Wednesday

Breakfast:
oatmeal
coffee

Snack:
All-bran bar
before lunch I was starving (*must* get some more fruit to take with me for morning snack; the grapes have sucked lately at the grocery store though), so I had a 100cal Hershey choc bar, and it was good.

Lunch:
spinach salad
Lean Cuisine chicken alfredo with veggie meal
choc pudding

Snack:
granola, yogourt & blueberries
En route to shopping and before supper (Mummy & me night) I grabbed a Babybel cheese from her fridge to settle the monster belly.

Supper:
ESM was tonight's cuisine; I know I know - but I was craving pasta. I had the Amitriciana dish - but with penne and only ate half. I wasn't shy with the bread or the caesar salad though. 'Urp. When we got back to Mom's I had a peppermint tea and a 100 cal Reese bar. Todd saved it for me special - I couldn't disappoint him.

Tuesday

Breakfast:

oatmeal, usual adds

coffee

Snack:

All-Bran bar

Lunch:

leftover tuna casserole

choc pudding cup (wishing I'd remembered to pack some animal crackers, dammit)

Snack:

granola, yogourt & 1/2 banana

Snack:

2 babybel cheese rounds

wheat thin crackers

Supper:
cheeseburger and fries from Wendys (combo 1 - I remember that when it cost me $5.25. It's now $7.36!). I had to meet up with Tanya's after a hair appointment to go to a wake so it was a rush; so, in a rush, fast food can come in handy. It tasted pretty damn good, too.

Monday*

Breakfast:
oatmeal, with 1/2 banana, slivered almonds, 10 dark choc chips & spoonful of PB
coffee

Snack:
All-Bran bar

Lunch:
After planned-for lunch plans took an unexpected kibosh and an ever-present ticking clock looming over my head, I inadvertently ended up at the Great Canadian Bagel for lunch. I ordered a bagel with cream cheese and a bowl of chicken noodle soup (it was cold in the office and I just felt the need for the warmth of soup). The bagel that I wanted wasn't available so they substituted an "everything" bagel (you know, for those undecideds waiting in line and wasting drive-thru time). I knew it didn't smell right when I accepted the bag, but thought perhaps it was the overpowering "everything" in my bagel and just headed back to the office. I opened the cup of soup only to find chili inside. My palate was not ready for, nor in the mood for chili. I ate 3/4 of the bagel (note to self: "everything" is NOT everything at the GCB), about half of the chili and then sulked back to my desk.

Snack:
granola, yogourt & blueberries

Supper:
tuna casserole (kind of homemade. I made it with whole grain pasta, low fat cream of mushroom soup, can of tuna & shredded cheese. To that I mixed in peas, mushrooms and onion flakes (because I was out of actual onions) that had been sauteed in EVOO. The whole mess was then oven-baked for about 25 mins). It was ok. Would I make it again? The jury's still out on that one. Chris said it was good, but he may have said that because he didn't have to cook.

Snack:
a handful of animal crackers, a few of which were dipped in choc pudding...which was surprisingly delightful. I wasn't a Dunkaroos kid, but now I get the attraction.

*Even in the "comfort" of the comfort fit pants I still felt like I was bulging out of every seam today. After this weekend's shit storm of food intake I swear I gained about 5lbs and every one of them settled around my mid-area.

Saturday & Sunday...where'd my wagon go??

So the downward spiral spurred by Friday evening's eats just ended up continuing until the end of my weekend I'm afraid...Because I'm writing this to be accountable, I don't feel that it's right to elude the fact that I ate like crap. Perhaps the reason I feel bad today was due to the crap that I put into my body... Anyway - here goes:

Saturday

Breakfast:
2 eggs, homemade "silver dollar" potatoes, 2 slices of multi-grain toast & one teeny slice of leftover ham
coffee

Snack:
yogourt, granola & blueberries

Lunch:
2 slices of leftover pizza from PD from Friday night
1/2 small can of Diet Coke

Supper:
3 slices of homemade pizza on a thin crust with goat cheese, tomato, portabello mushroom & arugala
rest of my small can of Diet Coke

Snack:
small bowl of chocolate ice cream (it's hard to fight temptation when it's staring you right in the face...and when you've ate like poo the rest of the weekend).


