keep a food gournal

Jump start!

Breakfast: 1/4 cup (when uncooked) steel cut oats, one poached egg, plain, 24 oz water with lemon…220 cal

Snack: one sm. apple, 2 tbs flax seed PB. 24 oz water….249 cal

Lunch: salad with tomato, carrots, 2 boiled eggs, 1/2 pkg of smoked salmon, 1 oz lean turkey, 1 tbs. yogurt/blue cheese dressing, 24 oz water with lemon, cup of ginger tea…420 cal.

Snack: 2 cups coffee, black

Dinner: Shrimp, basil, cherry tomatoes, 1/4 part skim ricotta cheese 24 oz water w/ lemon….300 calories

snack: protein shake – plain kefir, 1/4 cup mango chunks, 1/4 cup goji berries, tsp. agave nectar. 350 calories.

1540 calories so far, I may eat another snack later.

I tend to agree with Peter Rabbit on this one.

I had a gorgeous bowl of freshly picked baby lettuces for lunch today, about 4 cups worth at least, tossed with Pink Lady Apple, Carrot, Blue Cheese and some yogurt dressing. I now need a long sweet nap or a big cup of coffee.

Breakfast smoothie – goji berry, blueberry, kefir, omega 3/6/9 oil

grapefruit, I forgot I ate a grapefruit. They make me think about Venus. :D

I’m craving red meat, so I’m thinking about grilling for dinner, drinking some wine, eating more of those lettuces and sleeping until Saturday comes.

Mahinui, that’s my version of a plate of shredded kale. ;)

but when I’m bad, I’m even bettah. ;)

Yesterday, I raised some nutritional hell, just because I could.

breakfast, a nice healthy smoothie with mango and kefir, Omega 3/6/9 oil and some goji berries.

snack:
liter of water with lemon and an apple

And that’s where the clean stuff stopped, haha

Lunch:
A big bacon cheese burger and chili fries. a large diet coke

Snack:
A liter of water and a grapefruit

Dinner:
Spinach, Ricotta, red onion and mozzarella hand tossed crispy pizza, 3 slices, and an ice cold Hoegaarden on draft with a wedge of lemon.

Dang, now that I read it, I’m disappointed. Its true, I guess now I’ve finally, truly crossed over from the Nutritional Darkside, into the light. My worst nutritional days are still pretty decent. I’ve come a long way since eating entire pints of Ben and Jerry’s after a dinner of Taco Hell.

Now I remember why I don’t eat a lot of processed carbs…they make me want to eat MORE processed carbs. After this weekend my system feels sluggish and heavy, bloated. For the next 3 days, I’m doing a little clean-up

Immediately when I got up, I drank a liter of water with the juice of a lemon.

Breakfast:
half a pink Grapefruit a cuppa green tea

Morning snack:
half cup of wild rice, another liter of water

Lunch:
huge bowl of greens, some grilled fish, lemon juice, olive oil
ginger tea during, another cup after, water with lemon

Afternoon snack: other half of grapefruit, a liter of water

Dinner:
huge bowl of lettuces, a cup of shrimp, lemon juice, olive oil, pinch of salt. Ginger tea during, another cup after, water

Before bed: water with lemon, vitamins, cup of yogi bedtime tea.

Breakfast: bananna, steel cut oats, 2 shots of espresso, BIG glass of water with Emergen-C

snack: water, grapes and macadamias

Lunch: BIG glass of water, smoked salmon, greens, flax seed crackers, capers

snack: water, Pear and some Laughing Cow cheese.

Dinner: BIG glass of water, steamed fish, mesclun mix, asparagus sauteed in olive oil with coarse salt and red pepper flakes.

The schedule was all out of whack with the long day at the Dr.’s office, stressed out and tired, so I didn’t prepare, didn’t cook anything.

skipped breakfast, had a side of stress, at a fast food chicken sammy for lunch and Taco Hell for dinner. Didn’t sleep well. Today, it feels like my insides are coated in waxy fat. I’m excessively thirsty. I feel like shit on a stick.

Funny how once you know what really feeling good is like, feeling bad is far, far worse. And to think this used to be normal. ick. Well, fine, that’s behind me, on to getting back to the good stuff.

Emergen-C and a lakeful of water, first thing, to counteract the dehydrating effects of the river of vodka I consumed last night at the birthday gig. The vodka was not organic, but it was good.

Espresso, currently on shot numero tres.
a bananna

thinking about steel cut oatmeal and eggs

One organic Moka something or `nuther whole food bar
water
2 shots espresso, neat and straight
a cluster of red grapes and the last ounce of a divine wedge of Stilton .
60 oz of water, during and after one helluva ride.
A Red Bull! wtf possessed me? oh yeah, that last big hill.

Dinner, roasted veggies: leeks, new potatoes, sweet potatoes and garlic. Chicken, roughly massaged with garam masala rub and roasted with some orange zest. Freshly picked mesclun mix, and a shot of arugula for bite.

Friend called to cancel lunch, his new girlfriend couldn’t make it so lunch cocktails will have to wait until Thursday.

Instead, I resisted the urge to bail myself out quickly w/ fast food and ran down to the grocer for some healthier mojo rotissere chicken and a bowl of fruit – pineapple, kiwi, strawberries…YUM!

I got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine. God, its a gorgeous day.

Today, I needed a little indulgence for breakfast, so I stopped by the coffee house and picked up a four shot sugar free caramel latte and a cinnamon roll with espresso tinged icing. MMMmmm.

Lunch, eating out at a local cantina, probably a salad and seared spicy beef but, I might even sneak in a prickly pear margarita mid day on the patio, in the sunshine and cool air.

snack, a homemade protein bar from the lady down the street…whey protein, peanut butter, barley, tricale, applesauce, nuts, blueberries and a bunch of other good stuff in there, she’s a bad ass when it comes to cool fitness oriented snack recipes. I’m too lazy to make my own.

Dinner, something involving chicken, spinach, homemade pesto and pasta.