Accountability Saturday

Hope you don't mind me getting this started but I might as well get it posted now and then get back to my sewing machine.  Trying to be as productive as possible on my last 2 days of vacation. 

coffee and tea to start the day
breakfast: cottage cheese pancakes, 1/4 cup sf syrup,1 egg
snack: soy latte then 1 serv. sf choc. 'cupcake'
lunch: 1 egg, 1/2 cup caulitators
snack: sf cocoa then 1 serving 5-min pumpkin cake
dinner: mahi mahi, green salad
snack? maybe a mini bag of popcorn or a bran muffin?  I feel very 'carby' today but am trying to keep it sane. 

DH has started working on the basement remodel again after a loooooong time not having time for it.  I'm gonna stay out of his way!  Only an idiot stops a man when he is working on the house.  Woohoo!

I am glad to see someone  got this going today!  I totally got sidetracked and did not get on-line all day till now...

My day has been:

B- rice cake w/ PB
S -coffee w/ SF cremaer
L- 1/2 cup beans w/ sausage
S-rice cake w/ light LC cheese wedge (love the laughing cow!)
D- (I see a pattern here) rice cake w/PB!  Weekends are harder for me to "plan" and it isn't really because I snack but because my day isn't regimented like when I go to work.  I usually just wing it and when I do that I tend not to get a lot of protein in but more easy foods.
S- yogurt w/BB's and granola

Elaine, what kind of rice cakes do you like?  I was buying the Landstrom brand (sp?) but found out that other rice cakes are half the calories.  Yikes....what was I eating all this time????  I love me some rice cake mock pb&j  and another fav. is my mock Elivis....rice cake, pb (well, soynut butter or sunflowernut butter if not PB2) and banana under the toaster oven broiler.  Oh heaven!!!

I hear ya on the weekends being more difficult because of being away from the regimented eating.  These two weeks on vacation have been so tough food-wise.  The last 2 days have been the best, trying to follow Natalie's lead of going back to basics.  I managed to get the scale down to 144 today.  Hoping for at least that or less tomorrow. 

Been a long day, I got three Christmas presents sewn plus a good start on some new valances for my kitchen.  Tired, going to bed! 

TTFN
M

I just get the Quaker whole gran rice cakes.  Some peeps freak out about the carbs but I never have.  That is not to say  I go carb crazy.  In fact they are about the only carb I do eat (and beans) and I always pair it with a protein.  They are anywhere from 20 to 50 cals. depending on the flavor.  My fav is the honey vanilla with PB on it or chocolate.  I also get the salted plain ones to put the LC cheese wedge on...A snack for 70 cals!

Thank you, Elaine.  I will switch to that brand...much better carb calories.  I do stress over carbs but it is a good thing cause if I didn't that'd be ALL I eat.   My Landstrom rice cakes are all over 70 calories, I think. 

For me, the rice cake is part of the head game of giving up  bread and using them as my substitute.  I do have some low-carb whole grain bread in the freezer and had some as toast a few weekends ago but I don't want to allow that back into my life fulltime or it will just lead to big problems. 

Very smart pairing the rice cake with a protein, that helps with the grazing I bet.  I know on days I'm being careless I can eat rice cakes one after another.  Somehow they will just slide right down like popcorn and then the calories mount up but if I slow down enough to spread on some nut butter then I stop at one.