Sunday

Breakfast:
1 pancake with fresh (well as "fresh" as you can get when coming from Florida) strawberries on top
coffee

Lunch:
bowl of granola, yogourt, strawberries & 1/2 banana

Supper:
2 hotdogs
a while later when I realized I was still hungry I then polished off the remnants of a can of Seafood Chowder, and threw in a few wheat thin crackers.

Snack:
bowl of chocolate ice cream. If it wasn't as good as it was I might feel guilty. I do hope Chris finishes it off so I will avoid future bowlfuls though.

Repeat after me: "Monday is the start of a new week. Today is the first day of the rest of your life....."

Friday

Breakfast:
oatmeal with the usual adds
coffee

Snack:
carrot sticks 'n dip

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine Panini - Grilled Vegetable & Goat Cheese (it was really good!)
yogourt & blueberries
rest of my carrot sticks

Snack:
Tim Horton's ginger cookie - mostly because it was there and I didn't have anything else packed for an afternoon snack. I should have known at this point that I was about to spiral downward...

Supper:
Since neither Chris, nor I felt like donning our kitchen apron & making supper, we went out to eat. Chris' treat, so Chris' choice. We ended up at Pizza Delight with the idea in mind of pizza and garlic fingers (not that I would have really spared any calories had I had the pasta dish that I'd have preferred). I had 1 piece of toasted foccacia bread as an appetizer (such a bad idea to go to a restaurant that hungry), followed by 1 slice of pizza (tomato, feta & crumbled bacon) & a gooood portion of the 12 inch garlic fingers (with cheese & bacon of course). Oh and I also drank a full glass of root beer (if I'm going to have pizza & garlic fingers why bother with water with a lemon wedge... I mean, really).

Snack:
Even though we'd gorged on supper and really didn't need a night snack (and, truth be told we probably weren't even hungry), we ended up polishing off the rest of the dip that Tanya had brought over and about 90% of a bag of chips, between the two of us. I had a small can of Diet Coke too. No, I'm not proud. But they were frigging good. I blame the intensity that was "Law Abiding Citizen" (rent it today - but be sure to stock up on healthy eats too ;)).

Thursday

Breakfast:
oatmeal with PB, choc chips, banana & almonds
coffee

Snack:
All-Bran bar

Lunch:
mashed potatoes
brocolli
baked ham
choc pudding cup

Snack:
4 licorice

Supper:
It's Chris' dad's birthday tomorrow, and as his mom is heading her way to Cuba by suppertime tomorrow, she had his birthday supper tonight. I will admit, I gorged a little bit. Well, maybe a lot. It was so freaking delicious though I couldn't really help myself. There was:
-caesar salad (dressing added by eater, though, so perhaps not as bad as other times)
-1 small piece of garlic toast
-1 large (okay probably 2 servings worth (but only one cut piece)) of a "slap my ass and call me Garfield" type lasagna. Really Rosie, that was the best I've tasted!
-small glass of white wine
-small piece of choc cake with boiled icing. I left some on my plate. Even comfort fit pants couldn't help me finish.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention the pre-supper Baileys on ice, too eh?
'Urp. Happy Birthday Charlie!!!!

Wednesday

Breakfast:
Oatmeal with spoon of PB, slivered almonds, 10 dark choc chips & 1/2 banana
coffee

Snack:
All-Bran bar

Lunch:
mashed potatoes
green & yellow beans
carrots
shrimp
choc pudding and strawberries

Snack:
granola, blueberries & yogourt

Supper:
grilled cheese sandwich on multi-grain bread
bowl of seafood chowder
small glass of wine

Snack:
cup of hot chocolate

Tuesday

Breakfast:

oatmeal with the usual adds

coffee

Snack:

Quaker Fibre & Omega 3 granola bar (juuust fair - the All-Bran bars are sooo much better)

Lunch:

leftover baked ham

mashed potatoes

broccoli

Snack:

granola, yogourt & blueberries

Supper:
mashed potatoes
mixed beans (green & yellow)
carrots
garlic shrimp
glass of wine (the day required it)

Snack:
It was American Idol night and my dear friend Tanya came over to join me, and with her came chips & dip and some mini eggs. We were very reserved with the chips & dip I must say. There was a time in our past where the two of us basically shared an entire dip container. I also had some carrot sticks to snack on (but of course Ranch Dip too). I also had a mini Diet Coke. 'Urp.

