Thursday Food Log 8-30-07

6:30 am...whole grain bread toasted with peanut butter

12:40 pm...rice and lentil and bunny egg bento dinner (see photo)

4:00 pm...small piece of peanut butter rice krispy treat

5 pm...pina colada frozen fruit bar

8:15 pm...pork sandwich bento dinner (see photo)

9:30 pm..."Naked" brand 15.2 fl oz antioxidant juice (Pomagranates, blueberries, apple, white and red grapes)

water: okay amount
exercise: 90 min...1/2 hr of x-bike and the rest stretching and weight machines

BBQ Pork Sandwich bento dinner 8-30-07

This was a quick dinner after Back to School Night... Schwan's french bread with Schwan's BBQ shredded pork inside (heat and eat) plus brussel sprouts leftover from last night. There were two more (that I ate already while making this).

lentils and rice and bunny egg bento lunch 8-30-07

Brown rice; whole lentils (from dinner the other night), container of salt and pepper for the egg; grapes; bit of red leaf lettuce; and a little hard boiled egg bunny with food coloring on the details. :) I also had a couple almondina cookies that I put in a little container, but I forgot to eat those at lunch.

Wednesday Food Log 8-29-07

6:30 am...bowl of Joe's Os with 1% milk

10 am...wedge of light laughing cow cheese and small piece of peanut butter rice krispy treat

12:15 pm...chicken salad and shu-mei bento lunch (photo)

3:30 pm...pina colada frozen fruit bar

7 pm...raspberry herb iced tea

8 pm...ravolini and greens bento dinner (photo)

drank moderate amount of water
no exercise to speak of today

raviolini and greens bento dinner 8-29-07

small continer of raviolini (tiny little cheese filled raviolis) with jar sauce and shredded parmesan cheese, brussel sprouts with some of the parm cheese, red leaf lettuce with alfalfa sprouts (later topped with Newman's Own Balsamic dressing; celery with light laughing cow cheese.

Chicken Salad and shu-mei bento lunch 8-29-07

Left tier: salad dressing and soy sauce bottles; 2 shu-mei; peanut butter rice krispy treat; red leaf lettuce, alfalfa sprouts, and cut up chicken from last night's dinner.

Indian Lentil and Rice Dinner 8-28-07

This was a quick heat and eat whole lentil packet that I got at Trader Joe's. It was good, but a bit on the spicy side for me. I put it over some brown rice that I had left over in the fridge (heated it up in microwave); a red leaf lettuce salad with sprouts and carrots, a little shu-mei and a rice krispy treat that I made with some natural peanut butter added to the recipe. I was full after eating everything but the salad so I left the salad for later. :)

Tuesday Food Log 8-28-07

6 am...whole wheat toast with natural peanut butter

11 am...2 small squares of cheddar cheese and one cracker

1:45 pm...ham sammie bento lunch (photo)

4 pm...mango frozen fruit bar

7 pm...Indian Lentils and Rice bento dinner (photo) ... didn't eat the salad but saved it for later

some water, not a lot
no exercise today (big meeting)

Ham Sammie bento lunch 7-28-07

This is a cute little sandwich made with Orowheat 100% whole wheat "light" bread. It's smaller than regular loaves of bread and fits perfectly into a bento without having to trim the crust! The sandwich has two slices of ham and two of jack cheese and some leaf lettuce and mustard. Plus some carrots and a little container of organic ranch for dipping.

Monday Food Log 8-21-07

6:20 am...bowl of cheerios with 1% milk and green tea with honey

12:15 pm...Chinese Take-Out Bento Lunch (photo)

3:3o pm..."Rock Star" drink (mango, passion fruit flavor)

6:30 pm...potsticker bento dinner (photo) and decaf tea

9 pm...more decaf tea

Potsticker Bento Dinner 8-21-07

2 potstickers, leftover ceasar salad, tomato basil baked cracker chips (I usually don't eat things like that, but wanted to try these...okay, but not that great). I put some sauce on the potstickers after this photo.

