6:30pm - Dinner: quiche with eggs, ricotta and kale
8:30pm - Snack: cashews
Had a nasty headache for most of the day - I’m sure it’s some sort of starchy carb withdrawal. Ugh.
Being in Wisconsin last week, and also reading the book “In Defense of Food” has had me thinking a lot about food, nutrition, etc. the last week or so. First, I feel very lucky to be in Los Angeles and have access to all the food that we do - the farmer’s markets, the quality grocery stores, and so on. Most people don’t have that!
Where my parents live, it’s a good hour drive to a decent large grocery store. And “fresh” has a whole different meaning in a cold climate than it does to us here. “Fresh” for them means it was driven up from Georgia or Florida. Eating Paleo or eating Zone becomes a whole different challenge living somewhere like that.
So, my nutrition goals for now are to be back in the Zone strictly again, but also to make a very concerted effort to eat whole foods and to eat a large variety of foods to make sure I’m getting all sorts of nutrients.
Okay, needless to say ravioli at my grandparents was NOT in the Zone.
Starting Sunday I am going to be back doing Zone-like eating—I would do it before then, but I don’t have time to grocery shop and there’s nothing in my fridge right now! I may mess with things a little bit though, as far as the Zone. Been doing a lot of reading about food/nutrition lately, and I think the Zone tends to make me too confined in my eating and I need more variety to be healthy, so, we’ll see..maybe I just need to put more effort into it and it’s not really the Zone’s fault at all! lol!
I definitely recommend the book “In Defense of Food” for some interesting reading on modern food.
4:00pm - 1 Newman’s Own Oreo-type Cookie
(I made the mistake of walking past the sample table - not sure when I last ate an Oreo. Long time ago! It was gooooood!)
9:30pm - 4 block dinner
scrambled eggs, green beans, walnuts
7:20pm - 3 block meal
handful of walnuts, 3 scrambled eggs, green beans
Yay, not so hectic today and made my new favorite salad again for lunch! I’m glad I’m getting more veggies in at lunch time. My strawberries and ricotta were awesome, but I think it’s more well rounded to be getting the greens in every day. The Co-Op was out of the salami lately, hence the glut of cheese. But I picked up some more tonight, so I’ll be back on track getting more meat in the diet.
I know I bought a chicken salad for lunch and forgot to eat it…so I think the rest of the afternoon went something like this:
1:00pm ish - 2 block snack
2oz cheese, 1 apple
4:00pm ish - 2 block snack
2oz cheese, 1 apple
Dinner was a bag of trail mix from 7-11. Too tired to cook again and fell asleep at 7pm.
Saturday 1/12
8:00am -
2oz cheese, 1 apple
10:00am
1oz cheese, some of Cill’s cashews
1:00pm - Lunch with Val at CPK
Chicken Waldorf Salad (this was pretty yummy)
5:00pm - small bag of cashews
9:00pm - dinner at Lal Mirch (Went out for Indian food)
Chicken Coconut Curry
Rice
Naan
In the past, I’ve actually eaten really cleanly and pretty “Zone” at Indian restaurants by eating the tandoori chicken and avoiding the bread and rice, but I hadn’t eaten Indian food in a while and really wanted curry.
Sunday 1/13
Breakfast -
Omelet with mozzarella, zucchini, chicken sausage
Side of fresh fruit
Lunch -
Menchi’s
We needed to test if it has the same healing properties as Pinkberry. This was a purely scientific venture. (http://www.menchiesyogurt.com/)
9:15pm - 3 block dinner
3 cups sauerkraut, 3 low fat beef hot dogs, 9 walnuts (for dessert - not in with the sauerkraut!)
Notes: I imagine this doesn’t happen to most people, but periodically I actually have sauerkraut cravings. It’s like some sort of strange comfort food, since I grew up eating it, I think. For “sausage” I cut up a few Hebrew National low fat dogs and put them in - not nearly as yummy as my mom’s but definitely more zone friendly.
Gonna have to cool it on the think thin/balance bars - they’re full of junk and I need to get off the “candy bars.”
7:30pm - 3 block meal
appetizer: 3 tbsp walnuts
first course: 3 cups green beans
main course: 3 scrambled eggs
Notes: I don’t normally like to do the Zone Bar thing, but the day got hectic and it was easier than trying to eat celery and almond butter while driving. I’m really pleased with my new lunch salad though - I’ll be eating that for a while.
I don’t normally log my weekend food since I’m not “Zoning” on weekends, but I thought I might actually start, in order to make sure I’m doing what I SAY I’m doing on weekends, which is still eating relatively clean, but not being uber-strict. I’ve found this helps me be able to BE strict during the week and not build up crazy cravings.
1/5
8:30am - 3oz cheese, 9 cashews, forgot to eat my apple
12:30pm - Breakfast quesadilla: egg whites, cheese and spinach in a tortilla, side of mixed melon
2:40pm - 1/2 bag of movie popcorn (no butter)
6:30pm - Ate dinner out: 1/2 order of tamales for appetizer, turkey chopped salad for dinner
7:30pm - Dessert at Pinkberry (as I said, this cures injuries!): medium size with pomegranate, granola, and white chocolate chips
9:00pm - 1/4 bag of kettlekorn 1/6
12:00pm - Breakfast out: 1/2 order of tamales for appetizer, main meal was omelette with eggs, chicken sausage, mozzarella and zucchini, side of fruit
2pm - 1/4 bag of kettlekorn
4pm - Think Thin bar
5:30pm - couple cups of pineapple
7:30pm - couple cups of green grapes
10:30pm - salad from Whole Foods: lettuce with feta cheese, goji berries, walnuts and vinaigrette