Monday

Breakfast:
Oatmeal, with 1/2 banana, 10 dark choc chips, slivered almonds & a spoonful of PB
coffee

Snack:
All-Bran bar

Lunch:
leftover BBQ'd salmon
peas
rice
choc pudding cup

Snack:
The lovely Dina baked her DELICIOUS-to-die-for carrot cake for Jeannette's birthday so I opted to have a small piece of that instead of my yogourt & granola. I thought it was a fair trade.

Supper:
baked ham
mashed potatoes
corn
broccoli
glass of wine

Sunday

Breakfast/Brunch:
2 slices of French toast
coffee

Snack:
bowl of Corn Bran

Supper:
BBQ'd salmon
potatoes
peas

Saturday

Breakfast:
oatmeal with the usual adds
coffee

Lunch:
blueberries, granola & yogourt

Snack:
cinnamon roll & coffee at Timothys

Supper:
BBQ'd steak
baked potato
salad
glass of wine

Snack:
2 more glasses of wine :)

Friday

Breakfast:
oatmeal with 1/2 banana, 10 dark choc chips, slivered almonds & spoonful of PB (and I dunno whether my combination was of perfect proportion or just because I was super hungry but it was so freaking delicious today).
coffee

Snack:
All Bran bar
grapes

Lunch:
chocolate monkey smoothie
Mediterranean wrap from the JZ (hellllo payday!)

Snack:
none - I was too full of wrap 'n smoothie :)

"Supper/Snack":
Upon return home I was a little rumbly - so convinced Chris to make me a pot of Chef Michael kettle cooked popcorn, and had that with a glass of choc milk.

Thursday

Breakfast:
oatmeal with the normal additions
coffee

Snack:
granola, yogourt, blueberries

Lunch:
Highliner wild rice & shrimp dinner
spinach salad with green pepper, mushroom, cheese
choc pudding cup

Snack:
hummus with flatbread crackers
Hersheys 100 cal bar (it was one of those days where I just needed "real" chocolate. The pudding cups are tasty & all...but they just don't cut it).

Supper:
a large (ie, two pours from the bag) of Corn Bran. It's very reminiscent of Capt'n Crunch in my opinion...and I quite like it -- and felt it a better choice than the cheeseburger I so desperately wanted.

Wednesday

Breakfast:
oatmeal with the usual additions
coffee

Snack:
coffee
bagel with cream cheese (larger appetite as I was up earlier today for an appointment (working late shift) so had my breakfast 2 hrs earlier than the rest of the week)

Lunch:

spinach salad, with mushroom, green pepper, cucumber, and a bit of shredded cheese
2 hard-boiled eggs
choc pudding cup

Snack:
hummus & whole wheat pita - until I discovered mold on my pita. I then settled on grapes and 3 gummy Easter egg candies.

Supper (but really more a snack):
triscuits
cheese slices
glass of choc milk

Tuesday

Breakfast:

oatmeal with 1/2 banana, slivered almonds, spoonful of PB & 10 dark choc chips (it's so friggin' good)

coffee

Snack:

yogourt, blueberries & granola

Lunch:

leftover maple glazed chicken breast

mashed potatoes

brocolli & cauliflower

choc pudding cup

Snack:

1 Babybel cheese round

grapes

Supper:
Lean Cuisine Shrimp Alfredo with whole wheat pasta & veggies
glass of choc milk

Monday

Breakfast:

oatmeal with 1/2 banana, 10 dark choc chips, PB & slivered almonds

coffee

Snack:

granola, yogourt & strawberries

Lunch:

leftover BBQ'd chicken,

corn

baked potato

pudding cup

Snack:

1 Babybel cheese round

grapes

Supper:
maple glazed chicken
mashed potatoes
green & yellow beans

Sunday

Brunch:
homemade hashbrowns (made from leftover baked potatoes)
2 eggs
2 slices of multi-grain toast
coffee

Snack:
Triscuits & cheese
glass of choc milk

Supper:
BBQ'd chicken
green & yellow beans
baked potato

Saturday

Breakfast:
oatmeal, 1/2 banana, 10 dark choc chips, slivered almonds, PB
coffee

Lunch:
small shish toak from the Farmers market (pita, seasoned chicken, lettuce, pickles & beets??)

