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A good day!

1/2 a banana and a crumpet for breakfast and a chicken pie and salad for dinner with NO snacks. Am going to my friends later for a 4 course vegetarian meal to celebrate chinese new year (her husband is from Singapore). Not sure what it will be like as she is not the best cook ever and either me or Tara (who does not have IBS!) have been ill every time after visiting her. Sounds like lots of fun...and interesting food...can wait to catch up on all the reports to see how you did.

Oh dear ... I wish I was cooking.

Anyway, despite being majorly stiff from Pilates (too many abs exercises), we went to the gym and did 30 mins cardio and 10 mins weights. Great job!! Hopefully we are going to aquacise tomorrow, which is great fun.

Oh and Lucy went to puppy school, and was quite good, although she was scared of the food bowl!! She was about 4 weeks younger than the rest, so we'll forgive her. And she made friends with the cutest basset hound! AAww... how cute!!

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Today is my 3rd day symptom free YIPPEEEEE I am going to stick to Heather's diet to a tee and make sure I exercise and take measures to reduce stress, and hopefully I can keep this up.

Foodies:
*bowl of porridge with banana & soymilk (30g oats)
*soy milkshake with chocolate, peanut butter & passion fruit (deliberately trying to up calories a bit after my rice days!) Oh, that sounds yummy!
*giant pitta with soy cream cheese
*caramel shortbread (I feel awful for cheating, because it might make me ill again, but I couldn't find anything safer to eat than this). My stomach is actually starting to hurt, but I'm not sure if it's real or psychological. what was the outcome?

supper shall be: mashed potato & carrot cakes with roasted flat-cap mushrooms. I was going to have some caramel soy icecream and tinned pears for dessert, but I think I have already eaten too much for that (my excuse for being too lazy to go to the shop and buy them!)

Exercise: walked round a wildfowl centre (4 miles?), did loads of walking round town shopping, and hefted 234kg (500 pounds?) of BMW motorcycle around (I weigh about 53kg(118 pounds) right now)! WOW...lots of exercise...wonderful!!

I also did half an hour of New York City Ballet and yoga stretches this morning, and heading out to run 5 miles now.. OK, your making me tired just thinking aabout that...lol

Good luck to everyone else- I hope you are all having symptom-free days as well!

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so far...

cereal for breakfast..
luna bar for snack
ate leftover pulled chicken on pita and a banana for lunch
walked a few laps o fthe interior of the building at lunch

planning on another luna bar later this afternoon, and then a bike ride after work (I felt better for the ride yesterday) and then home for dinner and I'll probably eat that in 2 parts, not sure what it will be yet- DH gets to cook on Sat's- he's off all day and I work, we may wind up eating out!

Water- on my 3rd big mug of tea, and drank part of a bottle of water already... I don't normally post this because I have no issues keeping enough in me- I normally drink at least 32 oz of water and 3-4 big mugs of tea at work, and then more at home.. and a 32 oz bottle while I bike (here on the stationaries, on the road I only have storage for smaller bottles with me, but I normally take at least 2!) I'll probably get more int he habit o drinking a lot when I stop..

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well I just ate a salmon burger on bread with homemade bbq... I'll probably get something else when Bill gets home- he went to run an errand and hasn't returned.. was gone when I got home but said he'd be back shortly.

I biked 4 miles today! if I can keep that up I'll be doing really well! of course with the trainer at home, I'll be doing time for awhile and doing it here I think! at least most days, I still may ride at work on occasion.

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One more update: I ate 2 small apples with soem brown sugar, cinnamon and acacia sprinkled over the pieces before I nuked them to death.. wound up with a yummy sweet sauce (no need to add water- the juice from the apples and the melted brown sugar was yummy caramel sauce!)

going to call it a night early- I think I overdid it today but that was more work being a zoo probably... and the bike ride gave me a secodn wind but I'm past that and dragging now...

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Ugh I have a cold again oh no! and so I couldn't exercise today or yesterday (one day was a rest day) you need that when your sick , my hip/lower back still hurts from the self defense class and I weighed myself today and stayed the same. The good news is I am not hungry and am not dying! lol this is a good thing! I made myself homemade soup yesterday for lunch and had some today- yum! and I ate some sorbet and had oatmeal for breakfast. Last night I had baked pot and fish. I also have been drinking echinacea tea and orange juice. Tomorrow is my big exercise day and it will be a bummer to miss it! and Monday I have to work 5 1/2-6 hours. Hope I am better. Hope you better too.... take care....

