The countdown has changed from going up to going down because I am SO looking forward to my LAST DAY (or the day after actually). I finally went for a jog tonight, after a week of time off it was very difficult. I only made it to 17 minutes. Hoping to get back into the swing of things this weekend.
B: banana, almond banana muffins, coffee
L: leftover chicken schwarma, salad, kiwi
D: avocado, tomato and bocconcini salad, kiwi, almond banana muffins
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The home stretch!
Its the last week of my diet and I must say I have mixed feelings. While I love the 5 lbs lost and generally feeling "healthier", it has been very hard (and often a bit sad,) when I can't have what I want. There have been a few occasions where a deep fried, sugar coated, cream filled something or other has been the only thing on my mind. And I absolutely cannot wait until Monday when I can stop eating hard boiled eggs for breakfast every day. I also haven't had as much time over the last couple of days and so being on the diet has been extra hard. I will definitely keep some of my new diet habits in mind (I actually like the almond banana muffins and am better at eating fruit and eating smaller portions) but I look forward to being able to have the occasional slice of bread or chocolate. 4 more days to go!!!
Day 24:
Breakfast - banana and oj
Lunch - fried rice
Dinner - Sushi and a box of lindt (Sally and I agreed to a temporary reprieve so I could have chocolate and she could have a bag of chips, it was the best chocolate ever...)
Day 25:
B: hard boiled egg, coffee, oj, peanut butter cookies
L: Butternut squash soup, rice cake,
D: vietnamese soup
Day 26:
B: egg, coffee, oj, banana, peanut butter cookies
L: butternut squash soup, nuts,
D: chicken leg and rice, banana
Day 27:
B: egg, coffee, oj
L: chicken schwarma plate (rice and salad)
S: apple sauce
D: rice pasta with tomato veg sauce
Day 24:
Breakfast - banana and oj
Lunch - fried rice
Dinner - Sushi and a box of lindt (Sally and I agreed to a temporary reprieve so I could have chocolate and she could have a bag of chips, it was the best chocolate ever...)
Day 25:
B: hard boiled egg, coffee, oj, peanut butter cookies
L: Butternut squash soup, rice cake,
D: vietnamese soup
Day 26:
B: egg, coffee, oj, banana, peanut butter cookies
L: butternut squash soup, nuts,
D: chicken leg and rice, banana
Day 27:
B: egg, coffee, oj
L: chicken schwarma plate (rice and salad)
S: apple sauce
D: rice pasta with tomato veg sauce
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Day 23
Today was a nice, relaxing day. I slept in, went to the market, baked peanut butter cookies from my Grain Free cookbook and puttered around my condo tidying up. So nice to have a Saturday to do "nothing".
B: omelette with pancetta, onions, peppers, goat cheese, banana muffins, mango, oj
Snack: 4-5 peanut butter cookies (turned out pretty good for no sugar/wheat)
Dinner: almond flour crust pizza, peanut butter cookie, orange
B: omelette with pancetta, onions, peppers, goat cheese, banana muffins, mango, oj
Snack: 4-5 peanut butter cookies (turned out pretty good for no sugar/wheat)
Dinner: almond flour crust pizza, peanut butter cookie, orange
Friday, May 22, 2009
Day 20, 21 and 22
Tonight I just got back from a very long run with my cousin Mad and then drinks and apps at Globe Bistro with Saads, Raju and Mahi. My cousins thought I would not be allowed in as I was in my running attire (and still rather sweaty if I might add,) but they didn't even give me a once over and let us right up to the rooftop patio which was quite nice actually. A great start to the weekend!
Day 20:
B: egg, banana muffins, oj, coffee
L: spaghetti squash with meat sauce, apple, banana
D: Vietnamese grilled chicken and pork with rice
Day 21:
B: egg, banana muffins, oj, coffee
L: spaghetti squash with meat sauce (again... ugh)
Snack: apple, raisins
D: Green salad with grilled shrimp from Kelsey's
Day 22:
B: egg, banana muffins, mango smoothie, coffee
L: spaghetti squash again (the LAST time!)
Snack: nuts, raisins, tangerine
D: grilled steak, chicken, vegetables, marinated apple roll, glass of white wine (bad idea)
Day 20:
B: egg, banana muffins, oj, coffee
L: spaghetti squash with meat sauce, apple, banana
D: Vietnamese grilled chicken and pork with rice
Day 21:
B: egg, banana muffins, oj, coffee
L: spaghetti squash with meat sauce (again... ugh)
Snack: apple, raisins
D: Green salad with grilled shrimp from Kelsey's
Day 22:
B: egg, banana muffins, mango smoothie, coffee
L: spaghetti squash again (the LAST time!)