Chinese Take-Out Bento Lunch 8-27-07

chicken fried rice; 2 potstickers and a little carrot shaped bottle of sauce for them; tiny asian custard dessert; alfalfa sprout and baby carrot salad with Newman's Own balsamic dressing.

167 lbs-Monday Weigh-In 8-27-07

Weight today: 167
Starting Weight: 177
Total weight loss to date: 10 lbs!!!

(This past week I lost 3 lbs. I think I lost some bloating that I've had lately.)
I've noticed that some of my jeans are getting droopy on me. That is a good feeling. I'm looking forward to wearing the next size down now. :)

Sunday food log 8-26-07

6:30...bowl of Joe's Os with 1% milk

10:30 am...green tea with honey

12 pm...ham and naan sammie bento lunch (photo)

3 pm...the other 1/2 of the banana I ate at lunch

5 pm...3 homemade (by daughter) oatmeal/chocolate chip cookies and glass of milk

7:30 pm...chinese take-out bento dinner (photo)

not much water today at all
no exercise (very tired from staying up late last night)

Chinese take-out bento dinner 8-26-07

chicken fried rice, potsticker, crab rangoon, and chicken chow mein for dinner tonight.

167 lbs-Monday Weigh-In 9-27-07

Weight today: 167

Starting Weight: 177

Total weight loss to date: 10 lbs!!!

(This past week I lost 3 lbs. I think I lost some bloating that I've had lately.)

I've noticed that some of my jeans are getting droopy on me. That is a good feeling. I'm looking forward to wearing the next size down now. :)

Ham on Naan Sammie Bento Lunch 8-26-07

Sandwich: Naan, romaine lettuce, mustard, ham; 3 baby carrots, a tiny custard from the Asian store (like flan) and a combo of fresh organic strawberries and bananas...the strawberries were full of flavor (from Trader Joe's)

Saturday Food Log 8-25-07

6:30 am...bowl of Joe's Os and 1% milk, green tea with honey

9:30 am...small chai latte at Starbucks and 1/2 blueberry scone

12:00 pm...2 large "lumberjack pancakes" at Stacks (whole wheat, wheat germ, banana, blueberry, and walnut with margarine and blueberry compote spread on some and maple syrup on some) but didn't finish it all (ate about 3/4)

7 pm...spaghetti and 3 meatballs; salad; 2 sm pieces garlic bread; lemonade/tea drink

8 pm..1 chocolate mochi from Trader Joe's

Friday Food Log 7-24-07

5:30 am...tiny ham and mixed veggie frittata (I made two the other day and microwaved one this morning. You can see the other one in the photo of my bento lunch) and some decaf tea with Splenda and 1% milk

7 am...a very small bowl of Joe's Os and 1% milk

12:45 pm...heart brown rice onigiri bento lunch (see photo)

5 pm...small size passion fruit milk tea tapioca drink. (First I got one at a little asian place that had a very unpleasant girl working at the register and it tasted terrible. The tapioca pearls tasted old. They were all hard in the middle) so..then I went to Quickly and got my fav one)

7:30 pm...pot luck dinner at a social gathering. I was very good about how much I took on my plate.

drank some water today--okay amount
exercise: This morning I did a killer 1 hr workout called "bootcamp" with things like jumping jacks and lunges galore and free weights and lots of ab work...I'm sore!...then at 6:30 I took a salsa class and worked up a sweat.

heart brown rice onigiri bento lunch 8-24-07

Romaine lettuce and carrot salad with sesame dressing; heart shaped brown rice onigiri with a little bottle of soy sauce; a little ham and mixed veggie frittata and some grapes. This was a good lunch today!

Thursday Food Log, 8-23-07

6:30 am...bowl of Joe's Os with 1% milk and green tea with honey

10:30 am...more green tea with honey

2 pm...chicken salad bento lunch (photo)...busy day!

