Food Journal
by This is the place for all of us who are hopelessly trying to lose weight...to write what we eat everyday. Most of us go on eZabel in the morning...so it would probably be best to write what you ate the day before.
For Example:
Monday, 7/25/05
Breakfast:
Basic 4 Cereal w/ 1% milk
Snack @ 11am:
Low-Fat Yogurt
Lunch:
Turkey Wrap w/ low-fat mayo
1 pickle
Baked Lays Potato Chips
Diet Coke
Snack @ 3pm:
Trail Mix
Dinner:
Grilled Chicken
Mixed Frozen Veggies
1 Slice Bread
Water
Snack @ 7pm
Low Fat Popcorn
I think we should try to be specific...this way we could get tips on how to improve. Like, "tuna salad w/ mayo" we could suggest a low-fat mayo....stuff like that.
I would suggest putting our weights down...but that might be a little too personal for everyone.
Let's get started!!!
(If anyone has any other suggestions as to what we should include...speak now!)
(I'm very excited about this!)
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hmm i ate a bunch of stuff i should not have eaten this weekend in North Carolina. Wow. SO much ice cream, chocolate, chips and all kinds of good stuff. Home made apple pie. mmmmmmm mmmmmm good
breakfast - check myself out in the mirror. chew on my arms, becuase they are huge and taste like love
lunch -protein shake
dinner - soy cheese
it's a tough diet but i love it
Low carb Monster, Red Bull or Rockstar
part of my daily diet now
woot woot
before work i have a red bull and some turkey breast. thats my new routine. red bull is delicious.
yeah but Monster is better tasting. Seriously. Seriously. I taste tested them all and Monster is my fave.
i'll try it
i mean they all taste pretty much almost the same. Almost. There's something about Monster that I like better than the others though.
serious? Ben was trying to drink it one time and it smelled so bad I started gagging.
This is a dumb journal, i hate it.
ur mom hates you
8/11
Breakfast - Dry frosted mini wheats (muching throughout day)
Snacks - A peach and an apple
Lunch - More of yesterday's pasta
Dinner - Grilled swordfish and rice
Popcorn
1/2 a bailey's milkshake
8/9
Breakfast: Multi-grain cereal w/ 1% milk
Snack: Mini Muffins
Lunch: Chicken Parm & wheat pasta, gingerale
Snack: Twix Bar
Dinner: Salad & 1/2 hamburger, water
8/10
Breakfast - frosted mini wheats, dry. About 2 cups. (and I munched on these later in the afternoon)
Lunch - 1 c. pasta, a little butter and parmesean cheese; 6 tiny cookies.
Snack - A peach
Dinner - Sushi (california rolls) A few more tiny cookies.
8/9
Breakfast - 1 pop tart
1/2 c. of pistachios
Lunch - 3 pieces of low-cal garlic bread and a little of my homemade tomato sauce
An M&M ice cream sandwich.
1 more pop tart
a bag of BBQ chips (200 cal.)
Dinner - 2 ears of fresh corn on the cob with a little butter and kosher salt, 1 small piece of grilled chicken.
Another M&M ice cream sandwich
A handful of chips & salsa (both fat free)
Those M&M Ice cream sandwiches are my absolute favorite. I only let myself buy them when I have a coupon, and I did this week. Heavenly. :)
hmm okay this will be easy for yesterday
Monday
Breakfast - (around 2 pm) everything bagel with cream cheez, medium chai
dinner - salad, salmon, a lil bit of mashed potatoes
snack - some peanuts, a couple almonds and a brazil nut! woot for brazil
the day before that, on Sunday, i had
- half of a corn muffin and coffee for breakfast on the way to the convention
- salad and a pria bar for lunch that didn't sit very well, we forgot to bring a cooler and got the salads on the way to the convention at Wawa, and then kept them in a plastic bag by our seats, I wonder if something got weird, i don't know.
