For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Good morning, Friends!
Here I sit keying to you, drinking coffee this morning. Updated yesterday's entry, in which I got hungry later and went over on calories...so...weight is up this morning, but it's mostly a SODIUM gain (fake-gain), so I'll take it with a grain of salt! :-)
Hubby and I ate lunch at his favorite buffet twice over this past weekend and i was good with calories.
Will update more later...
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Food today:
Breakfast: coffee, tsp low-cal creamer, 1/2 banana 60
Lunch: salad of carefully measured 1 cupful mixture of lettuce, cherry tomatoes, bell pepper, carrots, cucumber, onion (50), peach/pear/pineapple (70), 1/3 cupful strawberries 15, 1 tbs ti dsg (55) and sunflower seeds (60), water (0) 250
Snack: s/w of 2 diet toasts (80), 1 tsp lowcal mayo (25), 2 lf bolognas (50), mustard (5), 1/4 cupful onion (15) 185
Subtotal est cals: 495
Snack: chocolate fudge sundae (300) and candy (500)
Today's est cals: 1295
Supper: small salad veggies/fruits/sunflower seeds w ti dsg (200) and bologna s/w (185) 385
Total est cals today: 1680
Afternoon update: I visited Mom this afternoon and took her a fruit salad I made for her of mixed strawberries/banana/pear/peach/pineapple pieces with the juice. It was about 2 cupfuls. She ate most of it while I was there with her. We watched tv a little while together. Her CNA came in and said to me in front of Mom that she was not able to get Mom up today. Mom said her left leg has been hurting her (was why). There was a pillow under her leg to elevate it. I went to BK after I left the nursing home and had a chocolate fudge sundae and then went by the store and bought chocolate candy before coming back home. :-( I just ate candy before updating this entry. I shouldn't let things affect me like this and I do it automatically, without even thinking about why until afterwards and then I realize I was trying to console away sadness/stress/worry which is NO REASON!!!
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Good morning, Friends!
Have had my coffee... ...actually had two.... ...hehehe!!!
Such a beautiful, sunny, warm August day here! I think about the verse in the Bible that says 'This is the day that the Lord hath made. We will REJOICE and be GLAD in it.'...and to that I say...AMEN! :-)
Getting some clothes washed this morning...
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Food today:
2 coffees, 2 tsp lowcal creamer, 20
Brunch: spegetti w meatballs (200) 1 diet bread (40) and veggies/sunflower seeds/ti dsg salad (300) 540
1/2 cupful black eye peas and a little onion 140
cone soft serve vanilla ice cream 200
large salad of mixture of some of the following: lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, bell pepper, onion, banana, strawberry (160), peaches, pears, pineapple (140), sunflower seeds (150), ti dsg (150) 600
Today's est cals: 1500
Was hungry later, so had a very hi-sodium speghetti and meatballs, w 1 reg white bread, and a small microwaved apple w cinnamon and a little margerine and sugar 700
Total est cals: 2200
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Update: Visited Mom this afternoon and took her a container with black eye peas in it, also in a sandwich bag, a little onion in tiny pieces to mix in, and in another sandwich bag, a regular piece of bread. The staff at the nursing home had her up out of her bed and sitting in her wheelchair. Mom and one of her friends, who was also sitting in her wheelchair, were sitting together at the table they eat meals at and talking to each other. I didn't stay long and I told Mom I would set the food on her mobile tray table by her bed. She appeared to be doing much better. Thank you for your prayers! :-)
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
Hope you're having a beautiuful day Maria!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello to you!
Hubby and I went to church, then out to eat at his fav buffet restaurant again, and then we visited Mom at the nursing home, and took her a baked sweet potato with a little honey butter on it, pulled (in very tiny pieces) roast beef with gravy, and a yeast roll with honey butter on it. She ate some of it while we were there and said she'd already eaten lunch earlier that they'd brought to her and she decided to save the other for later today.
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Yesterday's food entry is updated.
