The Yellow Dar

A blog for a woman and her pug

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Breakfast: reduced fat cinnamon rolls, water
Snack: Communion wafer without enough wine. Wafer + a little wine+ dry mouth = paste
Lunch: 1 large slice of pizza, soda
Dinner: Salad with chicken, roll, water

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Breakfast: bran bar/water
Lunch: PB&J, water, fruit snacks, banana bread yummm
Dinner: Chicken slouvaki and a baked potato, sweet tea
Exercise: 10 fit deck cards.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Another successful trip to the neighborhood diner when I resisted eating any hot chips off of Jon's plate.
Today: A Puffin, I love those little tuxedo birds. Water.
PB&J, Shrek fruit snacks, water.
Afternoon snack, a grammar beating from my spanish prof. i'm embarrased to say i "teach" the language that i apparently suck at so badly if i attempt to write in any type of complex sentences. and the subjunctive can kiss my butt.
Hamburger, baked potato, applesauce, sweet tea.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Tuesday: Puffin and water
pizza buffet, 4 slices :(, pepsi
grilled cheese, tangelo, water
exercise: 10 minute walk on campus to class and back

Monday: reduced fat cinamon rolls, 2, water
the chinaman! sushi, rice, tempura shrimp
popcorn, 2 tangelos, chips salsa, and queso, water
exercise:watching 24

commentary: will be happy when the yearbook is finished, will be happier when the school year is over.

Sunday, January 15, 2006

French Toast and OJ
Salad and 1/2 turkey sandwich
1 brat, 1 low fat hotdog, tortilla chips, salsa, and 2 cookies. :)
Friday: Bran bar, water
left-over tuna with whole wheat noodles and tomato sauce
Athena, vegetable mousakka and sweet tea

Saturday: Muffins and OJ
Turkey Salad melt with Asian cole slaw, sweet tea
Fruit and granola at whole foods
PIZZA!! and COKE!!!

Back on the wagon.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Well, another successful meal where I didn't try to finish Jon's hot chips. (like flat french fries). AND my cholesterol is down 42 points!!! It remains above 200, but it's out of stroke range! yea!!!
Today's report:
Food: Bran bar, water
PB&J, fruit snacks, water
Chicken sluvaky (this is horribly spelled, but I love greek food not spelling greek words).

Exercise: Walked to dinner, fitdeck.



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Monday, January 09, 2006

Lucy here, guest-blogging. Mom's grading papers or planning or something. Let's see. Last night, mom & dad went to Subway and mom had a 6-inch turkey sub with light mayo and some veggies. Also baked Lay's and a Root Beer. I had 1/2 cup of Science Diet and some water. For exercisio mom & dad walked about 40 minutes and later did ten Fitdeck cards. I ate Clara's face.

Today, mom had a bran bar for breakfast, PB&J and some Shrek fruit snacks with water for lunch, and 2.5 black bean quesa-dilluhs and some Caffeine-free Coke for dinner. I had 1/2 cup of Science Diet with water to drink for breakfast, and for dinner I had 1/2 cup of Science Diet and some water.

Mom & Dad also did ten more Fitdeck cards tonight. We were crated while they did it. :(
For my exercise, I ate mom's hair and then Clara's face.

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Friday: bran bar, pb&j, copeland's fried catfish po'boy and fries.
Saturday: bran bar, chick fila fried chicken sandwich and fries, coke, dinner was teriyaki chicken stir fry and a ridiculous amount of crab dip
Sunday: egg and bacon bagel, left over stir fry

Exercise saturday: walk and laps at the tennis courts.

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Food: Bran bar, water
PB&J, pudding cup, water
Grilled Cheese, baked potato, applesauce, tea

Exercise: Walked to the diner and back.

I'm trying to work on the not cleaning my plate so obsesively, however, I have found that not only do I clean my plate, I start to pick at Jon's if there's something on it. What a bad habit! That's gotta be annoying. He's being a good helper though by covering his plate with a napkin when he finishes so I don't finish off his order of fries. (I don't order them, he does, he can stop eating them, I try to eat what's left as if it doesn't count because he ordered them.) Weird!!!! I heart food.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Food: Bran bar
PB&J and pudding
Meatless burrito from Moe's with black beans...yummm and some tortilla chips and salsa

Exercise: Walked dogs for about 30 minutes. or they walked us...

had a better day today. not looking forward to work tomorrow with a foreign language teacher's meeting and 3 kids staying for detention. yuck. bunch of ruffians.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

well, i'm on day two of a migraine, which means i eat 24-7. At 10 p.m. yesterday I had 2 Bo' Berry Biscuits from Bojangles. Today I had a chicken salad sandwich from Panera, dripping with whatever lubricates chicken salad. Then for dinner every bite of a portobella mushroom wrapini, tortilla chips, and salsa from Jason's. I know the food today doesn't sound bad for me, it wasn't. However, the portions in resturants are huge, and I compulsively clean my plate of every morsel.

It doesn't help that I am very stressed about work. I work all day, grade during planning. do yearbook after school, and then plan for the next day at home. I don't feel like I have a spare minute. It's awful. This headache is holding me back, and I can't seem to get enough to drink. I'm so thirsty all the time. The stress carries over to home. I feel tired, huge, unattractive.

I went for the blood letting today. I hope my cholesterol is lower. I have a feeling it will be up because my weight is up. None of my pants fit anymore and my bras are even getting too tight. I swear my ankles are bigger. Since no one reads this, I'm just going to be honest. I'm about at the point of letting go. I am just so at the limit of what I can do on my own for myself. I am spent and out of energy to spend time on me. These feelings, of course, make everything worse. I see myself in the classroom without creativity and with sarcasm. I hate being sarcastic to the kids; I don't think it's right to use sarcasm in a setting where "there's no such thing as a dumb question," but I feel like I'm as jaded as they are right now. And if you know any eighth graders, that's a lot.

Monday, January 02, 2006

Food: 1 bran bar
1 peanut butter and jelly sandwich on HeartSmart bread, pudding cup (I'm 12 or Deb)
3 black bean enchiladas :) yummmmm

Exercise: 1 day of students returning from Christmas break. yuck!

Sunday, January 01, 2006

It's a new year, and thus, our family is going to try to get fit...both of us. We walked to get our supper today. (3 miles) Tomorrow we will dine in, which promises smaller portions and no dessert. And Tuesday we will return to the Y after a near 2 month absence. Tuesday I will also get my cholesterol checked.
A history: 2003-296 total
2004 - 262 total
I'll update when I know the total for '06. Each of the two readings above was taken just before the holidays. This year, it is being taken right after. We'll see how I do.

Today's food blog:
1 cinnamon crunch bagel, low-fat cream cheese and water
1 large piece of cheese pizza, water
1 black bean burger on a bun with black bean salsa, fries, and root beer
Today's exercise: Two 1.5 mile walks at a moderate pace.