Meizer's Diet Journal

[Meizer]

Wow, never been a dieter before so this is all new to me. I broke my ankle in the spring and sat on my arse for 22 weeks while I healed when normally I'm quite an active person. So that, combined with quitting smoking (one year quit as of Jan 2!) and here I am nearly 30 lbs heavier and on the South Beach Diet. So far so good.

I'm 42, female, 5'3", very small framed so I'm comfortable at my normal weight which is between 110 - 115 lbs. On January 19th, I started SBD and my start weight was 143 lbs which is 10 lbs heavier than when I was 9 months pregnant! But, here I am on day 11 and I'm sitting at 136 lbs. So again, so far so good!

Luckily I have the love and support of my husband who has joined me on this journey. He has a 'paunch' as he calls it and wants to drop 10 lbs (or so, he says). He's already reached his goal after 11 days on the SBD. I've even been giving him extra protien (more cheese, more egg, more meat) to see him through the day as he was quite hungry in the beginning. He's a very active man at work, whereas I'm at a desk all day so he's got it a little easier! No 30 minute workouts for him, just me! Men, always easier for them, eh?!

Well, I'm following the original SBD book almost word for word, or should I say, food for food, and it seems to be working. "Almost word for word" means because I'm not keen on celery and cheese, I'll take a ff mozza stick instead or another turkey roll or raw veggies or cottage cheese. Following the dinner plan pretty closely with a few minor vegetable substitutions and sometimes a cooking method too - why roast vegetables in the oven for 30 minutes when I can stir fry them in 3? Same amount of oils used so I see no harm in that. Eggplant and tomatoes though are a different story...definately oven roasted!

I'm a little nervous about entering phase 2 in the next few days but also looking forward to a piece of fruit, hubby too he says. I'm signing off in good spirits and pleased as punch with our progress so far.

Meizer

[SarahW]

Hello Meizer

Sounds like you're both doing really well!

I'm a serial dieter lol but have never tried this one before. I'm only day 4 but am doing well so far.

I'm looking forward to Monday and hoping for a half decent loss!!

[Meizer]

Hi Sarah, Serial dieter! lol! I'm a 'serial weigher' which I know is the completely wrong thing to do. But hey, I 'm new at this so I have to slowly wean myself off.

With me, sometimes I go up and down 2,3 or 4 lbs a day it seems so the 3 or 4 times a day I weigh myself sends me on an bit of an emotional roller coaster - morning weigh in- happy! afternoon check in - confused. evening finale-disappointed. I know the scale is my enemy and I should just throw it away. I'll concentrate on how the jeans fit. Which, by the way, feel pretty good today I must admit.

When I prepare the daily meals, when it says 'serves 2' I'll give my husband 2/3rd's of it and I'll take a third. I am not hungry throughout the day and it seems to be working good so far as I am a small eater to begin with.

Yesterdays Menu:

Morning:
1 Scrambled egg
1 6oz glass V8
coffee with non-fat milk and splenda
Vitamin supplement

To Go:
coffee with non-fat milk and splenda (which sits at my desk and takes me all morning to drink)

Snack:
one stick lf mozza

Lunch:
Crabb Cobb Salad w/vinegrette
Water

Snack:
1/2 cup cottage cheese with one red pepper strip chopped

Dinner:
Gingered Chicken breast
Steamed snow peas & broccoli
Romaine, cuke, radish, celery, hard boiled egg salad w/2tbsp lf ls cesear dressing

Dessert:
1 skinnycow fudgebar, 1 tbsp natural peanut butter,

Late, Late night snack: (very busy and stayed up way too late last night and got hungry)
1 hard boiled egg, 10 cashews

....worst part of the day: No workout. Excuse for cutting it?: No good reason given.

So, new rules: Chuck the scale, get on the eliptical more than 2 times a week, kick up the Turbo Jam workout and keep my chin up.

What motivates me today? The husband received a new calendar from a supplier full of sexy girls holding tools (he's in construction). I told him to hang it up in my workout room so I have a visual of what flat abs really look like! But I told him to draw a little jacket there on Miss January as she looks a little under-dressed for weather!

Signing off in good spirits!

Meizer

[SarahW]

Well I am a serial dieter lol. Been on one plan or another on and off for the last 15 years!!

I'm quite disciplined with the scales. I've been sooooo tempted to see whether I've lost any weight yet but I don't want what the scales say to influence me in any way. I don't think I could just go by clothes, I want to know how much lard I've managed to shed lol

Is Miss January warmer now?!

