Category Archives: diet

Happy St Patty's Day!

Made a special dinner for St Patty’s day. Did shepherd’s pie, but a healthy version, using ground turkey, very little oil. The mashed potatoes on top were made with chicken broth instead of milk and no butter. I did add one egg yolk to help the potatoes brown under the broiler. Very good – and came in at 300 calories for a good size portion.

Not expecting too much for weight loss this week. I have lost for the last few weeks in a row, and generally I have a stall after that happens. But, who knows?!

Ended up getting extra exercise today, I did Hard Core Fusion from the Firm, then went for a walk downtown. Extra 30 minutes of exercise, guess I could have had a free ice cream cone that they were giving away at Stewarts! (But I passed 🙂 )

My own food today, tomorrow will be a nutrisystem day. If I continue to lose, I might switch over to 3 days a week of NS instead of every other day next month.

Maybe it is different this time

I was doing that musing last week about whether or not things were different losing weight. I have found absolutely no difficulty in getting back on the focused path after a little side trip on Sunday. No urges to eat other foods, or problems along those lines.

That’s kind of nice LOL!

My foods today
Hannaford 1% Milk
Coffee
strawberries
Nature’s Path Organic Hemp Plus Organic Granola Cereal
Honey
Fage Total 2%
Zone Perfect Fudge Graham Nutrition Bar
Bumblebee Solid White Albacore Tuna
Clementines, Raw
Hannaford 1% Milk
Espresso Shot
Hannaford Egg Mates
Cashew Nuts
Frozen Broccoli
Hannaford Mild Cheddar Shredded Cheese – Reduced Fat
applesauce
Nature’s Place Soy Crisps – Cheddar
Calories Consumed: 1,234 • Burned: 337

Officially on every other day

Okay, I got my nutrisystem delivery today. Got my 70 pound bear, too! So cute. I set my autoship to 8 weeks. I am now going to do every other day of my own foods, keeping my calories to 1500 or less.

It is taking some real planning to do this, but I am now ready. I really like the new pancakes I make with the Heartsmart, oat fiber and protein powder. They are so filling!

The Firm workouts are also going well. Tomorrow is weigh in day, not sure what to expect, but I have my fingers crossed to reach the 160s. I will feel as though my plateau will really be broken at that point. Even though the plateau really was a couple years ago LOL! I will be past the decade I got stuck in before. Silly, I know – but the 170s are a really mental block for me.

Focused

It was a good weekend eating wise. I stayed on plan, just a couple bites of cookie when we were out to coffee yesterday. Under my calories for the day, so that was fine. Those bites were yummy, too!

I really want to see the 160s this week. I really, really want to. I hope that even with the mardi gras dinner we had, and the struggle I had on Thursday don’t keep me from getting there. I have been faithful with exercise and water.

Shoveled a lot today. Ugh! My flip house had an open house today, so I had to go this morning and shovel the driveway. And had to do ours as well, at least part of it. We had gotten a snowblower, but one of the handle knobs came off and got lost in the snow, so it is too difficult to try to steer. Needed to shovel enough to get the car out.

3 hard core Firm workouts the next 3 days. I actually am looking forward to them. I must be crazy.

No candy on Halloween!

I did not indulge in a single piece of candy on Halloween. And you know what? It was because I really and truly didn’t want any. I didn’t feel deprived or anything. We have the raisinettes left, and I still haven’t had the desire to have any.
I actually get pretty full on the food I eat, and with a snack between meals, there isn’t much time to eat anything extra!!

Made my own breakfast today of oat bran, topped with my blueberry sauce (post below) and turkey sausage. The nutrient distribution was right where it should be. 40/30/30. Trying to push that nutrisystem auto delivery back some more. Think I will plan on having my box ship the week of Thanksgiving.