5-Day Food Journal: Day 5

Yesterday I felt good all day.  I did not need a nap nor feel like I needed a nap.  My energy level was stable all day and I actually felt sleepy about 10:30 pm and went to bed about 11 pm.  It helped that I was not in/out of the heat until it was early evening, when it had cooled down.

Yesterday I had a chance to eat a gourmet cupcake after my children's musical theater performance with my sister & her husband, but I declined.  They looked so incredibly delicious, but I thought about having to write that in my journal and that I couldn't even make it through 4 days of relatively good eating?  How pathetic is that?  I thought about not reaching my goals and how Scott has taught us so many good and life changing things, but what was I doing?  Going against the life changing things I learned for what? 

I am where I am because of the choices I've made.  I see how Gina & James are making progress towards their goals.  It hasn't been easy for them and they have been diligent even though they are not getting fast results, but they are getting results and good ones.  I'm so proud of them.

We all have our own stories and places where we are and need to find that thing where we put a stake in the ground and stop making excuses.  They have done that and from my actions, it doesn't look like I have.  I could give the excuse that I have young children and all these socials.  Well, James and Gina also have socials. 

Meal 1 (8:45 am):  3 organic scrambled eggs w/ground pepper, sea salt, grapeseed oil (0 g sugar)

World Cuisine Spiral Vegetable Slicer

Meal 2 (12:00 pm):  handful of organic mixed greens w/tuna white bean salad (3/4 cup) and probably less than 1/4 apple very thinly sliced ---> I liked the addition of the apple which gave it a slight sweetness (4 g sugar) 

My kids and I got this vegetable slicer earlier this summer, along with a panini grill (a great find at Goodwill), and cherry pitter.  Sometimes kids don't want to bite into a hard apple or even want those wedge slices, but this spiral vegetable slicer makes it a lot more fun.  The cherry pitter helps a lot because the kids don't want to bite into pits and I could make a cherry pie if they depit the cherries.  Saves money here to make your own sauce rather than buy the canned stuff that has preservatives.

I'll have to take some pics, but they get different types of slices here that are fun that they can do themselves.  You can also use pears, but you cannot use any fruits that are mushy or have pits in them.  You can also use vegetables that also have a harder consistency like many of the squashes (you'll have to cut down the ones that are really large in shape, any potatoes.  You can probably even do onions.

I also have had a mandolin for many years, but that doesn't have interchangable blades.  I can only do slices and vary the slice thickness on that.  And, I have a food processor that can do julienne, slicing, grating, but I don't know where the blades are.  They are packed in some box.


Meal 3 (2:00 pm):   10 thin fish sticks - (4.5 g sugar), 3 tbspns ketchup (6 g sugar)

Meal 4 (5:00 pm):  1 medium slice of tomato (0.5 g sugar) w/1 slices of fresh mozzarella cheese & 1.5 fresh raw medium figs (12.2 g sugar) --> This was a really good combination.

Meal 5 (7:30 pm):  baked parmesean chicken breast w/1.5 cups cooked green beans (4 g sugar)

Total Sugar:   32 g