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  • Name: Terry
  • City: Sequim
  • Region: Washington
  • Country: United States

My Weight Loss

Height: 185.4cm
Start weight: 313.00lb
Current weight: 313.00lb
Goal weight: 180.00lb
Lost to date: -0.00lb
Remaining: 133.00lb

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02/22/2011 16:15

Lets get this show on the road... again

New home, new career, new gym, new lifestyles. 

Exercise: 30 minutes of elliptical at the new gym.

Breakfast: 130 cal. pack of blueberry cream oatmeal. + 100 cal. Yoplait Light Blueberry yogurt. Total: 230 cal.

Lunch:

Dinner:

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02/06/2010 19:48

Lost 2 pounds!

Thought I should post that!  Will return with the rest later :)

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02/05/2010 03:54

Still here and on plan!

A lot happening this week, but first need to rewind.  I lost 2 pounds last week and my lack of blogging had to do with a complete relocation of our office and other things.. I did stay on plan though so no worries there!  I will try to write more tomorrow.  You can read my wife's blog for all the latest updates.  I am rushing to get this up before our new "no electronics after 7pm" experiment.

Breakfast:  Jimmy Dean English Muffin Breakfast Sandwich (260 cal)

Lunch: (Pulled from wife's blog) New experiment, the "Not Quite Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo"!



CHICKEN & FETTUCCINE SUBSTITUTES
  140 cal - 2 slices of Jennie-O turkey (4.7 oz) cut into strips
+  63 cal - 1/2 bag of rainbow salad boiled until limp like noodles
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  203 cal each

SAUCE INGREDIENTS
   70 cal - 2 laughing cow cheese wedges
   80 cal - shredded mozzarella
   20 cal - 2 tsp Parmaesan
   45 cal - 1/2 cup NF milk
   20 cal - 2 Tbsp fat free sour cream
+ a sprinkling of salt, pepper, & garlic powder for flavor
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  235 cal ÷ 2 = 118 cal each

TOTAL = 321 cal 

FYI, the veggies made an excellent pasta substitute with ZERO GUILT!
The Rainbow salad is basically a mix of broccoli and cauliflower hearts with some carrots and cabbage thrown in.  Here's what the bag looks like.

 
Linner (Dunch): 2 cups Cinnamon Life  (320 cal) + 1 cup of NF milk (90 cal)

Snacker:  Hummus Is Yummus!

385 - 1 can of Garbonzo beans
  40 - Roasted Red Bell Peppers
  95 - 1 Tbsp Roasted Sesame Seed Tahini
  25 - 2 Tbsp organic Crushed Garlic
  15 - Approx 2 oz lemon juice
+ Salt and pepper to taste
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560 ÷ 2 = 280 cal each

+ 2 Greek Pita (480 cal)


Water: 48oz
Vitamins: 1 mens multi + 6 maca capsules

Activity: 1 hour Zumba class (not really my thing but promised wife I would try it once with her)

Calories
SUBTOTAL: 2001  
BURNED:     - 450
TOTAL:          1551

 Daily Calorie Allowance: 2311
Under: 1061

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01/29/2010 09:01

1/28: Gumbo Wins!

Breakfast:

- 1 Chocolate Almond Fudge Clif Bar 250 cal. (sounds worse than it is)

Lunch: Mom brought us delicious homemade seafood gumbo!  Thank you!!  It was delicious!  She also counted all the calories before hand and it's so great to have that family support.  1 cup seafood gumbo 142 cal. 1/2 cup white rice 85 cal.

Dinner: Breakfast skillet again (pulled stats from wife's blog)

1 large yukon gold potato (200 cal)
1 medium zucchini (31 cal)
1 large orange bell pepper (43 cal)
1 slice of bacon (46 cal)
1 turkey frank (120 cal)
roughly 6 tsp of sriracha hot sauce (30 cal)
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subtotal= 470 cal
÷ 2 people = 235 cal ea
+ 2 tortillas each (240 cal)
+ 1 oz cheddar cheese each = (110 cal)
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TOTAL for DINNER = 585 cal

Dessert: Yoplait Light Cherry Yogurt 100 cal.

Snack: Hungry again?  Made a roast beef sandwich on pita bread.

