Day 15 Total: 1362 Calories

Okay, time for the truth to be told. It's weigh in day. Now, I've been watching a lot of Dr. Oz on TV. He says to weigh oneself every day to track progress. And so, I'll be posting my weight at the end of every day here. Let's see what this week's eating habits have wrought.

Now I did have two sodas today and my dinner was way more than 500 calories. Part of that is the soda and the milk. I figure the milk was good, I know the soda is bad. Still working on kicking the habit. It's going to be a long road. On the upside, after all of the soda in the house is gone (it'll take a while at the rate that I am drinking it) I won't be buying anymore so I'll have to turn to either milk or water.

Breakfast:

1/2 cup Grapes

34 Calories

Lunch:

1 cup Squirt
2 Eggs
1 slice Milton's Whole Grain Bread
1/2 pad Butter
1 tbsp Grape Jelly

420 Calories

Dinner:

Salmon with Mustard Crust & Sauteed Spinach
Brown Rice and Mushroom Pilaf
1 can Pepsi Throwback
14 oz 2% Milk

Now instead of me writing the recipes for dinner I found them online so click on the links above and it will take you to the recipe web pages. They are super delicious!!!!!!!!!! And easy to cook. I recommend starting the rice first as it takes longer to prepare than the Salmon.

908 Calories

Water Intake:

2 cups Tap Water

Weight:

149 lbs

Day 14 Total: 1804 Calories

Well, it's the soda that killed me again today. I'm really working on reaching for water first, but when my tummy feels queasy, there's something about fizz that really helps. Not the greatest of excuses is it? Oh well *sighs*

Breakfast:

8 oz Glen Oaks Strawberry Banana Drinkable Yogurt
6 oz 2% Milk

I love this drinkable yogurt, but it's so thick, so I mix in the milk to thin it out. It doesn't change the flavor at all and I get more calcium and magnesium in my diet to boot :D

282 Calories

Lunch:

1 Egg
1 Egg White
1 dried Papaya Spear
1 & 1/2 oz Cheddar Cheese
2 cups Sprite

Yep, scrambled eggs. The papaya spear is to be eaten separately.

552 Calories

Dinner:

2 cups Sprite
1 tbsp Sweet Relish
1 can Salmon
1 tbsp Best Foods Mayonnaise
2 slices Milton's Whole Grain Bread
1/2 oz Ruffles Potato Chips

970 Calories

Day 13 Total: 1154 Calories

Breakfast:

1 cup Tart Cherry Juice
1 Egg
1/4 cup Raspberries
1/2 Cup Knudsen Cottage Cheese
1/4 Cup Dole Crushed Pineapple in Heavy Syrup

Now comes the fun part where you not only put the pineapple into the cottage cheese, but you also put in some of the raspberries and less of the pineapple.

380 Calories

Lunch:
1 cup Spring Salad
8 Carrots
5 Snap Peas
1 tbsp Ranch
3 tbsp Basalmic Vinaigrette
Dates
1 cup Green Machine Juice

442 Calories

Afternoon Snack:

1 large Red Plum

38 Calories

Dinner:

1 cup Steamed Carrots
1 cup Steamed Broccoli
1/2 cup Steamed Chinese Peas
2/3 tbsp Salted Butter
14 oz 2% Milk


I just steamed everything together (except the milk *blech*), put the butter on top afterward, and lightly salted it. Yummy =-D

Water Intake:

1 pint Tap Water

Day 12 Total: 1155 Calories

School days always throw my eating schedule off because I have night classes. So I end up eating at weird times of day.

Breakfast:
1/4 cup Raspberries
1/8 cup Crushed Pineapple
1/2 cup Cottage Cheese

158 Calories

Lunch:
1 Egg
1 piece Whole Wheat Toast
1/2 Hershey's Cookies N' Cream Bar
1/2 Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
2 cups Schweppes Ginger Ale

620 Calories

Dinner:
1/2 Flame Broiler Beef Bowl
Broccoli
6 Carrots
10 Snap Peas
1 tbsp Peppercorn Ranch

377 Calories

Water Intake:

1.5 quarts Tap Water

Day 11 Total: 970 Calories

Almost everything I ate today was terrible for me. But I did try to eat in moderation. I guess it worked though as I had no idea that I had eaten so few calories

Breakfast:

1 cup Squirt

100 Calories

Lunch:

1/2 Flame Broiler Beef Bowl
16 oz Coke
1/2 small Baskin Robbins Cappuccino Blast

The trick with the Baskin Robbins Coffee drink is to split a SMALL with a friend and then it is only 155 calories.

