Family Saturday

Spent the morning baking, the afternoon in Hoboken at a party of some of B's friends, and the evening going to sleep early. Not sick, but fighting something.

AM SNACK: 9:30am, handful of chocolate covered espresso beans


BREAKFAST: 10am, 3 apple-turnover sourdough muffins, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Baked up a ton of muffins using a week-fermented sourdough starter, with sauteed apples hidden in the bottom of the pan. Pretty groovy.


LUNCH: 1pm, potato nick with mustard, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 3:45pm, slice of pizza, a few bites of caramel popcorn, a bite of a few vegetables, a beer, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 7:30pm, pasta with clams, oil and garlic, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Potato Potato

Edie Day!! We got on the bike and hit up the Union Square area for shopping, then out in the stroller for some local grocery accomplishments, 11am nap, then stayed in on the windy, cold afternoon. Didn't have a proper breakfast, and ended up eating a lot of potato products in the afternoon, then went crazy in the evening. Need bigger breakfasts, smaller dinners...


AM SNACK: 8am, iced green tea


BRUNCH: 11am, large piece of potato nick with mustard, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
Funny, I was hungry for more food for about 30 minutes after I ate this, but I waited it out and then I was fine.

PM SNACK: 3:30pm, creamed mashed potatoes, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
I was only going to have a bite, but it was so good, I finished the container.

DINNER: 7:30pm, sushi, shumai, spring rolls, small green salad, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 8:30pm, cube of dark chocolate


DINNER pt 2: 9pm, White Castle burgers, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
I ordered in Japanese, but found it was not enough, and ended up freezer-fishing.

Busy

A busy day. Edie hit up playgroup in the morning, I took off for school in the afternoon for a well-received session, then a bike ride from Red Hook to the Meat Packing district in the cold dark rain for a nice meal with EB. Looking forward to an all-out Edie day tomorrow...

BREAKFAST: 8am, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 11:15am, curry noodle with fishball, 2 lotus leaf wrap, 2 donuts,  1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
From a cart at East B'way & Essex, real Chinese-Chinese eats.

SCHOOL SNIPPETS: 3-7pm, seltzer, a few spoonfuls of decadent mashed potatoes, a bite of sauteed chicken breast, a bite of chard & caramelized onions, a small handful of kalamata olives, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 8pm, rib-eye steak, a few bites of potato, a spoonful of creamed chard, cured hamachi with a bite of duck bacon, a few spoonfuls of risotto, 3 little bread rolls, water, 1 glass wine, ice cream, a half a chocolate tart, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Dinner with a EB, celebrating her new job, at Collichio & Sons. Very disappointing. The food was good, but certain flavor combinations and preparations were surprisingly sub par. Chocolate tart was strictly mediocre.


EVENING SNACK: 10:30pm, donut
An HVS-laid donut was found, and had to be defused.

BA BA BA

Woke to a happy baby and a happy wifey, which makes any day a good day. I can't wait until "BA BA BA BA" turns into "Wake up, poppa!

Work was surprisingly busy in the evening, not a lot of time to sit around and eat!

BREAKFAST: 8am, iced green tea
I'm really happy with the consistency I'm getting. This is my method:

• Bring 1 gallon of water to a boil
• Turn off heat, add: 10 bags of jasmine green tea, 5 bags of Himalayan green tea, 3/4 cup of white sugar. Lightly stir.
• Cover. Rest for 10 minutes.
• Remove tea bags, light squeeze. Allow tea to come to room temp. Bottle and refrigerate.

AM SNACK: 9:45am, chocolate croissant, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
On the way to work, from Jaques Torres.

LUNCH: 12:30, Sicilian with mushroom & onion, sprite, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
I keep returning to Sprite because it comes in reasonable 8 oz bottles, not the 12 the other sodas come in. The 8 oz bottle look "old-fashioned" and small, but they make sense, nutritionally.

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


DINNER: 6pm, 1 slice shrimp & clam pizza, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 9:30pm, glass of apple juice


EVENING SNACK: 11:30pm, burgers and fries, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Bananahead!!

Edie was in her seat watching videos in the kitchen with me, and she started going "AH!" and pointing at my breakfast. I put a punch of cheerios on her plate, and when she was done, started pointing at my banana. Instead of cutting off little pieces, I stuck the whole peeled business end of the banana in her face and she took big bites, like an adult, except she couldn't get her tiny mouth around the end of the banana. It was soooo cute!! Aaaaigh! Quite a way to start the day.

