Week 10 Begins
Today begins week 10 and day 65 on NS. I can only hope the next 10 weeks and 65 days go as smoothly. I didn't lose too much last week, just 2lbs, but any loss is a good loss. I should receive shipment number 3 this week from NS and I think it will be my last order. I will attempt my own foods using some recipes from the Jazzman site and from Amy's site. Amy has lots of good recipes using your own food. But I think for dinner I will see about using entrees from either South Beach, Weight Watchers or Healthy Choice. Find what's on sale and get two weeks worth. I like the convinience of being able to pop an entree in the microwave and be done with it. Plus most of those I've mentioned have similar caloric totals to the NS entrees. Then for breakfast I will use the Kashii Go Lean cereals, oatmeal and my egg white and egg substitutes for the main entrees. THen just add some fruit, a carb and protein.
Lunch will be the thing I will struggle most with. I like bringing the NS foods to work and not having to prepare anything. I bring 5 days worth at the beginning of my week and as Tony Soprano always says, "forget about it!!!!"
So if anyone doing your own NS style foods has any lunch ideas that are handy to bring to work, let me know.
It's still early on Monday (well Thursday in my work week). I'm going to eat breakfast in a bit:
Oatmeal, NS Entree (bar), two small pieces of fruit and non-fat yogurt. Shoudl come to about 440 calories.
And, my stupid ear has flarred up again. I really am thinking it's A/C related. It never gets really bad enough to go to a doctor, then it clears up and I'm fine for a few days - then it comes back. The worst thing it does is make me a little light headed or dizzy. Last night I was dizzy for a few hours, nothing terrible but enough to make me think I was hitting the bottle for a while.
Have a great day, I will post the rest of today's menu this evening.
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Afternoon Delight!!!
Menu for Monday.
Breakfast : NS Entree (Frosted Nutricrunch), 8oz oatmeal, non-fat yogurt, one sm plum, one sm peach. total cals : 420.
Lunch : NS Entree (Chili) I didn't have a lunch entree so I borrowed from the dinners. Vegan Boca Burger, 2 slices of light wheat bread, 1 slice fat free cheese, one peach.
Cals : 440.
Dinner is going to be a trial though. I am invited over to a friends house for a big barbeque. However, I told him I can't eat most things so he's making sure there will be chicken for me and then I just remove the skin. I might try one small, small piece of a Lasagna I know is coming. I enjoy the NS lasagna and I know this one is made with veggie stuff so I will have a very small piece, some chicken and any veggies available.
one thing I'm trying to teach myself is to enjoy get togethers like this without having to indulge in all the wrong foods. This isn't an excuse to overeat.
posted by lv0824 @ 8:17 AM
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2 Comments:
I think Amy's ideas for lunch sound yummy but they are kind of hard for work or in my case school. I like using the NS food for that..I went so far as to do an a la carte order with just lunch and the chocolates for dessert.
I had that same thing happen to me during allergy/and AC season last year. There was some mold in the filter from never being changed...did that and it went away finally. Maine isn't so hard to live without the AC but out there it's a must I'm sure. I got Zyrtec from my doctor and take it all the time now. But it was terrible. My equilibrium was all messed up and it felt like my ear was clogged for weeks. Good Luck I hope it's better soon.
Sherri beat me to it - I was going to mention that if you think the ear infection is A/C related it might be due to mold, bacteria, etc and the air conditioner just needs to be cleaned.
If you want to bring lunches to work you can pad your regular NS order with extra lunches as I mentioned I did with breakfasts in my last comment to yesterday's post. Also as Sherri suggested you can always order just lunches - of course that way you will have to pay postage whereas if you add to the autoship and push back autoship delivery every now and then the postage is free.
Not sure what you like but I have seen those cups of Macaroni & Cheese, Noodles and the like in the grocery store (forget what the brands were - they are in the soup aisle though) and they have about 300 calories in them, which is about 50 calories more than NS and I don't think they have as much protein in them, and a lot more salt too as I recall but it's close enough and you could give up 50 calories else where to make up for it.
I think so long as you try to keep the calories about the same and the mix of foods about the same - (but without going overboard so that it drives you crazy try to be too precise!) - you'll do fine. I mean look at the NS options, is a bowl of cereal really equilvalent to eggs? Cereal (even fortified with soy protein) has way more carbs than the eggs do. So don't stress out trying to get it too exact, but be honest - a Snicker's bar is not equal to a entree no matter how much protein it may have ;-)
OH and congrats on the 40 pounds down in about 2 months. That's a pretty amazing amount of weight in about two months time!!
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