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!

Day 3: Tuesday November 17 - Robin

Forgive me. I am not going to play the game today because it was a really horrible day... and I know that that is not in the spirit of the game and I promise that it won't happen again... But, today was the first day of that terrible time of month (again, not an excuse, I know!) which meant that not only did I want to eat nothing but crap, I wanted to eat a lot of crap. I also had some bad news which was somewhat improved with chocolate. The two girls I babysit were little shits (sorry, but that is the only way to qualify them today!), and after being called ugly three times, an idiot once, stupid three times, as well as being hit and kicked far too many times, I was again not in the mood to eat healthily. I was in the mood to go running, but by the time I was home and able to go, it was dark out and raining. GRRRR....!! Okay, so no food count today, but back at it tomorrow. There is a big run planned for the morning so I know the day will start off well. Hope you ladies had a better day (all round - food, exercise, emotionally, physically...) than I did! :)

Caitlin -- Days 1 & 2

Hi Girls :)

My weekends are Sunday and Monday, and this weekend... I was a fatty :( I should have made a more conscious effort to change my eating habits! But really, I'm starting TODAY!

Sunday - DAY 1

• Breakfast: Went out for breakfast and had an egg sandwich with spinach, red peppers, and swiss cheese on ciabatta. Added a little ketchup. 2 cups of tea.
  
• Snack: Fun size bag of m&ms.
  
• Lunch: Burger with onion on bulky roll, ketchup, side salad with garlic croutons and balsamic vinaigrette dressing.
• Beverage: Small dunkaccino from Dunkin Donuts.
  
• Snack? 1 nacho chip with cheese and jalapeno. (stolen from a friend's dinner :) )
• Dinner: Salad with cheese, carrots, nuts, baked chicken, dried cranberries, and balsamic vinaigrette.
• Dessert: My roomie came home with a bunch of leftovers from a baby shower, so I had brownie and bite of coffee cake :(
  
• Beverage: 2 glasses of wine, 1 glass water.
  

It would have been a better food day with less chocolate, and more water & exercise! I also don't usually eat that much cheese.

Monday - DAY 2

Today was my MOVE OUT day - so I got plenty of exercise doing that (I think?).

• Breakfast: Too busy to eat!
  
• Lunch: Went out to eat - had 1/2 fried buffalo chicken wrap with lettuce, tomato, and bleu cheese dressing. Fries, pickle, cole slaw. :( Horribly unhealthy.
  
• Snack: Another baby shower brownie.
  
• Dinner: Homemade curry, grilled chicken, white rice, green beans, baby corn.
  
• Beverages: 2 glasses of wine, cup and 1/2 of tea, and 3/4 liter water.
  

I will be MUCH better today.

You girls seem to be doing well - Keep it up!

Caitlin

Today I wasn't so fatty, but I wasn't so fitty either. Here's how it went:

Breakfast: 1 cup of coffee, black
(woke up at 10 and had no breakfast to speak of)

Lunch: Half a chicken breast wrapped with bacon in cream sauce (leftovers of what my sister and I cooked Saturday)
Small bowl green salad with mandarin oranges and small amount of Italian salad dressing.

Dinner: Spaghetti with tomato sauce and parmesan cheese
Second half of aforementioned chicken
3 small buttermilk biscuits

Snacks: 2 pieces black licorice
2 Thin Mint cookies
1 cup jasmine tea

Water: 40 oz (just over a liter), doing better!

Exercise: Just household chores today...gotta do more working out!!

Day 2: Monday November 16 (Robin)

Today was not a great example of Fit not Fat... and it's only day two! But, as I am still considering the next couple days as part of my "inventory" phase, I think it's okay: I need to get a good look at my (bad) eating habits in order to know what and how to fix them.

Breakfast:
- 1 cup black coffee
- 1 croissant
- small cup OJ

Lunch:
- personal size cheese pizza
- carrot and lettuce salad (approx half cup)
- 1 clementine
(Monday is eat with friends at school cafeteria day... VERY limited veggie options which usually means I resort to the pizza, or just eat the side dishes... today's side dishes were creamed spinach, creamed corn and rice. No thanks!)

