8 posts tagged “lunch”

i'm afraid i don't think i'll ever
get used to eating less. when i'm
hungry, i eat something else.
usually a good thing like
edadame or half a sweet yam
or a fruit...

but i've made my own meal plan
up. haha! it's now all the things
i like to eat. so lots of yogurt,
more fruit, veggies, hummus, more wheat
bread stuff, etc. but i've also strayed.
last night, i had a little frozen yogurt
with 10 choccie chips. (the frozen
yogurt was part of the diet, not
the choccie chips.) THEN i had
8 baked pita chips. yummy. love
those. i really crave salt often, and
this diet doesn't offer many salt options.

today thus far:

9am : 1c apple cinnamon oatmeal
with sliced starwberries. decaf coffee
made with half of it lowfat milk.

11.30am : after a one hour work out
at the gym, i had a fuji apple.

noon: two slices of wheat toast with
1Tbsp peanut butter. 2/3 banana sliced.
another Tbsp of peanut butter as dip
for a handful of baby carrots. the rest
of my decaf coffee from morning topped
of with some more milk. 8)

i told my friend doing jenny craig i
don't want to lose weight enough
to give up the food i like. i'm proud
that i've not eaten any pastry with
the exception of a slice of bday cake
in nearly two weeks. this is huge!

i'm proud that i'm eating more healthy
stuff, definitely. but i don't deny myself
a boba on the weekend or anything
else really. tho i was never the type to
overeat (so i think) on stuff like candy
or potato chips.

i'm happy my snacking habits have
changed for the better and also that
i'm not buying out 4 meals during the
week before the weekend even rolls
around. (we eat out all weekend, basically.)

happy weekend, everyone!

i wanted eggs but i was too lazy
to cook them. so i had the hot
oatmeal with some blueberries instead
at 7.30am. some coffee with it. the
oatmeal was too sweet for my taste,
as i was fantasizing about eggs with
cheese.

12pm lunch. was bad and had a sesame
bagel with cream cheese and an entire
tomato. than had a handful of baby carrots
with a dollop of hummus. i topped it off
with one navel orange. you'd think the bagel
was enough, but it was a "small" one.
and no, it wasn't enough anyway!!

we have a party in the afternoon.
we skipped the morning one because
jl was a holy horror last night and we were
all exhausted. not to mention she didn't
deserve to go to the party.
she really doesn't deserve to go to this
one, either, but it's a good friend's son.
and she'll be slightly redeemed if she takes
a good nap beforehand.

well, it was the beginning of
the end for me on friday night
when we went to have japanese. =)
tho it was my first meal out this week,
when normally, it would have been my
fifth!! not all eating out, but def buying
out. oh my!!

i tried the baby lobster dynamite
on california rolls. so i ate loads of
that and six cali rolls. much too rich
for my taste. i then shared a shrimp
tempura udon with munchkin and sweet
pea. sweet pea had noodles and munchkin
ate the shrimps! he liked the tails the best!

i thought i was stuffed, but it didn't keep
me from elevensies. or tenthirties. i had
a hand full of edadame and a kiwi. not
so bad.

today:

8.45am : 2/3 of a banana and a cup
of cantaloupe.

9.30am : half a bagel with cream cheese
and a cup of coffee at our writing meeting.
i resisted the donut holes easily as they
were cinnamon ones. 8)

12.30pm: my favorite ground pork with
pickles and rice at the taiwanese joint.
a barley milk boba!

6.30pm: chicken breast in a lemon caper
cream sauce with artichokes and white rice.
(which i asked for instead of mashed potatoes
it came with.) broccoli.

10.30pm: TWO australian licorice pieces (uh oh)
AND seven stacy's baked pita chips. i missed
this salty stuff the most, i think!

yesterday afternoon,
i had 6 wheat crackers and
a Tbsp of peanut butter as a snack.
i was allowed 8.

the bubs all ate 4 crackers, too!

dinner consisted of 1.5 c of veggie
chili. amy's medium spicy. it was
really good. i like amy's frozen stuff
and decided to try her canned foods.
was pleased with it. but i only ate about
1 1/3 of it.

1 c lemon herb cous cous. it was meant
to be just 3/4 c. then maybe about
1c of grilled asparagus bought from
the deli section of the market.

finally had some frozen yogurt
after my art class. 1/2 c with 15 choccie
chips. (my choice, doh!)

still hungry after that--i like to end
with salt, and all the fruit and yogurt
and peanut butter seem to be sweet to
me. (funny, as this is a diet to stabalize
blood sugar?) so i had 10 mini pretzels.

9am breakfast: no time to make any
french toast or eggs before the gym today.
had 1c of apple cinnamon oatmeal with
half a thick banana. a few sips of coffee
with milk.

11.30am 1 fuji apple.

12pm: sandwich on two slices of
dill rye toast. one medium tomato,
cucumber, spanich and three slices
of avocado. 1c chicken broth. 1 navel
orange.

def still full after all that at 1pm.
we'll see how long that lasts! =D

CONFESSION: i've avoided all the
salad meals. i don't like salads as a meal.
i always feel conned from it. i don't
mind it as an appetizer. i guess if it
is a good salad--but i have yet to make
a really good salad on my own.

i've also avoided the meat stuff, mainly.
there was a dinner with a beef or veggie
burger. i bought the ground meat but
didn't feel like having the burger. i very
rarely eat hamburgers. maybe once a month
at the most.

that's it for now. happy weekend to all!

i'll do this for a week.
so i won't torture you that
much longer! ;*)

maybe only through friday
as i'll probably eat "normally"
during the weekend. we have two
back to back kiddie bday parties
on sunday, so you can imagine how
healthy i'll be eating there.

last night, at 11pm, instead of frozen
yogurt (from dinner i didn't eat) or
a fruit, i opted for my one piece of
australian licorice again. dang, i just
have to have the "candy" fix!!