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, organic wholegrain cheerios with organic dead milk, banana, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

AM SNACK: 11:30am, fresh baked bread, olives, Manhattan Special, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 1pm, 1 slice of pizza, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 4pm, green salad, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 6pm, 1 slice white pizza, 1/3 of a meatball hero, sprite, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 10:30pm, waffle, hotdog, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Workworkworkwork pt 2

Due to Columbus Day, the restaurant was mobbed like it was a weekend day rather than a Monday Ghosttown, so I was on my feet and didn't have too much time to focus on eating.

BREAKFAST: 8am, good yogurt with agave and vanilla, iced green tea, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1pm, 1 slice of pizza, a sprite, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 6pm, green salad, meatballs with extra bread, cranberry lime soda, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING MEAL: 10:30pm, pork fried rice, wonton soup, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Family Vs. Bike

I prepped for a bike ride last night, and got up at 5:30, and was out the door at 6:30 sharp in full kit. The problem is, Edie woke a couple of minutes before leaving out, and I picked her up and brought her to Betsy. You know how it is when you haven't seen someone in years, and when you meet it's all hugs, laughs and pure pleasure? Well, it's like that almost every morning when Edie wakes up. So when I got out the door, I turned on a podcast and it was a woman calling in, talking about all the horrible things her husband was doing. Even though I was psyched for a good day on the bike, I longed even more to spend some time with my beautiful 15 month old and my wife, with whom despite disagreements on some matters is pretty much my best friend, girlfriend, partner in life and all matters Edie-related. With our jobs and various activities, time is thin, so I turned the bike around and came home about 10 minutes after I had left.

We took a nice morning bike ride to Battery Park to let Edie get some time in a playground, and when we got home for Edie's nap, I broke out the waffle iron and experimented with high heat/short cooking time. The result was a beautiful brown to a little burnt color, but the most tender, soft yet crisp waffle yet. A nap followed, conjoined with B & E taking to grandma's house while I chilled, got some work done and chilled.

BREAKFAST: 6am, good yogurt with vanilla and agave, handful of chocolate covered espresso beans, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 11:30am, waffles, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 6:45pm, eggplant hero, green salad, some onion rings, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Cook-on

A relaxed Saturday. Spent the morning making some granola bars made with some homemade granola from a NY Times recipe -- way too sweet, next time I make it, I'll halve the sweetener aspects. Fell asleep in front of the TV for a nice afternoon nap, then loaded Edles on the bike and we spent the afternoon in Park Slope with a high school friend I had not seen in 20 years. Brooke is now married to a woman with twin 2 year old boys, but it STILL seemed like only a few days had passed.

Got my cook-on for dinner, something I haven't done in quite a while. Had some sofrito in the freezer from march, so cooked up a pot of brown rice & beans with extra porcinis and morels. Cooked a mess of shrimp in olive oil and sake with garlic and parsley in a caste iron pan in the oven, for a Spanish-style dish -- never cooked it, just eaten it, and my approximation was surprisingly good.

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, organic wholegrain chex with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 12:30pm, multigrain tortilla chips with student made salsa, hot dog, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 2:30pm, homemade granola bar, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 7:30pm, shrimp in wine, evoo and garlic with sofrito brown rice & beans, chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Push & Pull

Got out of the house and made it uptown by bike for a dermatologist appointment by 8:15 (as with yesterday's general doctor, all is well.) Rushed back and had a proper Edie day. After napping and feeding, we pedaled over to the supermarket, and after we got home and had a quick snack, spent a couple of hours in the playground.

I almost went to yoga, but I had two forces preventing me. Push: the HVS would not be teaching it. Pull: MAP called me a few hours before with a spare ticket to a panel discussion at the NY Times with Frank Bruni, Daniel Bouloud, Jean Georges Vichtrewhatever and Michael White, so I took off for that. Ironically, despite being part of the Food & Wine festival, absolutely no food was allowed anywhere in the building, so I took myself to my favorite lunch spot from when I used to work in the area. Got home at a reasonable time, got to bed at a reasonable time, all in all a well rounded day.

AM SNACK: 9:30am, iced green tea


LUNCH: 11:30am, 2 Stouffer's French bread pizzas, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 3pm, multigrain tortilla chips, student-made fresh tomato salsa cruda, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 7:45pm, pork tonkatsu over curry rice, shrimp shumai, miso soup, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 10pm, small piece of dark chocolate with the good peanut butter

My Inner-Louis

I had my check up this morning, my blood pressure is 120/90, which the doctor & I were very happy about. Pending some blood, pee & chest x-rays, all signs point to perfect health for a 39 year old guy.

