Thursday, March 29, 2012

Shit: I just sent this link to my nutritionist. Thankfully, I've eaten some good shit!

Of course I haven't followed my new plan of logging in to post my eatins on a draft and publish it at the end of the week, so I have to recall all that I ate. So hard, but most of it was awesome stuff, so maybe that will help.

Last Thur March 22...wait no...I already posted all the good shit there.

Friday March 23
Eggs
Guac and carrots
Crap...I really can't remember. I can say this: It was a good day of eating. Later, when I went to book club, I splurged on purpose though. After the salad with chicken(?) and chips with avocado, I had some sugar...in the form of a donut and pound cake. I also had a glass of wine, and no regrets, since the previous days had been healthy.

Sat: I cannot remember again, except that it was healthy. I even had a paramour over and fed him organic hummus, salami, chicken (oh shit...I had some rotisserie chicken on Thur? maybe) legs, spinach, and beer. I ate most of that. I think it was actually my dinner, so I may have been under calorie this day. Oh wait...I think I had eggs from breakfast and...CM meatballs and quinoa for lunch. With spinach.

Sun March 25
Earl Grey with a touch of cream
Starbucks sausage sandwich

Lunch: Chipotle -- salad with brown rice, black beans, carnitas, guac, and chips-- my new guilty pleasure. Is it okay if they function as a lettuce delivery vehicle? No?

Snack during Mad Men-- because I was so excited I forgot to eat!-- Sun Chips + a MamaKaze (any gin drink made by PapaKaze.)


Dinner: PTerrys burger with the bun.


Monday:
Breakfast-- Eggs with spinach
Lunch: crap...why can't I remember...well, I ate well all day. Oh shit...maybe I didn't. Did I go to Chipotle? Anyhow I felt good about my eating all day.
Dinner: Chicken breast with spinach, tomatoes, and hummus.

Tuesday March 27
Breakfast: Eggs (Has anyone noticed that I broke my Tacodeli habit?...very important as I actually want to live there.)

Snack: Iced coffee with cream, protein plate with cheese

Lunch: Salad with ham

Snack: Brown Rice Sushi-- keeping that counter at the WF open by myself.

Dinner: with Joe-- grassfed burger with havarti (does anyone see that this is 3 dairys? I paid the next day with painful inflammation) and a buttermilk bun. Greens, tomatoes, strawberries. Portions of several Lone Stars-- how do you lose your beer in your own house?


Wednesday March 28
Breakfast: Eggs and chicken sausage and strawberries
Lunch: 2 grassfed burger patties (no bun), ketchup, and a ton of green beans
Dinner: Salami with hummus and mixed greens

Thursday:
Breakfast-- Chick-Fil-A Homophobic Chicken Biscuit-- Look, I'm fine with the fact that I occasionally eat politically wrong chicken that's bad for me. I just want to know why they can't get the biscuit right every damn time. Its industrialized biscuits-- make them uniformly good!

Lunch: Turkey breast chunks with mixed greens and hummus

Snack: WF Sushi wrapper things

Dinner: Impromptu, post-derby, EAST SIDE KINGS!!!!!!!!! Beet fries with aioli. Chicken Karage! Beer. (Note to self: purple poop tomorrow is normal. Don't freak.)



Hmmm...I didn't eat as well as I thought, though it should be noted (mostly by me) that I feel like I ate healthy. 80/20 rule? Anyhow, this proves the importance of writing it down, aroundish the time/day you ate it. Also, I know I forgot a whole pack of probiotic yogurt, some plain tuna, and a chicken and avocado meal.

Update as of just now when I found my measuring tape: My body is doing what I like. Waist shrinking, rest staying the same. World, please be advised that when my breast/hip to waist ratio is more than 10 inches apart, I be dangerous.

Current measurements:
Overbust: 45
Waist: 34
Hips: 45.5

Thursday, March 22, 2012

More Food Diary

I finally managed to get to the store so I could clear out some spring break toxins!

Wed March 21
Breakfast-- two eggs, two chicken sausage links
Snack: Tuna cup with applesauce
Lunch: Smoked salmon (6oz) on a salad with blackberries and tomatoes
Snack: WF salmon sushi, hummus and guac with carrots
Dinner: Cowboy burger patty served on greens with tomatoes, ketchup, and baked sweet potato slices

Thur March22
Breakfast-- nutritional shake (WF Protein-- not my preferred mix, as it has fructose) w banana and coconut oil
Snack: carrots with hummus, Larabar
Lunch: Cowboy burger patty with baked sweet potato slices and ketchup-- forgot greens.
Snack: salami + hummus
Dinner: Roasted chicken 5 oz with guacamole, tomatoes, and greens

Coming soon: Forest of Nutrition Blah Blah Blah Part III

Friday, March 16, 2012

Eatin ALL the Montana!

