...Everything We Eat

2008-08-06T17:51:00.000-07:00

Erica's food.

I can't remember anything I ate Monday, except that I baked some peach streusel and we ate that.

Tuesday I woke up before my alarm and puked, and I don't really know why. So I ate a lot of tea and toast yesterday. Justin made some bbq chicken in our crock pot and I ate some of that too.

Today I had an English muffin with butter and sugar-free Instant Breakfast for breakfast. I forgot to eat lunch because I had to put my newly-hatched cutworms onto their diet. When I got home Justin had just finished making Manwich sammiches, so I had a sammich and a beer. I'll probably eat something else (maybe some ice cream) because I like to have a snack before bed. I have a hard time sleeping when I'm hungry.

No photos today

2008-08-05T20:57:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: 8am
I ran out of wheat bread, so I baked up a piece of the par-baked stuff I got from Trader Joe's (maybe about 2-3 servings of bread according to the package - 60 calories per serving, one carb exchange) and used that as my carbs. I also added a piece of cheese to the egg whites. It was delicious. I also finally had a banana.

Lunch: 11:50
My larger than normal breakfast was a good idea, since my insane day did not allow for a proper lunch. Instead, I grabbed two cookies from my apartment complex when I was paying rent and ate them in the car on the way back.

Snack: 4pm
My left-overs from the lunch yesterday, which included one of those rye/wheat roll things

Dinner: 8-9pm
The rest of that par-baked bread (3-4 servings) with some olive oil and balsalmic vinegar and a salmon roll I bought from Trader Joe's, stuffed with some kind of a crab meat based stuffing.

Celebrating 40 Years

2008-08-04T20:51:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: Toast with egg whites, coffee

Lunch: My co-worker's 40th anniversary with the company lunch

A roll with butter, times 1.5

I had a prawn, a crab cake, and a little pile of calimari from this plate

I ate less than two thirds of this dish, taking the rest home for the snack later, or, as it turned out, the next day. I had about two thirds of a glass of chardonnay with the meal too. It was Seafood Risotto. This photo looks like the dish was small, it wasn't.

This was the creme brule that I didn't eat, since I forgot to photograph it before I started eating.

And no, she isn't making any retirement plans

Dinner: At the UU meeting, I had lots of celery, grape tomatoes, and some broccoli with that veggie dip, two mini scones, two lady fingers, and a piece of peach pie. I thought it was apple, and didn't want any, but I decided to have a piece when I learned it was peach. It isn't that I don't like apple pie, but I realized that having grown up with lots of apple things at home, anything apple just seems, well, too ordinary to me.

2008-08-04T10:01:00.001-07:00

Erica's food, August 3rd.

Breakfast: English muffing with butter and a banana. Diet Pepsi Max.

Lunch/Dinner: I grazed all evening. Tomato and fresh mozzarella cheese salad sprinkled with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Justin made some hummus and we ate that with pita bread while we watched Mad Men. I ate some blueberry-flavored shredded wheat cereal with milk. Beer.

2008-07-31T20:07:00.000-07:00

Erica's food, Texas Edition.

Breakfast, 7:15 am: We ate the free breakfast at the hotel. I tried to eat a bagel with cream cheese and a banana, but it was all kind of gross. So mostly I had apple juice.

Snack, 10:00: While driving to different fields we had string cheese and Cinnabon coffee in a can.

Lunch, 12:30: We went out with the crew we were working with to a bar/diner kind of place in a little town. Justin had beef bbq and I had the appetizer sampler. I got taquitos, fried mushrooms, and something called Texas toothpicks. These are jalapeños and onions sliced very thin and fried.

Dinner, 7:00: We wanted to eat Mexican food because we figured it would be better down there. All the Mexican restaurants were closed (was it a holiday?) and Justin was unwilling to visit one of the food stands across from the meat packing plant, but we found a bodega selling some dinner stuff to go. So I got a chili relleno and Justin got a chili rojo torta and some Coke with actual sugar instead of corn syrup. Very good and very inexpensive.

