A healthy cupboard

Didn't really leave the house today, feeling mellow and making sure Edie is 100% (she is). Didn't want to order in food, so ate around the cupboard pretty well until it was time to meet up with B at a restaurant.

Going to go quiet this weekend. Tomorrow I'm waking early and cooking an ornate brunch of french toast, home fries, sourdough muffins, chocolate ice cream and pork sausage from scratch, then attending a pot-luck birthday picnic for a friend in the afternoon. Sunday is a 100 mile ride out to Montauk, where my eating will be subsumed by my need to power a ride. Regular broadcasts (and a weekend recap) on Monday. See ya!

AM SNACK: 5am, large glass of iced mint green tea

BREAKAST: 8:45am, organic whole grain cheerios with organic dead milk, banana, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: noon, sardines and avocado and multigrain wholewheat bread, multigrain tortilla chips and salsa, a pickle, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 5:45pm, fried fish sandwich with fries, bread with yogurt dipping sauce, 1 beer, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Met up with B and a mom friend at a local dining establishment, good vibes if not the healthiest meal.

A momentary lapse of veganism

Edie is doing better, but she's used to eating just formula all day, so spending more time with her as she sits with solid food is a focus. We went out on foot today for a solid 4 hours and she was totally back to normal, food excepted.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, large glass of iced mint green tea

BREAKFAST: 9:45am, organic whole grain chex with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH pt 1: 11:30am, large green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH pt 2: 1:30pm, slice of 'zen' pizza, small cup of vegan chocolate 'ice cream', 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
A big ol' vegan lunch in honor of the HVS. Went to Viva Herbal to have the spelt-crusted green tea-infused soy mush and other stuff thing. Walking down the street, felt the urge for sweets but didn't want to go too far into the red, so stopped in at Stogo, for their so-called "ice cream", but what I ate was kinda gritty, bland and bitter punctuated by dry, pasty chunks of "brownie". Ick.

PM SNACK: 2:30pm, bottle of unsweetened green jasmine tea
Thirsty after a short Wholefoods shop, I picked up a bottle of Tea's Tea unsweetened green jasmine tea, the same kind of tea I've used in my last batch of ice tea. I wanted to taste green jasmine in unsweetened form, and it surprised me -- the jasmine flower flavoring gives a depth of flavor that is kinda like sweet without the sweetness. No wonder my iced tea tastes so sweet, the jasmine perfume is amplifying it.

DINNER: 7:30pm, roti cannai with curry dipping sauce, spicy shrimp & vegetables over brown rice, chocolate experiment, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
I plan to make the MOST DECADENT OVER THE TOP RE-GOT-DAMM-DICULOUS chocolate ice cream for Edie's birthday, so for Saturday's brunch, I'm going to serve experimental chocolate ice cream, a winged-recipe based on a creme Anglais base. I put one ramekin of the custard in the freezer just to taste it for sweetness when cold -- it was good. The balance ain't there yet (less instant espresso, a different technique to get the chocolate less gritty needed) but it's a good start.

A Spare Cheesecake.

Chilled out with the Edles in the morning, she seems to be doing a whole lot better. Her eating hasn't quite come back yet, but her crawling, her sunny disposition and energy has.

I should of eaten a proper lunch, because when I got to school I was too hungry, and the only thing around was....a spare cheesecake. Woe to the hungry person trying to be healthy confronted with a spare cheesecake.

We made breakfast in class, and we made the breakfast sausage in tiny 1-bite patties to aid with cooking, which unfortunately made them very easy to pop in the mouth...

AM SNACK: 9:15am, large glass of iced mint green tea

BREAKFAST: 11am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
A big helping of fruit -- banana, grapes, cherries, mango, blueberries and acai juice, with greek yogurt, a pinch of salt and vanilla. Forgot flax this time. Delicious. Remind me again why I don't drink these more often?

