Liana that dinner sounds scrumptious! You always give me good ideas. Now if I ever implement any of them.....
Yesterday got kind of screwy for a variety of reasons, but I didn't do too bad. What I did do bad was leave a container of really good Greek yogurt sitting on the counter overnight. I suspect it's just fine but always hate doing stupid stuff like that.
I'd just pop that yogourt back into the fridge and eat it the next day, lol. After all yogourt is made at slightly warmer than room temperature and the desert nomads used to keep it in goatskins hanging on the sides of the camels - a bit of room temp. shouldn't hurt, lol. Then again I don't mind taking calculated food risks. I've never had food poisoning either, although DH has, twice, from fast food chicken in the States when he was younger & travelling with his family. I eat street food in foreign countries too - I say 'live dangerously' hahaha
Today's meals were fairly high in carbs, fat & calories, but I have been working out quite a lot lately and don't want to lose any more. I'm still at 131 so no probs so far. The totals for calories & carbs is still under MFP suggested, but not much I can do about that except guzzle olive oil mixed with sugar - no thanks. jk
LUNCH Finished off the avocado with a spoon, did a stirfry with a lot of walnuts in it and made an Indonesian satay sauce for the top. Saporito - Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 3 tsp (10 ml) 120 0 14 0 0 0
Veggie - Broccoli (Raw), 1.75 Cup (91g) chopped 53 10 1 4 4 3
Fresh - Green Onion, Chopped, 30 g 1 stalk 10 2 0 1 1 1
Dole - Colourful Coleslaw(Cdn), 56.61 g (1 1/2 cups) 17 3 0 1 1 2
Adams (Canada) - 100% Natural Crunchy Peanut Butter, 16 g (1 tbsp) 100 3 8 3 1 1
Bragg - Liquid Aminos - All Purpose Seasoning From Soy Protein, 1 tsp (2.5ml) 0 2 0 6 0 0
Frank's - Red Hot Sauce - Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce, 1 tsp (5mL) 1 0 0 0 0 0
Nuts - Raw Walnuts, 0.5 cup shelled (50 halves - 100g) 327 7 33 8 4 2
Avocado, Raw - Avocado, No Skin or Seed, 0.33 fruit 106 6 10 1 5 0
734 33 66 24 16 9
DINNER Carb meal before we ran out to the pool to do laps (DH) and Aquacize Kickbox (me.) Rice/quinoa topped with meat & veg in a BBQ sauce with smoked garlic cloves in it made by a friend - it was an experiment of theirs - totally yummy. Uncle Ben's Bistro Express (Canada) - Quinoa and Brown Rice With Garlic Flavour, 125 mL (90 g) 130 24 2 3 2 0
Unico (Canada) - Canned Diced Tomatoes, No Salt, 125 ml 30 6 0 1 1 3
Vegetable - Celery Stalk 7 -8" Long (Kym), 2 stalk 12 2 0 1 1 1
Fresh - Green Onion, Chopped, 15 g 1 stalk 5 1 0 0 0 0
Generic - Bell Peppers-mixed (Yellow, Orange, Red), 1 cup 18 4 0 0 2 2
Ground Beef - Heb Extra Lean 96/4, 224 g 300 0 9 50 0 0
Amazing Dad's Sauce - Barbecue Sauce - Organic & Gluten Free With Honey Bunny, 4 tbsp 100 26 0 1 0 20
595 63 11 56 6 26
SNACKS After workout snack - fresh figs & raw nuts! Not a treat to be had lightly. Fairly heavy on carbs AND fat.
Nuts - Raw Walnuts, 0.2 cup shelled (50 halves - 100g) 131 3 13 3 1 1
Raw Whole Almonds - Nuts, 13.5 each 93 3 8 3 2 0
Pumpkin Seeds - Raw Pumpkin Seeds, 0.13 cup 90 2 7 5 2 1
Generic - 10 Raw Cashews, 10 pieces 92 5 7 3 1 1
Whole Foods Fresh - Fresh Black Mission Figs, 2 fig 94 25 0 1 4 21
500 38 35 15 10 24
That's exactly what I did with the yogurt! If it had been one of the fruit ones I wouldn't have tried it but since it was plain greek I figured I was safe. I'm actually going to phase out the pre-flavored yogurts for the most part and just use my own flavorings. Just have to eat up the supply.
