Check-In with McConnell - 11/16

More success today. I've exceeded 20 lbs lost since I started at McConnell. As you can imagine, I'm estatic. The dietician gave me a sideways glance when she took my weight, because I had dropped about 3 lbs from last week, but she read my food chart and so knew that I had been eating everything that I should be.

I got a new type of food chart from McConnell. Normally, I would have to break apart each piece of a meal into separate lines according to the type of food. For example, for the Bacon & Bleu burger I had yesterday, I would do something like this:

• burger (~5 oz) - 5 meat
• bacon (~1 oz) - 1 meat
• burger bun - 2 grain
• bleu cheese (~2 oz) - 2 dairy
• onion and lettuce (~1 oz) - 1 veg

Now, I can just list that I had a burger, plus the ingredients, kinda like what I do here on the blog. Much more user-friendly, IMHO. There's still a place at the bottom where I count up the number of servings of each type of food for the day, so it's still giving me all the helpful information I'll need.

Did my regular resistance training today, plus full intensity on both the treadmill and recumbent bike.

Diet Update

Breakfast 11/16:

• South Beach bar
• banana
• 8 oz light yogurt
• 12 oz milk
• 30 oz water
• 14 oz coffee

Lunch 11/16:

• Ham (3 oz) and colby (1 oz) on wheat bread w/ mustard
• 6 oz salad w/ fat free raspberry vinagrette
• 3 oz carrots
• 1 apple
• 32 oz water

Afternoon Snack 11/16:

• 3 oz celery

Dinner 11/16:

• 6 oz salad w/ 2 tbsp fat free raspberry vinagrette
• 3 oz green pepper
• 3 oz turkey kielbasa
• ~1 cup Lipton Pasta Sides, Stroganoff
• 1/2 c sugar-free Jell-O
• 10 oz water