girls night out (kinda)

lunch, 03.29.2005
• salad with lemon and mrs. dash (surprisingly superTASTY!)
• 1/4 cup of carrot ginger soup
• water

my mom packs me breakfast and now lunch every day, and she's been surprisingly making some really fantastic salads! yesterday was mixed greens and baby spinach with baby carrots, mushrooms, red onion, walnuts, croutons and basil/sundried tomato feta cheese, topped with lime juice and mrs. dash... SO YUMMY! mmmm having another one today (sans feta), but still very VERY tasty.

dinner, 03.29.2005 @ kate's joint (E4th and Ave B)
• 1.5 un-buffalo wings
• 1 piece focaccia bread with hummus
• 1 raspberry lemonade
• 1/2 grilled vegetable sandwich on focaccia bread
• mashed potatoes
• 1/2 cocoa banana vegetarian tiramisu

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm vegetarian food! how i miss thee... a few years ago i worked at my friend's fabulous vegetarian restaurant, and since i was there all the time i thought, "hell, i might as well try it!" for two years i was a lacto-ovo-pesco vegetarian (i.e. i still ate milk, egg, and fish). i never felt healthier, honestly. i wish i could do it again, but my mom thinks "vegetarian" means "halal chicken vegetable soup" (my mom said "muslims are vegetarian and they eat meat!" and i responded "mom, that just makes them muslim!") and my carnivore boyfriend is a vegetable-phobe. *sigh* o well. i can do my best with breakfast and lunch, i guess.

after dinner, 03.29.2005 @ fuzion (Ave A and E13th)
• 2 lychee sake martinis
• freeedamame
• water

we were expecting coffee, but we had cocktails instead. see the story at knit. and that was that yesterday.

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today is the same old story

breakfast
• 1 cup oatmeal
• water
• turkish apricots
• coffee

lunch
• yummy salad, sans feta
• water
• multivitamin

and since i'm going home, dinner shouldn't be so bad. oh well, we'll see.

being @ bf's = falling off the diet wagon

dinner #1, saturday 03.26.2005
• curry chicken & potatoes
• string beans over rice
• salad

so later on that day, after carting my yarn up and down the stairs and clearing my room of all knitting activity, i went back to jason's around 9ish. then the both of us started getting hungry and...

dinner #2
• 2 slices pepperoni & mushroom pizza
• water
• 5 mini peanut butter cups

*sigh* well, the good news in this night is that we ran out of peanut butter cups. onto sunday, another day of gluttony:

breakfast, sunday 03.27.2005
• NOTHING

i woke up too late.sitting at mass, starving, i whisper to my mother "i'm so hungry." she whispers back, "after you eat the body of christ, you will be full..." bah.

lunch, sunday 03.27.2005
• 1.5 pieces peking duck
• 1 portion pan fried crispy noodle with seafood
• steak with black bean sauce over rice
• some wonton noodles and duck sauce
• water
• tea

yummy lunch... the skin on the duck was sooooooooooooooo crispy. i wish i could each duck more, but alas... fatty, fatty, fatty. a few hours later after a nice little nap, i woke up hungry! i was kinda grossed out by that.

dinner, sunday 03.27.2005
• 1 slice pepperoni & mushroom pizza
• iced tea

looking at the things i eat, i swear i eat so poorly on the weekends... yuck. yesterday, i did take a day off, but i stayed at home...

breakfast, 03.28.2005
• 1 cup oatmeal
• coffee

so i took the day off because i needed to do homework and study like a badass for this oracle sql test i had... by lunchtime i was feeling anxious and couldn't leave my computer...

lunch
• 1 maple walnut granola bar
a few hours later...
• salad with feta, croutons and lemon juice

around 3 i started bugging out that i wasn't ready, yadda yadda... and then i came to the conclusion if i didn't know it then, i wouldn't know it for the test. so i let it go. *sigh* next time, i guess.

dinner
• chili over rice
• water

by the time the test was over, it was still early, so since monday used to be our WWE:RAW night i went over to jason's. he cooked his wannabe zippy's chili which was great, as usual. but there it goes again.... my feeling like i don't get enough veggies in my diet. bah... onto the normal schedule:

breakfast, today
• 1 cup oatmeal
• banana
• coffee
• multivitamin

hopefully i can hold this through until the end of the day...