Today's food:
coffee w tsp low cal creamer, and a mint 40
large veggies, fruits, and sunflower seeds salad w ti dsg, tiny amount steak, small piece cheese pizza, and ice cream with icing 900
3 small pieces orange candy 75
1/2 cupful rice, 2 small boiled chicken gizzards, 1/3 cupful onion, 2 cupfuls black eye peas 600
Total est cals: 1615
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Thanks for your encouraging comments. What wonderful friends you are! :-)
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Good morning, Friends!
Hubby is off work today. We're up early this morning, drinking our coffees. Not sure my weight this morning, usually weigh a little later before eating or drinking anything, but only had 1100 cals yesterday, which is under maintenance cals, so will leave it the same as yesterday, though may be lower.
Hubby and I plan to eat lunch at his favorite buffet restaurant in the next larger town over today.
Will update more later...
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Food today:
Breakfast: coffee, tsp low-cal creamer, diet toast w 1/2 tsp low-cal marg 60
Buffet lunch w Hubby: large salad of veggies, fruit, seeds, etc. and a little t i dsg...small piece of cheese pizza, 1/2 yeast roll, 1 little piece of fried chicken liver...600
Snack: almost 1/2 banana 40
Snack: candy (was given) 100
Snack: lettuce w a tsp low-cal mayo on 1 plain diet toast 100
Supper: cupful rice w onion cooked in it, cupful black eye peas, 2 boiled chicken gizzards (I cooked the chicken gizzards, onion, and rice together and the black eye peas from dry peas separate) 450
Snack: candy 100
Total est cals: 1450
Snack: cupful black eye peas w rice and onion and 1 diet bread 250
Total est cals: 1700
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Afternoon update: Hubby and I walked after we ate lunch at his fav buffet restaurant, then we visited Mom and took her a hamburger (which I fixed like yesterday for her and she ate it all)...she still in her bed at the nursing home.
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Good morning, Friends!
Pretty, sunny morning here. Decided to have a morning cup of coffee, something I haven't had in weeks. Tastes pretty good.
Getting some clothes washed this morning...
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Food today:
coffee, tsp lowcal creamer, 1/2 cupful microwaved grits, tsp lowcal margerine, 2/3 microwaved egg, 1/2 banana 250
1/2 cupful scuppernong grapes 50
BK whopper jr and chocolate fudge sundae 700 (YUM!)
cupful scuppernong grapes 100
Today's est cals: 1100
Not hungry so not going to 'make' myself eat supper...later tonite, decided to have a snack, tho not really hungry, and had grapes....
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Visited Mom this afternoon...took her another BK hamburger of which I had taken the hamburger meat and put it into very little pieces that were small easy to eat pieces in the burger and added extra ketchup to make it easier for her to eat it...SHE ATE ALMOST ALL OF IT! ...Said she'd not eaten her lunch...didn't like whatever it was they served her....She and I talked and watched tv together for a while in her room with me sitting in a chair beside her in her bed. She told me "My Preacher visited me". L She was happy about that.
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
yes, tartine is the grey/white cat. I'm bringing the black cats with me to the US. they are so lovely and can't leave them behind, although I know they'll hate the trip! these are young cats that i got here in Switzerland - this is the first time they travel. I did take my cat (Kitty) I had before to tokyo. She even traveled to Hawaii with us, hehe. She hated it, we didn't do it on purpose, though- that's when we were moving from one place to another....
I got a lot of grapes (Italian grapes) today at the store - they are the best! Yum!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Good morning, Friends!
Well, I went back to the little island I was on 4 days ago this morning (when I stepped on the scale and saw that I'm the same weight I was 4 days ago)...but I've set sail again and am on my way to island 140 again. I also updated my yesterday's entry, which shows that my 'mini-binge' ended up being over 1000 calories last nite. I will from now on be very guarded in letting what anyone says to me affect me negatively. With all I've been going through regarding Mom and my Hubby being sick, I've allowed myself to easily become discouraged here lately. Not good. With the Lord's help, I will do better. :-)
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Food today:
Banana 100
small serving of stew beef, onion, potato, yellow rice 150
ditto above 150
cupful of scuppernong grapes 100
small serving of stew beef, onion, potato, yellow rice 150
ditto above 150
cupful of scuppernong grapes 100
Total est cals: 900
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Visited Mom at her nursing home today. She still in bed. I took her more bananas and a big pretty book with houses decorated festively in it to look at, which she liked a lot and we looked at some of the pages in it together. She wanted ice cream and I went and got some and brought it back to her. She was happily eating ice cream when I left.