6:30 pm...whole wheat spaetzle and turkey sausage bento dinner (photo) and orange herb tea

drank some water but not a lot
exercise: 90 min workout...30 min x-bike, weight machines, abs

Whole Wheat Spaetzle and Turkey Sausage Bento Dinner 8-23-07

Homemade noodles (made with freshly ground flour from Mollie Stone's), turkey kielbasa with American cheese faces, pluot, little salad of alfalfa sprouts. I put Newman's Own balsamic dressing on the salad before eating.

Chicken Salad Bento Lunch 8-23-07

mixed greens, red cabbage, chicken, water chestnuts with container of crunchy flat noodles and a few cashews for topping. Container of sesame dressing; champagne grapes, pluot

Wednesday Food Log 8-22-07

7 am...bowl of Joe's Os cereal with 1% milk, green tea with honey

12:15 pm...rolled sandwich bento lunch (photo)

5 pm...large size Passion Fruit Milk Tea tapioca drink and 1/2 breadstick with chocolate dip candy

9:45... decaf tea with milk and Splenda

When I got home and made dinner still wasn't hungry, so I didn't eat dinner tonight.

Exercise 45 min of low impact aerobics and pilates

rolled sandwich bento lunch 8-22-07

Top Tier: mixed green salad with some chopped chicken, almonds, gorgonzola, snow peas and slices of heart shaped egg. Bottom Tier: 2 kinds of rolled sandwiches: whole wheat tortilla spread with lowfat laughing cow cheese and sprouts and egg salad (made with ranch and mashed up hard boiled eggs) and sprouts. Little bottle of sesame dressing.

Tuesday Food Log 8-21-07

7:20 am...bowl of Joe's Os cereal with 1% milk

12:15 pm...starry, starry bento lunch (see photo)

5 pm...16 oz "orange a-peel" Jamba Juice smoothie

7:30 pm...meatball bento dinner (photo)

9 pm...tiny sesame rice ball snack at my son's dorm

no exercise today except for regular walking to do errands

meatball bento dinner 8=21-07

For dinner I made meatball sandwiches and my boys gobbled them down big time. We only had a small group of us home for dinner. I didn't eat the french bread, but just ate four of the meatballs with marinara sauce, a small salad of alfalfa sprouts and balsamic dressing, and last night's leftover brown rice and chicken and veggies. I was quite full after eating this.

Starry, Starry Bento Lunch 8-21-07

I had fun with this lunch. The top tier has a salad of mixed greens, gorgonzola, slivered almonds, and egg slices on top. (I shaped an egg into a star with a mold, then I sliced it with my handy, dandy egg slicer, then I punched out little dots for eyes from nori. The nori eggs stuck very well to the egg yolks.) The bottom tier is apples cut into star shapes and then there is a bed of alfalfa sprouts with baked brown rice balls on top. Not shown is a little container of red wine vinaigrette and one of catsup for dipping the rice balls. Yummers!

Monday Food Log, 8-20-07

7 am...bowl of cheerios with 1% milk and a strawberry

1:30 pm...Gorgonzola and Pear Salad Bento lunch (see photo) and green tea with honey

6 pm...one fugi apple cut into wedges and spread with natural chunky peanut butter

8 pm...Green Bean Flower Chicken Rice Bento dinner (see photo)

drank some water
exercise: 1 hr. step aerobics and free weights

bean flower chicken rice bento dinner 8-20-07

a small salad of alfalfa sprouts and Newman's Own Balsamic dressing, fugi apple chunks with little monkey pic, chicken rice that I made tonight (brown rice, chicken chunks (Schwan's frozen), mixed veggies from frozen, fresh green beans, soy sauce and sesame seeds). I arranged the beans to look like a flower and put some corn kernels for the center.

