I had a very, very broken sleep last night. My dog goes through phases of sleeping all night, followed by phases of 'lets wake mum up every two hours so I can go outside and maybe pee but probably just sniff raccoon tracks'. Last night was the latter. Frankly, every night for several weeks has been that.
There's a reason I'm a caffeine junky.
I meant to work out this morning and get a great start on the week, but hey! I was to tired! Ah, well. Tomorrow.
I'm not sure why, but the muscles in my right leg and glute were really achy all day- almost like my sciatic nerve had been aggravated or something. Despite having not done any leg workout except some hiking, and no distance unusual, my legs felt like I had done some serious gym work. It made doing stairs really hard.
I do a lot of running around at work, which wasn't too bad but going to and from work (still via TTC this month) the stairs felt like a lot of effort, as if my coat and bag and sweaters were extra heavy. I'm not sure if this is diet-related or sleep related or what, but it's unusual for me. I'll keep you posted.
onwards to food!
I was determined to stick as closely to 80/10/10 as possible today so I had an insanely good smoothie for breakfast (banana, spinach. parsley, strawberry, orange, ginger, almond milk) which, once again, gave me an insane body buzz for several minutes after drinking it. This is something that I will very likely incorporate into my diet once this experiment is over- way,way more smoothies. They are the greatest.
instead of 20 almonds for a snack a while later, I had 10 which was more than enough to fill the hunger gap- and a banana! Always a banana. OOK.
Lunch, I feel like I cheated a wee bit and had a Subway veggie delite salad instead of a pile of fruit, but I wanted pickles, dammit. It was good- and that with a coconut water was surprisingly filling!
....I also had a banana. There may be a theme here.
I nipped over to the green grocery and picked myself up some healthy snacks for the afternoon- an apple, a small tub of dehydrated plums and surprise!! Another bunch of bananas! I could have swung to the green grocer through the hydro wires by my tail.
Yes, dehydrated plums...also known as prunes. Famed as a snack for constipated old ladies, I find them delicious and 5, the recommended serving, has 0 fat, 100 calories and tons of vitamins! I regret nothing.
So midafternoon snacking was prunes, banana and the dregs of my coconut water. I wasn't hungry enough to commit to a full apple- at work it's really hard find the time to sit and chew one of those bad boys. Last time I tried, it took me an hour of taking a bite, putting it down, helping a customer...etc.
So, sure enough, but the time I got home I was hovering at a fully respectable 8% fat for the day and feeling good...and then, I made guacamole.
Which would have been ok, if I'd just eaten an avocado; OK, probably 1/2 an avocado on this diet. But still. See, you have to taste it while making it to see if it's right, right? whoops. Boy, was it goooood.
So for dinner I had guacamole with yellow pepper and broccoli for dippings. But my end of day ratio was 71/22/7 so I totally messed myself up. Damned guacamole. Why are you SO GOOD?
I think it's fair to say that I'm having trouble, after a week, hitting the 10% fat mark. If it's not a rogue cookie, it's too many nuts or oil or an avocado. I'm used to eating quite a bit of healthy fats (nuts etc, very little oil) but it's hard, especially in the evenings, to not accidentally 'treat' myself and go over my limit.
Dear Self: I know it's hard to adjust to, but you can do it! Portion control and pre planning!
Rah Rah Rah!
I think I will save basically all my fats for the evening today and see if it makes it easier for me to stick to the magic ratio. Here's what I ate today. guacamole SHAME!!
Regardless, and even including the Planned Cheating of yesterday, I weighed in this morning at 170.6, a further loss. Johnny is worried I'll get too skinny, but it's all in the name of experimenting on this amazing flesh machine we call a body.
And, if I do, there's always more guacamole. Mmmm.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Monday, January 7, 2013
Day 05: Successful Failure
One of the great things about choosing to undertake a dietary change, be it temporary or permanent is that you can choose to set it aside when you like. Unlike folks who *have* to eat a certain way because of serious health problems, a planned failure isn't the end of the world.
