Food journal

I'm starting this journal for whoever wants to to join in.

Let's start it off with today's foods.

Light yogurt with wholegrain cereals and cranberries
4 toasts with cheese
1 filet of salmon
Chicken salad

Light yogurt with müsli + 1 banana
Chicken salad
Light yogurt with müsli + 2 toast
Apple

I'm really not in the mood to cook.

Today's food:
Confetti crisp cereal
with whole milk
Some strawberry parfait thing from the local grocery store
Shells and cheese
some kind of vanilla ice cream bar with hard chocolate around it

Drinks:
Low cal gatorade

Water consumption:
0 cups

Today I decided to try something I almost never do. I maybe do it once every second year, if I'm generous? Baking! And I decided to try and find some more healthy, natural alternatives with no sugar or artificial sweeteners, so I ended up making coconut cakes, which is only coconut, egg whites and a little bit of honey. Then I made banana cupcakes where the banana is the only sweetener. The only bad thing in that one was the flour, but unless you eat plenty it's probably okay once in a while Then I took it to the job and had my boss try it out first to see if she got sick, then a customer got to taste it. No one died, so I finally tried it myself. It was good.

Light yogurt with müsli
3 coconut cookies
Roasted vegetables with salmon
2 banana muffins
4 toast with cheese
Light yogurt with müsli

Today's Food:
Low cal bagel thins with light zero calorie butter spray and light cream cheese
Half a pizza bread thing
A salad with chicken, cheddar cheese, lots of cucumbers, sweet peppers, chipotle southwest sauce, ranch, and seasonings
2 subway cookies

Drinks:
Gatorade

Water Consumption:
11 cups (I could be wrong I just kind of estimated and rounded up lol)

I cheated today. Even after I ate I really wanted something salt so I gave in and bought potato chips. Oops :S

ctrwright, you're good at being specific. Maybe I should be too.

Light yogurt with müsli (cacao beans, coconut, raspberries)
(Left overs) Roasted vegetables (carrots, zucchini, eggplant, red sweet pepper) & salmon
2 chicken legs
2 chicken wings
1 orange
1 banana
Pringles and dip

Ayalla, we all have to cheat once in awhile or else we would go mad haha. Also I cheated today too.

Today's food:
1 packet of apple cinnamon oatmeal
A 90 calorie fiber lemon bar thingy
An ice cream bar (whoops)
5 really tiny chicken nuggets
A 6in oven roasted chicken breast sub from subway, on a honey wheat roll with cheddar cheese, lettuce, sweet peppers, chipotle sauce, a smal amount of low cal mayo, and seasonings
Some subway cookies (whoops again)

Drinks:
Not even a full cup of iced coffee

Water consumption:
a very rough estimate of about 10 cups

I suck at staying under calories so much so I ended up buying some of those smart ones meal things. I hate them but I think they'll help me get started for now. My issue is I'm a picky eater, there's a limited group of foods I like. It's stupid, but I can't seem to change it.

I'm not familiar with smart meals. What's that? I'm a picky eater too. I never knew it until last year when I was going to eat the buffet on the boat. Since then it became obviously clear.

As for today's meals...

1 banana
Chicken salad (iceberg lettuce, cucumber, corn, olives, chicken)
Pasta & mince gratin (I was away, so the hosts cooked this)
Light yogurt with müsli (coconut, hazelnut, strawberry)
2 coconut cookies (I couldn't get rid of them after I made them, they were too many)

They're these frozen "healthy" meals. Helps you with portion control and such. They suck for the most part but will help me get started.

Ahh. We also have these scoops we can buy at the drugstore that we use to measure our food so we eat the right amount. Like one scoop for potato, one for meat, for one for sauce, one for this and one for that, so the portions are just right. I don't know if there's anything like that where you live. I don't even know where you live! I'm located in Sweden.

