cottage cheese is my bff!

So when I am trying to be healthy I swear, cottage cheese is my best friend...I actually like it, and it is filling to my belly. I feel like I am doing well, but am getting so darn impatient with the weight not coming right off. Uch! Plus I have my period soon, so Im still a little bloated. Here is my menu today:
Exercise---day off from gym

B: light english muffin (with i cant believe its not butter---about a tsp, three low fat turkey sausage links)
sn: small can v-8, mini babybell cheese
L: Lean Cuisine stuffed Cabbage with mashed potatoes, a few almonds (to add fat for the zone), and the stuffed cabbage was surprisingly good!
sn: skim latte, cottage cheese (held me over until dinner)
***went to a wine tasting for Italian wines, so a teeny bit of wine.
D: Whole Wheat breaded Tilapia from Costco (baked), lots of steamed green beans, a tiny bit of whole wheat cous cous and a very small glass of pinot grigio

Damn alarm!!!

I wanted to go to Spin class this am....start the week off right. Plus I knew that I was recieving our cookies from our work cookie exchange today...that being said, instead of snooze I hit the off button and slept until 7am (spin is at 5:30am)....so I really tried today and only ate about two or three cookies, and was really good otherwise ( : Here goes: Oh, and I am loosely following the Zone diet.
Breakfast 1/4 whole grain bagel (scooped out) with cream cheese and 1/2 C cottage cheese
snack: 1/2 apple spice zone bar
lunch: Lean Cuisine Basil Cream Chicken and a couple of cookies
snack: 1/2 a large apple, 6 almonds, and a mini babybel cheese
Dinner: Tomato soup made with fat free half and half, steamed green beans, and a grilled cheese on light whole wheat bread and low fat american cheese. Coke zero
just ate a peanut butter chocolate chip bar---dangerous! I gave some to hubby though.
I did 15 min of weights and 30 min of cardio tonight. Oh and I drank lots of water

Did good today!

Ok....back on the wagon...
exercise: 45 min weights (triceps/shoulders with supersets of squats and lunges in between sets, and 15 min abs) 75 minutes of cardio (running and eliptical)

Brunch: samples at Costco (not many---Im proud of myself), light english muffin with i cant believe it's not butter and cottage cheese, two pump non fat white mocha

snack: babybell cheese, few triscuits, v-8

dinner: Whole Wheat breaded tilapia (baked) from Costco, small bit of brown rice and steamed green beans
dessert: snickerdoodles (2)

Started off good

Ok, Friday I went to spin class and did another 20 min of cardio on the eliptical....

ate a light eng muffin with cottage cheese for Breakfast

turkey and cheese with hummus for lunch,

an apple.....and then we went to our free happy hour at Bar A..... Had mostly salad, and a teeny bit of pasta, and some sausage and peppers, lots of drinks (light beer, vodka and seltzer), and then....at the end of the night...pancakes. NOW, when I make pancakes (which is rare) I like to FRY them. Not saute them in the pan, but FRY them in a puddle of vegetable oil....and then eat them with butter.....

Oatmeal makes me bloated

Ok, had such a great workout today! Did circuits and Cardio totalling 2 hours (about 75min cardio, 45 minutes circuits (weights and things like kick backs in between to keep heartrate up). Used exercises from Jillian Michael's Making the Cut book. Love her....anywhoo....said mmm make old fashioned oatmeal and some coffee. I was so full for the whole day and feel bloated. ) :

Oatmeal

1/2 Cup old fashioned oats

1 C 1% milk

splenda to taste

couple of shakes of salt

tsp of butter

1/4 C raisins

brown sugar to taste

tbsp of pecans, broken up

Heat Milk, salt, butter, splenda until simmering on high. Add oats and raisins and lower heat to med and cook until oats are tender (about 7 or 8 minutes) constantly stirring. Once done, take off heat and cover for two min. Sprinkle nuts and a bit of brown sugar over oatmeal and eat!

