Everything Eaten Yesterday

I've been fighting the soy-craze battle for as long as I've been posting on line. There are some soy things I LOVE, but I am extremely cautious about having them - mebbe 5 - 10 times a year. I've been vigilant about checking labels for soy-products since about 1978 when I first learned about some of the study results in an epidemiology course.

That's a great site. Thanks!

Found this one, and I remember faintly a few other soy news posts.

http://able2know.org/topic/118944-1

B: grapefruit, coffee, toast
L: Fruit Salad
D: Steak and eggs, bit of cheese, olives

180/184.8/-15.3
fifteen pounds in six months

b coffee - peanut butter toast with honey

l- red beans and rice with sausage

s- 3 or 4 little cooking chocolate chips, but nothing else really. Red beans and rice is heavy

d- really late dinner too! steamed radish, steamed acorn squash and a small piece of steak

margarita

no real exercise.. a tad bit of hooping, cleaning.. the usual



Speaking of hooping-
my friend, my instructor ... can be found on you tube

Here she is, in a 'tame ' hooping session
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6NyWqkijk

I say tame meaning what she is doing is relatively simple in that it isnt a very fast very constant movement..

sticky bun from Flour Bakery in Boston -- soooooo good and soooooo bad

Cuban-style pork burrito

clementine apple banana
granola bar

wine
turkey sausage & bok choy stir-fry
rice

slice of cake

27/173.6/+0.6

You're welcome -- I'm on there with the same userid as I am here.

Yesterday:
Breakfast: 2 Instant Oatmeal packets
Fish Oil Capsule

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

Dinner: Pasta, cooked, 8 oz
Skim Milk, 1 cup
Primavera (1 c. mixed vegs w/light tomato sauce), 1 serving
14 oz mixed greens salad
Guacamole, 1 serving

Snack: Fruit Salad, 1 cup
Stonyfield Farm Fat Free lemon, 6 oz
Oranges, 1 small

CALORIES 1764 CARBS 301 g FAT 33 PROTEIN 57 g Sodium 2117 mg

Carbs were a bit too high.

I spent my last shopping trip reading labels of things I normally dont buy ...and reading labels of things I do buy. It is scary.. how saturated things are with soy.
Soy bean oil, soy lectin , soy isoflavones.. ( cant spell the words.. but you know which ones I am talking about)

And the odd thing..
Might be a case of TMI for some.. so fair warning

When I eat a lot of soy, I feel a difference in my menstrual cycle. No joke.
In the last two months when I was literally keeping a bowl of edemame beans on the table for snacks, they were .. harder.. or non existent. I have always been aware of the estrogen properties of soy... but .. I always thought that it wasnt enough to make a difference, or that it only made a difference in post menopausal women. That thought process has been blown out of the water now that I am really paying attention to what I eat. Now I have a nagging sinking in my gut because I raised Jillian on soy.

It is scary.. the amounts of bad things that are in "good food"

I just learned yesterday that HFCS has tested positive for Mercury.
Mercury and other heavy metals ( found in water, deodorants, vaccines, and a bunch of other things) are what is prominent in brain scans of elderly people with dementia, Alzheimers and other brain deteriorating diseases.

I could go on and on.. but I wont..

Tuesday
B: plain ff yogurt & banana, hb egg white
L: turkey, mustard greens, zucchini
S: mini bag of 94% ff popcorn, carrots & celery
D: leftover quinoa & beans, ff cottage cheese
S: pear
E: 30 min elliptical

Wednesday
B: shredded wheat, skim milk, banana, hb egg white
L: leftover quinoa & beans, carrots & celery
S: mini bag of 94% ff popcorn
D: smothered chicken & barley, broccoli, ff cottage cheese
E: day of rest

days 174 & 175/173.2 lbs/+0.6

Yesterday:
Breakfast: 2 Instant Oatmeal packets
Walnuts, 0.5 oz (7 halves)

Lunch: Baked Potato, with skin, 1 large
Chicken Breast, no skin, 4 ounces
Parmesan Cheese, grated, 1 tbsp
Broccoli, fresh, 1 cup
Carrots, raw, 1 cup

