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!)