[Meizer]

Well, what was supposed to be the start of Phase 2 today has been delayed and Phase 1 remains for at least another week. I am enjoying the foods on P1 just not dropping pounds so with my intended increase in activity this week, I hope to make up some lost ground. Here is yesterday's menu:

Late Morning Breakfast (its the weekend...I slept in!):
Scrambled Eggs w/lf shredded cheese and diced Canadian bacon
1 glass V-Go
1 cup coffee with lf milk & Splenda
Vitamin Supplement

no snack

Lunch:
Romaine with cucumber, alfalfa sprouts, celery, radish, crumbled feta (there was something else...I’m forgetting a protein.. Crab! yes, added 1/2 can of crab meat)
Vinaigrette
Water

no snack

Dinner:
Instead of broiling the steak, I sliced it thin and stir fried it in olive oil with broccoli, mushrooms, zucchini, red onion, some low sodium soya sauce, water and a tbsp of oyster sauce.
Romaine with cucumber, tomatoes, alfalfa sprouts, celery, radish, crumbled feta with 2 tbsp lf Caesar dressing
Oven roasted Zucchini and Eggplant
Water

Dessert:
Skinny Cow fudge bar with tbsp natural peanut butter and 1/2 tsp splenda
Water

We'll see what this new week brings. The motivation for exercise needs serious work .. I don't have time in the mornings...I'm already up at 6:15 to start a regular day...no plans to wake up even earlier than that! I prefer the after work workouts but sometimes I find that after work I'm usually running errands and get home late. I only have time to cook, eat, clean up, and then I want to relax, not work out. That's a busy day you know what I mean? Where's the happy medium? Where's there time in the day to get all the jobs done?

I'm already making excuses. OK, here's the deal. I need to work on me first and then everything else second. 'Me first' means that no matter what time I come home after work, I work out. That's what I will do for me. Everything else second means, dinners on the table whenever it gets there! If you can't wait, fend for yourself. I need to be selfish in this quest meaning I need to think of me first. This past year when I quit smoking after a 30 year addiction, I realized then too that it was me first, everything else second. I put me in front and concentrated almost solely on me. I know, as selfish as that sounds, I have to do the same for this new diet and exercise regime I'm trying to incorporate into my life. A change in routine is needed. I feel it's definately the key to my success. In the words of Sheryl Crow: "A change will do you good." My new mantra!

Signing off in good spirits…

Meizer

[Meizer]

All that talk about 'me first' and exercising no matter what time I got home went straight down the toilet last night! I will say though, the 2 and a half hours I spend roaming the grocery store seems like it should make up for the missed 30 minute workout. I did break a sweat when I was bagging all my groceries as the check-out girl was winging those items down the conveyer at me faster than I could pack 'em and I had a hard time keeping up! I was also wearing my big wool winter coat and a scarf so that's probably another reason why I was sweating! So, $323.00 later, I was home with my bags of diet food and hauled them up a flight of stairs to the kitchen.

While I made room in the fridge for the weeks worth of vegetables, eggs and cheeses, the husband prepared us a dinner omelet with all the fixings. After dinner, I made the marinade for today's chicken breasts - 2tsp olive oil, the juice of one lemon, 1 tsp oregano and a pinch of cayenne pepper, poured it over the breasts and set them in the fridge to marinate overnight. My mouth is already watering thinking of the juicy chicken I'll be having tomorrow night! Note to self: Pick up some propane for the BBQ so I can grill the breasts. I divided the sirloins I had purchased and dressed the salmon while the husband gutted and cleaned the Pickerel he caught ice fishing the day before.

I was beat last night so I didn't feel like prepping anything as has been my usual routine for the last two weeks. I pre-made no quiches, no Jell-O, nor did I cut, wash and bag my lettuce. I sliced no peppers, I cut no cheese sticks, and I prepared no cilantro mayonnaise. So, you can imagine what happened this morning...panic strikes as I open the fridge and fear I have NO LUNCH! I quickly threw some cottage cheese in a container, cut me a mozzarella cheese stick, grabbed the last two frozen quiches from the freezer (which was suppose to be today's breakfast) and turned all that into my lunch. I have some raw veggies and hummus still at work in the fridge and a Jell-O so I'll survive. The husband has his vehicle today so he can easily pick up a salad at the deli near his work. I gave him an apple, a wedge of laughing cow and a hard boiled egg to take as snacks.

