HOLD MY FEET TO THE FIRE! ACCOUNTABILITY POST

Hey Glam....praying for you for healing from the Bells Palsy!

Laissez bon temps rouler!!!  (Let the good times roll)  The beginning of Mardi Gras festivities kick off tomorrow night.  For tonight, I will be going to see Rickey Smiley...I will TRY and behave this weekend!

Damn I'm so jealouse!   In Trinidad, we call it Carnivale.  Wish I could be in Port of Spain or New Orleans for the festivities. 

Have a blast and behave yourself (but don't be too good, lol). 

I’m with you on the Trini Carnival & New Orleans, Brooklyn NY is the closest that I have ever gotten to a real carnival.  I hear that Trini is the best ever where they party for a whole week.  Now that’s my kind of party.

Since my company provided free lunch yesterday I actually took down a salad plate that my NUT recommended I use in order to watch my portion sizes. Yes, my coworkers where joking around with me and looking @ me like I was crazy because of it but I didn’t care I’m doing this for me and know one else. I am still am in fat girl mode and will pile up my plate as if I could actually eat it all. After I pile it on I then feel bad that I cant eat it all and then don’t want to waist the food. I read one day what someone on OH said which was: “I give myself permission to throw food away" & another one that I love is that “it has to be pouch worthy for me to eat it". I’m not quit there yet but hopefully soon.   Here are my eats:

B – 1 cup of Kashi Go Lean Crunch Honey Almond Flax Cereal       
       1 cup of Silk Light Soymilk
       8oz of SF Hawaiian Punch Lemon Berry Squeeze (Singles to go)         
       8oz of SF Crystal Light Fruit Punch    


L – 2 cups of mixed salad greens
       3 Tbsp of Sesame ginger salad dressing       
       1 cup of ginger sesame noodles              
       3 small – medium pieces of Asian ginger chicken  
       16oz of water  

S – I medium apple w/ 1 Tbsp of RF Peanut butter spread       
      8oz of (Naked) Protein Juice Smoothie (this was delicious a bit grainy & pricey but delicious)

D – 2 cups of seafood linguini
       1 Tbsp of onion dip made w/ FF sour cream
       8oz of SF Hawaiian Punch Lemon Berry Squeeze (Singles to go)  

S – 16oz of TAZO Organic Chai Tea w/ 2 Tbsp of SF Hazelnut creamer & 1 Tbsp of FF creamer



Cals: 1,892
Fat: 56g
Carbs: 235g
Prot: 94g
Water: 48oz  

Okay so I over did it on the carbs yesterday so today will be a better day. I went wrong on the dinner I believe. My choice was the healthiest thing on the menu & they had huge portions. It would have been fine if I would have gotten a workout in but that didn’t happen I worked too late last night.

Thanks again Purple,

Are you using an online system to calculate your food stats? If so...do tell the site. Thanks this is excellent planning.

hey MD - one site I use when I need to get back to basics and journal everything is www.mydailyplate.com

you can put in your weight and height and how much you want to lose per week and it give you a calorie goal too - this helped me a lot.  I would put my whole day's 'intent' down in the morning, and adjust thru the day if I needed to. 

Thanks MM!

I am going to check it out again.  You actually had mentioned it to me before...I recall signing up for the free account but it does not give full function of the site...if i recall.  Do you have the gold membership? I don't know why I thought it cost more the last time i checked. $45 for a whole year is not bad.  I currently use fitday.com.  I am wondering if daily plate gold will give me more than what I get on fitday for free.  Did you ever use fitday? If so...what do you see as the difference.  I think the main thing about Fittday is logging Food in is cumbersome. I question some of the accuracy of the tracking too.   

I may have tried them all.  I found fitday cumbersome too.  I liked nutritionmirror and nutritiondata.  Did not like sparkpeople.  Dailyplate is good but there are a lot of duplicate entries with questionable accuracy so you need to read each item you pull up.  The plus is uts rare that something is not already out there. 

Since trackerr came on line I use OH.  I do it the same way Ms MM does.  Fill it in in the morning and adjust throughout the day.  With so many sites out there I can't see paying for one unless it has something special to offer. 

Your very welcome MD and yes I do use a online system to calculate my food called Fitday.com.  I needed something to keep track & calculate my protein & calorie intake.  And thanks I need to work on planning some sort of weekly food plan.