Okay not great day

so...I did about 40 minutes weights and 80 minutes cardio, BUT....
I ate..
light bread with cream cheese
Flauta
White mocha (skim) starbucks

crackers and cheese

3 glasses white sangria and turkey burger on english muffin with mashed cauliflower.
Ben and Jerrys Dublin mudslide (yum!)

Carrot Cake and a Protein Shake

So that was my only motivation to get out of bed at 6am and get on that eliptical. I knew I was having some carrot cake at work. Hey, everyone needs some motivation, right? Had a protein shake this am made with Designer Whey---which is good if you make it this way...


1% milk (1 C)
1 scoop Designer Whey Vanilla
1 tsp peanut butter (I used natural)
2 tsp Fibersure
splenda to taste
3 ice cubes
Blend all ingredients in the Magic Bullet. So good! If you skip the splenda it tastes like nothing.

Spin class kicked my ass----Arthur is god!

Arthur, who teaches spin at my gym is the only reason I can get up some mornings. He is the most energentic little bald man to ever sit his can on a bike! He plays great music and seriously, even though the whole class feels like 45 minutes of total hell, it goes by fast and he makes it fun. I really did not want to get up this am (class is at 5:30am), but Im so glad I did. My breakfast was rather large because of it...(plus I did another 20 minutes on the eliptical---Im hardcore!)
1/4 of a bagel with strawberry cream cheese
1/2 C cottage cheese
Special K Protein Plus with 1/2 banana

Lunch was a lean pocket (meatballs and mozzerella) and a chicken finger. I am still hungry, think a v-8 will help fill me?????

healthy day again!

sooo, I did well again today.

exercise: 45 minutes weights (shoulders, triceps), 65 minutes cardio

Breakfast: Luna bar

Lunch: scrambled eggs with black bean salsa and low fat cheese and light english muffin with I cant believe it's not butter, and skim carmel swirl latte from DD

snack: Apple with some peanut butta

Dinner: Three Mushroom Soup (180 cal!) in my blog, big salad

Dessert: Banana and low fat cool whip

I am a bad girl...

OK, I have said this before, but now my pants do not fit...so I am hard core doing healthy eating. I think perhaps my downfall is I was exercising so much that I was increasing my appetite and eating a lot more than usual, so it was self-defeating. I am now exercising at a more normal level and then am able to eat a bit less. Sounds crazy...exercise less, lose weight. So I bought a scale and I am currently 145.8 lbs. Most I have ever weighed. I have gained 15 lbs and am NOT happy about it. I know what I need to do, I am a dietician's daughter, but doing it is another thing. I have thrown out all of the halloween candy and my stash of m&ms (although it pained me to do that)
Today...
Exercise: 70 minutes cardio, 40 minutes weights (legs)

B: Protein Bar (cannot eat much before workout, blame the acid reflux)
L: Protein shake --Designer Whey Vanilla (low carb whey shake, with splenda and vanilla extract and 1 % milk) and a tsp of peanut butter
Sn: Pear and split a 100 cal pack carrot cake cupcakes with hubby
D: Baked chicken (breaded) with mashed cauliflower (and some wine)
Sn: Split a banana with pb with hubby

Back on the healthy wagon

I am somewhat proud of myself, even though I ate some halloween candy (it is miniatures), I was pretty good.

Exercise: 40 minutes of cardio (eliptical and sprinting on treadmill) and a few circuits

Breakfast: Light english muffin with cream cheese and a teeny bit of raspberry jam, coffee
snack:1/2 C Cottage cheese, mini snickers and mini nerds
Lunch: Lean Pockets Chicken Fajitas and a non fat fro yo (4 oz)
snack: Fruit smoothie (see picture) and a couple of almonds
Dinner: Lean Cuisine Sesame Chicken (my fave) and steamed green beans and a glass of pinot grigio (crazy day)

today's food

Okay, so I am nursing the slightest little hangover and have not eaten a ton today...
Breakfast--instant brown sugar oatmeal
Lunch---samples at Costco and grilled cheese with iced coffee from Dunkin'
Dinner---a yummy chicken stew I am making in the crock---will post pictures soon!