Having said that, I don't have 'planned failures' for being vegan- either you are, or you aren't, but everyone's 'line' of what they will and will not eat/do is different and frankly, I have way better things to do than be the Vegan Police.
anyway!
Last night was our much anticipated Staff Dinner at work. Every year, our bosses have us over for dinner and wine and dine us in splendid fashion. This always happens shortly into the new year, and I started this cleanse knowing that I would be breaking it once this month, for this dinner.
However, I was very abstemious and the vegan options that were prepared for me (so considerate!) were very healthy, so it wasn't the complete orgy of cooked food depravity and wine that I was anticipating. I have a terrible time not eating something I want when it's in front of me, but I done good this time. We had carrot/orange/nutmeg soup, a huge salad (I had seconds on the salad! Arugula, pomegranate and blackberry with pine nuts. NOM) and then I had a ratatouille while the other folks had baked salmon. There was lightly steamed asparagus (still crunchy, perfect!) and I even skipped dessert and only had two very small glasses of wine, to try both kinds.
BUT before that....Yesterday was great. Weighed myself and went up from 170.8 to 171, surely due to the accidentally-oil-heavy dinner the night before. I was not daunted in the slightest and carried on. As I said before, I'm not really interested in losing a ton of weight on this diet as my primary focus, it's just for science (SCIENCE!!) that I'm weighing in.
I wasn't super hungry for breakfast yesterday, I just ate a whole banana and a huge pear.
This all changed shortly- I was ravenous all day; neeeeding more food every 90 minutes or so. Fortunately, with all the healthy choices in the fridge, this was not stressful and in fact was delicious.
Mid morning snack was that Green Smoothie of Pure Awesomeness.
Lunch was leftover dinner from the night before and a banana. However, the dinner once again had me feeling a little too full and heavy. I really thing it's the oil. The big thing we'll be changing with gourmet raw recipes we try is eliminating almost all the oil from them. Raw doesn't always equal low fat, actually often quite the opposite what with all the different nuts that are commonly used. Buyer beware!
The uncomfortably full feeling wore off very quickly though, and I was hungry enough to make myself another smoothie as an afternoon snack (carrot/spinach/pear/banana/ginger/almond milk. HOLY GOOD) and have a few kale chips less than two hours later.
Then dinners!!
Here's a link to what I ate yesterday. food orgy! even with eating planned cheat foods, I still did pretty good; 70/20/10. STILL too much fat, but today is another day and I am very motivated to hit my numbers consistently this week.
Having said that, I don't have 'planned failures' for being vegan- either you are, or you aren't, but everyone's 'line' of what they will and will not eat/do is different and frankly, I have way better things to do than be the Vegan Police.
anyway!
Last night was our much anticipated Staff Dinner at work. Every year, our bosses have us over for dinner and wine and dine us in splendid fashion. This always happens shortly into the new year, and I started this cleanse knowing that I would be breaking it once this month, for this dinner.
However, I was very abstemious and the vegan options that were prepared for me (so considerate!) were very healthy, so it wasn't the complete orgy of cooked food depravity and wine that I was anticipating. I have a terrible time not eating something I want when it's in front of me, but I done good this time. We had carrot/orange/nutmeg soup, a huge salad (I had seconds on the salad! Arugula, pomegranate and blackberry with pine nuts. NOM) and then I had a ratatouille while the other folks had baked salmon. There was lightly steamed asparagus (still crunchy, perfect!) and I even skipped dessert and only had two very small glasses of wine, to try both kinds.
BUT before that....Yesterday was great. Weighed myself and went up from 170.8 to 171, surely due to the accidentally-oil-heavy dinner the night before. I was not daunted in the slightest and carried on. As I said before, I'm not really interested in losing a ton of weight on this diet as my primary focus, it's just for science (SCIENCE!!) that I'm weighing in.
I wasn't super hungry for breakfast yesterday, I just ate a whole banana and a huge pear.
This all changed shortly- I was ravenous all day; neeeeding more food every 90 minutes or so. Fortunately, with all the healthy choices in the fridge, this was not stressful and in fact was delicious.
Mid morning snack was that Green Smoothie of Pure Awesomeness.