Snack:
- individual serving banana yogurt
- 2 chocolate chip cookies
(Monday and Tuesday I babysit from 7-9am and from 4:45-7pm, so I usually have a snack with the girls in the afternoon... they are French, they like cookies... so do I! But, clearly, the cookie snack is going to have to be given up, or reduced to only one cookie)

Dinner:
- 1 hard boiled egg
- 2 inches of french baguette
- 1 clementine
- 1 square of dark chocolate

Water: about 1,5 L

Exercise:
- biking to and from school and babysitting: about 25 minutes, leisurely pace, partly uphill

As mentioned, the babysitting book-ending a day of class and studying doesn't leave me much exercise time on Mondays and Tuesdays. I have (generally) arranged my running schedule so that those days are my "recoop" days, but sometimes the weather or an early work schedule means that I have more recoop days than are probably necessary. BUT - I have just signed up to run a 20km race on the 29th, so the training must start ASAP!

Mellen Day 1

Oh, I also forgot to take my starting weight today, oops! Thanks for the reminder, Robin. Your Frenchy ways sound tasty! And you're soooo much better at running than me...my sister was in town, so I went with her and my dad to church and then we went shopping...is that exercise? Hehe, anyway, here's how it really went down:

Breakfast: Small coffee with cream
3/4ths large blueberry muffin

Lunch: No real lunch to speak of...
20 oz. Gatorade
2 glasses orange juice
3 pieces soft black licorice

Dinner: Breakfast for dinner!
~2.3 scrambled eggs w/ milk
3 slices Irish soda bread (made of flour, baking soda, baking powder, buttermilk) w/ butter
2.5 strips maple-cured bacon
1 glass orange juice

Water: 20 oz...gotta drink more!

Exercise: None to speak of today....:(

Day 1: Sunday November 15

Well, first day started out not too badly, though there seem to be a lot more carbohydrates than I realized. Sunday is a full on homework day, which often means I need things like chocolate to keep me going. I also forgot to weigh myself this morning, so I'm not completely sure what my starting weight is... tomorrow! So here it is:

Breakfast:
- 2 cups black coffee
- 2 small clementines
- 4 French "breakfast cookies"
(Seriously... they sell breakfast cookies in this country and they are fabulous...no, they are not just regular cookies eaten at breakfast, they are actually sold in breakfast aisle, and have less sugar and more whole grains than regular cookies. They are also my newest bad habit... And, for the record, there are four in a package, I'm not a total glutton!)

Lunch:
- 1 kiwi
- 1 handful of peanuts
- 2 squares of dark chocolate
- 2 one inch slices of french baguette with butter
- 1 cup tea with skim milk

Dinner:
- (Big!) bowl of whole wheat pasta with homemade tomato and veggie sauce
- 1 oz (approx) of grated cheese
- 1 square dark chocolate

Snacks:
- no snacks really, though my whole lunch could be counted in the snacks category because I kind of ate all the different things over the course of about an hour, nibbling between typing paragraphs...

Water: not counting the coffee and tea, nearly 1,5L - before I go to bed, it will be.

Exercise:
- morning run: 5,5km (29min)
- stretching: 10 min
- ridiculous amounts of brain exertion and finger activity while trying to write a French paper about subjectivity in language learning... which probably doesn't count as exercise, but I think it should.

That's all for me! Hope you girls have a good first day!
Robin

Let's get not fatty!

Alrighty ladies, I made us a little bloggy thingy for to be Fit not Fat. The format is as follows, if I recall:

Date:
Breakfast: (what you ate, as much detail as possible)
Lunch: (ditto to above and ditto below)
Dinner:
Snacks:

Water: (the quantity of water drunk in the day)

Exercise: (the exercise[s] done and the length of time)

Sound okay?