640 Calories

Dinner:

1/2 Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
8 oz Coke

330 Calories

Day 10 Total: 1315 Calories

Late submission. Don't worry, I'm keeping track of my food intake. I'll try to be more faithful with staying up to date.

Breakfast:
1 Snickers Ice Cream Snack Bar
1/2 Sara Lee Cinnamon Raisin Bagel
2 Tbsp Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese

315 Calories

Lunch:
2/3 Cup Knudsen Cottage Cheese
1/4 Cup Dole Crushed Pineapple (in heavy syrup)
2 cans Pepsi Throwback

Take 1/4 cup of the crushed pineapple and mix it in with 1/2 cup cottage cheese (I did 2/3 cottage cheese this time, but it was a bit much)

515 Calories

Dinner:
1 & 1/2 Chicken Breast
1 cup Salad
2 tbsp Balsamic Vinaigrette
14 oz Squirt

485 Calories

Day 9 Total: 1615 Calories

Late submission. Don't worry, I'm keeping track of my food intake.

Breakfast:
2 cups Sprite
2 cups Coffee
1/4 cup Whole Milk
2 heaping tsp Sugar
1 Sara Lee Plain Bagel
4 tbsp Philidelphia Cream Cheese
2 oz Nova Smoked Salmon

838 Calories

Lunch:
1 Papaya Spear
1 Snickers Ice Cream Snack Bar
1/2 cup Raspberry Sorbet
1/4 Banana
2/3 Vanilla Ice Cream

447 Calories

Dinner:
1 Cup Ginger Ale
1 Chicken Breast
1 cup Salad
3 tbsp Raspberry Hazelnut Dressing

330 Calories

Day 8 Total: 1533 Calories

Well, four weeks ago I got sick. I started at 160 lbs. With a 5'2" frame that's a might overweight. On a diet of chicken noodle soup and Ginger Ale I lost ten pounds. So I was 150 lbs when I started this whole "watching what I eat" ordeal. It has been a week and now I weigh 148 lbs. I'm going to keep a tally now at the bottom of every week's post.

Today was a little more than 1200 calories, but that was because I drank a lot of milk instead of water (which is pretty healthy, especially as I really need the calcium) and I had a soda (oops).

Breakfast:

12 oz Squirt
1/2 Sara Lee Cinnamon Raisin Bagel
2 Tbsp Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese

375 Calories

Morning Snack:

1 Cup Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Gardens Green Tea
3 Lemon Poppyseed Mini Scones

240 Calories

Another Snack:

1/4 Tsp Sweet Relish
1/8 Can Salmon
1/2 Tsp Best Foods Mayonnaise

33 Calories

Lunch:

1 Foster Farms Chicken Breast
12 oz 2% Milk

245 Calories

Dinner:

1 cup Salad
2 tbsp Raspberry Walnut Dressing
12 oz 2% Milk
12 oz 2% Milk

540 Calories

Weight After 1 Week:

148 lbs

Day 7 Total: 1178 Calories

Breakfast:

2 Cups Yuban Coffee
1/4 Cup Whole Milk
2 Heaping tsp Sugar
6 Tbsp Chopped Onion
1 Banana

232 Calories

Lunch:

2 Eggs Scrambled
2 Cups Yuban Coffee
1/4 Cup Whole Milk
2 Heaping tsp Sugar

88 Calories

Afternoon Snack:

1/4 Sara Lee Plain Bagel
1/2 Tbsp Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese
1 oz Smoked Salmon

143 Calories

Dinner:

1 bag Nutter Butter Bites
1 Foster Farms Chicken Breast
12 oz 2% Milk

575 Calories

Day 6 Total: 2427 Calories

Oh man. That total is disheartening. I went from too little to too much. But, my blood pressure went down from 140/100 to 127/72. Most everything was healthy today except the soda (which I shouldn't have had because today is not Saturday) and the coffee (which I also shouldn't have had because today is not Sunday).

Breakfast:

12 oz 2% Milk
1 cup Coffee
4 packets Sugar
4 tbsp Half & Half

Again I should have had something more for breakfast.

331 Calories

Lunch:

2 slices Sourdough Bread
1/4 cup Spinach
1 tsp Red Onion
1 tsp Black Olives
2 slices Salami
5 slices Pepperoni
4 slices Black Forest Ham
1/4 Avocado
2 slices Provolone Cheese

This all adds together to make a wonderful panini. Instead of eating all of this sandwich, I should have had half and saved the other half for later.