Snack:
coffee
oat cake cookie from Tims

Supper:
1 and 1/2 bbq'd hotdogs - because they were bbq'd
baked potato
small bowl of chocolate ice cream for dessert (I know, I know...but you can't tempt me with ice cream - especially CHOCOLATE ice cream and not have me say, "Yes, please").

Friday

Breakfast:
oatmeal with all the fixins
coffee

Snack:
All Bran bar
1/2 banana

Lunch:
leftover baked salmon
baked potato
beans

Snack:
was supposed to be yogourt & strawberries, but on account of it being my manager's birthday there was a celebration with ice cream cake. I could never refuse ice cream cake - so I didn't.

Supper:
Knorr pesto pasta mix
shrimp sauteed in garlic & pepper
yellow & green beans

Thursday

Breakfast:

oatmeal with the fixins

coffee

Snack:

All Bran bar

grapes

Lunch:

2 slices multi-grain toast

2 hard boiled eggs

choc pudding cup

rest of grapes

Snack:

granola, yogourt & blueberries

Treat - and 2nd snack of the PM was a delicious Choco-mint ice cream treat from my manager at our weekly team meeting. I felt a little guilty -til I got to the surprise chocolate center :).

Supper:
baked salmon
green & yellow beans, carrots
less than a serving of Sidekicks and plain rice

Wednesday

Breakfast:

the usual oatmeal concoction with PB, banana, choc chips & almonds

coffee

Snack:
All-Bran bar
grapes

Lunch:
spinach salad with cucumber, green pepper, mushrooms, grated cheese

2 boiled eggs

1 small bag (33 gram serving) of Crispy Minis
rest of grapes

Snack:

granola, yogourt & blueberries

Supper:
garden salad
2 small fish cakes
peppermint tea & 100 cal Reese bar for dessert (Mummy & me night ;))

Snack:
bowl of Corn Bran

Tuesday

Breakfast:
oatmeal, with 10 dark choc chips, pb, slivered almonds, 1/2 banana
coffee

Snack:
All-Bran bar
grapes

Lunch:
spinach salad with mushrooms, green pepper, cucumber & strawberries
Highliner wild rice & shrimp frozen dinner
rest of my grapes

Snack:
granola, yogourt & blueberries

Supper:
It was Rosanne's BD supper and the birthday girl chose Pat & Willys. A quick scan of the menu didn't really enable a varied healthy choice...so under pressure of the waiter with pen in hand awaiting, I ended up ordering the taquitos with caesar salad. Oh, and I also went in on and shared a quarter plate of nachos. 'Urp. It tasted good in the moment, but....

Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday

Here I go slacking again - let's see if I can remember the past few days ... (I had a few days off work, so it really affected my snacking intervals. A regular routine is so much better for the body, imo).

Friday

Breakfast:
oatmeal with pb, 1/2 banana, 10 dark choc chips, almonds
coffee

Lunch:
egg hash with leftover baked potato & 2 eggs, and a bit of shredded cheese
2 slices of multi-grain toast
tea

Supper:
tuna melt
choc milk

****

Saturday (not such a good eats day :S)

Breakfast:
bowl of Corn Bran and 1% milk
coffee

Lunch:
Chris was craving bacon & eggs - so we dined out. It was just fair.
2 eggs, bacon, 2 slices of whole wheat toast
coffee

Supper:
my own 'concoction': whole wheat pasta with shrimp, mushroom, green peppers & onion sauteed in EVOO (garlic powder, pepper & a bit of cayenne pepper to taste) mixed in, along with about a 1/2 can tomato soup, shredded cheese, baked in oven til heated through.