Here's the details of what I have eatens

Thursday-- 2 eggs, 2 chicken sausages for breakfast, Taco del Sol Alaskan cod taco + pork taco for lunch, banana and almond butter, Montana BEEF burger with a half-mountain of sweet potato tots from Al & Vics/ James Bar. (It came with a whole mountain, but it was too much!) Bourbon, beer, and sad casino beer...oh and happy couch beer!

Friday-- Muscle Milk protein shake for breakfast, Earl Grey tea, Sashimi Cobb Salad from Iron Horse for lunch, Hummus made in Bozeman, carrots, and a delicious fig, basil, and chicken salad from Good Food Store. Also yogurt and granola with fruit. I feel sure that I am going to eat something else and have some beer at a brewery as soon as my friend gets off work. I feel like I might be short a few calories, but I'm gonna eat it purely for enjoyment. In case anyone is wondering how I feel about today's eatings, I hope that the last two posts may have clarified that this is eating how I mean to. At least until I get to the brewhaus!

Also, I did yoga today and walked all over a modest sized college campus. I don't often post about workouts, though everyone should assume that they are happening, but I think it is notable that exercise is such a long standing habit with me, that I do it on vacation too. Without even thinking about it.

Update: During the rest of my stay, I had some foods that were good for me and some that just damn tasted good. Highlights in the first category include a ahi tuna sandwich (never mind that bread ain't my friend), some chicken and broccoli, and a breakfast sandwich from the Good Food Store. The latter category would include all the beers of Montana and some tequila at one point...oh wait...two points, a JJ Breakfast Special from the Oxford that included eggs, hash browns, chicken fried fucking steak, and a spicy cream gravy that was delicious. Also I had a couple of teas that included sugar and a thai coffee cause you need a hot beverage in your hand at all times in Montana. Oh yeah, I had a bison burger with more sweet potato fries.

The Forest of Nutrition and Maybe Other Metaphors, Part II

So, somewhere between the discovery of eggs and visiting a nutritionist, I *think* I locked down how I *think* I should eat. I'm going to attempt to get to the point, then back up and do it in my usual wordy ass way. Here's "how I mean to eat" :

Do--
Eat at least 1600 calories per day, more based on workouts
Eat protein-- with every meal, min 4oz, preferred 6-8 oz
Eat veggies with every meal
Eat some fruit
Eat at least every couple of hours-- snacks with protein preferred
Eat servings of good fats every day, including small servings of nuts and avocados
Eat gluten free grains no more than once per day, preferably only once every couple of days or as needed with workouts
Eat organic and ethical products when possible
Eat two "free meals" per week while still respecting my health
Drink 100 + oz water
 

Avoid--
Under-calorie dieting. Forever, always.
Fat phobia
Dairy
Gluten
Sugar, esp in larger quantities, esp in processed forms
Processed foods
Meats with hormones, antibiotics, inappropriate diet, etc.
Caffeine
Excessive alcohol

Cultivate--
A love of real food
A base of recipes for my life
A healthy attitude toward food, including enjoyment and excluding shame

Here is a sample day of such eating

Breakfast: 2 eggs and 2 egg whites with spinach and tomatoes
Snack: Natural peanut butter (ingredients-- just peanuts) with apple or banana

Lunch: Leafy green salad with tomatoes, berries, nuts, and 8 oz chicken-- should be an incomprehensibly big salad. I could have an oil based dressing, but I hate everything about dressing so I don't. Rant later.

Snack: 2 oz +hummus, turkey, and carrots

Dinner: Meatballs and asparagus cooked in olive oil

I'm going to leave it at this for now, but publish an explanation of why this is my eating plan later, hopefully tomorrow.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Forest of Nutrition and Maybe Other Metaphors

As it turns out, I am going to post a little bit. I'm finally together enough to write about "what I mean to eat" and hopefully make this blog make a bit more sense.

I was once lost in the forest of nutrition, or adrift on the sea of food choices, or perhaps caught up in a cyclone of dieting. Anybody catching how I feel about nutrition sometimes?

After a youth of dieting, living enough years to go through some dieting trends, and just generally growing up in a world made of marketing that sees my every action, from hair washing to pooping to eating, as a site for marketing, I no longer knew what the hell to eat. There were years when I was extremely susceptible to "grocery store paralysis." A product of the fat phobic 90s, I didn't want to buy items that I perceived as high fat. This included ice cream and chicken nuggets, but also avocados, olives, salmon, eggs, and peanut butter. I also really felt that food needed to be convenient, and in fact, I WAS sure the vegetables and fresh meats would rot away as I failed to cook them, so I didn't buy too much of that. Later I also worried about transfats. And sodium. When low carb dieting was a fad, it further paralyzed me, even though its actually a decent choice for me. Most of the time I also wanted the food to be inexpensive and portable with zero preparation from me. So if anyone is keeping track, I needed low calorie (oh yeah...that too) , low fat, low carb, trans-fat free, food that came in its own container and didn't cost a lot. Or have a lot of sodium. Or later...HFCS...or more than twice the carbs as protein. I sometimes shopped for an hour or so and only brought home a few items, and a shitload of shame related to the competing nutrition ideologies in my head.

