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Laurie 
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| 10/26/2009 5:12 AM |
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Good morning all! Here's our new thread for the week -- let's hope a weekly thread helps the posting and viewing issues :-) .
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Weight (lbs): 250/[120-125]/[120-125] (Start/Goal/Current)
Body Fat (%): 49.8/22/24 (Start/Goal/Current)
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Cranberrycat 
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| 10/26/2009 10:15 AM |
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Thanks, Laurie! I am glad we can start fresh! I was avoiding even going to the other one, as it is hard to catch up sometimes!
B-oats, cottage cheese, almonds
L-chicken and stir fry veggies (in sesame oil)
S-probably string cheese and ?? in the cafeteria
not sure on the rest of the day, we have a middle school band concert tonight and so the evening is going to fly by!
I think I had a decent weekend! My scale battery died and I haven't gotten to the store to get a new one. So, I really don't know but I feel comfortable in my clothes, so will use that measure.
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Jana
Posts:484
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| 10/26/2009 10:18 AM |
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Good Morning everyone
Deb, no I didn't realize the Leafs and Stars are playing this week! I would be excited about it but since the Leafs haven't won a game yet I figure there isn't any point (no matter who they are playing LOL!)...although they did play much better on Sat night and IMO actually should have won that one but they just couldn't find the net
Jessi, love your new ticker avatar
Yesterday's zone (10/25/09)...
B: 2 eggs, 2 Cdn bacon, oatmeal with blueberries and almond butter mixed in
L: leftover roast chicken thighs with mixed bell peppers and red onion, side greek salad, pear & 9 almonds for desert
S: 1/2c plain nf yogurt with mac butter, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla mixed in
D: 3oz chicken breast, green beans, 1c spagetti squash with 1/2c tomato sauce over top
S: applesauce, PP, mac butter
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janet
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| 10/26/2009 5:09 PM |
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Hi, everyone....mmm, mac butter (jana!)...haven't found it yet, but eat the nuts...
Sue, another darling pic of Eli! (In Korean garb-so cute) ...on whatever thread I saw it.
brk-oats with stevia and cinnamon, plus eggwhites w/bit of cheese.
lunch-protein smoothie plus celery and mac nuts. snack will be apple plus cheese.
dinner will be out....fingers crossed. |
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Jessi
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| 10/26/2009 5:36 PM |
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Hello everyone! I agree that this is a great idea, much easier than figuring out where we all left off.
Jana- thanks, I thought it was pretty cute. I'm having trouble updating it right now... Hopefully I will see that it worked when I post this. Oh and wasn't the PB and J smoothie your idea? I tried a variation on that yesterday for a snack and it was DELISH!
Yesterday went well,
b-fast
oats w/ mac butter and b.s. splenda
protein powder/ water/ dash of ff milk
lunch
giant salad w/ turkey, tom, and peps topped w/ Trader Joe's Champ/Pear vingrtte
1/2 grapefruit
(good meal but it was a little too low in fat, the dressing does not have much and I didn't add a lot)
snack??? I can't remember...
dinner
left over buffalo pot roast w/ mayo and mustard on 1/2 flat out wrap. Broccoli
snack
PB and J smoothie (made 4 blks and drank 1)
Today has also gone great! I feel awesome and I noticed something today. I am finding things that I never thought were sweet, very sweet tasting. Weird... I took a drink of soda today in the car (I was out of water and that is what Ryan was drinking) and I had trouble swallowing it. Tasted like pure syrup! I have never liked soda, but I have never found it to be gross before. Now if I could only learn to lay off the salt shaker at the table!
Another side note, I have always been a huge veggie fan, but never have particulary liked or disliked fruit. I would eat it and not think much of it. Now I seem to LOVE IT, esp. juicy fruits like grapes, pears, apples and grapefruit.
B-fast
3 blks of PB and J smoothie- kept me in the zone VERY well, and really filled me up! I have never had a smoothie so filling...
