I am back!

Well I ended up real busy over the holidays. My eating was pretty good considering. I had a few bumps but during the holidays that tends to happen. I am back now and from here on out, I am going to be accountable for what I consume.

The last few days I have been really pushing the envelope of healthy eating. In a good way. I have added tons of fresh veggies to our diet. I have been cooking good veggie laden meals that are chock full of vitamins and minerals. I have a lot of groceries to work with in this house that arent so good for us. And I am going to have to stretch it until February. January is always bill catch up month. Ill pick up a few fruits and veggies here and there but things are going to be pretty tight around here.

My first days menu:

I am a little over my target amount of calories. I have figured out that I want to do between 1800 and 2000 calories. That way I have some room to play as I shrink. Exercise has been housework. Its something I need to start getting done. Its not entirely because Im lazy although if I have to choose between facebooking and cleaning... Ill facebook. However, lately that has been boring. Anyways I digress! I mainly dont get much cleaning done because of the pain I feel as few as five minutes into doing it. Its excruciating in my hips and lower back. Ive been just doing it though the last few days. Powering through the pain.

So here is my menu for today. I need to cut the fat and probably the carbs some too, but Ive been feeling a bit trimmer. Not much but I fit a little easier behind the wheel of my van. :)

Food Name	Amount	Unit	Cals	Fat (g)	Carbs (g)	Prot (g)	Delete
		Total	2,193	75.1	314.3	71.4
Orange, raw		cup, sectionsoz yieldslarge (3-1/16" dia)medium (2-5/8" dia)section or slicesmall (2-3/8" dia)gramskglboz	62	0.2	15.4	1.2
Pears, canned, extra light syrup pack, solids and liquids		cup, halveshalf, with liquidgramskglboz	58	0.1	15.1	0.4
Snacks, pretzels, hard, plain, made with unenriched flour, s...		oztwistsgramskglboz	91	0.8	19.0	2.2
Bean dip, made with refried beans		cupgramskglboz	93	3.5	11.5	3.9
Orvilles LF Kettle Corn		servinggramskglboz	140	2.5	29.0	4.0
Pizza with meat and vegetables		surface inchlarge pizza (15" dia)medium pizza (13" dia)miniature pizza (5" dia)piece (1/8 of 12" dia)pizza (10" dia)pizza (12" dia)pizza (14" dia)pizza (16" dia)pizza (9" dia)small pizza (8" dia)pizza (11" dia)gramskglboz	276	12.6	29.5	11.0
Beef barbecue sandwich or Sloppy Joe, on bun		barbecue sandwichgramskglboz	409	11.8	55.3	18.4
Bugles Cheese		servinggramskglboz	160	9.0	18.0	1.0
Broccoli, raw		cupcup, choppedcup, floweretsbunchfloweretspear (about 5" long)gramskglboz	15	0.2	2.9	1.2
Cauliflower, raw		cupoz, raw, yieldsfloweretlarge head (6-7" dia)medium head (5-6" dia)small head (4" dia)gramskglboz	13	0.1	2.8	1.0
Bread, garlic, toasted		cubic inchlarge slicemedium slicesmall slicegramskglboz	279	9.6	40.3	8.4
Cake, cupcake		cupcake (2-3/4" dia)gramskglboz	177	5.2	32.5	1.4
Pizza rolls		cupminiature rollgramskglboz	420	19.5	43.1	17.4
		Total	2,193	75.1	314.3	71.4