Tuesday, February 19th, Cardio & Cafe

Good Morning Botts:

 

Today I am here to take my own advice again and start over from yesterday.  Yesterday was going great until about 6:00 PM.  From there it went steadily down here.  I could not find what I wanted to snack on and continue to snack on everything.  Ugh!!! Could not walk because it was raining and the gym had a special program going on there.  Oh well, new day, new start.  My eats and cardio for today are:

 

Breakfast:  Coffee & Miralax

Snack:  Quest Brownie Bar

Lunch:  Pure PB Bar

Snack:  Quest Brownie Bar

Snack:  Vitatop

Dinner:  Roast Beef Fajitas

Snack:  NSA Ice Cream Sandwich

 

Exercise:  45 minute walk on treadmill tonight.

 

Have a great Tuesday, take your vits and drink, drink, drink. 

Morning Tess and Botts,

I'm starting over too, today is my Monday. I hate nights like that when you just want to eat and eat and eat. We just gotta remember it's one bad day and move on. I figue if i have 2 not so good days and 5 pretty good days thats doing okay. I mean perfection just ain't gonna happen, that's life.

So my eats are:

B: 2 eggs w a slice of cheese and 1 T salsa
S: cheese and celery
L: 1/2 chicken, cheddar, peppers and onions quesadilla made on small pita cause i ran out of torillas and 1/2 c chili w/ 1 t sour cream and 1 T salsa
D: home maded chicken and veggie soup w/ 1/4 noodles and 5 saltines
S:salad with boiled egg and cheese and light italian

Have a good day everyone!

You are absolutely right.  I think I may have some underlaying stress thinking about my up coming surgery in April.  I don't know why except that I am up 3 lbs when I was trying to take off 5 lbs.  I think that is stressing me.  My husband reminded me yesterday that surgery is 2 months away on trying to wrap up some of my plastics.  I think I am putting to much pressure on mysel***** to back away a little and re-evaluate what is going on with me.

I feel like warm dookie...I haven't had a head cold in years and now I've got a sore throat and runny nose. YUCK!!!! I feel like whining. I think I'm going to leave work early and go home and hibernate until tomorrow. I hope I can keep the carb monster at bay today - it was viscious yesterday.

Wake Up:      Blueberry Protein bar

Breakfast:      small piece of Blueberry French toast at work for a co-workers going away breakfast

Lunch:           Chili w/ beans (finishing yesterday's lunch)

snack:            Protein Bar (Peanut Butter)

Dinner:         Chicken Tortilla soup

 

Trying to get lots of fluids in to flush this out but with a sore throat I don't want to swallow anything. Getting ready to take my daily meds and some of the morning vitamins.

What works well for me is home made egg drop soup. Measure 1 cup of chicken stock, (veggie stock or beef)  .. heat it up. Mix 1-2 eggs with a splash of milk (or water) ... add some spices to the stock.. (I like a bit of pepper, garlic and ginger), once the stock is boiling - pour slowly the egg mixture into the pot. When the  soup start bubbling again - remove from the stove and serve.  I like mine with fresh dill or basil... so easy on the pouch, so good for you... great for cold or just because I need comfort food.  If I want that more "diet food" I use one egg+ egg whites... (less calories - same proteins)

I love egg drop soup and I didn't know how easy it was to make.  What a great way to use up eggs before they expire.  Thanks.  Tri

Even my "normal" BF loves that. Specially on cold day - great way to start a meal. Great way to deliver proteins with irritated pouch... or during any cold -sinus issues when nothing taste good.

For a "normal" egg drop soup - you can mix some flour with the eggs (not much) and that make it more "egg noodle" type consistency. Adding corn starch to the stock - makes is more like "Chinese egg drop soup - thicker" consistency..

I make mine just with eggs... and I do not add starch..

I hope you feel better tomorrow.  Hibernation is the best cure for feeling yucky!  Take care.

My cold over Christmas seriously lasted 8 weeks.  It was in my head, ears and chest.  I took Mussinex DM pills (12 hour release and no carbs as in liquid cough medicine) and Tylenol.  A friend last week said she put Vicks on her feet and put on socks and that helped her.  Many people end up on antibiotics.  My doctor likes me to fight them off myself.  I hope you feel better.  Tri

I am at the tail end of my head cold.  I thought it was completely over but I was wrong.  Its been 10 days and my doctor told me it could take 2 weeks to recover.  I am so lucky to be retired, that allowed to to stay in bed when I felt I needed to.  If I was working I would not have been able to take that much time off and would have just infected the entire school.  Get as much rest as you can.