Lunch- both fruits tasted VERY sweet to me
Trader Joe's southwest chicken (precooked and sliced) wrapped in large lettuce leafs and w/ mustard
mac. nuts that I now keep in my purse b/c I forgot fat
1/2 apple
few grapes
Snack
cottage cheese
bell pep slices- tasted sweet. I actually took a bite and then looked down at it to make sure it really was a pepper and not an apple...
T.J.'s Cilantro/Jalapeno hummus- if you have a Trader Joes close to you, BUY THIS! Honestly the best hummus I have ever eaten and is not very spicy at all!
Dinner (will be) one of my old pre-zone favs. that I am attempting to convert. Shouldn't be too hard. It is called Spinach Fandango and is usually served over rice or baked potato which I will leave out. I am having a spinach dish b/c I am still feeling like I am VERY low on iron right now and I have had red meat for the past 3 days and do not want to consume too much. The recipe is as followed
-Tons of fresh or frozen spinach wilted down in olive oil
-and sauteed w/ garlic and onion
add rest of ing. to pan and simmer
-ground beef- however tonight I will be using Boca Ground Crumbles b/c I don't like ground turkey and I have had enough red meat. Now I have had this before and I like it so I just picked it at the store and did not read the ing. I'm not sure if this brand was a good choice or not... Any thoughts?
-sour cream, I will be using l.f.yougurt
-cream of chicken soup, I have a can of the fat free in my cabnet, this recipe only takes a little bit so I may possibly add it b/c I really can't come up with any other sub. for it... Any ideas? I have not read the label so if it looks terrible I will leave it out.
-usually I top w/ lime juice and a sprinkle of motza cheese. I may leave it out depending on how many p and c blocks I already have. Taste good w/ or w/o
snack- who knows?
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Jessi
Posts:46
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| 10/26/2009 5:42 PM |
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| Janet- have you ever tried making your own nut butters? I used to make my own p.b. so I'm sure you could do it w/ mac. nuts. I always used peanuts, honey and a bit of oil and put it in the food processor. I don't know how it would turn out just using nuts and leaving out the other ing. but it may be worth a shot... |
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Sue K
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| 10/26/2009 8:35 PM |
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Thanks janet! Yes, that was taken a week ago at his Dol (Korean first birthday traditional celebration). He is half Korean, so his other grandparents were happy that some Korean tradition was included in the celebration. :-)
You're doing great janet! Sounds like you've reached the point where your taste for sweets is beginning to change. Once I was in the Zone for a while, sweets began to taste too sweet to me too (and still do). |
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sue
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Deborah
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| 10/26/2009 9:28 PM |
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Good evening everyone!
Laurie - thanks so much for starting this new thread. I hope it help those you are having problems posting.
Jana - Don't lose faith yet. You know they aren't going to lose all 82 games. They have to win sometime (probably Wednesday... lol)BTW, how is Logan doing? I thought of him when I saw your avatar.
Janet - good luck with dinner. I am sure you will make good choices.
Jessie - good job over the last few days. I know how you feel about things tasting sweet now.
Sue - Eli looks so cute. He looks like a little King ruling of his kingdom.
Well, having that popcorn at the movies Friday didn't seem to hurt me. I lost three pounds last week. That's a total of 32 pounds in 13 weeks. Yeah!
MEALS/SNACKS -
JUMP START 4:30 AM
1C/1P/1F
½ cup probatic yogurt.
2 cashews
BREAKFAST 8:30 AM
2C/2C/2F
1/3 c oatmeal
1 tsp raisins
3 slices turkey bacon
2 egg whites
2 tsp slivered almonds
LUNCH 11:00 AM
3C/3P/3F
½ cup lentils
½ apple
1 smoked pork chop
1 tsp peanut butter
SNACK 3:00 PM
1C/1P/1F
½ apple
1 oz jerkey
6 peanuts
I was a little later than usual on my breakfast and snack due to work issues, but I didn't get hungry in between, so it's all good. I still stayed in the 4-5 hour limit.
