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Food experiments, recipes, & my eating habits

That Feels Delicious #1: Peachy Keen… wa

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I decided to write down what I eat from time to time, to share and also to remember. But today is an odd day to start because my meals are total misrepresentations of my “norm.” I’ve never had what I ate for breakfast & dinner before. And I had a chicken burrito on a flour tortilla which I may not have had since 2001? Nonetheless, my yummy meals today…

• Breakfast:
Creamy, filling, yummy despite the garlic Smoothie made of:
1/2 an organic avocado
Big banana
2 stalks celery
Maybe twenty hazelnuts
4 organic baby carrots
Organic garlic clove
Cup of green TJs juice (has spirulina, broccoli, chorella, & a bunch of other stuff like nectarines)
1/2 cup TJs peach juice (100%)
1/2 cup TJs cranberry grape juice (100%)

Had at least an hour of sun
After my swim: 24oz Brita water

• Lunch:
Organic chicken drumstick, baked with turmeric, TJs pastry seasonings (onion, garlic, lemon peel, basil, paprika, fennel, ginger, lemon oil, black pepper, thyme) organic oregano, rosemary, cayenne, peach juice

Shredded in an Alejandro tortilla hot off the olive oiled comal, with fresh tomato, shallot, organic avocado, a leaf off the basil plant, 1/2 organic garlic glove, fresh cracked pepper, seasoned rice vinegar

Water: 24oz

• Snack:
Apple pie Larabar

• Dinner:
Dad’s Peachy Keen…wa
GET IT? 🙂
3 tablespoons maple syrup reduced with TJs peach juice (which has apple, grape, & other stuff)
1 peach sliced & warmed in sauce
Drizzled over quinoa
Topped with walnuts
TASTY!!!

A Delicious Mistake

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Tonight I made a super yummy dinner by accident!

 

I had prepped a salad in advance because I’m staying with some friends and it’s easier to eat in a way that makes my body happy if I have veggies ready for salad, or to toss into scrambled eggs, or rice, or whateves. Then I can still hang out with my friends, instead of bringing whole food and chopping the whole time :).

All tossed together in the salad was organic:

  • spinach
  • cucumbers
  • red bell peppers
  • carrots
  • broccoli
  • thinly sliced zucchini
  • avocado
  • fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • olive oil
  • a little bit of raw apple cider vinegar
  • thyme spice
  • dill weed spice
  • freshly ground black pepper

I’m here visiting friends in Burbank to be part of my first Seder Passover Dinner! Continue reading “A Delicious Mistake” →

Food Glorious Food

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Mama went from 148 lbs to 125 lbs in 3 months eating this way. Her doc also took her off of her mood stabilizefood glorious food r, Zyprexa, as we started the diet. Over the last 3 years, Zyprexa made her gain ALOT of weight and it raised her blood sugar levels to a near-diabetic state. She lost 12.5 lbs the first month of this diet, mostly due to the medicene change. But continues to lose 2-4 lbs per month with the lifestyle change!  Her blood sugar and her BMI (Body Mass Index) are in the normal range again!

I had gained a few extra pounds on my trip to Utah and LA.  Nana’s cooking is tasty, but not good for the waistline, and Becca eats healthily, but in portions for a calorie-burning yoga instructor, not a motionless spinally-injured me.  After eating according to this paper for 2 months, I lost 7 lbs and am back at my high school weight! (Except in high school, it was all muscle, where as today, I’m still weak. But one step at a time…)

*There’s one change we made to the diet, drink your water separately from your meals.

**And since starting my nutrition program at the beginning of August, my diet has changed even more. But I thought this would be a good start for Clara. Food, Glorious Food