DAY TWO:

Breakfast:

1cup FIBER cereal 1/2cup 2%Milk (ran out of skim)

coffee-lowfat powdered creamer & splenda

snack: white cheddar soy chips-2.5g fat/Sprite zero

lunch:NS(nutrisystem)Hearty Beef Stew-4g fat/180cal

medium salad w/low-fat dressing

100 calorie pack of chips ahoy

bottled water

Bowl of fruit.

Snack:disgusting "chocolate" bar from Nutrisystem.

Dinner: Nutrisystem Pizza, 1/2 cup green beans, 2 oz of Roasted Turkey, 1 cup of watermelon

2-3 bottled waters

snack: ?? not decided. Maybe none.

Day 2

Breakfast: 1 cup nonfat plain yogurt, 1/2 cup low fat low sugar granola, 2 cups of coffee

Snack: 12 dry roasted, unsalted almonds

Lunch: 4 cups of mixed greens with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, one teaspoon of red wine vinegar, salt and pepper, 2 cups of steamed lentils, 28 grams of goat cheese (leftovers from last night, yum.) Three slices of chile spiced dried mango. Twenty roasted plantains chips.

Snack: one medium non-fat chai latte. Two oranges.

Dinner: five cups green leaf lettuce with raw onion and cucumber with 1 tablespoon of olive oil, one teaspoon of red wine vinegar, salt and pepper. Half a turkey pot pie. One cup watermelon.

Day 2

Breakfast

6oz yogurt with granola

2 small coffees w/ 2% milk and sugar

1 liter water

Lunch

Pepper turkey, avocado, swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato & mayo on a whole wheat wrap. Diet Coke

Grapes

Snack: handful of almonds, water

Dinner: I was at a dinner party, so this is much more food than I would typically eat.

4 carrot sticks with dip, a spinach phyllo

green salad w/ balsamic vinegar dressing

1/2 small plate penne w/ cream sauce(?)

Chicken Franchese, steamed vegetables (skipped the potatoes)

1/2 slice of cake

2 lite beers

water

Robin, I followed one of your tips to start my day (oatmeal). This day could be rough because my daughter is graduating 8th grade and there are pre and post ceremony parties....fortunately, my buddy Liz's daughter is also graduating so maybe we can give each other a little support (... NOT):

Breakfast

Oatmeal

Coffee with 1% milk (not as good as half and half)

A BIG glass of water

Large non-fat latte

Snack

20 salted almonds

Lunch

V-8

8 celery sticks

2 cheese sticks

Tejava Iced Tea

Day 2:

Breakfast:

-- Cottage Cheese (2%) with Flax Seeds

-- 1 cup of Adagio Dragon Well Green Tea

Lunch:

-- typical San Francisco burrito (carnitas, black beans, guacamole, salsa, rice): ate about 80%

-- bottle of water

Snack:

-- Americano coffee

Dinner (See photos):

-- sushi (shared with wife -- ate about 75%)

-- sea bass

-- rice

-- water

-- green tea

DAY 2

BREAKFAST: 2 pieces of whole wheat/multigrain toast, 1/4 cup of oatmeal, 2 cups of coffee with 4 tablespoons of creamer, 10 splenda. 1/2 liter of water.

SNACK: 1/2 cup of Post FIber Cereal with NO MILK and I put some stevia on the cereal--0 calories from Trader Joe's. One chocolate nip.

LUNCH: 1/2 liter of water, Greek salad (from Trader Joes), used Molly McButter Cheese sprinkles and low fat dressing. 10 garlic soy chips.

SNACK: I am about to eat my other chocolate nip.

DINNER: TBD, but I will probably have some sugar free jello at the end of dinner.

I had veggie mix, 2 pieces of whole wheat bread, and plain baked potatoe with salsa. 2 nips.

I don't remember getting a gold star, and if I did, I am sure it was never for stellar eating. I am excited about the gold star, and the conscious improvements I have been making in my food intake. Great to have positive feedback!

Breakfast:

1/2 cup oatmeal with 1/4 cup 1% milk, covered with 1/4 cup blueberries and 1/3 cup raspberries, topped with 1/4 cup plain yogurt, 2.5 cups of half caff coffee with soy creamer.

Snack: 1 slice 50% fat free cheddar cheese

iced tea (green and black sun tea) with 1/16th cup limeade.

5 Greek Olives

Lunch: Tuna salad: same as yesterday.I try not to eat the same thing every day, but, as you know, tuna doesn't keep.

Snack: 1/2 fresh apricot

1 tablespoon Almond butter

Snack: 1/3 cup mixed nuts.

Dinner: 1 cup homemade 3 bean salad: yellow peppers, orange peppers, red onion, green onion, garbanzo beans, kidney beans, black beans, cumin, Virgin Olive Oil, 2 TBS of lime juice, plus 1/3 avocado eaten separately from the salad. (tomorrow I will add the garlic and cilantro I was out of to the salad!)

