1/23/12 Food Report

9 AM--breakfast: water, breakfast sandwich (260 cal.)

11:30 AM--mid-morning snack: yogurt (80 cal.)

3:30 PM--lunch--green smoothie

6:30PM--dinner--2 large bowls italian sausage-potato soup with 3 breadsticks

Food report 3/29/11

breakfast: sandwich 9:30 AM 260 cal

lunch: beef and brocc 12 PM

snack: protein shake 3 PM 160 cal

Food report 3/28/11

breakfast-- sandwich 9:30 AM 260 calories

snack-- protein shake 11:45 AM 160 calories

snack-- protein shake 2:30 PM 160 calories

pepper 1:30 PM 35 calories

yogurt 80 calories

Food Report 3/19/11

Breakfast: sandwich 260 cal. 9:45 AM

Snack: protein shake 160 cal. 1 PM

Lunch: taco 5 PM

Snack: yogurt 80 cal 3 PM

Dinner:

Food Report 3/18/2011

Pre-workout: shake 160 cal. 8:30 AM

Breakfast: sandwich 260 cal. 10:30 AM

Snack: yogurt 80 cal. 12:30 PM

Lunch:

Today

Breakfast: 1 cup steel-cut oats, 1/2 c. skim milk

Lunch: bowl of stir-fry--no rice

Snack: 1/2 c. cottage cheese

Dinner: 2 bowls of beef macaroni soup

1 small bowl chicken noodle soup

1/2 piece bread and butter

Exercise: 35 minutes on treadmill

30-34: 2 mph

1-5, 10, 15, 27-30, 35: 3 mph

6, 11, 16, 20, 25-26: 4 mph

7, 12, 17, 21: 5 mph

8, 13, 18, 22: 5.5 mph

9, 14, 19, 23: 6 mph

24: 6.5 mph

chewed a couple of pieces of gum to get through snack-y times

Another add to the list

I learned something else by trial and error (heavy on the error--no pun intended):

• don't eat off your kids plates. even if they are wasting perfectly good food. it is their food, not yours. I'm worth my own plate with my own food, not the cast-offs of a temperamental child.

I sometimes go to my kids' school for lunch with them. I am usually in a rush to get child #3 to school, so I don't eat. There is my mistake. It is a little early for lunch, but I am usually ready to eat when I am there. But I don't want that to be my lunch meal, soooooo I need to keep my grubby paws of their chow. 'Nuf said. We won't even go into my hoarding/ultra-thrifty personality traits that make it challenging for me to throw away perfectly good food. I'll go lie on the couch and we'll have a therapy session one of these days. :)

The morale of the story is: don't let myself get dangerously hungry because then I make less-than-effective food choices (can we say icky dried-out school-lunch churros, anyone?).