lunchy brunchy

breakfast
• 1 peanut butter granola bar

brunch
• 1 cup oatmeal with honey
• handful of pistachios
• 1 coffee
• 1 medium salad w/ roasted garlic vinaigrette

i ended up staying over at jason's last night and took the wrong train home. i figured that was ok, though, since it's not too bad of a walk back to the house... so i walked from the jamaica train station home. took me about 15 minutes, which isn't so bad. maybe i should do that diabetes walk next month? *sigh* i dunno... still thinking about it.

i lied...

my mom came home and she made me some ramen. i miss eating like a college student sometimes. so...

dinner, 03.24.2005
• 1 ramen soup
• tea

breakast
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1 serving turkish apricots

lunch
• 1 cup lentil soup
• 1 coffee

snack
• 1 cup lentil soup
• some turkish apricots

dinner
• cheese tortellini with sun dried tomatos
• water
• 5 mini peanut butter cups

lol... i wonder where i am tonight? haha... thank god that bag is almost empty. OMG what am i saying? that means i finished the bag!

i tried signing up for the revlon run walk today, and the page wouldn't load. how annoying. oh well, i'll try tomorrow.

i'm kinda annoyed no one wants to do it with me. i've asked so many people, announced it on several forums... but no one wants to go with me. don't get me wrong, i would love to do it with my mother, since last year we talked about it and she said she wanted to do it, but honestly she's kinda going to slow me down. oh well, looks like me and my ipod shuffle for that one.

hmm... maybe i should do the queens walk for diabetes? that's less than a month away, though.... hmm....

a little more than the same old, same old...

yesterday i at so much at 5 PM snacktime, that i didn't even need to eat yesterday. i snacked on some turkish dried apricots (yummy) while watching napoleon dynamite dance his heart out to jamaroquai. awesome stuff...

dinner (more snack-like), 03.23.2004
• turkish dried apricots

breakfast
• 1 coffee
• 1 cup oatmeal

lunch (out with eric @ tomo)
• 1 small salad with carrot/ginger dressing
• 5 pc spicy salmon roll
• 4 pc eel avacado roll

snack
• 1 slice pizza (over 3 hrs)
• water

i think dinner's going to be lite again, today. i think i have i heart huckabees left to watch out of my recent movie purchases. so what to eat... i think we have some celery in the fridge, and i have a craving for peanut butter...

boring post

breakfast
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1 coffee

lunch
• 1 cup carrot ginger soup
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1 banana
• water

snack
• 1 vanilla yogurt w/ special k strawberry cereal
• 1 multivitamin

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

ha! check it out...

that's me! how funny. i did the fun walk though, so it's even funnier... looks like i did the actual marathon. lol...

breakfast
• 2 rice cakes
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1/2 banana

lunch
• 1/2 carrot ginger soup with crackers
• water
• 1 multivitamin
• handful of pumpkin seeds

snack
• 2 pecan swirls (BOO)
• 1 yogurt
• 3 rice cakes
• 1 small slim jim

dinner
• 1 small dish plain green beans
• 1 small portion potato and chicken curry
• 1 small piece sweet and sour fish
• tea
• celery with peanut butter

oh well, i tried.

grrr blogger.

damn link didn't open up in a new tab so i lost my whole entry! grrrr....

breakfast, 03.20.2005
• 1 cup oatmeal with raisins
• 1 cup coffee/hot chocolate mixture

late lunch, 03.20.2005
• taco bell combo #1
• 1 burrito supreme
• 1 beef hard shell taco
• a few sips from a large soda
tsk tsk on me...

dinner, 03.20.2005
• 1 side salad with ceasar dressing
• 10 baby carrots
• water
• 1 serving mabo tofu rice (ground beef, tofu and mabo sauce over rice)
• 3 mini peanut butter cups

what a fatty weekend. i need to stop eating so much meat when i'm out with jason. *sigh*

breakfast, 03.21.2005
• 1 banana
• 1 coffee
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1 multivitamin

onto healthier things... hopefully. yesterday i bought pilates resistance bands to work out in my room. tres excited.