Your dinner sounds yummy. Dh bbq'd a pork loin roast yesterday (yum!) and took a huge zucchini someone gave us and made "zucchini steaks" on the grill. I think I'm in love.
I love veg on the BBQ, Ruth Ann! Did your DH do a spice rub on the roast? or BBQ'd plain?
Last night's snack was probably not a good idea, as I was awake most of the night. I haven't had a bad sleep night for quite a while so maybe there was too much sugar and it kept me awake or at least waking up very often. I haven't had an after dinner type snack for long time so that could be it. Sleep disturbances are not uncommon in fibromyalgia though -
There are five stages of sleep, and in the course of a normal night's rest, a person will normally cycle through various stages, from light to deep to dreaming, every 90 minutes or so. Dreaming occurs during what's called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Interestingly, EEG (brain wave) studies have found that fibromyalgia patients lack the restorative levels of deep, non-REM sleep. It is during these deepest levels of sleep — also known as stages 3 and 4 — that the body restores and refreshes itself. Stage 3 is characterized by moderately deep sleep and stage 4, the deepest sleep phase, is when certain substances like growth hormones are released for body-tissue repair and replenishment.
Research suggests that people with fibromyalgia are constantly aroused by bursts of "awake" brain activity, which limits the amount of time they spend in these critical deep stages of sleep. "On EEG studies, fibromyalgia patients in deep-sleep stages have been found to have alpha waves, which are signs of arousal or wakening," says Patrick Wood, MD, chief medical advisor for the National Fibromyalgia Association. One study found that fibromyalgia patients experience at least twice as many arousals per hour as people without the disorder. (Quote from everydayhealth.com - the simplified story)
Up with DH at 5:30 though, since I was awake anyhow, lol. He was a happy boy, as he's been lonely in the morning (so he said) now that I've been working some night shifts. He freaked me out yesterday - I had earplugs in and didn't hear him get up at all, then when I woke up to readjust the covers, there he was standing beside the bed looking at me, holding his coffee.
Did your DH do a spice rub on the roast? or BBQ'd plain? He did a teryiaki sauce on it when it was getting close to done - was absolutely yummy.
Zucchini is what I'm trying to use up now - we have tons of it. I may shred and freeze some this weekend. Although dh has been hinting that he'd like zucchini bread,
Strangely enough, there hasn't been an overabundance of zucchini here as there usually is.... I've actually had to buy some - and it isn't that cheap at the grocery stores. Zucchini bread would probably be yummy toasted and topped with peanut or almond butter for breakfast. You could package up zucchini in a mailing tube and send it on to me, Ruth Ann, lol. The teriyaki sauce sounds delish! I like Asian style food anyhow.
This morning, after I ate a couple mouthfuls, I realized that I don't remember when I opened that box of almond milk in the fridge that I put on my cereal... DISGUSTING TASTE! I'm too cheap to waste my expensive GF cereal and blueberries, so I drained the bowl into the sink and got out a fresh box of almond milk. Good thing I eat sturdy flakes,
Liana
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Logging my wine in from last night's Kareoke party along with Popcorners GF snack food, lol. Sort of a funday snack meal last night.
BREAKFAST Calories Carbs Fat Protein Fiber Sugar On the run as DH didn't go to work and it was suddenly a 'Plan B' day.
