Sunday, October 17, 2010

Sleep time: (1:10-10:13am) 9 hours

Breakfast (11:30am): 1/2? cup oatmeal with 1 tspn brown sugar

1 banana sliced with PB and 1 tbspn mini semi-sweet chocolate chips

Breakfast 2/Brunch (3:00pm): 1 cup vegetaraian ramen (street food Hapa Ramen) with vegetarian breaded chicken cutlet, carrot, broccoli, ramen noodles and broth (delish! perfect on rainy/cloudy day)

Snack (4/5:00pm): 1 5.3 oz = .66 cup Greek Yogurt with Honey (TJs)

1 cup hot milk tea (japanese)

not even a handful of almonds

Sip of water

Dinner (7:00PM):

1 homemade crepe with nutella spread

3 plates of Indian food, each with rice, 1 1/2 naan, veg orange creamy curry with broccoli and carrots, palak curry, 2 samosas with tamarind sauce, 1 cup water (Star India)

Exercise: None! Okay, bc recovery day?

Overall feeling: great food day! Delicious and overall nutritious Feeling pretty good health wise and inclining even better! :)

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Sleep time: 8 hours

40 oz water (2 filled up smart waters)

Breakfast (11:30am):

1 whole wheat english muffin with PB, little berry jam on one half, herb cream cheese on other

1 banana

sip of organic soy milk

Lunch: Chedder Grilled Cheese on White with little tomato, onion, lettuce, mayo, dijo mustard (not healthy, but filling option and pretty tasty from Caf on weekend)

2 vegetarian "baked"-tasting egg rolls with some sweet & sour sauce (too salty and not worth it! not very tasty)

2 oz chai tea (1/2 tazo chai tea and 1/2 organic soy milk)

some almonds

Dinner 1 (7:15pm): 3 orders of Ha Gao (9 or 12 ha gao) (gobbled up and still ravenous after)

Dinner 2 (10:45pm or 11pm): 1/4 of Vegetarian Ramen (Hapa Ramen) with added veg. breaded chicken cutlet, "tempura chicken" was a good addition!

Exercise 10:20-11:15AM: 1 hour Spin class (tiring, but good!) , then small free weights (shoulder stabilizers, 10 lb chest press/row, 15 lb mowing the lawn each side)

Feeling: really hungry today! need to have things to munch on on hard workout days (cheese & yogurt); also hungry often between as usual, eat more fibers?!

October 14, 2010

Breakfast (8am): a couple bites of flax & soy cereal with bad milk (blekh!)

Breakfast 2 (9:55am): 3/4 breakfast burrito: tortilla, white rice, whole country potatoes, eggs, shredded cheddar cheese

1 li of water

Lunch: what was lunch?

1/4 chai tea (1/2 tazo chai & 1/2 organic soy milk)

Lunch 2 (3:10pm ish): left over of lunch and a chocolate crossaint (Tart-to-Tart) (unsatisfying)

Dinner (about 5:30pm): 2 plates of Iceberg Lettuce salad with pilaf rice, almonds, crasins, and delicious lemon-ish creamy sauce with 2 or 3 small shrimp banh nam

water

Overall feeling: sore from yesterday's workout (good)

terrible food day looking back

kinda hungry now (10:41pm)

Exercise: none! good for day off after body-sculpting: do body-sculpting with Brian once a week as crazy workout

Total sleep time: 1:45am - 7:45am

Late to class & Falling asleep in class and NOT awake/paying attention

July 13, 2010

Long time gone without posting! Will improve on that.

Sleep total: 7 hours (1am-8am)

Breakfast: 1/2? cup yellow curry (from Manora's near work) with Indian biyrani brown rice

1/2 cup 2% milk

Lunch: >1 cup Indian spiced stirfy (cauliflower, curry, garbanzo beans, eggplant) with long-grain biyrani rice

1/2 cup Hot Chocolate with cool whipped Cream (Wicked Grounds) - delish!

2 sticks Orbitz spearmint gum

1 liter water

Dinner: 1/2 gladware of brown rice with fried tofu, shrimp, and tomato sauce

Dinner 2: 2 plates brown rice, Bi chay, firm tofu squares, cherry tomatoes, handful of lettuce

1 big cup Hazelnut Milk Tea (Verde Tea)

1 Regular Seasoned Cut Fries (Wing Stop) with ketchup

Felt: soo full after the fries and milk tea. Bring home fries next time and don't eat all of it

-Also just drink half of Verde's larger than most Regular size

-Hot Chocolate during lunch great and much wanted

-Wasn't sure if I was still hungry/wanted something after lunch

-Resisted getting Pinkie's cup cakes or Popcorn Shrimp at V Cafe after lunch

*Beginning junk food/fast food rule! Don't want to eat another fry again after wing stop..