Lunch was leftover dinner from the night before and a banana. However, the dinner once again had me feeling a little too full and heavy. I really thing it's the oil. The big thing we'll be changing with gourmet raw recipes we try is eliminating almost all the oil from them. Raw doesn't always equal low fat, actually often quite the opposite what with all the different nuts that are commonly used. Buyer beware!
The uncomfortably full feeling wore off very quickly though, and I was hungry enough to make myself another smoothie as an afternoon snack (carrot/spinach/pear/banana/ginger/almond milk. HOLY GOOD) and have a few kale chips less than two hours later.
Then dinners!!
Here's a link to what I ate yesterday. food orgy! even with eating planned cheat foods, I still did pretty good; 70/20/10. STILL too much fat, but today is another day and I am very motivated to hit my numbers consistently this week.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
It's Easy, Being Green.
Guys. Guys. Listen. I had the greatest smoothie for breakfast- spinach, parsley, almond milk and strawberry. And ginger.
It ended up being a glass of green pulp with red streaks, like some heartless beast had tossed Kermit into a blender. It tasted like pure deliciousness, however. Creamy, sweet, with a mild tang of green at the end- not like pureed frog in any way, shape or form. Which is for the best, really.
the amazing thing was that I actually had a body high after I drank it. Seriously. It was euphoria in a glass, and I'm contemplating another one...
*eyes blender lustfully*
...anyway. I digress.
This was the magic drink of magicness that Johnny made for me.
2 cups spinach
1 cup parsley
1 cup almond milk
6 strawberries
1 ping pong ball of ginger
Savoury smoothies are a new thing for me and I must say, I am a fan. Time to sacrifice a few carrots to the Juicer Gods, I think. One of my favourites is carrot/pear/ginger, but I'm loving the piles of green goodness in a glass. I will have to buy more kale today and do one with spinach, parsley, kale and maybe a scoop of avocado, or some celery...maybe some apples...
It ended up being a glass of green pulp with red streaks, like some heartless beast had tossed Kermit into a blender. It tasted like pure deliciousness, however. Creamy, sweet, with a mild tang of green at the end- not like pureed frog in any way, shape or form. Which is for the best, really.
the amazing thing was that I actually had a body high after I drank it. Seriously. It was euphoria in a glass, and I'm contemplating another one...
*eyes blender lustfully*
...anyway. I digress.
This was the magic drink of magicness that Johnny made for me.
2 cups spinach
1 cup parsley
1 cup almond milk
6 strawberries
1 ping pong ball of ginger
Savoury smoothies are a new thing for me and I must say, I am a fan. Time to sacrifice a few carrots to the Juicer Gods, I think. One of my favourites is carrot/pear/ginger, but I'm loving the piles of green goodness in a glass. I will have to buy more kale today and do one with spinach, parsley, kale and maybe a scoop of avocado, or some celery...maybe some apples...
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Day 04: Mix and Match.
Somehow last night we managed to fall asleep ridiculously early. Like, 10:00. Being all warm and cuddling is a dangerous business in the winter, I tell you. However, because I had an accidental 10 hours of sleep, I have been very energetic and active and productive today. I weighed myself this morning and I was at 170.8. That's 4 lbs lost this week with no effort on my behalf, even while having my period. Crazy stuff!
The down side of being so industrious today means I lost count of how many times today I washed a blender, dehydrator, magic bullet (tm!) or food processor. OK, granted, the second time I washed a blender was because I had to make my face scrub. Not food related. But still. Phew.
having said *that*, WOW!! So much good food was had today.
Breakfast was a smoothie of watermelon, orange, strawberry and fresh ginger and 20 almonds. Because if I scarf down my almonds too fast I get a stomach ache sometimes, I nibbled them slowly while doing some sewing prep. Voila! No tummy ache. Victory is mine; and, more importantly, almonds! Nom.
