10/27/09 Katie's Healthy Eating Journal: Tuesday

Are you taking a multi-vitamin of some sort?  Jenny Craig highly recommends people take one.  For obvious reasons they can help with stress, mood, stronger immune system, memory and alertness.  As I have mentioned in the past when any of these areas are affected with a negative reaction to the body; weight loss is thus affected as well.  The multivitamins contain the vitamins and minerals necessary to help promote a healthy body and mind as a result increasing the likelihood of a weight loss.  Moreover, I discovered after doing some research, many vitamins contain green tea extract which helps heighten the rate of the metabolism.  Hmmm this tells me I need to start buying diet green tea again!  Seriously though, I don't mention it in all my blogs but I either take a multivitamin pill or eat a Jenny Craig vitamin bar to help balance out the levels in my body and strengthen my immune system.  For whatever the reason maybe, when I eat the vitamin bar instead of the yogurt at lunch I am more satiated.  I eat the bar about an hour before lunch and this helps tide me over until I am able to actually have a meal.  PRIA Bars by Power Bar are similar with about 3.5g fat, 110 cal, protein 5g.

Weight - 119.4 lbs.

Exercise - Day off

TUESDAY

Breakfast -

1/4 cup Break-free eggs

100 calorie whole wheat English Muffin

1 Morning Star Veggie Sausage

Banana

1 cup fat-free organic milk

Snack - 

JC Peanut Butter Anytime Bar

Lunch - 

JC Beef Chow Mein (220 cal, 4g fat, sodium 480 mg)

Broccoli with sprinkle of ranch seasoning

Sugar-free jello

Diet Pop

Dinner - 

 Tuna Noodle Casserole

 ***this was pretty tasty.  link to this recipe above

Salad (mixed greens, pepper, onion, croutons)

2 tbsp. light ranch 

Snack - 

1 cup sugar-free hot chocolate

100 calorie pack