Man, I fell off the wagon hard! Thanksgiving killed me...how are the rest of you doing?

Caitlin, Friday - Monday, Days 6 - 9

Friday, I was good. And then Saturday - Monday I didn't even KEEP a journal - that was such a bad idea!!

Friday

• Breakfast: Tea and four Pepperidge Farm cookies (from this assortment that the gallery I work in bought for our Saturday opening) = 200 cals.
  
• Lunch: Kashi frozen meal (290 cals), two more cookies (100 cals), and two cups of tea.
  
• Snack: Peanuts, approx. 15 (65 cals) and a cup of coffee (15 cals)
• Dinner: My boyfriend and I went out for sushi and we stuffed ourselves. Two glasses of water over the course of dinner, and I have NO idea how many calories are in sushi. We also had edamame and a salad with ginger dressing.
  

Saturday - Monday.
I didn't keep track of what I ate on my "weekend" ... I did make conscious decisions when it came to food, but I drank a lot ... and those damn cookies!!! I had some today too. UGHH.

I have such food guilt right now.

Mellen Catch-up, Days 3-5

Sorry I disappeared from the radar there folks. I'm currently on a trip to Baltimore for various events, and haven't gotten on the computer much. Lame, I know. I have been keeping track of myself in a notebook, though, and it's time to update what I've done

Day 3
Breakfast: Got up just in time to dash out the door, no breakfast to speak of.

Lunch: It was all on-the-road snacks, actually!
3 hard pretzels
2 handfuls of organic roasted pumpkin seeds
7 pieces of beef jerky

Dinner: Beef and refried bean chimichanga with salsa and guacamole on top.
12 oz pilsner beer.
Dessert: Hershey's chocolate bar w/ almonds

Water: about .5 liter

Exercise: sitting in a car most of the day...the ANTI-exercise.

Day 4
Breakfast: 1 cup coffee w/ vanilla soy milk

Lunch: Sushi! Hooray!
3 cucumber rolls
3 tuna rolls
5 nigiri pieces (salmon, 2 yellowtail, tuna, shrimp)
1 slice albacore sashimi
(all with small amount of soy and wasabi)
half a tokkuri of hot sake

Dinner: So bad!!
Half a frozen pizza w/ sausage and onions
1 glass holiday spice belgian ale

Snacks: 2 pieces dark chocolate with raspberry filling

Water: less than .5 liter (2 large glasses, one at lunch, one after dinner)

Exercise: Walking around to find our seats in the big concert hall in DC?

Day 5
Breakfast: again, coffee w/ vanilla soy milk

Lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich on italian-style bread
large bowl of homemade beef stew w/ baby carrots, new potatoes and sundried tomatoes.

Dinner: Pan-seared steak in sesame oil
Green peas and mushrooms (flavored with garlic and onion powder)
1 glass red wine

Dessert: 1 white russian
1 white scotsman (scotch instead of vodka)

Snacks: 2 pieces dark chocolate w/ raspberry filling

Water: about .5 liter (3 large glasses)

Exercise: again, just walking around to the theater in Baltimore...so bad!!!

Keeping tabs now on Day 6, and I'll try and get it up later tonight...you ladies seem to be doing a lot better than me, I'll try and step up my work!!

Caitlin - Thursday, Day 5

My goal is to have my diet under control by Sunday, the end of week 1. I think I'm getting a better understanding of what I should and shouldn't eat, and on days when I think I don't eat that much, I'm actually consuming a fair amount of calories.

• Breakfast: Ham, egg, and cheese sandwich on a multi-grain bagel from Dunkin Donuts (520 calories - should have opted for english muffin or no cheese), tea, chocolate chip cereal bar (110 calories)
• Lunch: I had the sandwich late in the morning, so my "lunch" was a cup of tea and a handful of honey roasted peanuts. I estimated that I had about 50, which would be roughly 200 calories.
  
