Whole Foods

Not the store but the concept.  My daughter sent a link  to a blog about a woman trying to eat a better diet. She blogs pictures of everything she eats.  The link will take you to the final page and you can go backwards or just go to the beginning and see her attempts at eating better.  I think my daughter sent the link because I have been beating myself up about eating a pound of Christmas chocolates (so delicious) and this blogger eats two pieces of deluxe chocolate every day until the candy is gone.

I wasn't that excited about the actual things she eats (and photographs with a date/time indicator) but I was amused by the multiple breakfasts.  I know that somedays, one breakfast just doesn't do the job. I could also sympathize with the snacking in the afternoon, which rolls like a ball on a steep hill, out of control.  Most of her snacking was a result of a too small breakfast followed by a too small lunch.  If she ate enough at breakfast and lunch, dinner wasn't an issue.  And snacking wasn't an issue. Her normal work day ended around 7 pm which is very late to be starting to prepare a meal.

She gives no indication of weigh lost.  She did lose weight but the reason for doing this 6 week adventure was to learn to eat better foods.  She even tries to eat the food pyramid and finds it's more food than she can actually consume.  Interesting.

My take on "whole food" is that the food must be in it's natural state or as close as possible to it's origins.  The butternut squash I am roasting as I type, is just that, butternut squash (actually grown in my backyard last summer).  I rolled the peeled chunks in a splash of olive oil and sprinkled with salt and pepper. I skipped the addition of usual pancake syrup because that isn't in any sort of "natural" condition and I dislike pure maple syrup (I don't like honey either).  There is a "five ingredient" rule which some people use.  Meaning a product can have only five listed ingredients and you have to know what all five are.  No chemicals.  Which is why I continue to use plain sugar and no artificial sweeteners.

Yesterday I had breakfast (oatmeal), coffee, the last slice of Kraft American cheese (plastic cheese), a diet Coke, a vegetarian Bruce's Burrito (it must have weighed a full pound and was made from freshly made ingredients like beans, rice and avocado) and an orange.  For the entire day.  And I did my new Pilates routine (I don't like the new machine, but I usually despise anything new), walked the dog and never got any shirts ironed.  G arrived home with the surprise burrito just as Riley and I walked in from our walk.  4 is the perfect time for me to eat.  It's when I am very, very hungry. The burrito was greeted with much joy and happiness.  And I ate the whole thing.  I wouldn't mind having one of those everyday.  At 4 pm.

I think I will be bulking up my breakfasts.  Adding fruits and yogurt.  As long as everything is in it's whole state I will eat it for breakfast.  And I will eat eggs with bacon and toasted French baguette.  They fill me up.  I just wish a magic fairy would stop by and deliver the eggs to me.  Cooked.

My Alys Fowler book is waiting for me at the library.  My Pilates machine is waiting for me but not so soon after eating breakfast. Riley is waiting for lunch and his walk.  I just checked the time 11:11.  The Universe is sending me an "okay" sign. I see 11:11 whenever I am questioning my path.  I see 11:11 all the time.  Which probably means I need lots of monitoring by the Universe. Okay, okay, enough waiting.  Here I go.