A very colorless day

2008-07-31T12:24:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: 7 or 7:30
It was typical breakfast, no fruit, and I had a slice of cheese with it

Lunch 1: 11:30

Flatbread eaten before Toastmaster's

Lunch 2: 1

Tofu and some Chinese style pasta (can't remember the name)

Snack: 4 or something

A cookie and then string cheese. The last time I had only a cookie for a snack, I felt really depressed at the end of the day, due to the sugar rush, then the crash. I hoped to prevent that today and did.

Dinner or whatever: After 8
Two tequila sunrises, some fried calamari, and nachos at the Happy Hour

New breakfast today

2008-07-30T12:12:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: before 8am or something

egg white omelet with spinach and tomatoes on toast

Lunch: 11:30 or something

A falafel dish with lots o' hummus - soooo good

Snack: 3 or 4, whatever

The rest of the salad from the other day

Dinner: after 8, definitely

Lots and lots of salsas from Baja Fresh on top of some flouder stuffed with crab and I detected cheese, then a burrito salad - I definitely ate a lot today

2008-07-29T21:45:00.000-07:00

Erica's food, July 29.

Today we drove to Texas for collecting bugs. I always eat terribly when we travel.

Breakfast, 8:30: Grits with American cheese, Carnation Instant breakfast. The last time I was at the store I decided to get the instant breakfast with no sugar and extra fiber even though it is more expensive than the sugary kind.

Lunch: We went to the Dairy Queen in some forgettable town in Kansas. I got chicken strips, but they were so bad that I could only eat the fries.

Dinner: We stopped in Dodge City, Kansas (birthplace of Wyatt Earp!) and decided to look around briefly and sample the local cuisine. Well, the local cuisine of west Kansas consists of beef. So I had sirloin kabobs with grilled peppers and onions with a baked potato and side salad. After dinner we got the hell out of Dodge. I saved my dinner roll and ate it at some point in Oklahoma.

Snacks: Snacking is required in the car. We brought Cinnabon coffee beverages, string cheese, sasparilla soda (diet), gummi Lifesavers, and BBQ chips with us. Food that we don't eat at other times helps pass the time.

2008-07-28T15:08:00.000-07:00

Erica's food, July 27th.

Breakfast: I had a piece of cake, which turned out to be awful so I didn't finish it. Instead I had instant grits with American cheese.

Lunch: Bucket of popcorn while seeing Mamma Mia. Terrible, I know.

Dinner: Green curry with tofu at a Thai restaurant.

Snack: Cookies'n'cream Hyvee brand icecream.

Later my cat dumped the cake on the floor and ate a bunch of it, negating my feeling of guilt for having to throw away most of a cake. I guess he likes avocado frosting.

2008-07-26T21:16:00.001-07:00

Erica's food, July 26 2008.

I'm going to try to be better about posting.

Breakfast/Lunch, 12:30: Egg sammiches: homemade whitebread toast with butter, 2 fried eggs with 2 slices of American cheese. Glass of milk.

Dinner, 6:00: Lo mein Justin made. It contained Chinese noodles, yellow peppers, celery, shrimp, mushrooms, onion, and bean sprouts. Diet Pepsi Max.

Snack, 10:30: Some batter and frosting from making a birthday cake for myself. Just plain old white cake mix from a box because I wanted to try an avocado frosting recipe I saw on Good Eats. The frosting is pretty good and probably healthy, but if you don't like avocados it's probably not for you. Glass of milk.

Does anybody have an opinion on dairy? Is it good for me or is it evil? Because I tend to eat a lot of it. I like things like soy milk, but the particulate content makes my throat scratchy if I drink it regularly. Anyway, I prefer to bake with real dairy products.

2008-07-26T11:29:00.000-07:00

Erica's food, July 25 2008.

Breakfast, 9:30: Carnation Instant Breakfast

Snack, 10:00-11:00: Dried mango strips, 2 fake Oreos, and coffee with fake creamer at Santiago's defense. He's Filipino and mangoes are his favorite crop.

Lunch, 1:30: Campbell's potato ham chowder, Diet Pepsi Max.

Dinner, ~7:00: Left over lasagna, Diet Pepsi Max.

Snack, ~10:00: I had a freeze pop but I was still hungry so I made a shake out of frozen mixed berries, milk, vanilla Instant Breakfast, and cream (since we didn't have any ice cream).

Attack!

2008-07-23T18:41:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: again, typical, may have had a banana, may not

Lunch: left overs from the salad yesterday

Snack: unsure, I did have a mild gall bladder attack all afternoon though, that was fun. I don't know what it was from, maybe the eggplant?

