Since currently I am doing a mini-meal type of eating plan - 4 mini-meals a day - I’ve been working hard to come up with different ideas for meals that taste good, are generally filling AND are healthy.

So far my favorite mid-day mini meal is this:

• 1 cup (container) of whole grain brown rice (170 cals, 2 grams of fiber, 3g of protein)
• 1 small pear (80 calories, 4 grams of fiber)
• 1 container of Breakstone’s 2% low fat cottage cheese (90 calories, 10 grams of protein)

Total: 340 calories, 6 grams of fiber, 13 grams of protein
Dairy, protein, fruit and grain

Since I am also currently keeping track of calories, I am going to start posting my day’s count of calories each night here on this website. It’s a good way to keep me on track and make me accountable, I think…

So far today it’s 3:45pm and I’ve consumed 510 calories (I got up late). I know I’ll be up and out late tonight, so I am saving as many calories as I can for later…

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I am still on my health kick… even more so now than ever. I am determined to get my amazing figure back once and for all. I recently found some old pictures of me from my early 20’s, and man… I miss my fabulous figure from those days! I have some pictures of me in a bikini at Venice beach with an old boyfriend, and damn did I look good (and I’m not afraid to say it). I’d even be comfortable posting them here if I can figure out a way to get them scanned in.

Yesterday my cousin’s wife and I went to lunch at an Italian restaurant (where I had less than half of a pasta dish) then we hit Whole Foods. I went to town and stocked up on more fresh fruit, organic soups, organic juice, organic cereal and organic salad. I have a menu prepared for my meals today. Estimated calorie counts are in parenthesis.

Breakfast - plenty of fresh cut up mango (140) & scrambled egg whites (90), coffee w/vanilla cream (60): 290
Snack - 1 large organic white peach (60), 1 serving of nuts (170): 230
Lunch - Organic roasted red pepper soup (mmmmmm) (220), half of a turkey/cheese sandwich(110), organic spinach salad w/2 tsps of organic dressing (100): 430
Snack - 1 Baby Bel Laughing cow cheese (70), 1 serving black olives (25), 1 pear (80): 175
Dinner - Roasted skinless boneless chicken(125), Steamed veggies (50), Cottage Cheese (90): 265

Miscellaneous - 1 orange sorbet ice-cream bar (60), 1 EmergenC drink (25), Iced Green Tea (0), Vitamin B Complex (0), 1 Omega 3 chew (10), 1 glass lemon water (15): 110

Total calories: 1500

In case anyone was wondering, my psychiatrist told me to go on a B vitamin and Omega 3 because it’s supposed to help with the physical damage my drinking caused. The EmergenC drink has all my daily electrolytes and several other vitamins.

Today’s exercise will be the elliptical, stretching and weights. It’s too hot outside to go for a walk!

^^^ If you think that is bad, today it might hit 105 with a heat index of 112! Yikes.

On a final note, I am feeling so much better physically these days! Almost back to normal… almost.

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