I was super full until lunch when I had the leftovers of that basil/parsley/mango/yellow pepper/broccoli salad I made yesterday. It was *way* piquant yesterday, but marinating overnight in it's lemon juice/ACV dressing really worked out! In retrospect I may have been rather intemperate in my use of spicy red pepper. Oh, who am I kidding. Spice is life. I can't believe that I ate 4 cups of dense salad that quickly. Wow, that was good. I'm glad no one was around to watch me eat that- It got a little messy, as all proper food is wont to do. Then I had a banana. Mmmm, bananas.
HOWEVER- WE MADE KALE CHIPS.
Sorry, I shout when I get excited. We had some amazing fake sour-cream-chive kale chips yesterday and Johnny asked me if I could make something like them. Always up for a challenge, I hit up the internet and Lo! AKale Recipe Appeared On High. You should make these. Yes, YOU. You can make them in your oven, but I used my trusty Nesco American Harvest dehydrator (who comes up with these names??). Follow the recipe exactly and you will not be disappointed. Unlike regular chips, eating a giant bag of them only results in nutrition and happy tummies.
So I may or may not have eaten what felt like quite a lot of kale chips this afternoon. NO REGRETS.
Then we went grocery shopping to make amazing raw Indian food for dinner. We made fancy schmancy mushroom curry. which took less time I think than it takes me to make a fancy schmancy cooked curry with trimmings the regular way- the usual amount of chopping, then 2 1/2 hours in the dehydrator. The sauce was a simple puree that I let steep while the veggies were dehydrating, and the parsnips were also a simple puree- and as a bonus, you can mix some of the parsnips with a little almond milk, dehydrated coconut and raw cocoa for an amazing pudding. Yes, parsnip pudding. Don't laugh.
Both of us have the belief that, when following a recipe, the first time you should do it exactly, see how it tastes, and then tweak it from there. The Great Curry Experience of Ought-Thirteen was delicious, but the vegetables were tossed in 2 tablespoons of olive oil (mixed with curry, and lemon juice and whatnot, but still) and I think next time we could definitely cut that down or out completely. Granted, the amount of vegetables we used made two enormous meals for us tonight, with enough leftovers for two enormous lunches tomorrow- but I am still insanely full for someone who's eaten about 1200 calories of food today. Raw curry is really good- in cooked curry, of course, all the different veggie flavours mix together, but in the raw, you can really taste the tiny diced veggie flavour niblets. It was a fun eating experience.
Here's my food diary for today! snacks!
Unfff. Time to go for a walk. So. Full.
The down side of being so industrious today means I lost count of how many times today I washed a blender, dehydrator, magic bullet (tm!) or food processor. OK, granted, the second time I washed a blender was because I had to make my face scrub. Not food related. But still. Phew.
having said *that*, WOW!! So much good food was had today.
Breakfast was a smoothie of watermelon, orange, strawberry and fresh ginger and 20 almonds. Because if I scarf down my almonds too fast I get a stomach ache sometimes, I nibbled them slowly while doing some sewing prep. Voila! No tummy ache. Victory is mine; and, more importantly, almonds! Nom.
I was super full until lunch when I had the leftovers of that basil/parsley/mango/yellow pepper/broccoli salad I made yesterday. It was *way* piquant yesterday, but marinating overnight in it's lemon juice/ACV dressing really worked out! In retrospect I may have been rather intemperate in my use of spicy red pepper. Oh, who am I kidding. Spice is life. I can't believe that I ate 4 cups of dense salad that quickly. Wow, that was good. I'm glad no one was around to watch me eat that- It got a little messy, as all proper food is wont to do. Then I had a banana. Mmmm, bananas.
HOWEVER- WE MADE KALE CHIPS.
Sorry, I shout when I get excited. We had some amazing fake sour-cream-chive kale chips yesterday and Johnny asked me if I could make something like them. Always up for a challenge, I hit up the internet and Lo! AKale Recipe Appeared On High. You should make these. Yes, YOU. You can make them in your oven, but I used my trusty Nesco American Harvest dehydrator (who comes up with these names??). Follow the recipe exactly and you will not be disappointed. Unlike regular chips, eating a giant bag of them only results in nutrition and happy tummies.
So I may or may not have eaten what felt like quite a lot of kale chips this afternoon. NO REGRETS.