240 cal. - 1 Pita Bread Slice
190 cal. - 3 oz Roast Beef
110 cal. - 1 oz Cheddar Cheese
45 cal. - 1 tbsp Light Mayo
10 cal. - 1 cup sprouts
7 cal. - 1/2 cup fresh baby spinach leaves
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Totaled: 602 cal. yikes but it tasted so healthy :)

Vitamin: 1 Mens Multi, 6 Maca Capsules

Water: 64oz

Exercise: Well... had all the intentions to go the gym but instead found that we had a lot of things to take care of around the house.  I know doing them burned calories but not sure how many.  We are going to try to get our workouts done first thing in the morning soon so that the rest of the day is completely free. 

TOTAL DAILY CALORIES:  1764
MINUS CALORIES BURNED: 0
TOTAL CALORIC INTAKE:  1764

Daily Calorie Allowance: 2311
Under: 547

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01/28/2010 01:18

Grandma said the new residential recycling can is large enough to rent out to a homeless person.

Breakfast:

- 1 Blueberry Clif Bar 240 cal.
- Yoplait Light Blueberry Yogurt 100 cal.

Lunch: Steak, Mushroom, and Egg Burrito

212 cal. - 4 oz steak, sliced
147 cal. - 2 large eggs
24 cal. - 6 mushrooms, sliced
240 cal. - 2 medium flour tortillas
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623 cal. / 2 people = 312 cal. + my 2 tsp of 10 cal. sriracha sauce = 322 cal.


Snack: 1 large banana 121 cal.

Dinner: Sockeye Salmon w/ strawberry chipotle sauce & side of asparagus

735 cal. - 12 oz Sockeye Salmon
40 cal. - 7 oz of asparagus
150 cal. - 3 tbsp Smuckers strawberry jam
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925 cal. / 2 people = 463 cal.

Dessert: Banana Split

180 cal. - 1 cup Bryers fat free vanilla ice cream
200 cal. - 4 tbsp chocolate syrup
121 cal. - 1 large banana
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501 cal. / 2 people = 251 cal.


Snack: Orville Redenbacher's Single Serving Kettle Pop Corn 100 cal.

Vitamin: 1 Mens Multi, 6 Maca Capsules

Water: 64oz

Exercise: Ended up taking the day off from activity today to take care of some things.

TOTAL DAILY CALORIES:  1597 cal.
MINUS CALORIES BURNED: 0
TOTAL CALORIC INTAKE:  1597

Daily Calorie Allowance: 2311
Under: 714

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01/27/2010 01:38

bippity boppity bacon!

So today was a bacon day, and here is how we used it up!  Sorry nothing spectacular to take photos of this time!

Breakfast:

- Jimmy Dean Delight Breakfast Sandwich 290 cal.
- Yoplait Light Blueberry Yogurt 100 cal.

Lunch: Took the other 2 serving leftovers from a day before lasts dinner and made something a little different.  Whole grain linguine topped with steamed cauliflower, mushrooms, and zucchini.  I made a different sauce out of smart balance butter, garlic, and bacon :)

80 cal. - 2 tbsp Smart Balance Butter
8 cal. - 2 tsp Mashed Garlic
613 cal. - 4 (1oz/ea.) Bacon Slices (They were very lean so maybe less)
176 cal. for the leftover servings of mushrooms, zucchini, cauliflower, whole grain linguine, stewed tomatoes. Totaled: 877 cal. /  by 2 people = 439 cal.

Snack: Large Honey Crisp Apple 116 cal.

Snack: Banana 105 cal.

Dinner: Made it an easy night - Salad & Lean Cuisine Pizza

- 2 cups of Romain Lettuce 16 cal. & 2 cups of baby spinach leaves 20 cal.
- Half a large tomato, sliced  17 cal.
- 2 slices of lean bacon 307 cal.
- 2 tbsp of Wish Bone Light Balsamic & Basil Vinaigrette 60 cal.
- Lean Cuisine Traditional Pepperoni Pizza 350 cal.

Snack: Needed to stay up late to work on my business, so of course got hungry again and made a PBJ.

- hot dog bun (all we had) 180 cal.
- 2 tbsp crunchy peanut butter 190 cal.
- 1 tbsp Strawberry Jam 50 cal.

Vitamin: 1 Mens Multi, 6 Maca Capsules

Water: 48oz so far

Exercise: 55 minutes (+5 min cool down) on the elliptical.