6 - 7 glasses of water today

Starting the day off ...

1 c peach juice

1 c decaf earl gray w.milk

1 c decaf with half & half

1 c raspberry yogurt with granola and nuts

side note: I recently went off caffeine and o man i'm feelin it today, ouch.

Lunch: half caesar (romaine, parm, croutons, dressing) and half chicken/goat cheese salad (greens grilled chix, sundried toms, kalamata olives, goat cheese, balsamic vinegrette)

1bottle odwalla berries "gomega"

woo hoo Day 2:

Breakfast: 1 waffle, berry yogurt (full fat... because I ran out and had to steal this from my toddler), large coffee w/ sugar and soy milk, and a peach... and a large glass of water!

Snack: handful of almonds, green tea

Lunch: pasta with chicken/mango sausage, green tea, water

Dinner: tuna sashimi, rice noodle salad, mini green salad, vegetable tempura (and I "tasted" some of my son's udon... yes, there is a pattern here), tea and water

Breakfast:

non-fat blueberry yogurt (8oz)

darjeeling tea w/ equal

Lunch:

Large salad: lettuce, sun dried tomatoes, peppers, pam. cheese, mushrooms, low-fat vinigrette)

Water

Dinner:

Lean cuisine

2 fat-free hotdogs, dipped in mustard (just 40 calories each -- what a find!)

Lemon sugar free popsicle

Breakfast: bowl of Kashi Go Lean w/ 1% milk, spoonful of peanut butter, 1 apple

3 glasses of water (16 oz?) before dinner

Lunch: caprese sandwich, diet snapple

snack: apple

Dinner: glass of red wine; french bread; Grilled Chicken Scaloppini, Pistachio sauce & Fresh Fettuccine; fresh fruit tart; coffee; water throughout

Question: I have flax seed (which I bought at Sigona's, a fruit stand with lots of bin food) but it's not described as "ground"--is it really ground anyway? Do i need to grind it? I put it in my salad once and then forgot about it. I will try again today!

Thanks for the info on vitamin water!

BREAKFAST:

Oatmeal & 3 dried apricots

diet coke

2 glasses of water

LUNCH:

diet coke

4 broiled japanese eggplants with salt/pepper

2 broiled zucchini w/salt & pepper

2 mugs of mushroom barley soup

2 dried apricots

SNACK

decaf nonfat sugar free caramel iced latte

DINNER

1 mug of mushroom barley soup (we were planning to go out, but the kids melted down so we made do)

a hand full of carrots

a hand full of raw peas

2 bites of mac n cheese

2 bites of scrambled eggs

diet coke

I really struggle with picking from my kids' plates (the mac, the eggs etc) Anyone else?

ok, this camp is DEFINITELY changing what i'm eating..in a good way!!! thanks so much!!!

breakfast

- bran muffin, coffee with milk, apple

lunch

- salad with lots of veggies, scoop of tuna, miso dressing

dinner

- uh oh, french restaurant: glass of red wine, steak, frites, tomato salad, 1/2 dessert (frozen nougat with pistachios and raspberry coulis), and chocolatey martini

Breakfast:

Granola w/ dried rasins & dates (no suger added) with Low Fat Yogurt

Mid-morning:

12oz Vitamin Water

Lunch:

Turkey Sandwich on a whole wheat roll. Topped w/ lettuce, tomato, hot peppers & a little mustard.

Dinner:

bread & cheese

baked salmon

salad, w/ greens, apples, avocado

+

birthday cake

a fat tire (beer)

General.... i'm drinking lots of water.

Pre-Breakfast: 3 cups of hot water.

Breakfast: Ham sandwich on whole wheat toast, with jalapeno mustard and spinach and butter, following Robin's suggestion. Again, I don't know exact quantities because my husband made it for me.

1 cup black coffee

Lunch: 3" roast beef sub with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, mustard

1/4 cup potato salad (this was a lunch furnished by the company, so I ate stuff I wouldn't ordinarily eat. I try to avoid white carbs, but I love potato salad. I would have had a cookie, too, but all they had were chocolate chip. I'm not a big chocolate fan.)

1 cup of black coffee

Snack: one medium banana

Snack: approx. 20 baby carrots

approx. 15 grape tomatoes

two cups water

Snack: 4 or 5 pm is hard for me because I usually have karate after work and won't get to eat supper until 9 pm. I try to snack throughout the afternoon so I won't get too hungry. Today I went into the refrigerator at work to get some cheese to go with my grapes, and there was some of that potato salad from lunch calling to me, so I had another quarter cup, making a half cup total.

I also had another quarter cup of coffee. I try to limit myself to 2 cups a day, but I've been working lots of overtime ( I was here last night until 11:45 pm), and I *needed* that extra caffeine. I used to drink 7 to 10 cups a day, so 2 1/4 is pretty good.

