A very mellow Saturday. Woke up around 4am to an unhappy Edie. B got her back to bed, but not me. So after staring at the ceiling for a few minutes, I got up and made an epic batch of pancakes. Watched a little TV, and fell asleep as the ladies rose.
While I was powering up with some green tea, B was powering down with a slight fever, so she went back to bed and I did the Edie thing. Watched a movie while she napped, fed her, ate a small portion of school-made kasha, then went for a nice 2 hour walk with Edie around the neighborhood. On the sidewalk, she now doesn't resist holding my hand, which is suuuuper cute and wonderful.
When we got in, B arose and I tuned out on the TV with a big hearty bowl of school made farro & sausage. I forgot how satisfying this is -- whole grain, pork, potatoes, beans, all redolent of fennel and chicken stock. I wasn't really hungry for the rest of the day, only getting some veg down before hitting the sack around 10:30.
BREAKFAST: 5:30am, 4 buttermilk pancakes, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
AM SNACK: 10:30am, Ito En unsweetened green tea
PM SNACK: 1:30pm, kasha varnishkes, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
LINNER: 4:30pm, farro & sausage, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 6:30pm, baby carrots & cucumber slices with ranch dressing, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Saturday, November 6
Friday, November 5
T's House of Hurt
Stayed indoors with the Edie, she's better but not 100%, except in the adorable department. Evening Tenement of Torture with T.
BREAKFAST: 9:30am, iced green tea, homemade granola with organic dead milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Brought home a couple of bottles of Ito En green tea from the shop, we recently hosted a party for their Brooklyn staff and they brought their own tea, including a case of their high-end Japanese-import only stuff. Unsweetened, nutty flavor, no bitterness at all, it runs rings around my clownish home-brewed variety. This was free, but to buy retail is 10x more expensive than my own.
LUNCH: 2pm, farro & sausage, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Made in school yesterday, a stew featuring whole-grain farro & crumbled Italian sausage, cooked in chicken stock, with fennel, potatoes, tomato & kidney beans. Heavy, but good.
PM SNACK: 5pm, cheesy poofs, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
SNICKLEDINNER: 7:45pm, vegan Cesar salad, cup of dahl, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
BREAKFAST: 9:30am, iced green tea, homemade granola with organic dead milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Brought home a couple of bottles of Ito En green tea from the shop, we recently hosted a party for their Brooklyn staff and they brought their own tea, including a case of their high-end Japanese-import only stuff. Unsweetened, nutty flavor, no bitterness at all, it runs rings around my clownish home-brewed variety. This was free, but to buy retail is 10x more expensive than my own.
LUNCH: 2pm, farro & sausage, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Made in school yesterday, a stew featuring whole-grain farro & crumbled Italian sausage, cooked in chicken stock, with fennel, potatoes, tomato & kidney beans. Heavy, but good.
PM SNACK: 5pm, cheesy poofs, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
SNICKLEDINNER: 7:45pm, vegan Cesar salad, cup of dahl, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Thursday, November 4
Moody Thursday
Mellow day with a slightly sick day in the morning, good class in the afternoon, a round of food shopping in the evening.
BREAKFAST: 8am, brown rice crispies with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 11:30am, sardine and kimchi on superhippy bread, 4 miniburgers, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 3:30pm, squares of several kinds of chocolate
DINNER: 6pm, rice pilaf, kasha varnishkes, diet soda, water, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 9:30pm, large amount of cheesy poofs, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
BREAKFAST: 8am, brown rice crispies with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 11:30am, sardine and kimchi on superhippy bread, 4 miniburgers, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 3:30pm, squares of several kinds of chocolate
DINNER: 6pm, rice pilaf, kasha varnishkes, diet soda, water, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 9:30pm, large amount of cheesy poofs, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Wednesday, November 3
Super-thin!
