Week 2

Well the week is over and overall I ate correctly and drank my fluid. It was busy at work and my feet and joints have been achy so exercise was not quite as successful. I was on the bike tonight but could only manage 20 min.  I have been trying to walk extra during the day but wish i could exercise more. Will keep trying to increase the amount i do.  Will need to do major shopping this weekend as the weather is finally better.  Also will go out to eat this weekend and will see how well i can do when i don't know the menu in advance. hope everyone has a good Presidents weekend.

Day 11

cal 1089
flu 128

Day 10

cal 1105
flu 160
ex st

Day 10/P5 lvday8

I just love the day 8 food plan.  Its got oatmeal and yogurt and using some high protein oatmeal seems to be ok, . i save the fruit for snacks and I don't seem to get too hungry. Then I just love lunch and dinner. I have always liked tuna and making a sandwich on toasted diet wheatbread with the mayo on the bread and lightly spraying the salad with olive oil and adding some spices is proving to be a great lunch. I made extra chicken and froze it the last time and had saved some extra brown rice all i had to do was heat those up and cook the broccoli. I still have one portion of the chicken frozed from last time and i think I'm going to make a batch with lemon rosemary flavor and freeze them with the rice the next time i do this day.  i'm thinking i will probably end up doing this day about 2 times a week......I know there is tuna on other days but a tuna sandwich and salad just appeals more than tuna and baked potato....but if i can find a piece of real tuna that would sound much better.  I get my hair done and a pedicure today and will do my nails tonight after my exercise. I had to chop vegies today for the salad so doing day one. I sometimes lose track of how much i've been drinking and don't count it if i didn't mark it down and the other night i woke up in the middle of the night and realized that i forgot a whole jug......wondered why my count was so low...actually needed 32 oz added. so I think that i have made my fluid goal everyday even though some times it doesn't look like....like yesterdays is missing the can of diet coke i drank at work. Time to move on so i can get ready to go.

Day 9

cal 1120
flu 136
ex cyc 55 min
fp day 8

Day 8/P5 cal down/cal up

I slept in late yesterday and wasn't very hungry so i didn't end up eating everything on the plan.  Then today I was hungry from the get go. I had decided to make salad, steak, and baked pot for Valentine dinner at home tonight....so picked day 9 to use again.  Well the toast and fruit didn't do it for breakfast today and i didn't get home for lunch so tried to eat something reasonable at work...but as i have noted 2 other times if i don't eat enough one day i seem to be too hungry the next.  If i eat about 1000 healthy cal i seem to be ok, but if like yesterday i only eat a bit over 800 i seem to rebound.  I did add jello, apples, and the like for most of my excess today and between yesterday and today I averaged less than 1200 a day. I weighed and measured everything so no hidden extras.  Also no real protein to breakfast...if i had done a couple of eggs for breakfast i might have managed better...so the next time this happens I will hard boil some eggs to take to work and just do that day.  Time to go to sleep and move on to tomorrow.

Day 8

cal 1509
flu 120
ex st
fp day 9

Day 7

cal 836
flu 144
ex cyc 50min
fp day6

Day7/P5 new food

I like the new days Allan sent. A little more protein and less milk.  Today I am using day6 as my template, it was nice to have a bagel, they had been in my freezer for a while...i did hollow it out and weigh it to check on the cal. Saved my snack for this evening as i slept late and did less pasta.  The pizza did increase my blood sugar some so it will have to be just an occ treat. I'm trying to work my way thru each day so i can see which ones work best for me....some are leaving me too hungry after lunch and feeling too full after dinner .......and then i will probably repeat those days.

Measured today and lost an inch off my waist this month and off my thighs and calves but no change in my hip measurement.  Hopefully it will change next month...many of my tops that were tight are now loose but the next size down is still too tight. I am going to order a pair of pants in a size smaller...they stretch and maybe i will be able to wear them when they get here

Day 6

cal 1015
flu 144
fp day5