Food Log (5 September 2011)

Rain, rain, and more rain. It's been non-stop raining today, so I wasn't able to get my walk done. I did do some yoga, though I struggled on some of the poses, thanks to my bruised rear and legs. I'm still sore from the fall, and was only able to do 40 minutes On a good note I removed wallpaper for two hours, at least my arms aren't bruised or sore

Tonight, I watched my dinner portion size. I felt like I could have had less, but of course I could have had a lot more. I've made it a goal to watch the dinner portion sizes from now on. All day long my portion sizes are good, but dinner I tend to eat more than I should for losing weight. It's ok for maintaining but not good for losing weight.

I wanted Chinese food today, so I decided to make a low GL version. Chopped up lots of garlic and onion, lots of broccoli and some chicken breast meat cooked in soy sauce, black pepper, oyster sauce, and a little splash of sugar (Just for a hint of sweetness). Instead of rice or a low GL mixture, I decided to experiment and try something new. I took half red lentils and half quinoa, added some soy sauce to the water before boiling. This way the soy sauce gets cooked into the mixture for a hint of taste. I got the idea from Japanese flavored rices where you cook ingredients and seasoning when boiling the rice. It was a success my OH liked it a lot.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with fiber, raspberries, cinnamon, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, soy milk and agave syrup.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate

Lunch: slice of rye bread with seeds topped with peanut butter and jam

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds and a peeled apple

Dinner: Chicken and broccoli stir fry with red lentil and quinoa mix

Exercise: pushups, crunches, and 40 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (4 September 2011)

Thanks to me falling in the computer chair and getting three big bruises, I didn't go walking or do yoga today. It was very painful to walk earlier. Now they aren't as sore, so hopefully tomorrow I can go for my walk and do yoga. I feel so lazy for not doing yoga for 3 days now

Food wise I think I need to shrink my dinner portions. Throughout the day I do good, but I think my dinner portions need to get smaller. Tonight we ate around 20:00 because my guy got back from work late.

Breakfast: 2 small breakfast burritos: 2 small multigrain tortillas, 2 slices bacon, scrambled eggs, lots of salsa, and hot sauce.

Snack: 1 piece dark chocolate

Lunch: 1 slice rye bread with seeds in it, topped with peanut butter and jam

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds, and a peeled apple

Dinner: Mexican shrimp cocktail with 2 small multigrain tortillas: Tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado, onion, cilantro, tomato juice, shrimp water, lime juice and hot sauce.

Exercise: Does 15 minutes of painting and 1 hour 45 minutes of scraping off wallpaper count as a little bit of exercise???

Food Log (3 September 2011)

Went and got a new winter blanket today ! I'm hoping it'll keep me much warmer when I sleep, since now the cold weather is beginning. When I got home I didn't take off wallpaper as I originally planned. I ended up vacuuming and cleaning the car this afternoon. It was really in need of being vacuumed and cleaned.

Food was good today, I did some things different just for a change of taste

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, pinto beans and lots of salsa.

Lunch: 1 slice rye bread with seeds, with peanut butter and jam.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds, peeled apple and 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Dinner: 2 small burritos, made with 2 small multigrain tortillas, pinto beans, a lil bit of sour cream, seasoned chicken, rucola and spinch, and lots of salsa.

Snack: 2 cups rooibos tea with 1 piece dark chocolate.

Exercise: 28 minutes fast long walk, and 2 hours of vacuuming and cleaning car.

A quick look at GI and GL Table

Here's a website that shows both the GI and GL of foods.  You can see which foods are high GI/GL and which ones are low GI/GL.  Hopefully this will help people understand the concept of low GI/GL diet better. 

Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Tables for Glycemic Foods

Food Log (2 September 2011)

Today's been a fun day of taking down old wallpaper. Looks like my weekend will be busy with taking down 3 layers of old wallpaper +1 layer of paint on them. I didn't do yoga since scraping old wallpaper, and holding the wallpaper steam remover thing is a decent workout for the arms.

Looks like I've influenced my OH with my good eating habits. He told me today that he bought oats and flaxseeds to keep at work for his breakfast. I guess he's been eating that this week at work Last weekend I made him a bowl of my way of making oat porridge, so it had flaxseeds in it, and I was telling him about the good Omega 3 oils in it. So I thought it's really cute of him that he decided to eat healthy for breakfast at work

Breakfast: Oat porridge with fiber, strawberries, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, cinnamon, milk, and agave syrup.

Lunch: Chicken, pinto beans, fresh salsa and rucola/spinach salad.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds and a peeled apple.

Snack: 2 pieces of dark chocolate.

Dinner: Chicken, pinto beans, fresh salsa and rucola/spinach salad.

Exercise: 27 minutes fast long walk. It didn't rain, but I tried my hardest to walk really fast

Food Log (1 September 2011)

My walk today was perfect, clear blue skies and warm. I tried to walk really fast as if it was going to start pouring, I did pretty good. But it just wasn't the same as the actual threat.

For some weird reason my guy and I have been hungry all day. It was one of those hungry days. While we were out looking for wallpaper, we got really hungry so picked up food. I got a schnitzel salad, this time I had them hold the potatoes.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with fiber, strawberries, cinnamon, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, milk and agave syrup.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds. Then a piece of dark chocolate a little later.

Lunch: Last night's leftover chicken salad with quinoa.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds, and a peeled apple.

Dinner: Schnitzel salad with quinoa.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Exercise: 28 minutes fast long walk, pushups, crunches, and 50 minutes of yoga.