August 1, 2015

Morning walk - 45 minutes
Coffee w/ milk and vanilla stevia
Breakfast - rice with veggies and an egg, water

Lunch - none - on Saturdays I work 10-2 with no break and no time for lunch.  I brought some fruit and carrots for snacks on my drive home, but I forgot and left them there.  They will still be there Monday.

Snack - I am trying vegan foods now -

So, these Organic Peas Please chip things - taste salty and a bit like stale oil to me.  My son says they taste like stale popcorn and would be better if spicy.  My husband did not think they were salty.
I had a small amount.

These Chickpea snacks - are ok - some of the crunchy bits are a bit too hard, and they are salty.  I had a little bit of this.
I also had a ginger candy and water.

Dinner - leftover rice and veggies from breakfast - (brown rice, some veggies from garden, some from store), baked sweet potato, asparagus, 1/2 cob of corn, strawberries, watermelon

July 31, 2015

Walked 40 minutes.
Had 1/2 cup of coffee w/ vanilla stevia, half and half and a little unsalted butter

Breakfast - veggies - onion, garlic, ginger, fresh spinach, leftover baked potato fries (yellow potatoes), frozen corn/carrot/peas, and from my garden - cherry tomatoes, yellow squash, okra and one farmer's market egg,  water

Snack - balsamic potato chips and water

Lunch - a piece of toast - Rudy's Organic Spelt bread, with butter, homemade pickles

Dinner - rice and veggies, wine, mango, water

July 30, 3015

This morning I had extra time because my work schedule was changed for today.  I walked 40 minutes.  I realized that I will have to start getting up earlier in the morning to continue being able to walk once school starts.
Breakfast - 100 calorie Oroweat sandwich thin with a little almond butter, water, 1/2 cup coffee with half and half and vanilla stevia

Lunch - salad w/ leftover fish on it, a piece of crystallized ginger, some late july tortilla chips, water, green tea later

Snack - homemade pickles, some potato chips, one ginger cookie

Dinner - restaurant - spinach salad, mushroom soup, part of a piece of pizza, water

July 29, 2015

Morning walk - 30 min.
1/2 cup of coffee

Breakfast - sandwich - spelt eng muffin, ham, mustard, butter

Snack - cashews and banana

Lunch - salad, chips, homemade pickles, kombucha cola, piece of candy

Dinner - glass of cabernet, roasted potatoes (yellow organic) and roasted carrots, fish - wild caught cod, broccoli and asparagus, cherries, watermelon, two texas shaped ginger cookies from Whole Foods, water

July 28, 2015

Went for a 25 minute walk.  My husband went with me - he was still home because he has jury duty today.  He needs to walk more.
Last night I read that A.J. Jacobs in his quest for bodily perfection as documented in his book "Drop Dead Healthy", ate a meal of as many superfoods as possible.  He just ate a bunch of different foods that did not necessarily go together and did not really make a recipe of them.
I, however, made a wonderful dish this morning that contains many of the foods that Dr. Andrew Weil touts as super healing foods.
I made a stir-fry for breakfast cooked in a little extra virgin cold pressed olive oil, containing many veggies from my garden and others that were not from my garden.
From my garden were: onions (harvested over a month ago), chard, 3 okra, half of a yellow squash, cherry tomatoes, rosemary, oregano, and basil - most of them harvested this morning.  In addition to that, I put in some spinach and asparagus, fresh garlic and ginger and seasoned it with ground turmeric, sea salt and freshly ground pepper and a bit of apple cider vinegar. I also tossed in some leftover kaniwa - the new "ancient supergrain".   I fried up some farmer's market eggs to go with that.
So, in that dish, Dr. W. recommends the greens and he says that fresh garlic and ginger are healing foods.  Turmeric is supposed to be anti-inflammatory as is oregano oil - I assume there was a little of that in the fresh oregano.  Apple cider vinegar is supposed to have some sort of healthy properties and the kaniwa, being a new "ancient supergrain" ought to count too.  I think that rosemary also has some sort of healthy properties.
That breakfast should add years - or perhaps an extra day? to my life.
I also had a half cup of coffee with half and half and vanilla stevia and some water.

