Accountability-What did you eat Thursday 3/22?

As promised, here I am making myself accountable to you guys...Hope someone out there is still checking this board and will join me...As I said in reply to Chip's post, I think we all are experiencing a little issue with getting a little out of control...Its become alot easier to think of ourselves as normal and that has allowed for a little "slippage" so to speak...I know I'm grazing a lot more and venturing into stuff that I would have said an unequivical NO to in the 1st year...Time to get back on track, we used to have these accountability posts and it'd helped keep me honest and reminded me what not to eat, because when I account to someone else I think twice about what I'm putting into my pouch...So if you are out there please join me...I will post the same on the Grad Board to see if I can pull in a few others from there to help make me accountable...Will post in the A.M. what I ate the previous day...Thanks, and hop on board the accountability train...

Thursday 3/22 , in order eaten

16.5 oz water
2 protein balls
20 oz sf/ff starbucks cinnamon dolce latte
4 oz lf cottage cheese
snack pack sf jello
16.5 oz crystal light
3-4 oz slice meatloaf with tomato sauce
1/2 cup peas-n-carrots
16.5 oz crystal light
16.5 oz water
10 oz sf protein hot chocolate
1 sf peanut butter wafer cookie
3 protein balls
a bite of shaved roast beef
1 licorice jelly bean (it was calling me from across the room, LOL)
16.5 oz crystal light

Man this looks like alot...

Alesia

Okay - I'll play!! First thing in the a.m.: 8 oz. black coffee Breakfast: 4 oz lf cottage cheese 1 medium hard-boiled egg 6 grape tomatoes Lunch: 5 oz. grilled chicken, plain 1/3 c. cucumbers/tomatoes Snack: 1/2 flour tortilla with 2 T. peanut butter Dinner: 1 C. Lo Mein noodles  3 small shrimp  1 bite of an egg roll   Daily Liquid: 80 oz. water 20 oz. sf Fruit Punch By the Way - WHAT ARE PROTEIN BALLS???? 

Hey thanks for joining in, will keep posting daily and look forward to seeing you here...Protein balls are a YUMMY way to get in protein...I often sub them for a meal since they are dense and 2 -3 are very satisfying...Also I really love peanut butter and these taste fantastic to me 1 cup any protein powder flavor ( I like chocolate best)( I use Elite) 1cup peanut butter 1 cup oatmeal ( not instant) 5 tbsp spenda zap the peanut butter in the micro to make workable, dump in other dry ingredients...mix it up with a spoon, until all the ingredients are wet... form into ball about the size of a walnut  hint : if you have problems with it being moist enought to form the balls sprinkle a little tap water over the mixture and mix in, continuing until you have the right texture to make the ball  ingredients stick together roll balls again in splenda or cocoa powder for a nice flavor dusting...put on a cookie sheet in the frig about 1 hour to allow balls to firm up for storage... Store in a baggy, bowl, tupperware, whatever in the frig... Can make a batch in about 20 minutes... usually get 24-28 balls stats : 113 cals, 7 protein,9 fat (darn pb tastes so good though), 5 carbs See you tomorrow, have a great food day...

What is a protein ball?

IN ORDER CONSUMED Lg Mcdonalds coffee    5 creams 3 equals ( sugar addict remember) 16 oz water one sausage breakfast burrito 8 oz water one honey mustard snack wrap from Mddonalds     (ok so my office is next door to mcdonalds and this is what happens when im runnin late & dont bring food) one small york peppermint patty one pack Lances peanut butter crackers 16 oz water 3 bites of a chicken, rice , black bean & cheese burrito (it was all I could get in) small bag of movie popcorn & some jolly ranchers at preview of new Adam sandler movie Not a lot really but REALLY poor choices Diana RNY 9/17/03 360/200/ still aiming for 180

Welcome and thanks for being accountable with me...lets not talk about being a sugar addict - I  use splenda since more than 10 grams in a serving of processed sugar makes me dump (thank you, thank you) and I still have a major sweet tooth (very fond of sf candies too)...when I get my 20oz sf/ff lattes at starbucks it gets 10 packets, yes thats like 3 heaping spoonfuls of spenda in a 20 oz cup, plus the splenda that is used in the sf syrup, way overload and I know it, no excuse what can I say :shrug: See you tomorrow...

B: Banana 8 ounces 2% milk one serving silhouette fat free yogurt one serving silhouette mousse yogurt one Oakrun Wheat and Oat English Muffin with butter S: 2 cups grapes 1/2 cup trail mix No Sugar Added Carnation Instant Breakfast L: Philly Steak and Cheese whole wheat wrap from Mr. Sub three cookies 4 ounces 2%milk D:   Double Cheeseburger from McDonalds Large Cadbury Egg McFlurry S: Banana No Sugar Added Reeses PB cup minis Obviously my behaviour yesterday was awful!!!!!!  Hopefully today will be better, but I think this thread is very very good! Have a great day!

Hey and thanks for rolling with the accountability train...I know everytime I look again at what I've eaten I do a double take...Glad you could join us, my monthly surgical date (June 2005) used to do this pretty regular...Really find it makes a difference, as long as you are honest about what you are eating...Used to love cadbury eggs, wish they would come out with a sf version, sf holiday candy is so hard to find...I did get lucky this year though, found sf peeps, never seen them, I bought a couple of packs and drop one on top of my sf protein hot chocolate, the girls in my office laugh and call me sick when they see the yellow ducky floating in the the chocolate in my cup...LOL...

Hi, Alesia!  I always write down in my journal what I eat and drink for the day - but it's good to be accountable to people!!  LOL B - whole wheat English muffin w/Smart Balance and sf blueberry Smucker's      jam and a banana S - fun-size peanut butter Ritz Bitz crackers, AchievONE L - 1 c. grapes, lf mozzarella cheesestick, 3 sf cookies, sf Jell-O, 5 sf       Werthers (can you tell I'm a sweet addict?!?) S - apple, 10 cheesestraws, AchievONE D - 1/2 c. cottage cheese w/sf blueberry applesauce, salad, sf Jell-O w/ff      Reddi-Wip, sf fudgie S - parm. cheese wafers, WW pretzel thins I had 152 oz. of fluids (mainly water; 1 caf. free Diet Coke; 1 cup coffee, green tea; sf cranberry juice; sf hot cocoa w/ff Reddi-Wip) Plus I did my hour on the treadmill. Yikes - maybe I see why I can't take off these 7 pounds I put on!  LOL Hugs, Connie

Hi Connie,

You are right, journalling is a great thing...Used to do it regularly as a new postie and thru the 1st year, but then kinda got lazy, figured I was maintaining in a 5 lb fluctation window so did not need to keep up with what I was eating...Anyway, once I hit 125 I felt okay if I went up a couple as long as I could bring it back down to 125 again in short order, thing is now I'm hitting the 2 year mark and the body really knows it, put on 3, that was okay still in my 5 lb flux range, but want to bring it back down to 125, over 10 days knocked off 2, but for last 7 have been stuck at 126...Guess I could live with that, but I'm a little stuck on the #125...Thought this is a good time to start getting accountable again, even if 125 never comes around again I will know that I am better off because I'm making better choices, can definately see where you can get lulled into a false sense of security and start putting back on the pounds...