Monday Feb. 27 Menu

I had made up my mind on Friday to give up eating my client Penny's food. When she offered me some candy, I refused this morning. Then I considered giving up the Melba Toast and Rusks I ate at home, which are not written down on my plan. I tried praying, but I ate them anyway. Then I sneaked a Reese's Cup at another one of my clients! Then I sneaked a tiny loaf of banana bread at a third client's house! What is going on with me?! Apparently, I have to give myself time to accept a new behavior or I go on a binge! Breakfast 1 cup oatmeal 1 cup 1% milk 1 orange 1/4 cup scrambled egg substitute Coffee 2 cups water AM Snack 1 Slimfast Cookie Bar 2 cups water Lunch 1 cup low fat cottage cheese with 3 Tbsps. sugar free preserves 4 graham crackers 2 sugar free Jello cups 1 peach (couldn't eat it - too hard, not ripe enough) 2 cups water 1 Reese's Cup 1 banana bread loaf (small) Dinner Flounder filet, fried in Pam on griddle 1 cup brown rice with 2 tsps. margarine 1 can mixed no salt vegetables 1 cup unsweetened applesauce Crystal Light peach ice tea Denise Phares

Denise, I am sorry you are struggling to get on solid ground with your plan. I have been there a number of times myself. I have no advice except to say, just keep trying. As long as you are trying you are making some progress even if it is just the awareness of what the issues are and what does and does not work for you. Hang in there, you can do this! B - 3oz Smoked Pork Chop, Hearty Instant Oatmeal, Sm. Banana L - Leftover Chicken Taco Salad from yesterday D - 6oz Turkey, 2/3C Green Beans, 2tbsp. Mashed Potatoes, Apple Will have some SF Jell-O w/Table Cream later Maren

Denise, I think it's great that you are recognizing these behaviors and striving to change them. I don't know what kinds of suggestions I can give you. What works for me may not work for everyone. I just treat anything beyond my plan to be taboo, period. There will come a time perhaps when I will add these things back in moderately, but it isn't now. It will be 8 months on March 7 and I have removed anything simple carb from my life. I haven't slipped once, and that scares me as much as perhaps slipping from time to time. But it is working for me and I can't begin to imagine suggesting that people try my way. So keep what you are doing, stay very conscious of it, and soon it will click for you. Breakfast - low sugar oatmeal, 2 tbsp. flax seed, 1 slice whole wheat bread with low carb peanut butter and sugar free strawberry preserves, 1/2 cup of coffee w/ sugar free/fat free creamer Snack - string cheese Lunch - 1/2 cup chili with 1 ounce of low fat cheddar and 2 tbsp. of non-fat sour cream, steamed broccoli, 1/2 of a sugar free jello pudding cup Dinner - 2 oz chicken breast, steamed broccoli, 2 oz whole wheat pasta, 2 tbsp. tomato sauce, 1 tbsp. grated romano cheese Snack - sugar free/fat free chocolate/cheesecake pudding with lite whipped topping Calories - 1014 carbs - 112gm fat - 30gm protein - 67gm I hope everyone had a most wonderful day!!! Donna

Breakfast: LA smoothie with strawberries, 3/4 oz. mixed nuts, 1 oz. lowfat cheese stick, 3 lowfat Triscuits, peanut butter LA Lite Bar Snack: chocolate crunch LA Lite Bar, apple Lunch: orange, LA caramel popcorn, LA chocolate protein meal replacement drink, Dannon lowcarb yogurt Supper: ground turkey with taco seasoning, lettuce, tomato, salsa, broccoli Keep trying Denise. You'll find your way. Lynette