PM SNACK: 12:30pm, multigrain tortilla chips & salsa, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 2:30pm, cheesecake, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

LINNER: 6pm, french toast, pancake, too much freshly ground breakfast sausage, seltzer, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 10pm, whole wheat lavash crackers

Scary

A rough night of Edie crying and tension, a trying test of our teamwork and parenting, but I think we made it OK. B decided to stay home from work with Edie and the nanny while I spent my first day as supervisor of the restaurant from 10:30 until 10pm. Even though I was intimate with the place and the boss, it was all a bit new, being out of it for almost a year and in a new position with a staff I have only socialized with a bit, not worked with. Like war, it was a lot of boredom punctuated with moments of fear and violence (well, not violence, but hot pizza, surly customers and rushing).

The action part was assisting the front of house staff and eye-balling the kitchen, not the same athleticism that I was performing while working in the kitchen. So while I was too busy to worry about food, I didn't burn ridiculous calories either. Louis was around and served me lunch, and after the rush I treated myself to a house salad -- pizza and pasta is not light food. By my bike ride home, I needed a treat and picked up some non-bricky Chinese.

B seemed to have a good day, and the worst of it for Edie seems to have passed. A good end to a big, slightly scary day.

AM SNACK: 8:45am, large glass of iced mint green tea

LUNCH: 1:45pm, spinach & meat lasagna, 2 slices of Sicilian pizza, half a vanilla soda, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 9pm, green house salad, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 10:15pm, shrimp fried rice, shrimp roll, ramekin of dark chocolate, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

The Ediepie

The morning started rocky with B waking me up late, only to tell me I need to get Edles to the doctor. She's been running a slight fever for a few days, and pretty much refuses all food except formula and water. (No worries, the doc says she's fighting a virus, everything is normal, should clear up in a few days by itself.) We went food shopping straight after, and I realized I was crazy hungry. The breakfast bar is full of all sorts of nutritionally suspicious stuff like old french toast, greasy hash browns, sausages of indiscriminate nature. So I picked up a few sushi items, and made sure to get some brown rice in there to try to keep the day in the green as much as possible.

Spent a mellow afternoon doing chores and lifting weights, and Edie slept through a good deal of it. By the time I left for a bike ride, Edie felt cool to the touch, but 10 miles in, B called me that Edie was shivering and had a pallor and was taking her to an ER. So I ditched my ride, took the subway home and checked in with her every time I got signal on the cell phone. Everything was under control, so I went home and awaited news. I couldn't just sit, I needed to use my hands and keep my mind from spinning out in stress, so I made dinner -- keep the hands (and mouth) busy. A big greens salad while preheating the oven and stretching some left-over Wholefoods dough. Brushed it with olive oil, scattered a helping of raw chopped clams, fresh raw garlic, grated parm, pieces of thin sliced prosciutto and a few grinds of black pepper. I was surprised how good this pie was, almost comparable to Pepe's. While the meat got nice and crispy, it did not supply the salt the pie needed -- the only thing it could of used was a sprinkle of salt, and maybe some melted butter mixed in with the olive oil...

The stress of waiting for my family to come home was still upon me, and while I heard everything was good, I still needed some chocolate. I was hoping for a full-on green day, but considering the situation, I decided to be kind to myself in the moment. The idea of my daughter being in discomfort is such a horrendous feeling.

AM SNACK: 8:15am, large glass of iced mint green tea

BRUNCH: 11:15am, brown rice California roll, shrimp summer roll, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 2:30pm, sardine & avocado sandwich, bite of kimchi, a handful of multi grain tortilla chips with salsa, swig of mint green iced tea, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 8pm, large green salad, clam and prosciutto pizza, ramekin of chocolate chips, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Aspire to Greatness

Mother's day. Woke up after too much sleep, allergies in effect. We trudged out to Brooklyn via trains and shuttle buses, and I fell asleep for a few hours in the afternoon. Found myself hungry after not eating much all day, and packed in some Indian delivery. Rice AND bread, how the traditionalists must sneer at us tubby Americans!

Nothing too awful today, but nothing too great. Need to refocus on my diet. It's not good enough to just not eat anything too awful, I must eat some nutritionally great things, too!