Snack: nuts, raisins, tangerine
D: grilled steak, chicken, vegetables, marinated apple roll, glass of white wine (bad idea)
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Day 19: An unsightly problem
I have developed a rather unpleasant heat rash. It started about a month ago and would only occur once in awhile on my legs or arms. Slowly it started to increase in frequency and also spread to my belly, back and now my face, neck and scalp. It still comes and goes but when it comes, my sensitive skin turns into a war zone. My back looks like its been whipped a thousand times. This morning I woke up with a little surprise, a huge red blotch right on my neck. I must have scratched it rather hard in my sleep and it sort of bruised into this red mark. You can imagine how a big red blotch looks on someone's neck. Rather embarrassing to say the least. I tried to walk around with a scarf on but later in the day it just got too hot. Luckily no one said anything. I'm going to start my "antifungal regimen" (as my cousin Cat calls it,) of Oil of Oregano, probiotics and Coconut oil tonight. We'll see if it works...
Breakfast: 2 almond banana muffins, hard boiled egg, oj, coffee
lunch: A terrible nicoise salad that I ended up giving away, bowl of popcorn, apple, 3 slices of almond toast (out of desperation for something to eat without going out)
dinner: "Spaghetti" with meat sauce (the spaghetti was spaghetti squash from my recipe book)
Breakfast: 2 almond banana muffins, hard boiled egg, oj, coffee
lunch: A terrible nicoise salad that I ended up giving away, bowl of popcorn, apple, 3 slices of almond toast (out of desperation for something to eat without going out)
dinner: "Spaghetti" with meat sauce (the spaghetti was spaghetti squash from my recipe book)
Monday, May 18, 2009
Happy Birthday Sally!
Here's a quick post to wish one of my best friends a Happy Birthday! Here's a pic of Sally at her 31st birthday, the year we stopped counting.
Long weekend report
The first "unofficial" long weekend of summer is over. Gerwyn spent the weekend in Vegas at a friend's stag so I spent the weekend "alone". Saturday I spent the day at Sally's family wedding shower (see pics on Sally's blog). We played games and most importantly (other than celebrating the upcoming nuptials of Sally and Ron,) I got to EAT! Cookies, chocolate, and BREAD! Whoo hoo!
After Sally's shower I went to my uncle's 70th birthday party. I was looking forward to another pig out fest (on cheat day!) but unfortunately by the time I got there the food was all put away. I did manage to locate the kalbi and chicken wings and went to town. I also got the last bite of my cousin Phil's Coconut Cream Pie which was deeleecious! A highlight of the evening was when I first walked into the living room and Charlotte started squealing and shaking with delight when she saw me. It was so adorable, of course I just had to pick her up and give her a big hug and kiss!
Sunday I spent the morning with grams. Since I was already at my aunt's house with grams, my mom and I stayed for lunch and enjoyed the previous night's leftovers. YUM. More kalbi and 5 pieces of cake later, I was satisfied! After all that cake, I decided to put an end to cheat weekend and resumed "project deprivation" after lunch. I went to my cousin Mad's house for dinner where they so kindly made almond flour crusted pizza (see pic below). It was actually quite deeleecious. Unfortunately my cousin Carol brought Williams Sonoma brownie mix for dessert but I managed not to cave and went back to my usual "dessert M.O" where I take a good long sniff and pass it along. :( We also spent a good part of the evening playing Taboo. It was my cousin Mad, Carol and I versus my other cousin Mark and his wife Meredith. Contrary to all of Mer's smack talk at the beginning of the game, we ended up beating them by one point. It was a very exciting game.
Today I met my cousin Mad again for a 9:30 jog at the Beaches. This time I didn't do as well, I find it hard to run in the mornings and I often had to stop. (Plus there were a TON of flies, I'm quite sure we both inhaled and ingested a good portion of the fly population.) After the jog, we met an hour later with the kids for brunch at Joy Bistro. After brunch we took the kids to the CN Tower. I haven't been in ages and surprisingly it was rather busy. Good to see Toronto still has a lot of tourists!
Its back to the regular diet again, I've baked more banana muffins so I have a stash for the week and also made an almond pizza crust to use later this week. 2 more weeks to go!