Yesterday's Menu:

Morning:
2 mini quiche cups to go
1 glass tomato juice
Vitamin supplement
Coffee with nf milk and splenda

no snack

Lunch:
leftover beef stir fry from last night’s dinner
leftover roasted eggplant and zucchini from last night’s dinner

Snack:
1/2 cup 1% cottage cheese with 2 red pepper strips diced & thrown in (my new favorite snack!)

Dinner:
Omelet, although it turned out more like a Scrambler with real eggs, green pepper, mushroom, zucchini, red onion, jalapeno pepper, diced Canadian Bacon, lf mozza
Water

Dessert
1 skinny cow fudge bar with 1 tbsp natural peanut butter

Late Late night snack
15 cashews

Tonight I'll prep everything I was supposed to prep last night so I can act like a true Girl Guide and "Be Prepared." Today's routine will be work, (sit at desk and stare at 'puter all day) home to work out (20 minute elliptical, 10 minutes ab work, 5 minute yoga cool down) shower & change, prep and eat a yummy juicy and delicious chicken breast dinner, prep, prep, prep and more prep, read my book if there's time left, and go to bed. I'm 193 pages into a 253 novel and it's just getting good!

That's all I have for today other than to add I'm not any lighter today than I was yesterday. But, signing off in good spirits...

Meizer

[Meizer]

Yesterday was a great day! Arrived home after work with plenty of time to get in a good workout which consisted of 20 minutes on the elliptical, 10 minutes of ab work and a 5 minute yoga cool down. After showering and changing, I started on all the prep, prep, prep work and got several items prepped and ready for the week ahead. Not as much as I wanted but enough for now. Dinner was started, the husband prepped the salad while I worked on the chicken and veggies and all ran smoothly. Our daughter even joined us for dinner and commented that the meal "tastes really good even though it's+ diet food!" Spent what seemed like hours cleaning up and hubby and I ended up falling asleep in front of the TV throughouly exhausted. Hubby got me off the couch at 1:30 a.m. by telling me to "wake up and go to bed" !

Yesterday's menu:

Breakfast:
Scrambled egg
glass of V-Go
Vitamin supplement
coffee with nf milk and splenda

To Go:
coffee with nf milk and splenda

no snack

Lunch:
2 mini quiche cups
1 lf mozza stick
veggies and 2tbsp hummus
water

snack:
1/2 cup cottage cheese with 1 green pepper strip diced

Dinner:
Juicy and delicious oven roasted chicken breasts - forgot to buy propane for the bbq so I roasted them
Stir fried veggies in 1 tbsp evoo - broccoli, zucchini, mushrooms, red onion & green pepper
Salad with mixed greens, tomato, cuke, alfalfa sprouts, radish, hb egg, lf mozza and 2 tbsp lf creamy cuke dressing

Dessert:
1 skinny cow fudge bar w/ 1 tbsp natural peanut butter and 1/2 tsp splenda

Late late night snack:
15 cashews

No lighter than I was yesterday but still in good spirits...

Meizer

[Meizer]

Another day, another couple of hours spent prepping dinner and pre-packaging lunch. This diet is actually alot of work but I'm really enjoying the food and so far, I'm pretty happy with the results...the husband moreso than me as he's dropped to 178 from 191 in 18 days on SB. Amazing eh? He's got an ideal job (carpenter) which keeps him moving all day. I told him last night I was going to switch careers and go become an electrician (wire doesn't weigh as much as wood!) so I can get out from behind a desk and get out and do something with my hands other than type! He said I make more money doing what I'm doing right now so don't quit!

Yesterday's Menu:

Breakfast:
1 scrambled egg w/ 1 slice Canadian Bacon which I fed to the dog because I wasn't hungry
1 glass tomatoe juice
Vitamin supplement
Coffee w/ nf milk and Splenda

no snack

Lunch:
Mixed greens with chopped cooked chicken (left over from the night before), tomatoe, cuke, mushroom and 2 tbsp low fat ceasar dressing

snack:
1 lf mozzerella cheese stick

Dinner:
Broiled salmon w/rosemary
Steamed asparagus
A handful of last nights leftover stir fried veggies
A serving of last nights leftover salad in which the lettuce was wilted but the rest of the veggies were still crisp so I picked out the lettuce and ate the rest!

dessert:
1 skinny cow fudge bar with 1 tbsp natural peanut butter w/ 1/2 tsp splenda

Late late Night snack:
1/2 cup cottage cheese with 1 red pepper strip diced.

Signing off in really good spirits today as I keep having to pull up my pants .... a great sign SB is working!