Exercise: Walking from 8th & Howard to Folsom & 12th and back otherwise, NONE

July 25, 2010

Total sleep time ?-9:30am

Breakfast: delish!! mom's fried egg (fish sauce) with buttered whole wheat english muffin

1/2 cup Silk soy milk

10-15 glazed donut holes (kept coming back for more!)

1 bottle water

Lunch: 1.5 full bowls (chen) brown rice, sliced & sauteed chinese oyster mushrooms & onions, fried tofu with soy sauce, sugar, garlic and onions

1/2 bowl of canh (?)

Snack/Coffee at coffee shop:

1 Ventil iced White Mocha decaf, soy milk

1/3 Ventil sized cup water

Dinner: 1 to pho noodles with button mushrooms, chopped chives, hoison sauce, lemon juice and dot of sirachi

1 cup Silk soy milk

Feeling: ug. Would like to exercise but also thinking of wanting food (unconsciously stressed: must be stress-eating on top of feeling ug for having so many donut holes and a venti white mocha!)

-still hungry from breakfast (weird- why)

Exercise: NONE

Next time

*Write down what time I slept

*Stay away from donuts, especially glazed ones that are good! Or find way to incorporate a healthy portion/amount of them in, so that I am not going crazy on them

*also, make exercise an easier, regular part, not so complex or time-needing

*How to study without buying drinks?

July 24, 2010

Total sleep time: 9 hours (2am-10:45am)

Breakfast: 1 chen brown rice and canh dark leafy green

16 white cherries

1/2 pomegranate italian cream soda (Seattle's - terrible.)

Snack: 1 tuberware (1/2-1/3 cup) pasta (corkscrew pasta, portobello mushroom, chives, soy sauce, tomatos)

Dinner: 1 cup spring mix with cut string bean, cubed beets, feta, cubes of green apple, endamame peas, 1 sliced boiled egg with gorgonzola vinegarette

1/2 cup garlic potato rings (Pluto's)

1 cup still water

1 Small Strawberry Italian Cream Soda (wrong flavor, again. Go-to: Black Cherry)

1/2 cup spring mix salad

10 garlic potato rings (perfect)

1 bite of banh cuon with pho broth (sooooo delicious.)

Exercise: NONE

Feeling: From memory, pretty good! Haha need to stop trying different Italian Soda flavors (because they do not do), and also cut back on the Italian Soda and coffee.

July 23, 2010

Sleep time total: 10:00am woke up

Breakfast (11:30am): 3 bo of bun thit nuong chay (3 bowls rice vermicelli noodles, soy sauce, sugar, chive & onion fried tofu fish-cake slices, lettuce & cucumbers, fish sauce)

1 cup Silk soy milk

1 Medium Italian Cream Soda (Seattle's)

1/2 water bottle

Supper (5:00pm) : 3-4 or 5 bowls of steamed white rice, honey walnut prawns and salt & pepper fried tofu cubes (China Palace)

1 cup milk tea with pearls

1 tea-cup of tea (jasmine)

Getting coffee with friend (7:30pm): 1/2 cup Single Mocha Frappe (Monsieur Beans of WG) *get italian soda next time!

1 square crumble-top cake (not good worth it)

Feeling: Pretty good! (Probably good day). Wondering why I'm not needing/eating as much food. (Not consciously, just noticing it as I journal down/food blog it. Smaller appetite? / more filling foods? Who knows - both?)

Exercise: NONE! Like 15-20 pushups for fun

July 21, 2010

Breakfast (10:50am): 2 fried eggs with lettuce and 1/3 bowl brown fried rice (toasted sesame and sesame oil) (delicious and relatively filing! Good way to start off the day - cooking for myself yummy food.)