AM SNACK: 7:30am, large glass of mint iced green tea

AM SNACK: 8:30am, spoonful of white chocolate peanut butter

LUNCH: 12:30pm, bagel with cream cheese and salmon, a little salad, a bite of cheese cake, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6:30pm, shrimp saag with rice & naan, vegetable pakora, water, 2 bowl, hunger 4/5

The best grilled cheese I ever ate.

I originally intended to be up at 4am and out by 5am on the bike, but weather reports reported thunderstorms from 6am to noon. I woke at 8am to overcast but clear skies, but a good storm to run through briefly around 10am. During this lay-about time, I felt more and more rundown, leading me to think that hay fever is in effect. Also, Edie had been warm on the edge of fever since the night, and maybe staying home and helping out wouldn't be the worst idea.

I slept a good 10 hours, and I went to bed after a relatively small dinner around 8:30.

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, red velvet peanut butter pancakes, large glass of iced mint green tea, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
A heavy, satisfying breakfast. Left over batter from yesterday's peanut butter blowout.

LUNCH: 2:30pm, vegetarian Ethiopian food, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6:45pm, grilled cheese sandwich with caramelized onions, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
On nice demi hippy bread, with left over caramelized onions and a good soft pawny cheese we picked up from a local cheese monger, cooked with good European butter in a cast iron grill pan with a sandwich weight. After eating the sandwiches, Betsy and I agreed that these were the best grilled cheese sandwiches we ever ate. In song with Edie clapping away, B took credit for the idea and I took credit for the cooking. Hopefully in a few years there will be three of us saying that was the best grilled cheese ever.

Peanut Butter Daze

MAP came over around 9:30 with a sh@t-ton of plain and flavored peanut butters and we cooked up 4 out of 5 recipes we wrote for a competition sponsered by a PB restaurant/product line who provided us with the freebies. Edie napped from 9:30 to 11:15, which was convenient, so we were able to finish a lot of the heavy lifting before Ediecakes started crawling all over the floor and needing to be fed.

Didn't eat a formal breakfast, but nibbled on everything we cooked after taking a round of sexxxy pictures of each. We set up an informal studio for the pics by the living room window, and while we were taking pics of the last item, the proscuitto and peanut sauce pizza, Edie crawled over and hogged the spotlight, reeeediculous!! The fact that this pic was not staged, but a curious little booger jumping up and going "HAAA!", my heart just went pitterpat.

AM SNACK: 7:30am, mint green iced tea
This recent batch uses a jasmine green tea (good) but is the sweetest yet (bad.) I added a cup of my homemade mint syrup, about what I usually add, and this time I upped the tea bags to 12 (instead of 8) -- the strength tastes right now, but the sweetness....hmmm, maybe the jasmine flavoring amplifies the sweetness? Gonna cut the syrup by half on the next batch.

AM SNACKING: 9:30-12:30, red velvet peanut butter pancakes, roast beef sandwich with peanut sauce, peanut butter vegetable sushi, peanut butter & prosciutto pizza, seltzer, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNORT: 2pm, glass of white wine
Informal playdate in Tompkins Square with A and MAP. I brought the wine.

DINNER: 6:30pm, pasta with homemade tomato sauce and caramelized onions, 1.75 bowl, hunger 4/5
In anticipation of a long bikeride tomorrow, carboloaded with pasta. My eating limits this to once a week, which makes me think how I used to eat pasta several times a week. I miss it a little, but really, once a week makes it more special. Unfortunately, I already had rice pasta with my students on Wednesday, so I can't truly say this was the ony pasta this week.

Salad day

Woke up too late to really focus, because I needed to get Edles to a 10am doc appointment to follow up on her ear infection -- alls well. Met E for lunch, went to Patsy's and had a pretty reasonable meal -- half of what they call a 'small' and half of what they call a "family size" salad.

Spent the afternoon shopping for some peanut-butter exploratory cooking with MAP tomorrow, laundry, and just Edling around. E2 came over for dinner, and I made something that took a little bit of effort. I caramelized 4 onions in chicken fat and used about half in the chard side dish, but am saving the other half to do something fun in -- when something takes 3 1/2 long, slow hours to cook, why not make some extra?