Spent the afternoon teaching the first class of the culinary after-school program. 15 students, a good start, hopefully we'll retain 8-10 by the end of the semester. Went really well -- I found since all the students were new and didn't know me, it was an opportunity to change up my teaching style a little bit. I called on my inner-Louis and made myself a bit more aggressive, a bit more shouty, and a bit more full of side-stories from my time in the biz to illustrate points -- less academic, more 'street', but with a focus on the content. It seemed to work, because the kids snapped too, the work got done efficiently, the cleaning process was good from the get-go, and on the end-of-class discussion, every one seemed to be a little bit glowy with excitement.

I rode over to Brooklyn Borough Hall to hang out at an Italian Heritage month even in their main room, celebrating Italian food and restaurants -- the resto had a little space among the many restaurants for people to sample food. It was fun running around stuffing myself, though honestly most of the food was very unremarkable, except for one spot that was doing thin little slices of octopus terrine with the most wonderful cucumber-salsa.

BREAKFAST: 9am, pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese, handful of chocolate covered espresso beans,  1 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 12:30pm, ramen noodles, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

SCHOOL TASTINGS: 5-6:30pm, about a cup worth of fruit smoothies, some chips and freshly made salsa, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5\'
DINNER: 7:30pm, lots of different samples of Italian dishes, a few desert things, pelegrino, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Satisfying

I really enjoy making breakfast pancakes and waffles from scratch on the weekends -- the best part is it's easy to make many extra to freeze, so Edie can enjoy them all week long. And enjoy them she does, I think it's my first non-baby dish that she can't get enough of. Making enough money to support a family, providing a roof from the elements, those are all great, but being able to make something from raw pantry items into something my child just loves, there are few more satisfying feelings. Other than, maybe, squashing a multi-day heated argument with my wifey.

Tomorrow is two milestones -- in the morning I got to my generalist for a check up (and a blood sample, ick!) and in the afternoon I go to teach the first class of the culinary after-school program at the Brooklyn High School. Yes, I look forward to Friday (only hitting up a dermatologist to get some skin tags removed) and Saturday (dentist - cleaning) where I can spend some quality time making waffles for the McFeedles.

BREAKFAST: 8:15am, 2 banana pancakes, iced green tea, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 12:15pm, half a medium Sicilian pizza with onion mushroom & sausage, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 3:30pm, green salad, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 6pm, 2 cookies
PM SNACK: 7pm, 1 slice cheesless shrimp pizza, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 10pm, 2 little burgers and fries, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Inspirational Sandwich

Woke up late, had a lot chores to do on top of Edie needing attention, rocketed out without a proper breakfast. Picked up a fantastic sandwich on Almondine on the way to work, fresh as can be, a nice focacia, rosemary mayo, tomato-tasting tomatoes, turkey and a creamy gruyere. Clearly, this place has a vision of good food that doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator, to make a humble turkey sandwich so outstanding. When I have my own thing, I hope to project a similar vision.


AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 10:15am, turkey gruyere sandwich, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 2pm, 1 slice of chicken-salad pizza, small Sprite, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5The guys in the kitchen made a cheeseless pizza with salad, but hidden beneath was pieces of deboned buffalo chicken wings, yuck!

PM SNACK: 4pm, green salad, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 4:45pm, a few spoonfuls of nutella
LINNER: 6pm, half a calzone, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 11pm, chocolate digestive biscuits, water, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Grind

Rainy-ass Monday. Feel good, though I worry how 3 days of rain are going to grind on me.

From today's NY Times:

"When people make numerical estimates, they are notoriously subject to the distorting influence of “anchors”: numbers previously observed that linger in the mind and drag up or down the later estimate. A new study describes a related but opposite effect: when the anchor is in a very different category, it can drive the target estimate away, rather than pulling it closer.
In the study, students who contemplated a rich, calorie-laden food (a “decadent” cheesecake) followed by another caloric food (a cheeseburger) saw the cheeseburger as relatively low in calories. But when they first contemplated an organic fruit salad, the cheeseburger looked 33 percent more caloric than before.
“When we see items which are intuitively classified in different categories, that leads to contrast effects,” said the study’s author, Alexander Chernev, a professor of marketing at Northwestern University. The study is to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research. ■"

I think I've been looking from the higher end of the calorie scale lately, when I should be looking from the lower. I think I will be focusing on the color code system again soon.