Paninis!!!!

I love paninis, and I make this pretty often---cannot remember when I ate this last week, but it has home made pesto, fresh mozzerella, and eggplant on sourdough bread from Panera. Love it!!!

Trolley to Hell, and to hell with the diet!!!

Last night I went on this "Trolley to Hell" in Philadelphia with friends. You dress up in Halloween costumes and ride a trolley and drink your face off, and stop at bars along the way. Not only did I have pizza for dinner (no veggies), but I stopped off at McDonald's at 2 am and got the #9, 10 piece (yes 10 piece) chicken mcnuggets and med fries...at least I didnt drink the soda (was supposed to be club soda and it was coke instead) and I drank light beer ( :

I dressed up as a doctor! Not a cardiologist obviously ( ;

I have been a very baaaad blogger!

So I have not been able to post here in over a week I think, life gets crazy...school, work, blah blah...

but I wanted to make sure that I noted my new fave pasta!!!! I love Ronzoni's whole what (Healthy Harvest) pasta, but sometimes I just want regular white pasta---this one is just that but with lots of fiber and extra calcium. It is so good, drive out to the store and get some now!

Sunday October 21, 2007

Exercise: 80 minutes of cardio, 35 minutes of abs (I am telling you check out Jillian Michael's book (below)) Her exercises are awesome!!!! I am so sore after doing them.

Brunch: Grilled cheese on Wegman's lite bread, starbucks iced skim white mocha

snack: marcona almonds and babybell cheese
Dinner: will be Bruchetta Chicken in the Crockpot with green beans (recipe in cooking blog)
Im sure I will eat more roasted pears from last night (recipe in cooking blog)

turkey burgers

So, today was a double workout day! One workout in the a.m. (shoulders, triceps, 85 minutes cardio) and one in the evenining (20 minutes cardio, abs) this maximizes metabolism. I drank about 100 oz of water (mainly because I am planning on drinking some wine tonight!

So I had a hankering for a turkey burger tonight, so I love shady brook farms turkey burgers, grilled in the pan, with american cheese, ketchup and homemade basil aoli (pesto and garlic mayo) on an english muffin, with what else but green beans!!!!

Thank god for Costco!

So I have professed my love for Costco many many times, but I love them again and I am not afraid to say it! I bought a great chicken sausage from there, with sundried tomatoes, mozzerella and basil. It was delicious! I cooked it in a pan with a little water (and then browned it) and served it with Healthy Harvest whole wheat pasta and vodka sauce (also both bought at Costco) and hubby really like it (and so did I)!!!

Jillian Michaels is god!!!

I just bought her book, Making the Cut. I love it---it has great recipes, and exercises!

Saturday, Oct 13, 2007

Today I was running around a lot, so eating was not so consistent...
exercise: weights and abs 50 minutes, 80 minutes cardio, plus walking around shopping

B: 1/2 Zone Bar, blueberries
snack: hummus and pita chips
went to a wine tasting and tasted 6 wines, so I am sure that added into the calories!
D: Arugula Salad, Tortellini with creamy pesto sauce and chicken, 2 big glasses Chardonnay
sn: cappucino and some m&ms

Friday, Oct 12, 2007

1 hour cardio in am, 1 1/2 hour walk on the boardwalk in the afternoon with hubby
Water: 100 oz
Okay so it is payday, so we eat out!!! This week it was Indian Food!

B: Light English muffin with cream cheese and grape jelly
***someone brought in pastries from a bakery---I had a few bites
L: Indian food (buffet), we ate naan, eggplant, chicken dishes, rice, etc. It was sooo good! I didnt eat anything until..
D: tonight I am drinking lots of wine!!! Chardonnay to be exact. Also I made home made pesto and used that in paninis---so sorry i did not take pictures because they were fabulous. I got sourdough bread from Panera and used that with the pesto, one panini was pesto, fresh mozzerella, and the other was pesto, fresh mozzerella, breaded eggplant. Hubby and I split them and had some of each. They were so good!