Gorgonzola and Pear Salad Bento lunch 8-20-07

I went to Trader Joe's last night to stock up on some food. We didn't have much since we just got back from vacatin. In the top tier is the Gorgonzola and pear salad with baby greens, dried cherries, and red wine vinaigrette. I added some alfalfa sprouts, too, because I've been wanting to eat sprouts lately. The bottom tier has green grapes under the strawberries and blueberries. There is some whole wheat tandoori naan with a little container of hummus to spread on the bread. This was a very tasty and satisfying lunch.

170 lbs-Monday Weigh-In 8-20-07 and Check-In

I'm back from vacation! It was a very relaxing and fun time at the beach with the family. I weighed this morning and the scale said I gained one pound on the vacation. This is fine with me because I didn't really do that well on some of the days. It was difficult to stick with my plan of eating only when my stomach growls and then eating only a mug size portion. So, only 1 lb works for me! :)

I started to keep track written food log, but after about a day and a half I decided to just stop and not worry about it for the week.

Today I was back at exercise class. I did 1 hr. of step aerobics and weights and started right back into my bento diet plan. It's been a nice day.

weight: 170 lbs.

Gone to the Beach...

I'll be away till August 20.... Be good!

Friday Food Log 8-10-07

6:30 am... scrambled eggs and ham with a bit of green bell pepper (from Whole Foods deli) and a few potatoes (too spicy) and green tea with honey

10:30 am...a couple bites of chicken salad as I was making my bento lunch (the leftover that didn't fit into the bento box)

12:40 pm...Strawberry Hearts Salad and Eggplant Rolantini Bento Lunch (photo)

4 pm...small size passion fruit milk tea tapioca drink

6:30 pm...small square of daughter's Godiva almond chocolate bar

7:45 pm...spaghetti and pita bento dinner (photo)

8:30 pm...decaf tea with 1% milk and Splenda

water: drank an okay amount
exercise: 1 hr tough workout of aerobics and free weights

Spaghetti and pita Bento Dinner 8-10-07

This spaghetti tasted so good after all the brown rice pasta I've been making lately. It was just the right "al-dente" texture! The sauce is made with the mini-meatloaves I made for dinner the other night. I cut them up and sauted them in a bit of olive oil and then added some organic marinara sauce from Whole Foods and some sun-dried tomato pesto topped with Pecorino Romano cheese. The top tier has some baby string beans from Trader Joe's and a small pita from Whole Foods that has been cut into quarters and toasted. I spread some hummus on a couple of the pita wedges and ate the others plain. I tried to drink a bit of grapefruit juice with this dinner but it made my stomach hurt (not a good combo with this dinner) so I ended up only drinking about 1/4 c at most.

Heart Strawberries Salad and Eggplant Rolantini Bento Lunch 8-10-07

This was a very yummy lunch with new tastes. :) In the top tier: eggplant rolantini (eggplant stuffed with a ricotta cheese mixture (not shown is a little container of marinara sauce for dipping) and the last of the chicken salad from yesterday (chicken, grapes, celery, and pecans). In the bottom tier: spinach with goat cheese and almonds topped with strawberries cut into little hearts (they kind of looked like hearts already and I just rounded the tops a bit more)--not shown is the little bottle of citrus dressing. (After I finished the chicken salad I heated up the eggplant rolantini in the microwave and then dipped it in the marinara sause--yum-o!)

Thursday Food Log 8-9-07

6:30 am...pancake sandwich breakfast (photo) and green tea with honey

10:30 am...4 sweet cherries

12:00 pm...chicken salad bento lunch (photo)

3 pm...1/2 fresh peach, 1/2 pina colada frozen fruit bar

4:30 pm...1/2 pita toasted spread with hummus and green tea with honey

7 pm...one banana cut up and spread with crunchy peanut butter (from Trader Joe's)

10 pm...(late dinner at IHOP with the family) chicken club salad (took out small portion from the very huge bowl of salad they gave me and ate it off a small plate): spinach, batter fried chicken pieces, bacon, and feta with honey mustard dressing. orange spice herb tea

water: drank okay amount
exercise: 75 min--x-bike, weight machines, stretching

chicken salad bento lunch 8-9-07

yummies from Whole Foods: chicken salad with grapes and pecans, celery, and grapes (delish!); corn and veggie salad; raspberries and blackberries, and some pita wedges because I wanted some bread, too.

