Right On Track

So yesterday was fun, but I can never eat again. I officially have a new favorite restaurant! Ah man that place was awesome. I said cheesecake wasn't really my weakness......but now I think Snickers Cheesecake might be!

Anyways, back to the important stuff....here's what was on yesterday's menu:

Breakfast:

2 Egg McMuffins

- light English Muffin X2- 200

- 1/2 cup Egg Beaters- 60

- 1 slice fat free cheese, halved- 30

- 1 tblsp. sugar free jelly- 10

1 cup 1% milk- 100

Total- 400

Took To Work:

Blackened Catfish, 6 oz- 260

Broccoli- 45

Turkey Summer Sausage, 2 oz.- 90

Sauerkraut, 3 tblsp.- 15

Sandwhich (Bread, mustard, meat)- 105

2 jello cups- 20

1 wedge light laughing cow cheese- 35

5 ritz crackers- 70

Total- 640

Dinner-

Turkey Burger

- Meat pattie- 170

- Bread- 80

-1 slice fat free cheese- 30

- 1 tbls light mayo- 25

Salad

- Lettuce/Spinach mix- 2

- 2 tsps. Black Olives- 13

- 1 tblsp. Bacon Bits- 25

- 2 tblsp light Italian- 35

1/2 cup Applesauce- 50

Total- 430

Snack-

1 sugar free Jello Cup- 10

Yesterday's Grand Total= 1480

Yeah! Under 1500! After dinner we all got in the pool for about an hour. So we also got some good excercise.

Robyn gave me an awesome receipe to cook squash. I took a picture of it because it looks like something that dad WOULD NOT be allowed to eat! Jacob loved it, and dad did too! So he got to take a bunch of this to work today. Here it is......

Before I go

Well, I'm about to get ready to go have lunch with family, then we'll probably hit the mall or something. So I'll post today so far and the weigh in results now.

Breakfast-
2 Egg McMuffin Sandwhiches - 300
1 cup milk- 100

And as for weight, this morning it was at 303! That's 8 pounds down from last week, 18 pounds total! GREAT JOB DAD!

As for me, I'm down about 8 pounds total myself.....but I think it's more like a "side effect", because I'm not really counting my calories. But if I'm eating the same thing he is I'm getting low calories too.
Except for today that is.....my Aunt that I don't see hardly at all just called and we're going to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. I've never eaten there and I didn't know they served actual FOOD, heck I thought it was just cheesecake! Thank goodness cheesecake isn't exactly my weekness.....now if it had been the Chocolate Factory, or the Possum Pie factory.....I'd be in TROUBLE!

So wish me luck!

OK, let's try this again.

Well, I'm not going to write down everything I did last night, but instead just a brief overview of yesterday. The total calorie count yesterday was 1508. We had said that we were going to back it down to 1500, and I think that's pretty darn close! Given if I have to "guesstimate" something, I always round UP. Dad walked about 1/2 mile too. Not very much, but way better than nothing!

So for today.......
Dad have to have bloodwork done this morning so he couldn't eat before he left. But he stopped by on his way back through to work and I made him an omlette and a bagel.

Omlette-
1/2 Cup Egg Beaters- 6o
Tomatos/Onions/Mushrooms- 15
1/4 cup weight watchers cheese- 60

Alternative Bagel- 110
1 tbls Light Cream Cheese- 20

1 cup 1% milk- 100

Breakfast Total- 365

Lunch-
Fajita (can you tell he really likes these??)
Tortilla- 100
Chicken- 115
1 tbls Pico De Gallo- 5
Jalapenos- 5
1 tbls taco sauce- 5

1 sugar free jello cup- 10

lunch total- 240 For some reason it seems like he had more than this, but my notebook is in the living room. I'll double check when I go back in there.


Dinner-
1 cup Sauerkraut- 40
6 ounces turkey summer sausage-270
2 slices low cal bread-80
1/2 cup Broccoli- 22
total- 412


2 40 calorie fudgesicles- 80
Today's GRAND TOTAL= 1,097 !

And tomorrow's weigh in day. Dad said again tonight that he can really tell a difference in his clothes, especially his belt.
I bought a book tonight called "Eat this, Not that". It is SOOO awesome! I'm definitly taking it with us when we leave for LA on Saturday. Now eating out won't be so complicated!

So, until next time................

Monday Monday Monday

Ok dammit. I wrote a really long post and it was good and at the VERY end I hit something and it all went away. It's not in my "saved" drafts.....it's just gone. And now I don't feel like writing it all again. Maybe I'll feel like it tomorrow.

Busy Busy Busy

So I know I haven't posted in a few days, but we've actually been pretty busy. Dad's kept his calories low and is dong great! We've been out to eat a couple times in the last couple of days, but he's managed to make great choices. (with a little of my help of course!) So I'm just going to log yesterday's menu. But the calorie counts have been as follows:

Thursday- 1,388

Friday- 1, 418

Saturday- 898

So yesterday's menu consisted of this:

Breakfast-

Omlette

1/2 cup egg beaters 60

1/2 tomato 18

2 teaspoons jalapenos 12

1 tbls. chopped onion 5

Alternative English Muffin 100

Spray margarine 0

2 tsp sugar free jelly 10

=205

Lunch-

Deli Turkey Sandwhich

Approx 3 ounces 75

Lettuce 1

Tomato 5

Focaccia 110?? Calorie-count.com says that 1 bread is 110 calories. But I'm not too sure what 1 bread consists of. Is it a roll? A slice? So I think I'm going to round up to 200 just to be SAFE.