Meizer

[Meizer]

A good work out yesterday after work, a sensible meal last night and the pants are looser again today. All is good on the Beach. The bra is also not as tight as it once was which is of no surprise to me. I knew it would be one of the first things to go. I should really make a date with my husband tonight so he can say his goodbyes!

Yesterday's menu:

Breakfast:
jeeze...can't remember what I had...it obviously had to of been eggs of some sort along with a glass of V8, a vitamin supplement and a cup of coffee with nf milk and splenda.

no snack

Lunch:
Dilled shrimp salad with tomato wedges and mushrooms as per the SBD original book recipe
Water

no snack

After work perk:
1 cup of decaff w/ nf milk and Splenda

Dinner:
Broiled steak which was almost a little too rare, so much so that I thought it would kick me when I stuck my fork in it! MOOO!!! (my meat thermometer must be broken or my eyes read the temperature wrong!) ...ate it anyway
steamed broccoli
South Beach 'Mashed Potatoes'
The last of the stir-fried veggies left over from 2 nights ago with the leftover steamed asparagus from last night thrown in.
Water

Dessert:
Skinny cow fudge bar w/1 tbsp natural peanut butter and a dash of splenda

Late, Late really late night snack (which would explain the lateness in the time we woke up this morning! slept in!)
15 cashews

I am obviously a chocoholic, as I cannot go a day without a taste of some kind. I really, REALLY tried to stick to the ricotta cheese desserts noted in the SBD book but I just couldn't get past the texture. Then I found the fudgebar and pb recipe here on this forum and well, I've never looked back. I know there is nothing good for me in the skinny cow (which has 50 calories) but the taste is the only thing I'm after to be honest. Can't deprive me of chocolate for too long or I'll go bonkers! As a kid, teenager and well into adulthood, for a snack in the evening (or sometimes just for lunch) I would slather peanut butter on two slices of white bread, fold them in half and dunk them in a glass of chocolate milk and eat them. Remember, back then I had the metabolism that some people would kill for and honestly, I bet I ate that every day of my life! So, armed with this new knowledge, can you figure out what my favorite candy bar is? If you guessed Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, you'd be right! But in all honesty, if I'm near a Laura Secord candy shoppe, my all-time favorite bar is a Laura Secord French Mint bar. You can't get them at the corner store so they are a once a year treat when I actually go shopping at the Mall and stop in at LS's.

K, enough chocolate talk...I decided I'm going to thinly slice the leftover rare steak tonight and add in the leftover dill shrimp I marinated yesterday. I'll stir fry that along with some veggies and voila: "Surf and Turf" on the SBD!

Signing off in good spirits...

Meizer

[Meizer]

Well, to post 3 days of menus will take way too long and involve way too much thinking so I'll give the abbreviated version:

Eggs of some sort for breakfast, salad of some sort for lunch, and no snacks because breakfast and lunch fills me up so much I find I sometimes don't need them.

Dinners were 'Surf and Turf' on Friday, baked Tilapia on Saturday, and London Broil on Sunday with your choice of roasted, stir-fried or steamed vegetable.

Sunday's dessert was chocolate covered strawberries as per P2 of the SBD of which my husband is a member and I just joined as a temporary one-day guest! Wow, that was the first piece of fruit I ate in 3 weeks! Can't go wrong with chocolate and strawberries! It was absolutely delicious.

On Friday night, after 3 weeks of straight SBD'ing, I splurged and ate jalapeno cheese sauce with corn tortilla chips. I made it with margarine instead of butter, couldn't do anything about the tbsp of white flour, but I used nf milk and lf cheddar and shredded 3/4's of a fresh jalapeno pepper in there (seeds and all) and it tasted just as good but with less fat. IT WAS SPICY HOT but man, was it good! Note to self: a little less jalapeno next time!!

So to make up for the splurge, I worked out on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It felt great and the workout pain is not as painful as it was in the beginning...No Pain..No Gain..right??!! Level 2 of the elliptical is a great place to be. It's nice to see my increase in stamina and the strengthening of my flabby arms which don't hurt as much anymore after hanging on to those 2 lb weights!!

Still staying in P1 this week, still sitting at 137lbs, but signing off in good spirits...

