Darn

I think I gained a lb. I won't know what's going on for three weeks while I am in NY because no scale here. I will have to be especially careful.

Breakfast
raisin bran with banana and blueberries with skim milk
small oj

turkey sandwich for lunch

rotisserie chicken
sweet potato
green beans

Saturday and Sunday

Saturday I had Yogurt with blueberries and walnuts for breakfast
Hotdog and chips and diet pepsi for lunch at Cortez
And mom made yummy pot roast with organic carrots, yum ok and potatoes but i only had a bit
I was so happy to wake up Sunday and find I was down a total of 11 lbs.

I had cereal with fruit (blueberries banana and strawberry) it was raisin bran.
Milk was 1 percent but I don't drink the milk. For lunch I finished off my Greek Yogurt with fruit and berries. It is about 4pm now and I am looking forward to leftovers of the pot roast. It will be harder this time to take a small portion as I am ravenous right now. I am thinking of making Kale chips this afternoon. It might be a good thing and so I guess I will.

So hope all of you are doing well with your efforts. I should go swim, but I guess I'm not. I am going to NY to spend three weeks with my Honey and the last time I did that I gained weight feeding HIM. Heh, heh. I need plans before I go. For diet and exercise as I won't have a car or YMCA.

Pizza is good food, right?

I was so happy this morning that I had lost another pound, that is 9 now, maybe back to 8 tomorrow, who knows?
Oatmeal with raisins and craisins, Splenda brown sugar
Susie wouldn't eat it.
Lunch personal pan pizza at Demetrios with small salad.
dinner blueberries and raisin brand
Snack was fruit and nuts
I'm curious what tomorrow brings.

Gulf Drive Cafe

Well, I have lost 8 lbs.
That is something.

Today I had greek yogurt with blueberries, splenda and walnuts/dribble of honey

tuna salad pita

apple with 1T peanutbutter

at Gulf Drive I had Western Omlete
Three eggs
1/2 oz of ham and some onion and peppers
1 slice wheat toast and 1/2 cup fruit, mostly pineapple

Tonight is survivor and any food is better than what they get.

Diet Blues

Well, who is happy to diet?
I am going to do better today. Later today.
Coffee and sleep in am.
coffee and two egg whites at 10am

surimi, lettuce, cocktail sauce
cheese and nan for lunch after
water aerobics

chicken, sweet potato and veggie for dinner.

Want to be skinny like her.

Monday

Cereal and fruit
Coffee
again
Wanted a sweet potato pancake
cereal is much easier.

Lunch will be rotiss chicken
nan
green beans

Supper will be big salad with surimi and cocktail sauce

snack peach

I'll have to weigh and count calories as I go

Vanentine's Day

No temptations today.

Slept alot between meals.
Breakfast
cereal with fruit
coffee

Lunch
turkeyand onion omlete
avocado salad

Dinner
boca burger
1/2 cup mixed veg
1/2 lg sweet potato

Snack dried fruit and nuts

Yeah, I know it is Saturday. Most of the time.

I told you I was tired.
Beets are 40 for 1/2 cup
It's Morning Star Griller Chik'n 80
Arnolds bread thing 100
Creamer 10 per teaspoon and my two are heaping so thats about 30 each cup of coffee
Splenda says 0
I still have to look up egg whites, avocado and whatever else. Wah.

I can't believe they eat turtle soup in the Caymans.

Friday day 4

Menu
Breakfast two eggwhite omlete with onions, bell peppers, 2 oz turkey, 2t diet marg.
2 cups coffee with splenda and lite creamer

Lunch shrimp salad in avocado

snack apple

Supper-Boca grilled fake chicken on arnold wheat thin, salad with avocado and beets

Its too hard to do all the calories. I don't yike it.
Susie and I are too tired to figure out calories. We need a nap. Stayed up till midnight watching the darn olympics.

