Food Diary September 18, 2007

Breakfast:
2 servings Del Monte canned tomatoes with jalapenos - 60 calories
2 slices cheese - 100 calories
1 slice diet bread - 40 calories

1/2 cup skim milk - 40 calories

Breakfast 240 calories

Lunch:
Broccoli & cheese - 225 calories
lite peaches - 25 calories

Lunch: 250 calories


Snacks:
Mint 3 musketeers bar - 150 calories
grapes: 60 calories

Total calories so far today: 700

Dinner:


Planned evening snack: yogurt: 110 calories

Food Diary September 17, 2007

Breakfast:
2 servings Del Monte canned tomatoes with jalapenos - 60 calories
3 slices cheese - 150 calories
croutons - 60 calories

270 calorie breakfast

snack 1/2 cup skim milk - 43 calories

Yikes! 3 slices of cheese will go down to 2 slices tomorrow.

Lunch:
3 slices Dietz & Watson Tavern Ham - 100 calories
Lettuce - 0
red onion - 0
croutons - 60 calories
Hormel Bacon bits - 60 calories

Lunch total: 220 calories

So far today: 533 calories

Planned Afternoon Snacks:
grapes - 60 calories
yogurt - 110 calories

Dinner:
Homemade chicken soup - 200 calories
Evening snack - cheese/crackers - 250 calories

Total calories for the day: 1153

Food Diary September 17, 2007

Breakfast:
2 servings Del Monte canned tomatoes with jalapenos - 60 calories
3 slices cheese - 150 calories
croutons - 60 calories

270 calorie breakfast

snack 1/2 cup skim milk - 43 calories

Yikes! 3 slices of cheese will go down to 2 slices tomorrow.

Lunch:
3 slices Dietz & Watson Tavern Ham - 100 calories
Lettuce - 0
red onion - 0
croutons - 60 calories
Hormel Bacon bits - 60 calories

Lunch total: 220 calories

So far today: 533 calories

Planned Afternoon Snacks:
grapes - 60 calories
yogurt - 110 calories

Dinner:
Homemade chicken soup - 200 calories
Evening snack - cheese/crackers - 250 calories

Total calories for the day: 1153

10 Month Post-op Update

I had my official weigh in today and I lost 2.5 pounds for a total of 77 pounds! I know it is only 2.5 pounds in two months, but I will take it! I was on vacation for over a week eating out three times a day, so I am pleased with this loss.

I am still on track and doing well. I need to increase my aerobic activity. Lifting weights is important to me because it is really helping to keep my body toned, but it isn't helping with actual weight loss. I have to make sure I get to the classes at the gym. I will try the kick boxing classes again and get there for hip, butts & thighs class. I have started jogging on the treadmill and that is going okay. I don't remember EVER jogging before.

Last update I said that I was going to start recording my food intake. Did I do it? NO. See, I told you last time that was not my forte, but I know that iI need to do it. I just bought a memo pad and I will start today. Maybe It will help if I record the info here. What do you think?

All Righty, Chi-Chi is just Fat

Normally when you are waiting for blood test results, you are hoping for them to be negative, right? How come I was disappointed when the vet called me to say that Chi-Chi does not have a thyroid problem? I guess I was hoping that was the problem so we could just put her on meds and she would lose the excess pounds. Does that make me a bad surrogate mommy??

Crap. Well, now we just have some work ahead of us. We've been testing out the new food. She loved the wet stuff, but it did not love her. She got the runs from it. We won't be using that food. Just as well though because it was difficult setting up the dog food because they were both eating wet and they were both different formulas. Now if I were the one who fed them, this wouldn't be a problem. My 71 year old dad feeds them in the afternoon and I had to label which one was which. I already prep the food for him and put the correct amount in the bowls, but he could still give the dog the wrong food because once the label was off, they looked the same.

She likes the Purina OM (overwight management). I didn't try the wet OM because of the first attempt with another wet food. I went right for the dry. She ate it. Now we'll see how she does with diet food. I am hoping that it makes a differnce. I am also trying to exercise her more. The two have to have an effect, right? Stay tuned.

