Here’s my first food blog: this should be interesting. I have a feeling I will be surprised how much I eat or how inconsistent I am with meals when I see it visually. I have been trying to following the Flat Belly Diet by Prevention Magazine with my mom and sister while at home in NM. My mom has lost 12 pounds already. I managed to gain weigh at home actually, but I think this blog will shed light on that. It’s a realistic way of eating, modeled on the Mediterranean Diet and focuses on eating four times a day, balancing meals with MUFA fats, avoiding trans fats that cause heart disease and excess abdominal fat, and avoiding processed sugar, which increases likelihood for diabetes. Both of these I was told by my doctor I run a high risk of, and need to lower my BMI. I never thought I’d see the day! Here goes…
Wed PM snack:
made cranberry & nut oatmeal cookies out of FBD book, but had to add extra sugar oil and flour to make them more doughy, and they were still more like granola bars than cookies.
ate about 3 of them at apx. 200 cal each! whoops
Elizabeth made homemade whole-grain, low-sugar banana bread. It was pretty dense. Didn't have any till Thurs
Wed PM dinner:
last of Mom's wonderful cooking on the plan: sauteed cabbage and apples with rice and pork (which I did not have). I added pumpkin seeds.
Wed PM snack:
TJ's 70% cacao bar - the best! I wish we had one in Columbia. shared with my fam, but yesterday I ate a whole one myself!
Thurs AM breakfast:
one or two cran-nut "cookies" from last night, 1.5 cups nonfat milk, coffee
bowl of blackberries
Thurs AM snack/lunch:
1 slice homemade banana bread with 1Tbs pb & 1/2 mashed banana, tea w/mint and stevia
finished product - not too bad. tastes good! (I already ate the other half) great fuel for my hike/run. maybe a little on the heavy side.
Thurs PM snack:
grabbed 6-8 olives and a tomato from mom's garden as I left for the airport
1.5 cans Ginger Ale on the plane(s): the only time I can drink pop; settles my stomach.
Thurs PM dinner:
frozen yogurt w/ chocolate chips in the airport: expensive, but one of the only things I can eat while flying