- extremely delicious thai food for dinner after the convention, but since my lunch didn't sit well..... I then proceeded to get an extremely bad upset stomach for a couple of hours
Aug. 8th
Breakfast: Shredded Wheat w/ walnuts & honey
Lunch: a bialy w/ butter, 1/2 bagel w/ creamcheese & jelly. (we went to LI this w/e, i was craving good NY bread!) Gingerale
Dinner: Chicken Parmagiana, Wheat Pasta (I tried it Diana, it's really good, you can barely taste a difference.) Salad w/ oil & balsamic vinegar, Bread, 2 glasses wine.
Dessert: 1 scoop sherbert
Isn't the pasta great?! Looking at Barilla's website, it's got the same amount of protein as a steak, but is obviously much healthier.
What's a bialy?
it's basically, a more flavorful roll, the center has cooked onion in it.
Like focaccia?
no, focaccia is a bit harder, and the onion is usually baked into it. a bialy has the consistency of a roll. and the onions are just laying in the center of it. (the center is almost completely hollowed out)
Huh. I've never heard of that.
I wondered if it was a Polish thing - I've never lived in an area that had a high Polish or Jewish population, so I guess that's why I've never heard of it. That made me feel a little better.
haha, i know, i was surprised i was familer with something you've never heard of. (and, yea, there is A LOT of jewish people in LI)
8/8
Breakfast - an attempt at homefries. Forced down two burned ones.
Snack - A bag of chips
A cup of hot chocolate
Lunch - A little chicken w/broccoli and white rice. 2 peices of a hershey bar.
Dinner - A little more chicken/w broccoli and white rice. A piece of a hershey bar. An M&M ice cream sandwich.
8/7
Breakfast - strawberries
lunch - 4 slices of garlic bread dipped in my tomato sauce
Snack - Chips & Salsa (both fat-free)
Later - Nausea. No food.
8/6
Breakfast - A chocolate croissant
Lunch - Pasta with butter & parmesean
Dinner - (at a cocktail party) 1 glass of red wine, 1 sweet vermouth, 2 peices of (bite-sized) coconut chicken, a few bites of a pork roasted spring roll (bleh, it was too greasy) 2 meatballs, 5 chocolate-covered strawberries, 1 (bite-sized peice) of bruscetta. I think I had fewer calories at this party than at a dinner I cook.
On the way home - large fries from burger king.
8/3
bfast: egg white cheese omlette, whole wheat grain toast (dry), OJ
snack: 1/2 of a 1/2 of a brownie (lol)
lunch: wahoos charbroiled chicken tacos, rice
snack: 1/2 of a slim fast chocolate crunch bar
dinner: 1 cup of sugar free healthy choice butter pecan ice cream, w/fat free sugar free chocolate syrup
yesterday was a bad day, i needed chocolate =(
8/5
Strawberries
Pasta w/butter & parmesean cheese
Dinner - grilled flounder stuffed with crab, grilled baby potatoes
8/4
1 brownie
Lunch - an evil hamburger & fries
Godiva truffles (6)
Strawberries
evil hamburger. hamburgers are the devil? haha
It hurt me later, if you know what I mean...
it was a repeater
Yes. That's why I had the truffles, because everything else was making me nauseated.
8/3:
bfast: egg white burrito in a wheat tortilla, salsa
snack: brownie (could't resist)
lunch: char broiled chicken salad, no dressing
snack: plum & banana
dinner: cup of healthy choice ice cream (no sugar) and non-fat whip cream w/walnuts.
8/3
Breakfast: shredded wheat w/ walnuts & honey, skim milk
Snack: pecan bun
Lunch: South Beach Diet frozen entree
Snack: 1 Biscotti
Dinner: Small piece of steak, 1 hotdog, salad, 1/2 corn on the cob
Snack: a couple spoonfuls of part-skim ricotta cheese
8/3
A handful of dry clusters
4 munchkins
A bag of fat-free popcorn
Dinner - Grilled chicken (w/mesquite marinade) and grilled lettuce topped with fresh parmesean cheese.
Snack - Hershey kisses. I don't want to say how many I ate...
8/2
Dry Clusters cereal
A small peice of leftover cake
Lunch - whole wheat pasta with my sauce and garlic bread
Dinner - an evil cucumber
Snack - my homemade parmesean crusted potatoes
Another small piece of leftover cake.
you have said you eat whole wheat pasta a lot. i dont think i've ever tried it, i think i will.
