Foodie Blog day 4

Posted on August 8, 2011 by rkrumel

Sun AM breakfast:

1/3 cup Bear Naked granola, lowfat yogurt, strawberries, coffee, 2 Tbs pecans (MUFA)

last day in the big house, so eat up! Let’s see if I can keep on track today…

Sun PM lunch:

3 slices Gouda, grapes, mini crackers

This many crackers, cuke and tomatoes, plus 8-10 olives, not pictured (MUFA)

Sun PM snack:

I bought icecream bars after work at Cycle Center. It was so hot today it melted in my 2 min drive back home! I lost half of it holding it out the window...

So I had another one as soon as I got home...yeah 140 cal each

had 3 or 4 dark chocolates for good measure to complete my MUFA requirement along with the icecream. right.

Sunday PM dinner:

salad with 1 tomato, 10 olives (MUFA), reduced fat feta cheese, olive oil (MUFA) and balsamic vinegar, 1 brown roll (already half eaten here)

big blueberries for dessert

and a few more dark chocolates and Good Earth tea

The best part about my favorite tea, the saying: "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." -Booker T. Washington

So not bad… I think I’m beginning to see a trend of eating sweets in place of real food/protein. I need to find some non-animal protein I like.

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Foodie Blog day 3

Posted on August 7, 2011 by rkrumel

Sat AM breakfast:

: 1/2 cup granola, lowfat milk, 2 Tbs nuts(MUFA), green tea

detox from all the sugar yesterday. still house sitting and living the “high life”

: was going to make pbj for lunch but couldn’t find any bread, but I still had a spoonful of cran-strawberry preserves instead.

Sat AM/PM snack:

: grapes, 2 frozen go-gurt, 1 granola square, didn’t eat the cheese.

: 2 tbs pecans for MUFA

Sat Pm lunch:

: fried tortilla chips (lost count) w/ half that guacamole (MUFA) and salsa

The guys at the shop ordered take-out Mexican; I just wanted guac. Next time a bean soft taco w/avocado would be better for me.

Sat PM snack:

: two more pieces almond coffee cake. That stuff is dangerous! can’t keep it in the house!

Sat PM dinner:

: sorbet and frozen yogurt w/fruit: social eating for a friend’s bday. didn’t really want any more sweets.

Sat PM snack again??:

: 2 granola thin things, Tbs pb (MUFA). I think I really just needed protein…

Sat PM late night: enjoying the house I’m sitting at. They said I could eat/drink whatever. If you saw what kind of liquor/wine/beer storehouse they had, you would be proud of my restraint too!

: blender full of: 1 shot each rum, kahlua, chocolate syrup, milk, coffee, ice

: kahlua went into my concoction

: finished product. It was good, but I had been on such a sweets overlaod all day I couldn’t finish half of it.

: oh ya, I had some more nuts (MUFA, right?) too, and chocolate, below…

: 3 hershey’s kisses

Then I got to skinny dip in their pool (it was only me in the house and the yard is surrounded by trees) and watch movies till 3am! Be jealous!

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Alright, so not a model day. Can you blame me? But I decided to stick with it and show everything I ate. it’s a real rude awakening! You should try it, if you’re like me you can’t figure out why you gain weight. While I don’t eat like this everyday, it shows I do need to get some more veg/protein instead of all the sweets.

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Foodie Blog day 2

Posted on August 5, 2011 by rkrumel

Fri AM: breakfast

Back to the student life. what I had in my fridge: two eggs, 10 olives, dark roll, ketchup, light cheese stick

Fri AM snack/lunch:

chili-dried mango from TJ's, orange, 2 Tbs sunflower seeds

Kashi granola bar at work

Fri PM snack:

This sweet lady from my church decided to bless someone with a coffee cake/gift basket: me. sweet!

5-6 hersheys kisses from the gift basket

Fri PM snack w/the kids I babysit:

1/4 cup nuts, 1 cup light yogurt w/ 1/4 cup granola, 1/2 banana

5-6 mini vanilla wafers: one of the only things their baby will eat; only I didn't need to eat them too! was I really hungry?? 320 empty calories.

My roommate and I dug into the almond coffee cake. My sweet tooth got the better of me and I could hardly stop. It was so good - but again, empty calories.

Fri PM dinner: house sitting and living the “high life” this weekend!

3-4 slices Gouda, some cheese toasts, hummus

big salad with champagne vinagrette and olives. yum. really full now.

lots of strawberries, chocolate syrup for dessert

green tea, really didn't have any honey; "sweeted-out" from earlier

I got really blessed today with surprise coffee cake and babysitting and house/dog sitting jobs, but I tend to overindulge in sweets when I have the chance. not enough protein. Continue reading →

Foodie Blog Week day 1

Posted on August 5, 2011 by rkrumel

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.