Today's food. A little cheating, but according my gym it was okay once a week. I blame them for any error I make on Sundays

Light yogurt with müsli (coconut, hazelnut, strawberry)
1 slice blueberry pie with vanilla sauce (took a break at town with a friend)
Marinated potato with chicken and salad (lettuce, cucumber, corn, olives)
Light yogurt with müsli (coconut, hazelnut, strawberry) + 1 banana

I have soooo much fantasy when it comes to food and I really vary my food so much.

1 chicken fillets with marinated potato (rapeseed oil, soy sauce, garlic, a tiny bit of honey)
Pizza salad (cabbage, apple cider vinegar, rapeseed oil, water, salt, black pepper)
Light yogurt with müsli (coconut, hazelnut, strawberry)
Light yogurt with müsli (cacao seeds, coconut, raspberry)
2 chicken legs
2 chicken wings

A bit more fruit today.

4 toasts with cheese
Chicken with marinated potato (rapeseed oil, soy sauce, garlic, a tiny bit of honey)
Pizza salad (cabbage, apple cider vinegar, rapeseed oil, water, salt, black pepper)
1 apple
1 orange
1 banana
Light yogurt with müsli (cacao beans, coconut, raspberry)

Stayed under 1200 calories yesterday. Not all the best foods, but I'm working on it.

Had a Nutrigrain bar for breakfast
2 hot dogs for lunch
Salad with Ham and Italian dressing
I had 2 of those 100 calorie snack pack things.

Today's Food:
2 thin slices of zucchini bread
2 thin slices of chocolate chip zucchini bread
A few pieces of a sausage with a bit of barbecue sauce
A chicken chopped salad with lots of cucumbers, sweet peppers, seasonings, cheddar cheese, a small amount of ranch dressing, and a small amount of chipotle southwest sauce
2 subway cookies

Water consumption(rough estimate):
6-7 cups

Another bad day. It was the first day of the new (temporary for three months) schedule so I got out of sync with everything so I didn't have time to make dinner at all today.

1 banana
Light yogurt with müsli (cacao beans, coconut, raspberry)
2 apples
Pizza
2 toasts with cheese

Shitty day today, my 1yr old fell and hit her head hard. It swelled up really fast and was dark so we ran over to the ER. After sitting for more than 2hrs and not being seen we ended up just leaving because it had gone down some and she seems to be doing okay. Grabbed fast food on the way home cause we hadn't eaten.

Now I'll likely be up all night watching over her to make sure she's okay. She seems to be acting normal so I think everything should be fine, but hard not to worry as a mommy.

Light yogurt with müsli (cacao beans, coconut, raspberry)
2 apples
Chicken salad (lettuce, cucumber, sweetpepper, corn, green olives, chicken)
Peanuts

I just can't tell if I eat too much or too little or too unhealthy :S

By the way, do you have any tricks you use when the urge to eat candy or other snacks kicks in to resist it? Or is it just a lot of self control?

I struggle with that too but I've heard when you get those types of cravings to drink water.

I'm invited for dinner tomorrow. Let's see how that goes.

Peanuts
Chicken salad (lettuce, cucumber, sweetpepper, corn, green olives, chicken)
4 toasts with cheese
2 apples
Light yogurt with müsli (cacao beans, coconut, raspberry)

And this is how the food turned out today when I was away.

1 carrot
5 mince croquettes with parsley
4 potatoes
Pepper sauce
Salad (lettuce, red sweetpepper)
2 plates of berry pie with vanilla sauce
4 toasts with cheese

Today's been annoying. I feel like I've done nothing but eat today and yet I feel constantly hungry. I don't like these days.

3 mince croquettes with parsley
4 potatoes
Pepper sauce
1 apple
Rice
Chicken curry (tikka masala curry paste, zucchini, eggplant, chicken, light coconut milk, mixed beans)
1 apple
Light yogurt with wholegrain cereals and cranberries
1 orange
1 apple

1 plate of left overs (Rice, chicken curry) before work
1 plate of left overs (Rice, chicken curry) after work
1 apple
1 orange
Salad (lettuce, sweet pepper, corn, green olives)