Pam's menu please crique!

Hello everyone, Please forgive my terrible spelling... I'm finding that I am not amune to what everyone else has & is going through. I'm hungry. I think I'm eating too much. I'm snacking. I don't know many people that I can ask during the daytime for reasurance that I'm doing ok. I panic at what I'm doing and fear the weight gain. I must have read all and more of this kind of thing on a regular basis each week on obesityhelp but still I'm panicing. worrying. fearing that i'm doing this wrong. So here is a day in the life of Pam's tiny tummy. I wake up and drink 8 oz of water before I start the day. breakfast - one egg one slice of low fat cheese 1/2 of a 1/2 of a tiny baby bagel toasted & sprayed with that no cal no fat fake butter stuff. 4 oz of watermelon vitamins water & diet ice tea snack banana cheese stick pretzels water & caf free coffee lunch 2 oz baked no skin chicken 3 leafs lettuce slices of onion diet dressing sunflower seeds water snack protein chips (these are yummy 140 cal's 14 gms of protein) strawberries (5) water snack on way home from work cause my blood sugar was taking a dive I had a new adkins breakfast/fruit/granola bar. 100 cal, 7 gm protein. supper new south beach cashew chicken tv dinner. YUMMY I couldn't eat it all. Made sure to eat all the chicken (30gms protein) left most of the noodles. 1/2 cup apple sauce vitamin Usually I have another snack around 9 normally its some fruit or a frozen diet thing on a stick. Maybe some cottage cheese. When I eat I eat til I'm full but not uncomfortable or in pain. I do the water load thingy 15 minutes before I drink. When i don't do that I get hungrier quicker. I wait and then will drink 1/2 hour to 45 minutes after I eat. I also have 2 of the vitatin calcium chewys a day. and I take B12 two times a week (per doctor) I routate my breakfast things between egg, oatmeal, Total protein cereal, cottage cheese with fruit, yogurt. My lunches are usually chicken, ham, or cottage cheese. I with also have fruit at breakfast & at supper. If I do snack more I keep it at dryed fruit or prunes. I'm at 161 but I have 2 pounds that come and go at their will. I think I"m doing ok but then I get anxious and panicy thinking I'm doing this all wrong especially when the hunger starts. Now I know that I'm goign to feel hungry that is a normal part of life. But its been over a year and now the cravings have returned. I am fighting them and i htink I'm making good choices. When I do "cheat" I will have a sugar free candy piece and I;m not goign crazy eating the whole bag of them only one no more than 2. So should I chill out on this or should I panic somemore run to Doctor A begging to have my jaw sewn shut???

Pam, Pam, I didn't add in the Atkins bar, the protein chips or the South Beach dinner or your last snack, but this was the count on the rest of your food. You can add the calories, carbs and fat to get your total for the day. I guessed at a couple of things like 15 pretzels and 1 ounce of sunflower seeds. I'd be careful with the dried fruit because that can add a ton of sugar carbs without you realizing it. As long as you're not gaining, you're where you want to be and you're feeling good, I'd say you're doing fine. I'm hardly the person to offer any guidance since I'm struggling with this whole issue big time. Calories Eaten Today source grams cals %total Fat: 35 311 36% Carbs: 107 386 45% Protein: 41 163 19% Connie

Pam, I added up all your food including your dinner of the South beach meal (I have those too, love them) of course I had to do a little bit of guess work on some of the portions but tried to keep them to what I would be able to eat. My numbers came up a little higher ( but I added some of the things that she was unable to): 1345-Calories 50g-fat 148g-carbs 91g-Protein I don't have really good advice for you as I too like everyone else am struggling with the food issue. At least yours did not have a lot of 1-bag of chips 4-cookies, 2-glasses of wine like mine has lately. I went back to recording everything including all the bad things to see where I need to cut back (mine are more obvious than most) but I find that seeing the numbers really help me to do better about staying on track. I was about 950 total calories today so that is better but still under a little where my nutrtionist would like to see me. I however would rather be a little under than way over like I have been doing. Anyway, I hope the numbers help. Leslie

Pam ya might like fitday.com you put in the information and it gives you a graph and a break down of what youare getting with calories, protein, carbohydrates and such. hang in there! I have had some bad days lately and my calries have been1600+ UGH!!!!! ok it's summer lets stick to the show here and do some stuff we couldn't do last summer OK??? Nic 291/161/150

Pam, I agree you might want to start using FitDay that is what I used to add up all your food. I love my fitday. You can either use it online, or purchase the CD and load it directly onto your computer which is what I did. The CD has some additoinal features that I wanted that I could not get using it online. Anyway, Good luck. Leslie

I'm in the same situation. I'm between 161 and 163 for the last 3 months and can't seem to budge. I wrote a time line for when to eat and drink, but I have not gone back to writing down my intake. Where can I find FitDay? Is there a website. Thanks.