Dinner: I had a night of random foods, olives, tarts, salmon, wine

I've been bad about posting...

2008-07-23T07:48:00.001-07:00

...but I have been taking pictures of the things I've been eating. Because there are so many though, here are the highlights. I also effed up a few times recently, which you should berate me for.

I ate this for breakfast today. I wanted to try the new flavor of mcdonalds coffee, but they messed up and gave me hazelnut. It's good tho. And I heart bacon egg and cheese biscuits...although I only ate about half of it.

My friend came over one day for lunch. We made pistachio pesto with potatoes and noodles, and then a raspberry salad with a apple cider vinaigrette, that I added lemon zest to. It was a delicious, healthy lunch.

At work one day I got a burger at my this burger place in the skyway. The burger's there are good and the fries are fantastic.

One day I had tamales for dinner. I bought a package that were prepared and frozen from the downtown farmer's market. They are good, but not the best tamales I've ever had.

Someday soon, I'll post my food

2008-07-22T21:50:00.000-07:00

For tonight, I want to point out a blog that my nutritionist sent me

Dieting & Weight Loss Blog

Back to Work

2008-07-22T18:32:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: typical, don't remember if I had a banana

Lunch: Salad, with egg, eggplant, tomatoes, and some other stuff. I think I had some romaine or spring greens with the spinach. My nutritionist told me that spinach has some acid in it that isn't great in high quantities, so I should buffer it with other greens, and dark greens are good. I also had flat bread. I ate about half the salad and saved the rest for my snack, that turned out to be lunch the next day.

Snack: I forgot the snack today

Dinner: A diablo shrimp burrito and chips and salsa from Baja Fresh. Fun fact: while in a waiting room, I was reading some celebrity gossip mag and learned that on the day he and Jennifer Lopez were to be married, Ben Afleck ate at a Baja Fresh in SoCal.

Day Off Work, for reals

2008-07-21T18:22:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: typical plus low-fat cheese and another slice of bread - I was off to a personal training appointment that morning

Lunch: At Trader Joe's yesterday, I had the most amazing sample ever. It was lemon pepper pasta with tuna and capers. I made that for myself for lunch around 1 and had a glass of chardonnay [not pictured].

Dinner [Evening eating]: I went to a Unitarian meeting in Livermore and had two brownies, two mini-scones, two italian sodas, and some popcorn [not pictured]

Damn, I walked at LEAST 6 miles today, maybe 7 or 8

2008-07-20T20:16:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: 10am

A massive iced coffee and a bagel with egg and cheese - tons of high fructose corn syrup, I'm sure.

Snack: The first checkpoint, before Mile 3

A very tasty granola bar they had for the walkers

Snack: The second checkpoint, before Mile 4

They were offering potato chips and some other unhealthy things too, which was weird to me. This wasn't the best thing either, but it was tasty.

Snack: somewhere between Mile 4 and the Weed Band

Another granola bar

Lunch: 2:30ish

I had a sandwich with three slices of cheese, mustard, tomatoes and pickles

Dinner: 8:30

I had a banana and some canned salmon. There isn't a pic yet because I haven't eaten it, I wanted to post this first and then I need to upload my AIDS Walk pics. I wasn't sure if I wanted to even have dinner, but I figured it would be better to eat something, because I am sure I'd be hungry later.

Chinatown!

2008-07-19T17:59:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: A spinach, feta, egg, tomato wrap from the Starbucks near Civic Center. It was in a whole wheat wrap, and not too big. I didn't have time to have a breakfast before I left the house and wanted to eat something before being at a museum for a few hours. It isn't pictured.

Snack: I had a Chinese doughnut while looking for a dim sum place, this was around 3 or something

Lunch: Dim Sum around 3 or something. Not pictured are the two shrimp dumplings [steamed dough around shrimp, basically], I also only had about half of the broccoli and the other shrimp dumpling thingers

Evening eating: Grapes I picked up at Trader Joe's on the way home

2008-07-19T08:24:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: oatmeal. takes 1.5 minutes in the microwave. I don't get the instant oatmeal shit 'cause it's not as healthy, and you can cook regular oatmeal just as fast.