Snack - 2 small pieces of quesadilla with a little sour cream and guacamole from Taco Cabanna and half a banana, water

Lunch - a bite of Canes chicken, a few fries and sauce, salad from whole foods, some kombucha soda, water, a piece of candied ginger

Dinner - Trader Joe's orange chicken (only 2 pieces of that) and fried rice with veggies (I added an extra cup of organic frozen mixed veggies to it when I was cooking it without my kids finding out - my daughter picked out all the green beans and lima beans anyway), leftover fresh black eyed peas and spinach and kaniwa, fruit - peach, grapes, cherries, water.

July 27, 2015

This morning I took a 25 min. walk, had 1/2 cup of coffee w/ half and half and vanilla stevia.
After my shower, I went to put on my rings, and my fingers were too swollen to wear them.  My hands usually do swell when I walk in the morning, but by the time I go to put on my rings, they are better.  Not today.  I think I must have had way too much sodium in the meal that I ate at the restaurant last night.  I had an arugula salad with shrimp and goat cheese.  I am sure there was a lot of salt on the shrimp and in the cheese and the dressing was already on the salad and it probably had lots of sodium too. I usually order the salad dressing on the side along with oil and vinegar but I did not think to last night.  I guess I learned my lesson.  Must watch out for salt in and on restaurant foods.

Breakfast - sandwich on Rudy's organic spelt english muffin w/ a little organic butter (salted - need to buy unsalted next time), mustard, and no nitrate ham lunchmeat. water and anti-biotic.

Snack - ginger tea, cashews, banana

Lunch - salad, some chips, part of a peach

Dinner - more leftover spinach/artichoke calzone - I obviously should have made half or a fourth of that recipe, fresh cooked black-eyed peas from my garden with spinach cooked in it, kaniwa - a new ancient grain - new ancient is a bit of an oxymoron - that is related to quinoa.  It is ok, kind of crunchy, but ok.  Might be good in cookies or brownies.  I made brownies once with some leftover quinoa in them and it made them much moister and slightly healthier and they were great and everyone loved them.  I also had corn from half an ear of corn.  I used a small plate because my new part time guru A.J. Jacobs said to do that in his book "Drop Dead Healthy".

I went for an evening walk - about 25 min. again.  Much hotter in the evening.  I made sure to walk near nature - went through the houses on the grass path and then walked to the path that goes by the creek.  It is very pretty.  I saw lots of rabbits on the way home on the grass by the elementary school.  Dr. Andrew Weil says in his book, "8 Weeks To Optimum Health" that it is important to walk in lovely natural surroundings when possible.

July 26, 2015

Doom, despair, agony and failure.  It is with a heavy heart and a heavy gut and a heavy rest of myself that I must write that I have backslidden.  I have failed.  Forgive me because last night, after dinner, I snacked.  That is the problem that got me overweight in the first place.  I ate some chips.  They were organic if that makes it any better.  Late July Bacon Habanero flavored chips. They were good.  Kind of like nacho cheese Doritos, but spicier and supposedly healthier. Despite the name, there is no actual bacon involved in the chips.
And I ate some candy.  That is my husband's fault - he bought it.  Chocolate orange sticks from Trader Joe's.  It was kind of good. I ate the chocolate off of some and threw away the middles and ate some whole ones. I also ate a few thin slices of smoked gouda cheese.  It is my theory that if the slices are thin, they have less calories - no matter how many of them you eat - but I did not eat a lot.  And two glasses of wine.  Cabernet.  It was good.  I have failed.  I should go and flagellate myself now, however, it is 5:30 in the morning and I am going to work at the dept store where I work part time instead.  Almost the same as flagellation.

Breakfast - 1/2 cup of coffee with half and half and vanilla stevia.
No food because I had to be at work at 6 am this morning and no way am I eating before 6 am.  Plus - last night's failure. 

However, good news - I wore a pair of pants that I was previously - before losing the 5 pounds I have lost in the past two weeks or so - unable to fit into without discomfort.  They are once again comfortable.  Ha!  I pulled them out of my plastic storage box of shame in the bottom of my closet in which I have clothing that once fit me fine and currently has shrunk to a size that does not fit or flatter my curvaceous beauty, but that I like and hope to fit into again at some point in the future.

Lunch - salad, tortilla with thin sliced cheese, nitrate free ham lunchmeat and mustard.  water.
 And - antibiotic.

Dinner - we went out because it is my wonderful husband's birthday.  Italian food.  I got an arugula salad with shrimp and goat cheese as my main course.  I also ate a few bites of my daughter's fettuccine alfredo and of my son's pizza.  Then we went to a frozen yogurt place for dessert.  I got some.  Not a lot, but it still was enough.  I am sure I went over my caloric limit.