Uh oh. It just occurred to me I'm going to have to take my one sweet-exception tomorrow for the week instead of during snickling with T. I have a chocolate-tasting scheduled with my students tomorrow. It'll be one milk chocolate, and 4 different levels of dark chocolate. It's not about scarfing a ton of chocolate, but putting a little bit on the tongue, feeling it melt, swishing it around the entire tongue, and paying attention to the different flavor notes. This (and cheese) is the only tasting we do on this level, as they are all too young to sample wine.
BREAKFAST: 7:45am, iced green tea, the good oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Second time around, the oatmeal is still good, but I may have went a shade too far with the salt. Next batch, I'm going to measure rather than just do it by feel, so I can adjust more accurately to make the good oatmeal perfect.
LUNCH: 12:30pm, 3 slices of experimental pizza, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
I had my cook make a super-thin pizza, with basil cooked on to it. What I didn't know is that due to an oopsy, the oven was not getting hot. I checked the pizza after 10 minutes, and it looked like it was just put in. The oven was hovering at 259 (the proper temp is 550), so I found the issue and it started to slowly rise. So the thin pizza stayed in the oven for about 45 minutes, until the crust looked a little tan. It was extraordinarily cracker-like, the cheese never spread, just formed a crunchy blistered skin with a bit of cheesy flavor underneath, and most wonderful of all, the basil leaves on top dried out like Japanese nori sheets, thin crackly & see-through, and bursting with basil flavor. The pizza had become a pizza-cracker: thin and crunchy, not the least-bit burnt. It reminded more than a little of lavash crackers. If it wasn't for the 45-minute cook time at a different temp, I would push to have this cracker-pizza on the menu. It would make an AMAZING bar-snack. Maybe when I have my own joint....
PM SNACK: 5:15pm, green salad, handful of industrial pretzel bites, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
A colleague brought in some store-bought mustard-onion pretzel that were surprisingly gross. Why do people eat this maltodextrin-palm oil laced garbage?
DINNER: 6:15pm, 2 meatballs, sliced roasted potatoes, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 11pm, burger, fries, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
BREAKFAST: 7:45am, iced green tea, the good oatmeal, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Second time around, the oatmeal is still good, but I may have went a shade too far with the salt. Next batch, I'm going to measure rather than just do it by feel, so I can adjust more accurately to make the good oatmeal perfect.
LUNCH: 12:30pm, 3 slices of experimental pizza, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
I had my cook make a super-thin pizza, with basil cooked on to it. What I didn't know is that due to an oopsy, the oven was not getting hot. I checked the pizza after 10 minutes, and it looked like it was just put in. The oven was hovering at 259 (the proper temp is 550), so I found the issue and it started to slowly rise. So the thin pizza stayed in the oven for about 45 minutes, until the crust looked a little tan. It was extraordinarily cracker-like, the cheese never spread, just formed a crunchy blistered skin with a bit of cheesy flavor underneath, and most wonderful of all, the basil leaves on top dried out like Japanese nori sheets, thin crackly & see-through, and bursting with basil flavor. The pizza had become a pizza-cracker: thin and crunchy, not the least-bit burnt. It reminded more than a little of lavash crackers. If it wasn't for the 45-minute cook time at a different temp, I would push to have this cracker-pizza on the menu. It would make an AMAZING bar-snack. Maybe when I have my own joint....
PM SNACK: 5:15pm, green salad, handful of industrial pretzel bites, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
A colleague brought in some store-bought mustard-onion pretzel that were surprisingly gross. Why do people eat this maltodextrin-palm oil laced garbage?
DINNER: 6:15pm, 2 meatballs, sliced roasted potatoes, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
EVENING SNACK: 11pm, burger, fries, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Tuesday, November 2
The challenge continues.
No sugary junk food or soda wasn't too bad today, but I wonder if I'm eating a little bit heavier to avoid cravings. Maybe not heavier, but certainly more often, keeping my blood sugar even all day. Notably, yesterday and today, I had no urge for snacking late at night, which is a good thing.