Lunch: leftover grilled steak that my sister's boyfriend prepared. Awesome. Blue cheese and slightly grilled onions on top.

Dinner: no one will know what this is, but whatever. Rice with miniature shrimp-stuffed bittermelon. It's a Guyanese thing. My mom made a bunch of these back in the day for me, and they've just been sitting in my freezer because I eat out all the time. So I defrosted it and made rice in the rice cooker.

Snack before bed that appeased the foodie in me: I ate Tete de Moin - a cheese from Switzerland, and compared two types of proscuitto - Di Parma from Italy and Jamon Iberico from Spain. The Jamon Iberico is pretty expensive ($75/lb) and the Di Parma is cheap ($14/lb), so I wanted to compare. Apparently to make the Jamon Iberico they only allow the hog to eat this particular type of acorn. The Jamon Iberico was definitely the better of the two, but I couldn't tell if it was because of the way the meat was cured, or because of the taste of the meat itself. I will continue my assessment :) I also had a little extra old Beemster which is currently my favorite type of cheese, and a large glass of Ledson Winery Red Zin that I got on my visit with Urs. It was an excellent before-bed snack. Not healthy my any means, but lovely. I also shared some of the prosciutto with Mika, the new doggie. She loves it :)

I never really call myself a vegetarian anymore, I always use qualifiers

2008-07-18T17:41:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: Typical minus banana, probably.

Lunch

This was the same container, I just wanted to show the tomatoes under the pasta and tofu.

Snack: Banana

Boozin': A Tokyo Tea (and the worst I've had so far, even worse considering the price) and a Tequila Sunrise

Dinner

Yes, that is a hot dog, I was at the club, they were selling hot dogs, I was [bleep]ing hungry, so I bought it. It was delicious.

2008-07-18T08:52:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: 9:00 or so: bacon, egg, and cream cheese sandwich on a bun that I got at the farmer's market. Ohhhh the bacon is, too. It is excellent bacon. I made it before I went to work and it took little to no time, and was extremely cheap. Don't know why I buy breakfast most days.

Lunch was leftover subway. Since they do the 12" sammy for $5, I had a 6" sub left. I don't count this as eating out...

Dinner: I made beans and rice. I forgot to take a picture until it was almost gone. I make fantastic beans and rice, and it's easily one of the healthiest things you can eat and also the cheapest. Mine always turns out different, but in addition to the black beans and rice in this batch there is also cilantro, tomatoes, and peppers from my "garden" :) and also red onion, cumin, salt and pepper. I eat it with low fat sour cream. My sister and mom came over to meet my dog (see 17 bottles :), and so even though I made a ton, it's all gone now. I'll make more tonight to bring for lunch this next week!

Bounce Back!

2008-07-17T22:30:00.001-07:00

Breakfast: 7am

No banana today, instead, a glass of orange juice. I also only had one creamer in my coffee, it wasn't half bad.

Lunch: 11:30am

This is the same container, but I had the tofu first, then I had cherry tomatoes with feta mixed with a cous cous salad.

Snack: 3pm

I had about 5 strawberries at an ice cream social for a new employee network at work.

Snack: 5pm

I had a piece of string cheese

Snack: 7:30

On the way back from my workout, I stumbled across some fresh escargot on the sidewalk.

Dinner: 9pm

At the happy hour, I had some of these nachos and a piece of this quesadilla. I picked off the chicken.

Snack/Late Night: 10:30pm

I had two cups of orange juice.

Home Sick

2008-07-16T22:08:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: 9-10am

Some orange juice [not pictured] and scrambled eggs and potatoes from Whole Foods, after my doctor appointment. I also had some of that immunity stuff and then went to bed.

Mid-Day Eating: 2 or 3pm

I got up and had more immunity stuff, more orange juice, and this muffin that the apartment people gave me earlier in the day.

Evening Eating: 10pm

I had my standard breakfast food with a piece of string cheese and an extra piece of bread to make a sandwich. I also had more orange juice before going to bed for the evening. I was nervous that I wouldn't feel better the next day, but thankfully, I did.