I swear that I will get to the eating in a second, but I feel I should give some clue first, as to how I got out of the damn forest. Let me try a list.

1) Mexico City Spa diet-- this was a ridiculously restrictive diet I did with my bosses in the late 1990s. Restriction or not, it did give me my first sense that carbs were dicking with me. Atkins followed not long after this and also confirmed this science for me.
2) Increased insulin resistance and its symptoms...which were lessened by the above.
3)  Eggs- they make me feel great.
4) Rejecting Weight Watchers
5) Carly Pollack-- this is the nutritionist I don't see anymore. No, I don't know why. Clearly, I'm about to write about how she changed my life...so...

I'm going to post Part II of this tomorrow. Right now. It's time to go eat and drink all of Montana. Also, editing will happen then too. Don't judge.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Spring Break

So I know that some people might post more during SPRING BREAK, but that is not how I do life.

I'm not likely to post again for just a bit here, but fyi, I'm seemingly on more of a break from nutrition than I was before. In this town, beers and burgers really do jump into your hands, kinda in general, but because of SXSW specifically. However, I am escaping to Montana, so while people (such as me) typically don't eat the healthiest on vacation, I am going to a COW STATE with many STEAKS, which work well for me (up to a point...red meat every day = no.) Also, I don't know what's in Missoula at all, so I can't have any specific cravings.

I'm not going to do a full nutrition run-down of my break, which started on Friday at 4:05, and has included happy hours, dates, April time, Lushie time, Dottie Karate time, and a roller derby bout/brunch. But here are some things I remember consuming:

Spinach (see how innocent)
A Mint Julep (um...)
Other bourbon related dranks
Chicken and Waffles
Chicken salad with berries
Spinach and hummus
Salmon
P. Terrys with the damn fries
Chick Fil-A
Tacodeli Otto
Homemade (not by me, before anyone asks that dumbass question) Chicken Soup with Veggies
Shrimp salad
Micheladas
Coffee dammit
Something from El Chile
A million chips
Torchy's Democrat-- yes.
Small gelato
And best of all-East Side Kings- some Chicken Karage, Beet Fucking Fries, and the Brussel Sprout Salad For Winners

OK, this looks like I ate the whole world, but this is many days food. I promise.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Dear Torchy's: It's Not Me, It's You

Wahaha! People, not unexpectedly, are hating on "Sheena" from my last post. I feel bad(ish) because she is a real person, that some might know, though she isn't really in my circle at all anymore. I (guess) I should clarify that I think she acted with the best of intentions and from her place of knowledge, which without knowing her entire life story, seemingly didn't include a lifetime defined by dieting/not dieting, eatin' wins/eatin' fails, and constant worry about size. There just isn't much of a way to know the full implications of that without living that awesome fairy tale of a life. (Except maybe by reading this, yes?) I feel sure that in this alternate world, that doesn't include past times like playing, "Am I The Fattest One Here, Again?", that you do, in fact, lose weight by like not eating cake for a while or going on a walk or some shit like that. (Does anyone think I sound bitter? I think I might seem bitter here. I'm...um...not...yeah.) I pretty sure that without living the full live version of this fat fairy tale, you could never get to a place where your favorite ice cream flavor is "low-fat." I feel sure that being reminded to just like not have cake (oh yeah...I never thought of that!) works great if you've never had to say...write a letter to cake in order to quit it.

I have never written a letter to cake...I don't think. But last year, when I started writing down everythang I eat, I did write a letter to a taco, from Torchy's Tacos, a delicious place to eat, in..you know...moderation. I paste it here for your enjoyment.



Dear Torchy’s Tacos Democrat Taco,

So listen, this is hard to say, but we can’t see each other for a while.  It’s just that, well…you’re no good for me. When I’m with you, it’s great, but then I’m left all emotional and needy, and later I just wish you were there again. It just isn’t healthy for someone to be with one taco that much.

What? No, don’t cry.  It’s not you; it’s me. I’m the one with the problem.

Now what? You’re angry? Well, I take it back. It is you. I mean come on, outside of tasting great, what do you have to offer me? Your genetically modified corn tortilla? Some mediocre quality beef? Dipping sauce with transfat? Hmmm? Tell me, dammit, what’s so great about you?

