Well the weekend is over and with no new holidays around the corner I will be heading back tomorrow.. no worries.. I enjoy my job so it's all good.  Hope everyone had a great weekend.  I did the grandma thing and today I spent the day cleaning and working on cleaning out my pc.  What junk it accumulates surfing the web. So here was my day.

protein bar, 1 serving 170 17 5 20

Cheddar Cheese, 0.5 oz 57 0 5 4 Turkey, Ground turkey, 93% lean, 6 oz 240 0 12 33 Tomato Sauce, 0.5 cup 39 9 0 2

Mozzarella Cheese, part skim milk, 1 oz 72 1 5 7 Spaghetti/Marinara Sauce (tomato sauce), 0.3 serving 21 3 1 1 Italian Sausage, pork, 0.2 link, 4/lb 78 0 7 3 Pepperoni, 4 slice (1-3/8" dia x 1/8" thick) 103 1 9 4

Potato Chips, reduced fat, 1 oz 134 19 6 2 Breyers No Sugar Added, Butter Pecan ice cream, 1 serving 1/2 cup 122 14 7 3 protein bar, 1 serving 170 17 5 20

CALORIES

CARBS

FAT

PROTEIN

1,206

82

60

98

Not to bad a day.  I drank a ton so not worried there.  You all have a great monday and I will see you later. Carla

I wish I could eat spaggetti...I can eat a fork full and that's about it...Probably a good thing for me anyway! I got up early today and had to stretch my meals for a late planned dinner...so I had to eat snacks several times or I would have lost it today...I wish I had a better idea what my salad dressing would cost my carb/sugar totals today! Why do waitresses ask you 10 times if you are certain you don't want a drink? I finally told the girl to give me an Ice tea in a TO-GO cup...They look at you like you are crazy. And I didn't feel like explaining. Cleaned up my computer last week! Pre B: ~Coffee w/Soy  B: ~2 egg omelet with cheese, tomatoes, bacon crumbles, fresh cilantro S:  ~12 Sugar snap peas, raw L:  ~3 oz chicken breast stuffed with spinach and goat cheese, baked with tomatoes on top ~1/2 C turnips, onion and ginger baked casserole (left overs) :) S: ~2 small ham slices and one swiss cheese wrapped around pickle...(had two of those) S: ~15 spelt flour ginger snaps cookies D: ~1 Small order of Applebee's Oriental (grilled) Chicken Salad dressing on side<---Used 3/4! This salad was a bad choice but I had no idea! The salad has 57 carbs and 32 sugars. Sheesh!  ~Ice tea with lemon and splenda.... to go (drank an hour later) Fat: 84   Carbs:102   Protein: 91.5   Fiber: 9   Cal: 1634   Sugar: 44 

Oh I cant eat it either.. I eat the sauce without the noodles.  That was the top of a piece of pizza.  lol.. Wow..  Wow.. the hidden cals and carbs in things can scare you. The cals are a bit higher than usual for you but you are trying to maintain right.. so thats ok.  Fat..wow.. what was that from.  The dressing is the biggest offender of salads.  A salad with no dressing is low but add two tablespoons and watch it go up 200 cals plus.. its terrible.   Yes they dont want to believe you dont want anything.  I just order water and leave it on the table.  Stops them from bugging me about it. lol Have a good one and I will see you tomorrow Carla

Good Day, I avoided the fig cake with only 1 bite, lol.  Can feel the allergy crud coming on so took meds last night, hope I can nip it in the bud quickly. Public Diet & Fitness Journal for cajungirlwls

February 24, 2008   Foods   Cals Fat Carb Prot 8th Continent Soy Light ( 1.5 serving ) 75 3 3 9 Oatmeal, cooked, quick (1 or 3 minutes), fat not added in cooking ( 0.25 cup, dry, yields ) 76 1 13 3 Protein Delite Almond Coconut ( 1 serving ) 110 1 6 20 Laughing Cow Light Swiss ( 1 serving ) 35 2 1 3 Oscar Mayer Roast Beef 96% FF ( 0.5 serving ) 30 1 0 5 Bread, garlic, toasted ( 2 cubic inch ) 21 1 3 1 Pork steak or cutlet, broiled or baked, NS as to fat eaten ( 1 oz, with bone, cooked (yield after bone removed) ) 49 3 0 6 Chicken, thigh, with or without bone, roasted, skin not eaten ( 2.5 oz, boneless, cooked, skinless ) 145 8 0 18 White potato, french fries, from frozen, oven baked ( 3 wedges ) 53 2 8 1 Chicken, thigh, with or without bone, broiled, skin not eaten ( 3 oz, boneless, cooked, skinless ) 174 9 0 22 Brussels sprouts, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt ( 4 sprout ) 34 0 7 2 Coffee Creamer 1 tsp ( 4 serving ) 40 0 8 0 Coffee, decaffeinated, made from ground ( 72 fl oz ) 43 0 9 2 Coffee, made from ground, regular ( 8 fl oz ) 5 0 1 0 Fig Cake (1 bite, estimate) ( 1 Quantity not specified ) 56 1 11 1 S/F Jello Cup ( 1 serving ) 4 0 0 1 Cracker, cheese ( 8 gold fish ) 24 1 3 0 Pork bacon, smoked or cured, cooked ( 0.5 thin slice (yield after cooking) ) 14 1 0 1 Peppers, jalapeno, raw ( 0.25 pepper ) 1 0 0 0 IDS Belgian Chocolate Protein ( 1 serving ) 134 2 3 26 Total 1123 37 76 120

