I was out most of the morning and wasn't hungry before I left, so brekky just turned into lunch. I had in mind a healthy treat: peanut butter and banana. I got a small amount of peanut butter (4 Tbsps, okay, not so small) at the co-op---freshly ground, yum! and some ripe bananas and brought that home. The peanut butter was still warm from the grinding. I ate them together. I really like this. I decided next time I want a splurge I'm hoping this kind of treat can satisfy my urge. I also had a smoothie and a pear.
Dinner was a large salad: lettuce, arugula, sorrel all chopped, 1/2 cup edamame, 1/2 orange bell pepper, a small ripe mango cut up, and some blueberry vinegar. The mango was really good. That only had about 300 calories so I was hungry later on and had an apple and half a small banana.
Total calories: 1548, protein 50 g (12%), carbs 246 g (59%), fat 51 g (29%).
2 comments:
Ah, just reading about your recent dalliances, barb, yikes! Have you figured out what prompted it? I remember you were counting calories a while back -- do you think you were cutting too many?
Hope you feel better and get back on track soon. Getting hot flashes sounds awful.
Hugs & Greens :^)
Hi Strix,
Thanks for your concern. It's embarrassing to blog about this stuff but I figure if I have to be honest about my failures as well as my successes. I think it is nostalgia that prompted me. The healthy food tastes better to me so it wasn't taste that prompted me. Last weekend I was at a banquet dinner where they served these giant pieces of chocolate pie. I think I got jealous. I don't even like those cookies I ate that much. But I wanted to splurge. I rationalized that it was okay to do that every once in a while, well not eating 10 cookies, but eating a few. At least they were fairly small cookies, ha.
Anyway, I'm back on track and very happy to be here. I feel normal when I eat healthy, and I feel crappy when I don't. I think that's another way we can go off track is that over time we forget how bad we felt when we ate the unhealthy stuff. It gives me a slight nausea that feels like anxiety. I wonder how much anxiety and depression is just poor digestion.
oh, and the hot flash is gone. It could be that I was just warm from eating more than usual?
Oh, and to answer your other question, yeah, I was wondering if I haven't been getting enough calories. So I'm going to eat more beans and other calorie dense foods. I'm going to have a bigger smoothie at breakfast.
thanks!
-barb
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