910 Calories.

Afternoon Snack:

1/2 Sara Lee Plain Bagel
3 Tbsp Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese
2 oz Smoked Salmon

375 Calories

Dinner:

1 Foster Farms Chicken Breast
2 cups Salad
3 tbsp Italian Dressing
2 cups Sprite
1/4 Tsp Orange Blossom Honey
1/6 Banana
1/6 Peach
1/8 Pink Lady Apple
1 Tbsp Vanilla Lowfat Yogurt
1/2 Tsp Golden Raisins
16 oz 2% Milk

I should have halved this too. So marinate the chicken in the Italian dressing overnight. Then grill or broil it. Cut it up and serve it on your salad with a little more dressing to top it.

811 Calories

Water Intake:

1 cup Tap Water

Day 5 Total: 1078 Calories

Wow! Cutting out soda drastically lowered my calorie count. In fact this is much lower than is good for a person. When a person doesn't eat enough food, it teaches their body that times are lean. After this, when a person eats more the body stores it as fat, for when times get lean again. This is why the "I don't eat anything" diets fail. A person will initially get thin, but then when they start eating regular they will actually put on more weight than they lost in the body's efforts to not starve to death. The key here is that I should have had something for breakfast, and maybe a mid-morning snack as well.

Breakfast:
Yes, I was terrible and didn't eat any real food for breakfast. Slap me on the wrist. I wasn't hungry, plus I find that a cup of coffee really does fill me up for a good long time. Also, I had the coffee at a neighbor's place and they make it with Half & Half instead of whole milk so there were a few calories added on there.

1 cup Coffee
3 cubes Sugar
1 tbsp Half & Half
1 Snickers Mini Ice Cream Bar

139 Calories

Lunch:
I ran out of 2% milk and so to prevent my whole milk (which I normally used for coffee) from spoiling I drank a cup.

2 Eggs scrambled
5 Leaves Spinach
3 tbsp Chopped Onion
1 oz Cheddar Cheese
1 cup Whole Milk

For cooking instructions see Day 1 Lunch. Then put the cheese on top of the scrambled eggs. If you make an omelet, put the cheese on top and then fold it over so that the cheese melts inside.

424 Calories

Afternoon Snack:
I bought some fruit at the store the other day. I didn't want it to go bad, so I hauled out the chopping knife and started cutting. Obviously I didn't just cut 1/8th of an apple and so on. Keep reading after the ingredients list for the recipe =D
1/4 tsp Orange Blossom Honey
1/6 Banana
1/6 Peach
1/8 Pink Lady Apple
1 tbsp Vanilla Lowfat Yogurt
1/2 tsp Golden Raisins
1 tbsp Whole Milk
Dash of Lemon Juice

First, make sure you have room in your fridge for six small bowls/teacups. Then, cut up your apple (I only had 3/4 of an apple which is why the different figure from the peach and banana) and your peach and banana. Split up into six small bowls or teacups. Add yogurt, raisins, honey, and lemon juice (this is to keep the fruit fresh). Stir all together. Save one serving to eat, store the rest in the fridge. When you're ready to eat, if you want to thin out the yogurt a bit, add the milk and stir.

80 Calories

Dinner:

2 cups Spring Mix Salad
3 tbsp Light Raspberry Hazelnut Vinaigrette
1/4 Sara Lee Plain Bagel
1 tbsp Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese
1 oz Smoked Salmon

305 Calories

Before Bed:
I had the suggestion to drink a glass of milk (get in some calcium) to up my daily calorie intake. So I did.

1 cup 2%Milk

130 Calories

Water Intake:

2 cups Tap Water

Day 4 Total: 1389 Calories

Breakfast:
Mmm... Sunday. Coffee day. Boy does coffee in the morning smell good. It's too bad it's so hot right now. Still, I had my 2 cups in my Starbucks thermos with snap top (best investment EVER!). Yes. I had a can of Coke. I knew I would have some soda today, after all it's Labor Day weekend.