Yeah…I know, the fun. Here’s the deal. Once I’ve had my time apart, we can probably hang out here and there. But not like all the time. And you can’t bring your friend Green Chile Queso, cause you know shit gets crazy with the two of you. Remember that time with Dr.Pepper?

Yes, I’m seeing some vegetables. Go on, call me a vegetable whore if you want. It’s true. It is a lot of vegetables, like all day and all night, yeah. Lean protein too.

I wish you could be mature about this.

Later,
Miss Lady...


It's supposed to be funny, but it's also sick too! It would be one thing if I was writing to their Trailer Trash taco with all the cheese and fried chicken and avocado, but I'm writing to a simple beef taco that I occasionally poured a sauce on, sometimes. (Gawd dammit, I want that taco now.) Also, to me, even worse...I can't write to cake, because I don't really eat cake. Do you see cake on my nutrition log? Nope, cause I don't eat cake.

Or well, in full disclosure, I did eat a "cake" last night after my postings of food. I decided to try WF's Fit Starts Here Carrot Cake because it was by the register and has only unsweetened applesauce rather than any true added sugar. I still feel comfortable saying that I don't eat cak...oh wait...I think I ate some cake on the first day of this blog, at that Oscar Party...oh goddammit, food.

So you see, we can't hate Sheena or the Sheenas of the world. (Right?) You really don't get to this place with eatins if you don't have to. No one can be blamed for that. Envied with bitterness, sure. But not blamed.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Tuesday Eatings

March 6, 2012

Breakfast: Vow kept-- eggs, spinach, tomatoes...that I cooked myself with the stove
Snack: ICED COFFFEEEEE and a yogurt, fruit, & granola parfait
Lunch: Chipotle salad with chicken, guac, and 10 or so chips.
Dinner: Pretty sure I'm gonna go get some WF Brown rice sushi.

Guess what else? This bitch is gonna go grocery shopping. I might even use the stove again this week.

Monday, March 5, 2012

I've been up to no good.

But I'm only gonna tell you the food parts of it.

Oh crap. I have to fill in my nutrition since last Thur. Ok, here goes. Hopefully, I will remember everything and then remember how much it sucks to write down this many days.

Thur March 1
Breakfast: Chick- Fil-A Chicken Biscuit of Homophobia and Chemicals that I eat anyway here and there.*
Snack: I can't really remember doing this...but I know I must have gone through the Starbucks drive-thru for an iced coffee. I can't imagine that I didn't.
Lunch: Spinach, hummus, ham
Dinner: Pistachio crusted salmon, with spinach, and ...I forgot...brown rice!


Fri March 2
Breakfast: Tacodeli--Two Ottos on corn tortillas
Snack: Kind Bar
Lunch: Spinach, blackberries, ham.
Dinner: Turkey (4 oz), spinach, blueberries...eaten a hurry since I had to rush BACK to the school to participate in a male beauty pageant. I know...Miss Lady...male...what? Not as a contestant y'all.
Snack: HEB Sushi with High Fructose Corn Syrup, chocolate milk...also prob with HFCS

Saturday March 3
Breakfast: Starbucks Sausage Sandwich + Earl Grey Latte
Pecan Pie Larabar**
Lupper: Plain tuna with spinach
Snack: TXRG afterparty at The Jackalope. Hey do you want to know what happens when you only eat a light lupper before attending such a function? Well, I'm not sharing except to say that I think I also ate a part of a slice of pizza, but that's the least of my problems.


Sunday, March 4, Coming Down
Breakfast: Starbucks Sausage Sandwich (Don't judge; I had to), Earl Grey Not Latte That I Didn't Drink. Sad.
Lunch: A nap
Dinner: Titaya's Vermicelli Lover. Watery and flavorful. Needed.


Monday March 5
Breakfast: Tacodeli-- yes two Ottos on corn. Vow to cook tomorrow.
Snack: Iced COFFEEEEEEEE! Why? Because the internet was down at work. What else would I do?
Lunch: Turkey***, Spinach, Hummus
Dinner: HEB High Fructose Corn Syrup Salmon Nigiri

Why I Ate This: Not discussing. Mostly because it's time for bed. Seriously.

* Calling it like it is. Why do I do this? Just a nice little confrontation of reality that I hope prevents me from deluding myself and will SOON make me stop eating it.
** Have I mentioned why Larabars are awesome? Usually just dates and fruit, not chemicals and crazy carbs-- such as refined sugar. Stupid other bars.
*** So I forgot to mention this before...but when I write something like "turkey" this typically means a maybe organic (budget), definitely nitrite and hormone free lunch meat (convenience again) and it typically means 6-8 oz, which is the amount that past body comps showed I needed to maintain my Miss Lady muscles.