Meizer

[Meizer]

After running several errands after work (drug store, gas station, grocery store, post office), a workout was out of the question as I arrived home much too late. No worries on my part as I felt the running around and bag carrying I just accomplished at the stores was enough for one day! Hubby is suffering with a sinus cold (or is it the SB Flu I've heard so much about??) and I failed to buy one of the top items on his wish list: tissue with lotion to soothe his aching nose. I walked through the door, took one look at his big red nose and fessed up...I had forgotten the kleenex! I handed over my $50 face cream and he slathered some on around his nose and it eased the pain a bit. I gave him two Sinutabs, a kiss on the forehead...check, no fever...and sent him back to the couch to regain the horizontal position he had been in for the entire day. He's still home today although the waste basket didn't look as full this morning as it did the morning before...he had actually gotten some sleep and I believe the Sinutabs worked for him. I slept on the couch because I didn't care to be woken up every 20 minutes by sneezing and blowing. Our cat was curled up with me and I awoke in a haze of cat fur as he was sleeping on top of my chest with his head up against my neck and jaw. Ya sure, cute, but I can just imagine how much fur I inhaled last night!

Monday's menu:

Breakfast:
I made the biggest diet mistake yesterday morning....I ate no breakfast - I drank no V8, I took no vitamin supplement but I did take a coffee with lf milk and splenda to go. I also took a vegetable quiche cup to go but was so busy at work that I didn't get a chance to eat it. It came home with me and I put it in the fridge to eat today. ....Guess what? I didn't eat it today either. I did it AGAIN! No breakfast, no juice no vit-supp. Coffee to go only. tsk tsk. Where's the diet police when you need 'em?

Snack:
1 lf mozzerella cheese stick

Lunch:
Leftover London Broil on mixed greens with cucumber, green pepper, tomatoe and lf ls prepared dressing

no snack

Dinner:
Lemon marinade broiled chicken breasts with steamed broccoli and stir-fried red onion, green pepper, red pepper, crimini mushrooms, celery & summer squash.

Dessert:
1 skinny cow fudge bar with natural peanut butter and a dash of splenda...of course!

midnight snack:
10 almonds

Aunt Flow came to visit yesterday so the pants that fit so loosely on Friday, the pants that I bragged were falling off my arse, are snug today. There are days when I wish I was menopausal and then I hear horror stories from women who are, and I change my mind back again! Such is life being a woman and as everyone knows, a woman has the right to change her mind! What we go through amazes me and our bodies are spectacular machines no matter what shape we are.

I'm seriously working on this shape of mine, trying to get back to my hourglass figure. If I was a pear, I'd be in great shape, but I'm a human, and as much as it pains me, it's 115 lbs or bust!

Signing off in fair spirits today as I'm hating Flow and the havoc she reeks upon me...that and I'm still not any lighter than I was yesterday.

Meizer

[Meizer]

This morning I have concluded that I own a bathroom scale that is as worthless as a pile of crap. If I can stand on the scale and lift my toes and get a different reading, that indicates to me it's crap. If I can get off and on 3 or 4 times in a row and get a different reading each time, that indicates to me it's crap. If I have to keep adjusting the dial on a daily basis so it stays on 'zero', that indicates to me it's crap. It told me this morning ('It TOLD me', like its alive or something!) that I'm 136 pounds. I like that number so today I'm buying it's bullsh*t reading because I want to believe its true. I'm going shopping tonight for a real scale and for groceries too because yesterday, which was suppose to be grocery day, my routine was rudely interrupted by an ice storm and terrible road conditions so I scooted home as fast as I could before the storm hit.

I came home to a mess of a kitchen, got pissed off at the people who didn't clean up after themselves, ate whatever was leftover in the fridge (see menu below) and promptly sat on my ass for the rest of the night, surfing the net, searching for a new car to buy. (mine was written off by insurance last week after a spectacular explosion blew the engine into a thousand little bits and pieces.)

Anyway, nothing good came of yesterday which included work stress (deadline was Friday and we've missed it!), fear (ice storm and dangerous roads), anger (what a mess!), resentment (why am I expected to clean YOUR mess?) and sadness (woe is me, I have no car). A very emotional day for me....but nothing a little fudge bar and peanut butter couldn't fix!

Yesterday's Menu:

Breakfast:
Again, broke the rules, no nothing except a coffee with lf milk and splenda to go.

Snack:
lf mozza cheese stick

Lunch:
Lettuce with leftover chicken breast, tomatoe, green pepper, cuke, celery and vinaigrette
Water

Snack:
1/2 c 1% cottage cheese with a couple of green pepper strips cubed and tossed in for added crunch

Dinner: ...this is truly horrific...
3 large mushroom caps stuffed with spinach, onion and lf cheddar
Large bowlful of the stir fried veggies left over from Tuesday's dinner
Yup, that's it.

