Meals

Proof that I’ve been sitting in front of the computer wayyy too long today: I’m sitting here giggling maniacally over the Marky Mark pics I posted a while ago on the skinny website. (Not in a mean way because oddly enough even with the weight gain, I think he’s still hot!)

Today’s food intake hasn’t been very impressive. It’s already 8:20pm and I’m only up to 575 calories. Oops. It’s all been mostly healthy stuff although I didn’t really stick to my meal plan for the day. So far I’ve had bananas, half a yogurt, a turkey cutlet, some grape tomatoes and a bagel thin with fat free cream cheese.

Time to get dinner started!

Later Update: I’m up to 1250 calories altogether for the day.

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I was absolutely exhausted this morning! My “get up at a decent hour” trick didn’t work like it usually does. Usually if I know I’m going to be tired in the morning but want to make sure I get up at a particular hour, I’ll set my phone alarm for one hour before I want to get up, and put a caffeine pill and glass of water next to my bed. When the alarm goes off, I immediately take the pill and set the alarm for one hour later. Usually I will stay awake from that point on but enjoy around 30 minutes lying in bed daydreaming and/or meditating. (By the way, I don’t do this very often, just on days I know I’ll need to get up earlier than usual).

This morning it didn’t quite happen that way. I took the pill, ended up falling back to sleep, had vivid dreams and slept an additional 2 hours. Sheesh. Oh well.

It’s a totally gorgeous day out today and I intend to get outside at some point, but so far I’ve been chained to my computer working.

I have today’s menu all planned out and so far I’ve stuck to it: fruit for breakfast and snack, soup, yogurt and an apple for lunch, and lean protein, veggies and more fruit for dinner. Seems reasonably healthy and low-cal.

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I ate well over 1200 calories today. As posted on the ‘What Did You Eat Today?’ thread on the Skinny forum, here was my intake for today:

B: 3 small bananas, half a pear (310)
L: 3 small bananas (270)
S: bagel with fat free cream cheese (170)
D: 1 cup raspberries, 1 banana, a serving of steamed mixed veggies, a handful of orange grape tomatoes, and 3/4 of an oven-baked turkey breast (over 500, not sure exactly of total)

Lots of fruit, some veggies, protein and even some grains in there. I’m happy with what I ate today.

I went and bought free range turkey breasts today (boneless skinless). So yeah, raw meat. It ended up being OK although I have scrubbed my kitchen from top to bottom and disinfected the sink three times tonight alone.

I just need some cooking tips for the turkey breasts, I accidentally overcooked it but it was still pretty good. VERY filling.

Earlier this evening while out driving, I had either a mild panic attack or a low blood sugar attack, I’m not sure which but I’m now 99% sure it was the latter. It had only been a few hours since I’d eaten. And it was scary. I honestly thought I was going to pass out behind the wheel. My vision narrowed and I felt myself blacking out. Thankfully I was literally 3 minutes from home, (although it didn’t matter, I was on a two-lane road with nowhere to pull over!) but I grabbed a couple of breath mints (peppermint) out of my purse and popped them in my mouth. It seemed to help almost immediately, so it must have been blood sugar.

I’m not sure why my blood sugar would tank though since I had eaten the bagel with fat free cream cheese only hours earlier. Scary stuff!

Edit: Oh, I know! I suspect it has to do with the past several days of very light eating. I’m not sure if this happens to other people, but my body tends to react the strongest to super low calorie days the day after I do it. The day I eat lightly, I’m fine, but the day after, I feel the effect. It makes sense now.

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Today is a beautiful sunny day! We are supposed to get some warmer weather in the next several days (60’s), which I am very much looking forward to.

So far today I’ve had a bowl of bran flakes with vanilla almond milk, and a large Honeycrisp apple. I love love love Honeycrisp apples, they are sweet, slightly tart and crunchy! I’ve decided to eat at least 2 apples per day until all the apples are gone out of my fridge. I know they are no longer in season and I don’t want to end up letting them go bad. They seem to last a long time in the fridge though.

For lunch I’m planning to have soup, yogurt and toast. I found a coconut milk yogurt that is both non-dairy and non-soy and has the live active cultures in it. Only problem is, it’s not very tasty! But it’ll do for now.

I seem to finally be getting used to the antibiotics. They aren’t making me feel nearly as bad as before. However, today’s noon dose was the last one until tomorrow night. Since I cannot drink water after midnight tonight, I cannot take the antibiotic, nor can I take tomorrow afternoon’s dose. So I’ll be skipping a day. (You have to drink lots of water with Bactrim, I’ve been going through more than a gallon per day lately!) I think it’ll be OK to skip a day.

Tomorrow I’ll be drugged up most of the day. How fun… I’m going to try and do the main website updates before my appointment tomorrow. Not sure if the Valium will be worn off by tomorrow morning though? Anyway, I’ll be sure to update here when I can about how everything went!

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I can’t believe it’s been so effortless to stick to only raw foods the past 2 days! Wow. I am doing very well. Today for breakfast I had lots of fresh delicious berries, then 2 bananas as a snack. Lunch was raw sunflower seeds, nuts and raisins. I also had 2 ounces of the raw milk cheese and now I’m eating a huge green salad, with romaine and other lettuces, herbs, carrots and cabbage with a little bit of fresh guacamole and pico de gallo drizzled on top. The combination of it all is absolutely delicious!

I don’t have dinner planned, as it’s already 4pm, but if I get hungry later I’ve got lots of fruit and veggies to choose from. I may whip up an experimental fruit/veggie salad or something. I didn’t intend to go 100% raw right away, but I’m going to just go with it as long as I can.

Overall I feel pretty good today in every sense except that I’m tired, but that’s because I only slept 4 or 5 hours last night!

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