Diet Diary Day 16: (cheat day!)
breakfast: half a Tim Horton's breakfast sandwich (it was so rich!), coffee, juice
lunch: sandwich, tomato pasta, pork and chicken souvlaki, cookies, butter tarts, chocolate
dinner: kalbi, chicken wings, rice, coconut cream pie, fruit
Day 17:
breakfast: rice and seaweed soup, banana (not together)
lunch: rice, kalbi, other leftovers, 5 slices of vanilla pound cake
dinner: almond crust pizza, fruit, cappucino
Day 18: (back to the diet)
breakfast: hard boiled egg, oj
lunch: burger without the bun, green salad, coffee
dinner: baked almond flour breaded zucchini and veal with steamed green beans
dessert: orange, banana muffin
After Sally's shower I went to my uncle's 70th birthday party. I was looking forward to another pig out fest (on cheat day!) but unfortunately by the time I got there the food was all put away. I did manage to locate the kalbi and chicken wings and went to town. I also got the last bite of my cousin Phil's Coconut Cream Pie which was deeleecious! A highlight of the evening was when I first walked into the living room and Charlotte started squealing and shaking with delight when she saw me. It was so adorable, of course I just had to pick her up and give her a big hug and kiss!
Sunday I spent the morning with grams. Since I was already at my aunt's house with grams, my mom and I stayed for lunch and enjoyed the previous night's leftovers. YUM. More kalbi and 5 pieces of cake later, I was satisfied! After all that cake, I decided to put an end to cheat weekend and resumed "project deprivation" after lunch. I went to my cousin Mad's house for dinner where they so kindly made almond flour crusted pizza (see pic below). It was actually quite deeleecious. Unfortunately my cousin Carol brought Williams Sonoma brownie mix for dessert but I managed not to cave and went back to my usual "dessert M.O" where I take a good long sniff and pass it along. :( We also spent a good part of the evening playing Taboo. It was my cousin Mad, Carol and I versus my other cousin Mark and his wife Meredith. Contrary to all of Mer's smack talk at the beginning of the game, we ended up beating them by one point. It was a very exciting game.
Today I met my cousin Mad again for a 9:30 jog at the Beaches. This time I didn't do as well, I find it hard to run in the mornings and I often had to stop. (Plus there were a TON of flies, I'm quite sure we both inhaled and ingested a good portion of the fly population.) After the jog, we met an hour later with the kids for brunch at Joy Bistro. After brunch we took the kids to the CN Tower. I haven't been in ages and surprisingly it was rather busy. Good to see Toronto still has a lot of tourists!
Its back to the regular diet again, I've baked more banana muffins so I have a stash for the week and also made an almond pizza crust to use later this week. 2 more weeks to go!
Diet Diary Day 16: (cheat day!)
breakfast: half a Tim Horton's breakfast sandwich (it was so rich!), coffee, juice
lunch: sandwich, tomato pasta, pork and chicken souvlaki, cookies, butter tarts, chocolate
dinner: kalbi, chicken wings, rice, coconut cream pie, fruit
Day 17:
breakfast: rice and seaweed soup, banana (not together)
lunch: rice, kalbi, other leftovers, 5 slices of vanilla pound cake
dinner: almond crust pizza, fruit, cappucino
Day 18: (back to the diet)
breakfast: hard boiled egg, oj
lunch: burger without the bun, green salad, coffee
dinner: baked almond flour breaded zucchini and veal with steamed green beans
dessert: orange, banana muffin
Friday, May 15, 2009
At the half way point!
Today is day 15 (whoo hoo!) which means I'm halfway through this diet. Its been rather enlightening and although I am slowly creeping back into my overeating ways, I definitely notice a difference when I'm gorging on only wheat and sugar free foods.
Tonight I met my cousin Mad and we resumed jogging on the Bayview Trail. I started at my place and met her at the riverdale bridge. From there we kept along the trail until we ended up at Fantasy Farm (that's practically at Don Mills people!!) I had to stop once or twice but I definitely improved since the last time and I pretty much was able to jog the whole way. That is until we got to the big hill at Pottery Rd. It was massive. I started out jogging but about halfway my thighs were on fire. I decided to walk the rest of the way while Mad did her usual running in circles around me. We stopped at magic oven so I could pick up some take out rice pasta and this time I managed to eat the whole thing. I was starving. I could have eaten my arm by that point. I have to admit that almost pound of rice pasta is sitting a bit heavy in my stomach right now.