Snack: approx. 30 seedless grapes

1 cup water

Dinner: about 4 cups chef's salad (lettuce, spinach, tomato, scallions) with a slice of turkey ham, a slice of turkey, half a hard-boiled egg and about 2 ozs. cheddar cheese. No dressing, because it didn't really need it.

about 1 1/2 cups steamed broccoli with a pat of butter

one cup water

Day 2:

Breakfast: plain oatmeal with nonfat plain yogurt. 1 cup coffee with skim milk. 1/2 cup no cal iced green tea with blueberries

Lunch: 4 oz cottage cheese with pineapple. Home made turkey soup with vegetables (green beans, carrots). handful of walnuts.1 bottle water.

snack: 4 oz low-sugar nonfat vanilla yogurt. 2 glasses lemon flavored seltzer (no cals)

Dinner: salad with greens, 1/4 cup garbonzo beans, small grilled chicken breast, 1/4 avocado, 3 black olives. Strawberries for dessert. White wine spritzer.

Breakfast: one hard boiled egg; one banana

two cups of coffee with 1% and tsp sugar each cup

Vitamin water -- those bottles are 20 oz, I checked

Lunch: A Santorini sandwich from Greens-to-Go-- basically greek salad on a roll. Fruit salad (small plastic container size).

Dinner: Mexican Chicken Salad.

So we had some cooked chicken in a bag from costco that was going to go bad on June 16th, so I based our entire dinner around this already cooked, already chopped chicken. The mexican salad is great b/c you can substitute so many of the ingredients with whatever you like -- or whatever you have in the fridge. Here's what I put in, everything measured to taste:

Romaine lettuce, chicken breast, black beans (from a can, rinsed), corn (frozen, thawed), tomatoes (cherry), red onion, scallion, avocado, shredded cheddar, red pepper

Cumin dressing on the salad (this is the best dressing and despite the long list of ingredients, simple to make): 3T water; 3T cider vinegar; 2t salt; 1t ground pepper; 1.5t worcestershire sauce; 0.5t dry mustard; 1T sugar; 1T lemon juice; 1t chopped garlic; 3T ketchup; red pepper flakes to taste; 3T olive oil; 1/3 cup canola oil; 1T ground cumin. Whisk together ingredients.

If you like it, top the salad with chopped cilantro.

I also ate a hunk of baguette (like a piece about the length of my hand) and one glass red wine.

For dessert I had a plum.

I will continue to drink bubbly water on into the night...

Oh, yes, and for snack today I basically ate bites of my mexican salad as I was chopping it up, and drank a cup of green tea.

Tuesday 6/11/07

one cup corn chexs

one cup 2%

coffee with 2%

lunch

diet coke

1 slice of pizza

salad with oil and vingar 1tlb each

dinner

1 bowl (about 2 cups ) homemade chicken noddle soup.

water

Breakfast: As stated above, one cup of coffee.

Lunch: Turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato and mayo. Low fat chips. Water bottle.

Dinner: Grilled pork chop. Rice and greens. With lots of hot sauce, three glasses of merlot.

Throughout the day, approx one quart of H2O.

Day 2:

B'fast:

coffee w/ milk

Lunch:

Fresca & a small bag of pita chips

Dinner:

Ribs w/ 1/2 baked potato, some fries, some broccoli and a piece of brown bread (I know - bad meal!)

iced tea

Sorry to jump in late, but I can't resist; everywhere I turn people are doing this.

Breakfast: Cup of coffee and cantaloupe slice.

Lunch: Spinach salad, 1/2 breast of roast chicken, plus asparagus, green beens and spinach salad with vinagrette. Smallish bottle of water.

Dinner: Mexican chicken salad with romaine, black beans, red pepper, romaine, scallions, cheddar cheese shredded, grilled pollo, avaocado, bermuda onion and killer cummin dressing (all courtesy of gifted dining partner with similar posting above). Also about a third of a baguette and a Sierra Nevada pale ale.

okay but wait a mcsecond.....I have to comment about the egg McMuffin ....... for those of us who like protein and SOME fat because we eat breakfast at 7am and cannot eat again until 1 pm, something like the mcmuffin is a good choice. If I'm wanting to lose, I take off the bottom muffin with the cheese on it, but the egg, canadian bacon and 1/2 muffin is a good choice. WITH the cheese it has 15% of your iron, 30% of your calcium, 2% vitamin C and 10% of your vitamin A and 18 g of protein. And you know the FDA has recanted on their negative remarks about God's food (the egg). So really the egg mcmuffin is not a "bad" choice. I'd much rather have egg and canadian bacon than yogurt and granola that is going to mess up my blood sugar, insulin levels, drop me down to sleep at 2 in the afternoon and make me crave sweets an hour after I eat it.

I loved the article in ladies home journal this month. bring on the veggies and the proteins and the low sugar fruits! (berries) I lost 30 pounds this way and have kept it off.

Final note: The McMuffin has 300 calories.