Monday Menu Plan

I've been chatting with some of my TOS sisters about weight loss. I am on a weight loss journey, but a slow one. In the past year I have lost ten pounds. The way I see it, that is ten pounds I want permanently gone, and I am able to believe that will be permanent because I have made lifestyle changes, so that even when I haven't been keeping track of what I eat, I have not gained that ten pounds back. (There was another five pounds lost and regained, so I know I need to get back to work.)

In my life, part of successful weight loss is planning, so I am going to here post my eating plan for this week. I am following Weight Watchers, and I am measuring my foods, but I am not including those measurements here, nor the food point values. I am just eating healthy quantities.

Here's the plan:

Sunday (yesterday):

Breakfast:
Instant (plain) oatmeal with 1/2 cup frozen blueberries;
coffee w/fat free half & half

Lunch:
sandwich of 2 slices wheat bread, 2 oz. turkey, lettuce, tomato
baby carrots
peach

snack:
fat free venti mocha from Starbuck's

Dinner:
hamburger patty (lean) on a sandwich flat
fresh veggies

snack (weekly icecream Sunday):
1/2 pint Ben & Jerry's vanilla heath bar ice cream.

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Monday:

Breakfast:
Instant (plain) oatmeal with 1/2 cup frozen blueberries;
coffee w/fat free half & half

Lunch:
sandwich of 2 slices wheat bread, 2 oz. ham, lettuce, tomato
baby carrots
peach

snack:
fat free venti mocha from Starbuck's

Dinner:
unknown (at a church function where they are serving dinner)

snack:
frozen red grapes

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Tuesday:
Breakfast:
Instant (plain) oatmeal with 1/2 cup frozen blueberries;
coffee w/fat free half & half

Lunch:
sandwich of 2 slices wheat bread, 2 oz. ham, lettuce, tomato
baby carrots
peach

snack:
fat free no sugar added hot chocolate

dinner:
meatloaf, not sure what else (at a function where our church provides a meal at a local ...I think it would be called a half-way house, where people get integrated back into society...)

snack:
grapes

Exercise: lawn mowing 1.25 hours
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Thursday:
Breakfast:
Instant (plain) oatmeal with 1/2 cup frozen blueberries;
coffee w/fat free half & half

Lunch:
sandwich of 2 slices wheat bread, 2 oz. ham, lettuce, tomato
baby carrots
peach

snack:
fat free venti mocha from Starbuck's

Dinner: Crustless quiche Lorraine, spinach salad

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Thursday:
Breakfast:
Instant (plain) oatmeal with 1/2 cup frozen blueberries;
coffee w/fat free half & half

Lunch:
sandwich of 2 slices wheat bread, 2 oz. turkey, lettuce, tomato
baby carrots
peach

snack:
fat free venti mocha from Starbuck's

Dinner: Raspberry turkey salad, whole grain loaf, fresh cucumbers

snack: banana
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Friday:
Breakfast:
Instant (plain) oatmeal with 1/2 cup frozen blueberries;
coffee w/fat free half & half

Lunch:
sandwich of 2 slices wheat bread, 2 oz. turkey, lettuce, tomato
baby carrots
peach

snack:
fat free venti mocha from Starbuck's

dinner:
chicken stir fry on cabbage; brown rice

snack: grapes

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Saturday:
Breakfast:
Instant (plain) oatmeal with 1/2 cup frozen blueberries;
coffee w/fat free half & half

Lunch:
sandwich of 2 slices wheat bread, 2 oz. turkey, lettuce, tomato
baby carrots
peach

snack:
fat free venti mocha from Starbuck's

Dinner:
Salmon, noodles, Brussel sprouts