Total Calories Burned: -830 cal.

TOTAL DAILY CALORIES: 2240
MINUS CALORIES BURNED: -830 cal.
TOTAL CALORIC INTAKE:  1410

Daily Calorie Allowance: 2311
Under: 901

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01/26/2010 08:37

Dungeness crab is the best

Breakfast:  1 Black Cherry Almond Clif Bar 250 cal.

Lunch: 1 Lean Cuisine Chophouse Steak Flat Bread Melt 330 cal. and 1 honey crisp apple 77 cal.

Snack: 2oz of Kettle Baked BBQ Flavor Potato Chips 240 cal.

Dinner: Filet Mignon (found one for under $4!) topped with dungeness crab (a rare treat) and a side of 3 crab stuffed mushrooms and asparagus.  Heaven!

272 cal. - 5.36 oz Filet Mignon
217 cal. - 6.96 oz Dungeness Crab
24 cal. - 6 mushrooms
40 cal. - 22 small spears of asparagus
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Subtotal: 553
/ (divide) by 2 people = 277 cal. I know, unbelievable but true.  So filling too.



Vitamin: 1 Mens Multi, 6 Maca Capsules

Water: 96oz

Exercise: I took it a little easier today because my muscles were sore. 

- 30 minutes on the elliptical 400 cal.
- 10 minutes on the treadmill 50 cal. (It was busy so wanted to allow someone else to use the elliptical.
- 30 minutes more on the elliptical 400 cal.

Total Calories Burned: 850 cal.

TOTAL DAILY CALORIES: 1174
MINUS CALORIES BURNED: - 850 cal.
TOTAL CALORIC INTAKE:  324

Daily Calorie Allowance: 2311
Under: 1987

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01/24/2010 23:03

A windy Sunday!

Breakfast: 

- 1 honey crisp apple 77 cal.
- 1 choc. almond fudge clif bar 250 cal

Lunch: I made salmon burgers and fresh baked Yukon gold potato fries for the both of us today.

two salmon patties (200 cal) 1.50 oz cheese (165 cal) two wheat hot dog buns (360 cal) 3 potatoes cut to fry shapes and baked with 0 calorie cooking spray. (483 cal) 2 tbsp mayo (90 cal) 1 tbsp catchup (15 cal) 1 cup of baby spinach (10 cal) Totaled: 1323 cal / then divided by 2 servings = 662 cal. then add my personal side of single tbsp honey mixed with mustard for a honey mustard dip. (60 cal) Total: 722 cal.  I know, higher than our average meals but well deserved after a busy day at the gym.



Snack: 1.5 oz of Kettle Baked Potato Chips 180 cal.

Dinner: My wife was hurting more than me after the gym so for dinner I made Multigrain linguine in a Spicy tomato sauce with stewed tomatoes, mushrooms, zucchini, and cauliflower.  Added 2 Jumbo shrimp and it works out like this:
  16 cal - 4 mushrooms
  52 cal - 1 zucchini
144 cal - 1 cauliflower head
  15 cal - 1 Tbsp Sriracha
400 cal - 4 oz whole grain linguini
  90 cal - can of stewed tomatoes
140 cal - can of tomato sauce
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857 cal total
 ÷ 4 servings
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215 cal per serving
+113 cal - 2 Jumbo prawns
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328 cal each

Steaming Action:



Result: (sauce wasn't my favorite, next time will do a healthy white sauce or no sauce at all)




Dessert: 1 pudding cup 100 cal.

Water: 96oz

Vitamin: 1 Mens Multi, 6 Maca Capsules

Exercise: A good day at the gym, and feeling it!

- Warmed up 20 minutes on the elliptical doing a high interval cross train workout. burned 300 cal.
- Played 30 minutes of racquetball with my wife. burned 366 cal.
- Finished with 30 more minutes on the elliptical. burned 400 cal.

Total Calories Burned: 1066

TOTAL DAILY CALORIES: 1657
MINUS CALORIES BURNED: 1066
TOTAL CALORIC INTAKE:  591 It's amazing because I'm so full too.

Daily Calorie Allowance: 2311
Under: 1720

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01/23/2010 23:35

Lost 3 pounds!

The forecast last week was that I would lose at least 2 pounds so 3 is definitely a treat! This means I lost 3 of these:

 

We restocked our kitchen today to be ready for the upcoming week!