Dinner: Pasta, cooked, 8 oz
Skim Milk, 1 cup
Primavera (1 c. mixed vegs w/light tomato sauce), 1 serving
14 oz mixed greens salad
Guacamole, 1 serving

Snack: Fruit Salad, 1 cup
Stonyfield Farm Fat Free Key Lime, 6 oz

CALORIES 1769 CARBS 300 g FAT 28 g PROTEIN 89 g Sodium 1686

Another day with heightened carbs; I get this whenever we have a pasta week.

b: the usual
L: tuna salad
D: Chicken thigh and leg, steamed broccoli, bit of cheese
181/185.2/-14.9

i ahd pork chops, rice and ground beef, rice and ground beef, 4 bowls of lucky charms (woot)

like 25 cups of green tea.

this is over last 3 days.

b- eggs 2 and some irish oatmeal with honey.

lunch- asters ethopian restaurant. WOW that place was good.
steamed cabbage, carrots and other things in a really nice light oil. Beef, lentils, collards, some really sour very good thin bread, and other things I can not pronounce , nor do I really know what they were.. but it was all really good and extremely light. Which I was surprised.

D- about 1.2 of a butternut squash and 3 or 4 steamed radishes

No snacks or nothing else for the day. Lunch was really big and I ate at 1:30 so i was not hungry for the rest of the day.

bao

jelly doughnut stick (someone brought doughnuts in to work)

turkey mole burrito

apple
clementine
granola bar

chicken pot pie
fresh fruit salad

28/173.6/+0.6

Thursday
B: shredded wheat, skim milk, banana, hb egg white
L: leftover smothered chicken & barley, ff cottage cheese
S: 1/2 a small bag of movie popcorn (saw Last Chance Harvey)
D: sauteed cabbage & carrots
S: apple
E: 35 min elliptical, 30 min bike, weights

days 176/173.2 lbs/+0.6

do those letters mean
breakfast
lunch
supper
dinner
?
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oh snack exercise?

methinkz?

Should be, I'd say.

Yesterday:
Breakfast: Fish Oil Capsule
2 Instant Oatmeal packets

Lunch: Sensible Foods Soy Nuts, 1 serving
Dr. McDougall's Black Bean w/Lime, 1 serving

Dinner: Pasta, cooked, 8 oz
Skim Milk, 1 cup 90
Primavera (1 c. mixed vegs w/light tomato sauce), 1 serving
14 oz mixed greens salad
Guacamole, 1 serving

Snack: Fruit Salad, 1 cup
Stonyfield Farm Fat Free Key Lime, 6 oz
Apples, fresh, 1 medium

CALORIES 1787 CARBS 302 g FAT 31 g PROTEIN 66 g Sodium 2003 mg

Carbs were a lil high again.

Yup.
Letters, for those of us, like me, who are too, too busy to actually type out B R E A K F A S T.

um
Yesterday was weird:
B: grapefruit, coffee, toast (Okay)
L: the rest of the tuna salad and a big BAGEL (hmm)
S: The guy around the corner brought pizza from his new restaurant for us to sample. It was awful. Very bready and loaded with Olive Oil and sage(?)... so I only had THREE pieces. (gah)
D: two slices of turkey, some olives and a little cheese.

182/185.5/-13.6 there's a pound up from last week...watching it today and tomorrow and Super Bowl Sunday.

I saw a list of 50 calorie snacks... tablespoon low fat Feta wrapped in endive leaf. That would be an unexpected Super Bowl Sunday offering, Joe. Others might be tearing the place apart looking for the wings and skins as you munch, though.

I've been so sick this week that I had a couple of 400-500 calorie days followed by a 900 calorie day followed by a 1000 calorie day. Would rather have been eating, but I did get a glimpse of 177.

Yesterday: banana, salad, 100 calorie chocolate covered pretzels (ouch! My throat!), 6 slices deli fresh shaved ham, 100 calorie cheese nips, another salad, 3 hot wings (Ouch! My throat!).

Day 26/178.2/-13.0 for the month.