Saturdays menu

3 eggbeaters 90
potatoes 150
toast 180 (restaurant bread)
jelly 40
boca burger 70
bun 90
mayo 15
cole slaw 50
7 oz salmon 200
1/3 cup orzo 210
mayo again 40
strawberries 50
total 1185

another pretty good day. Going out to dinner with our son and his family tonight to our favorite BBQ rib place. Will try not to do to much damage.

SATURDAYS MENU

3 eggbeaters 90
Potatoes 150
toast 180 - restaurant bread so it will be more than my usual 35 per slice
jelly ff 40
boca burger 70
bun 90
mayo 15
cole slaw 50
7 oz salmon 200
orzo 210
mayo 40
strawberries 50
total 1185

another pretty good day

My beautiful wife has for the last several years been buying anything available in fat free, low fat or sugar free. Some examples of what we use are:

fat free butter
fat free sour cream
splenda
low fat whole grain bread (35 cal per slice)
fat free refried beans
eggbeaters. 1/4 c = 1 egg 35 cal v 75 cal
Morningstar Farms sausage crumbles 2/3 cup = 90 cal

Breakfast example

Saute 1/2 of a lg onion. Add 3 or 4 chopped mushrooms. Add 2/3 cup sausage crumbles the add 1/2 cup eggbeaters. I would probably chop up 1 jalapeno pepper and add somewhere here. Put in whatever kind of spice you like.
Fix 2 pcs. toast with spray butter and yo have a nice size breakfast for 220 calories. Get some sugar free jelly for the toast for an extra 10 cal per tablespoon.

Peace !

Here is what the last two days eating have consisted of:

Thur. Bowl of cheerios 1 cup 110 C
Milk 1/2 C skim 45 C
toast 2 slices whole grain light 70
spray butter fat free free
sandwich 2 pc bread 70
1 eggbeater 35
1 slice cheese low fat 35
potato chips 140
1 pc watermelon 100
` 8 oz. salmon 200
baked potato 130
cloe slaw 75
1 cup ice cream fat tree no sugar180
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total 1190

I am trying for no more than 1500 calories per day so this was a good day

Friday

1 egg (always eggbeaters unless specified 35
1/4 cup sausage crumbles (no meat) 35
2 slices toast 70
1/2 lb. peel and eat shrimp 170
shrimp sauce 50
1 Nonni ( biscotti) 160
6 oz turkey breast 150
1 baked potato 130
1/2 cup cottage cheese 90
popcorn 50
1 bowl cheerios 110
milk 45
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total 1090

another pretty good day.

When I started this eating program on March 8 2006 I weighed in at 291 lbs
Last Wed. July 26, 2006 I was at 269.5. Now that is only 21.5 lbs. in 4.5 months but if I can keep it up for 12 mo. that should be 56 lbs. We'll see. More later. Lunch is ready !

Loosing weight

I finally remembered why I wanted to start this blog several weeks ago.

I was going to go on a diet and loose some weight. I thought if I put my efforts in some type of public forum I would be more encouraged to stick with it. Maybe someone else might reap some benefit from my experience. As I am not going to go public with this endevour for some time this will probably have to wait.

Now I know how to loose weight. I have done it before. It really is a simple process. You simple EAT LESS CALORIES THAN YOU USE in your everyday living. That is not very hard to understand. Doing it is something else.

The only thing that has ever been successful for me is writing everything that I eat down on a piece of paper along with the number of calories that item contains. I keep this notebook beside my recliner. I plan on posting what I have to eat on certain days and providing tips on what we eat in future posts.

New beginnings. I have debated this for sometime and decided to jump in with both feet. What will happen with it I have no idea. At age 70 you begin to think it may be to late to start something new. I have no expertise to impart to the public who may tune in here.

I am really not sure what will go on here. I enjoy reading other blogs with people sharing about their lives. Many are well written and therefore interesting. I guess it is not so much what is happening in their lives but how they write about it that makes for interesting reading.

I do not plan on telling anyone about this blog for sometime. If you came here it was by accident and hopefully you will come back at some point.