2 cups Yuban Coffee
1/4 cup Whole Milk
2 Heaping tsp Sugar
1/2 Sara Lee Cinnamon Raisin Bagel
1 tbsp Whole Milk
2 tbsp Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese
2 tbsp Chopped Onion
2 Eggs scrambled
4 Leaves Spinach
1 can Coca Cola

479 Calories

Lunch:

1/2 Sara Lee Plain Bagel
3 tbsp Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese
2 oz Nova Smoked Salmon

375 Calories

Dinner:
I realize it seems rather boring now. That I'm eating a lot of the same things. Just like I said I wouldn't. Well part of that is I'm trying to go vegetarian for a month for the health benefits and at the moment all I know how to eat is salads. But never fear. I have found myself a wonderful website (Eating Well and as soon as my refrigerator needs a restock things'll change.

2 cups Spring Mix Salad
3 tbsp Light Raspberry Walnut Vinaigrette
1/2 cup Glen Oaks Strawberry Banana Drinkable Yogurt

225 Calories

After Dinner Snack:
These should be a no-no, but think of it as a small desert sort of attached to dinner.

2 Lemon Poppyseed Mini Scones
1 cup Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Gardens Green Tea

160 Calories

Water Intake:

1 cup Tap Water

Day 3 Total: 1490 Calories

These sugar cravings are what's killing my calorie count... and my waistline. Starting Monday, no sweets of any kind (except the one can of cola on Saturdays). I'll beat this sugar addiction, just watch me ;D

Breakfast:
I was not hungry at all this morning when I woke up so I grabbed an apple and half a bagel and ran out of the house to get started on the day's errands.

1/2 Sara Lee Plain Bagel

130 Calories

Morning Snack:

1 Pink Lady Apple

95 Calories

Lunch:
Yep. Here is where the sugar craving hit. I actually ate too much. One bar would have been enough and would have fit in easily with a day's calorie count. But I didn't have my water bottle on me and I wanted something to generate saliva as it was super hot and I was super thirsty.

1/2 tsp Sweet Relish
1/4 can Salmon
1 tsp Best Foods Mayonnaise
2 3 Musketeers Mint Bars

Mix and eat. Just don't mix the candy into the salmon *yuck!*

425 Calories

Afternoon Snack:
This afternoon it was a drink break instead of a snack break. Note to self: have bottled water handy for when the thirst bug hits.

1 can Pepsi Throwback
2 cups Minute Maid Orange Juice

370 Calories

Dinner:

1 Egg scrambled
2 Leaves Spinach
1 tbsp 2% Milk
1 cup Spring Mix Salad
2 tbsp Raspberry Walnut Vinaigrette

Mix egg, milk, and shredded spinach leaves. Cook on stove. Eat with salad. I recommend Garlic Pepper and Onion Powder for seasoning on the omelet.

180 Calories

Water Intake:

1 cup Tap Water

Day 2 Total: 1796 Calories (Uh-Oh)

Well, I wasn't home today, so I had the disadvantage of eating whatever was available. That can be killer to a calorie count as it certainly was today. Also, I seriously need to cut out the soda. Seriously. Starting Sunday let's see if I can pull off a soda free month (with the exception of one cup/can of soda on Saturdays).

Breakfast:
Well I started off good. I wasn't even hungry this morning, but I did eat breakfast like a good girl. And then the soda bug bit me. Please don't blame me. My car has no air. I wanted something cool to drink

1/4 Sara Lee Plain Bagel

1 tbsp Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese
1 oz Smoked Salmon

2 cups Sprite

Cut your bagel, top with cream cheese, and then top with a slice of Nova Smoked Salmon (a.k.a. Lox).

365 Calories

Lunch:
Lunch wasn't all that bad... until we get to the chocolate malted milk

2 Slices Oroweat Whole Wheat Bread

6 Thin Slices Chicken

2 Thin Slices Turkey

1 Leaf Romaine Lettuce

1 tbsp Best Foods Mayonnaise

1 tsp Mustard

1/8 Gala Apple

1/3 Banana

1/8 Peach

1 cup Fat Free Milk

3 tbsp Carnation Chocolate Malt

Put your meat and mayo and lettuce and mustard in between your two pieces of bread and nom. Cut up the apple, peach, and banana into small chunks and mix together in a bowl. If you must splurge on the malted milk, put less malt in. It's too sweet otherwise.

693 Calories (ouch >-<, my hips are going to feel this one)

Afternoon Splurge:
Yeah, I've been six months without boba. I should've picked a different day (and skipped the soda).

1 Large Green Tea Milk Tea with Boba

318 Calories

Dinner:
Again it's really the soda that kills me here.
 