pancake and egg breakfast8-9-07

I wasn't sure how I'd do in exercise class if I ate this breakfast, but I thought I'd give it a try. This is a very small plate with leftovers: two small pancakes filled like a sandwich with 3/4 fried egg and some cheddar cheese heated up the microwave; a couple pieces of turkey sausage; some cut up apples from yesterday's lunch (still look nice because of the lemon juice).

As it turned out, I think this breakfast really helped me with my workout because I had a lot of energy and stamina yesterday and did much better than usual.

Wednesday food log 8-8-07

6:30 am...bowl of "Joe's Os" cereal with 1/2 banana

10:30 am...the other half of the banana and a couple small bites of the rolled ham sandwich for the bento lunch that I was making

12:00 pm...rolled ham sandwich bento lunch (photo) (plus a small bit of fresh Indian bread brought in by a co-worker)

4 pm..."carribean mix" frozen juice bar

6:30 pm...about 5 tortilla chips and salsa

8 pm...Happy Flower Pancake bento dinner (photo)

9:30 pm...herb tea

drank some water today but not tons
exercise: 1 hr. low impact aerobics and pilates

Happy Flower Pancake bento dinner 8-8-07

Sometimes we like to have a "breakfast dinner" since we don't have time to eat a big breakfast together in the morning. This is a really great pancake mix (mini-chocolate chip and raspberry) poured into a flower pancake mold. Underneath the pancake is a fried egg that I also cooked in the flower mold surrounded and topped with turkey sausages. There are some strawberry slices in the corners. Very yummy dinner. I ate it just like this without butter or syrup on the pancake since it really didn't need it. :)

Rolled Ham Sandwich Bento Lunch 8-8-07

The sandwich was made on an "olive oil wrap" from Trader Joe's. It tasted really good. I spread the wrap with cream cheese, then a layer of thin sliced ham and alfalfa sprouts. It tasted really yummy. In the other tier there is a small portion of salad (baby greens and spinach with candied pecans, feta, and cranberries; edamame; toothpick skewers of apple and cheddar cheese. I put lemon juice on the apples and they stayed looking great till lunch.

Tuesday Food Log 8-7-07

7 am...bowl of "Joe's O's" (Cheerios by Trader Joes) with 1% milk and 1/2 banana, sliced

10:30 am...the other half of the banana

11:30 am...green tea with honey

1:30 pm...salad and sushi bento lunch (photo)

4:30 pm...carribean flavors frozen fruit bar (on a stick)

7:30 pm...mini-meatloaf bento dinner (photo)

9:30 pm...herb tea

didn't drink much water today (instead I drank from my thermos of green tea and honey all day)
no exercise today

Mini Meatloaf Bento Dinner 8-7-07

Two mini-meatloaves with BBQ sauce made with ground turkey breast; cut up apples (I didn't eat them all, only about 4 or 5 pieces) and a shallow salad with red, yellow, and orange bell pepper cut into flower shapes (after this pic I put Newman's Own Balsamic Vinegrette dressing on it). Full tummy tonight!

Salad and Sushi Bento Lunch 8-7-07

A lovely lunch today of spinach and baby greens, feta, candied pecans and cranberries. Raspberry vinegrette in the bottle with the white top, wasabi in cup with spreader, and soy sauce in bottle shaped like a green pepper. In the next tier there is lychee; edamame; grape tomatoes and an onigiri that I made this morning (I made a bunch) filled with tuna and pan grilled in soy sauce; and the last two California rolls from Trader Joe's.