Barilla Plus. I like it a lot.
8/2:
breakfast: oatmeal, whole wheat grain bread 2 slices
snack: nectarine and a plum
lunch: ok i was BAD....2 chicken tacos one greasy crunchy and yummy & the other just chicken in a corn tortilla, rice and chips and salsa
snack: a handful of walnuts
dinner: jello and non fat whip cream....too hot to eat.
8/2
Breakfast-lowfat yogurt, poptart
Lunch-grilled chicken salad w/ lite balsamic vinegrette, water & a
Lite Carmel Frappacino (only 120 calories & 3 grams of fat!)
Snack-Plum (and *I* threw out the pit, didnt swallow it, like other eZabelers) :)
Dinner-Nothing (didnt have time before the meeting, then i had a killer headache when i got home, so we just went to sleep)
OMG the caramel frappacino's are SO good!!! i'm in love with those now!
you should try the lite kind. tina works at starbucks and she read me the nutritional facts for the lite & regular...HUGE difference. and i PROMISE when i say, the lite tastes EXACTLY as good. (except no whipped cream)
THIS IS A GREAT JOURNAL!!!!
for me to poop on
hahahha, if you ate more whole grain your poop would be the correct consistency/hue. hahahhahah
i didnt know this was monitored by the general public... i guess ill have to start digging deeper holes...
8/2 :
Breakfast : Food
Lunch : Food
Dinner : Probably Food
same thing for tomorrow as well.
hi mike, hi, it's me, jahanna, just wanted to tell you, you are one of the most annoying people i have ever met. ever. :) jolly ranchers & pixxie sticks.
hi jahanna, hi, its me mike, i just wanted to tell you, this journal is the worst idea since 100% grain bread. I hate this journal, i hate that i have to read this, cause it makes me hungry.
that was the worst analogy EVER, cuz i LOVE whole grain bread...therefore, i LOVE this journal.
don't push the journal away, embrace the journal, BE the journal.
by the end of the day i can't remember what i ate
also personally i think that if i started keeping a food journal i would get too food-obsessed and develop an eating disorder
and also this weekend i had pizza, pasta, chocolate, all kinds of bad stuff, because i just needed it
they say "eat what you crave cause you're probably lacking something in the fodo you're craving" well i crave EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME! lol
some times i need chocolate or i will kill
HAHAHA i'm the same way!
i ate bad over the weekend but i forgot what i ate. i mean it wasn't THAT bad, but still.
anyway here's yesterday's journal:
8/1
Breakfast: oatmeal, slice wheat toast w/sugar free jelly and OJ
snack: nectarine and a plum
lunch: cobb salad from Jack in the Box, no dressing
snack: slim fast bar
dinner: tortilla (traders joes, no fat) & cup of cantelope
8/1
Breakfast: Basic 4 Cereal w/ skim milk
Lunch: Grilled Chicken Fajita, tortila chips w/ salsa, water
Snack: 3 broccoli stems. (i love them!)
Dinner: Shrimp w/ cocktail sauce, broccoli w/ lemon & garlic. (i always make things, that i really dont "go" together, i never KNOW whats goes together, hmph), lemonade
Snack: Biscotti cookie & glass of skim milk
8/2
Breakfast - A small cookie and dry clusters cereal.
Lunch - whole wheat pasta and homemade tomato sauce
Dinner -
8/1
Breakfast - pineapple
Lunch - An office party. I have a feeling I'm only going to like the food I brought, though, which is all good stuff.
(Lunch wasn't bad - I had a few chips, a piece of cake and mostly fruit and salads. I didn't eat much at all. I snacked later on a few more chips and a cookie.)
Dinner - Shrimp cocktail
Snack - A small piece of chocolate cake.
no way! i had shrimp w/ cocktail sauce last night for dinner too!
That's freaky. Don't let Mike hate on you. He's a punk.