1/2 cup own squeezed (mama :)) OJ

Snack: 1/2 glass OJ

1 boiled egg

Gulp of water

Snack: 1 Milk Tea with pearls (Quicklys)

Supper: 1 bowl oyster mushrooms, sliced carrots, chives, onions, and fried tofu with Banh Cuon and sweet fish sauce

1/4 cup of Silk Soy Milk

1 italian soda (cream, pop, black cherry syrup) (Seattle's Best)
1.5 cup water

2 mini quesadillas (cheese, white tortila-flour) (Taco Bell)

Feeling: Great! Did not actually need the 2 mini quesadillas - had been afraid that I was full on water & italian soda and with the little amt of food in the day.
Exercise: NONE

July 20,2010

Total sleep time: 8 hours (12:30am-8:20am)

Breakfast: 1 cup pho broth with brown rice

1/2 cup Silk Soy Milk

Snack: 3 cherries

1 glazed donut

Lunch: 1/4 organic veggie wrap (spring greens, hummus, whole wheat tortilla, carrots, onions, swiss cheese)

1/2 cup fat sliced fries with ketchup

Lunch 2 (in the car): 1/4 (rest of 1/2) organic veggie wrap

Dinner: 1.5 bowls brown rice with lots of canh dark leafy green (soup) and sauteed portobello mushroom

1 cup Silk Soy Milk

Snack:

2 mini cheese quesadillas (taco bell) and a couple fries (mcdonalds)

1 Medium Italian Cream Soda (Black Cherry) (Seattle's Best)

Exercise: NONE

Feeling: pretty good food wise. Would like to stretch more as muscles ready for action from rafting! Bad emotional day

July 19, 2010

Breakfast:

couple bites of (spoiled) english muffin with cream cheese

1 fried egg with cheese on fried english muffin (soo good) with hashbrown and ketchup

Lunch: 1.5 cups Shrimp Cocktail Salad (baby shrimp cocktail, iceberg lettuce, marinara sauce, 1/2 sliced boiled egg, avocado slices- delicious!!) with 1/4 organic veggie wrap

water

Dinner 1: 1 bowl brown rice with sesame

1/2 cup of Shrimp Cocktail Salad

1/2 handful of Sour Cream & Onion ruffles

Dinner 2: 1 bowl (1/2 cup?) Bun Thit Nuong chay (rice vermicelli, sauteed chinese oyster mushrooms, fried onions, chives, carrots with fish sauce and iceberg lettuce from Shrimp Cocktail salad)

1/4 cup of small shrimp cocktail

Snack: Iced Thai Tea with Pearls -too sweet (Quicklys) (no snack, yay! :))

1 bite of mini veggie egg roll

Pre-bike mini stretch

Exercise: Bike 4.2 miles (to Quicklys and back)

Feeling: what a delicious food day! And not too bad either. Shrimp cocktail was a nice thing to have (and filling with all the greens) after not having shrimp for a while. Exercise felt grreat!

July 18, 2010

Total Sleep time: 3 hours (3:40-6:30am)

RAFTING DAY

Rafting with Venturers & Rovers in Oakdale near Sacramento from 11am-5pm

Breakfast (7:30an): Spongy bread

Breakfast 2 (8:30am): 2 slices Colby Jack Cheese, 1/2 juice cup of grapefruit, some funyuns

Snack on the road: Funyuns, some grapefruit

Water

Lunch: 1 or 2? Veggie Banh Mi (fake meat, carrots and cai, cucumber, mayo, french baguette)

1 bottle water

1 bag Cheetos

Snacking on the river (in between rafting)

1/2 bag Lays

1 bag Ranch Doritos

1 handful Mustard Pretzel Bits

1/3 Veggie Banh Mi

Snack on way back (car ride):

2 slices Colby Jack Cheese

Funyuns

3 sips of McDonalds McCafe Caramel Frappe

Dinner at home: 1 to Mi Quan (hu tieu/banh cuon, 2 shrimps, mi quan broth-delish!)

1 cup Silk Soy Milk

Exercise: 6 hours rafting, about 2-3 hours rafting (paddling) continuously, also cliff-diving and swinging from rope into water

Feeling: great!! Of course could have had better food when snacking, but in all felt GREAT and to be eating such bad food but using all of it energy-wise during rafting- Yum. :)

Had energy after rafting and mass to do some studying (not pooped out yet.) Soo good to be exercising!

July 16, 2010

Total sleep time: 11 hours (1:30-11:45am)

Breakfast/Brunch (1:30):
2 to buon thit nuong chay (2 bowls vermicelli with lettuce, fish sauce, and sauteed oyster mushrooms, fried onions, chives, and thinly sliced carrots and fried tofu)
1 cup Silk Soy Milk

Snack: 1/2 Strawberry paleta

Lunch/Supper: 1 to buon thit nuong chay
1 cup fresh fruit smoothie (frozen fresh strawberries, 2 bananas, soy milk)

1/4 mango paleta

Dinner: 5 veggie banh boc loc (dau xanh) with fish sauce, lettuce
2 cups Silk soy milk
1/2 cup potato salad
1/2 handful blueberries
1/2 english muffin

Exercise: NONE
Overall feeling: Really feeling gross from not having exercised. Feeling terrible overall about my body and health.