Day three

I think I lost a couple of pounds, not sure.
Friday Menu
150 Cereal/skim I do not drink the skim and don't know the calories as the cereal was in a plastic container and the box thrown away. I will guess 150 for special K

Turkey Pita
60 pita
180 4oz turkey
40 1T Italian dressing
35 a guess for lettuce, onion, bell pepper and little cucumber
4oz of turkey much more filling than what I had yesterday. Used my new scale

for the rest of today

60 small apple-Snack
total here is 375
didn't count 2 cups of coffee with splenda and lite creamer or diet coke

? Chicken breast, still in freezer will have to weigh
1/2c Mixed vegetables
1/2 Large sweet potato

When I get those calories added up I will have another snack of either some dried fruit/nuts or yogurt with blueberries. Or nothing if I am over.

day two again

Breakfast yogurt 100
Lunch pita 60
lettuce, onion
pepper cucumber 35 a guess
turkey 150
dressing 40
total so far 3 8 5
1200
385
815 left over
1 small apple for snack
boca burger on arnold wheat thin with greens
peanuts
finish off with dried fruit

hows that?

Day two

OK, I didn't shop yesterday and didn't exactly count calories for the evening meal but I did estimate that 2 eggs and one white and a couple of tablespoons of onions and peppers, two thin slices of ham and 1 T cheddar and 1 T diet margarine and one English muffin were under 690. Otherwise I went over. I never got the menu done and had counted up til dinner. I am no good at organization. I struggle so hard to figure out how to put all the different foods and amounts into one day at the proper calorie number. Dr. OZ had a six-pack diet for some nurses that needed to lose weight. 1. plain Greek yogurt 2. can of salmon 3. whole wheat bagel with light cream cheese 4. apple 5. baggie of greens with peppers and 6. dark chocolate.
I could probably do that with the change of something with the yogurt for taste and changing the salmon which he called the FAT. I could eat some other fish or meat. They also had another nurse to guide them and a trainer at the gym one hour a day. With multi- vitamin and vitamin B.
I will get it together with your help.
At least I took my shot and pills this morning and had yogurt this morning.

Following suggestions

Will get Cheerios and greek yogurt, eggs and those Arnolds things, and scale for weighing. I have a calendar with workouts but not in plain view, it is in a folder. I am going to make the menus ahead and only buy what I need. And Mom put away most of her goodies which she said she bought for her "kids".

It's a new day

It's a new day to begin to do the right thing, make the right choice, stop procrastinating and just do it. I have asked for help from friends and family. I have good reasons to be motivated. So if you are reading this, please add a comment at the end. I will need all the help I can get.

I have and Idea of what I want to do to start. Which is to cut out sugar completely, lower fat and carbs. I want to eat good carbs and cut bread to a minimum. I have a sweet tooth, but breads are my downfall. So for my first two weeks I will cut bread out completely. I am going to try counting calories and will go for 1200 a day in small 300 or 400 meals and 1 or 200 snacks to keep my sugar level even and protect my eyes and veins.

I have diabetes and will actually test my sugar daily, sometimes more than once to keep close control. In the past I have gone a year without testing and the last time I went for a long period of not testing my sugar had risen to 600. I doubt I will get by doing that many times without a stroke. So I really need to do better. I know I will have to adjust my meds and see the doctor more often.

Additionally, I have become a member of the YMCA and am enrolled in arthritis water classes. I love to swim as well and can do that for aerobics. For exercise, I have taken up fishing but it has been to cold lately to fish. I also have a bike but haven't actually gone riding yet, though I am able and could work up to several miles a day. Just don't know why I haven't done it yet. Cold is just an excuse for now.

The fact is, it is past 11:30 am and I haven't taken my meds or eaten anything yet because I am frightened to begin and probably fail again. Also haven't weighted. My scale is lame and not accurate but I can afford a better one. I should buy one and a scale to weigh food if I really plan on calorie counting. Guessing hasn't worked in the past.

So I guess I will go take care of the things I need to do. Take meds. Fix some oatmeal and fruit. And count the calories. Plan the rest of the meals for the day and get off to the Y.
Will see what happens.