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
Hope your mom and hubby get to feeling better soon!
I have to take comments about my age with a grain of salt--someone was still thinking I looked 28 when I was about 43--I just think c'mon, you must be joking--though I took it as a compliment! (Definitely a double-edged sword!) I figure it's best to take the compliments with grace when they come--they may not be there tomorrow:-)
I of course see jowls and the beginning of sagging when I look at myself in the mirror lately--it's really best to just look myself in the eye and move on when I pass by one! Oh and I agree with the calorie counting--it's the best for me too. I just slacked off because my food habits had changed so over the last few months. I'm gradually feeling a little more adventurous, so I will be starting the counting eventually.
As for your mom, I hope her toe is healing okay. When you said she was in bed, that's what I wondered about.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Good morning, Friends!
I decided to put the goal weight bar back in since I left goal weight after I arrived at it in June and am working on getting back to it again.
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Food today:
one glazed donut 200
1/2 banana 50
other tbd....a Friend is treating me to lunch and I don't know where we'll be going...but I gotta be good!!! I'm almost back at goal again!
cinnamon muffin (not ordered, was brought by the waitress cause lunch was late, to eat while we waited on lunch to come), a small amount of cheese pizza and a veggies salad w a little t i dsg 1000
scuppernong grapes 75
Nite-time mini-binge...lf bologna, lf mayo, onion, and lettuce on plain diet toast...also another donut, 1/2 banana, and also a pack of m n m's plain chocolate candy...later also 1/2 ear of corn on cob, a little sweet potato with sugar and cinnamon, and sunflower seeds... 1015
Today's est total: 1325 2340 (ewwww!) Nite time update after mini-binge: Did over a mile on the treadmill on uphill-incline tonite to try to counter these added cals from the mini-binge a little earlier......
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Update: Friend and I had a nice outing...She treated me to lunch at a nice restaurant that I didn't know about in a nearby town...then afterward we visited a thrift store in the same town.
Later this afternoon, I got Mom a hamburger with tomato and lettuce on it and also some bananas and took them to her...I made sure the beef was in tiny pieces before she ate it and she ate about 1/2 of the hamburger and 2 bananas...She was still in bed, and she said she's still not feeling good...
Hubby is feeling better....Again thank you for your prayers! :-)
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
Sounds like you had a nice outing with your friend....Life is much better with a friend sometimes..... :-)
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Good morning, Friends!
Back to day before yesterday's weight again. You know....before the 760 ice cream I had for a little nitetime mini-binge. Haha! It's a beautiful, sunny, warm morning here. We're getting into the mid 90's (fahrenheit) for highs now. Also had similar for July, which is the usual for this time of year here in South Carolina, USA.
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Food today:
fried egg w a little onion and plain diet toast 135 (wanna change to something different for breakfast)
2 KK donuts 400 (double yum!)
1 banana 100 (okay)
BK Whopper, Jr. burger 400 (very yummy!)
Small sweet potato w a tsp lowcal margerine, 2 tsp sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon 175 (yum)
1 medium white potato w a tbs ketchup 165 (okay)
Today's est cals: 1275 (so-so)
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Visited Mom again today....When I left, she was sitting up in her wheelchair and appeared to be feeling better. Thank you for your prayers! :-)
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
If its a girl, we know exactly what her name will be. However, if its a boy, we'll have our work cut out for us. We know what his middle name will be, but we're stuck on coming up with a good first name to go with it. At any rate, we've decided to keep the names secret until the baby is born. :)
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Good morning, Friends!