Breakfast: Omelet day!  It was hard not to after watching Alton Brown (the Bill Nye of food) on the food network last night teach about making omelets.  I had made them many times in my lifetime but he had some useful tips for improvement :) 



- Spinach Omelet: 2 Large Eggs (148 cal) .5 cup baby spinach leaves cooked down (10 cal).  1 oz monterey jack cheese (110 cal).  Like to also mention that I used 0 calorie Kroger cooking spray. This totaled: 268

- Honey Crisp Apple 77 cal.

Lunch:

- 1 oz slice of moms yummy banana bread (she counted calories for us) 100 cal.
- 1 large banana!  Now I feel like I ate more bread but I didn't :) 105 cal.

Dinner: Sirloin steak (not a tenderloin but so affordable and good if cooked right), little less than 4oz steak (210 cal) 1 yukon gold potato (125 cal) boiled first and then sauteed with 1/2 of a small zucchini (15 cal) in olive oil-flavored 0 cal cooking spray.



Dessert: 

- 1 oz of fresh coconut meat (100 cal)
- 1 serving of Apple Crisp dessert, made like so...(pulled from wife's blog)

2 granny smith apples (154 cal), sliced and thrown in a pan with 1 Tbsp of Smart Balance (80 cal) and 4 tsp of Splenda brown sugar blend (80 cal).  Cooked them down a bit and then added 1 Tbsp of honey (60 cal).  Cooked down some more until very tender and all green has left the peels.  Spooned apples into 2 glass ramekins and added 1/2 cup of hemp granola (120 cal) and topped with fat free cool whip (60 cal).  Calories quoted are for the entire thing, divided by 2 servings = 277 cal each



Water: 96oz

Vitamin: 1 Mens Multi, 6 Maca Capsules

Exercise: First real day at the gym, worked on the elliptical doing a high intensity interval for 1 hour.  Burned 909 cal.  yay!

TOTAL DAILY CALORIES: 1277
MINUS CALORIES BURNED: -909
TOTAL CALORIC INTAKE:  368 WHOA!

New Daily Calorie Allowance: 2311
Under: 1943

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01/23/2010 04:37

Friday! Did you have a good food week?

I'm mostly satisfied with my food intake this whole week, next week will be that and even better with the new gym membership.  My wife and 2 sister-in-laws are on here and we are determined to succeed as a team, holding each other accountable for the daily blogs.  We are weighing in here each Saturday to see our progress so tomorrow is the day!  I think this first real week was a good learning week for everyone and next week will probably have greater results.  Anyway, I hope everyone will have good results that they can be proud of.

Breakfast:

- Frozen Jimmy Dean Breakfast Sandwich 290 cal.
- Yoplait Light Blueberry Yogurt 100 cal.

Lunch: Had a busy work day so only got an apple in. 77 cal.

Dinner:

My parents and grandma invited my wife and I to join them for Chinese food and so we turned a scary situation into a good one by calling the restaurant in advance to learn what menu items are not secretly cooked in oils etc..  So we stuck to our plan.  We found out that their Fragrant Shrimp dish (containing 11 shrimp and a heap of broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, sugar snap peas, water chestnuts, and baby corn) is all steamed!  So we ordered one of those with the ginger white wine sauce on the side and shared it.  What I ate most likely amounted to:

- 1 cup of hot & sour soup (90 cal)
- 6 shrimp (33 cal)
- 2 cups of mixed veggies (200 cal)
- 1/2 cup white rice (100 cal)
- 1 fortune cookie (30 cal)
- Add 50 cal to cover a couple bites of what my parents were having + a couple drops of sauce (seriously like a dab of the ginger white wine sauce).
This totaled: 503 cal.

Snack: Big bowl of Crispix (300 cal) + honey (60 cal) + half banana (50 cal)

Dessert: 1 Fat Free Fudgsicle (60 cal) tbsp of fat free whip on top (10 cal)

Water: 64oz

Vitamin: 1 Mens Multi, 6 Maca Capsules

Exercise: Had an hour orientation at the gym today, so the real workout routine will begin Saturday morning. 

TOTAL DAILY CALORIES: 1450
MINUS CALORIES BURNED: 0
TOTAL CALORIC INTAKE:  1450

Daily Calorie Allowance: 2346
Under: 896

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