Meatloaf Baked Potato

Monday September 19, 2016 Menu

For breakfast I had scrambled eggs with a slice of ham thrown in it.  Quick and easy meal.  For lunch I choose from my many leftovers.  I picked the leftover beef roast and sweet potatoes even though it was a little high in calories.  I could eat the extra calories since I knew what I was eating for supper.  I entered in my breakfast and supper in the food diary and that is how I figured out what I would be eating for lunch.  Supper I had a quarter of the leftover baked potato with a meatloaf my mother cooked in the crock pot.  She basically made the meatloaf and wrapped it and cooked in aluminum foil.  I saved a few calories using the low calorie sour cream.  I went exercise that evening and did my 20 minutes of cardio and the rest of the time weight training.  I finished the day with a total of 1164 calories for the day.  I was 166 under my calorie goal.    Another great day!  If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity. 

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell

Homemade Biscuit's

Sunday September 18, 2016 Menu

For breakfast my mother made some 2" round biscuits for me.  Oh la la...  I just had to have 2 with an egg of course.  Oh wow, my food diary said this was a 400 calorie meal.  Well I already ate it.  That means I need to control the rest of my day's meals.  For lunch I had a leftover steamed chicken thigh with a 1/4 cup of rice.  This was quite low calorie.  Later that evening the kids had youth group.  I got 6 meatballs.  I couldn't control myself and went back for 3 more.  When I got home my mom made us some baked zuchinni and yellow squash.  That was just a perfect end to my meals.  Well if I wouldn't have went back on seconds for the meatballs I would have been just fine with my calories.  I finished the day with a total of 1374 calories for the day.  That was 164 calories over my goal.    Lesson from today, DON'T GO BACK FOR SECONDS!!!!!   If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity. 

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell

Birthday Cake

Saturday September 17, 2016 Menu

Staying at my family's house in New Orleans I found a couple of light menu items that I quite liked.  I think I will go buy some of that sugar stevia mix to give me an extra 50 calories to eat.  Also the turkey sausage I had for breakfast tasted just like the regular Jimmy Dean Sausage.  This breakfast was 127 calories compared to the same breakfast with my regular ingredients and sausage is 304 calories.  Wow I could eat just a little more for breakfast each morning with that kind of savings.  My daughter and her friend had a surprise birthday part waiting on them.  For lunch I just tried 2 of the Cheetos's chicken fries just to say I tried it.  I was saving my calories for the birthday meal.  For the birthday meal I had 1 hotdog with chili and a little of each chip they had.  Then as you see from the photo I had 2 choices in cakes.  One was traditional buttercream (rainbow cake) and the other was a cool whip iced cake (pink cake).  I saved a bunch of calories eating the cool whip cake.  I finished the day with a total of 1134 calories for the day.  I was 76 under my calorie goal.    Another great day!  If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity. 

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell

 

New Orleans Beignet and Italian Haoagie

Friday September 16, 2016 Menu

When we woke up for our New Orleans trip we know we wanted to eat at Cafe' du Monde.  We spent the day modeling and ended up at the Café where we had our beignet breakfast.  We could of each got an order but we decided to get 2 orders and split it.  We each got 2.  Looking at the calories on the food diary it was a good call.  The 2 I had was 480 calories!  As you can see from the photo that it was loaded with sugar on top of fried bread.  I'm from the south and my daughter had never experienced Cafe' Du Monde.  Her thoughts were "it tastes just like granny's!"  Of course it does I tell her.  We did a lot of walking and touristy things in between.  We took the ferry back to our car and drove back over the river to a old local Italian deli called Stein's Market and Deli.  I was on the hunt for Mortadella baloney.  This family has been here for generations.  So we had to try at least one of their menu items.  My daughter and I split an Italian Hoagie.  It had mortadella, Molinari genoa, Molinari hot coppa, aged provolone, lettuce, tomato, onion on an amoroso hoagie with garlic vinaigrette.   It was GOOD!  I got me some Mortadela to go to make an Italian dish later at home.  We drove back to my family's house and she had supper waiting for us.  She had made shrimp fettuccini.  I fixed me only 1 cup.  I really think I am learning how to portion my meals correctly.   I finished the day with a total of 1121 calories for the day.  I was 89 under my calorie goal.    Another great day!  If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell

Fried Crawfish Tails

Thursday September 15, 2016 Menu

I had a meeting at the Paragon and I knew this would be a day I would have to eat out.  I ate very light and had an egg.  for lunch we went eat at Roxy's Diner.  I wanted either a shrimp poboy, Monte Christo or fried crawfish.  The portion sizes for the sandwiches are so large that I decided to eat the fried crawfish appetizer.  This came with thin onion rings.  I will save the other 2 for a day I can share with a friend or be able to have takeout.  When I got off work we were heading out for New Orleans for a little trip with my daughter and her best friend.  My mom had made a chicken and gravy.  I ate just a piece of chicken before leaving.  We arrived in New Orleans around 9pm.  I was a little hungry and opted to eat a ham and turkey sandwich.  This whole weekend I ate on the fly.  I can't properly add to my diary from my phone for some reason.  Now that I am sitting here entering all of my foods I am learning how to portion myself a lot better.  I finished the day with a total of 1154  calories for the day.  I was 56 under my calorie goal.    That was a great day.  If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell

Pork With Garlic Mashed Potatoes & White Chocolate Bread Pudding

Wednesday September 14, 2016 Menu

I had a meeting at work today and I just know we are going to eat out.  For breakfast I had a little lonely egg.  Of course the meeting lasted extra long and I had to have something to eat.  All I could find was this little brownie.  Ugh that little brownie was 146 calories and I only ate half, a 2x2 inch piece.  Dang if I ate the whole thing it would have been almost 300 calories.  Watch out for those little snacks.  For lunch we went to the Word of Mouth Café.  I got the plate lunch of pulled pork.  I split my plate with a little friend.  I gave her half my pork, potatoes and green beans you see in the photo.  I gave her all of my corn.  Of course it comes with white chocolate bread pudding and I ate all of it.  I really didn't have time to enter my food diary, but late that evening I figured out that half was still 678 calories! OMG.  The bread pudding was almost 400 calories! I went and did weight lifting and 3 hours of cleaning.  For supper I ate the other half of my leftover Sunday dinner.  I did not eat the sweet potato nor the cole slaw.  I just knew that the lunch meal was over.  I had a quarter cup of ice cream just because it was sitting on the counter.  My darn mom.   I finished the day with a total of 1411 calories for the day.  I was 201 calories over my goal.   Like I keep saying it is hard to eat out and stay on track.  This week will be exceptionally hard, because I will be eating out again Thursday, Friday and possibly Saturday.   If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell

Women's Church Dinner Baked Potato

Tuesday September 13, 2016 Menu

For breakfast I choose a light meal.  One egg over easy with one slice of bacon.  For a snack I brought an apple to work.  I grazed on it most of the morning.  For lunch I had the last of my leftover crawfish ettoufee and catfish.  Then of course someone at work just had to bring a cake to the office.  I tried really hard to not eat it.  I felt tortured just to have it.  So I cut a very small sliver just to get a taste.  When I got home I did 20 minutes of cardio.  I sat down to see in the My Fitness Pal diary how my calories were going.  I still had about 600 calories left for my evening meal.  We had a women's dinner at the church.  They served us a HUGE baked potato, see photo.  You had almost every topping available, including chili.  But I kept it simple.  I put butter, sour cream and cheese.  I skipped the desert's.  The potato was so large I knew I shouldn't eat the whole thing.  I ate half.  WOW later I found out that just half was right at 400 calories.  So if I had the whole potato I would have went over and if I had a desert I really would have went over.  Remember that just because it's there we don't have to eat it all.  I finished the day with a total of 1297 calories for the day.  I was 35 under my calorie goal.    Another great day!  If you like my meal ideas just check out my diary for a list of ingredients for that meal.  And yes! I measured and weighed everything.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power. The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating
Angell