July 15, 2010

Breakfast: 4 pieces of fried tofu rectangles with soy sauce
1 cup Silk soy milk

Lunch: Chinese oyster mushrooms and fried tofu with brown rice 1/2 container
3 handfuls of blueberries (very filling! was not hungry later, felt sustained)
water
glazed donut (mmm)

Snack: 2 bar sections of Hershey's white chocolate cookies n' cream

Dinner 1: 4 pieces of microwaveable pizza brushetta (At Rachel's)
2 brownies
1.5 cup sparkling lemonade

Dinner 2: Hu Tieu in a jiffy! (frozen shrimp wonton soup, ban cuon, hoison sauce)
1 cup Silk soy milk

Total Sleep time: 7.5 (1:30am-8:35am)

Overall feeling: (In retrospect:) Pretty gross food day! Soytastic beginning half of day: add more variety to food.

Exercise: NONE (ugg, feeling the effects the next day)

July 14, 2010

Breakfast: 1 cup mien (clear noodles) with portobello & tomato sauce
sip of soy milk
many cherries (7?)

Lunch: 1 packed container mien with portobello & tomato sauce
almonds
10 cherries

Dinner: 3/4 cup broccoli and dark leafy greens (cai) with white rice and 3 mini veggie eggrolls with sweet & sour sauce
1 cup soy milk (?)
water

Sleep time: 8 hours (1:30am-8:30am)

Exercise: NONE

Feeling: Surprised that I am not starving looking at my food today. Definitely made connection that the clear noodles are like empty calories bc you do not get filled up on them after eating even a full-sized meal -- whole grains are best for health and staying satisfied! Refrained from eating junk food (ice cream/smoothie/pearl drink/chips) after 5pm class: great!
*How was I not feeling like I was starving the whole day?
*Definitely would like to start on exercise (definitely) next week, after Monday. Looking forward to full day of rafting on Sunday!

July 12, 2010

Breakfast: 1 toasted whole wheat english muffin with cottage cheese

1 cup smoothie (soy milk, fresh strawberries, fresh bananas)

Snack: 10 white cherries (mmm)

Lunch: 1 container white rice and very salty eggs with 2 chopsticks-full dark leafy green

1 liter water

some cherries

Snack: 2 handfuls of almonds

Supper: 1/2 cup potato salad, 1/2 cup organic spring mix, handful of blueberries

Dinner: (9pm) Mom's in-a-jiffy Mi Quang (chicken broth, fresh pineapple juice), sautéed & sliced portobello mushrooms and shrimp with onions, hu tieu noodles (delish!)

1 cup Silk soy milk

Total Exercise: NONE

Total sleep time: 6 hours or 6.5 hours (1:30am-8:00am/7:30am)

Feeling: delish food! Pretty nutritious and satiated all around (never felt starving)

July 10, 2010

Breakfast: (12:30pm)

1 bowl of pho noodles with no broth, green onions

1 cup Silk soy milk

5 lays ruffles chips, 4 cherries or so

Lunch: 1/2 bowl white rice, steamed teriyaki and sesame oil broccoli, 1 lightly fried overeasy egg with minced garlic

1 fun-size butterfinger

1 rectangle of shrimp-fried tofu

1 tall Iced White Mocha decaf (Starbucks)

1 gladware of red-sauce mushroom rigatoni, thin slice of foccacia

leftover handful of almonds

Dinner (7:30pm) - Mom's fried pho noodles with shrimp, little sweet & sour sauce, chives and onions with some dark greens

Snack: 1 chocolate glazed donut

1/2 cup Silk soy milk

*felt like I drank a lot of water today

Overall feeling: pretty bad food day (as in too much amount), not feeling too gross, definitely eating from stress, was really hungry at 2 (after breakfast at 12pm - bad breakfast)

Total sleep time: more than 10 hrs (1:30am-11:45pm)

Exercise: NONE

July 10, 2010

Breakfast: (12:30pm)
1 bowl of pho noodles, no broth, green onions
1 cup Silk soy milk


5 chips, 4 cherries or so


Lunch: 1/2 bowl white rice, steamed teriyaki and sesame oil broccoli, 1 lightly fried overeasy egg with minced garlic


