Jenny Craig Turkey Chili

Starting Weight (according to my home scale) – 127.8
Starting Mood – baffled by the scale

Here’s the planned menu for today – 1,185 calories*

Breakfast:
1 slice of broccoli and cheese egg white quiche – 230 cal

Lunch:
Jenny Craig Turkey Burger – 260 cal
- Add lettuce and tomato
Salad with 1 tbsp dressing – 35 cal

Snacks:
1 fruit serving, small orange – 60 cal
Yoplait Light Fat-Free Strawberry – 100 cal
1 fruit serving, 2 clementines – 70 cal
Jenny Craig S’mores Bar – 130 cal
1 stick of low-fat string cheese – 60 cal
Handful of Trader Joe’s Oriental Rice Crackers – 60 cal
2 Vitamin C gummy vitamins – 15 cal

Dinner:
Jenny Craig Turkey Chili – 260 cal
– add 1 tbsp shredded cheese (limited foods) – 40 cal
1 cup homemade soup with mustard greens – 100 cal

Items highlighted are what I actually ate and the ones crossed out didn’t make it to my plate.  Anything extra that weren’t planned are noted below and highlighted red.

Looking over everything I ate today, I did a lot of snacking!  I wonder if it’s because my body was feeling deprived but it sure did seem like I was eating non-stop.

Actual calories consumed -1,250

* calories estimated from CalorieKing.com

Jenny Craig Chicken Carbonara

Starting Weight (according to my home scale) – 128.6
Starting Mood – feeling like it might be one of those days

Here’s the planned menu for today – 1,155 calories*:

Breakfast:
1 slice of broccoli and cheese egg white quiche – 230 cal
1 cup of coffee with 2 Coffee-Mate Original single-serve creamer and Splenda – 30 cal

Lunch:
Jenny Craig Meatball-Stuffed Sandwich – 260 cal
Salad with 1 tbsp dressing – 35 cal

Snacks:
1 stick of low-fat string cheese – 60 cal
1 fruit serving, 2 clementines – 70 cal
Jenny Craig Cheese Curls – 130 cal

Dinner:
Jenny Craig Chicken Carbonara – 270 cal
1 vegetable serving TBD – 100 cal

Items highlighted are what I actually ate and the ones crossed out didn’t make it to my plate.  Anything extra that weren’t planned are noted below and highlighted red.

Actual calories consumed -1,125

* calories estimated from CalorieKing.com

Starting Weight (according to my home scale) – 129.4
Starting Mood – anxious

Here’s the planned menu for today – 1,110 calories*:

Breakfast:
3/4 c of Special K with Red Berries cereal – 90 cal
1 c of skim milk – 90 cal
Yoplait Light Fat-Free Blueberry – 100 cal

Lunch:
Jenny Craig Cheesy Enchiladas – 260 cal
Jenny Craig Turkey Club Panini – 240 cal
Salad with 2 1 tbsp dressing – 60 30 cal

Snacks:
1 stick of string cheese (PM) – 80 cal
1 fruit serving, 2 clementines (PM) – 70 cal
1 handful of Trader Joe’s Oriental Rice Crackers – 50 cal, approximately

Dinner:
Jenny Craig Salisbury Steak – 260 cal
1 cup Tomato soup – 100 cal
1/2 c of Vietnamese kho qua (bitter melon or Balsam-pear) stir-fried with egg – 50 cal

Items highlighted are what I actually ate and the ones crossed out didn’t make it to my plate.  Anything extra that weren’t planned are noted below and highlighted red.

I was looking forward to the Turkey Club Panini on my planned menu yesterday but since I spent the entire afternoon, and then some, over at my friend’s house for the Oscar’s party, I’m going to have it today and save the Cheesy Enchiladas for next week when I’m eating vegetarian.

When I got home, there was a pan of bitter melon (Vietnamese kho qua) that my aunt had stir-fried with egg and scallions.  While I’m normally not a fan of bitter melon, I ate a small bowl so that I could get some veggies in my system.  Apparently, I should be eating these more than fruits because of the sugar content in it (bummer).

The Salisbury Steak on tonight’s menu was soooo filling!  And didn’t taste too bad either.  I’m so full right now that I certainly cannot eat any soup, which means it’ll have to go into the freezer since I made it a week ago.

TIP: Eating a frozen dinner every night gets mundane.  Instead, after my food has been heated up, I transfer it onto an actual plate.  It makes it seem a little bit more like a home-cooked meal and it looks soooo much better.  Plus it helps me figure out how big the portions should be by how much food covers the plate

Actual calories consumed – 980 (a little on the low side, so I’ll have to eat more throughout the day when I feel hungry instead of worrying so much about calories)

Total weight loss for the week – 1.0 lbs

* calories estimated from CalorieKing.com

I just got back from my very first weigh-in at my local Jenny Craig Centre.  I was a little nervous going in, considering how much I detoured from my food plan yesterday.

But, I’m happy to report that according to their scale, I’ve lost 3.6 pounds.  Yes, it sounds like a huge loss, but I’m sure that’s an inflated number due to a couple of factors:

- I weighed in for the first time at JC on Friday, February 26th.  Which means I had an extra 2 days of potential weight loss that could have been counted (although it’s probably not likely since the Boyfriend was in town that weekend and we love to eat out when we’re visiting each other  ).

- I was wearing jeans since we have Casual Fridays at my office and that always adds extra weight.

- When I weighed in it was around lunch time.  Not that I had eaten lunch before I got there but because I had already had breakfast.  I prefer weighing in at the same time every day and that’s usually in the mornings and in my underwear so that there are less variables to deal with.

- Today when I went to the Centre, it was 8:15am, I wasn’t wearing jeans and I hadn’t had breakfast yet.  Next week I go in on Monday at the same time so the circumstances will be much more similar to today.  Hopefully I’ll still record a good loss, but I’m not counting on 3.6 pounds again.

I hope to be much more dedicated this week to my planned menu since I don’t have any parties or events to go to this week, yay!