BREAKFAST: 8am, 3 banana pancakes, iced green tea, .75 bowl hunger 4/5
AM SNACK: 11:30am, Manhattan Special, piece of freshly baked bread, handful of olives, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 2pm, 3 small slices of shrimp and clam pizza, small sprite
PM SNACK: 5pm, green salad, bread, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 7pm, meatball appetizer, 1 slice white pizza, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

gut.

For the past 2 nights, I've been sleeping for about 11 hours, and it can't just be chalked up to jet lag anymore. My nose is a little stuffy and I feel a little low energy, so I assume my body is fighting (mostly successfully) a bug. My original plan was to wake up before the sun and do a mega ride out to my parent's resting place or up the Croton Aqueduct to the reservoir, but when I woke up and took stock, my first thought was not to ride at all and take it easy. But with the family and the job and all that, riding is very much a rarer privilege that is not to be taken lightly, particularly with my weight concerns and winter's cold blanket descending rapidly.

So I did a slow tug out to Coney, a ride I've done hundreds of times but enjoyed it thoroughly anyway. When I got home, Betsy herself was in a bit of a bleah stay-in mood, but I got her, Edie and Grandma to come out to the playground and enjoy Edie's running-about. Once home, we ordered in and I spent the night zoned out on the TV and zoned out in Edie's room helping her wind down into her sleep.

Just when I think Edie couldn't be more fantastic, she unveils another trick -- she's earnestly starting to mimic language, rather than randomly make sounds that sound like words ("papa", etc) -- her first word may well be "good", but with a German accent.

Me: "GOOD!"

Edie: "GUH!"

Me: "GOOD!"

Edie: -- pause -- "GUT!"

Me: "GOOD!!"

Edie "HAHAHAHHA! gut."


BREAKFAST: 8:30am, pumpernickel bagel with butter and sable, iced green tea

BIKE SNACK: 11am, clif bar

BIKE SNACK: 2:30pm, cherry ice

PM SNACK: 3:30pm, baby carrots, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, crappy chocolate ice cream cone, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 5:30pm, shrimp panang curry with sticky rice, spring rolls, small green salad, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Tummy Ache!!

I passed out around 9pm yesterday after an exhausting rainy day of doing nothin' much other than containing the Edles. Woke up feeling fresh at 4:30, so drank tea and watched the tube until the inspiration hit to make a batch of pancakes before the E-D rose. Suffice to say, when she did, she downed almost 2 entire pancakes, a new worlds record in Edie-pancake-consumption.

AM SNACK: 5am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 6:45am, 2 banana pancakes, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


AM SNACK: 9:30am, handful of chocolate digestive tea biscuits, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK 1:15pm, hotdog with kraut and mustard, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 4:30pm, lobster roll, small bag of chips, root beer, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 7:30pm, chicken enchiladas with rancheros mole, rice & beans, guac & chips, 2 bowl, hunger 4/5
I ordered in from my face local Mexican place, but I keep forgetting how huge their portions are. I didn't have the focus to cook because of looking after Edie, and she was trying to mooch food off my my plate while I was eating, so I ate quickly, resulting in eating more than usual, and giving me a tummy ache!

Weigh-oof!

226.8 --> 229.6


Yesterday I wore a tshirt I bought in Finland back in 2003, with Homer Simpson's face on it with a a phrase in laplander that I never bothered to translate. It is XL, but being from a very blond, relatively skinny nation, it never fit -- it was incredibly tight. Yet yesterday, after being told over the last month by multiple unrelated people how thin I look, I tried it on and was very pleased to find it fit close without being tight or binding.

And yet on weigh in this morning, I'm up for the second month in a row. 221 to 227 to 229.5. Part of it I must chalk up to the liter of water I chugged last night, part of it to the increase in muscle mass in my legs, but part of it must be the poor eating habits I've fallen back on lately. Now that we're in the fall, I must rearrange. B has book club today, but starting next week I hope to hit up the HVS's basic yoga class early Friday eve (with inspirational vegan snickles after!)  and biweekly rounds of weight lifting starting....this weekend!


AM SNACK: 9am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 9:30am, organic wholegrain chex with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: noon, pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese and sable, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 4pm, gruyere-paprika pretzel with whole grain mustard, .5  bowl, hunger 4/5
Wandering in the rain with the Edles (under a stroller's rain cover ) and came upon a new fancy pretzel shop on Ave B -- really impressive. It was empty, and I don't know how this new iteration of the shop-doing-one-very-specific-thing-well will do, but the next time I'm down for a small nosh, I may have to swing by.



