keep a food diary

lunch @ 11:00
gravad lax 160
dill mustard 100 cal
salad

260

153 bread
50? cal fish egg spread

463

75 sparkling peach juice
pirate booty 130

868

nikujyaga (cal: 350)
brocoli

banana 105

ice cream 340

total: 1681

Breakfast

190 calories Luna Bar (chai tea flavor)

Lunch 280

kashi bar 120

avocado & cheese 300

popsicle 80

chips 100
tamales 400

4 oz grapefruit juice w/ sparkling water 45 cal

120 cal veggie pirates booty

1635

too many snacks !

breakfast
natto 70 cal
green tea

lunch
Kashi lunch Chicken pomodoro (Totally not as good as the florentine)
280 cal

Snack
Pirate’s booty popcorn 130
Hansen’s root beer 160

dinner 400 (2 XLNT tamales)

Vivanno smoothie 280

Pirates booty 130
I munched on a little chips and salsa but I didn’t count it. It wasn’t that much.. I hope haha

kashi pumpkin pie bar 120 (YUMMY !!!)

Total: 1570

I’m kind of getting lazy about cooking cause my kitchen still doesn’t have power. I had a lot of snacks today, but that is ok because my meals were quite low calorie.

breakfast 180 yogurt and granola (1 hour after I woke up)

Note: I am trying to get used to eating when I wake up, but usually it takes me an hour or 3. I feel nauseous about breakfast. I am not quite sure what to do about this, because I heard breakfast increases your metabolism if you eat it when you wake up.

Lunch: 290 Kashi Chicken Florentine (OMG this was so good. Highly recommended !)
Snack:
2 Late July chocolate sandwich cookies 100 cal
1 12oz organic Latte no sugar (about 150 cal, according to starbucks, but I got it at an organic food store, not starbucks)

Dinner:

375 breaded cod
45 cal tartar sauce
40 cal salad dressing
salad greens
1/2 apple 40 cal
goat cheese (idk… 200 calories?)

max 700 cal dinner ( I over estimated because I didnt even finish it all)

before bed: Sleepytime herbal tea (this stuff works)

total: 1420 (I know for sure I had less than this, but I always round up) I’m happy with my diet today. I feel full, felt like sharing sweets, and felt that everything had full flavor.

fruit yogurt parfait 280
(I didn’t finish this)

snack: pop chips (180)

Lunch:
Green apple, goat cheese and natto salad
clam chowder: 200 ~

I estimate lunch is 500-550 ish calories

+ 80 fruit bar
oysters 140
crackers 130

340 dinner (spinach lasagne)

4 oz haagen-Dazs Ice cream 260 cal (UGH. but yum. but not as good as ciao bella)

Total: 1730

Notes: For some reason I was CRAVING tons of dairy today. I obviously ate it at every meal without thinking to hard about it.

Breakfast: Vegan Muffin 310 calories
Chai tea 0 cal
vitamin
Lunch:
Paneer Tikka Masala 330 cal
(microwave meal)
Snack:calbee shrimp chips 2 servings 260

Trail mix 160
Banana 105

Dinner:
Gyudon w/ rice
Calories unknown
500-600ish I assume.

Tj’s fruit bar 80 cal
Total: 1745-1845 depending on dinner.
It’s Saturday and I was home all day and bored and it led me to snacking a lot today. This is still under my average calories needed to maintain my current weight, so I really think this is healthier than my old habits still.

Breakfast

1 Nana marg’s Vegan Bran Muffin
_{310 calories
1 cup of green tea}

(This muffin is from a recipe in “The Garden of Vegan” By Barnard & Kramer. It was always a mystery to me what the calories were, but I used my basic math skills to count the calories. By the way, these are some of the most delicious muffins I have ever had. The calories are worth it because the bran and whole wheat flour that I used make them very healthy. Make sure you drink these with a BIG glass of water if you have the recipe so the bran can work it’s magic.I also love this recipe because you first make a huge batch of the dry mix and just keep it on hand in your fridge until you want to make another batch! Genius!)

Lunch
Marukai Sashimi plate 15 pcs
555 calories
1 cup of green tea

I tend to like my lunch to be my biggest meal of the day. 500-650 calories is a decent size lunch for a diet. I feel that dinner can be small because you only need it to hold you over until you go to bed and breakfast is small because I’m not hungry in the morning. No sides or rice with my meal because I just wanted a lot of yummy fish. Blame yesterday which had less sushi, but the restaurant was more delicious.

Snack:
Sparkling water
calbee shrimp chips 130
(my vitamin haha ~__ as long as I take it right?)

160 TJ espresso bean trail mix

TJ’s Reduced fat greek salad 140 cal
w/ natto mixed in 77 cal (omg this was amazing)

Snack: More calbee shrimp chips 130

Total: 1502

Breakfast:
1/3rd cup TJ’s Pumpkin granola 105 cal
1/2 cup light Silk soy milk 35 cals

Breakfast toal: 140 cals

snack pear fruit sauce 80 cal
1 cup of green tea, a vitamin (every woman’s one daily multivitamin)

Lunch:

Sashimi Plate 10 pcs 386 cal
1 cup rice 241
1 small miso soup 40 (probably less)
green tea
water

Total 627 (this is estimated)

After Lunch snack:

Organic Vegetable juice (green veggies)

Cal Unknown? est. 200 or so because it was just green veggies and a little apple or something.

Snack:
Jamba Juice: 210

Dinner:
Natto: 80
½ cup rice: 117
1 tea egg: 77
With Japanese Pickles ( >10 calories)
green tea (0 cal)
Total: 1531

Comments: So today I am writing this at 7:04 pm because I figure if I write now I won’t eat anymore so I can stay honest ! Instead of sweets I ate a lot of fruit based snacks today. I am very pleased that I didn’t eat anything heavy, oily or sugary today. I am going to try and go to bed earlier tonight because I tend to get many snack cravings between 11pm and 12. Overall I stuck to my 1500 calorie diet. I don’t mind if it is 100 over sometimes or 100 under, as long as I am watching what I eat and being more responsible about it.
edit: aaaah I gave in and ate a serving of espresso chocolate beans so add 70 cal. >_> 1600 ~~ damn

Breakfast
-1 cupcake (est 177-300 cals) I’d say 250
-drink: Hot tazo chai tea (0 cal)
Lunch:
-2 tamales (400 cals)

Dinner:
1/2 cup brown rice : 117
Miso Soup :50 calories
Natto: 80

Snacks: 3 servings of espresso bean trail mix (160×3= 480)
2 Pear sauce cups (80×2= 160)
3 Day-Lee pride beef gyoza: (97 cals)
Drinks: Water, Sparkling water
Total: 1634 cals
Review: If I had a better breakfast than cupcake and I didn’t chow down on those 3 gyoza I could have cut out a couple hundred calories, but I still think I did good today.