I'm doing something new

2008-07-16T21:12:00.000-07:00

And I need you guys to badger me. I NEED to start cooking because 1) I'm a good cook and 2) I eat every meal out and this needs to stop because I'm letting money flow through my fingers like water. So. I am striving to prepare 12 meals a week. This would be a huge improvement over now, where I prepare 0 meals a week. Ha. No, wait. That's not funny. Plus I have this kickass windowsill garden where I have access to fresh herbs, tomatoes, stawberries, and such. I have no excuses!

Be mean. Or stern. Or whatever. I just need to be better about my food.

I will attempt to be reporting this daily!!

2008-07-15T23:06:00.001-07:00

Breakfast: 8 or something

Lunch: 11:15

I had about half of this salad and the circled bit of the flat bread. I meant to have the rest for a snack later, but then I left the box somewhere in the cafeteria. Did I mention that I was kind of out of it today? I was.

Snack: 3pm

A friend gave me two of these bars because he ordered a bunch and he was sick of them. It was pretty good. Nutrition Information Here.

Snack: 6pm

I needed some food before working out

Dinner: 8:30

I had some sockeye salmon and green beans (cooked from frozen, not canned). I was eating the fruit, which contained raspberries as well, up until about 11:30. When I bake things, I put a sheet of aluminum foil on a baking sheet, and all of the salmon skin stuck to the aluminum foil, so I threw it away.

2008-07-14T23:03:00.000-07:00

Erica's food, 7/14/08.

Breakfast: Carnation Instant Breakfast, plain bagel + cream cheese.

Lunch: Left over Chinese, bean curd homestyle. Basically it was tofu stir fried with mini corn, snap peas, onion, green pepper, broccoli, and brown sauce. I mix it with rice. Diet Pepsi Max.

Dinner: More left over Chinese. I love that they give you so much food you can make it into 3 or 4 meals. Milk.

Snack: A handful of jalapeño Cheetos. This is a major weakness of mine.

Damn, now I'm hungry again.

Sorta More Normal

2008-07-14T22:52:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: 7:30 or something

Lunch: 11 or maybe noon

I had three quarters of this pizza and about a third of this salad for lunch.

Snack: 3pm
Remainder of lunch

Dinner/Grazing: 8:30-9:30, I went to a Unitarian meeting tonight, so food was a little weird.

Fresh tomatoes from the host's parents' garden

A Mexican soda

I had about 5 of these, and a couple of apple slices with salt on them. I saw another person do that with the apples, tried it, and found it most satisfactory.

I had a cupcake at the end of the night.

I don't really remember everything I had

2008-07-13T22:37:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: not really sure

Eating: 12-3 or 4

A double flavored latte, not pictured
Some heirloom tomatoes, not pictured
They actually had my favorite quesadilla at Whole Foods, smoked mozzarella with spinach. It looks rather greasy, probably not very good for me.
Three boiled egg whites, not pictured

Dinner: I literally cannot remember what I ate. It might have been some sherbet or something?

And on the weekends

2008-07-12T22:30:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: 7:30

After this, I went to bed and slept until about 2pm. Then I got up and worked out. I then went to run an errand and got some ice cream.

Snack/Grazing: 4-8

I got a child-size scoop from Baskin Robbins and took it home to photograph it.

I had some heirloom tomatoes that I didn't photograph.

Some sherbet.

I had a plum before I went out. I am not sure I have a photo.

When I was out, I had a Tokyo tea, a tequila sunrise, and a tequila shot, then I danced for 1-2 hours. When I got home, I had a bunch of cheese and water to prevent a hangover. Not very good, I need to learn what to eat after drinking.

2008-07-12T19:47:00.000-07:00

Erica's food, 7/12/08, no pics.

Breakfast: Diet Pepsi Max.

Lunch: At some point I emerged from Knights of the Old Republic II to realize that I was starving to death, and microwaved 2 burritos.

Dinner: Mashed potatoes, teriyaki salmon, tilapia and a beer. The Hyvee sells these little frozen fillets for $1 each and they're pretty good.

Today was terrible, I know. The explanation is that I played video games all day and probably wouldn't even have eaten dinner had Justin not made it and set it in front of me.

No, I haven't forgotten

2008-07-12T16:58:00.000-07:00

I just got really busy the last few days, and I'm still busy. I'm taking pictures, yes, just don't have time to post right now.

2008-07-11T21:33:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: 7:30ish

A Hot Pocket, I know, not good, I know, I know, I know.

