Update for Spring 2008

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72.5 pounds in 6 months!

Pei Wei Asian Diner

This is a great place to eat!

 

If they will let you order off the child's menu, order the:

 

Kid's Wei Teriyaki w/Brown Rice (580 cal.),

Cup of Wonton Soup (110 cal.), and

Vietnamese Chicken Salad Rolls (159 cal.).

 

This totals 849 calories.

 

 

 

Otherwise I suggest ordering any of the following:

 

Side of Brown Rice - (170 cal.)

 

Pei Wei Spring Rolls (2) - (180 cal.)

 

Minced Chicken with Cool Lettuce Wraps w/sauce - (570 cal.)

 

Pei Wei Spicy Chicken Salad - (700 cal.)

 

Dan Dan Noodles w/Chicken - (780 cal.)

 

Spicy Korean w/Chicken - (700 cal.)

 

Mongolian w/Chicken - (560 cal.)

 

Pei Wei Spicy w/Chicken - (660 cal.)

 

Mandarin Kung Pao w/Chicken - (900 cal.)

 

Sweet and Sour w/Chicken - (880 cal.)

 

Tuesday - January 8, 2008

I will be honest. I have not been posting my calorie counts on the web for almost the past month. This is because of the business of the holiday and my dad having a heart attack and being hospitalized. But, the good thing is that I have been keeping track of my calories and I've kept myself around my 1,000 calorie a day limit. Yippee!

Tuesday - December 18, 2007

Today I made a delicious english muffin breakfast sandwich with sausage, egg, and cheese for only 280 calories.

For lunch I ate at Bellacino's and had a turkey light sub and a side salad for a total of 600 calories.

For dinner I'm going to eat a turkey sandwich for 170 calories and have a little bit of Orville popcorn for 50 calories.

This will bring me to 1100 calories for the day.

Yippee!

Monday - December 17, 2007

Today was pretty good. I had a taco salad without the shell (430 cal.) from Taco Bell for lunch.

 

For supper I made sloppy joes out of ground turkey (520 cal.), green beans (20 cal.), and corn (80 cal.). It was delicious!

 

Total calories for today are 1050 calories. Delicious!

Sunday - December 16, 2007

Today I had chinese food.

I didn't get to drink my shake because I forgot since I was working on the snow.

From the chinese place I had an order of beef in black bean sauce (530 cal.), part of an order of rice (300 cal.), a bite of an eggroll (75 cal. since I don't know), and a bite of a crag rangoon (75 cal. since I don't know).

That's a total count of 980 calories for the day.

Saturday - December 15, 2007

Today was my first day on my new program. I feel like I did a pretty good job.

For breakfast I had two eggs (140 cal.) and a piece of dry diet toast (35 cal.).

For supper tonight I had some pork sirloin (346 cal.), turnip greens (60 cal.), mashed potatoes (140 cal.), corn (120 cal.), and green beans (40 cal.). Yummy!

I still have to eat my soy chips, some "hot cocoa," and also have a couple bags of popcorn (50 cal.) to snack on for later.

With all this stuff I have eaten and the stuff I have to eat I'm only at 991 calories.

Awesome, huh?!?

****UPDATE****
I forgot to eat my 100 cal. chips today.

New Program from Dr. Soudah

My doctor set me up on a new program today. My total daily calories will remain the same (1350 calories) but the make-up will be different.

 

Now I will be eating two 500 calorie meals, one snack of soy protein chips (100 cal.), and drinking one protein shake (250 cal.) each day.

 

I think this is going to be a little bit more of a challenge for me since I'll be eating two meals a day, but at the same time I think it might be easier since I'll be able to eat two small meals each day. 

 

Keep me in your prayers as I attempt this second program. I don't go back to the doctor until January. That's four weeks on this to see how I do.

 

Let me know your thoughts!

12 Week Success!!!!

Today I went to the doctor and found out my new weight loss total.

 

I lost another 5 pounds.

 

That's a total of 47 pounds in 12 weeks!

 

AWESOME!!

Friday - December 14, 2007

Today was good. I had Noodles & Company again. It was great!

 

I had Japanese pan noodles with shrimp (690 cal.) and a packet of soy chips (100 cal.) my doctor gave me.

 

Total for today was 790 calories.

 

Feeling pretty good!

Thursday - December 13, 2007

Today was a good day. I had a Lean Cuisine chicken fettecine (250 cal.) for lunch and for supper I found this pizza at Schnuck's that was 870 calories total so I ate a third of it for 290 calories.

 

That's a total of 549 calories for today.

Confession

I have not been drinking all my shakes and eating my bars. This week's weather has put me in a situation where I am so tired and sleepy that I forget to eat bar and drink my shakes.

Wednesday - December 12, 2007

Today was good.

I had caldo de pollo (285 cal.), which is a mexican soup made with chicken, veggies, and a little bit of rice, and two tortillas (160 cal.) for lunch.

 

For supper I had my leftover soup plus a little bit of taco soup (75 cal.), a tortilla (80 cal.), and the leftover "toppings" (75 cal.).

 

That's a total of 675 calories today. A little over but not too bad.

Tuesday - December 11, 2007

So far today so good. Yummy! I took some of my leftovers and made me up some "toppings" for breakfast.