Vega One - Protein Smoothie - Tropical Tango, 1 scoop 90 4 0 15 1 2
90 4 0 15 1 2
LUNCH Fatmeal with rich delicious toppings for veg & fish. Saporito - Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 1 tsp (10 ml) 40 0 5 0 0 0
Fresh - Large White Mushrooms, 5 mushroom 25 5 0 5 0 0
Vegetable - Celery Stalk 7 -8" Long (Kym), 2 stalk 12 2 0 1 1 1
Mp/Unico - Solid Light Tuna In Sunflower Oil - 7 oz Can, 1 can (Drained) 260 0 14 32 0 0
Classico - Traditional Basil Pesto, 0.0625 cup (62g) 60 1 6 1 0 1
Summer Fresh - Baba Ghanouj Creamy Roasted Eggplant Dip, 4 tbsp 220 4 22 2 0 2
617 12 47 41 1 4
DINNER Indian Food with higher carb veggies and sauces and grains. Veggie - Broccoli (Raw), 1 Cup (91g) chopped 30 6 0 3 2 2
Onions - Raw, 0.5 medium (2-1/2" dia) 23 6 0 1 1 2
Carrots - Raw, 1 carrot (7-1/2") 30 7 0 1 2 3
Safeway Eating Right - Extra Lean Ground Turkey, 5/8 cup (125 g) 163 0 8 25 0 0
Kitchens of India - Chicken Curry Paste, 31.25 g 125 9 9 1 3 4
Casbah - Ancient Grain Blend, 45 g (1/2 cup prepared) 170 31 3 6 3 1
Western Family - Light Coconut Milk (Canada), 0.415 cup(60ml) 83 7 6 0 0 7
Whole Foods Fresh - Fresh Black Mission Figs, 1 fig 47 12 0 1 2 10
671 78 26 38 13 29
Your taco salad sounds delish Liana - going to have to plan that for this week. Someday I'll get dh to actually write down what he puts in the seasoning and in what amounts because I can never replicate what he does and his recipe is kind of "some of this, some of that, a little this, a little that."
The Peanut Butter Cup ice cream - mmmm, that I'd like! I'm not a huge ice cream fan usually, but I am a peanut butter cup fan.
Worked last night so no 'breakfast' at the regular time. I logged my steps last night and I did 11,000 just over my shift hours and it was a quiet one, check-in day for the vacation condos. Everyone was so tired from driving to get there, that they weren't up to causing trouble late into the night. It seemed everyone was tucked away in bed by 11:30pm or so. Except the guy who fell asleep listening to Phantom of the Opera in his boat at its slip at the end of the dock. We had to give him a little poke to wake him up as his earplugs were in and he was snoring. Kind of funny
Lunch A scrambled omelettey sort of thing.
Eggs - Whole, raw, 1 large 74 0 5 6 0 0
Naturegg - Simply Egg White (Can), 63 g (1/4 cup) 30 0 0 7 0 0
Fresh - Green Onion, Chopped, 15 g 1 stalk 5 1 0 0 0 0
Fresh - Large White Mushrooms, 3 mushroom 15 3 0 3 0 0
Generic - Bell Peppers-mixed (Yellow, Orange, Red), 0.33 cup 6 1 0 0 1 1
Veggie - Broccoli (Raw), 1.25 Cup (91g) chopped 38 7 0 3 3 2
Bari - Romano Grated Cheese Product, 3 Tbsp 75 15 1 3 0 14
Saporito - Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 1 tsp (10 ml) 40 0 5 0 0 0
Frank's - Red Hot Sauce - Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce, 3 tsp (5mL) 3 0 0 0 0 0
Yoplait - Source Fat Free - Yogurt, Peach, 100 g 35 5 0 4 0 4
321 32 11 26 4 21
Dinner Randy got the salad ready and barbecued the chicken breast while I went over to a friend's house and did photography for them as 16 members of her family had come out to visit. Everyone got dressed up & I set the groups up in the yard with a lovely birches & greenery background on the manicured lawn. Turned out nice, and dinner was ready when I got home. My DH likes to cook a bit but wants explicit instructions for new-to-him recipes, no 'pinch of this, dash of that,' lol.
