Calorie Countdown - Just another manic Monday, what are you eating?

I'm actually happy to see Monday.  I totally blew off my weekend and did hardly anything.  I went to the gym on Sunday but otherwise I didn't actually leave the apartment all weekend, and I watched about as much tv as I watch in a month.  And I thought about food.  A lot.  A busy Jenn is a stronger Jenn.  A lazy Jenn wants chocolate or pretzels, or even better put them together.

Hey Jenn:  I am the same way...if I am not busy my mind will wonder and I want to graze on those old   comfort foods..sweet and salty together is always good!! Today I am doing liquid protein shakes mostly, maybe a serving of protein pudding to settle my tummy a bit so we will see how that goes.  Hope you have a great day!

I'm glad someone is happy to see Monday - personally, I could use another Saturday or Sunday!!  I'm with you on the "a busy Kellie is a stronger Kellie."  The worst time I have with food is when I'm sitting around watching tv on the weekends.  I just want to snack the entire time I'm sitting there.  I did better this weekend than I did last weekend, but I did eat about 2 servings of peanut M&M's while watching The Last Mimzy.  Could definitely have done without those, but today's a new day...  So 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. sugar-free preserves, ~1/2 c. sliced strawberries

Snack #2:  medium banana
[workout #1:  upper body strength training, core work]

Lunch:  WW SmartOnes salisbury steak w/ mac & cheese, ~2 cups romaine, 2 tbsp. light raspberry vinaigrette, 2 tbsp. rice noodles (for crunch in salad - yum)
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, alfalfa sprouts

[workout #2:  60 minutes cardio]

Dinner:  ~5 oz. roasted chicken breast, 1/2 c. collard greens cooked w/ smoked turkey, 1/2 serving cornbread

Snack #5:  2 sugar-free fudgesicles

Total calories:  1889
Carbs:  239.2
Fat:  40.8
Fiber:  27.8
Protein:  155.4
Today's weight:  190.2

Weekend was awful here.  There were so many festivals to go to and it rained all weekend.  My sister in law and I did manage to go to the Pensacola Wine Festival in between rain showers.  I hadn't had any wine since surgery and a small swallow of my husbands beer Easter weekend caused me to dump!  So I was apprehensive about it.  They wanted to fill your glass up 1/4 of the way and I kept telling them just a splash but they wouldn't listen.  I tried about 8 different wines with tiny sips  like you would if your coffee was too hot.  I tolerated it fine, but the small amount of wine I had a great affect on me. I felt it. I was good over the weekend and really didn't snack at all. today is the usual Breakfast - SB high protein cereal bar  10 g protein Exercise - Full body weight training Snack - 1 small bananna Lunch - 3 oz haddock & 5 asparagus spears   19 g  protein Dinner - 1 cup of shrimp & fish gumbo (it was so good last night)  25 g protein Snack - jello sf pudding cup Unjury chocolate shake  28 g protein Water 1/2 done Vitamins - forgot them this morning dangit! Exercise done!

I had a busy weekend and I loved it! Hubby and I went and ran errands Saturday and then looked at new furniture, we're trying to find a new dining room table and small tables for the living room. After we got home I decided I was going to cook, and cook I did! I had from Netflix the movie High School Musical 2 so put it on as I got busy. I made a pot of turkey meatball/veggie soup, and then a huge pot of chili. I put all this into individual containers and froze it for lunches. Then I made a steak skillet dish that has to simmer for 1 1/2 hours, so I usually only make it on the weekends. As if that wasn't enough I decided to make up some Eggface Bites, and roasted veggies for Eggfaces Chicken Caccatorie. After that I cooked dinner ... hahaha! We had a pasta dish with homemade sauce that had chicken apple sausage, ground turkey, tomatoes and asperagus in it. I was scaredt to eat too much pasta so I made the sauce really thick and ate mostly that. We wated August Rus after dinner - great movie! Sunday morning I was still in a cooking mood, I fixed the caccatorie and then a chicken marsala, and some chili rellano egg bites. My Mom came over and I sent all sorts of meals home with her. Now I won't have to cook all week long! Pre B - SF NF Brown Sugar Cinnamon Latte B - 2 Eggface bites S - SF NF Carmel iced latte S - jerky, banana L - at Carino's w/Mom and Aunt - thinking chicken cesar salad, but that may change S - greek yogurt w/ kay's Natural cereal D - Steak skillet, salad S - ?

Wow, a cooking frenzy!  I'm coming to your house for dinner all week

Jan, just wanted to let you know I'm packing my bag and will be moving in shortly!  Kix

Your both welcome anytime!

B - venti whole milk latte (high calories, but yum) - 340cal, 18g protein L - eas myoplex 17oz rtd shake (while watching everyone else eat pizza, fun) 300cal, 42g protein D - dragonfire chicken from tgi fridays sounds very good - 437cal, 48g protein if I eat it all Post-workout snack - Atkins chocolate chip crisp bar - 160cal, 13g protein If I eat it all: Calories - 1237 Fat - 40g Carbs - 105 Fiber - 14g (too low) Protein - 121 g Water - working on it - 50 down, 50 to go Exercise - aiming for 350 cals burned cardio tonight Vitamins - halfway there

I really like the Dragonfire Chicken from TGIFridays - it's super tasty and a reasonable portion size, although I doubt you will be able to eat everything.  I can usually eat all the chicken and veggies, but not all the rice. 

On the days when my fiber is too low, I'll have a bowl of Kellogg's AllBran Buds w/ milk either as a mid-day snack or a bedtime snack.  A serving is 1/3 cup, 70 calories, and has 13 grams of fiber.  It does not have much protein, but if you use your Mootpia, could be a good way to get in some protein and a good dose of fiber!  If I'm not in the mood for milk, I'll stir the Buds into a 6 oz. container of light yogurt, then make sure I drink some extra fluids so there's something in my system to help the fiber do it's thing - Kellie