Pretty close to the half way mark with this. I've been bitching about it quite a bit in the last couple days I have to admit. I really want so sort of Asian cuisine. Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese just put it in my mouth.Chris wants pizza and Mexican. Last night we were joking about how our local pizza place does a Thai-peanut pizza and a taco pizza and how we might have to go half and half on one when we're done with this. Except for the fact that it sounds disgusting.
All bitching aside, I'm doing okay. I've lost 7lbs in the last 12 days and 3 in the last week. If I start losing more than 7 in a week I'm going to have to adjust somethings, but I don't think that's going to happen. Chris and I are having a calorie spike day today, which we've done every weekend followed by a salt flush. Which I DON'T want to talk about. Google if you're curious. Anyway, on our calorie spike days we take our calories as high as we can manage without feeling too sick. Chris's goal is 2700 calories, mines around 2200. So that our bodies don't end up thinking that we're starving. It may sound counter intuitive, but it actually will help us keep losing weight. We also allow ourselves some cooked food. No dairy, no meat and nothing pre-made (we're making an exception today for the hummus).
Todays menu:
Suateed escarole with garlic and lemon
Squash baked in homemade tomato sauce
Greek salad (minus feta)
hummus and avocado
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Herbal Tea and Ennui!
I think that is the cleverest title I will ever come up with.
Today I am officially over the hump. I don't feel super energetic or my normal bouncing off walls self. But I definitely feel more like myself, not at all spacey or really even that hungry. Just a little...blah. That being said there was some chocolate sitting out at the lab today and I almost cried passing it by.
In addition to the juice, I've been drinking non-caffeinated herbal tea, so that I can have something warm every once in a while. I'm generally a bit of a puris when it comes to herbal tea. Mint, chamomile, lemon-ginger, etc. I typically avoid fruit teas cause they don't taste like fruit, and frequently taste like poop. That being said I bought an herbal sampler from Stash Tea a while back, because I wanted to drink herbal tea with a little honey rather than having dessert. As if that was even a reasonable substitute. In an effort to try new things I've been going through them and I have to say so far they've pretty much adhered to what I said before. Except for Apple Cinnamon Chamomile. Which is delicious. It tastes like a slightly watered down version of hot apple cider if you add a little honey.
Juice of the Day!
...I don't know what was in the juice cause Chris made it!
But my protein fruit shake for tomorrow's breakfast is
2 Nectarines
2 bananas
1 clamshell of strawberries
Juice from 1 orange
2/3 cup protein powder
Yum!
Today I am officially over the hump. I don't feel super energetic or my normal bouncing off walls self. But I definitely feel more like myself, not at all spacey or really even that hungry. Just a little...blah. That being said there was some chocolate sitting out at the lab today and I almost cried passing it by.
In addition to the juice, I've been drinking non-caffeinated herbal tea, so that I can have something warm every once in a while. I'm generally a bit of a puris when it comes to herbal tea. Mint, chamomile, lemon-ginger, etc. I typically avoid fruit teas cause they don't taste like fruit, and frequently taste like poop. That being said I bought an herbal sampler from Stash Tea a while back, because I wanted to drink herbal tea with a little honey rather than having dessert. As if that was even a reasonable substitute. In an effort to try new things I've been going through them and I have to say so far they've pretty much adhered to what I said before. Except for Apple Cinnamon Chamomile. Which is delicious. It tastes like a slightly watered down version of hot apple cider if you add a little honey.
Juice of the Day!
...I don't know what was in the juice cause Chris made it!
But my protein fruit shake for tomorrow's breakfast is
2 Nectarines
2 bananas
1 clamshell of strawberries
Juice from 1 orange
2/3 cup protein powder
Yum!
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