Breakfast: 7:30ish

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

Lunch: Noonish
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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

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...

...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.

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.

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

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
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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

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

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.