Monday Food Log 8-6-07

6:30 am...onigiri (rice ball) and decaf tea w/Splenda and splash of 1% milk

12:30 pm...Potsticker Bento Lunch (photo)

5:15 pm...Bento Snack (photo)

7:15 pm...California Roll Bento Dinner (photo)

9 pm...herb tea

I took a thermos of tea to work today and drank it all day (decaf with Splenda and 1% milk)
water: drank a good amount today
exercise: 1 hr. step aerobics and freeweights

California Roll Bento Dinner 8-6-07

Dinner: strawberries and blueberies, edamame, lychee, sushi (California rolls) from Trader Joe's. There is also a little yellow container with wasabi and the little carrot bottle of soy sauce. This was a good tasting, filling dinner!

Bento snack 8-6-07

2 homemade chocolate chip cookies (made by my daughter), strawberry, lychee fruit, and little peanut snack from the Japanese store.

Potsticker and Onigiri Bento Lunch 8-6-07

Lunch today: potstickers (from Schwan's) and grape tomatoes (little carrot shaped bottle of soy sauce for the potstickers); onigiri and sugar free black cherry jello. I didn't finish the whole onigiri.

169 lbs-Monday Weigh-In 8-6-07

Well, I don't know if it's because I was eating good enough on the trip or because I was sick these past few days, but my weight today is 169 lbs! So that's 4 lbs. less than last Monday's weigh-in and 8 lbs. less than the 177 that I was on July 16. I know that the scale isn't a correct measure of everything that's going on, but it gives a general idea and going down in my goal. :)

Sunday Food Log 7-5-07

(travel sickness diet today...still feeling sick from the trip)

7 am...plain decaf tea with 2 dashes ginger and about 16 toasted sesame seed water crackers

10 am...more of the same tea

11 am...more of the same tea

1 pm..."There Must Be Rain to Make a Rainbow" Onigiri Bento Lunch (photo)

3 pm...green tea with honey

3:15 pm...small bowl plain oatmeal topped with organic apricot/applesauce and about 1/4 c jello jigglers

6:30 pm...another small bowl of plain oatmeal topped with organic apricot/applesause and piece of french bread

9 pm...more of same tea

drank some water
exercise: none really

"There Must Be Rain to Make a Rainbow" Onigiri Bento

I was getting bored with my bland diet today (stomach still feeling queezy) so I decided to make some onigiri and add some fun color. This is just regular sushi rice, no fillings or seasonings with food coloring.



I love the size of these little guys and the soy wrappers add interesting texture and a bit of flavor. I really started to feel a bit better after eating this and I know I wasn't hungry anymore!

Travel Food Log 7-30-07 to 8-4-07

Well, I'm home! I kept track of everything I ate, but didn't take pics of my food. I don't know what I ate or drank at the end of the trip, but it's doing damage on my system still. I think it was the water I started to drink from the drinking fountain on the second to last day in the El Paso history museum. I spit out the water because it was warm and tasted terrible. Then I had a late lunch which consisted of 2 alcohol drinks and a bit later had a grande mocha frappuccino at Starbucks. I just did some online research and found out that alcohol and caffeine are two things that can aggravate the condition. It was after the Starbucks drink that I started feeling bad and I was thinking it might have been the whipped cream (forgot to tell them "no whip") or that I haven't been drinking caffeine in awhile. But, now I'm thinking it was most likely the drinking fountain.

I don't know how well I did at watching my portions. I know there were times I did well and times I went overboard. We'll see what the scale says tomorrow on "weigh-in Monday." I was thinking about my lack of weight loss in spite all my workouts after I last posted and realized that it's quite possible that I've added some muscle weight because my workouts have involved weight lifting. Hmmm! Hadn't thought of that before. If that's true, then that's good weight gain. :)

Okay, so here's the food log for Monday, 7-30-07 to 8-4-07

Monday 7-30-07

7 am...sm bowl Kashi nuggets w/cut-up peach, 1% milk, ice water

10:45 am...leftover pasta and chicken (from last night's dinner) and broccoli souffle in 1 tier of orange bento (no photo) and two very tiny bites of homemade choc chip cheesecake dessert