Dessert:
1 skinny cow fudge bar with 2 really incredibly large tablespoons of natural peanut butter and a dash of splenda

Late Late Night Snack:
15 almonds

I can see that I actually ate my snacks after skipping out on breakfast. I also came home with a headache last night so not eating probably contributed to that along with the stress I was under. I hope today is a better day and so far, a reading of 136 lbs has started it off on the right foot!

Signing off in, well, let's say mediocre spirits! Is mediocre better than fair? How about so-so? 60-40? WHOAH! Low and behold the computer guys just delivered my new laptop! OK, this certainly ups my mood! I'll say it's 70-30 at this point...!!

Meizer

[tulip77]

Hi Meizer,

I really enjoyd reading your posts, they are nicely written and you can certainly put to words what so many of us are going through! I'm on Phase 1 and doing well so far...Keep up the good work and good luck finding a new bathroom scale!

[wannabeslenderagain]

Meizer - You really had me laughing about your bathroom scale. It sounds just like mine at home. I would have to adjust it everytime I step on it, always a different reading, junk! So I have chose to ignore it and use the one at work. Maybe, I should just trash it, since it is a piece of trash??? Funny,I have no problem shopping for other stuff, why haven't I thought of buying a new scale?? Must be something mental, or maybe I just like to get pissed off everytime I use the stupid thing!

Anyway, love your post! I can relate to so much of what you said.

[Meizer]

After work yesterday, the husband and I went car shopping for a new car. Well, honestly we’re looking for a used car, so new to us only! We live in a small city of about 115,000 people so having looked online at the prices of cars in some of the bigger cities, the cost of a similar car in this town is several thousand dollars more. What a rip-off! So, not finding anything we liked put us in a lousy mood and we decided to blow off grocery shopping and go out for dinner. I am proud to say I stuck to my diet BUT did step over to P2 again briefly and enjoyed a glass of Sauvignon-Merlot with my meal.

The fallout from not going grocery shopping became apparent this morning when I opened the refrigerator and there was nothing in there that resembled lunchtime salad fixings. Hubby, noticing my despair, promised to deliver a deli salad and a decaff to me at lunchtime so I wouldn’t be tempted to go to the cafeteria for something deep fried and salt laden. I have a container of cottage cheese with green pepper leftover in the office fridge so that should see me through snack time.

I’m sad that I didn’t get to buy the new scale I wanted. I did hop on the old one again this morning ( I am addicted to weighing myself and can’t stop!) and the same reading as yesterday of 136 lbs was staring me in the face. Could it be true? I got myself dressed and realized, yes, it must be true! The bloated belly from Aunt Flow has subsided and lo and behold, my pants need a belt! I bought these pants when I was at my heaviest and had hung the tie-belt on a hook in my closet because it wasn’t needed. Both the belt and the pants are a light cotton denim material so the pants have been through, what, 40 washes ? and the belt, well, none, so I wore a longer shirt so you can’t see the color difference between the belt and pants! Although, it truly is something that I’m proud of so I should really show that belt off, eh?!

Yesterday’s menu:

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with 1 slice of back bacon which I fed to the dog because I wasn’t that hungry. She was already standing beside me before I even thought of giving her the meat so I may have started a bad doggie habit...Bad owner!
Glass of V-Go
Vitamin Supplement
Coffee with lf milk and Splenda

Snack:
1 lf Mozza cheese stick

Lunch:
Chef’s Salad with turkey only though (had no ham) and Greek vinaigrette
Water

No Snack

Dinner:
6 oz. NY Striploin, medium rare, with steamed seasonal vegetables (yellow carrots, oops..as soon as I wrote that I remembered carrots are not allowed, green beans, red & green pepper, broccoli, red onion)
2 bites of garlic toast
1 glass Sauvignon-Merlot

Dessert:
1 skinny cow fudge bar with peanut butter and Splenda

I’m not sure what type of the seasoning was put on the steak. I know it was peppery, wow, very peppery, so much so that I scraped some off, with a hint of garlic, salt perhaps but I’m not sure what else. Hopefully no added sugar. Note to self: Ask what seasoning is used on the meat next time. Also the garlic toast obviously had garlic butter on it, another oops. Jeez, and here I thought I did well when I ate out! Maybe not so much now!

Anyway, signing off in good spirits as I get to set up my new laptop today and run two monitors off of it so I can have a bunch of documents open in front of me at the same time…this is gonna be great!

Meizer