Despite having the Awful Headache of Awful Awfulness yesterday evening, and getting an hour or so less sleep than I normally do, I woke up feeling amazing. Once again I wasn't at all hungry until I'd been awake for an hour or so, and the smoothie filled the gap perfectly. This was around 8:45.
Johnny made us amazing breakfast smoothies (orange, apple and strawberry!) and because I was working early, I took my 20 almonds, some strawberries and a huge pear to work for my mid morning snack, which happened around 11.
Once again I am amazed at how filling 20 tiny almonds can be. I was completely full for three+ hours after finishing my snack, and had a later-than-usual lunch of a banana, an apple, a big handful of cherry tomatoes (the rest of the pint from Wednesday) and the last of the Suspicious Cookies from yesterday.
Live, a local resto here in Toronto usually makes amazing raw vegan food. I've eaten there and been very happy with everything I've tried, but the extremely expensive Live brand raw cookies we had yesterday were annoyingly (Suspiciously!) bland and waaaay high in fat (one cookie is 12% of the average helping of fats!) Which of course, completely throws off the 80/10/10 ratio unless you cram a whole ton more fruit and veggies into your tummy. We won't be buying them again, although if you're in the neighbourhood you should definitely eat at the restaurant itself. Super yum.
The Suspicious Cookie made me uncomfortably full and a little bloated feeling for a couple hours after I ate it but by the time I had run up to the Chinese grocery store by my work to score an enormous pile of fruit and veggies, hit up the health food store and was heading home, I was legitimately hungry again.
Did I mention I found some Flax Crisps?
I found some Flax Crisps.
OK, found is probably wrong. Went to my local health food store (next to the Chinese market) and purchased them with coin of the realm is more accurate. Holy Moly, they are good!!
These puppies are also not cheap but worth every crispy, well rounded, flavourful bite. Which you can have a lot of, since one large cracker (2x6inches or so) is only 50 calories and 1.5g of fat. I *may* have eaten more than one. Maybe more than two and three quarters. O Happy Day!
Dinner has been another smoothie (banana, pear, ginger, strawberry and two oranges.) As soon as I'm done typing, I'm going to get some kale chips started for weekend snacking-fun-times. I will also be having an enormous salad of mixed greens, parsley, mango slices, broccoli and yellow peppers with a lime dressing.
overall, today I feel really good. My energy dipped a little mid afternoon, I think I should have eschewed Suspicious Cookie and just had two more bananas- this is what I get for giving things a second chance, darn my generous nature. I have not had the shadow of a headache and my mood is good.
EDITED:
oh- and I forgot to mention, I weighed myself this morning, I was 171.8.
Here's my food diary for today! OM NOM I managed to hit up 73/19/8. still too much damned fat, out out damned cookie!!
Friday, January 4, 2013
Day 2.2: So. Much. Food.
Today was totally easy, right up until I got that terrible headache. But I digress.
Once again, I wasn't hungry when I woke up; it usually takes me a few hours to get my digestive system on line so I wasn't too fussed but it seems to me that if I drastically (accidentally) under ate yesterday, then I should have been hungrier sooner. What do you think? I'm not sure.
Breakfast, when I felt like having it (around 10:30) was a pint of deliciousness in the form of a smoothie made from a banana, strawberries, an orange and fresh ginger. Oh, and a pear. So good.
I really wanted some protein almost right away so around noon I had my morning snack which was an ounce of almonds which completely did the trick. It did so much of the trick that I wasn't super hungry again for a while, although I forced myself to eat lunch which was a salad, and a banana, and some coconut water.
It's very strange eating when I'm not super hungry, just to maintain bare calories.
By the time I finished my later afternoon snacks (carrots, broccoli and the rest of that cauliflower dip) I had only reached 1200 calories, and I had a terrible headache.
It started around 4:30ish, a slight tightening around my temples and my neck got very stiff. I was pretty concerned it was going to be a migraine...it was headed that way. The last few hours at work were Not Fun.
I managed to grit my teeth, not kill anyone on the way home and I had a painkiller and some kale chips (delicious!) and a mediocre raw cookie (which was definitely not worth the 12 grams of fat). Headache dissolved.
and DINNER, which was very exciting! Johnny made us a couple of awesome green smoothies; spinach, parsley, ginger, banana, orange and strawberry. and THEN- zucchini noodle pasta with cashew alfredo sauce topped with sundried tomatoes. Amazing.
I ate more, calorie-wise, than I usually would but apparently it's the thing that one is supposed to do on this diet, so we'll see how it goes. It's really counter-intuitive to be eating when I'm not hungry, and to eat more than I would normally want to when I am hungry (volume-wise, that is). We'll see what the numbers shake down to in a few weeks. I also felt quite full and bloated most of the afternoon, which was less than fun but surely due to the sheer increase in food volume.
Here's what I ate today! I managed 73% carb, 9% protein and 18% fat. I blame the cookie.
Food Diary!
Once again, I wasn't hungry when I woke up; it usually takes me a few hours to get my digestive system on line so I wasn't too fussed but it seems to me that if I drastically (accidentally) under ate yesterday, then I should have been hungrier sooner. What do you think? I'm not sure.
Breakfast, when I felt like having it (around 10:30) was a pint of deliciousness in the form of a smoothie made from a banana, strawberries, an orange and fresh ginger. Oh, and a pear. So good.
I really wanted some protein almost right away so around noon I had my morning snack which was an ounce of almonds which completely did the trick. It did so much of the trick that I wasn't super hungry again for a while, although I forced myself to eat lunch which was a salad, and a banana, and some coconut water.
It's very strange eating when I'm not super hungry, just to maintain bare calories.
By the time I finished my later afternoon snacks (carrots, broccoli and the rest of that cauliflower dip) I had only reached 1200 calories, and I had a terrible headache.
It started around 4:30ish, a slight tightening around my temples and my neck got very stiff. I was pretty concerned it was going to be a migraine...it was headed that way. The last few hours at work were Not Fun.
I managed to grit my teeth, not kill anyone on the way home and I had a painkiller and some kale chips (delicious!) and a mediocre raw cookie (which was definitely not worth the 12 grams of fat). Headache dissolved.
and DINNER, which was very exciting! Johnny made us a couple of awesome green smoothies; spinach, parsley, ginger, banana, orange and strawberry. and THEN- zucchini noodle pasta with cashew alfredo sauce topped with sundried tomatoes. Amazing.
I ate more, calorie-wise, than I usually would but apparently it's the thing that one is supposed to do on this diet, so we'll see how it goes. It's really counter-intuitive to be eating when I'm not hungry, and to eat more than I would normally want to when I am hungry (volume-wise, that is). We'll see what the numbers shake down to in a few weeks. I also felt quite full and bloated most of the afternoon, which was less than fun but surely due to the sheer increase in food volume.
Here's what I ate today! I managed 73% carb, 9% protein and 18% fat. I blame the cookie.
Food Diary!
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