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Breakfast: oatmeal w/ brown sugar & pumpkin pie spice
Lunch: luna bar, canned pears, dinner roll
Snacks: honeycomb, more rolls
Dinner: chicken-sweet potato curry over jasmine rice, UUmm... is this one posted somewhere? homemade chapathis

Drinks: 4 cups teeccino w/ stevia & nondairy creamer, 2 cups chai w/ stevia & rice milk, 1 cup lemon-ginger tea = 70oz... I will have at least 10oz more water before heading to bed YEAH!! Good girl....no how many times did you get up to pee? hehehe

Food & drinks total: 1673
Fruits & veggies: pears, veggies in the curry (x2) = 3 (bad Casey!)

Activity:
various chores and errands: -191

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Recovering from an unplanned "cheat" dinner last night. oops! Ironically, my stomach felt great from the time I woke up (11am!) til about 6pm and then it got all bloated and crampy. Too bad. AAwwhhh...bummer

[B/L] Wacky pasta (made with spinach, beet & tomato powders) with chicken, cauliflower & broccoli Oh, I wish I could eat cauliflowe and broccoli....it get the WORST Stink Bombs...!! in a "fire-roasted garlic & tomato" sauce, 1 piece french bread, .5 serving of Cinnamon Graham Crackers
[S] (post workout) 1.5 cups Lite Choc Soymilk, 1 scoop Chocolate Soy Protein powder, 1tsp Glutamine
[D] Turkey & cranberry sauce on Oatnut bread, a couple (awful) brussel sprouts that I tried to make taste better by covering in mustard, LOL .5 serving of Cinnamon Graham Crackers
[S] 1 packet Oatmeal + 1/4 cup Oats, 1 cup Lite soymilk, 2 pieces Cinnamon toast with 1tsp reduced-fat PB
Dang... you have some yummy looking meals...

W/O - Lift Biceps & Triceps (and a short ab routine) - 35min, StairClimber - 30 min

Total: 1939 cal, 132g protein, 25g fat

Not enough veggies (and NO fruit), but this was an "off" day

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Hi guys,
I am kinda in a hurry, and am not sure exactly how many calories I had today..
I had a luna bar for breakfast, 4 arrowroot cookies, 3/4 of a turkey breast sandwich at Subway. For dinner I made the 'Greek Style Chicken' from the recipe exchange, but I kinda screwed it all up when I tried to guess on stuff to add to make more 'cause of how much chicken I had and anyway, it was gross. Oh, I'm sorry... So I ate two bites of that, then ate a sourdough english muffin and peanut butter instead..
So from what I can figure, that's about...
975 calories.
Walked around most of the day, looking at apartments and stuff and then did about an hour and a half of heavy duty house cleaning, so I dunno how much I burned off today. No elliptical 'cause I ran out of time. I am going out dancing tonight, though. You've got plenty then!
I am already hungry again, though. So I might snack on some pretzels before I go out.
I have been SO hungry lately, and if I don't eat something I get so nauseous that it sometimes actually makes me throw up! It's awful. And so so so so tired. I think maybe I have a bug or something, it's driving me crazy because I am so tired I can't concentrate at my reading and end up falling asleep on the couch! Are you getting enough sleep? NOT a good way to get homework done!!
Okay, gotta go put on my dancing shoes and get outta here! hope you had fun
Cheers all!
**hugs**
--Steph

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I've got a nasty cold, so yesterday was wayyy off... Hope you feeling better by now Melissa...

Breakfast: plain toasted bagel with pumpkin butter
lunch/dinner: soup (vegetable broth with rice and leftover stir fry veggies) half piece of spinach bread, vegan blueberry muffin
snack: large cup of unsweetened applesauce

water: 48 oz (not counting soup)

exercise: 5 minute roundtrip walk to CVS for more tissues and cold meds...I stupidly took a nondrowsy decongestant at 8PM Friday night, so I didn't sleep with a darn Friday night, so I slept from 11AM-4PM yesterday, and then my IBS decided to act up as well, probably due to mucus I'm inadvertantly swallowing...yeah, so not expecting much exercise or great eating this weekend you poor thing....

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Disgraceful. 28 points MINIMUM ( I think it's really closer to about 30). Don't be so hard on yourself!! I had a weekend away with hubby and went out to eat twice, with wine, so it was really hard to count points. I'm using my flex points so I'm going back on track for Monday! (22 point budget) Oh, yes.... I read about that.... I'm so happy for ya!!

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