BREAKFAST: 7:45am, smoothie, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Woke up hungry, and knew I would not be scarfing donuts and chocolate this morning, so went to the smoothie. In a slight daze, I underground the flax seed and the whole affair was a bit gritty, but still good. Good enough to pour the extra into a freezer pop mold for emergency sugar jones later in the week!
AM SNACK: 10:15am, vegetarian sandwich, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Not as good as the last one -- too much goat cheese, too much roasted veg. I forgot to pick out the cauliflower in the first few bites, but it's rank flavor of shoes and sweatsocks reminded me to take care of them.
LUNCH: 1:15pm, half a very thin pizza, seltzer, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Sugar cravings becoming more notable. Bottle of carbonated water instead of sugary soda brought in to fight the good fight.
PM SNACK: 4:45pm, green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER PT 1: 6pm, sliced roasted potatoes, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER PT 2: 7pm, 3 slices of Sicilian, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
BREAKFAST: 7:45am, smoothie, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Woke up hungry, and knew I would not be scarfing donuts and chocolate this morning, so went to the smoothie. In a slight daze, I underground the flax seed and the whole affair was a bit gritty, but still good. Good enough to pour the extra into a freezer pop mold for emergency sugar jones later in the week!
AM SNACK: 10:15am, vegetarian sandwich, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Not as good as the last one -- too much goat cheese, too much roasted veg. I forgot to pick out the cauliflower in the first few bites, but it's rank flavor of shoes and sweatsocks reminded me to take care of them.
LUNCH: 1:15pm, half a very thin pizza, seltzer, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Sugar cravings becoming more notable. Bottle of carbonated water instead of sugary soda brought in to fight the good fight.
PM SNACK: 4:45pm, green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER PT 1: 6pm, sliced roasted potatoes, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER PT 2: 7pm, 3 slices of Sicilian, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Monday, November 1
Stabilized
229.6 --> 229.0
So for the most part, my weight stayed steady this past month. 230 is pretty much the weight my body strives to be, no more, no less at the age of 39. I have been fitfully eating much better the past week or so, forgive a gyro here or there. As I go into the winter months looking forward to the heavier meals I love to make (chili!! mac n' cheese! cheesecake!), I must think in terms of quality more than quantity.
T & B have remarked how "thin" I look this past week or so, but the numbers and the amount of exercise I've been getting don't bare it out -- maybe I'm more comfortable wearing non-baggy clothes? But there is a delivery driver at work, a nice but strange Asian woman in her 20s with limited English, who bluntly told me the other week that I'm very handsome, but too "wide". (Don't worry, B, she's not interested in men, wide or narrow!)
Today is the first day of a desert-fast with T -- no refined sugar, no sinful treats like brownies or soda. Sugar itself is fine, if in a nutritional package, like fruit or a smoothie. The trick will be to manage the cravings until Friday, where T & I will indulge!
BREAKFAST: 8:30am, steelcut oatmeal, iced green tea, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
I seasoned the oatmeal while cooking, with a good shake of brown sugar, vanilla, salt and cinnamon. While reheating my portion in the micro, put a pat of butter on top which I mixed in when done. Wonderfully delicious, basically what those fake packets of instant oatmeal try to strive for, but with cartoony flavors, sickening sweetness and chemical enhancements. This, on the other hand, is the Good Oatmeal.
AM SNACK: 11:45am, 3 pieces of freshly baked bread, handful of olives, a few slices of cucumber, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 2:15pm, 6 very thin slices of pizza, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 5:30pm, half slice of white pizza
PM SNACK: 6:15pm, large green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
A half-filled tub of nutella fell on the counter in front of me as I went for something on a high shelf in the kitchen. A twinge of sweet-lust coursed through my noggin for a second....