7/30
No breakfast
Lunch - small bowl of whole wheat pasta and my tomato sauce
Dinner (at my grandparents') - Chips & cucumber with veggie dip, lourkanika (greek sausage) with french bread, linguini with meatballs, chicken parmesaean, a big salad. THEN a small slice of chocolate cake, a lot of fruit and courumbeadis (greek butter cookies) and a cup of tea.
7/31
Breakfast - pineapple
lunch - more whole wheat pasta with tomato sauce
dinner - cookout at a friends' house - 1 burger, 1/2 a hot dog, pasta salad, corn on the cob, fruit salad.
Weekends out are so tough.
I was so awful this weekend, i dont even want to put stuff, but i must.
7/29
Breakfast: 1 egg, 2 sausage links, toast, hot chocolate.
Lunch: triscut crackers, pepperoni, cheese, pepsi
Dinner: Buffalo chicken sandwhich, fries, margarita
*two after dinner drinks*
7/30
Breakfast: Bagel w/ turkey.
Lunch: Taco Bell-1 Gordita taco thingy & 1 of those potato things and cinnemon twists
Snack: Rita's Italian Ice..regular size
Dinner: 1 Slice Papa John's Pizza, Med. McDonalds French Fries. (i know, why two orders of fast food from different places..i was picking up an order for a couple people, lol)
7/31 (the day I felt guilty)
Breakfast-Banana
Lunch: Grilled Chicken & a salad w/ lowfat dressing, water
Snack: Basic 4 Cereal w/ skim milk
Dinner: 1 small hamburger (on home grill) small salad, 1 glass arbor mist wine
oh oh! i also did a considerable amount of exercise today, one of Austin's builders was in a bind trying to finish something up for tomorrow, so i went and helped Austin @ the job, he textured a ceiling, so i mixed the mud..(not so easy) and i was carrying buckets of water back & forth for a good 3 hours & pushed him around on scaffolding. $400 bucks for 4 hours of work...not bad!
ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas! ritas!
7/29
Breakfast - a peach ~ 20 calories
snack - pistachios ~ 200 calories
Hot chocolate - 120 calories
Lunch - BK whopper Jr (w/no cheese or mayo), med fries and a couple sips of a milkshake ~ 750 calories.
Dinner - Didn't really have anything.
Snack - my fried zucchini which was probably about 700 calories counting the tomato sauce I dipped it in.
I was a naughty boy today, I think. . .
Breakfast: Burger King egg, sausage and cheese on a biscuit, orange juice
Lunch: Grilled cheese with tomato, a root beer.
Snack: Vanilla milkshake.
Dinner: Cheesesteak and a couple Smirnoffs.
7/28
Breakfast: slim fast shake
Snack: Granola Bar
Lunch: Pizza & Salad
Snack: Yogurt
Dinner: Roast Beef & New Potatos
what is a new potato?
they are just, little, white potatos. they're like, the size of a ping pong ball.
7/28
Breakfast - same cereal as yesterday ~ 300 cal.
Morning snack - peach ~ 50 cal.
Lunch - Whole wheat pasta w/homemade tomato sauce ~ 500 cal.
Snack - fat free chips ~ 200 calories
Dinner - London broil and peas ~ 700 calories
Total Calories: 1750
Breakfast: Zone bar. Mmm.
Lunch: Two waffle with syrup and a tall glass of skim milk.
Dinner: Steak and onions.
I didn't snack at all today, because later tonight I'm gonna have a few brewskies.
wed 7/27:
b-fast: bowl of special K, orange juice
snack: hard boiled egg (whites only) banana
lunch: brown rice and chicken and 2 pieces of licorice
dinner: wasn't hungry so i had a cup of frozen veggies and a klondike slim-a-bear ice cream sandwich. 60 cals, 1 g of fat and 10 grams of sugar
7/27
Breakfast-8am-Slimfast Shake(180 calories, 5 grams fat)
Snack-11am-Slimfast snack bar(120 calories, 5 grams fat) & 6pack package of cheese on wheat crackers. (190 calories...9 grams fat)
Lunch-2pm-Stirfry Chicken w/ veggies (leftovers) & 1 cup of captin crunch cereal w/ skim milk. (i was craving it, and it's in the house! that's why the stuff needs to be thrown out!) & water
Dinner-6oz filet, small salad w/ oil & vinegar, small baked potato w/ a little butter. water
(Mike sucks)
My day, once more: 7/27
Breakfast - Frosted Mini wheats with 1% milk ~ 300 calories
Lunch - the other half of yesterday's wrap ~ 400 calories
Snack - three cookies ~ 240 calories
Afternoon snack - 1/4 of a coffee cake ~ 300 calories
Dinner - Grilled chicken and grilled zucchini ~ 700 calories
Snack - Light popcorn ~ 200 calories
Total calories today: 2140. Not bad. Dinner killed me cuz it was covered with olive oil. At least that's really healthy fat, though.
