Calorie Countdown - What did you eat on Fri, Sat, Sun?

Good morning everyone (I'm actually awake in the morning!) What are you eating today?  I'm having carnation instant breakfast in mootopia right now (33g protein woohoo).  I'm not sure what my food plan is for the rest of the day yet.  Also not sure on weekend plans.  I had a crazy dream this morning that would be an awesome movie.  Really considering trying to write a screenplay but who has the time? 

Breakfast

South Beach High Protein Bar     10 g protein

Snack 1/2 Isopure apple melon proten  20 g proten 

Lunch

3" tuna sub from subway              11g protein  (not the best choice I found out after the fact) Snack 1/2 bananna  Dinner No clue yet! Snack Unjury chocolate protein shake     28 g protein Water  more than 1/2 way done Exercise  -  Oh yeah! Vitamins  1/2  Calcium - yuck

Pre B - SF NF Brown Sugar Cinnamon Latte B - ham, cheese, RF triscuits S - TJ's celery and peanut butter, 4 pretzels L - Wonton soup S - turkey jerky or cottage cheese D - STEAK! salad S - fruit biscuits

Welcome to Friday, Jen!  How did your session with the personal trainer go yesterday?  I'm wound up rescheduling my appointment with the exercise specialist to 4/17 - I just could not get away early yesterday... 

Here's what's on my plate today:

Breakfast:  1 cup 1% milk in my coffee, 1 packet Quaker Weight Control oatmeal

Snack #1:  1 cup low-fat cottage cheese, 4 tbsp. low-fat cottage cheese, 3 sliced strawberries

Snack #2:  small banana, 1 1/2 pieces pita bread, ~1/3 cup hummus (leftover from lunch yesterday)
[workout #1:  upper body strength training, core work]
Lunch:  3 oz. catfish fillet w/ hot sauce (YUM!), ~3/4 cup Glory southern-style green beans, 1/2 cup coleslaw

Snack #3:  venti non-fat latte with sugar-free vanilla syrup

Snack #4:  1 slice whole-grain bread, 3 slices turkey deli meat, 1 slice low-fat cheese, maybe a small apple

[workout #2:  60 minutes cardio]

Dinner:  unknown (will update later)
Snack #5:  likely 2 sugar-free fudgesicles, but may have a small piece of dark chocolate or a Godiva truffle instead
(will update later this weekend dinner so I can post accurate totals for dinner and last snack)
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Today's weight:  190.4

It was fine, she set me up with a routine that is mostly what I'd planned on doing anyway.  She went through all the machines with us and a few things with the balance ball (squats for me mostly, hoping it will help my tailbone to bulk up the butt muscles).  I am not sore surprisingly, but husband is in his abs especially.  I want to do two sets of 20 on each machine of the circuit tonight (except for the crazy pull up machine that its just way too high off the ground for my comfort).  I am already seeing a big improvement on how much cardio I can do and having to add time and increase speed and resistance.  I'm hoping now that the machines aren't as intimidating I can get some good muscle work done in my arms too.  My legs are super strong and my arms are limp noodles :)

I'm glad you had a good session with her - sometimes it's nice to just have someone confirm that what you're planning to do is okay.   I like using the ball for squats - helps me keep in proper form and I do a better job keeping my knees in proper alignment (and not extending them over my ankles).  I also sit on the ball and do some of my upper body stuff (bicep curls, shoulder presses) while holding one foot off the ground slightly (1-2 inches).  Requires you to stabilize yourself with your core muscles, so you're working on two things at the same time.  Always good in my book....  Except when I lose my balance and fall off the ball Congrats on already seeing an improvement in your cardio - isn't it amazing how quickly our capacity for exercise increases???  Very cool!!!!   I look forward to hearing about how you're doing with your new routine - good luck whipping those noodly arms in to shape!!! Kellie

Snack 1 question - why 1 cup and 4 tbsp cottage cheese?

it supposed to be 1 cup cottage cheese plus 4 tbsp. sugar-free preserves.  clearly the brain was not firing on all cylinders when i was typing this last week! Kellie

Fri plan - B - 16oz mootopia, 1 packed nsa cib, 2T benefiber (33g protein) L - side salad with light italian dressing and croutons (chick fil a) S - venti whole mil****d latte (14g protein) Pre-workout - small can v8, atkins chocolate crisp bar (13g protein) Post-workout - myoplex vanilla rtd protein shake (42g protein) D - irish oatmeal with canned pumpkin, fat free evaporated milk, sf vanilla syrup, butter and pumpkin pie spice EDIT - changed to a tortilla pizza - 1 mission whole grain tortilla, 1/2c mozz, and about 3 tbsp tomato sauce - ended up only eating half, oatmeal will be bkfst tomorrow instead Calories - 1467 Fat - 43g Carbs - 148 Fiber - 29g Protein - 117g Calories and carbs are a little high but I am planning a long hard workout this evening.  Another vegetarian day - I need more of these, I am sick of meat. 

Saturday - so far (posted a plan earlier but totally veered from it) B - steel cut oats (1/4c uncooked), 1/2c evaporated skim milk, 1 pat butter, 1/3c canned pumpkin (I bought the pre-sweetened by mistake, has pumpkin pie spices and cane syrup so at least it wasn't high fructose corn syrup) - added a little extra cinnamon and this was very tasty (plus 9g fiber and lots of food vitamins in pumpkin!) S - 1 serving smoked almonds L - 1/2 quesadilla - 1 mission whole grain tortilla, 1/4c mozz cheese, 1 slice of corned beef (1/2 serving) Will post the rest later.  I'm trying not to have an eating breakdown today, not sure what this head hunger is about.  Need to think about it for a while... why am I anxious today?