Jul. 13th, 2005
It's now day four of my new eating plan. I think this'll be the first day I actually get to eat everything on schedule. Sunday got thrown off track by going out, and Monday and Tuesday got thrown off because of meeting. We have to eat before meeting those nights, so dinner had to be at six or so.
Looking at the eating schedule (three meals, three snacks, with three hours between each one), if I want to get in all the food on meeting nights, I have to have breakfast at 6am. Which means getting up at 5:30 am most mornings. Pshaw, yeah, right. I'm an 8 am riser.
This is my modified food schedule for meeting nights:
9 am: breakfast
noon: lunch
3 pm: snack
5:30 pm: dinner
9:30 pm: snack
I just end up cutting out the mid-morning snack.
Now, in comparison, a non-meeting night:
9 am: breakfast
noon: snack
3 pm: lunch
6 pm: snack
8:30 pm: dinner
10 pm: snack
I'll probably end up cutting out the last snack most nights, as that's too late to be eating (unless it's Friday, and we're staying up for Galactica).
I'm also still modifying the menu around what groceries we have, and what I'll actually eat. I'm a much bigger vegetable eater than a fruit eater. Or, I guess with some clarification: most of the fruit I like is expensive. Apples, grapes, grapefruit, okay. But then it's pineapple, cherries, starfruit, ugli fruit... I'm not a big orange/peach/banana/strawberry/etc eater. But I love spinach, broccoli, peas, green beans (oooh, especially steamed...), carrots, lettuce, celery, cauliflower... It's making me think maybe I should attempt to try brussel sprouts again.
It's just one of those things. Every few years, I need to taste foods I don't like, just to make sure I still don't like them. Sometimes I'm surprised, like I was with spinach and broccoli. Other times, it's just reinforced, "Yup, don't like those." I'm still not a big tomato eater. Cooked, I can handle them somewhat. Ketchup and other tomato-based sauces, I can do. Tomato soup, I love. But just a slice of tomato on a burger? Bleargh. If I'm in a hurry and forget to ask for it without, I'll suck it up and eat it (like Matt with mushrooms), but if I have a choice, that thing's getting off my sandwich. No way I'd put a slice on a plate and eat it with a little salt like Mom does. Heh, when Matt and I go out to eat, and we both get salads, his salad ends up more nutritious than mine, since he gets my tomato, cucumber and pepper. That's why I love Sweet Tomatoes, because I can add other things to my salad, like jicama, corn, peas, beans, sunflower seeds...
Dangit, too much thinking about food. Now I'm hungry and it's still an hour-twenty before snack time!!
Looking at the eating schedule (three meals, three snacks, with three hours between each one), if I want to get in all the food on meeting nights, I have to have breakfast at 6am. Which means getting up at 5:30 am most mornings. Pshaw, yeah, right. I'm an 8 am riser.
This is my modified food schedule for meeting nights:
9 am: breakfast
noon: lunch
3 pm: snack
5:30 pm: dinner
9:30 pm: snack
I just end up cutting out the mid-morning snack.
Now, in comparison, a non-meeting night:
9 am: breakfast
noon: snack
3 pm: lunch
6 pm: snack
8:30 pm: dinner
10 pm: snack
I'll probably end up cutting out the last snack most nights, as that's too late to be eating (unless it's Friday, and we're staying up for Galactica).
I'm also still modifying the menu around what groceries we have, and what I'll actually eat. I'm a much bigger vegetable eater than a fruit eater. Or, I guess with some clarification: most of the fruit I like is expensive. Apples, grapes, grapefruit, okay. But then it's pineapple, cherries, starfruit, ugli fruit... I'm not a big orange/peach/banana/strawberry/etc eater. But I love spinach, broccoli, peas, green beans (oooh, especially steamed...), carrots, lettuce, celery, cauliflower... It's making me think maybe I should attempt to try brussel sprouts again.
It's just one of those things. Every few years, I need to taste foods I don't like, just to make sure I still don't like them. Sometimes I'm surprised, like I was with spinach and broccoli. Other times, it's just reinforced, "Yup, don't like those." I'm still not a big tomato eater. Cooked, I can handle them somewhat. Ketchup and other tomato-based sauces, I can do. Tomato soup, I love. But just a slice of tomato on a burger? Bleargh. If I'm in a hurry and forget to ask for it without, I'll suck it up and eat it (like Matt with mushrooms), but if I have a choice, that thing's getting off my sandwich. No way I'd put a slice on a plate and eat it with a little salt like Mom does. Heh, when Matt and I go out to eat, and we both get salads, his salad ends up more nutritious than mine, since he gets my tomato, cucumber and pepper. That's why I love Sweet Tomatoes, because I can add other things to my salad, like jicama, corn, peas, beans, sunflower seeds...
Dangit, too much thinking about food. Now I'm hungry and it's still an hour-twenty before snack time!!
Sunday, we cleaned the bedroom. We found several wads of cotton under the bed. That reminded me of this strip.
I don't think I want to know what happened to the strings...