Cream Of Wheat & Other Breakfasts

Yes, I was able to eat Cream of Wheat without a hitch. I couldn't eat a whole packet. When I was full, I just shared the rest with the two dogs. Of course, Cream of Wheat tastes like crap. It definitely needs something to make it more palatable. I swirled in a teaspoon of peanut butter and Splenda which made it much better.

Oatmeal went down fine too. One day I had mini pancakes from Aunt Jemima. I think the serving size is 13 minis. I was able to eat 3 of them. I dipped them in sugar fre syrup and they tasted all right. Pancakes were never my favorite thing though, but variety is nice.

My breakfast staple has been ricotta cheese with a little tomato sauce in it or egg beaters. I made some chicken salad the other day too. This consisted of canned chicken, a smidge of mayo, black pepper, and onion powder. It went down okay too.

Mac & Cheese

Macaroni & cheese is the great comfort food. I made this last week for AR and my daughter to eat as a side dish. As the macs were boiling, I tasted one to see if it was done, and it was so I finished up the dish by straining the noodles and adding butter and cheese. As I was stirring it, I decided to take a bite. After all, I had already eaten one macaroni and I felt fine. I quickly swallowed the cheesy mixture. I had a second bite as well. It was hot so I drank some water.

Two no-nos right there. I'm not supposed to be eating solid food yet and I had two forkfuls. In addition, I am not supposed to drink while I am eating. It fills you up too quickly and pushed the food through my system too soon. Uh, oh. My stomach did not like this. No, it was rebelling because I ate something I should not have eaten.

I sat there and watched while the rest of my family ate. I sipped my iced tea and ate nothing. Immediately after dinner, I felt like I had better lie down. I wasn't on the bed for more than two minutes when I felt the water forming in my mouth. I just knew that I was going to throw up. Would I make it to the bathroom in time? I dashed down the hall and made it just as my stomach heaved up the mac & cheese. It did it again and again. I swear that I threw up way more than I had eaten.

I felt instantly better after it was over. Why did I do it? I wasn't hungry. It just looked so good and creamy and yummy. Now that it is done, I could see that part of the problem is that I really didn't chew the macaroni properly. That, coupled with eating too fast and drinking just was a bad combination. I learned my lesson. I will not be doing this again.

Moist & Mushy Food

I have just completed my second day of eating moist & mushy food. Yesterday I ate fate free ricotta cheese with some tomato sauce for breakfast. Lunch was 1/2 an egg salad sandwich. We were at the mall and AR wanted to eat at Johhny Rockets, that s style diner. I ordered the egg salad sandwich. I took two bites of the sandwich and then just ate the rest of the egg from the 1/2 I started eating. I wrapped up the other half and took it home. Dinner was egg drop soup.

Today I ate 2 ounces of plain fat free yogurt....not the most tasty. I added a packet of stevia and pumpkin pie spice to get it down, and then it tasted okay. I also ate 2 ounces of pureed peaches. I bought some baby food, which I don't think I really need now, but its good to have on hand. I made chicken salad for lunch and ate a few ounces of that. I ate once slice of mini pumpernickel bread too. The bread was hard to eat. I think I will stay away from that for a while. For dinner I had Progresso Chicken Gumbo soup with 2 ounces of ricotta cheese. It was tasty.

So far so good on the moist and mushy. I think I will try cream of wheat tomorrow morning.

We're Still Here

Many familes in our group have left for home today, but we are still here for another two days. The airfare was so much cheaper (Over $1500) if we stayed two more days, even after factoring in hotel & food. Our friends the Mowers, the Lyons, the Cristofolettis were still here too, so at least we had company.

We did much more shopping today. We bought souvenirs for everyone and more and more clothes for Katrina. I tried to buy silk dresses for her in different sizes so that we would have them for years to come. It was so much cheaper to buy in China than at home.

I bought my dad a chess set and some hand painted mini vases for my grandmother. I bought 10 lighters with Chairman Mao's face on them as great gag gifts. I bought a Chairman Mao t-shirt for my uncle Vinny.

We ate at Lucy's for lunch and I had a ham and cheese, no ham sandwich there with tomato soup. Katrina ate a whole bowl of mashed potatoes, plus cucumbers and french fries. Later I got sick from what I ate. It tasted good going down, but coming up was another issue. We had noodle soup for dinner again today and it was another early night for us.