Monday - BOTT Cafe & Cardio

Hi BOTTers,

I had a good weekend because I worked....huh?  I worked on the nutrition tracker by adding foods from restaurants.  It has been so much fun to work on the nutrition tracker. 

As I input nutritionals from restaurants it was quite the shock in so many respects.  Names of menu items sounded healthy but checking the nutritional it was astounding.  I will think twice before relying on how an item sounds.  In fact, before I go to a restaurant, I am going to check out their menu and the nutritionals.  Be prepared!  If I check it out before and determine what I will order, it will eliminate the impulsive ordering because something sounds good.  If I decide in advance of what I am going to order, check the nutritionals, I'll make a healthier decision.  Again, another strategy to BOT. 

Here's my check in today:

CARDIO:  Treadmill

FOOD:

Southwestern Egg Beaters
Cottage cheese
Chicken salad with light Miracle Whip
Jalapeno Mustard Pretzels
Tilapia with green beans
Cinnamon Toast Pretzels
Power Crunch bar

Have a marvelous Monday as we BOTT.............BOTT POWER!!

Cathy

Cathy - what and where is the nutritional tracker? 

Great weekend - My husband made a quickie weekend trip down so we could have some "us" time without other events going on.  We accomplished a lot of "honey dos" together.  He's such a great guy!

The scales smiled this morning.  I was down (surprise, surprise - otherwise I'd say the scales frowned LOL)  I'm beginning to think that big loss a couple of weeks ago was some glitch on the scales for I'm still a wee bit above that day's weight - but am coming down.

FOOD: 
B - My oatmeal breakfast - 260 cal
S - Bariatrix choc soy snacks - 150 cal
L - Heath Wise chicken pasta - 200 cal
      HW taco cheese bites - 120 cal
S - HW choc drink - 80 cal
D - My seafood gumbo - 182 cal
      Dole coleslaw - 25 cal
      Walton Farms 1000 Island dressing - 0 cal
      Jello individ serving pudding - 60 cal

1077 cal         108g carbs       117g protein

Have a dr's appt this afternoon (just a routine checkup) so won't get in any organized exercise but will walk a little and climb stairs
 
Do promise myself and all of you I will be living a BOTT day.

New week - new day - scales smiled - sun shining - all's right with my world  Wish you all peace, joy, and a mighty fine BOTT day.

Hi Happy,

Nutritional tracker is essentially what you provided above.  It is an addition to our Health Tracker that is for logging your food and water.  Activity tracker is on its way soon.

Go to "my oh" and you'll see on the left nav "Health Tracker" and you can go to the "Nutrition" tab and there it is.

I'd love to know what you think.  Check it out and let me know.

Thanks!!

Cathy

Well, the nephew is back home in VA, which is happy and sad at the same time. I did some serious damage to my eating plans and my scales definitley showed it this morning. They were up dramatically since Saturday morning, but I hope it is just some serious water weight and not getting my workouts. So this week, my goal is to purge all the bad stuff from my house, the leftover Doritos and such. I'm still anxiously awaiting my protein samples from vitalady. I'm still tossing around the 5 day diet especially after this weekend and my falling head first off the wagon.

Cardio ~ stationary bike 20 mins 4 miles

Cafe ~
B ~ Champ Nutrition Protein Drink
      Kashi GoLean Strawberry w/Flax Waffle
S ~ 3 ozs grapes and 1 slice Gouda
S ~ Champ Nutrition Protein Drink
L ~ 2 ozs chicken w/ 1/4c refried beans & 1/4 c corn
S ~ Champ Nutrition Protein Drink
D ~ 2 oz tuna fish w/egg and miracle whip
S ~ Champ Nutrition Protein Drink

I was on vacation last week so I was on the computer very infrequently. Held steady during my week off. Saturday hubby and I went to Rhode Island and did Cliff Walk (4.5 miles of it) - five years ago I never would have made it!!

I picked up the "Beck Diet Solution" book on everyones recomendation and have started reading it - still need to do my day 1 activity - I'll sit down and do it tonight. For anyone looking for the book I got it in the clearance bin at Borders for $4.90, used my borders rewards and basically got it for free (it was $17.00 on their web site).

So here is today:
Cardio:
30 min elliptical level 3
45 min weight circuit

Food:
Breakfast - Med Hot Latte Light & Click shake made with Almond milk
Lunch - Black beans & rice with light cheese and sour cream
Snack - Kay's protein cereal - french vanilla
Dinner - hamburger patty with cheese, mayo, ketchup & onion, Grilled zucchini and asparagus.
Snack Cinnamon Apple Protein Shake

Calories 1343 Fat 50g Carbs 133g Fiber 19g Protein 99g

Today... not quite finished with the day but here goes....

B - protein drink
24 oz water
L - small salad topped with crab meat, cottage cheese, a few sunflower seeds, and a drizzle of thousand island dressing.
S- protein drink
24oz water
D - chicken leg mixed veggies
24 oz water

I will be riding my horse tonight for 2 hours, he will have a lot of exercise, I will be along for the ride (I do sweat when riding my horse so there must be some sort of workout here)

Have a wonderful day everyone!!! 

Darla