Thursday, Oct 11, 2007

Weights and Cardio for 1 1/2 hours
Water: 90 oz

B: Lite and fit yogurt, Blueberries
L: Turkey Meatloaf, Buttermilk Biscuit (could not resist)
sn: small V-8 and marcona almonds
D: Black Beans Ole (recipe in food blog), brown basmati rice and green beans

Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007

45 minutes of cardio
90 oz of water
I had a really stressful day at work, and when I am upset I dont eat, so that is why there is not much here.

B: Lite and fit yogurt
snack: Kugel---the nurse I work with made it and it was so yummy!
snack: marcona almonds, small V-8
D: Low Fat Chicken Cordon Bleu (prepackaged), Mashed Cauliflower, 2 glasses wine.

Monday Oct 8, 2007

exercise: 40 minutes cardio
Water-90 oz

B: Lite and fit yogurt and zone bar
sn: babybell cheese
L: sandwich with low carb pita, roast beef, turkey and low fat Jarlesberg Cheese
sn: Blueberries, and marcona almonds
D: South Beach Pepperoni Pizza, green beans--steamed with I cant believe its not butter spray

Sunday, Oct 7, 2007

OK, I am very lax in updating...it is because i am eating total $hit this week! Today is a new start! I am back on the healthy wagon! Last night was girls night and I ate so much junk! I did eat some veggies and spinach dip, but it was ridiculous! It was like the night before a junkie goes to rehab--only I just know I am back on the healthy diet. I am going to have a Starbux white mocha, but I did do an hour of lifting and 80 minutes of cardio---other than that it has been pretty healthy. I actually have not eaten much because Im still full from last night---yes I ate that much! Ill post later with my food.

Tuesday, Oct 2, 2007

Okay, I was not too hungry today, so let's see how much I ate (sometimes once I write it down, it is more than I thought)...
Breakfast: Light english muffin with 1 T butter and a little grape jelly with 1 C coffee with cream
snack: Quaker breakfast cookie, spoonful of peanut butter
Lunch: two bitefuls of a stuffed pepper, 1/2 C mushroom Bisque and small caesar from Quiznos, a couple of razzberry m&ms
snack: couple of pita chips with cream cheese, small V8
Dinner: South Beach Pizza and glass of wine
couple of lemon cake mix cookies.

Exercise: 5 mile walk on the boardwalk
Water: only about 70 oz.

Monday, Oct 1, 2007

Uch, Monday...
Could NOT get up for the gym this am, so I went tonight and did 60 minutes of cardio (eliptical and treadmill on an incline)

Breakfast: Instant oatmeal with 1/2 pat of butter and salt and splenda, 1/2 cup of coffee

Lunch: Romaine Salad, tomato and feta with the spray dressing (red wine vinaigrette--1 cal per spray!!!!) and the other half a chicken salad sandwich from Starbux (mostly ate the chicken salad because the bread was soggy) and 100 cal pack sunchips. A small piece of a brownie.
snack: Apple with a little peanut butter

when I got home I did not want to go to the gym, and then I ate a piece of cheese, some pita chips and a spoonful of Nutella, and suddenly I had the inspiration to workout.

Dinner: Steamed green beans with a tsp butter, Healthy Harvest whole wheat penne with Vodka sauce and two turkey meatballs, one glass of chard. Uch, Im full! No dessert tonight. ) :
Water: approx 90 oz today

Sunday, Sept 30, 2007

Exercise: 40 minutes of weight lifting (legs, butt), and 85 minutes of cardio (walking on incline and eliptical level 10)

Food:
B: Snickers protein bar
L: Light English muffin, cream cheese, turkey, iced skim white mocha (Starbux)
S: 100 Calorie Cheetos
D: 2 glasses Chardonnay, Chicken Francaise, Caesar Salad, roasted sweet potatoes.

Water: 110 oz (I exercise a lot and I compensated for the wine and caffeine)

Why am I doing this??

I am always so curious as to what others are eating/how much they exercise. I also want to keep track of my own eating/exercise habits. So I figure what better way to do it than to blog?!

So here goes...