted too, then for me, no, as I just love fresh, in the shell peanuts. (And they're not IN my shake, I just munch 'em down along side the drink).

I suppose there's no reason why you couldn't shell and roast some yourself, (unless you can buy them that way, without salt?)

Yesterday:
Pre work out snack: Protein bar (200 Cal)
Dinner: Sandwich with whole grain bread, 3 pieces of deli turkey, and 1 piece of cheddar cheese and 1 hard boiled egg (550 Cal)
Total: 1750 Cal

Today:
Breakfast: 1 1/2 cups Kashi cereal and 1 cup of 2% milk (400 Cal). I had to use hubby's milk since my skim had gone bad.

Glovia, good job on your battle against simple carbs!!

Snack: hard boiled egg (100 Cal)
Lunch: Corner Bistro Panini and a little cup of sugar free chocolate Jello. (400 Cal)

Yummy delicious scrumptious nachos!

Oops...

I've decided that tonight will be splurge night. Superior Grill here I come!! I'm looking forward to a very unhealthy Taco Salad and my husband is getting fajitas and we are going to share. Yum!! I'm very excited!!!

Snack: hard boiled egg (100 Cal)
(Later) Pre-workout snack: protein bar + tiny little scoop of peanutbutter (200 Cal)

YUMMY RACHEL!

I'm eating some leftovers now...I've been so bad today...LMBO.

Minu, have you tried steam the peanut in shell? It tastes good to me. No salt no seasoning. But, it just takes time. I have never tried to roast shell peanut though.

I love Mexican food also. The nachos are quite tempting. I am in a battle against unhealthy carbs now, I need to stay away from Mexican food for a while.

Today, I graded myself B only. I could not help the temptation of the rice (cooked in chicken broth.) and ate 2 spoon in dinner. I did not have time to prepare the applesauce+oatmeal as pre-workout meal as well. I ate only an apple before the bootcamp. Got a lecture from the instructor. And, I could not hold myself from eating portion of his banana nut muffin during lunch.

Otherwise, I did well and have met the protein quota:
Breakfast ��" apple+ yogurt
Lunch ��" salmon salad+black bean soup+apple + 1/4 muffin
Dinner ��" pork+red cabbage+ salmon + chicken broth rice.
Snack ��" baby carrot, tangerine, FiberOne chewy bar.

I had a yummy lunch..I was out and about..and the only place I could find to get something to eat was the local fish 'n' chips store...so I requested a grilled fish and salad burger....the fish was delicious and the salad nice and crisp...the bun was a white sugar laden thing but I am sure once will not kill me...I enjoyed it anyway

So, dinner last night We decided to get steaks instead of Mexican. After all, I've been eating the Mexican leftovers for like a week now. So I was really bad but I intended to be so here it is: unsweet tea with artificial sweetener, chips and spinach and artichoke dip, 2 rolls with butter, house salad with lite ranch dressing, 8 ounce sirloin, and baked sweet potato with butter and cinnamon. I enjoyed every bite. And I'm still really proud of myself because yesterday I knew I was going to have a splurge dinner, but I ate well the whole rest of the day and today I went right back to it.

Today: Breakfast: whole wheat bagel with honey peanut butter and 8 ounces apple juice (400 Cal)

Way to go Rachael.

I, on the other hand, have been eating EVERYTHING in sight! EVERYTHING!!!

Breakfast:
5 crackers (80 cals) with one wedge of Light Laughing Cow Swiss Cheese (35 cals)

Lunch:
Chicken Carbonara Lean Cuisine (220 cals)

I just enjoyed munching on a Frisee' and purple cabbage salad with tomatoes and grilled chicken breast under a sprinkle of grated emmental cheese with light vinegrette, followed by an absolutely explosive Honey Crunch apple. YUHHH-freakin'-UUUMMMMM.

Mmmm....fish and shrimp....MMMM....

No pre/post workout meal today since no workout at all.

Breakfast: peanut butter+banana+soy milk
Lunch: Panera Asian Sesame chicken salad + veggie soup+apple + tomato basil bread (sample bites)
Dinner: Salmon 1oz+deli ham 3 slices+soy bean 1 cup+2 egg+ mixed green salad
Snack thru the day: apple, Dannon yogart, skim milk, almond

~1500 calories

I gave myself B since I could not hold the temptation of the tomato basil bread sample in lunch. It seems I may not have enough calories in breakfast and too much protein for dinner. Not quite balance.

I just had a post-workout breaky of:

20 raw peanuts
1/2 a small chicken breast
2 scoops of natural whey with cinnamon in water with a little Steviva to sweeten.
+ vitamins

It's incredible how good things can taste when one is actually hungry. K--the shake I could pass on culinarily speaking of course, but the rest was damn satisfying.

It is 11pm at night here and I am staaaarving..Maybe I should go to bed, yeah I think I should LOL...Looking forward to waking up to a breaky of porridge and cranberries mmmm....bring on breaky LOL!

I gave myself C today.

Pre workout meal: raw oatmeal+applesauce
Post workout mea: tangerine + low fat chocolate milk
Lunch: big leafy salad from Wholefood + small portion of beef chili+2oz chicken masala + small amount of lentil
Dinner in a BD party: 2 spinach/fruit/bellpepper salad+ 1 pork rid + ~2 oz salmon + 1 slice of bd chocolate cake + too much almond + a few potato chips
Snack: apple, ganola bar
I think I screwed at overeating almond and the slice of bd chocolate cake. In general, too much food!

One more immmmmense salad of: arugula, lo-fat/pres-free/lo-sodium turkey lunch meat, couple cubic inches of feta, a few cherry T's, bit of cucumber in a light vinegrette, plus a 2 scoop natural whey 'n water shake and an awesome Pink Lady down the hatch + vitamins.

I gave myself grade A- today and declaring won the battle against simple carbs again.

Pre workout: raw oatmeal, applesauce
Post-workout: pine apple, deli turkey ham
Lunch: Spinch salad , deli turkey ham , apple , soymilk
Dinner: Mixed green salad , pork ribs , grapefruit
Snack: Atkins Granola bar, apple, 0.5" square of 71% dark chocolate
No bread, chips, rice, cake of any. I did not take any bite to my bf's chocolate cake at all in dinner. If I could overcome the temptation of the dark chocoloate and get used to savory post workout food, I would give myself A.

Okay, well I've been very slack over the weekend in my eating habits and in reporting them so we'll just say I screwed up over the weekend (even though weight went down!!) and start afresh today.

Breakfast: Kashi waffles and lite cool whip with 8 ounces of apple juice (400 Cal)