AM SNACK: 8:45am, mint iced green tea

LUNCH: 11:45am, half a medium pizza, a large portion of green salad, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 5:45pm, large green salad, multigrain tortilla chips, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 6:30, handful of mixed nuts

DINNER: 8pm, ocean perch fillet, red chard with onions, twice-baked potato, a little chocolate, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 10pm, cake, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Splash! Gobble!

A busy day with a swim class in the morning with Edie (splash! smile! splash splash! giggle!), teaching a round of Asian food to the students in the afternoon (chop chop! stir fry sizzle! gobble gobble!) and then the evening at the restaurant to get myself oriented for this coming Tuesday, where I will be managing the ship once a week.

Not a good eating day, but glad to be a little sore from the work out the day before.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced mint green tea

LUNCHFAST: 11am, 2 grilled cheese sandwiches on demihippy bread, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 2:30pm, slice of cheesecake, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6:30p, pork dumplings, scallion pancake, pad thai, chicken & brocolli with white jasmine rice, slice of cheesecake, seltzer, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Nanny-up

An interesting day. Starting next Tuesday, I'll be working a 12 hour shift supervising the restaurant, so El came over to nanny -- a test day, so to speak. El has worked with B's family for ever, nannying many of B's cousins who are now in their 20s. So off I went to the movies -- my stomach was a bit nervous from leaving Edles alone with someone other than B, but as I rode my bike over to the theater, realized I needed to get something in.

I got home in the mid afternoon, and spent some time frying the latke mix I made yesterday, for a pot luck the food coop I'm involved in was holding.

I lifted weights in the morning -- I felt like I needed to do something, because the time I spent at the movies, I could have gotten a good bike ride in, but I was feeling too uneasy about Edles to really enjoy that. I changed up the routine, and by evening I started feeling sore in a whole new bunch of muscles, which is good.

AM SNACK: 9:30am, mint iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 11am, sushi, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Picked it up from a refrigerator case of an Asian market. Ick, too cold and some of the fish was just wrong. Sat lack a block in my stomach.

LUNCH: 3pm, a bunch of mini latkes, large green salad, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
As I was frying off 10 lbs of mix to make latkes, I realized I had to eat something other than the delicious fatty carb cakes to be reasonable, so I ate salad as I spend a good 90 minutes frying.

DINNER: 7:30-9pm, "friendship" bread, mini spinach pies, a few vegetable sticks, apple juice, seltzer, a few latkes, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Noshing at the food coop potluck. "Friendship" bread is really cake that uses a sourdough starter contributed from said friend....I got myself a starter, gonna funktify some myself in 10 days....

Back

Hello, everybody. Had a good weekend upstate in the Woodstock area. Highlights of my eating was Saturday night's dinner -- a whole bunch of little appetizers at the wedding reception. I find at many of these kinds of events, the appetizers are enough and then you eat a whole extra meal that is considered the formal dinner. I was on Edie duty, so after getting my dinner-sized portion of appetizers, it was time for me n' Edles to get to bed.

Sunday I road up and down the Hudson and ate not-totally-nutritious energy food, but it was a good time. Today, I found myself scrounging for food for lunch, settled on a bagel due to a lack of anything else in reach that was convenient to eat before getting out with Edie to go food shopping. On the way back grabbed a knish on Delancey, chose spinach as it's a littler greenery, no?

Dinner was some simple fish filets baked with old bay seasoning and butter, and brown rice cooked pilaf style with a whole mess of stuff thrown in to give it some funk -- vegetable stock, dried morels, coconut, chili powder. I also made some red chard but badly oversalted it to the point of not being edible, oh well.

BREAKFAST: 9am, organic chex with dead organic milk, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 12 noon, bagel with cream cheese, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH pt 2: 2:30pm, spinach knish, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6:30pm, baked sole & brown rice, large green salad, chocolate with peanut butter, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Weigh-in

The bad news is I chugged a full bottle of mint green iced tea last night and found myself up until around 4 in the morning -- I guess it really DOES have caffeine in it!

