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Today’s meals:
Breakfast: smoothie (like yesterday’s).
Lunch: chicken breast, fruit salad (apples, oranges, strawberries, pineapple, blueberries, raspberries).
Snack: did not have one today.
Supper: we ate out at the Panda Garden (Chinese restaurant). I had curry chicken (stir-fried chicken, snow peas, bamboo shoots, carrots, red and green peppers, onions and curry sauce).
Drinks: water, tea sweetened with Stevia, unsweetened tea with lemon.
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Oops! This one is really late. Sorry, I forgot again.
Today’s meals:
Breakfast: smoothie (yogurt, peaches, pineapples, grapes, strawberries).
Lunch: leftover chili from Monday.
Snack: 2 carrots (one in the morning and one in the afternoon). I also had an evening snack of fruit salad (blueberries, raspberries, apples, oranges, strawberries)
Supper: chicken wings with hot sauce, kidney beans.
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No gain or loss this past week. I’m still at 259.
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Today’s meals:
Breakfast: apple slices, raspberries, blueberries, and a carrot.
Lunch: ate at the Cockeyed Camel again today. Had grilled chicken breast with hot sauce, cream corn, and green beans (which, I discovered too late, were cooked with bacon in them, so I may have ingested minute amounts of it).
Supper: chili (ground beef, salsa, onions, tomato sauce, kidney beans, garlic, paprika, chili pepper, red pepper)
Snack(s): almonds.
Drinks: water, unsweetened tea with lemon, hot tea sweetened with Stevia.
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Today marks the end of the first half of the six-week program. Only 3 weeks left to go! Tomorrow, of course, is another weigh-in.
Today’s meals:
Breakfast: omelet (eggs, red and green bell peppers).
Lunch: potluck today. I had roast beef, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower.
Supper: fried chicken* with hot sauce, kidney beans, and (as an appetizer) blueberries and raspberries.
Snack: had canned pineapple as an evening snack.
Drinks: water.
* as always, fried in coconut oil, and not breaded.
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Today’s meals:
Breakfast: raspberries and blueberries.
Lunch: low-carb double burger from Back Yard Burgers (like before)
Snack: did not have one today.
Supper: we ate out at Ryan’s tonight, and we both got the Mega Buffet. I ate a salad (lettuce, shredded carrots, mushrooms, and cucumbers), corn, carrots cooked in honey, grapes (red and green), pineapples, green beans, tried one of Serena’s cooked mushrooms (didn’t really like it), briefly tried some broccoli that really tasted bad, and of course some steak!
Drinks: water, unsweetened tea with lemon, coffee.
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Today’s meals:
Breakfast: canned pineapples.
Snack: more canned pineapples.
Lunch: steak simmered in salsa, green beans.
Supper: Serena and some of her co-workers ate at Steak and Ale today. I got the leftover steak! Plus I had kidney beans, broccoli and cauliflower.
Drinks: water, unsweetened tea.
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Oops, this one is a little late! Didn’t quite get to writing before midnight.
Today’s meals:
Breakfast: canned pineapple.
Lunch: steak chunks with red and green bell peppers, green onions and carrots.
Snack: 2 carrots (one in the morning and one in the afternoon).
Supper: a “shell-less” taco (basically just ground turkey, kidney beans and salsa).
Drinks: tea sweetened with Stevia, water.
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I weighed in this morning at 259! That makes about 14 pounds so far, approximately.
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Phase II is finally here! Among the new things that I can have now are several fruits (oranges, apples, and so on), a few different kinds of beans, and more!
Today’s meals:
Breakfast: mixed fruits (pineapples, red and green grapes, and strawberries).
Lunch: tuna, carrots, and some avacado slices that I briefly tried but didn’t like.
Snack: green grapes(!)
Supper: chili (ground beef, Ro-Tel, kidney beans, garlic, tomato sauce, and chili powder), to which I added more chili powder, paprika, red pepper, and hot sauce (I like my chili hot!).
Drinks: I’m finally allowed some sweeteners (more honey, as well as Stevia). So I had tea sweetened with Stevia, water, and a smoothie made from kefir, strawberries, honey, and red grapes. The kefir was surprisingly tasty when blended with fruit (not too appealing plain).
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It’s the end of Phase I! Yay!
Today’s meals:
Breakfast: omelet (eggs, stew meat, red and green bell peppers, mushroom, green onions).
Lunch: we had a potluck at church today, but I could hardly have any of the foods available, so Serena cooked up chunks of steak (sautéed with onions and simmered in Ro-Tel) for me. I did have some veggies and fruit, though (cherries, strawberries, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower).
Supper: another double burger at Back Yard Burgers (we did not feel like cooking tonight). I did not order a drink or side items.