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lunch
• three bean chili with crackers
• water
• 1 plum
• 2 servings trail mix
• coffee

dinner
• 1 cup broccoli in garlic sauce
• 1/4 rotisserie chicken with skin
• 4 mini peanut butter cups
• water

can you tell i went over to jason's place? i think the mini peanut butter cups gave that one away...

lazy saturday

this is the first time i've been home on a saturday morning, so it was nice to be able to wake up to breakfast already being made. heh... so it looks like i went a little overboard for breakfast, but it's ok - i ate around 12:45, so that can be considered "brunch" right? hehe...

dinner, 03.18.2005
• 1 soy almond drink
• 1 cup oatmeal
• other half of salad with raspberry vinaigrette dressing
• water

snack, at caroline's comedy club watching mitch hedberg
• 2 bacardi and coke
• several fried zucchini pieces with yogurt dressing

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breakfast
• 3 strips turkey bacon
• handful of pistachios
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1 cup coffee
• 2 pili nut little tarts
• half a banana
• water

yeah, so no eating lunch today... or eat an early dinner. eh.

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*edit* i ended up finishing knitting the clapotis today, and since i was beat i passed right out! lol... oh well... here's how the rest of the day went:

snack
• tea
• cucumbers in vinegar + pepper
• dried turkish apricots

dinner
• 2 small lean steaks
• 1/2 cup rice
• mushrooms and corn in butter
• side salad with lite ceasar dressing
• carrots
• 5 mini peanut butter cups
• 1.5 cups popcorn
• iced tea

*phew* a slightly loaded dinner as well! oh my. must calm myself when i'm at the boyfriend's. i usually only eat meat when i'm over at his place. it's the only thing we have here, so it's really hard to change my diet, really. plus, he's like mega-carnivore, so whenever i prep anything, it's usually a meat dinner. *sigh* oh well. i'm psyched to get my exercise plan going. i looked in the mirror today and noticed my belly has shrunk! not bad, not bad...

ugh... not feeling so hot...

dinner, 03.17.2005
• two lean pork chops
• mushrooms in a butter/garlic sauce
• mixed veggies
• water
• 1 mrs. field's white chocolate macadamia nut cookie

i woke up this morning with the worst headache ever. it took me about 40 minutes to get out of bed, and i got to work an hour late. fun.

breakfast
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 2 cups coffee
• 3 tylenol, 1 excedrin migraine

lunch
• 1/2 of a large salad with raspberry vinaigrette dressing
• water

dinner will probably be a continuation of lunch... i'm heading to watch mitch hedberg at caroline's tonight. hopefully i won't be too starving when i get there...

the short of it...

breakfast
• 1/2 banana
yeah, not very healthy

lunch
• 1 bowl of peanut soup
• medium salad
• 1 small spirulina drink
• water
better...

snack
• small slice of ice cream cake
bad, bad joy...

dinner is coming up, but i'm not sure how it's going to go... that spirulina didn't sit so well in my tummy. o well, we'll see.

ok, need to show more self-control

*edit* to yesterday's meal log:

snack
• 1 slice chocolate espresso cake (dammit)

dinner
• 3/4 rock crab
• 1/2 cup of cucumber
• 3 fried chicken livers
• 1 cup brown rice
• 1 plum
• tea

ugh... i shouldn't have eaten so much. *sigh*

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ok so today is looking up... i still have half of my soup from yesterday's lunch, as well as a yogurt, so i think that will do for today's lunch. breakfast was the usual... 1 cup oatmeal, 1 large coffee, 1/2 banana, a multivitamin and water. hopefully i'll do the right thing at dinner tonight and eat a ton of veggies. and maybe, just maybe, do some pilates.

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added:

lunch
• 1 cup lentil soup
• 1 peach light yogurt
• 2 rice cakes
• 1 serving pumpkin seeds
• water
• 1/2 cup oatmeal

dinner
• 1 coke
• salad with walnuts, gorgonzola cheese and apple
• calamari
• celery sticks and carrots with ranch dressing
• 1 glass wine
• 2 slices italian bread with olive oil
• 4 pieces of pepperoni
• 1 peanut butter cup mini and 3 malt balls

is that too much for dinner? it was mostly snacking... i dunno.

food journal begins

so apparently, according to all these health magazines, starting a food journal is supposed to keep me in check with my eating. time to jump on the bandwagon, i guess.

my cousin has asked me to be in her wedding party, so now i need to look fantas-cular for the occasion. so... let's start the clock again, huh? lol... countdown to my cousin's wedding, october 8th. i think it should be reasonable to be down to 120 by the time september rolls around... hmm...

i think the funniest thing about this week's leap in motivation is that it's spring break so my gym class doesn't meet. ha. oh well. next week, it is.

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morning
• oatmeal
• coffee
• multivitamin

afternoon
• 1 pack graham crackers
• 1 small bag pretzels
• water
• lentil soup
• 1 banana