Dinner.... hmmm. I've been craving hot and sour soup really bad, but of course no restaurant is doing to deliver a $1.25 bowl of soup.. LOL. I got out my delivery menu and tried to put together a zoned delivery meal. Here's what I wound up with.
hot and sour soup
Stir fried veggies
Grilled Chicken (it was suppose to be teriyaki, but it tasted more like just plain soy sauce)
3 cups mixed veggies
Napa cabbage, onions, carrots,pea pods, bok choy, mushrooms, broccoli
bean sprouts
3 oz chicken
½ cup hot and sour soup
The soup had no meat and about 2 small slivers of tofu. I'm not sure how to even count it. I didn't add any additional fat, because I am sure they used some oil to stir fry the veggies. I ate almost all the veggies. I put the egg rolls and rice down the garbage disposal. Laughed at the fortune in the fortune cookies and put them down the disposal too. I told them no rice or egg rolls but they sent them anyway.Go figure.
I'm counting it as 3C/3P/3F?
The good thing is that the chicken dish was huge. I measured 3 oz and then broke down the rest into 3 oz portion in freezer bags. I now have 4 portions of precooked chicken in my freezer for future use.
SNACK
1C/1P/1F
½ cup grapes
1 oz cheese
3 almonds
TOTALS
11C/11P/11F
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Sue K
Posts:9600
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| 10/26/2009 9:51 PM |
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Deborah, congrats! Your breakfast sounds delicious. I think I might have had that if I'd seen it before I ate dinner tonight!
Egg rolls and rice down the garbage disposal; spoken like a true zoner! :-) When we get take out we throw the unwanted items out in the woods behind our house for the wildlife (corrupting the deer population's diet rather than ours).
Re: Eli thanks so much. You're right; he does look like a little king in the photo. He certainly rules at home! :-)
In the photo, he's at the dining room table, which was set with tons of traditional Korean food prepared by family. It's part of Korean tradition to set a lavish table including towers made of fresh fruit, and then the baby chooses from some items placed before him that are meant to symbolize good things in his future. It was cute, and luckily he was very cooperative.
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sue
Lost 100 lbs 15 yrs ago, off BP meds, thanks to the Zone diet and Zone fish oil. ZoneFast is the best!
To view my before/after pics and meal photos click on this picture
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Deborah
Posts:131
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| 10/26/2009 10:00 PM |
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Thanks Sue. That has become my standard breakfast. It's so easy, I make up a pot of the oatmeal and then just add the raisin and almonds when I reheat it as needed. I do have a half a bagel every now and then (like tomorrow) so that I don't get too tired of it.
I think I have been posting with you long enough to know if it was really a no no, you would steered me in the right direction,but can I ask your opinion on the soup. Obviously, I don't want to have it all the time, but is that meal okay for a once in a while treat? I'm not too worried about the veggies and the chicken as I cook that myself at home sometimes.
Thanks and welcome home! |
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Sue K
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| 10/26/2009 10:08 PM |
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Hi Everyone!
After a couple of hectic days that ended with arriving home from my vacation in Maryland and then making a trip to TJ's and Whole Foods late today, I finally have a little time to relax (well, sort of, still have to finish unpacking; I'm watching Dracula on the History Channel now...).
I've been posting my daily food and exercise diaries here for a couple of months to give you an idea of how I've stayed in the the Zone for almost 15 years (wow, hard to believe it's been that long!). From now on, I'm going to share some meals and other things here, instead of the diaries; I don't personally need to post all the details in order to make sure I stay in the Zone.
Tonight's dinner was a quick and easy (and delicious!)3 blocks:
whites of 6 hard boiled eggs (Now don't laugh, I used the TJ's hard cooked eggs in the bag; they're great for those times you can't cook!)