1 fun-size butterfinger


1 rectangle of shrimp-fried tofu


1 tall Iced White Mocha decaf (Starbucks)


1 gladware of red-sauce mushroom rigatoni, thin slice of foccacia


Dinner (7:30pm) - Mom's fried pho noodles with shrimp, little sweet & sour sauce, chives and onions with some dark greens


Snack: 1 chocolate glazed donut


Overall feeling: pretty bad food day (as in too much amount), not feeling too gross, definitely eating from stress, was really hungry at 2 (after breakfast at 12pm - bad breakfast)


Total sleep time: <10 hours (1am-11:45pm)


Exercise: NONE

July 9, 2010

Breakfast/Lunch: 1 plate spaghetti and rigatoni with 4 steamed broccoli, 4-5 pieces of french baguette bread with light margarine, and mushroom red sauce

1 cup Silk soy milk

1 cup water

Snack: 1 mango paleta

Snack: 1 english muffin with cottage cheese and 7 cherries

1 cup water

1 cup Silk soy milk

Dinner: (Sweet Tomatoes) 2 plates mix of spinach & lettuce salad (french dressing, kidney beans, peas, chinese croutons, and some egg) and mango salad, 1/4 cup lentil soup with two pieces pizza/foccacia, 1/2 cup macaroni & cheese, 1/4 cup rice pilaf, cornbread and vanilla non-fat ice cream

1 cup water

1/2 cup chocolate whole milk

Snack: 1 small bag buttered popcorn

Overall feeling: very dis-satisified with food options and taste of food at Sweet Tomatoes (felt like it was posing as healthy but actually offered little variety and healthy options)

Exercise: NONE

Sleep time: 9 hours (feels good) 4:00am-1:00pm

July 8, 2010

Breakfast: 1 cup of pho broth and noodles (delicious!)

water

Snack: almonds

Lunch: 1 cup Iced Chai (1/2 Chai and 1/2 skim milk), 1/2 container of fried tofu rectangles with white rice and tomato sauce, almonds

Snack: Almonds, container of watermelon, and 4 squares of Hersheys White Chocolate Cookies n' Cream

Dinner: 1 cup? spaghetti and rigatoni with mushroom red-sauce, handful of steamed broccoli, 3 or so pieces of bread with I can't believe it's not butter, 1/2 cup Silk soymilk

liter of water

Exercise: 20 min or so biking with Thu (to Lee's Sandwiches & Produce Spot and back)

Overall Feeling: great! good day and every meal was delicious (tomato & rice was easier to eat with distraction of company. :))

*continuous munching on almonds (but not mindless grazing) helped to sustain off hunger

*not starving after class today (good!)

Total sleep time: 7 hours (2-9) so hard to wake up in the morning: very tired

July 7, 2010

Breakfast: english muffin with cottage cheese & two strawberries

2/3 cup of Silk Soy Milk

Snack: almonds and cherries

Lunch: 1/2 whole-wheat bun with american cheese, balsamic-vinegar soaked portobello mushrooms, baby greens and onions, 1/2 cup fries

Snack: 10 cherries, handful of almonds

Dinner: 4 or 5 spring rolls with spring mix and fried rice-paper paper, soy sauce, and 1/2 plate spring mix with couple cubes of fried tofu in Mom's tomato sauce

Snack: 9:45pm Mango cream ice cream and banana smoothie

-about 1 liter water

Sleep time: 6 hours (2am-8:00am)

Feeling:

-Good, perfectly satisfied after breakfast.

*Still hungry after portobello "sandwich"

*Get hungry around 4, after lunch has digested - starving during class! which leads to tendency to want bad food right after class gets out at 5pm

*Perfect after dinner

Physical exercise: 15 minutes of stretching and very little core (push-ups, obliques, 30-sec plank), some exercise outside by the pool felt really good (7:45-8pm)

July 6, 2010

Breakfast: 1 cup pho broth and white rice

1/2 cup Silk soy milk

Lunch: 1/2 container of white rice, bau & red bell peppers

1 bite of fried tofu

5 or so cherries

water

Continued lunch: 7 cherries

-1.5 cup of yam fries (sweet potato) with curry ketchup & ketchup

-1 avocado shake with baby pearls (bars code)

Dinner: 1 to pho with fried tofu triangles and a lot of cilantro

Overall feeling:

-Starving after digesting lunch

*Make own lunch next time: incorporate handful of almonds, fried tofu in spring wrap with vermicelli and spring mix

-Full and gross after dinner

Total sleep: 6 hours (3:00am-9:00am)