Everything Eaten Yesterday

Sunday

B: oatmeal custard, banana

S: movie popcorn (about half of a Small)

D: quinoa & black beans, cantaloupe, cottage cheese

S: apple

63/175.6/+3

not much of anything really (she says with mouth full of nutella)

Breakfast
Coffee with milk
Grapefruit
Toast

Lunch
Ham turkey roast beef
tomato
Fig Neutons
Diet Coke

Snack
Earl Grey Tea

Dinner
Salmon
Green beans
Big salad
Huge piece of bread
Wine

68/188.9/-11.2

Joe(i'm on some kind of plateau )Nation

Yesterday:
Breakfast: 2 instant oatmeal packets
Fish Oil Capsule

Lunch: Sensible Foods Soy Nuts, 1 serving
Dr. McDougall's Vegan Curry, 1 serving

Dinner: 14 oz mixed greens salad
4 oz skinless fried chicken
Skim Milk, 1 cup
Mixed vegs, cooked, 1 cup
Baked Potato, with skin, 1 large (3" to 4-1/4" dia.)

Snack: 1 c mixed fruit
Stonyfield Farm Fat Free Key Lime, 6 oz

CALORIES 1814 CARBS 296 g FAT 37 g PROTEIN 61 g Sodium 2262 mg Calories were a lil high but not bad.

black coffee
Grapenuts
soy milk
nectarine
2 flax oil capsules
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Amy's bean & rice burrito
raw carrots w/ a dab of Marie's blue cheese vinagarette
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banana
snack container of soy choc. pudding
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angel hair with pasta sauce & parm cheese

then...had made a new type of rice for Wally, and had maybe half a serving of that.

1/2 gallon fluids....green tea, water with squeeze of lime juice.

coffee x 2 (no sugar but splash choc milk in each)

multigrain toast (1) with braunschweiger schmear

wedge of feta (now I'll get around to explaining wedge - 1/2" or less in width, 3 " long, 1 - 1/2" high)

2 baked pork ribs, thawed and micro'd

big bowl of minestrone --
which had in it, besides a lot of water, a sauteed onion and carrot and celery stalk, can of fire roasted tomatoes and juice, cannellini beans, one red potato peeled and diced, one half a sweet potato peeled and diced, broken spaghettini pieces, some leftover turkey sausage bits, most of a bunch of fresh spinach, two fat tablespoons parsley pesto. Plenty left over.

Lots of water

2 sauvignon blancs on ice with squeeze of orange

Monday

B: shredded wheat w/skim milk, banana, hb egg

L: leftover quinoa & black beans, grapes

S: mini bag of 94% ff microwave popcorn, carrots, 1/4 cup of trail mix that the gym was handing out (dumb...)

D: whole wheat couscous salad, cantaloupe, cottage cheese

E: 30 min elliptical, 15 min bike, weight circuit

64/176.4/+3.8

I've never had quinoa....sounds like something I should try.

It's great! It has an interesting texture. But like rice or other grains, it doesn't have a lot of flavor, so you need to cook it in broth &/or onion, etc.

Also, be sure to rinse it really well, even if it says it's "pre-rinsed." The grain has a coating that apparently tastes soapy if it isn't rinsed off.

Here's the recipe I use:

Quinoa and Black Beans

1 tsp. canola oil
1 onion chopped
3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
3/4 cup uncooked quinoa (rinsed)
1 1/2 cups chicken or beef broth
1 tsp. ground cumin
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
salt and pepper to taste
1 cup frozen corn kernels (optional)
2 cans (15 oz.) black beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 cup fresh chopped cilantro (I substitute parsley)

Heat the oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the onion and garlic, and saute until slightly browned.
Rinse quinoa with cold water (Use a fine sieve). Mix quinoa into the saucepan and cover with broth.
Season with cumin, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper. Bring the mixture to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 20 minutes.
Stir frozen corn into saucepan, and continue to simmer about 5 minutes until heated through. Mix in the black beans and cilantro.

Thanks mac...I'll be trying some pretty soon.

I just read a few sources on quinoa, and it's very unusual in that it has all 8 (or is it 9) essential amino acids, so it's a complete protein.

Wow.

Right - I forgot to say that about it being a complete protein. And if you can buy it in the bulk bins somewhere (I've bought it at Whole Foods & Central Market) - it's not expensive.

hmmm....one thing I saw that I didn't care for....

Seems that Quinoa is really high on the scale of what are considered inflamatory foods.

I'd gone back to have some more rolfing done on my legs (long story about my calves, I won't bore you), but one thing my rolfer said was that the nerves in my legs felt inflamed. She knows I drink a good amount of fluids, but over the years stress, improper body use, can make your nerves "sticky" for lack of a better word, and they don't move properly over my muscles. When they get inflamed like that, even if you drink a lot of fluids, the nerves can't absorb the H2O very well.

So, I'm trying to eat things that are more alkaline, according to a chart I was looking at giving the various alkaline/acid compositon of foods. The idea is your body is better when your PH is slightly alkaline.

Maybe I just need a pool boy to measure my PH daily.

I haven't studied it much, but I'm finding conflicting information. For instance, they tell you to stay away from foods in the nightshade family, i.e. tomato, potato because they are very inflamatory. However, on the alkaline/acid chart, they are quite alkaline. Maybe I'm making the wrong connection between the inflamation/alkaline/acid thing....I better study up.

The pool boy sounds like a fine idea.

Interesting info about inflammatory foods. Sounds like a good idea for a new thread...

Point taken....

Grapenuts & soymilk
white grapes
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cottage cheese & tomato
2 slices pumpernickle bread
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soy corndog....don't knock 'em if you haven't tried 'em, they're really good. morning star farms.

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12 inch Subway tuna sub with all the veggies.

oh....plus 2 flax oil caps and 6 glasses fluids, herb tea, green tea.

chai, is there a link to the alkaline/acid chart?

Tuesday

B: shredded wheat w/skim milk, banana, hb egg

L: whole wheat couscous salad, grapes

S: mini bag of 94% ff microwave popcorn, carrots & celery

D: rotisserie chicken, broccoli, cottage cheese

S: air popped popcorn w/evoo

E: 30 min elliptical, 30 min bike

65/176.4/+3.8

coffee with splash of l/f milk x 2

slice of apple torte (made a while ago - "torta di mele" - and frozen in packets)

homemade burrito, batch made and frozen a while ago too - brown rice, black beans, couple of spoonfuls of pork adobo, raw onions, sprinkle of cheese, tortilla wrap, baked

bowl of minestrone, described recently

baaaaaad - bunch of kettle chips with pepper - I can never ever buy them again.
I don't buy chips or ice cream that often, something like once every five or six months, if that, but when I do, I sin sin sin.

c. white wine on ice x 2

pellegrino/ice

OK, getting back on the wagon...

bagel with cream cheese (start the day off wrong!)
heel of oat-nut bread

lean roast beef sandwich on oat-nut (that's better)

crunchy granola bar (not that great a choice)
2 clementines (much better)

small container of o.j.
small container of apple juice
(scavenging after a morning meeting)

2 turkey sausages (pretty good)
baby bok choy
boiled white rice

some potato chips (totally unnecessary)

65/169.8/-1.8

I'm shooting for 165.

I ate everything yesterday. I'm shooting for oblivion.