Snack: more strawberries.
Drinks: water, unsweetened tea.
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Today’s meals:
Breakfast: omelet (same as yesterday).
Lunch: baked chicken wings with poultry seasoning and hot sauce.
Supper: now here’s a funny story. Serena was not particularly hungry so she did not want to cook a meal. And I wasn’t really hungry either so I figured I’d just snack a bit. But, despite doing some grocery shopping tonight (including a trip to a health food store), there is still not terribly much that I can really snack on. So I got out some fresh cranberries (saw them at the store tonight and was curious to eat them — I don’t think I’d even seen fresh cranberries before; usually I get the ‘craisin’ kind) and strawberries and proceeded to snack. Well, those cranberries sure are bitter. So I wanted to find a way to make them more palatable. Serena suggested ’stir-frying’ them in honey (the only sweetener I can have right now). So I did. At first I wasn’t pleased, but I cooked them longer, and Serena put in some water in there too, and after some more cooking, I had… da da da da… homemade cranberry sauce. It wasn’t half-bad either. Could be a tad sweeter of course, but it turned out allright. Serena offered to cook some food for me since snacking just wasn’t panning out, so I asked her to grill a steak for me. So, steak with steak seasoning and sea salt and peppercorn medley was the main course.
Snack: in addition to the attempt at a ’snacking supper’ I did have a few additional strawberries later in the evening.
Drinks: water.
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First off, I just want to write some thanks. First of all, thanks to God for helping me through this. I could not have done this alone! Second, thanks to all the people who have been encouraging me along, and complimenting me on my progress. It feels good to know that it’s making a difference. It’s gratifying to know that I’ve been influencing others to diet as well, and I hope that they have the same success. It’s getting really hard these days, though. I’ve had a lot of temptation this week.
Today’s meals:
Breakfast: omelet (eggs, red and green bell peppers, green onions).
Lunch: pepper steak, broccoli.
Snack: did not have one today.
Supper: went to Back Yard Burgers again. Got the same burger as before (see previous entry), but no salad.
Drinks: water, unsweetened tea.
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The last three nights I’ve had bad heartburn and some chest pains. Went to the doctor today and he told me it was acid reflux. Got some medicine so hopefully this will go away quick.
Today’s meals:
Breakfast: omelet (eggs, red bell peppers, green onions).
Lunch: tuna (with sea salt and peppercorn medley added).
Snack: carrots.
Supper: fried chicken, green beans, fried onions and squash.
Drinks: water and unsweetened tea.
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Today’s meals:
Breakfast: just scrambled eggs.
Lunch. this was tough. At work today we hosted the first day of a developers’ conference, and we provided lunch — Corky’s barbecue. And of course, it wasn’t on my diet (the pork was out of the question, the chicken had barbecue sauce on it, and the salads had cheese in them). I was really very depressed about it. At least I had brought some chicken with me (just plain chicken, but I put sea salt and peppercorn medley).
Snack: did not have one today, although I could have — there were bagels and danishes available too. Again, they were not on the ol’ diet.
Supper: ate out at Garibaldi’s again (Go club meeting). Had a Grilled Chicken Ceasar salad that consisted of grilled chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, and buffalo sauce. Delicious!
Drinks: water and unsweetened tea (with lemon at Garibaldi’s).
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Today’s meals:
Breakfast: omelet (eggs, green onions, leftover pepper steak from last night, and goat cheese).
Lunch: leftover roast from Sunday.
Snack: 2 whole carrots, snacked on throughout the day.
Supper: baked chicken wings (with seasoning and hot sauce), salad (lettuce, broccoli, carrots, cucumbers, celery, also with hot sauce).
Drinks: water, unsweetened tea.
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Today was a little weird. I had the day off from work, and I just stayed at home most of the day.
Breakfast: omelet (eggs, green onions).
Lunch: I didn’t have lunch today. I slept from around noon to 2pm. When I got up, I figured that I shouldn’t have lunch that late. Besides, the author of my diet book recommends “partial fast-days” anyways (usually once a week).
Snack: ate strawberries when I got up this afternoon around 2. I figured that I should at least have something at that time.
Supper: pepper steak (see earlier entries), steamed broccoli and cauliflower.
Drinks: just water.
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My scale is really weird: I weighed myself multiple times and pretty much got a different weight every time, with a range of about 10 pounds from lowest to highest. We gotta get a new scale.
If the scale is correct (or in the ballpark at least), I’ve apparently lost between 10 and 15 pounds this week. So, I’ll put my estimated weight at 263 (a ten-pound loss). Needless to say, I’m pretty surprised but a little skeptical. But anyways, Week 2 is officially here. Same rules as last week.
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