Snack:
Chef Michael popcorn (EVOO searing hot in a big pot with kernal corn - when popped add in sea salt & pepper = SO freaking good!)
more than my share of M&M almonds

****

Sunday

Breakfast:
bowl of Corn Bran
coffee

Lunch:
1 blueberry pancake
bowl of granola, blueberries, & strawberries with vanilla yogourt
coffee

Supper:
leftover pasta & shrimp
baby spinach salad
glass of choc milk

****

Monday

Breakfast:
oatmeal w/ 1/2 banana, dark choc chips, slivered almonds & PB
coffee

Snack:
Quaker Fibre & Omega 3 granola bar

Lunch:
small chicken, pepper & goat cheese pizza

Supper:
Chris & I went to Smittys to support Lana with her fundraising event for her trip to Guatamala. They served spaghetti, ceasar salad, slice of garlic bread.
coffee

Thursday

Breakfast:

oatmeal with pb, slivered almonds, 1/2 banana and 13 dark choc chips

coffee

Snack:
yogourt, blueberries & granola

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine Shrimp Alfredo with whole wheat pasta and vegetables
2 slices of multigrain toast
a few grapes

Snack:

1 babybel cheese round

1 serving of wheat thin crackers

the rest of my grapes

Supper:
shrimp sauteed in garlic & EVOO
serving of Sidekicks noodles
broccoli, cauliflower, peas & corn

Wednesday

Breakfast:

oatmeal with PB, dark choc chips, 1/2 banana, slivered almonds

coffee

Snack:

serving of wheat thins

1 babybel cheese round

Lunch:

my leftover seafood skillet with added rice

choc pudding cup

grapes

Snack:

granola, yogourt & blueberries

Supper:
baked potato
mixed veggies (green & yellow beans, carrots)
baked salmon

Snack:
vanilla nut creme tea
3 Peak Freen Lifestyle blueberry brown sugar with flax cookies. They're quite good, and they sound healthy. They're no chocolate chip cookie though....:P

Tuesday

Breakfast:
oatmeal with 1/2 banana, slivered almonds, 13 dark choc chips & a spoonful of PB
coffee

Snack:
Fibre plus bar
grapes

Lunch:
2 slices multi-grain toast
2 hard boiled eggs
choc pudding cup

Snack:
yogourt & blueberries
the rest of my grapes

Supper:
garden salad & a seafood skillet from Pizza Delight - it tasted bland enough and was so colorful it felt like the healthiest option. I also didn't finish it and saved the leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

Snack:
peppermint tea
1 100 cal Reese PB cup treat (so yum!) -- no dinner out on Mummy night is complete without a trip to Timmy's for a coffee for her and a tea for me. I usually have two mini kit-kat bars. I could've had 1 but opted for the other because it was labelled "100 calories" like it was diet or something. Damn marketers ;)

Monday

I did have good intentions on having a healthy spinach salad with my lunch today to jump start Day 1 of my renewed "healthy eating"...but my produce was less than fresh. I actually went so far as to cut off the one part of the green pepper that wasn't wrinkly, and peel the soft wet icky outer layer of the mushrooms. But, when I opened up the spinach and saw the wet icky gross mess inside the container I gave up and threw the whole works into the garbage. On account of Mother Nature throwing us a nasty day of wind, rain, freezing rain and wet snow, I'm not going out at lunch to get anything either. So have I sufficiently excused myself out of my required veggie intake for Day 1? Bah!

So - here we go:

Breakfast:
bowl of oatmeal (quick oats) with sliced almonds, 1/2 banana, 13 "dark" choc chips & a tsp and a little bit of light PB
coffee

Snack:
Kellogg Fibre Plus bar
grapes

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine chicken alfredo dinner
2 slices of 12 grain toast
1/2 banana
fat free choc pudding cup

Snack:
yogourt, blueberries & granola

Supper:
shrimp sauteed in EVOO, garlic and pepper
peas, cauliflower & broccoli
1/3 of a pkg of Knorr Sidekick pasta (I know not the best choice, but it was in the house, and quick - and I gave the majority to Chris)
glass of choc milk

I'm hopeful that I ate enough at supper that I'll be ok til morning - if not, for a night snack I may have a small bowlful of baked Cheetos during the Bachelor finale*.

*Update: Oh I did eat the baked Cheetos. In my gluttonous state, however, I neglected to pour myself a "small bowlful" and instead finished off the freaking bag. It was approximately half-ish or a little bit less than half, but more than 'recommended serving' of course. Notice how I still admitted this though? Accountability. And yeah, sometimes it sucks.