Tomorrow is Sally's family wedding shower and one of our designated "cheat" days. Which suits me just fine because after Sally's shower I'll be heading to my uncle's 70th birthday and I know there will be a lot of good "cheat worthy" eats there. (I won't go too nuts though, I am on the diet for a reason after all. Wouldn't want to ruin all the progress I've made and gain back the 5 lbs lost.)
Day 14:
breakfast: soft boiled egg, almond toast, oj, coffee
lunch: swiss chalet chicken leg and salad
snack: fresh berries (which accompanied a lemon tart for a co-worker's birthday but I did not partake)
dinner: roasted veggies and chicken
dessert: orange
Day 15:
breakfast: same as day 14
snack: banana
lunch: spicy tuna maki, miso soup, salad and agedashi tofu
dinner: chicken, mushroom and veggies with pasta in an asiago cream sauce
dessert: orange
I have to admit, both the swiss chalet gave me a little stomach ache after and I got a wicked headache right after the japanese. I think the SC was because I was starving by the time I ate and had some hunger pains and the japanese food could have been due to too much salt.
We'll see what happens on cheat day. Isn't this SO riveting?!!!
Tonight I met my cousin Mad and we resumed jogging on the Bayview Trail. I started at my place and met her at the riverdale bridge. From there we kept along the trail until we ended up at Fantasy Farm (that's practically at Don Mills people!!) I had to stop once or twice but I definitely improved since the last time and I pretty much was able to jog the whole way. That is until we got to the big hill at Pottery Rd. It was massive. I started out jogging but about halfway my thighs were on fire. I decided to walk the rest of the way while Mad did her usual running in circles around me. We stopped at magic oven so I could pick up some take out rice pasta and this time I managed to eat the whole thing. I was starving. I could have eaten my arm by that point. I have to admit that almost pound of rice pasta is sitting a bit heavy in my stomach right now.
Tomorrow is Sally's family wedding shower and one of our designated "cheat" days. Which suits me just fine because after Sally's shower I'll be heading to my uncle's 70th birthday and I know there will be a lot of good "cheat worthy" eats there. (I won't go too nuts though, I am on the diet for a reason after all. Wouldn't want to ruin all the progress I've made and gain back the 5 lbs lost.)
Day 14:
breakfast: soft boiled egg, almond toast, oj, coffee
lunch: swiss chalet chicken leg and salad
snack: fresh berries (which accompanied a lemon tart for a co-worker's birthday but I did not partake)
dinner: roasted veggies and chicken
dessert: orange
Day 15:
breakfast: same as day 14
snack: banana
lunch: spicy tuna maki, miso soup, salad and agedashi tofu
dinner: chicken, mushroom and veggies with pasta in an asiago cream sauce
dessert: orange
I have to admit, both the swiss chalet gave me a little stomach ache after and I got a wicked headache right after the japanese. I think the SC was because I was starving by the time I ate and had some hunger pains and the japanese food could have been due to too much salt.
We'll see what happens on cheat day. Isn't this SO riveting?!!!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Day 12 and 13
Tonight I met my cousin Hanna for a little exercise and dinner. She took me to her gym (Extreme Fitness at Dundas Square) and we did a hot yoga class. For a girl who never exercises, she was pretty good at all the yoga moves. There were many that I was not flexible enough to do but Ms. Hanna had no problem throwing her legs over her head or doing "the bridge". I kept feeling light headed and everytime I did my downward dog I felt all the blood rushing to my head. I don't know if I'm a fan of hot yoga, I might not have the stamina to try it again. But at least we got to reward ourselves with Salad King after. YUM!
Day 12:
Breakfast: hard boiled egg and banana muffins
Lunch: stuffed chicken breast and vegetables
Dinner: Vegetable Soup, orange, banana muffins and a chicken leg a couple of hours later
Day 13:
Breakfast: western omelette, oj, banana muffins
Lunch: roasted chicken leg, leftover roasted beets, apple/ginger/lemon smoothie
Dinner: Salad King! (Tofu panang curry, hot thai noodle and mango salad SO DEELEECIOUS!)
Day 12:
Breakfast: hard boiled egg and banana muffins
Lunch: stuffed chicken breast and vegetables
Dinner: Vegetable Soup, orange, banana muffins and a chicken leg a couple of hours later
Day 13:
Breakfast: western omelette, oj, banana muffins
Lunch: roasted chicken leg, leftover roasted beets, apple/ginger/lemon smoothie
Dinner: Salad King! (Tofu panang curry, hot thai noodle and mango salad SO DEELEECIOUS!)
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