Yes you did.. another perfect sailing day.  You are right on course.. Keep it up girl.. the sky looks clear and ready for another perfect sailing day. Carla

Have gotten back on track so have dumped several pounds this week just by clearing out the junk.  Once I get past the first couple days, it gets easier.  Actually, that's not entirely true        I got hypnotized ??hypnotised ??  I went to see a hypnotist.  I don't know if it really helped but it's been painless.  And it does get easier each day.  Went to the H because I am so frustrated with thinking about food 24/7.  And so far it's helping.       B Soy Protein Oats Milk S Atkins Bar L Hamburger Stew Cheddar S 2 brussel sprouts Cashews D Soy Protein Milk LtnFit Yogurt Des Scrambled egg Cheddar I carry 10 almonds in my pocket everyday - satisfies my crunch obsession. Cal   1226   Fat   55   Carb   87   Prot   112   Sugar 6

Hypnotherapy yea... sounds interesting.  Please I think about food all the time.. I love being busy so I give my brain a break.  Keep us informed.. I might wanna try that.. Great day.. protein above 100 and all the numbers in the right place.  You should continue to see a downward trend the way you are going. Carla

Getting back to normal now. I see the dermatologist today and he's going to hack a chunk of skin (biopsy is the nice way to put that) out of my arm and see if I have DH..You know, if I do have it, it will be a load off my mind but if I don't, YIKES. I'm sure I do, all the signs are there. I'll have the results of the 11 vials of blood I gave at the lab this week too. So much to look forward to.

No more malto meal, oat bran, kashi cereal. I hear Oat Meal doesn't have gluten in it so we'll try that. No more wheat germ. NO pasta at all ****il I can find gluten free). I found a recipe book on line with about 300 recipes and my aunt has collected quite a bunch..Plus our friend in Moorepark probably has a million too. He was so mad at the world for months when he found out about his CD/DH. I hope I'm not like that. I already resigned myself to the fact that I couldn't eat pasta and bread. This should be a no-brainer.

Breakfast: Oat Bran (boy, did I pay for this!much gas and slight pain) soy milk, protein powder

Snack: 20 gram protein bar (checked the label, no wheat) Lunch: 4 oz of the BEST steak I've had in a long time and 1/2 cup of instant mashed potatoes Snack: SF Chocolate Covered Almonds Snack: sliced tomatoes used as "crackers" with Honey BBQ Salmon (2.8 o) and 1 oz Mozzarella stick.  Dinner: Cabbage Casserole (figured the nutritional values of the ingredients and then split it five ways to figure a serving) No dessert Totals:  Calories: 1498 Fat: 64 Carbs: 102 Protein: 125

Well I hope they have an answer soon.  It would suck to have that but it sucks more not knowing whats wrong.  You did good.  nice protein.  You can find glutten free stuff and health food stores.. I see it there all the time.  Will probably take a while to see the results of not eating it.  You are doing great though... ouch for the hacking of your skin... that sounds so ..... mean....lol... Hope its not that bad. Be good and I will see you tomorrow Carla

Yeah, And on top of having skin hacked out, the guy didn't especially like two other doctors telling him what I had already without him getting to take a look and he took a minimal peek and said he didn't think that was what it was. He was ticked off. How badly do I want someone hacking out bits of skin when they're already ticked? I nearly walked out. But he said he'd rather do that and prove everyone else wrong than have me come back later and say "I told you so." I think when this is all over, I'll post his name and UN-recommend his sorry skin to anyone who needs help with their skin..Makes me mad. He doesn't know me at all and didn't even give me the time of day last year and now he's going to diagnose?...Easy now I don't need to get all hyped up over him.  I did go to the local health food store and got a different hot cereal for tomorrow...TVP (high protein). It will give me 30 grams of protein in one 1/2 cup of dry stuff and no soy milk either..I'm excited to give it a try.