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.
1 comment:
Oh, Man! I wish we had a Rainforest Cafe around here! I bet Jake loved it!
Wow...I'm so glad to hear that everything is going so well! It sounds like your dad is quite possibly really "getting into" this weight-loss thing, huh!
You know...I don't know if it's the greatest thing to do ever, but I weigh myself every single morning. It helps me see what types of things affect my weight one way or the other. For instance: I've noticed that if I eat a lot of salty foods one day, I'll weigh 2 pounds more the following morning. Plus....it keeps me going every day. If I wake up and the scale has gone a tad bit up, I know I need to do really good that day. If it has gone down, I know I've been doing good, and I want to keep doing good! So, I say it's a win/win if you weigh yourself often. That's just my opinion, though. Don't gripe at him too much if he wants to see what the scale has to say about his efforts every day, though. It keeps your mind on losing weight, and that's where you want his mind, right??
P.S. Not even a "whole" cup of turnip greens from Cracker Barrell? That's not fair! I would've been like, "we need 1 cup of these, please. Bring more." I'm surprised that they were less-than-generous with the turnip greens.
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