3:30 pm...pre-packed Chinese chicken salad in airport and bottle water

4:15 pm...small ("tall") Starbucks decaf mocha frappuccino (no whip)

9 pm...airplane size cup of tomato juice and shared small bag of airplane pretzels and bag of honey roasted peanuts

midnight...1 12oz bottle Michelob beer, oat and honey granola bars (2 in pkg) from vending machine

Exercise: 1 hr. step aerobics and freeweights, walking in airports


Tuesday, 7-31-07

8 am...1/2 "made to order" veggie omelet (cubes of ham, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, and mushrooms and sliced black olives, shredded cheese on top), small portion of "home fries", 2 strips of bacon, tea w/honey and skim milk, custard size bowl of watermelon chunks with a bit of cantelope and honeydew.

1:15 pm...oats and honey granola bars (pkg of 2) from vending machine

4:15 pm...pretty gross looking (and not that great tasting, but I was hungry) "bean and cheese nachos" in Juarez, Mexico (restaurant), the cheese was like runny velveeta and there was just a bit of refried beans drizzled over the top.

9:30 pm...1 slice cheese pizza (thin crust) and 1 can V-8 juice (11.5 oz)

exercise: some walking


Wednesday, 8-1-07

6:15 am...sm bowl of strawberry yogurt and few spoonfuls of granola; cup of coffee with half and half (half the cup was decaf); small portion of "home fries"; veggie omelet (ham, mushroom, gr bell pepper, onion, tomato, spinach, cheese); custard size bowl of watermelon chunks

12:30 pm...4-5 watermelon chunks; 1 chunk cantelope; 10 red grapes; 1/2 sandwich on french roll (1 slice turkey, 1 slice ham, lettuce, tomato slice, mustard and mayo); handful of pretzel chips

3:50 pm...10 oz orange juice

4:45 pm...spaghetti with meat sauce with parmesan cheese; salad with Italian, then ranch dressing (took small portions, but then went back for more of spaghetti and of salad), chunk of french bread (felt like I ate too much after this meal)

6 pm..."happy hour" special drink "Bahama Mama" (rum); 1 1/2 c popcorn,

7:30 pm... small "frozen custard" (rich ice cream) mixed with pecans, bananas, pinapple, coconut

exercise: just a bit of walking, not much


Thursday, 8-2-07

8:15 am...scrambled egg omlet with small pieces of ham, bacon, and mixed veggies; small portion of "home fries"; 6 oz orange juice; tea honey and skim milk

4:15 pm...("Chili's" Restaurant) Southwest Mesquite Grilled Chicken Salad (lettuce, chicken, corn salsa, tortilla strips, cilantro) and "Spiked Strawberry Lemonade" (vodka)

11:45 pm...12 oz V-8 juice

exercise: (workout in hotel fitness room) 36 min of step/arm movement machine thing then some weights on the machine (arms, upperback, quads, and leg press)


Friday, 8-3-07

8:15 am...scrambled egg omelet with spinach, mushroom, onion, gr bell pepper, tomato; small portion of home fries, 6 oz orange juice, coffee with 2 sugars and skim milk (mostly decaf)

3:45 lunch at Chili's again: Southwest Mesquite Grilled Chicken salad (same as yesterday, it was good!), and TWO spiked strawberry lemonades

7:30 pm...Grande Mocha Frappuccino with whipped cream from Starbucks

11:45 pm..."dragon fruit" vitamin water

exercise: some walking


Saturday 8-4-07 (not feeling well)

8:15 am...banana, small dry bagel, plain tea

2 pm...1 c watermelon chunks

4:30 pm (Texas time)... 1 bag airplane pretzels, airplane cup of ginger ale, about 12 Ritz crackers

4:50 pm (Arizona time)..."Yoshi's" fast food Japanese (in airport) bowl of orange chicken with white rice and broccoli

8 pm... 1/2 bag of Ritz cracker chips (airplane) and airplane cup of ginger ale

exercise: airport walking