7/16 pm -

I munched on stale Doritos, only about 4 chips.
I had a foot long pizza sub from Subway with chicken and pepperoni and sauce and cheese. I would have had a plethora of vegetables but Scott brought the sandwich home for me barebones.
I had a piece of the cake I made which isn't very good. It is from a Jiffy mix and has too delicate a texture. They would make good cupcakes though. I also had a glass of milk (2%) my first in I don't know how long.

7/17 am -
Blueberry frozen waffle
Danish
Good thing I am having a salad for lunch. It sounds thoroughly unappetizing though. Maybe I will ask Gimmy for some Ranch to mix it up a bit :)
- posted by Hennifer @ 1:21 PM

 
7/15 pm -

I had 3 very small tacos at home with soy meat product, refried beans, lettuce, tomato, olives, cheese, sour cream and guamole. Not every topping was on each taco however.

I never did have cake out last night but I did make a cake which I have yet to eat. I did steal some frosting though. I had two doritos and a 20 oz cherry pepsi. I don't know why I prefer cherry pepsi over cherry coke when I hate Pepsi so much. I feel like I might have had a late afternoon snack at work but I honestly cannot recall.

7/16 -
frozen waffle, plain
sunflower seeds
peanut M & M's
same salad as 7/15
lots of water today. Yeah and I went on a short stroll on lunch while visiting with Nicole. Oh and Monday night I went on a two block stroll with my son.

I am currently starving and will probably have left over tacos before the guac goes brown and the lettuce wilty.

- posted by Hennifer @ 5:16 PM

 
I am not feeling well about my lack of maintaing my food diary. I suppose this is a part of why I never get any use out of them. I don't keep them long enough and I don't ususally go back and reread.

This morning I had a frozen blueberry waffle plain, the Pillsbury version. Not much nutritional value.
At break time I had some sunflower seeds but I didn't really keep track how many.
My body feels as if I haven't had enough water so I will try to be more conscious throughout the day.

I am going to have a green salad with cheese and grilled chicken, honey mustard is the dressing of choice at work.
I have a slice of homemade cheesecake with white chocolate chips. Yummy. A coworker made it to celebrate my birthday. That will make two desserts today but oh well. I am so looking forward to the cake tonight. It is from the Konditieri and should be divine. I wonder if I will be eating my usual or going for something more exotic.


- posted by Hennifer @ 1:01 PM

 
Yesterday something strange was keeping me from updating my info-

I know I have been slacking the last almost a week now-

I have had peanut M&M's today and that is all, I will be heading to lunch now.
- posted by Hennifer @ 1:02 PM

 
Ok, now I have to play catch up-

7/3 - Later half of the day

I went back down to the potluck to see if anything was looking interesting. I grabbed mashed potatoes, chips and this bellpepper/cucumber salsa, I grabbed a abot 6 cherries. I think there was something else that I grabbed but I didn't eat anything but the cherries and chips with salsa. Cherries are one of those foods that I really don't think about until I am eating them and then I realize how much I like them.

I also had another glass of soda.

When I got home I munched on yogurt covered pretzels, probably 1 cup. I think I may have had one graham cracker but now I really cannot remember.

For dinner there was a group of family at my house and dinner was purchased from BK.

I had a cheeseburger with bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion, and some weird spicy sauce on a deli loaf almost, not your regular bun. It was quite delicious. I also had one half of a regular, fast food cheeseburger with pickle, ketchup, and mustard.

I had about 10 fries and I think one chicken finger. I was grazing even though I should have been more than full. I think it was part of not eating much at work during the day. I also stole two sips of Scott's soda, cola.

As far as I recall I didn't have anything else to eat over the night. Dinner had been kind of late. I am thinking 8 pm. I did run to the store at about 11pm and get an iced green tea to drink.

July 4th-

1/2 cup yogurt covered pretzels - 9:30am
1/2 cup applesauce, 1/2 a snack box of raisins - noonish

I am almost 100 percent certain this was all I had to eat at this point. There isn't much more around the house to munch on but it feels weird.

At around 2 pm I had a piece of white bread with peanut butter and honey. I waited around 15 minutes and I was still hungry so I had 2 more.
I was trying to be sure to remember to drink water.

In the morning I physically played with Elijah. We rolled around the living room, we chased one another, danced and I gave him few horse back rides. I tried to do some floor exercises but he kept stopping me to jump on me.

Around 5:30 I went over to Sarah's for a BBQ. I ate way too many M&M's, peanut and plain. Probably a cup and a half throughout the night.
I had 1/2 cup of olives. I had one asparagus spear, grilled. I ate one hot dog, a few bites of BBQ chicken, and two cheeseburgers all without bun throughout the course of the night. I had a 1/2 cup serving of potato salad. I had a can of diet Dr. Pepper, can of vanilla coke and a wine cooler.
We were there until after 11.

On the way home Scott stopped at McDonald's as he hadn't eaten at Sarah's, deciding instead to stay at home. I ate abotu 10 of his french fries.