The good news is I weighed myself this morning before breakfast and came in at 229.4 -- about five pounds lighter than a month ago. I credit three factors, in no particular order:

• The new eating regimen, even if I faltered a little this past month. The goal is expand the repertoire this month -- the challenge is to not over eat when I'm working as GM at the restaurant for one full day a week starting in a couple of weeks.
• The weight lifting twice a week. I started at struggling to do five push ups, and now I'm struggling to do 10 push ups. I already developed a new routine to do this month focusing on non-bike muscles. I feel more toned.
• The bike riding. I've been doing 60-100 miles a week this past month, and while it's been matched with calorie intake, my stamina and aerobic health has definitely felt a boost. Going to do the first century of the season this month.

That is all. Will restart reportage of what goes down my neck Monday...

Ah pizza, you rascal!

Fell asleep yesterday while doing the laundry after the bike ride, so spent the morning slogging through that chore. We got out of the house and zipped over to BK to visit C and her tiny lil' Autumn. By the time I was taking the train home, I realized I hadn't really eaten lunch and was starving. Stuffed down a bad slice of streetza, and when we got home, ordered a proper pizza with the wifey. Ahhhh, pizza!

Tomorrow, we go upstate for the weekend for a wedding. This blog will go silent until Monday, though tomorrow morning I will weigh in and give some thoughts about the last month and the coming month, in terms of diet and goals...

BREAKFAST: 9am, pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese, mint iced green tea, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: noon, banana bread, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 4pm, slice of pizza, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 5:30, Cesar salad, mushroom and onion pizza, 1.75 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, mint iced green tea

Old Standby

After yesterday's sweets n' meats blow out, definitely went into the day looking to go for the green. Almost did, but a ride to Coney with a friend went into the red, and when I got home I was so blown out, I fell back on an old standby...

BREAKFAST: 8:45am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Almost forgot about these. As I'm drinking, I'm thinking, DAMN, this is delicious! Ripe banana, acai juice, good yogurt, fresh ground flax, frozen mango, cherries and blueberries, a dash of salt.

LUNCH: 12:15pm, 2 sammiches of sardines in mustard on demihippy bread, large green salad, a pickle, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3:45pm, freshly baked banana bread, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Creamed a stick of butter with a stick of good quality butter. Added 5 super ripe bananas and 2 whole eggs. Then the scrapings of a vanilla bean, a teaspoon of baking powder, a pinch of sea salt. Took it off the mixer and folded in 1 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour, poured into a grease loaf pan, baked for an hour at 350. Came out close to perfect, though maybe still a little too sweet. Next time will do 1/4 cup of brown sugar....

PM SNACK: 6:45pm, hotdog, small amount of fries, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
At Coney Island with a friend, who was also eating this.

DINNER: 9pm, shrimp fried rice, shrimp eggroll, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Picked this on the way home from the ride, just starving and tired and wanted to eat fast and simple.

High Green, High Red

I made sure to eat in the greenzone in the morning, because the afternoon I taught a class on pastry, which I knew would involve eating a lot of sweets, followed by a visit to the restaurant, which I know would involve eating something sinful.

Brief parental bragging: Edie & I wet to the swim class in the neighborhood this morning. There were 3 other babies. Edie was all grins, arm flapping and D-smiles, the teacher kept using her as the model because she wouldn't fret when taken from me, and was just the bomb-diggety all around. I've said it before, I'll say it again -- she is the the Rufus of babies. (Rufus is my wonder cat....)

BREAKFAST: 8:15am, whole wheat waffle, smoothie pop, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: noon, large green salad, a few flax tortilla chips, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACKING: 4-5:30pm, various bites of all sorts of chocolate, a few chocolate chip cookie, a couple of freshly fried donuts, cup of milk, seltzer, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 6:45pm, stuffed pepper, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
A meaty non-menu item from the hands of L.

EVENING SNACK: 11:15pm, flax tortilla chips with salsa, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Cheesecake logic

Not a good eating day, with the exception of a meal taken with the HVS. Looking back, I think the stress of B not feeling well and having to run around with Edie to a play date (working around her nap and eating schedule) effected my eating for the worse. And it didn't help having tons of cheesecake lying around the house...

