I have to be accountable for my actions, yet I can't seem to find the motivation. I'm starting this food journal. If anyone wants to participate, simply write down what you ate today. Every time you eat, come back to your post and edit it so that your entire day stays in your post. Maybe it's a stupid idea, but heck, I'm desperate.

Lisa B.

February 16, 2005

Food Calories

coffee Creamer 30

Whole Wheat Tortilla 140

Slice of cheddar 130

Breakfast total 380

See you at lunch.

2/18 Friday

coffee 1 cup with cream and equal at 5:30 am

Breakfast 9:00 am

1/2 veggie omelette w/ egg whites only(no cheese) 1 piece of dry(no butter) whole wheat toast

lunch 1:30

1 oz of ranch flavored doritos 1/2 cam tuna

Hey everyone, guess what? I have ONE GOOD BAND DAY! Yesterday I ate Band-friendly. Then I binged last night, but this time I binged on a plain cucumber! Rock on! I got me one day, I got me one day! Whoo hoooo!

One day at a time girl..one day at a time

WOOHOO Lisa!!

Lisa-

I want to thank you for starting this thread. For some reason it's really helping me enter into fitday my entire day instead of quitting at dinner because I ate out and it's hard to count...and I'm not sure I want to know. Seeing everyone make good and bad choices and then get on with life is really helping me keep this all in perspective. And, I think I may have broken my plateau but shhhh...I don't want to jinx it if it's true...

Congrats on your bandster day!!! Can you really binge on a cucumber?

Friday

Breakfast 9:30

half a cup of raisin bran crunch with milk

lunch noon

chicken thigh with teriyaki sauce

Snack 1:00

half a cup of strawberries with a little sugar on them

Calories: 317

Fat: 9

Carbs:41

Protein:22

Can you really binge on a cucumber?

My thought exactly LOL

friday:

breakfast: 4 deviled eggs (2 whole eggs)

snack: almonds 1/4 cup

another snack: SF chocolate 4-5 pieces

lunch: tuna 1 can w mayo

dinner: who knows i am in the mood for steak so maybe a strip?

No, you can't binge on a cucumber, which is why I'm so pleased with last night! I would be thrilled if I ate raw veggies every night instead of sugar loaded with lard.

Megan, it's easier to write my food here than FitDay (that's just too much work for me.) I'm glad you like the thread. I hope it keeps me eating cucumbers.

Shelly, now I gotta make deviled eggs. That sounds so good right now.

***Shelly, now I gotta make deviled eggs. That sounds so good right now.***

well they are protien!!

What are vday cookies - are these bought/homemade cookies?

All I gotta do is make it till bed time, that's all I gotta do, no more food. How hard could that be?

I had my decent Breakfast, my decent lunch, and a decent dinner plus too many Bugles and cheese Wiz (the diet police should put me away for life.)

But still, I wasn't stuffed full, so there's still a chance for me.

Friday

Breakfast 9:30

half a cup of raisin bran crunch with milk

lunch noon

chicken thigh with teriyaki sauce

Snack 1:00

half a cup of strawberries with a little sugar on them

Snack 3:00

1 serving of cheese it's

dinner 6:00

half a chicken breast sand. from wendy's

lots of mayo to lube it up

half a small fry

half a frosty

Glass of wine

a cup of bad bar popcorn

Calories: 1921

Fat: 87

Carbs:168

Protein:92

Wow, this is a great idea!!! I was so hard on myself when I wasn't losing weight. Looking at the posts here, I wasn't really as bad as I thought. My food was healthier probably even, but, my portions were probably too large. I admit, now that I am doing Nutrisystem with the band, I don't have to count calories as much (they do it for me)

Do most of you have to eat at the same time? I do, or I get off track.

I wake up around 8:30am I have to take thyroid medicine, so, I can't eat for 2 hours. I have my Calcium bar (90 calories) around 10:30am

11:30 today, I had my Cranberry granola bar-120 calories

2:30p I had lunch chicken salad and melba toast-approx 170 calories

4:30p Lite yogurt-110 calories-no fat

6:30p I have a salad with just lettuce and parmesan cheese and low fat dressing-approx 170 calories? I don't know the calorie content of lettuce. It was a small tupperware type bowl.

8:30p I had vegetarian lasagne (210 calories)

10:30p I have soy sour cream and onion chips (110 calories)

If I counted right, 980 calories. I eat basically every two hours. I feel like I am constantly eating, but, since I started this, it jumpstarted my weightloss again. I have lost 15 pounds in less than a month. Before this, I had plateaued for about 8 months. I haven't even started back excercising yet. I had been really lazy in that dept. I know with the lapband, you are suppose to only have 3 meals, but, I found I was hungrier and would eat more when I did eat.

BK: 1/2 scoop of tuna and 4 crackers

32 oz diet snapple

Lunch: 1/2 scoop tuna and baked chips

1/4 cup of nuts

coffee with spenda and half and half

dinner

chicken - boiled

1/2 sweet potatoe

brussel sprouts - 4 small

32 oz of crystal light

Snack (very unusual)

1 oz cheese

1 slice bread

8 oz Water

I am not sure how to add it up but I was to have a fill yesterday but MD was filled up. But I need one because I am trying to eat less and less. It is hard.

Very interesting:

7:30-2 cups of coffee with creamora and spenda and cap of liquid Vitamins between cups

12:30-bowl of chili, (I was busy with appts Fri am), met dh for lunch

3:00-zone bar (breakfast)

7:00-1-regular, not jumbo, margurita, nachos (too many, didn't have any idea they'd go down so easy) with salsa

9:00-order of refried Beans (to go, lol)

I sure can eat more after the sun goes down than I can eat during the day

ps-Michelle, do you get hungry, you are soooo dang disciplined.

Am I the only one that still gets hungry?

Denise, I take thyroid meds but nobody ever told me I can't eat for two hours. Am I doing something wrong?

Also, my doctor told me to eat 1200 calories a day, but he admitted that most people will eat more than that, which is why he told us not to count the calories in veggies. Nobody really binges on veggies, and they are so low in calories that you don't have to worry about counting them. Unless it's corn or potatoes, don't even worry (unless they are loaded with butter or dressing.) Lettuce barely has anything in it.

NANA, I hear ya, sister! Michelle haunts me with her discipline! Your comment about being able to eat more after the sun goes down is what destroys me every day. I can't eat much during the day, but the Band is wide open after sunset. You are not alone, I'm fighting nights badly.