Then we went grocery shopping to make amazing raw Indian food for dinner. We made fancy schmancy mushroom curry. which took less time I think than it takes me to make a fancy schmancy cooked curry with trimmings the regular way- the usual amount of chopping, then 2 1/2 hours in the dehydrator. The sauce was a simple puree that I let steep while the veggies were dehydrating, and the parsnips were also a simple puree- and as a bonus, you can mix some of the parsnips with a little almond milk, dehydrated coconut and raw cocoa for an amazing pudding. Yes, parsnip pudding. Don't laugh.
Both of us have the belief that, when following a recipe, the first time you should do it exactly, see how it tastes, and then tweak it from there. The Great Curry Experience of Ought-Thirteen was delicious, but the vegetables were tossed in 2 tablespoons of olive oil (mixed with curry, and lemon juice and whatnot, but still) and I think next time we could definitely cut that down or out completely. Granted, the amount of vegetables we used made two enormous meals for us tonight, with enough leftovers for two enormous lunches tomorrow- but I am still insanely full for someone who's eaten about 1200 calories of food today. Raw curry is really good- in cooked curry, of course, all the different veggie flavours mix together, but in the raw, you can really taste the tiny diced veggie flavour niblets. It was a fun eating experience.
Here's my food diary for today! snacks!
Unfff. Time to go for a walk. So. Full.
A Traveller In A Distant Land.
Doing a food experiment on your body is like travelling.
Your wake up; your routine is disrupted- the regular, comfortable go-tos of your daily life aren't present. No tea or coffee in the morning, or the smell of toast or oatmeal. Instead, the whirr of the juicer and blender and the heady smell of fresh oranges, watermelon, pears and strawberries.
Everything is novel and exotic. Food aisles rarely travelled are stalked, list in hand, like the lesser trod roads of a distant city. In part because of it's newness, the change of routine is exciting and fun. Some people aren't meant to travel, don't enjoy the occasional discomforts or inconveniences that this exploration brings as part of it's very nature. It's easy to miss a favourite meal, or a regular haunt where your drink of choice is known by the bartender in advance.
after all, comfort is...comfortable.
But if you've chosen to take the leap, buy the ticket and land in Parts Unknown-well, then. You'll be back home soon enough, but for now; time to go exploring.
Personally, what I miss is curry. I'm pretty good at cooking Indian food and in the cold weather, I'd be lying if I wouldn't like a huge bowl of lentil and cauliflower curry...
and because my boyfriend is psychic, when I woke up today, he suggested we make this. and this.
gourmet raw food being what it is, I suspect we'll be eating it tomorrow (or having a midnight feast!) but for now, grocery list in hand, and dehydrator at the ready, I can't wait to go adventuring.
And for now, pass the bananas.
Your wake up; your routine is disrupted- the regular, comfortable go-tos of your daily life aren't present. No tea or coffee in the morning, or the smell of toast or oatmeal. Instead, the whirr of the juicer and blender and the heady smell of fresh oranges, watermelon, pears and strawberries.
Everything is novel and exotic. Food aisles rarely travelled are stalked, list in hand, like the lesser trod roads of a distant city. In part because of it's newness, the change of routine is exciting and fun. Some people aren't meant to travel, don't enjoy the occasional discomforts or inconveniences that this exploration brings as part of it's very nature. It's easy to miss a favourite meal, or a regular haunt where your drink of choice is known by the bartender in advance.
after all, comfort is...comfortable.
But if you've chosen to take the leap, buy the ticket and land in Parts Unknown-well, then. You'll be back home soon enough, but for now; time to go exploring.
Personally, what I miss is curry. I'm pretty good at cooking Indian food and in the cold weather, I'd be lying if I wouldn't like a huge bowl of lentil and cauliflower curry...
and because my boyfriend is psychic, when I woke up today, he suggested we make this. and this.
gourmet raw food being what it is, I suspect we'll be eating it tomorrow (or having a midnight feast!) but for now, grocery list in hand, and dehydrator at the ready, I can't wait to go adventuring.
And for now, pass the bananas.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Day 03: Flaxing my raw muscles.
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!!
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!!
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.
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