AM SNACK: 8:15am, iced mint green tea

BREAKFAST: 9am, a slice and half of cheesecake, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
I wasn't intending this to be breakfast, but I realized I was going to bring the cupcake cheesecakes to a play date and I hadn't actually tried one yet. And another cheesecake I was slicing and packing -- 3 containers, 5 slices each, but the cake yielded 16 pieces. Can't let that piece sit all by it's lonesome!

AM SNACK: 11:30am, a few pieces of lavash cracker

PM SNACK: 1:30pm, a few slices of cured meats, a cookie

LUNCH: 2:30pm, 5 pork n' chive dumplings

PM SNACK: 4pm, popcorn

SNICKLEDINNER: 6:15pm, quinoa salad with string beans, 2 pieces of cheesecake, 1.25 bowl

Many sweets made, none eaten!

Another day split in three. In the morning arranged the house while Edie napped then did the food market thing. My friend T.M. came over and we cooked -- first a round of olive oil granola, then a special batch of chocolate chip cookies (minus the chocolate chips, plus a "special" ingredient supplied by TM to "flavor" the butter in the cookies) and a series of NY-style cheesecakes. The granola is for the HVS tomorrow, my share of the cookies went into the freezer for friends, and the cheesecakes will be distributed somehow, as little down my neck as possible.

When B got home, I made salad and ate it, felt lazy and we ordered a pizza from our local 2boots. Not horrendous, not great either.

AM SNACK: 8:45am, glass of iced mint green tea
Not happy with this batch. Need to make it stronger.

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, whole wheat waffle, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Broke it and toasted it, far superior than the microwave floppiness.

LUNCH: 2pm, beouf bourginon over mint pasta, seltzer, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Pasta and red meat on the first day of the week, but it was a very reasonable portion.

DINNER PT. 1: 6:15pm, large green salad, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER PT. 2: 6:45pm, 3 slices of 2boots pizza, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Out of sorts

Despite about 9 hours of sleep, felt very out of sorts today -- still not enough sleep, and the rainy weather did not help. Couldn't really eat in the morning. Went to a tour of an abandoned train tunnel under Atlantic Ave with a friend's b-day crew, then met up with B&E at her lunch thing at a bar -- good homecooked food, and I was starving.

Felt run-down and under the gun (in a good way) in the evening to finish up some school-related things, got everything done, but ordered in some Japanese comfort food. A new week starts, and next weekend I weigh in to see if anything has happened...

AM SNACK: 9am, a few snips of lavash cracker, water

AM SNACK: 11am, handful of almonds

LUNCH: 1:30pm, pulled pork, mac n' cheese, coleslaw, 1/2 a beer, 1.5 bowl

PM SNACK: 5:30pm, a few snippets of cheese and lavash, a sip of wine

DINNER: 9pm, sushi, tempura, shrimp shumai, green salad, water, small hunk of chocolate, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

A day so Red I won't even mark it up

Put myself to bed at 10:30pm, but could not get to sleep. Had some left over soup, didn't help. Fell asleep after 3am, up about 5 to go riding with E & D. A series of snacks kept my body moving for 50 miles before hitting home. Felt OK, not as sore from the weight lifting the day before as I had been recently, suggests I should hit it a little harder this week.

B had a friend's family over, we served some fish I've been curing for a couple of days, and a 3 part dessert including the coffee cake me n' MAP made, went down well. Found hunger coming back and ate large dinner and snack.

AM SNACK: 12:30am, wonton soup, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 5:30am, iced mint green tea

AM SNACK: 6:30am, 2 donuts, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 8am, bottle of Gatorade

AM SNACK: 11am, cliff bar

LUNCH: 1:30pm, pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese and home-cured wild king salmon, pickles, iced mint green tea, a little homemade coffee cake with homemade ice creams, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 5:30pm, homemade chili and homemade pasta, 2 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, whole wheat waffle, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5