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Tonight my particular group of Ladybugs met at the Swiss Chalet for dinner.  Because of my later shift, we met very close to my work, and I was able to make it in time for dinner.

When we were arranging it all, I requested a pre-order of a chicken ceasar salad.  This saved me from the french fries and stuff that I might have ordered.  Mind you, Fran did share a few with me. And when dessert time came around, no-one would share with me!  I ended up having a cup of coffee with Baileys and a bit of whip cream.  It was a great ending to a wonderful meal.

All in all, today was a very good day.  No complaints about my food choices – except that next time I will remember to ask for salad dressing on the side and no croutons!

Have a good night!

Marcia

I still have to solve this food intake thing – by my estimation, I should be losing and I’m not.  This is so frustrating that I sometimes feel like throwing in the towel.

Yet I persevere and hope that tomorrow will be even better than today.  Now I’m going to finish eating my apple.  Fuji apples are on sale at Calgary Co-op for only 99 cents a pound.  I see a lot of apples and asparagus in my next week!

Have a good night and we’ll catch up tomorrow!

Marcia

Being Tuesday, yet again…I missed the gym.  I could go right now, but frankly after driving to Fort Saskatchewan and back – with lots of moving of boxes. – I’m just tired.

So, I’m going to finish my bowl and grab my book, and I’m going to go to sleep!

Have a good evening and stay the course!

Marcia

My bedroom was a quasi-disaster area as I had begun cleaning and decluttering my room.  It looks much nicer now.

I had also shovelled a lot of snow.  It seemed pretty easy to just do everyone’s sidewalk this morning – the snow was so light and there wasn’t too much of it.  By the time I got to the gym, I was pumped.

So, we’ll weigh in on Wednesday.  I’ll be hitting the gym later than usual since I am off to Edmonton tomorrow.

All that to say that a day off doesn’t always make for a great day diet-wise.  My meals were great.  Day two of the buddah bowl and it was still delicious.  But I think I’m going to get low sodium soya sauce – and probably make less dressing next time.

It’s the snacking in between that is getting to me – muffins, a sandwich, some dried mango…. All perfectly acceptable, just not too many of them.

We’ll see how tomorrow goes!

Marcia

I got a recipe from my dietician for a Buddah Bowl.  Now a  buddah bowl can be one of two things:

or 

The recipe for the meal on the right is at this link.  But to let you know, it’s not really like mine.  Mine consists of some starch (I used 1 cup of whole grain rice noodles) 100 grams of tofu, cubed, a tomato – sliced, a green onion-diced, some cucumber and an amazing dressing.

For the dressing I took the zest off a lime and the juice from inside it, about a tablespoon of grated ginger, a tablespoon of sesame oil ( and don’t substitute something else for this, the flavour of sesame oil is something I’m really beginning to enjoy) a tablespoon of honey and 4 tablespoons of soya sauce.  (this is enough for four servings, three of which are in the fridge and the other is in my tummy)

If  you search for buddah bowl recipes,  you’ll find all kinds of recipes, which leads me to believe that anything can go into making one – so here’s my formula:

One or two servings of starch – noodles, rice, quinoa, millet, or a mix

As many veggies as you like- spinach, carrots, corn, onion, cucumber, tomato…they can be raw, cooked or steamed, however you like them.

And a dressing over top of it all – to add some flavour.

So that was my creative cooking after work.  This is not a very expensive meal, but I have to say it was very filling.  I am looking forward to enjoying it again tomorrow.

Everything else went as planned today as well.  So I have no regrets about what I’ve eaten or how much I’ve moved.  But I am looking forward to the gym tomorrow!

Have a good night everyone!

Marcia

Some protein – chicken, tofu, beef…

Goal wise it was a good, good day.  A good meal of noodles,(1/2 a cup), some meatloaf and lots of mixed veggies (mostly beans) was the star of the day.

On the “other” side, I didn’t have my breakfast  until 9:30 this morning, at work.  Lots of things got in the way – and I’m glad I got them done – but I did feel the consequences for my lateness.

“Note to Self”  Breakfast needs to be eaten at home, before 8 o’clock in the morning because you’re a basket case, other wise.

And I was – light-headed even.  I’ve never felt that way before.  I hope I don’t feel it again!

Have a good night.  I’m going to sleep early because I’ve got an early morning!

Marcia

For an idea that you might like to do…check out my other blog,

http://shortshoestring.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/take-a-smile/

The above picture showed up on Facebook and inspired a blog post and an action!  Hope you try it too!

Of course since this is Thursday, it was the TOPS scale at front and center.  I weighed 228 pounds – so a drop of 2.5 pounds.  I need to keep that up just so I can catch up on my goals!

We spent the meeting time sharing wisdom, writing them on sheets of paper so that we all have the same wisdom…

1. Don’t worry about things  you can’t change and change the things you can.
2. Where is Encouragement?  Everywhere.                                 Who does it affect?Everyone.
3. Give gratitude each day for all your many blessings.  It will help you balance your day by helping you realize how blessed you are.
4. You are a very special person.  Full of wisdome, experience and love.  You are #1 to your family!
5. Don’t give up!  If you make a slip get back on track.
6. A cord of three strands is not easily broken.  Proverbs.
7. Do unto others as others do to you.
8. Stay on track – don’t give up!

There it is.  I do hope it comes in handy as you travel the road to a healthy body weight.

http://www.californiadriedplums.org (if you want more information), but I’m ready for bed!  It’s been a great day – gym, breakfast, and sticking to my meal plan.

Tonight I did everything I needed to do – which didn’t give me much time for eating.  I’ve got some soup in the crock-pot.  Laundry soap is made and cooling.  The hedgehog is bathed and crunching.

All in all, I’m glad to report a day with no eating regrets!

Have a good one!  TOPS is tomorrow evening!

Marcia

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I’ve been busy all day, and everyone conspired to keep me from eating too many cookies!  But the two I had I did enjoy thoroughly.

As I mentioned yesterday, I missed the gym this morning but was very definitely on time for the ultrasound – and what a wonderful thing that was to share with Emma and Eric. I’m going to have a granddaughter, Lord Willing, in July and she is just so precious.  One of the ultrasound shots is of her touching her toes.  You can’t start exercising too early in life, and I intend to help her exercise every day!

The spring rolls were delicious today – and very filling.  But I didn’t bring something for dinner, so I ended up with pork dumplings.  I just didn’t see anything I would have liked for a meal I had to squeeze into 10 minutes.  Lunch was better – meatloaf, 1/2 a cup of kamut spaghetti and lots of veggies!

See you tomorrow – I’m going to enjoy some hot cocoa (modified from my Christmas recipe) and a few prunes.  I do enjoy my bed time snack!

Rest well everyone!

Marcia

Today I was pretty busy…so not much time for snacking.  I cooked a turkey (no stuffing, no trimmings) packed up 5 containers of meat and made soup stock.  The rest of the stuff will be added tomorrow night.

I also made spring rolls – I’m not sure if I’ll make them the same way next time – maybe more veggies and less rice noodles, but they were good and I’ll take some to work with me tomorrow.

One the down side – the potato salad – it should never have come home with me.  But I did enjoy it, even if I ended up with too much starchy foods today!

I hope you enjoy tomorrow with those you “less than three”

PS:  I did weigh myself this morning – 228.  So not where I want to be, but down from the TOPS weight of Thursday.

I may miss my date at the gym – I’m going to see my grandbaby via ultra-sound and it’s an early appointment.  Then it is off to work and to enjoy wrapping flowers for people.  I think it will be a very long and pleasant day!

Rest well everyone,

Marcia

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