July 12, 2015

Breakfast - sandwich - 2 slices 40 cal bread, cheese, ham lunchmeat, mustard, 1/2 cup coffee w/ half and half and vanilla stevia

Snack - sugar snap peas

Lunch - salad - greens, tomato, asparagus, sunflower and hemp seeds, blueberries, oil and vinegar dressing, homemade pickles

Dinner - Stir fry veggies - broccoli, yellow squash, carrots, mushrooms, spinach and from my garden - onion, garlic, pattypan squash, black eyed peas
potato gnocci, salmon

July 11, 2015

Breakfast - Steel cut oats/polenta w/ goat feta and stir fry veggies - mushrooms, carrots, black eyed peas, sugar snap peas, chard, garlic, basil, olive oil, salt, pepper, ground tumeric, smoked paprika
1/2 cup of coffee w/ half and half and 4 drops of vanilla stevia

herbal tea

Lunch - sandwich - 2 slices of 40 cal bread, cheese, 1/4 avocado, 6 sugar snap peas, 3 slices of cucumber

snack - homemade pickles and pickled onion

dinner - leftover steamed broccoli, roasted potato and sweet potato, chicken - also stir fry rice w/ veggies from Trader Joes and orange chicken from Trader Joes.  Salad - greens and dressing, one apricot, 1/2 mango

July 10, 2015

Breakfast - mostly from my garden:

before - chard, pattypan squash, black eyed peas, tomatoes, basil - cooked in olive oil with salt, pepper, apple cider vinegar and fresh garlic also from the garden
and an egg and a piece of 40 calorie toast
after - it was good
Also  had 1/2 cup of coffee with 4 drops of vanilla stevia and half and half
water, cup of green tea

Lunch - salad - greens, pickles, blueberries, tomatoes, chia, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, homemade oil and vinegar dressing.  One piece of 40 calorie toast spread with avocado and a piece of healthy no nitrate turkey lunchmeat.  And water. \

Snack - about one ounce of almonds and a small cereal bowl size bowl of popcorn

Dinner - leftovers from last night - broccoli, roasted potato and sweet potato, a small piece of veggie pizza, a small piece of leftover chicken from the night before and 16 cherries and water.

If books could make me thin

I would be.
Sigh.
So today
Weight - 139
Breakfast - 1/2 cup coffee with 1 T half and half and 4 drops of vanilla stevia
grits - 1/4 cup dry cooked with a bit less than 1/4 cup shredded cheese
Green tea
Lunch - salad - greens, blueberries, homemade pickles, tomatoes, hemp seed, chia, sunflower seeds, homemade oil and vinegar dressing.  Almonds - about half of a 2 oz bag - so one oz - 170 cal or so
water
Dinner - my weak point - oven roasted potatoes and sweet potatoes, corn - 1/2 ear, broccoli, and a small slice of veggie pizza - deep dish chicago style, cherries, water

I have decided to write a blog about all the books that I have read and am reading about being thin and healthy because I have read so very many books about it that if reading books could make you think and healthy, then I would be.  Here is that blog https://danabjornstad.wordpress.com/

Thinking about vegan

So, two years later, fatter than ever - need to lose weight. Ugh.

I have read a bit about the vegan diet and have been thinking about it.  Thought I might try it today.  So far, not working.
Breakfast - coffee - 1/2 cup - with stevia and half and half.  Should quit coffee again.
Sandwich - spelt bread with avacado
Snack
part of a multi grain granola bar, apple, chamomile mint tea
Lunch - salad fresh picked from garden with lettuce, spinach, chard, snap peas and snow peas, then not from the garden tomato, blackberries, olive oil and vinegar homemade salad dressing, multi grain organic soft pretzel with some hummus - then - well, we have some ice cream pie in the freezer.  I don't think it is even legal to start a vegan diet when there is ice cream pie in your freezer.  So I had a small amount.  Really, it was small.

Two weeks, two pounds

Well, this I my second week of the 5/2 diet and my 4th "fast" day.
So far, I have lost two pounds.
Not great, but better than nothing.
I think I have stuck to the 500 calories today.
I am not sure because keeping track of things and counting calories is a pain.
Today I had:

coffee w/ half and half
1 egg white
some carrots, cherry tomatoes and  blackberries
water

salad - greens, blueberries, pickled okra, two strawberries, an egg white, a little bit of sunflower seeds, oil and vinegar dressing - not much of it - and a pickle, two chips (yes just two), about 10 nuts
water

water, ribbons of zucchini (one zucchini), two asparagus and 4 mushrooms w/ some no sugar spaghetti sauce.  I thought it would be good.  Meh.  It was ok.  Nothing fantastic.  Not the same as actual noodles.

Second "fast" day

Ok, it is Thursday, and today is my second "fast" day.  I am supposed to only eat 500 calories today.  So far, I have had coffee w/ a little half and half, 3 hardboiled egg whites, and a bag of carrots, cherry tomatoes and sugar snap peas.  I am estimating that at about 200 calories.
So, I still have 300 calories to eat tonight.
I was hungry off and on during the day today - I did not eat anything until 1:35 other than the coffee.
I just kept reminding myself that I have fasted for Yom Kippur in the past and for Passover - although that was many years ago.  Lots of people do one day fasts for religious reasons all the time and I think Muslims do it for a month at a time, although they probably do not limit their diet to 500 calories during the time that they do eat. 
I wanted to eat the moment I walked in the door from work today - that is just habit I guess.
I will see how I do this evening.
That will be the toughest time for me.

So, for dinner I cooked onion, mushrooms, kale and a few cherry tomatoes.  I used a little oil and butter and put a bit of goat cheese on top. 
I am estimating about 200 calories there.

I just had to change out of the pants I wore today because they were digging huge ridges into my fat stomach.
Incentive to keep dieting I suppose.

Ok, a couple of hours after dinner and my stomach is rumbling and grumbling - not from being hungry, but from eating all that kale. 
Ugh..