Hey Chris!

Thanx for your message! :)

I am still here and kicking. Just working a lot which makes
it hard to find time to post here.

Yeah, I think I have found a good balance of exercise, food
and maintaining my weight.

Right now I am hovering between 160lbs and 165lbs and I am
happy there.

I'm more relaxed with the diet but I still follow it
about 90% of the time or more. I am less worried if I
have a small bite-sized piece of candy at work or
a small slice of regular pizza. But, its still not
often...just enough to enjoy my new lifestyle without
undoing what I spent all those months working towards.

It's a balance like anything else.

We still find new things to make on the diet. I recently
discovered lettuce wraps. I take a nice lettuce leaf
and plop some tuna salad or turkey and mustard into it
and fold/wrap it up and pop it in my mouth. Mmmmmm Good! :)

I am doing the treadmill for 30 minutes in the morning
at least 5 days a week, and I do a lot of walking at my
job so I am still getting in my exercise.

This morning I was 162lbs :)

I also started keeping a food journal which helps me make
sure I am getting my 3 servings of fruit, my whole grains
and other good stuff I should be getting each day. My calorie
intake is about 2100 (net) per day.

I'll try to keep the blog updated more often.

Thanx for checking in and you take care!! Respond
back and let me know how things are going with you :)

-- Marshall

Lettuce Wraps!

Right down the street from where
I work, a new pita and salad
place went in. It's called "Mr Pita".

Unfortunately, they have no
whole wheat pitas on the menu
which was a downer for me at first.
Then, I saw on their menu "low carb
lettuce wraps".

I had one last night and it was
spectacular!! Mmmmmmm!

They take 2 good size leaves of
romaine, wrap your fixins
(I had smoked turkey, swiss cheese,
yellow mustard, onions and tomatoes)
in one of the leaves like a taco,
then roll that leaf upside down
into the next leaf and make another
taco.

It was so good, last night I got
my own head of romaine and made
myself a tuna salad lettuce
wrap for lunch today using the same
tecnique. It's gonna be yummy :)

Good health to everyone :)

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Great YOAD breakfast!

My wife and I had a wonderful YOAD approved
breakfast this morning I wanted to share!

For Christmas I bought my wife and I a waffle maker.
It makes waffles shaped in oblong boat type looking
things :)

What's great is that we can put sliced fruit in the boat
and have that as a topping for the waffle.

The waffles were made with a whole grain waffle mix that
has just whole wheat flour and buckwheat flour. To that
we add one beat up egg (we're mean - LOL), one tablespoon
real maple syrup, 2 tablespoons pure peanut oil, 1 cup
lite soy milk, some ground cinnamon and one teaspoon of
vanilla extract.

The waffle maker is great at making the waffles crispy and
delicious! We then added some fresh sliced strawberries and
sliced bananas into the boat and then topped it off with
some whipped cream and some additional ground cinnamon!
The whipped topping is fat free with no HFCS and has just
1 gram of sugar per serving! Very YOAD friendly.

We also made some orgnic turkey bacon and some hot, fresh
coffee! MMMmmmmm!

Daily Report (12-26-07)

Piece of dark chocolate, mini whole wheat bagel,
smart balance cream cheese, banana, coffee,
cashews & almonds, whole wheat pretzel,
whole wheat chicken veggie wrap, apple sauce,
lowfat cheese bar, piece of dark chocolate,
sugar free lemon italian ice cup, pringles
potato chips, dinner salad, whole wheat pizza,
pineapple

Daily Report 12/20/07

Piece of dark chocolate, banana, whole wheat Total cereal,
ground cinnamon, lite soy milk, 50 minute walk, coffee, apple
slices, piece of dark chocolate, whole wheat pretzel,
pistachios, turkey sandwhich, sun chips regular flavor, lowfat
cottage cheese, strawberries, dinner salad, baked skinless chicken
thighs, baked beans with splenda, brown rice, soy sauce, sugar-free
lowfat ice cream bar

Daily report 12/19/07

Piece of dark chocolate, banana, 50 minute walk, whole wheat bagel, lowfat
cream cheese, apple slices, pistachios, coffee, piece of dark chocolate,
whole wheat pretzel, turkey sandwhich, pineapple, lowfat cottage cheese,
tuna sandwhich, tater chips.