• Beverage: You guessed it - hazelnut coffee (15 calories) with a packet of hot chocolate (140 calories) mixed in.
• Dinner: Homemade clam chowder, 2 bowls - SO GOOD, but not sure how many calories. Probably 500ish? 2 dinner rolls with butter, 120 calories each. 1 glass water. 1 spoon of peanut butter for "dessert." I'm going to over estimate and say that this was 150 calories.
  
• Total Calories: 1875. Breakfast and dinner were the calorie heavy meals, and they didn't have fruits or vegetables :(
  

Water - I drank half of my 1.5L water bottle, and then had a glass with dinner, plus two cups of tea and 1 cup of coffee.

Exercise - none.

Need to eat more fruits and veggies!!

Caitlin - Day 4

I was certainly more conscious of my eating habits today :) No brownies or fried food!!

• Breakfast: 2 packets of apple cinnamon instant oatmeal, clementine, tea
• Lunch: Campbell's Healthy Harvest veggie soup, tea, chocolate chip cereal bar.
  
• Dinner: 1 serving salmon with a pineapple, grape, and red onion "salsa", glass of red wine.
  
• Snacks: bagel chips and handful of peanuts between lunch and dinner, bagel chips with a spoonful of peanut butter before bed.
  
• Beverages: Hazelnut coffee with a package of hot chocolate mixed in... it's my token 3:30pm pick-me-up!
  

No exercise :( My goal today is to focus on water consumption - I have a 1.5L water bottle next to me and I want to finish it by the end of the day!

Do you guys keep track of calories??

Day 4: Wednesday November 18 - Robin

Yeah, I'm a fitty! After yesterday's horrible day, I woke up to a bright and shiny world, raring to go and ready to run... still a few too many sweets, I guess, but the chocolate has to be eaten to get rid of it, right...?

Breakfast:
- 1 large cup black coffee
- individual sized fat free cherry yogurt with 1 tbsp oatmeal
- 1 petit thé (a tiny little french cookie that my roomie gave me)

Lunch:
- Thanksgiving leftovers! Approx: 1/3 cup mashed sweet potato, 1/4 cup stuffing, 1/3 cup corn and green beans (all amounted to one small plate - not quite a saucer, but not quite a dinner plate either)
- 2 squares dark chocolate

Snack:
- homemade, low fat carrot applesauce muffin

Dinner:
- half an avocado
- 1 hardboiled egg
- 3 baby carrots
- 1 clementine
- 2 squares dark chocolate

Water:
- nearly 2L... I spent a lot of time in the bathroom!

Exercise:
- 12km run (1h06min)

Caitlin - Day 3

I think I'll count the first three days of my food journaling as a trial period - I didn't necessarily *try* to eat healthy, therefore, I followed normal eating habits... It has helped me to see what I need to consume less of. (That being chocolate, alcohol, and cheese!) I also really need to get back to the gym!!

• Breakfast: 1/2 Buffalo chicken wrap from the day before (no fries or coleslaw this time!)
• Lunch: Leftover salad from Sunday (day 1)'s dinner.
  
• Dinner: I went to a New London Main Street event with a buffet dinner... this is always dangerous. I had one plate with kale, potatoes au gratin, eggplant parm, and spiral ham, 1 piece italian bread, 1 chicken wing. It was small portions although it sounds like a lot.
  
• Dessert: Of course sweets were passed around after dinner. I had one cookie with frosting and fruit on top, and a peanut butter brownie.
• Snacks: A mid-morning cereal bar.
  
• Drinks: 3 cups of tea, and 1 coffee with hot chocolate mixed in over the course of my work-day. 2 thimble sized plastic cups of wine with dinner, an irish coffee and a lowball glass of whiskey over ice at the bar afterwards.
• Exercise: None :(

Sharing this stuff with you guys really helps! For example, the brownies were SO good, I probably would have had a second one if I didn't have to admit to having two!