DINNER: 7:30pm, pad thai, thai salad, curry puffs, chocolate babka, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Ridiculous cocktails

A playdate in the morning, food shopping in the afternoon, out for pizza and a drink for MAP's birthday in the eve. Didn't eat a proper breakfast and got uncomfortably hungry, but had nothing in the house. I gotta start cooking.

BREAKFAST: 8am, iced green tea

PM SNACK: 1pm,  digestive cookies, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 3pm, brown rice shrimp nori rolls, inari, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 7:30pm, 2 slices pizza, a couple of mini cannoli, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNORT: 9pm, ridiculous cocktail 
At a bar with a few friends for a birthday. We were at a trendy bar that only had a few bottled beers, but a menu of very, very complicated and strange cocktails. Mine included rum, some alcohol I never heard of, Aztec Chocolate bitters, cream, grapefruit juice and a few dashes of things on crushed ice. It tasted like acidy cream, and the fruit juice curdled the cream. Over all, ridiculous and disgusting. I remember in the mid 90s, "grandpa" cocktails were briefly trendy, like gin & tonics and Rob Roys. I'll start drinking cocktails when those come back.



EVENING SNACK: 11pm, ramen noodles, chocolate babka, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Back

I intended to record last Thursday, but it fell through the cracks due to a Grand Snickle Snack with the HVS and Vise, as well as getting ready to go off to England. I flew out Thursday evening and came back last night.

I haven't been over to visit Tania & Elijah in a few years due to financial restraints, a new Edie, etc, so it was long in coming -- I used to visit anually, and Tania would visit me annually, so 2.5 years without contact was a bit much, but as with all best friends, a minute after I arrived it seemed only a few days went by. Except, of course, for the kids in the family, some who are undeniably young adults now. Scarey.

My visits there are defined by the ceremony of what we eat -- first night always Indian, last night always fish n' chips, a shopping trip for groceries at Tesco first day, and a homemade big lunch at Sunday dinner at Tania's sister's house on the Sunday I'm there. Indian and fish are always great, the trip to Tesco always unveals the deeper ways how the UK and the US are different, and the Sunday dinner is always a bit difficult to choke down, he he.

Happy to be back, happy to hug Betsy and Edie, happy to get back to the work thing.

Friday is the 1st, so time to take a look back. I have not been eating great, but I think my portions have been more reasonable over all. I've been getting a lot of 'thin' comments, or more precisely, 'not overwhelmingly fat' comments. I'll be curious if my weight has really changed. And with the cooler weather and less biking, can yoga and weight lifting be back in the picture soon?

The DOH inspected the restaurant today, giving a jolt of nervous excitement to an other wise boring, rainy slow day. It's something I studied about in school, and it was cool to be riding side-saddle on an inspector as she went through her paces.

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, organic whole grain cheerios with organic dead milk.
LUNCH: 12:15pm, 3 slices shrimp & clam pizza, 1 small sprite, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 5pm, green salad, diet coke, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
The diet coke was an experiment, felt like some caffiene. Yuck, I really don't have a taste for artificial sweeteners anymore. It's not even the taste, it's the mouthfeel -- too watery -- watery beyond water, like slippery, plasticized.

DINNER: 6pm, 2 slices white sicilian, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 10pm, 2 slices cold pizza, a few digestive cookies, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

Reverse Jetlag

I love reverse jetlag. It's like when you get an extra hour of sleep with they set the clocks back, but instead of 1 hour, you get 5. It's easy to get to sleep before midnight, and it's easy to wake up all energized at 6 in the morning. I should go to England more often!

Found myself eating an unusually large lunch. As I was eating the 4th slice of a large pie, I started wondering why I was so hungry, then remembered waking up at 6am with a full steam o' energy...

BREAKFAST: 7:30am, 2 slices of demi-hippy bread with hummus, small handful of chocolate covered espresso beans, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 12:30pm, 4 slices of sausage and onion pizza, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 2pm, vanilla cream soda, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

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


PM SNACK: 8pm, slice of banana/nutella pizza, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 11pm, a handful of chocolate digestive cookies, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5

Workworkworkwork pt 2

Went to sleep and woke up with a stuffy nose, but slept well and felt refreshed regardless. Work was mild. Looking forward to leaving the country later in the week.

AM SNACK: 8am, iced green tea
PM SNACK: 12:30pm, snippet of bacon
LUNCH: 1:15pm, 3 meatballs, a slice of pizza, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 3:45pm, a slice of nuttella pizza, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK: 6pm, green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 8pm, 1 slice pizza, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 10:30pm, small box of Entemann's chocolate chip cookies, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5