I walked Aiden up to his school today because he had a few extra things to carry, he rode his bike in circles around me while I carried the extra bag. Then I walked home again VERY fast, because as usual I desperately needed to pee. Is my bladder especially tiny or is this normal? At least I got a brisk walk in.
Yesterday I had a perfect food day with around 7 serves of vegetables plus one fruit, but I still didn't make my fibre goal (22.5 grams, by far the closest I've come to the recommended 25-30 grams, most days I'm around 15). Is it possible to hit fibre goals without eating lots of starchy foods? This morning I added a fibre supplement to my water, but had to laugh when I recorded it: it added 1.5 grams of fibre. The raspberries on my yoghurt added 7.6! I think I'll stick to real food. Maybe more fruit.
I had a useful writing session, I've finished rewriting the opening to my novel (the first draft, at least) and I'm up to where that merges with what I had already written. Now I just have to go through the whole thing and make all the changes I've planned. "Just." Ha. Lots of work to do. Guitar was also good today. I really feel like I'm making progress.
Breakfast was yoghurt with fresh raspberries, a grating of dark chocolate, and a cup of tea.
By mid-morning I was starving! I delayed until rather early lunch, then served myself chicken, cheese, cucumber and sauerkraut. And a cup of tea. I've been wanting to try kimchi (Korean picked vegetables) for a while but couldn't find any, so thought I'd try sauerkraut which is Polish pickled cabbage. Actually according to the jar, the ingredients are just cabbage and salt. Hmm? Anyway I had a taste and it was ok, very low calorie, and a vegetable, so I served myself out a big helping. I only ate a few mouthfuls of this! Maybe it's supposed to be eaten with something, as a condiment? On meat maybe? I have no idea. Anyway, it didn't seem to be something you eat big forkfuls of by itself.
Apologies to all the Poles who are recoiling in horror at my treatment of sauerkraut, it is not a big ethnic group in Australia so I haven't come across this food before.
By early afternoon I was starving again! So hungry. Yet yesterday I got through the day comfortably with only three meals. I thought about that this afternoon. Of course hunger can vary due to many things, but one thing I realised is that yesterday I had big helpings of filling vegetables at every meal. Not today. I will attend to this in future.
I tried to stave off the hunger pangs with a pear.
I didn't make that mistake with dinner. I had a pork steak with mushrooms in a garlic cream sauce (not too much sauce) with asparagus, broccoli, tomato, cucumber and carrot. Very full after dinner.
I cannot get over how good those raspberries look and how weird about the fibre!
ReplyDeleteWe usually have frozen/thawed raspberries but these were fresh. Like little edible rubies!
DeleteI watch my carbs as well, but enjoy Granny Smith Apples. One apple is 4.4 grams of fiber. I also have a coffee grinder I use just for flax seeds (and keep the seeds in the freezer for freshness). One tablespoon of flaxseed (I like it in oatmeal and in yogurt) has nearly 9 grams of fiber. I've looked at those fiber supplements in the store and agree - much better to simply eat produce.
ReplyDeleteI think I will increase fruit intake a bit, and also look into how to cook some high-fibre produce like lentils that I don't usually eat.
DeleteSorry, just realized I read the fiber content of flaxseed incorrectly. It's 2.8 gr. per tablespoon, not teaspoon. It's still good, though. I'm still having my morning coffee and not yet wearing my eyeglasses!
ReplyDeleteLots of great food here. I'm a big fan of raspberries and so is my husband. He likes them added to his pancakes.
ReplyDeleteThat is so exciting about your writing! You must be quite pleased with the progress.
My goal for 2016 is to get it to a point where I can sent it out to publishers!
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