Day 8!

Had a scare today. HE called and asked how I was doing, because I'd "only lost one and a half pounds this week." I told her that I remembered losing 8 pounds. I know now, in my rational state of mind, that the call in tears to my parents shouldn't have happened, but that's just how I react to everything. It turns out that my HE read the chart wrong, and I actually DID loose 8 pounds. I got her first call right before I went to work out, so it just made me work out harder, which I am thankful for. Our PA assignment for this week was to try something completely different. I hadn't swam in a really long time, so I figured that that would be good. MY GOD, swimming is hard! No wonder swimmers are so fit! I stayed in the pool for twenty minutes, swimming or moving constantly. That's all I could do! Anyway, food today!:

Breakfast: HMR 120 Vanilla shake doubled

Snack: one HUGE grapefruit (aren't they all?)

Lunch: Chicken Pasta Parmesan Entree on top of two cups of steamed vegetables (didn't eat all of the vegetables, realized sorta late in the game that they were mildly teriyaki seasoned. Oops?)

Snack: Bar!

Dinner: Barbecue Chicken Entree with an ear of corn and oven baked potato fries (no oil, just salt, pepper, and trusty ol' PAM)

Day 7

Oops. Didn't post yesterday. You know why that's okay? No readers so far! I will persevere in any case.

FOOD TODAY!:

Breakfast: 2 Vanilla Shakes

Snack!: Banana

Lunch: Savory Chicken Entree with half of a HUGE baked potato

Dinner: Ravioli entree with a mixed fruit bowl of strawberries and pineapple.

Snack: 70+ vanilla pudding, grapefruit, banana

Today was evidently a fruit day... ate only one vegetable. I wonder if the balance matters at all...
Also, big question. Popcorn. If I pop it myself with PAM (which, supposedly, we're allowed to have) and corn kernels, can I have that?

Day Cinco

Today was a fabulous day! Went to picnic with my besties who are, luckily, vegetarians. So, the whole "eating five servings of fruit and vegetables" thing wasn't really a problem. I'm not quite sure if I had the three servings that I estimated (who brings measuring cups to a picnic?), but I'll take my chances. After the picnic, drove to my weekly HMR meeting, got on the scale, and found out that I'd lost 8 pounds! I know it's just the initial weight falling of, but 8 pounds is 8 pounds!

Here's the food for today:

Breakfast: Double chocolate shake

Lunch: POUNDS of strawberries, blueberries, grapefruit, grapes, edamame, AND the cheese and basil ravioli HMR entree

Snack: Peanut Butter Benefit bar at meeting

Dinner: 5 Bean HMR entree

Desert: 70+ chocolate shake, made into a pudding (MY GOD, SO GOOD.)

Daaaaaaaaaay 4!

Another work day! Makin' that money! There's always free food in the break room at work, since they sometimes make it for demonstrations. Today, unfortunately there was fresh churned butter to put on top of crackers, soup beans, homemade ice cream, and dutch apple cobbler. If I had will power, do you think that I'd look like this?! Well, I've got a little bit, evidently, because I stayed away from all of it. Granted, I had to scarf down my lunch, and get out of there before John heated up another piece in the microwave, but we'll just leave that part out and pretend that I am a saint who is tempted by nothing. My food (regrettably) for today is:

Breakfast: Vanilla Shake with the new hot cereal and splenda (cereal is good, but kinda blah, so I added splenda)

Lunch: HMR lasagna with a cup of sweet snap peas, and an orange (They always make your hands smell awesome!)

Dinner: HMR Chili on top of a HUGE potato and enough corn to feed a small army

Snack: "Fruit Cobbler" recipe from the HMR booklet that invovled softened apples, blueberries, and a Honey Graham benefit bar.

Forgot to get the last shake in today. Oops. Gotta remember those! Meeting tomorrow! Yay!

Day three

Work today provided a kink in my snacking between every meal. I do get a wicked long lunch break, though, so that's great. I did get up in time to eat breakfast. I figured I'd give myself two hours before I had to sing to get the milky texture of the shake out of my throat. It worked, so hooray! Food today is as follows:

Breakfast: Double Chocolate 120 shake

Snack: None :(

Lunch: Mushroom Risotto HMR entree with an orange

Snack: HMR Chocolate benefit bar

Dinner: Burrito HMR Entree! Two servings of sweet corn, one serving of grapes

Snack: Vanilla 120 shake and blueberry benefit bar

Day 2!!

Welcome to day two! Day one was a day of mainly me at home. Today I was out and about to meeting people, so made sure to bring an entree with me. It was a more typical day for me, running around, doing things, so I learned how to deal with that. Food today was as follows:

Breakfast: Vanilla shake with sugar-free raspberry jello powder and a banana

Snack: 1 cup blackberries and 1 cup strawberries

Lunch: Chicken Pasta Parmesan HMR entree with re-fried beans* and tomatoes and salsa.

Snack: None. :(

Dinner: Barbecue chicken, rice, and beans HMR entree with a can of sweet peas

Snack: "Hot Dutch Chocolate" HMR shake rendition

*The re-fried beans. I wasn't so sure about, but I ate anyway. The can said that it was just beans, salt, and onion powder. All of which I'm allowed to have. I only ate a little, maybe half a cup. I was at a friend's house, and her house isn't exactly HMR friendly (I'm definitely glad I threw an entree in the car), and they were eating re-fried beans. I hope they're "in the box" or whatever. I'll definitely make sure to ask my HE on meeting on Monday.

Willkommen! Dieses ist mein... Blog?

There's something wrong when both of your best friend's parents have blogs and you don't. I've never really had a desire to start a blog until today. After an exhaustive search of the internet (Thanks Google!) for blogs and websites of dieters under forty, I decided to start my own. Today is the first day of HMR ( http://www.hmrprogram.com/ ). Well, it's not the first day EVER. I did it for maybe a week once when I was fourteen. However, can anybody really be held accountable for things they did when they were fourteen? Anyway, I wanted to track my progress through a blog. This, I feel, can keep me honest, even if no one reads it.

Day 1!

This is day one, folks!

The HMR healthy solutions diet requires that I have a minimum of three shakes, two entrees, and five servings of fruit and vegetables. HMR has this crazy "More is better!" mantra, where if we want more food, we have it. I don't understand it, either. But, they're the experts, so I'll trust 'em! My health educator had our group separate our meals into breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack. Here's how I organized it today:

Breakfast: Two 120 chocolate shakes with 2 bananas

Snack: One medium gala apple

Lunch: Savory Chicken HMR entree

Snack: One 120 chocolate Shake with an added orange! and Peanut butter benefit bar

Dinner: Beef Stew with Vegetables HMR entree with baked potato and cauliflower

Snack: 1 cup roasted chick peas (recipe thanks to http://bethanyactually.com/yummy-and-healthy-roasted-chickpea-snacks/ ), Vanilla 120 shake with pumpkin pie spice

Our Health educator (HE) gave us an assignment to add one extra shake to our meal quota. Holy Lord. So much food. I made a shake from the recipe book, a pumpkin pie shake! Deeeeeeelightful.

Also brought a benfit bar into the movies with me, so that I wouldn't be tempted to eat candy.



Pounds to lose: 140