Avocado, Raw - Avocado, No Skin or Seed, 1 fruit 322 17 29 4 14 1
Brianna's - True Blue Cheese Dressing, 2 tbsp 120 5 11 1 0 4
Fresh - Green Onion, Chopped, 7.5 g 1 stalk 3 1 0 0 0 0
Generic - Bell Peppers-mixed (Yellow, Orange, Red), 0.33 cup 6 1 0 0 1 1
Raw - Macadamia Nuts , 20 -12 kernels 1 oz 408 8 43 4 5 3
Tomato - Grape Tomato, 4.0 tomatoes 9 2 0 0 1 0
Unico - Pitted Ripe - Black Olives, 5 Olives (15g) 20 1 2 0 1 0
Generic - Chicken Breasts Boneless Skinless, 5 oz (1breast) 234 0 5 31 0 0
Classico - Traditional Basil Pesto, 0.0625 cup (62g) 60 1 6 1 0 1
Laughing Cow Light French Onion Cream Cheese Wedge - Spreadable Cheese Wedges, 3 wedge 105 3 5 6 0 3
Bicks (Baby Dills) (Cdn) - 50% Less Salt, 1 pickle (30 g) 3 1 0 0 0 0
Yoplait - Source Fat Free - Yogurt, Peach, 125 g 44 6 0 5 0 5
1,334 46 101 52 22 18
SNACKS
Curves - Yogurt & Berry Bliss Protein Bar, 1 bar 180 23 6 13 8 8
180 23 6 13 8 8
BREAKFAST Calories Carbs Fat Protein Fiber Sugar (since I have a day off I figured I'd better have a bit of something for a real breakfast today)
Ideal Protein - Mushroom Soup Mix, 1 packet (27g) 90 3 1 19 1 1
90 3 1 19 1 1
LUNCH P2 style lunch - I want to still fit into my cute clothes for the long weekend music festival.
Saporito - Extra Virgin Olive Oil, 1 tsp (10 ml) 40 0 5 0 0 0
Cauliflower - Raw, 1.25 cup 31 7 0 2 3 3
Fresh - Large White Mushrooms, 5 mushroom 25 5 0 5 0 0
Generic - Chicken Breasts Boneless Skinless, 4 oz (1breast) 187 0 4 25 0 0
Classico - Fire Roasted Tomato and Garlic Pasta Sauce, 1/4 cup 30 5 1 1 2 3
Plum - Fresh - Black Plum, 1 Medium 30 8 0 1 1 7
343 25 10 34 6 13
DINNER Yummy bbq burgers with cucumber raita on lettuce - added nuts for dessert to up the fats to closer to maintenance levels. Kind of P3/4ish fat-meal but not too out of line in fat grams. Eggs - Whole, raw, 0.5 large 37 0 2 3 0 0
Ground Beef - Heb Extra Lean 96/4, 224 g 300 0 9 50 0 0
Irene's - Cheese & Onion Bread - gluten free, 0.5 slice 60 9 3 3 3 2
Lettuce - Red leaf, raw, 1 cup shredded 4 1 0 0 0 0
Laughing Cow Light French Onion Cream Cheese Wedge - Spreadable Cheese Wedges, 1 wedge 35 1 2 2 0 1
Olympic - Krema Greek Yogurt 11% Plain, 3/4 cup (175g) 250 12 19 7 0 11
Cucumber - With peel, raw, 1 cup slices 16 4 0 1 1 2
Nuts - Raw Walnuts, 0.3 cup shelled (50 halves - 100g) 196 4 20 5 2 1
898 31 55 71 6 17
SNACKS
Eggs - Whole, raw, 1 large 74 0 5 6 0 0
Lindt Excellence (Canada - Dark Chocolate Bar 90% Cacao, 3 squares (30g) 180 9 16 3 4 2 DH ate 3/4 of the bar and then told me I'd better hurry up and eat my 'share' today or he would. ONE QUARTER is my share?!
254 9 21 9 4 2
the peanut butter cup ice cream was really excellent. If I'm going to eat ice cream (which I don't often) I want it to be really good ice cream - no point wasting calories on inferior stuff.
I hid my chocolate behind the vacumn cleaner - dh will never find it there!
He freaked me out yesterday - I had earplugs in and didn't hear him get up at all, then when I woke up to readjust the covers, there he was standing beside the bed looking at me, holding his coffee.