DINNER: 8pm, shrimp & clam pizza, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
So for the most part, my weight stayed steady this past month. 230 is pretty much the weight my body strives to be, no more, no less at the age of 39. I have been fitfully eating much better the past week or so, forgive a gyro here or there. As I go into the winter months looking forward to the heavier meals I love to make (chili!! mac n' cheese! cheesecake!), I must think in terms of quality more than quantity.
T & B have remarked how "thin" I look this past week or so, but the numbers and the amount of exercise I've been getting don't bare it out -- maybe I'm more comfortable wearing non-baggy clothes? But there is a delivery driver at work, a nice but strange Asian woman in her 20s with limited English, who bluntly told me the other week that I'm very handsome, but too "wide". (Don't worry, B, she's not interested in men, wide or narrow!)
Today is the first day of a desert-fast with T -- no refined sugar, no sinful treats like brownies or soda. Sugar itself is fine, if in a nutritional package, like fruit or a smoothie. The trick will be to manage the cravings until Friday, where T & I will indulge!
BREAKFAST: 8:30am, steelcut oatmeal, iced green tea, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
I seasoned the oatmeal while cooking, with a good shake of brown sugar, vanilla, salt and cinnamon. While reheating my portion in the micro, put a pat of butter on top which I mixed in when done. Wonderfully delicious, basically what those fake packets of instant oatmeal try to strive for, but with cartoony flavors, sickening sweetness and chemical enhancements. This, on the other hand, is the Good Oatmeal.
AM SNACK: 11:45am, 3 pieces of freshly baked bread, handful of olives, a few slices of cucumber, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 2:15pm, 6 very thin slices of pizza, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 5:30pm, half slice of white pizza
PM SNACK: 6:15pm, large green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
A half-filled tub of nutella fell on the counter in front of me as I went for something on a high shelf in the kitchen. A twinge of sweet-lust coursed through my noggin for a second....
DINNER: 8pm, shrimp & clam pizza, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Sunday, October 31
Full-woo
I woke after 11 hours of sleep feeling pretty even, but B was a little run down, so I plopped Edles on the bike and we went to Brooklyn Heights to the bagel shop me n' B used to hit up when we were in full-woo. Edie played in the playground that I did when my Aunt lived in the neighborhood in the 70s.
In the afternoon, we went to a neighborhood Halloween party with a whole bunch of other babies, but it did not go smoothly -- Edie fell asleep when going over, and when she woke up to a relatively loud, crowded new place, she just was not having it. Didn't help that her piggie costume was probably too warm. We left before I could stuff down too many sweets!
In the evening, I was searching the cupboards for sweets, as tomorrow starts a sweets-fast for about a week. I didn't even feel like eating sweets, just wanted to get some in before it was too late. But Betsy already hoovered up everything except the baking chocolate, so that was that.
BREAKFAST: 9:15am, 9 grain bagel with butter, lettuce tomato and onion, seltzer, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
AFTERNOON SNACKS: 3pm, mini pigs in blankets, a cupcake, a few bites of cheese, carrots and spinach dip, a rum drink, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 7:30pm, shrimp fajita with rice, beans, guac and salsa, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
In the afternoon, we went to a neighborhood Halloween party with a whole bunch of other babies, but it did not go smoothly -- Edie fell asleep when going over, and when she woke up to a relatively loud, crowded new place, she just was not having it. Didn't help that her piggie costume was probably too warm. We left before I could stuff down too many sweets!
In the evening, I was searching the cupboards for sweets, as tomorrow starts a sweets-fast for about a week. I didn't even feel like eating sweets, just wanted to get some in before it was too late. But Betsy already hoovered up everything except the baking chocolate, so that was that.
BREAKFAST: 9:15am, 9 grain bagel with butter, lettuce tomato and onion, seltzer, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
AFTERNOON SNACKS: 3pm, mini pigs in blankets, a cupcake, a few bites of cheese, carrots and spinach dip, a rum drink, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 7:30pm, shrimp fajita with rice, beans, guac and salsa, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
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