Accountability - Thursday

Not exactly a restful night sleep last night..I had a really busy day today but made pretty good choices..

My eats for Thursday:
 
5:30 am 1/4 serving protein waffles, 1/4 large apple, 1/3 serving sf pancake syrup
 
6:00 am 12 oz coffee w/NSA Swiss Miss
 
7:00 am 2 cups of coffee w/NSA Swiss Miss (in my travel mug!)
 
8:00 am 1 oz cheddar cheese, 1 pc turkey breast deli meat
 
9:45 am 24 oz Drink Mix, Crystal Light Hydrating Berry
 
10:00 am 1 small orange
 
10:30 am 12 oz coffee w/NSA Swiss Miss
 
11:00 am 24 oz Drink Mix, Wyler's Peach Tea
 
11:30 am 24 oz Plain Water
 
12:15 pm chicken cesaer salad (light on the chicken!) about 2 cups, with dressing..(this was at the party and no dessert..)
 
2:20 pm 2 cups turkey chili with beans
 
3:00 pm 24 oz Drink Mix, Morning Spark Grapefruit Caffeinated
 
3:45 pm 24 oz Drink Mix, Wyler's Pink Lemonade
 
4:30 pm 24 oz Drink Mix, Lipton Peach Tea

6:30 pm 1 stuffed bell pepper with meat, cheese and cooked onions..

 Totals for the day:

Calories: 1819
Fat: 97.7
Carbs: 107.8
Protein: 139.8

Wow..I would have thought my carbs would be higher..The calories for the ceasar salad seems to be too high actually but it very well could be correct..Still, all in all, I did alright. I could stand to eat a microwaved apple alittle later too and that will bring my carbs up too..

How did you do?

I am tired! DD is feeling better thankfully. Busy day, I am headed for bed soon.
1100-1/2 lc chicken ceasar wrap
1300-other half
1530-steak, mashed taters and a few carrots
2030-few oz chicken, 1/4 c rice, salad and bread with butter
throughout the day i had a few pieces of Christmas candy and a serving of rf wheat thins. Not enough water and no exercise.
I saw my pcp today about my bone scan results; he has started me on Fosamax. The lumbar spine  is the worst almost a minus three. Take your calcium ladies. My scan two years ago showed early thinning but it has really decompensated now. I admit I have not been very consistent with my calcium. I will be from now on;yikes!
Mary 

I'm bad at that too..I try to remember but with calcium, there are SO many rules! So I don't take it with any other vitamin, except D and magnesium and zinc...later in the day. and later in the day I'm busy and tend to forget..I set the container with the calcium right on my desk so I remember but still..

It's not just you! Thanks for the reminder..

Keep up the good work..See ya.

Dawn, great party choice! You go girl!
Mary, I am so sorry to hear about your back! I am taking 500 mg calcium citrate chew daily. Do you think this is okay?? Should I really up to amount??

today:
11am cottage and applesauce (1/2 cup each)
noon ginger tea and dried pinapple
2pm soy chips (one serving) and ginger tea
3pm another dried pinapple
4pm protein drink
5pm veggie and fish and rice stir fry thing that I made
6-8pm cookies...3 of them.. (the dried pinapple didn't hold me)
8:30pm baked corn casserole (1/2 cup)(another turkey dinner here tomorrow, but this time I did the sweet potatoes with splenda brown sugar that Dawn suggested.)
10 pm one more cookie and 1/2 cup pistachios

today's totals:
calories: 1430 (I think, maybe more for the stir fry than I figured, but I tried to go light on the rice part.)
protein: 63 grams

enough fluids and all vitamins

hope everyone has a good day tomorrow

It really depends on your lab work and if your levels are falling or what. I generally don't wait till the levels are in danger area. I had my first bone scan for osteoperosis last year and will probably get another this next year. They use that to see if you're losing bone mass..a zero is good and Mary's negative 3 is not good at ALL..that's why her pcp put her on fosamax (a bone density med)..It's important for women over 40 to watch bone mass cuz if your bone mass is bad and you have even just a bump, bones will break..I'm over 50 now so I guess that stuff is in my future..

I take 1000 mcg of calcium citrate or more a day (sometimes 1500) and 500 mcg D3 (which is really low but we'll see what the tests show in Februrary again) and magnesium and zinc along with that D..In the desert, I thought I got enough sunshine for the D but we'll see..I may be taking the 5000 mcg that is recommended for us RNY patients.

Let me know how you liked the sweet potatoes with splenda..I liked it, and actually it was so sweet everyone else loved it too!