I was starving when I woke up this morning and since I knew I was in for some taco soup, Lord willing, tonight I knew I had to eat light so I can enjoy the soup later. So this is what I did.

I took some white onion and some carrot and diced them up very tiny. To this I added some minced garlic and freshly ground salt and pepper. I put this in a skillet with a teaspoon of olive oil and sautéed it until it was tender. Then I took the leftover steak I had last night with the little bit of mushrooms it had and sliced it up very thin and diced it and added it to the veggie mixture. I cooked this down until everything was just tender and succulent. I added it up and this entire mixture whole would be around 300 calories, so I divided it into about 10 pieces of 30 calories to make my "toppings." I got an egg (70 cal.) and fried it with salt and pepper in the leftover oil from my "toppings." Then I took a small tortilla (80 cal.) and browned it in the skillet. I plated the tortilla with egg on top and covered it with some "toppings" and a small teaspoon of salsa. Total this part of the day was only 215 calories. That leaves me able to eat my taco soup like I cannot wait to do!

I'll update this post later with my total daily calorie intake.

***UPDATE***

I had taco soup (375 cal.) and a tortilla (80 cal.).

This makes my total for the day 645 calories.

Weekly Summary for December 1-7, 2007

Here is a break down of my daily calories and weekly average for daily caloric intake.

1-Dec 1350
2-Dec 1400
3-Dec 1350
4-Dec 1334
5-Dec 1415
6-Dec 1163
7-Dec 1235
Avg Daily 1321

Average of 1321 calories per day! I cannot believe that I did that well with a snow week!

Monday - December 10, 2007

Today was special all the way around. :)

I got to hear my baby's heartbeat for the very first time today. It was awesome! On the way over I ate some Orville popcorn (50 cal.) so I wouldn't be too weak since I hadn't eaten anything all day. I only drank one shake today too, so I'm a little low on that side of things.

Not only was the baby's heartbeat awesome but I went someplace I never thought I'd go eat tonight.

Oh how wonderful it was. I'm pretty proud of what I ate too. I had a 10 oz. skirt steak of which I only ate half, so that's a 5 oz. skirt steak (312 cal.), a bit of mushrooms in a gravy (30 cal.), some corn succotash (80 cal.), two rings of their "onion rings" (80 cal.), and broccoli (50 cal.). My total calories for today were 602 calories. Not that bad for going into a restaurant famous for large portions and DELICIOUS cheesecakes!

Yummy!

Now Sarah on the other hand was bad. ;) She ate a delicious meal that she loves from there called Crusted Chicken Romano and a slice of pumpkin cheese cake.

Can you believe she'd eat this? Oh God, it looked so good. :)

Sunday - December 9, 2007

Today was good. I had a new thing of Orville popcorn (20 cal.) that was buttery salt and cracked pepper flavored. It was good. I didn't get to bed until 6:00 a.m. from last night's snow, so I didn't make it to church. On the way home, Sarah picked us up Ruby Tuesday's to eat. I had a baked potato (180 cal.) and a bowl of their white bean chicken chili (223). It was really good. During the snow event we had today I ate 4 slices of deli turkey (60 cal.). Total calories for the day was lower than what it should have been. I only ate 483 calories.

Saturday - December 8, 2007

Today was profitable but very hard.

It was my work Christmas party and they catered a delicious meal! It looked and smelled so very, very good.

I did eat very small amounts of the food I put on the plate, but I don’t know even how close I would be to start guessing at the calories, so I’m just going to put down 550 calories for today. I might have gone over and I might have been under. Either way doesn’t matter right now. I’m just happy I cut the small piece of chicken parmesan in half and didn’t eat all the food I put on the plate. I did eat some beef tips, noodles, veggies, salad, and shrimp.

I didn't eat my bar or drink one of my shakes today.

Friday - December 7, 2007

Today was a pretty good day.

I had a bag of Orville’s popcorn (30 cal.) for lunch and then went to Bandana’s for supper. I had the turkey platter consisting of turkey breast (240 cal.) with a plain baked potato (130 cal.) and green beans (35 cal.) for a total of 435 calories for the day.

Thursday - December 6, 2007

It's snowing in St. Louis. Well, maybe it's more like sleet and an amalgamation of other wintery mixes. :)

Due to my job being located at a company that does snow removal, this is an exciting time. The problem with today is that the company provides tons of free food for it's employees during the snow events. We have tons of fun and tons of food.

I am going to try and be strong but I don't know so keep me in your prayers. :)

So far I've had a Subway Club sandwhich (388 cal.) and Subway apples (35 cal.).

I've convienced them to get me some healthy food instead of making me eat all the junk food, so hopefully I'll do all right tonight.

I'm working on a bag of carrots and celery (60 cal. total) and have a bowl of low fat chicken noodle soup (100 cal.) and a smoked turkey sandwich (230 cal.) from St. Louis Bread heading my way.

I also have my low calorie Orville popcorn (30 cal.) to help get me through the night plus all my shakes and the bar left from today.

I even got them to buy me a caffenine free Diet Coke 12-pack so I'd have something to drink. Cool, huh? I'll let you know what the damage is later. I am sure I will go over. Let's just hope not too much.

I have eaten 843 calories thus far and I'm going to stop and just eat on my bar and my shakes now. It was really hard resisting the temptation tonight, but I succeeded even though I went 293 calories over.