Lunch: Noonish
[no pic avaialble]
Spinach and romaine salad with egg whites, cherry tomatoes, and honey poppyseed dressing. Could it be that eating this healthy food made me feel better during the afternoon? I think so

Dinner/Grazing: 5 or 6 until like 9 or something

Sandwich purchased as mid-afternoon snack, with mustard, a slice of cheese, roasted red peppers, lettice, and some tuna salad.

I saw a woman had this juice when I made my Whole Foods run and needed it instantly.

Shrimps

The strawberries are no longer in season, but the heirloom tomatoes are, and just in time for me to want to eat little tomatoes again.

And to finish off the night with some olives.

No commentary unless necessary for understanding

2008-07-10T19:11:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: 7-8am

Lunch: Noonish

Snack: 4pm

Evening Consumables: 7-11pm

Pizza

Talus Pinot Noir

A slice of this pizza

A zinfendel (much better than the pinot noir)

Some gelato

I'm more of a grazer...

2008-07-10T09:43:00.000-07:00

...so my posts might be annoying to try to follow because there are so many pictures. I tried to make the pictures as small as possible. Anywho, here it is:

Breakfast: 5:45 a.m. Days that I run in the morning I have a Cliff Bar or something like that (for a while I drank "Boost") because it's enough calories to sustain me on my run, and also has protein/fiber/other healthy stuff. I just don't wake up early enough to digest much food before the run so that I don't get cramping. This seems to do the trick. I also drank some calorie-free gatorade or whatever it is before and after my run.

Lunch. 11:45 a.m. Mexican rice that I got from Whole Foods (Urs inspired me to frequent Whole Foods more, which is bad :P ). It has refried beans, black beans, rice, corn cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, onions, cilantro...and other stuff. I ate about a 4th of it or so, and had it with a diet cherry coke. Yum.

Snack. 2:00-4:00 I had one bar (there are two per serving). Really yummy. I love Kashi food products. I also had a mouthful of goldfish, and Spearmint Tazo tea with a packet of honey.

Dinner: 8:30-10:00 or so. Like I said, I'm a grazer. I had 3 stoneground Kashi crackers slathered with crab artichoke dip, three olives with a tablespoon of blue cheese crumbles, turkey chilli from whole foods (half of that container) with a tablespoon of sour cream, a piece of cornbread and a tablespoon of Beemster XO cheese (extra old). For "dessert" I had two bites of this whole foods sticky rice and Mango dish that was disappointing. In the future I will concoct my own chili and sticky rice and mango, although the chili was delightful I didn't need to pay $5 for it.

2008-07-09T21:42:00.001-07:00

Erica's food, 7/9/08, no pics.

breakfast: Carnation Instant Breakfast made with skim milk, whole wheat bagel + creamcheese.

lunch: 3 pieces of left over pizza and Hyvee diet cola. I made the pizza myself using Hyvee crust mix, Hyvee pizza sauce, cheese, and pineapples.

snack: About 1/4 of a bittersweet chocolate bar filled with hazelnuts.

dinner: I didn't really eat dinner. I had a piece of homemade whole wheat bread with butter and honey at about 5:00 and then at about 9:30 I had 3 pieces of homemade white bread with butter and a beer. And then at about 11:30 I had a plum.

2008-07-09T20:46:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: ~8am

Standard breakfast again, I cook the egg whites with olive oil.

Coffee: 9:15am

You might notice that these pics look awfly familiar. I have standard foods and I want some standard pictures too. It makes these posts a lot easier to write.

Lunch: 12:30pm

I was thinking about a spinach salad again, but I saw there was some mediterranean orzo soup and got that with some flatbread. My first picture of the soup didn't display the contents. It was a 16oz container.

Snack: 3:30pm

I forgot to bring in my cheese again, so I picked up some tofu at lunch and had another banana.

Dinner: 9:15pm

I got home late and was too tired to make anything, then I realized I wasn't really that hungry, so I had my tomatoes.