So on to today-

It is 10:47 and I have only been out of bed long enough to write this. I haven't eaten anything yet and am not sure what to do. I spent a lot of last night reading the book my sister has on the Atkins diet. I am now undecided as if I want to do this or not. I would like to try the 14 days and just see what a difference it makes but I am not sure how to do that in conjunction with my son who only wants to eat what he likes or what other people are trying. I have time to ponder until I read more and have money to grocery shop. In the mean time I will just have to try and eat less carbs. A near impossiblity right now as i have almost nil protein in the house.
- posted by Hennifer @ 11:01 AM

 
July 3rd-

I have had one glass of Coke
I had 1 and 1/2 enchilladas-
I had a serving of corn chips with fresh guacamole-
I tasted some icky potato salad, potatoes too firm-
I had two brocolli trees and 2 cucumber slices-
This is one of those great things today. There was a potluck but not everything even looks interesting and the desserts are minimal. It does look like I might have a lasagna left over to take home. I certainly have garlic bread.
- posted by Hennifer @ 1:06 PM

 
Wed pm-

I didn't do very well on my water consumption today. Somewhere in the day I lost my water bottle.

When I got home today I had about 6 or 8 yogurt covered pretzels. I then shared two pieces of left over pizza with my son. (Pineapple and olive)

At some later point I had frosting and graham crackers again. I would say about the same number as the last time but spread out over the whole night. In fact I think exactly the amount as last time. I also tried a new Dorito flavor. Thankfully those were gross. I had two.

Around 10 pm I had a palmful of french fries.

When I go back upstairs to read before bed I will have some more water. So due to my interaction at the grocery store with boyfriend past I was thinking about food issues.

I wonder if my malnutrition during formulative years is still weighing heavily on me today. From what I recall this is my life.

Birth to 4th grade - Regular sit down meals, usually on the healthy side. I know for sure that my parents never let us have sugary cereals and they rarely ate out and soda was non-existent in our house.

Somewhere around 10 or 11 with the home life becoming the mess it was there was less interaction on the part of the parents. It was either feast or famine as I remember it. I can count endless nights of us eating fried rice with egg and waterchestnuts and other nights of full on spaghetti dinners or chef salad with just about anything one would put on a sandwich. Details are fuzzy.

As I got into my early teens I stopped eating breakfast... If I ever did before. Middle school consisted of skipping breakfast, eating a salad and milkshake for lunch and maybe eating dinner but that always depended on what was offered. I think the worst of it may have only lasted for a couple of years but I recall often going hungry.

As my teenage years passed I became a junk food addict. Fast food, fries, doughnuts, cocoa puffs, soda. And of course the problem was only made worse as driver's licenses were obtained and my limited physical activity ceased. I don't really know fact from fiction but it seems that I put my body into starvation mode at a crucial time in my life and when I did start feeding myself it was with improper fuel and things have never been the same.




- posted by Hennifer @ 11:13 PM

 
Wed continued-

I had tuna and saltines again. This time I did have a 2 gram mayo/per serving. I am certain it was only one serving but certainly more than I needed. Ick! I am now digesting Starburts.

I have decided that since I have the day off on the 11th and no money to spend really accept the $50 gift for Borders that I will spend a good amount of dedicated time looking for a cookbook.

I have also decided with almost utmost certainty that I will probably give the Atkins diet a shot. I know that isn't entirely reasonable but I have to do something. I know that I am one of those people that can probably not change my eating habits for life which means I need to add more exercise but I don't manage my time wisely enough to do that either. I try to do exercises in the evening but my toddler has other ideas. I can go on walks with him but only so far and certainly not with any speed as our stroller was stolen.

I really want to do something to at least get ahead start. I cannot believe how consumed my life has been lately with fad diets. I know in my mind all the reasons not to do one but I cannot break the focus.
I hate even admitting this. I hate being so week and unwillfull around this. I mean I know I am willfull that there cannot possibly be any way but I cannot turn it around.

Ugh!
- posted by Hennifer @ 1:43 PM

 
Last night I ate a snack pack of raisins before heading to Scott's work for pizza.

I had one piece of pizza with meat and 2 with pineapples and olives. I had almost a full can of Sprite.
Last night before bed I had 1 fig newton. I drove out my desire to smoke and eat by picking up the living room and compulsively vacuumming the living room and couches.

This morning I had a serving of ranch soy crisps and I just had instant oatmeal at 10 am.
- posted by Hennifer @ 10:27 AM

 
Monday - PM

I had the icky chicken tv dinner - Mashed potatoes, corn and bbq grilled chicken.

I got home and was feeling picky. Elijah and I ate jalapeno shelled sunflower seeds. He would rather eat the whole thing than wait for me to shell them. We shared a small bag, probably two servings.

We then ate raisins.

Later in the evening we had some graham crackers with frosting. I had 6 full crackers which is more servings than I like to recount.

oh yes, we also had 2 fig newtons apiece. Neither of us were very hungry.

Tues - AM

I had two fig newtons at 7:30 ish
I had apples and cinnamon instant oatmeal for break @ 10 am

For lunch I had a can of tuna plain with saltines and a 3 musketeers bar.

I have had almost no water today. Ugh.

- posted by Hennifer @ 1:53 PM