Weight - 206.6
Weight Lost - 28.8 lb. in 75 days
Total Calories Eaten - 1483
Today's MFD calorie allowance range - 1830 for a 2 lb loss/week rate, 2830 for weight maintenance
MFD occupation activity level - Moderate Activity
Total MFD Exercise/Activity Calories Earned - 494
MFD Calorie Balance - 347 left to eat at 2lb loss/week rate
MFD Weight Loss Rate Today - 2.7 lb loss/week
HWHL Points Today - none, we are between sessions, but we start tomorrow!!
Cat's Challenge Points - starts Sept 1st and goes to December 31st, with weekly reports. The first report is this week on Thursday, Sept. 9th.
Exercise - 45 minutes on my Gazelle strider, I had my heartrate monitor on, so I would keep it zipping. It was a pretty good workout.
I did better today with my calorie intake, but that's only because I missed breakfast again. Shoot! Again, I was so busy with the kids in the morning, and I kept telling myself that I would eat breakfast after I exercised, which wasn't until noon.
School starts tomorrow! I'm so excited to see what the new routine is going to feel like, with Connor in kindergarden, and me trying to get to bed by 10pm everynight. Sam goes to sleep by 9:00 or 9:30 everynight, but then he gets up a 5am. I want to get up and stay up after he goes back to sleep, and that means getting in bed by 10 on school nights. It's going to take a lot of discipline to do that, because I savor my time at night when everyone is in bed and I have free, uninterrupted time to myself. I'll have to start liking mornings. Grrrr.
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Breakfast - none for me today, was just too busy.
Lunch - 24 oz. water with exercising, 1 plum, about 8 Cheez-It White Cheddar Reduced Fat crackers, 1 cup freeze-dried refried beans cooked with 1 cup water, 1 oz. or about 14 chips Tostitos Baked Scoops, 2.5 tablespoons Naturally Yours fat free sour cream, 7 oz. V-8 style 100% vegetable juice, 24 oz. water with lunch
Total calories - 528
Snack - 5/6 package (5 sandwich crackers) Austin cheese crackers with peanut butter (man, I am a sucker for sandwich crackers, especially any with peanut butter, I gotta look into making my own with reduced fat ingredients)
Total calories - 158
Dinner - 1.75 cups cooked spaghetti pasta noodles, 9/16 cup spaghetti sauce (recipe below), 1-5/8 cup romaine hearts lettuce & tomato salad, 2 tsp. Hidden Valley Ranch Light, 24 oz. water after dinner until bed time
Total calories - 474
Dessert - 1-1/4 cup Blackberry Fat Free Frozen Yogurt (recipe follows), 1 banana put in blender with the frozen yogurt
Total calories - 324
Becky's Awesome Spaghetti Sauce
-28 oz. can petite diced tomatoes, pureed in the blender (you can use a regular can of diced tomatoes, I doubt it makes a difference)
-1 6oz. can tomato paste
-2 cups or 1 lb. hamburger which has been cooked and the fat drained, then cooked with salt, pepper, and dried minced onion
-2 Tbsp. brown sugar
-1/2 tsp. dried oregano
-1/2 tsp. garlic powder
-1/2 to 1 tsp. salt to taste
75 calories per 1/2 cup serving, 1.7 g fat, 7.7 g protein
Make sure to puree the canned diced tomatoes in a the blender, juice and all. Then put everything in a pot and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. Enjoy!
Pretty good stuff, it tastes even better if you make it with italian sausage instead of hamburger, but that will also increase the calories. What makes this a great sauce, in my opinion, is the pureed tomatoes. It's much better than just regular tomato sauce, because it gives it a texture that is as if it were made from fresh tomatoes. Also, it does make a lot of sauce, but because of the small can of tomato paste, it's hard to halve this recipe. Just freeze whatever portion you don't need, and save it for another night. Also, I use this whole recipe to make a 9x13 pan of lasagne, which recipe I'm sure will wind up here eventually.
Blackberry Fat Free Frozen Yogurt -
1 large 32oz. container Mountain High vanilla fat free yogurt (at Smith's)
1-1/2 cups frozen blackberries, then thaw them in the microwave
This is so super-easy, it's hardly a recipe. Put the yogurt in the ice cream machine, then add the blackberries the last few minutes, so that they break up into small little balls that are still visible when the ice cream is done.
Makes 4-1/2 cups, 163 calories per 1 cup
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