Binge: 10:30

5 pieces of this candy, a sixth of an ounce of organic dark chocolate [not pictured yet] and about a third of a left-over burrito from Denica's [no picture possible]. Why is this a binge? Why isn't it pictured? I was feeling really bad last night, really really shitty, and I had the candy first, then the chocolate, and I was crashing from the sugar, so I needed something more substancial. I went for the string cheese I have, but saw the left over burrito container and ate that instead. It wasn't enough protien to balance me out, and I still ended up taking some melatonin to get to bed. I wasn't going to post this, but I'm glad I did.

Breakfast Achieved

2008-07-08T06:48:00.000-07:00

Breakfast: 6:45

This is my standard breakfast, egg whites on whole wheat toast.

Coffee/Snack: 8-9am

I had my banana at 9 since I had breakfast so early

Lunch: 12:00pm
[no picture available]
I had the catered lunch for the training I gave a presentation at and forgot my camera. I had about a cup of spanish rice, a cup of black beans, maybe a third of a cup of salsa, and a third of a cup of guacamole, all mixed together.

Snack: 3pm

I got a spinach salad with 1-2 tablespoons of honey mustard dressing and probably about an egg worth of boiled egg whites and yolks for my snack.

Snack: 6-8pm

I had about 5 or 6 pieces of this candy I got in Chinatown

Dinner: 8:30

Pictured are some cherry tomatoes that I did not end up eating. I had halibut and some smoked mozzarella pasta salad. It is very fatty, but also very satisfying. I'm pretty sure that this meal was too big. This is a full size plate.

Back to work

2008-07-07T20:17:00.000-07:00

Since I need to diet too, I'm going to post daily for a while.

Breakfast: 9am

I didn't have any food this morning and I try not to do that, but after my long weekend, I didn't have any produce in the house and slept in a little this morning. I only realized tonight that I could have had some banana nut bread that Rock left here. I did have some coffee at work and the picture above is what I put into my coffee. My nutritionist would rather have me use two sugars and no artificial sweetener at all, but I didn't like the taste of that as much.

Lunch: 11am

Spinach salad with flatbread. The VBCA cafeteria has great flatbread. I tried to get more of the other stuff in the salad to show up. I had some grape tomatoes, boiled egg whites with some of the yolks, but mostly whites, 1-2oz of salmon, and honey mustard dressing. I went a little heavy on the dressing today. I should use the little containers instead. I also had another cup of coffee after lunch.

Snack: 3pm

Banana and organic string cheese, pretty standard too.

Dinner: 8-9pm

I started with some olives, which are counted as a fat.

Later, I had a spinach and feta salmon roll and some green beans. I realized this weekend that I could get frozen vegetables. Tonight, I realized that while I don't necessarily enjoy vegetables, I should be responsible and eat them with dinner anyway. I think this project can help make me more of a grown-up with my dinners. I made two servings of beans. I finished my plate, but was very full at the end. The beans were very filling, so next time, I will go with a smaller protein item.

Ooops, forgot dinner, and all the wine

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Breakfast: 9am

Typical breakfast of whole wheat toast with egg whites, no banana today

Snack/Coffee: 11am

I got a big ol' frappachino, since I wanted something cold and caffinated. I also forgot that frappachinos weren't just "iced coffee"

Lunch: 3pm

A tomato and mozzarella salad, white wine, and some bread

Dinner: 8:30pm

Bread, just a couple slices, and some artichoke ravioli and white wine. It had a cream sauce. There were 4 large ravioli pieces. I learned from Rock that wine with food is intended to make every bite of food taste like the first bite, so I took a sip of wine between each bite. It made the meal last a really long time.

We went to 4 wineries today and I tasted at each one - 5, then 4, then 2, then 6 wine tastes.

What WE Eat [sometimes]

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Yesterday, Rock and I both only had two meals, breakfast at Denica's and dinner at Sutro's. I had coffee with some creamer, skim milk, splenda, and a sugar, we shared a cranberry white chocolate chip cookie, and each had breakfast burritos. Mine had egg beaters, potatoes, and cheese and I ate all of it, because I was hung over.

Dinner: 9pm

Bread with some butter - I had this piece with dinner, and another piece before, not pictured. You may notice the inspiration for this blog on my Blackberry.

Heirloom Tomato Salad - with watercress, feta, and two amazing croutons.

Swordfish over potatoes, capers, and leeks with a Pinot Noir. Delicious!

And for desert, we ordered the cheese plate, with a brie, a sheep's milk, and a goat's milk cheese.