Day 7 Breakfast: Veggie Quiche Cups V8 Low Sodium Veggie Juice Coffee w/ FF Milk Morning Snack: Mozzarella Stick Lunch: Green Salad w/ Green Goddess Dressing Afternoon Snack: Roasted Chickpeas Dinner: Left-Over Soy Beef & Bean Chili Dessert: Mocha Ricotta Exercise: Walked 4.6 miles to the bank and movie theatre. Saw “He’s Just Not That [...]
Day 6 Breakfast: Veggie Quiche Cups To Go (egg beaters, spinach & asparagus) V8 Low Sodium Veggie Juice Coffee w/ Fat-Free Milk Morning Snack: 1 Reduced-Fat Colby/Cheddar Cheese Stick Lunch: Butter Beans, Arugula and Spinach Salad w/ Green Goddess Dressing Sugar-Free Cherry Creamsicle Afternoon Snack: Oops! Missed this one. My bad. Dinner: Left-over Buttermilk Salmon [...]
Apologies for my lack of description for my Day 5 post yesterday. Usually I finish up & publish my day’s post at night before I go to bed. Last night I was distracted by the not-so-riveting white Bentley L.A. slow car chase, not driven by Chris Brown*, then not by DJ Khaled**, but by someone [...]
Day 5 Breakfast: Scrambled Egg Beaters w/ Soy Bacon Strip Vegetable Juice Coffee w/ Fat-Free Milk Morning Snack: Celery w/ Peanut Butter Lunch: Greek Salad Afternoon Snack: Mozzarella Cheese Stick Dinner: Buttermilk Salmon Chowder (had a picture, but D said it didn’t do this yummy dish any justice) Dessert: Peanut Butter Cup Exercise: 60 Minute [...]
Day 4 It was a good day. The two highlights were the trip to the Farmer’s Market and our dinner. Today was grocery shopping day. We decided to purchase our veggies from the Farmer’s Market instead of the grocery store. It always feels good buying and eating something that is locally grown. We also like [...]
Day 3 Today was a bit more of a challenge. Saturdays we are lazy. We don’t like to cook on Saturdays. We managed to make a nice breakfast (thanks to D), but lost all motivation to make a good lunch. We decided on yesterday’s leftovers. By the afternoon guilt was setting in. So we exercised [...]
This turned out to be a pretty successful day. Ok, perhaps one disastrous meal… but I did exercise today! Dinner wasn’t quite the way I had hoped it would turn out, but it still tasted good. I guess taste is the most important part. The plan was Greek Soy Meatballs and Grilled Eggplant. However, the [...]
Well, overall it has been a somewhat successful day, no cheating. However, exercise was a complete failure. I hope to do better tomorrow. As you read my menu for today, you will notice the use of soy meats. This is my choice, as I don’t eat meat. South Beach allows most, if not all meats. [...]
It has become painfully obvious to me that the holidays have been far too kind to me… and my waistline. My butt has been enjoying the good life for much too long. It is time to fight back. My plan of attack will be exercise and the South Beach Diet. I plan on two forms [...]