Stayed home from work today

Stayed home, guess I needed it, since I slept until after 11 AM!!!!

Eventually I got myself moving and headed out. Deb is also fighting a cold, so she wanted Panera soup.   So I stopped there and figured out what I wanted.

I ordered the Mediterranean veggie sandwich.  It came with a pickle, bread and an apple.



It was pretty good.

For dinner tonight I had the other half of the salad Deb picked up for me yesterday.
And of course more bread from Panera.




I NEED to get back to cooking!

Still fighting a fever

Again I spent most of the day in bed.  I just feel tired and achey.  My fever gets up to around 100 then I take advil cold and sinus and it goes down, only to come back 5 hours later.

Finally around 1 o'clock I had enough of being cooped up in the house.  So I went to Jimmy Johns.  I got the #6 veggie with onions and hot peppers.



Deb went out to see a movie this afternoon and brought me home a salad from Boston Market.  It was good, but I only ate half of it.  No real hunger.


Of course I ate the whole piece of corn bread!!!

I have already decided that I am not going to go into work tomorrow.  I need to be fever free for 24 hours before I can go out and play.

Weigh in #13

Yesterday I had a fever of 101.5, so all I did all day was lay in bed and drift in and out of sleep.
Around 8:30 at night I finally felt well enough to eat something.  So I had a bowl of chili.
I guess a day of NOT eating does a good thing to your weight number.


I saw a REALLY good number today 259.2   (so close to 60 pounds)


WARNING   TOPLESS PHOTOS TO FOLLOW

 

 

Restaurant week and more pictures

Okay here are some of the pictures from yesterday that I did not post.
Here is the fried rice




Old reliable CHILI!!!


On to today.

For lunch 11 of us went out to Olive Garden.  I did the soup, salad and breadsticks.
I had 3 (maybe 4) breadsticks.


I had 2 bowls of minestrone


And 2 salad plates


and 2 iced teas.   So that was a good amount of food.

Tonight we went out with Matt and Charlotte to Grillhouse by David Burke.
They were participating in restaurant week.
I did NOT partake in that.
Instead I started with a piece of bread.  (apparently it was camera shy and I forgot to take a picture)
Then I ordered the cheese plate.  THIS IS SOOOOOO GOOOOOD!!!


I did not order a main dish, I just talked and watched the others eat.
Then it was time for dessert.  And I decided to be good and get the fruit and yogurt plate.


At the end of the meal they bring out cotton candy


I had some, just enough to look like I had just been caught with a Smurf!

Wednesday and Thursday

I left my work cell phone in the office today, so I do not have some of the food pictures. (I know that is what you ALL look forward to)

Wednesday I had the last 2 slices of pizza.  1 for breakfast and 1 for lunch.   I also brought in some chili and had that as a late afternoon snack.



On the way home from work I stopped at Trader Joes.  They have a TON of cheap, easy to make, and tasty veggie dishes.

I bought 3 things,  Veggie Pad Thai, veggie fried rice, and a squash and sweet potato mix.

I tried the Pad Thai.  It was pretty good.

Today I took in the veggie fried rice and chili.
I split the fried rice into 2 servings.  It was not bad, a little plain, but filling.
Still back on my chili addiction.  Only have a few bags left, will have to make some more this weekend.

For dinner Deb and I went to Chandler's (Schaumburg golf course)
I got a chopped salad and a baked potato (had a taste for 1 of them)






Deb ordered a peanut butter pie dessert, I had a few bites of it.

I NEED to get to the store and buy some stuff for breakfast and lunch.

Monday and Tuesday

The last 2 days I brought in 2 pieces of the veggie pizza from Giordano's.  Those were breakfast and lunch.

Monday during the day I also ate a bag of pretzels and a bag of veggie chips.
My nutritious dinner was a piece of cake from my mother's service.

Today was not much difference.

I had 2 pieces of pizza.  1 at about 9:30 the other at 11:30.  This afternoon I noticed that there was left over Chevy's from some meeting.  I had a plate of chips with refried beans.  Loved the salty taste of the chip.

Tonight for dinner Deb wanted to try Bahama Breeze for their restaurant week special.
I ordered a bowl of spicy black bean soup.  It was really good.
Deb got dessert with her meal.  It was a banana dish that had a whole banana, banana bread and some caramel sauce.  I had a few (or a bunch of) bites.  

Not much appetite the last few days.   Just in a haze dealing with the fact that my Mother is no longer with us.  I miss her and talk to her ALL the time still!!!

Weigh in #12 and Saying goodbye to my Mom

Today was a very tough day.  We had the memorial for my Mother.  I was OVERWHELMED by the number of people that came by to say goodbye.  It was a sad/joyous/sad day for me and my sisters.  It was great to see old friends, but sad to know that I only saw them, because we were saying goodbye to my mother.

My weight this morning was 262.4.  Down almost 5 pounds this week.  I know that some of that is cruise weight, but still I am excited about the number.

Eating for the day was not really tracked.
There was so much food at the church, but I only ate some veggies, some grapes and 2 cookies.
After the service we went to Giordano's. (that was my Mom's favorite pizza place).
I had too much to eat.  Some cheese bread, a mozzarella stick, 2 pieces of thin cheese pizza and 2 pieces of deep dish veggie.

I did not care what I ate, I needed the time to be with family and process this.

I want to say thank you to everyone who came up to me and told me how much they noticed my weight loss, and how many of you said you follow this blog to keep track of my progress.  It was great to hear and it lets me know that there are people out there who care about how I am doing, and hopefully there are some out there that I am inspiring to make changes.

Need to get back to salads this week.  And some regular dinners.

Thursday and Friday

With all that is going on this week, I did not have time to post the last 2 days.
Thursday at work I got in late, so I missed breakfast, then I had a meeting around noon that ran late, so I missed lunch.  Fortunately a group had ordered in food and there were leftovers.  So I scrounged up enough veggies and beans and rice to make myself 3 tacos.
 This is the pile that became 3.

Thursday night we went to Chicago Prime Italian to have a drink to celebrate Mom.
I ordered a salad.  It was HUGE.  I only ate half






 (iPhone to show SIZE of salad)

Friday during the day we tried Kinfork in Woodfield.  There were 16 of us that went out.  The place was NOT crowded.  Food was pretty good.  I had veggie flatbread and honey corn bread.


Friday night I went to my little sisters house and Traycie, Deb and I put together poster boards of pictures.   We ordered pizza.   (Of COURSE my sister's made fun of me for taking a picture of the pizza.  What are sister for!!)


I do appreciate that they ordered Veggie pizza, so that I could eat that.  So behind their mocking, they did actually show they cared.

Breaking my fast

So my 72 hours of fasting ended tonight.
So Deb and I went to TGIFridays.   We needed some comfort food this week.

We started with the free chips and salsa (with my stripes card)


For dinner I ordered the Spicy black bean burger with sweet potato fries.

(This was really good, but MESSY, with burger falling apart and the avocado slices)

For dessert I had 3 or 4 spoonfuls of the brownie madness


I bowled tonight.  It felt good to get out of the house and do something "normal"
Bowled - 225, 185, 240 ... 650 series, so I was happy.   Won the 2nd game mystery pot.  It paid $270, we split it 5 ways as the team.  Not bad for a weekly $1 investment, $54 winnings.

Allie Cat!!

Today was another fasting day for me as I purge the craving to eat every 45 minutes (seems like I ate that often on the boat)

Today was another sad day.

We had to say goodbye to our 20 year old cat Allie.