2 Wheat Thins Hint of Salt

1 Slice Port Wine Cheese Ball

1 tsp Rondele Garlic and Herb Cheese

2 Small Lemon Sandwich Cookies

1/2 Slice Milton Whole Grain Bread

1 Thin Slices Turkey

1 & 1/2 cups Schweppes Ginger Ale

  Put the cheese on the Wheat Thins. Put the turkey in the bread. Eat up.

Day 1 Total: 1257 Calories

Ah day 1. And it begins. A really helpful website is Calorie King. You can type in whatever food you've eaten and it will ask you the serving size and then it will calculate the amount of calories. This is how almost all of the calories here have been calculated, unless I looked directly at the packaging of the food I was eating. Also I have labeled all of my posts by what meals they contain as well as the specific foods they contain. So if you're searching for an egg recipe you can find all of my posts that contains the label "Egg" etc.

Breakfast:
Breakfast was really simple. Something I could very easily get tired of very soon.

3/4 cup Honey Nut Cheerios
1 cup Milk

Just pour ingredients into a bowl and eat up.
240 Calories

Morning Snack:
Now I had a snack that was a definite splurge, but it sure did taste good.

1 cup Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Gardens Green Tea
3 Ralph's Lemon and Poppy Seed mini-Scones

Boil your water and steep your tea. Put the scones on a nice dish and enjoy, taking a bite of scone and a sip of tea.

240 Calories

Lunch:
Well, I did okay for lunch, food-wise. But I spoiled it with a can of cola. But it wasn't just any cola. It was Pepsi Throwback. They only have it around for football season, and I adore things without high fructose corn syrup. I'm trying to cut back on soda, so I think I'm going to let it be my Saturday splurge. Call me out if you see me drinking soda on a day other than Saturday... starting next week =D

2 Eggs scrambled
1 tbsp 2% Milk
4 leaves of Spinach shredded
2 tbsp chopped Onion
1 can Pepsi Throwback

Crack eggs into a cup add milk and mix until well blended. Then stir in the shredded spinach. Cook the onions on high heat on the stove until translucent.Turn the heat down to low and pour in the egg and spinach mix. You can either scramble the eggs or make an omelet as I did.

322 Calories

Afternoon Snack:
I started getting super hungry. So, instead of waiting and getting even more hungry and flirting with the overeating at dinner option, I made a small snack. I actually over did it on the cream cheese so I'll be more careful next time.

1/4 Sara Lee Plain Bagel
2 tbsp Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese
2 oz Nova Smoked Salmon

Cut your bagel, top with cream cheese (I recommend 1 tbsp instead of 2), and then top with a slice of Nova Smoked Salmon (a.k.a. Lox).

205 Calories

Dinner:
Very simple dinner. I'm trying to work on a more vegetarian/raw fruit and veggie diet for a while to detoxify my body. Oh, but I cheated again. After my 20 minute walk I splurged on another can of Pepsi Throwback.

2 cups Spring Mix Salad
2 tbsp Wishbone Raspberry Hazelnut Vinaigrette
1 can Pepsi Throwback

Mix salad and dressing on a plate and voila! dinner.

 250 Calories

Water Intake:
We all need water. I sip mine throughout the day, so I'll total it up at the end so you can see how much I consumed.

2 cups Tap Water

Yes, I drink water straight from the tap. Obviously there is a small screw on filter on the tap, but I'm not squirmish about drinking straight up tap water. With one proviso, only in the States or the UK.

People Kibble's Origins

I, like many women of this day and age, have been plagued by a few extra pounds. I'm a bit of a health buff in that I know all the stuff, but I never quite get the rubber to meet the road.

I enjoy reading success stories of people who have battled against excess weight. It's even more reassuring to watch those people on TV where you can see before and after photos and listen to the person being interviewed.

But it's always the same when asked about their diet. According to these interviews these people appear to have eaten the same breakfast, the same lunch, and the same dinner every day of the year in order to have lost their weight. That's too much like dog kibble to me. Seriously, who can stand to eat oatmeal for breakfast three hundred and sixty five days a year? I can't.

I figure that's why I don't "stick to a diet". Nobody gives any options. It's always "eat the exact same thing for a super long time and you'll lose weight". Of course! After a while you'll start to not want to eat if all you have to eat is people kibble.

But who can stand the boredom? I can't. That's why this blog. I'm not the healthiest of eaters. But if I can share my meals with you, then I can get the motivation to make them healthier and give you options that don't end in "What are we going to eat tonight Brain?" "The same thing we eat every night, Pinky: Salad". And hopefully we can both get healthier, shed some extra pounds, and live a life decidedly free of "People Kibble".