9/10/07 MONDAY What did you eat today?

Give it to us! We can take it! Lea

ok so i've been really bad and haven't posted anything that i've been eating even though i said i would. i guess i'll start now. better late than never, right? breakfast: ham/turkey/cheese roll ups (13 grams of protein, 110 calories) snack: tea flavored protein water (5 grams of protein, 30 calories) lunch: chefs salad ~ about a 1/4 cup and half of a boiled egg (idk the calories or protein but i don't usually count this towards my daily totals anyway since i'm usually hitting my protein and way low on calories and everything else) snack: 1 "chocolate flavored protein pudding pop" that i made myself (13 grams of protein, 75 calories) supper: 2 oz tuna with 1 tbsp fat free mayo (18 grams of protein, 90 calories) snack: 1 "chocolate flavored protein pudding pop" (13 grams of protein, 75 calories) so that puts me at 62 grams of protein for the day and 380 calories plus whatever the chef's salad ends up being. hopefully since i've written it down i'll be able to stick to just this and maybe one more tea flavored protein water or something. oh yeah, i also had 20 ounces of milo's splenda tea earlier today so if i DO add another of the protein water thingies then that puts me at 60+ ounces of fluids for the day, 410 calories and 67 grams of protein.

ya, imma idiot!! i just read a thread on the main board about trail mix and it made me want some nuts so i reached into my drawer at work and i had 14 almonds left in this little can and ate them. just thought i'd come back and confess my sin, lols!! so that makes my daily totals 490 calories and 70 grams of protein.

maybe my calories are too high?? breakfast: protein/carnation instant breakfast shake (295 calories/35 protein 24 oz water vitamins/ biotin/protonix snack: cheddar rice cake (35 calories/1 protein) lunch: 2/3 c tuna fish on slice of cheese (236 calories/ 20 grams protein) 24 oz water snack: cheddar rice cake (35 calories/ 1 protein) 20 oz diet pepsi dinner: cheeseburger (no bun) (230 calories/ 22 protein) total 831 calories/ 78 grams protein....

Man, I feel really disorganized. I never count either calories or protein. I just make sure I have enough servings of protein & go from there! breakfast: 1/2 cup low fat cottage cheese w/5 sliced strawberries, blueberries, and walnuts snack: 12 oz sugar-free latte lunch EAS carb sense protein drink snack beef jerkey, box of raisins, spoonful of peanut butter dinner: teriaki boneless, skinless chicken thigh, sauteed spinach w/olive oil & garlic, fresh pineapple 80 oz water, crystal light, 4 optisource vitamins, vitamin C, Citracal petite, 2 flaxseed oil caps, benefiber in crystal light exercise: 10 min stationary bike, 30 min treadmill, painted kitchen

breakfast--bacon, scrambled egg (I hate, hate, hate eggs!) and my vitamins snack--cracker cuts cheddar cheese, calcium, fish oil, and 32 ozs iced tea with lemon/splenda lunch--leftover barilla whole wheat pasta/meat sauce from last night's dinner plus an extra multivitamin snack--calcium, fish oil, and 1/2 bottle Isopure blue raspberry RTD protein dinner--chili with beef and beans and a bit of cornbread (just a couple bites crumbled in the top of my chili bowl) and night-time vitamins snack--more chili without cornbread After discussing my hair loss of the last 4 months with my nut and surgeon, it was suggested that I increase my protein... It was also suggested that my current multivitamin wasn't cutting it for me. SO, I am going to start taking 3 of the multis a day instead of the 2 I've been on and I'm going to make a concerted effort to increase my protein to the 80 to 100 grams per day level. My norm for over six months has been 65 to 80 grams per day as recommended by my nut... We'll see if these changes make any difference for me over the next month or so. Lea

Breakfast: my 15 oz fat free sugar free gingerbread latte protein shake with instant coffee 30 plus protein 4 cups coffee with splenda ( I know...) during the day snack: 2 low fat string cheese 16 protein lunch 1/2 cup tuna salad and 20 or so soy crisps (over 30 proteins combined) Diet blue berry green tea 20 oz Dinner: 20 oz protein coffee, I know.... but it's 20 proteins.. 3 mini chicken drummettes I have to kick the coffee thing some... i am not getting enough other fluids in i don't think however I don't appear to be dehydrated.... I am drinkning another diet green blueberry tea now... nO exercise as back is still sucky....

B: grits, protein shake L: 2 oz. smoked brisket, 1/4 cup broccoli, 1/3 cup raspberries Mid Aft: protein shake Before workout snack: 1 oz. cheese, 1/3 cup raspberries After workout: protein shake D: 2 oz. smoked brisket, 1/4 cup broccoli, 1 oz. cheese Water: 100 oz. water Exercise: 30 min. elliptical, upper body weight training

breakfast: 3/4c Kashi Go Lean Lunch: 1c lentil stew, 2 oz chicken meat Supper: chicken soup (homemade) w/extra meat, 1/2 slice 7 grain bread, 1 slice cheese Snack: cantaloupe 2 hours at the "Y" water walking, swimming and floating with my friends.

Breakfast-sf pudding lunch-4 oz dintymoore stew snack-2 slices of amer cheese dinner-1/2 of a 1/2 ham sandwich w/jarlsberg cheese after workout-4 oz of atkins shake swam for 1 1/2 and sat in sauna to sweat for 15 mins. Took vitamin, iron and calcium.