7.15am: 1 cup kashi apple cinnomon
oatmeal with one sliced banana.
decaf coffee made with 1/3 cup lowfat milk.

10.30am: ate a teeny tiny cup of diced
peaches in pear juice. (didn't drink the juice)

11.15am: i'm starving! haha! had 1/2 a
wheat english muffin with some butter.

1pm: 1/3c hummous with a 6 inch wheat
pita bread. one sliced medium sized tomato.
3 inches of cucumber. 5 kalamata olives.
some mesculen salad inside the pita.

1 navel orange

last night, i (amazingly) skipped
the nonfat yogurt dessert for dinner
because i was too full.

but i did eat one piece of australian
licorice again near 11pm. ha! i should
have had a kiwi but i was fruited out.

9am: two wheat french toast dipped
in one egg and 1Tbsp of butter mix.
1 Tbsp syrup and 1/3 c sliced strawberries
with blueberries. 1 coffee with 1/3c lowfat milk.

11am: 10 choccie chips and 10 almonds.

11.45am: sandwich on dill rye bread. (supposed
to be wheat.) lettuce, half a tomato, cucumber,
1 slice of provolone cheese, and two slices of avocado.

1c chicken broth.

1 navel orange.

last night i ate a kiwi around
10pm. and i liked it! i think
one of the most surprising things
is discovering new foods i've
never considered before, cause
i'm an old stick in the mud.

then, after much heeing and hawing,
i ate one piece of red australian licorice.
it is exactly thumb size, if you haven't
had it, and so chewy and fruity! way better
than red vines!

7.30am breakfast. kashi's cinnomon
apple oatmeal. i ate it with half a banana
and a cup of coffee made from 1/3 c lowfat
milk. again, LOVED the oatmeal! what
a surprise. and it's supposed to be really
good for you, too.

11.45am lunch. napped in the morning with
bubs and totally missed snack time. oops!
it was supposed to be cheese i don't have anyway.

lunch was two slices of wheat toast with
1 Tbsp of peanut butter and the other half
sliced bananas. the meal plan said i could
pour some honey on the sannie, but i opted
out of that.

the meal plan allowed for 2 Tbsp of peanut
butter--that's a lot! and i didn't need that much
so i saved it for dipping raw baby carrots.
ate a handful of that per the meal plan--tho
it said red peppers and celeries which i didn't have.

jl and luke even tried some raw baby carrots!
they have not only because i never got them before.

the lunch also called for one cup of clear broth,
but i was full. i have a feeling the broth is used
as a filler as well as for nutrients. i topped off my
left over coffee from breakfast with milk and
finished that. yes, i'm one of those people who
has coffee sitting around all day. =O

i think my belly is reacting to all the fruit
and veggies and extra milk. haha! not in
a bad way, tho. i'm enjoying this, eating
healthier is a good thing!

i had breakfast at 9am.

then had a good 1 hour work out,
was starving in the end. wolfed down
one fuji apple in the car at 11.30am.

got home and ate lunch at 12pm.
it consisted of:

1 wheat pita bread. it was supposed
to be four inches but mine was six.

1/3 c hummous and unlimited veggies.
i had 1 medium tomato, 3 inches of
cucumber sliced, and a handful of
mesculen lettuce.

5 olives, optional. i bought some kalamata
olives as they are nice and salty to add flavor.

1 orange or 2 tangerines per the meal
plan, but i had just had the apple and
opted for another cup of decaf coffee with
some low fat milk.

8 oz of fat free/low fat milk was
optional with the lunch, but i can't
drink that much as i'm lactose intolerant
to a certain extent.

it is nearly 1.30pm and i feel
pretty satiated. the idea is to eat
three meals and two snacks in between,
never going beyond three hours without
eating something.

i'm following a 7 day nutrition plan
based on the idea of stabalizing your
blood sugar levels as well as losing weight.
the meal plan was especially designed
by a nutritionist for women's health
magazine (my first time buying it, too).

it is a 1600 calorie per day plan.
from what my friend cher told me
(she has a masters in nutrition, too),
i should be consuming about 1850 calories
a day to maintain my 145# weight.
yes, i thought 2000 calories, but nope.
i'm sure i do normally eat that much, tho.

it would be a great perk to lose weight,
but i'm doing this more so to learn how
to eat right. i've always felt that i ate
pretty healthily, but i think that simply
wasn't true. i noticed throughout the
winter, i had given up on eating fruits
entirely! i started eating navel oranges
once in a while with the advent of spring,
but that's not much at all.

everyone knows about the fruits and
veggie portions you're meant to have.
i didn't get it at breakfast (usually
a bowl of cereal or just a bread type
thing), and not much at lunch either,
usually a sandwich with a bit of lettuce
and a couple slices of tomato.

snack wise, i ate sweet stuff.
muffins, scones, cookies, a boba,
all the awful things you're not meant
to have. honestly, today, i've had an
apple and half a grapefruit. i'll probably
eat the navel orange soon as part of
my "snack" time. so dude, that's more
fruit in one day than i used to have
in a week, nearly! =O

every carb in this meal plan is
made from wheat. i am very anti-wheat.
so anti i didn't even do it for the bubs
while i was pregnant.

another issue is portion control.
i tend to overeat because it tastes good. doh!
cher said portions are so big when
you dine out, the best thing to do is
to get the to go box *beforehand* and
just put half of the meal away when
it arrives. i'm sorry, but i just can't
do that. haha!

i'll probably give myself some leeway
on the weekends, since we do dine
out quite often then.

this is a meal diary mainly for myself,
so i can keep track. but feel free to make
any comments, of course!