Today I ate one baby. Tommorrow I will eat another.
7/27
Breakfast - Frosted Mini Wheats with 1% milk. ~ 300 calories
Lunch - The other half of yesterday's wrap ~ 400 calories
yay, im breaking eZabel....
Sorry, repost.
My breakfast today...
ps: soda & other sugary beverages add a ton of extra calories...try drinking more water...& zero calorie drinks. (i'm also not having wine or other alcoholic drinks w/ dinner during the week)
i found out some "tricks" to making margaritas, long islands non-fat, no sugar and no cal's.
oh and the most perfect drink, bacardi rum nad diet coke.
oh really? cool. yea, i'd do the bacardi & diet coke if i was out for the weekend for drinks w/ friends or something...but i dont like it enough to drink it for no reason. haha
yeah so true. i don't like alcohol w/dinner. it's weird. like finger foods i'm ok with, but an actual meal it doesn't go well with me.
i dont like hard drinks w/ dinner. but i like red or white wine or a beer w/ dinner sometimes.
Tuesday, 7/26
Breakfast-Slimfast Shake
Snack: Trail Mix
Lunch: Red Lobster (I ordered from the lite menu) broiled flounder, garlic shrimp skewer & broccoli. & two chedder biscuits. ugh...those are SO bad for you. & a few of Austin's french fries. (another darn it...why do i need those extra calories??)
Snack: Banana
Dinner: Stir-fry-Chicken w/ Cashew Nuts & Veggies. (I have a rockin receipe if anyone is interested) w/ a side of rice.
Snack: A handful of grapes & cherries
ps: Austin offered to go out & get us icecream...i refrained...knowing i'd have to post it on eZabel. haha
7/26
Breakfast - about 2 c. of oyster crackers
Lunch - 1/2 chicken delight wrap, with grilled chicken and veggies
Snack, spaced out in the afternoon - about 1/4 c. of coffee cake
Dinner - Salad with my homemade dressing
10pm snack - Garlic bread and tomato sauce
7/26:
Breakfast: bowl of special K, banana and hard boil egg (just the whites)
lunch: 2 chicken tacos and rice (i'm bad i ate some chips we went to a mex restaurant)
dinner: cup of mixed veggies, an apple and an orange and a sugar free fudgecicle.
Breakfast: Two bowls of Lucky Charms with skim milk! I was hungry!
Lunch: Like 15 Sun Chips
Dinner: Two spicey chicken burritos from Taco Bell and a medium Code Red. I'm leaving now to get pick it up, lol.
Not bad today, I think.
And later I'll prolly snack on a couple orange flavored Milanos! So good.
brian, i'm sorry...but..."not bad"???
so much sugar in the cereal.
then anything fast food...so bad...(unless you get a salad w/ fat free dressing) and the soda probably had like 300 calories.
(am i too harsh?) haha
NO WAY! be brutal. i need it.
7/25/05
Breakfast - homemade cucumber salad with cucumbers, red onion, olive oil, champagne vinegar and herbs de provence
Snacks all day - handfulls of Peanut M&Ms from a co-worker.
Lunch - Chicken fingers and fries and a small salad (Ugh, see this is working already, I shouldn't have eaten that)
Dinner - Ravioli and more cucumber salad.
10pm Snack - fat-free chips and a scoop of ice cream.
Man, I suck, This journal is really going to help.
See! but how good is this! i started my diet yesterday...you wouldnt want to see some of my days last week.