365 Light Mayonnaise (low fat, canola oil mayo) for dipping the eggs in
1 block of TJ's "Mangolicious" (frozen fruit: mango, blueberry and red raspberries) plus 1 generous block of TJ's Frozen Organic Red Raspberries (3 of little Eli's favorite fruits!); I go light on the mango pieces and add the extra berries to keep it very favorable because I'm super carb sensitive
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sue
Lost 100 lbs 15 yrs ago, off BP meds, thanks to the Zone diet and Zone fish oil. ZoneFast is the best!
To view my before/after pics and meal photos click on this picture
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Cranberrycat
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| 10/26/2009 10:38 PM |
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Jessi, so how was your spinach fandango?
I love hearing about how zoners take favorite recipes and convert them. It really isn't that hard to do!
I love stir fries, but I was always a rice-lover in my pre-zone days. But, I can easily do a stir fry and not give any thought to the rice at all. |
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Cranberrycat
We don't own the earth; we borrow it from our children.
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Jessi
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| 10/26/2009 11:22 PM |
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Hi all! Hope you are all having a good night!
Cran- the spinach fandango turned out awesome, thanks! Kinda weird, but it happens to be one of my all time fav. comfort food meals on cold nights like tonight. I find I'm the same way, I didn't miss the rice or potato at all! And I agree, I think it is good to convert our fav. recipies since this is a lifestyle change.
Deborah- Congrats on the weight loss! 32lbs wow!!! And all the unfav. carbs right in the disposal! Great job!
Sue- I actually did laugh when you said you got the TJ hard cooked eggs in the bag, only b/c I ended up with those after going shopping the other day and I said the exact same thing!!!
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janet
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| 10/27/2009 12:51 PM |
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Deborah....great weight loss! Sue, thanks for the support! Jessi, I bet I could make th mac nut butter, but I'll just wait till it hops off the shelf at me. CC, stir fries rule!
Well, last night out to dinner went well...DH had a delicious cocktail and I passed....my dinner was really good: wilted spinach salad with a dressing of crumbled bacon and bits of roasted tomato plus strips of chicken!! (haven't touched bacon in years, but it was very minimal) |
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Becky
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| 10/27/2009 2:09 PM |
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I wrote out a long drawn out summary of my Zone for the past few days, but my internet at work it not the greatest, so when I hit submit, it got deleted. So here is a summary of my summary!
On Saturday I had to work from 12-5, but didn't know about it until an hour before I started, since I put myself on the on-call list to be called in when someone else couldn't come in for their shift. I had a good Zoned breakfast for Saturday of egg whites and mixed fruit. When I was called into work I didn't have time to go home and eat a Zoned lunch, so I ate out at Jack in the Box, a hamburger place. They have some fairly decent food. One of those items that is ok for the Zone, at least for me, is the Chicken Fajita Pita. Bascially a smallish piece of chicken with onions and peppers, stuffed in half a pita pocket. I ate it around 11:45 and had to work until 5:30. I was in the Zone the whole time. I didn't have time to have a snack, but didn't really need one. I got off work, came home and just made dinner. I had 1 cup of blueberries and 1/2 cup of spaghetti sauce over 3 oz. of canned chicken. Not exactly gourmet, but it does keep me Zoned. I had the same dinner on Sunday.
For Monday I had yogurt and fruit for breakfast.
Lunch was an egg white, cheese, and Canadian bacon omelet type sandwhich on an English Muffin with fruit.
For dinner, I finally got around to trying Sue's Brownie Batter Smoothie, but it didn't keep me in the Zone, so I need to tweak it a bit. It was very good, but didn't seem to have a lot of the volume that I usually have in my dinner shakes. I usually use 2 cups of berries, milk, and protein powder. I also had to eat with a spoon.