Last nite, I got to really worrying about Mom not feeling well and I resorted to negative behaviour I resorted to in the past when under a lot of stress and instead of simply trusting the Lord to heal Mom, I took it on myself to be fearful, and to comfort myself, I remembered the pint of 760 cals ice cream my Daughter brought me last week and ate it to try to soothe my worries away. Thing is, I was not even really hungry! So there's the confession of your hypocrite this morning. Had I simply trusted the Lord to take care of Mom and not let fear take over me, the scale wouldn't have been UP this morning and I could have had the PEACE the Lord wants me to have without eating that pint of ice cream and feeling VERY NAUSEATED and having an upset stomach afterwards. I am a Christian and as i look back over the past years of my life, i see this pattern of behaviour, not just of giving in to overeating to try to comfort myself after allowing myself to become fearful, but I also see that God always came through and I let myself suffer needlessly when I could have been joyful while waiting on the manifestation of God's help. So many days I could have been joyful and peaceful and I let fear rule. What kind of Christian is that? Not trusting God for His Help. Lord, please help me be a better Christian, I pray.
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Food today:
fried egg and plain diet toast 130
scuppernong grapes 100
mashed potatoes, plain green peas, baked chicken 400
mashed potatoes, baked chicken 350
1/2 ear of corn on cob 100
Est cals today: 1080
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Update: Visited Mom a couple of hours and took her some mashed potatoes, chicken noodle soup, canteloupe, peaches, and gatorade which has electrolytes in it (to drink over ice). She ate some of the food and drank some gatorade. I polished her fingernails at her request. I talked with her nurse and her nurse talked with the supervisor nurse, who checked Mom over while I was there. The supervisor nurse ordered some more medicine for Mom, which I believe and hope will help her. Thank you for your prayers. Though still in the bed, Mom seemed better today than yesterday. :-)
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Hope you're having a nice day!
Love, Maria
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
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Hello to you!
Hubby and I went to church, then out to eat, and then we visited Mom, who wasn't feeling well, at the nursing home. Hubby hasn't been feeling well, either, so I ask you to please pray for them.
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Today's food:
fried egg, 1 plain diet toast 130
2 mints 50
veggie salad w ti dsg, yams, a little turkey, dsg, etc, and ice cream 700
scuppernong grapes 100
lettuce w a little lc mayo on 1 plain diet toast 100
another lettuce mayo toast 100
chocolate fudgesicle ice cream 110
1 diet toast, lf bologna, ff cheese, mustard 100
pint ice cream 760
Total est. cals: 2150
Thanks for your encouragements on getting back to goal where I recently was at. I am feeling better and happier now that instead of continuing to go up, I'm getting back to where I was. You all are a wonderful group of friends! :-)
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Hope you're having a blessed day!
Love, Maria
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I'm hoping my gain is mostly sodium related as well. I hope you have an excellent day!
skinnygrlwithin on 08/17/2010:
I'm sure it's just sodium as you thought... it will drop!!
hollybelle on 08/17/2010:
Maria! I didn't account for my grapes yesterday! I are about 2 cups so my cals weren't as low as I thought! Ha! That's OK though. I did fine. I won't update my diary, but I didn't think of it until I thought of you!
just42day on 08/17/2010:
I haven't added salt to anything in months which is a major change for me. I love, love, love salt. Even w/out adding salt to my food, I know there's ample sodium in so many things (tomato sauce, tuna, blah, blah). I swear, I'd have a salt block in the house if I could have my way.... Let's both hope the sodium weight goes away quickly! :)
V on 08/17/2010:
hey Maria!! I hope all is well with you! :)
nita51 on 08/17/2010:
Happy Tuesday to you. When you can eat twice a week at your favorite Buffet and maintain GOOD calorie control,,,You've won the battle. :) :) LOOK AT YOU, ONLY 5.2 pounds to go! Praise The Lord! Have a Blessed Day. Hugs
moogy on 08/17/2010:
I hope you have a healthy eating day Maria.