Day 15 of my "diet." Here's my food log, weight, exercise, and thoughts.
pre-exercise: about 1/9th serving of housemate's smoothie.
breakfast, 10 am: 1 lb strawberries and homemade soy yogurt.
lunch, noon: carrots (1 lb), and sugar snap peas (1/2 lb), 1/2 small cantaloupe
snack, 2:30 pm (hungry): the other half of the cantaloupe
dinner, 7 pm: cooked veggies over lettuce. the veggies were broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, onions, seed mixture, a little apple vinegar. also had some bites of guacamole that I made for housemate.
nibbled on veggies during tomorrow's food prep.
Nutritional information:
Calories: 1375; protein 65 g; fiber 82 g.
Weight: 127.6
Exercise: swam 1 mile.
Thoughts/notes:
- I am considering revolt. I spent too much time with food prep and cleanup tonight and didn't have time for 3 other things I wanted to do, and I'm irritated. Actually it would have been fine if I hadn't have followed tonight's dinner prep and meal with tomorrow's food prep and cleanup. So I think I'm done with preparing tomorrow's meals ahead of time. Tomorrow will be same as usual since I did the food prep already. I already planned to make Wednesday "wing it" day because I will get home late tomorrow. I'm going to make every day wing-it day. stay tuned.
6 comments:
I love the "wing-it day" idea and wish I could make it work for me.
I know all about getting irritated with food prep. This is one reason I find soups to be so handy. They freeze very well and warm up easily. Add a slaw or salad and voila, it's dinner.
Nevertheless, I always seem to spend too much time in the kitchen. This summer I work on simplifying, and I will watch you do the same.
Yikes... revolt.... How much time are you spending on food prep? What is taking so long?
sorry, I got a little cranky. It was the combination of doing 2 days worth of food prep in one evening and not planning for it. :)
Holly, good idea on the soups. This time of year, I lose interest but should get back to it and expand my repertoire in the fall. in the meantime, I should expand my salad repertoire. :)
Barb, do you ever consider prepared food to give yourself a little vacation. Like precut fruit bowls, prewashed baby kales etc. from the deli (if your natural store has that). I think you could even request an order in some stores as if you are having a party (and nutritarian eating requires enough produce for a whole party!) I will buy the precut fruit at Whole Foods even though my heart skips a beat at the price but I know my kids will eat every bite and I am not paying for stems, peels etc. I just think of Whole Foods as a really inexpensive personal chef.
good idea Shanna, I will pay more attention to the prepared veggies and fruit. Our co-op doesn't have as much but the Whole Foods store isn't that far from where i work. I should keep that in mind for quick meals too.
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