Focaccia- 200

1 light and fit yogurt cup 60

= 341

Afternoon Snack

Shrimp Salad- Had nothing on it except for shrimp and lettuce. I guesstimated about 4 oz shrimp.

Shrimp 40

Lettuce 2

= 42

Dinner (Uh OH! We went to Cracker Barrell! But it's ok he did GREAT!)

Grilled Catfish, about 6 ounces- 260

Turnip Greens, not too sure how much it was, but one cup is 57....and it definatly was NOT a whole cup, but we'll say 50 to be safe.

And that's it, that's all he ate!

=310

GRAND TOTAL- 898. Wow. That's a lot of food for 898 calories! Given, we were trying to be a little conservative since I didn't know exact counts, but once I came home and looked everything up this is what it came to!

I'll go ahead and write about today while I'm on here.

When I got up this morning I couldn't find my dad. I thought he went across the street to my brother's house, so I called, no answer. Then I just figured he ran to the store or something. When I got up to make my son breakfast I saw him out back swimming! He also walked on the treadmill for 20 mintues. When he came in I made him breakfast consisting of the following.

Breakfast-

1/2 cup scrambled eggs (egg beaters of course) 60

1 package of light oatmeal 110

1 piece of low cal toast 40

2 tsp sugar free jelly 5

=215

Mid Morning Snack

1 cup of Pinapple 78

So, we're 293 and it's 12:30. I plan on Turkey Burgers for lunch and I haven't even thought about dinner yet. I'm sure it won't be much because he hasn't even been hungry! He did tell me this morning though that he got on and off the scale several times (because he doesn't really trust our scale because it always says something different) but everytime he got on it it never went over 300! But given I do KNOW the scale is 5 pounds light. So we have to add 5 to whatever it says. But WOW! That's still great. I told him to quit doing that though because I don't want to know (and I don't want him to know) what the results are mid-week. I want it to be a bigger surprise by weighing once a week.

He said he has definatly noticed a difference in his clothes. For example he's wearing a shirt today that he said he couldn't fit into last month. So all is going just absolutely wonderful! I'm still excited to see what Wednesday's weigh in will be, I'll be sure to let you know! Have a great day!

Here's where we ate at Friday Night. The Rainforest Cafe. Dad had an AWESOME salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette dressing.

10 lbs Less Joe

So today has been a week since I've been here. Although, I actually didn't get to get him on this diet 100% until friday.....he weighed in today at 311, 10 lbs less than starting weight. Of course we knew the first 10 would just fall off, but it still a great start! I'm really excited to see what the results will be at when I leave.

So, now for yesterday's menu:

Breakfast:
1 cup Life cereal 160
3/4 c Milk 75
Cinnamon Bagle 110
1 tbls light cream chz 30
Low Cal Oatmeal Raisin Granola Bar 90

TOTAL- 465


Took to work:
Leftover Fajitia 264
salad (all the fixins) 120
Chicken meat with Toms, taco sauce, jalapenos- 155
2 sugar free jello cups- 20
Lg Italian Dressing (3 tbls) 52

TOTAL- 611


Dinner -
Grilled Ham and Cheese and Tomato Soup (Dad's favorite!)

2 slices low cal wheat bread- 80
1 slice fat free cheese- 50
1 oz deli shaved ham- 25
He had 2 sandwhiches so times that by 2= 310
(Oh yeah, and I used spray margarine for the butter on the bread)

1/2 can Tomato soup (approx 1 1/8 cup)- 112
10 saltine crackers- 120

TOTAL= 542

Then we walked (very briskly might I add) around the neighborhood for about 30 minutes. We came home and I was pooped! But he jumped on the treadmill for about another 1o minutes, then got in the pool and swam for about 20! After all that exercise, he came in and ate 2 sugar free fudgesicles, 40 calories each.

SNACK- 80 calories.


So, today's GRAND TOTAL is= 1,698 !! With 2 ta spare..........

Another Great Day

So yesterday was another great day! It has to be.....weigh in is tomorrow. We didn't get much exercise, but then again Dad didn't get home from work until 9:30. He said he'd be home "early" tonight, around 6:30. He went in at 6AM! He works too much, that's not good for his heart either, but he doesn't listen. Anyways, here's a breakdown of yesterday's food.

Breakfast:
Cinnamon Spice Bagle 110
1 tbls light Cream Cheese 30
2 cups 1% Milk 200
Large Banana 200

TOTAL= 540

Took to Work with Him:
Sandwhich-
Low Cal Wheat Bread 80
Deli Chicken Meat 50
Mustard 0
1 Slice Fat Free Chz 50
Med Tomato 35
1 1/2 cups Broccoli 30
1 cup Progresso Veg Nood 60
2 Sugar Free Jello cups 20
10 Ranch mini rice cakes 70

TOTAL= 430

Dinner:
Fajita
3 oz cooked Chicken 140
1 Tomato basil tortilla 100
1/2 Tomato 18
2 tbls Jalapenos 10
Onion 10
Taco Sauce 10
1/2 Cup Mixed Veggies 17

TOTAL= 305


GRAND TOTAL FOR TODAY= 1375
Way to go Joe! AKA Daddy-O

So I'm pretty excited about weigh in day tomorrow. I'm also really curious what it's going to come in at. I'll get back on here 1st thing in the morning to let you know! Thanks for reading, have a great day!