Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

MONDAY, AUGUST 23RD, 2010

 

1 am

 

Smooth Move laxative tea

 

Late night snack: 4:45 am

 

Dried fruit (100 calories)

 

Breakfast: 10:15 am

 

1 Raweo raw chocolate cookie—these are like oreos but raw (100 calories)

 

2 fig/date/almond snowballs (180 calories)

 

1 tbsp Flax Oil (120 calories)

 

1 piece Tulu’s gluten-free oat bread (120 calories?)

 

2 pieces leftover Chinese chicken (100 calories?)

 

Lunch: 1:30 pm, Wild Ginger

 

? bowl vegetarian hot and sour soup (100 calories?)

 

Salad w/silken tofu and carrot-ginger dressing (200 calories?)

 

Steamed Chinese Broccoli (25 calories?)

 

Green tea (0 calories)

 

Coffee: 3pm

 

Coffee with ? cup soy milk and tiny bit of maple syrup (50 calories?)

 

Dinner: 6:30pm, Strip House

 

6-oz. filet mignon (348 calories)

 

? serving creamed spinach (100 calories?) EDITOR’S NOTE: yeah right

 

two bites fried potato (50 calories?)

 

1 bite toast w/bone marrow (60 calories?)

 

one bite escargot, ? snail (43 calories?)

 

drinks:

 

2 seltzers

 

total caloric intake: approx 1,576

 

Notes: I had diarrhea today! Maybe it’s from the Smooth Move tea, which I am oddly addicted to. It tastes like chocolate!

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2010

 

Breakfast: 10:30 a.m.

 

2 sugary cherries from a tart (20 calories?)

 

1 piece Tulu’s gluten free honey oat bread (120 calories)

 

w/ almond butter (100 calories)

 

seltzer

 

Lunch: 3 p.m.

 

 

 

Fruit salad w/ kiwi, orange, apple, grape, pineapple, strawberry (110 calories)

 

Cottage cheese (100 calories)

 

Tea

 

Dinner: 8:30 p.m.

 

Soy coconut pudding with berry sauce (300 calories?)

 

? piece cornbread w. miso butter (100 calories?)

 

Late Night Snack: 12:30 a.m.

 

? piece cornbread with miso butter (150 calories?)

 

? cup ginger ale (93 calories?)

 

total caloric intake: approx 1,093

 

Notes: I have a bad fever (103) and general fluishness today. However, I do feel like I’ve hit a stride with my eating and I’m about 100% healthier mentally about it than I have been in a long time. Not swearing off of anything, or being extreme. Therefore, no desire to binge or go into a crazy food zone. It’s a totally new sensation!

 

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25TH, 2010

 

Breakfast: 11am

 

2 sips ginger ale (10 calories?)

 

2 cups green tea

 

1 bite soy green tea pudding (20 calories?)

 

Crispy brown rice cereal (100 calories?)

 

? cup of Rice Dream (90 calories)

 

Lunch: 2pm

 

3 sips ginger ale (20 calories?)

 

? cup brown rice with hijiki, white beans, and greens (300 calories?)

 

creamy tahini dressing (80 calories?)

 

? piece kabocha squash (15 calories?)

 

Snack: 6pm

 

? peach (30 calories?)

 

1 cup Soy Delicious chocolate ice cream (250 calories)

 

Dinner: 10pm

 

Chicken soup with rice noodles (400 calories?)

 

? cup cottage cheese w/ pineapple (120 calories)

 

3 raspberries (4 calories)

 

cranwater (20 calories?)

 

total caloric intake: approx 1,459 calories

 

Notes: I FEEL LIKE TOTAL SHIT. A stomach thing and general fluishness. No appetite. But I am still doing great with my food attitude! Should have had more veggies and less sugar/carbs.

 

THURSDAY AUGUST 26, 2010

 

Late night snack: 4am

 

? container of Fage 2% Greek Yogurt (110 calories)

 

raspberries (20 calories)

 

Breakfast: 6:30am

 

Gluten free honey oat toast (120 calories)

 

w/ almond butter (100 calories)

 

9:30 am

 

30 raspberries (35 calories?)

 

1:45 pm

 

weird orange juice/tracking liquid for cat scan (100 calories?)

 

3 pm

 

5 Raisinets (38 calories)

 

5:30 pm

 

? turkey on rye bread w/ lettuce and mustard (300 calories?)

 

2 bottles Teas green tea

 

9 pm

 

? small container saag paneer and white rice (380 calories?)

 

? container chocolate soy delicious ice cream (230 calories)

 

green tea

 

seltzer

 

Total caloric intake: approx 1,433

 

Notes: Spent day in ER. Diagnosed with acute colitis. (Not the chronic kind! Maybe from the laxative tea?) Lots to say about that and I’ll type it when not on jury duty. By which I mean Percocet. I meant Percocet and typed “jury duty.” I think I overestimate my calories sometimes.

 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 2010

 

Breakfast: 10:30 am

 

2 bites Indian Ras Malai (100 calories?)

 

? gluten-free BBQ chicken pizza w/ added arugula (320 calories)

 

4 pm

 

rest of Indian Ras Malai (300 calories?)

 

8 pm

 

? unripe peach (30 calories?)

 

1 piece gluten free honey oat toast (120 calories)

 

? bowl rice in soup w/ mushroom and umeboshi (250 calories?)

 

12:30am

 

? vegan chocolate chip cookie (65 calories)

 

2 scoops vegan cookie dough (280 calories)

 

? cup rice dream (60 calories)

 

gluten free cheerios (70 calories)

 

total caloric intake: approx 1,595

 

Notes: I am on antibiotics, no booze till I finish on Friday, September 10. Ran into Elaine and she noticed I’d lost weight. She thought it was illness but I know the truth of the matter. This feels like the healthiest and most sustainable eating pattern I’ve ever been in!

 

SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 2010

 

11 am

 

2 ? rolls of yuba skin (150 calories?)

 

? cup gluten free cereal (70 calories)

 

? cup rice dream (60 calories)

 

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