Today started off kind of not good, Zone-wise, but it could have been worse. We had a big meeting in the morning, so lots of goodies. I made a huge fruit salad with blueberries, vanilla yogurt, apple slices, honeydew, canatloupe, watermelon, grapes, and pineapple. Someone else brought bagels and cream cheese. I ended up having a bagel w/cream cheese, and some of the fruit, but I also had a little bag of beef jerky to balance it all out. I found these great little bags of Jack Link's original beef jerky that are exactly 22g of protein. So I ate that to balance out the carb of the bagel/fruit. Lunch today is a big salad of lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, egg whites, reduced fat blue cheese, and an orange for desert. Dinner is going to be an Asian Seafood Salad, with scallops, shrimp, salmon, snow peas, lettuce, radishes, green onions, peppers, tomatoes. |
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Sue K
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| 10/27/2009 2:44 PM |
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| Jessi, those cooked eggs sure are convenient, aren't they! |
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sue
Lost 100 lbs 15 yrs ago, off BP meds, thanks to the Zone diet and Zone fish oil. ZoneFast is the best!
To view my before/after pics and meal photos click on this picture
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Jessi
Posts:46
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| 10/27/2009 5:05 PM |
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Hi all,
Sue, yup I agree, and tasty too!
Today so far...
breakfast
oats w/ almond butter
protien powder drink w/ milk and water
Lunch
Oh geeze... I don't know why I always seem to have drama mid-day but I do. My lunch that was packed was salad w/ veggies, cottage cheese to go on top, nuts and an apple. I was busy from the time I walked into work (won't go into details but it involves the joys of potty training a 2 yr old boy) and forgot to put my lunch in the fridge... Warm cottage cheese did not sound healthy... The kids were having spaghetti-o's and meat balls and I could have had the fake meatballs for p, but I decided not to and to take my chances w/ only eating the apple and nuts. YIKES!!!! Holy cow, I was right outta the zone in about 45 min and was so sleepy I couldn't keep my eyes open (relaxing nap time music for the children didn't help at all) Then after I got off work I went to the store to pick up some bottled h2o and had to re-count my cash 3 times b/c I was so loopy I couldn't focus on counting to 6... LOL not good!
Snack
Snack time came way early, and I fixed myself a smoothie just as soon as I walked in the door to the house. I had no idea how many blocks to make it, I didn't feel like one would be enough, so I just did 2. That was almost an hr. ago and I feel great now.
Dinner and pm snack I do not know about yet. I did get some tasty looking dry-rubbed Chicken, I may have that w/ asparagus.
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Cranberrycat
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| 10/27/2009 6:08 PM |
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Jessi, at least the chix and asparagus is a good step to bring you back to life!
I have not had a good day in the Zone, either. Mostly because I allowed my hectic schedule to rule my day, besides the fact that I only got 4 hours of sleep (work project that was due at 0700 this morning, so up late). I am a bit out of sorts, but more because of lack of sleep, that tends to make me crave the junk more.
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We don't own the earth; we borrow it from our children.
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Sue K
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| 10/27/2009 7:04 PM |
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| Jessi, those hormonal effects of food are certainly amazing, aren't they? I carrry soy nuts and Zone bars with me (in the car, purse, etc. ) for when I'm stuck in a situaion like you had today. |
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sue
Lost 100 lbs 15 yrs ago, off BP meds, thanks to the Zone diet and Zone fish oil. ZoneFast is the best!
To view my before/after pics and meal photos click on this picture
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Jessi
Posts:46
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| 10/27/2009 8:37 PM |
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I actually ended up eating breakfast dinner tonight and I feel normal.
egg white omlette w/ onion, spinach and soy cheese
mixed frozen berries
cashews
Cran- Sorry to hear about your crazy day too! Hope it is getting better! It is so easy to let a crazy schedule get the best of you, so hang in there and I hope tomorrow is a little more calm.
Sue- I need to check into getting some soy nuts, that is a good idea! I have never tried them. I will prob. hold off on the zone bars b/c they kind of make me want to overeat. I have no idea why, maybe just a mental thing b/c they don't leave me hungry. I think I may try them again when my body gets further in the zone, maybe last time it was some side effect of me being new to the program and not having a zoned mentality yet... |
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