12/26 Post christmas

Back on the wagon. we took fruit salad and a green salad and dressings to X-Mas with my wifes family.

Breakfast:
Fruit salad
Lunch:
Smoothie, salad with red onion, squash, peppers and zuchinni.

12/21 still trying..

Well, Xmas parties are over.. now just to wait for the big day.

Breakfast:
two pieces of toast, 1 with earth balance, 1 with natural pb. Banana, coffee w/silk creamer

Dec 16-19

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Christmas parties have wrecked my diet.

Plus, I was 3 X busy at work covering for the people that will be covering for me.

Well, one more party for me until

12/15/09

Breakfast:
Banana, almond milk, rice protein
Lunch:
Salad w/ homemade goddess dressing, 2 bowls of split pea soup

12/14/09

Working from home, my son has the swine flu. We watched Ratatouille, made some ratatouille last night.

Breakfast
1/2 cup of oatmeal (measured dry), 1 tbls peanut butter, nestle chocolate, rice protein powder.

Lunch:
Salad with annies goddess dressing, ratatouille on bread, tangerine, leftover eggplant lasagna

Dinner:
Baked potato with earth balance and bacos, handful of cashews

12/12/09 & 12/13/09

Uh oh, the wheels are coming off.. I missed a posting...

Saturday I had an apple, a protein shake, a salad, peanut noodles, a sprout, avocado, cucumber and mustard on pita sandwich, some potatoes, potato chips, fresca style bean burritos, red thai curry with tofu and a vegan hotdog from the Vegan Hot Dog guy A lot of that was eaten while I was in downtown Orlando for the Slacker's show at the Social

Sunday:
broccoli for breakfast, salad & avocado, sprout cucumber and hummus pita.
I'm making No-Pasta Eggplant lasagna for dinner

12/11/09

Blah. admittedly bored of the diet by now. hopefully the weekend perks it up

Breakfast:
Smoothie (banana, strawberry, flaxseed, rice protein, almond milk) Chex mix, bagel
Lunch:
tofu tacos with guac and black beans and some chips, two mandarins, banana

12/10/09

Ugg, one time my wife and I experimented with being vegetarian. The fake foods (veggie burgers, soy dogs, etc) always made me feel bloated and horrible.

The riblet has struck.

Picked up some vegan cheese and more rice protein at Essential Health last night

Breakfast:
Smoothie (rice protein, almond milk, banana, cocoa powder)
My friend brought in homemade chex mix. I had like 4 bowls, and a piece of ghost pepper
Lunch:
Veggie chili, apple
Dinner:
4 dolmas from the grocery store, a handful of chips and nuts, pizza marinara...

12/9/09

Breakfast:
Smoothie (Banana, homemade peanut butter, almond milk, flax seed, cocoa powder)
Lunch
Sushi Roll! (Avocado, sushi rice, nori, sesame seeds) tangerine, clementine
Dinner:
Morningstar Riblet, hummus, Raw Revolution Coco bar, a couple of tater tots

12/8/09

Man, I am tired. I don't know if I'm eating enough, but I've been voracious. The only cravings I've had are eggs. Ran out of brown rice protein powder too. Down to about 252 on the scale, I hope to crack the elusive 250's this week.

Breakfast:
Smoothie(banana, almond milk, oatmeal, peanut butter, greens +, flax seed, cocoa powder), apple
Lunch:
Rice and beans with salsa and guac, tangerine, pear
Dinner:
1/2 amys vegetable pizza, chips, hummus, salsa, some homemade peanut butter I blended up, and some rice for tomorrows sushi rolls for lunch

Watched the biggest loser. Man, those people are awesome.

12/7/09

Breakfast:
Smoothie (frozen banana, almond milk, peanut butter, rice protein and cocoa powder)
Lunch:
Apple, green salad (bagged salad, mushrooms, squash, tomato, pepitas, bacos and vino de milo dressing), tangerine
Dinner:
Chips and hummus, brown rice, blackbeans, peppers, salsa

12/6/2009

Breakfast:
Honeycrisp apple, almond milk in my coffee, pepitas.
Lunch:
Guacamole, chips, broccoli, loaf sandwich
dinner:
Loving Hut soup, BBQ & spring roll dinner
Iced coffee with hemp milk

Loving Hut was interesting. My son loved the nuggets and the soup, both kids passed on the Happy Dogs, and my daughter looked absolutely miserable. She did try one of my spring rolls and seemed to like it. My wife had the summer rolls and liked them.

12/5/09

Drank some vodka last night, that's vegan, right ;)

Breakfast:
smoothie (banana, strawberries, almond milk, rice protein)
grapefruit

Lunch:
Spinach salad (spinach, sprouts, shrooms, black beans, salsa verde, avocado) apple

Made a loaf of:
kidney beans, quinoa, TVP, onions, garlic, oatmeal, walnuts, almonds and sesame seeds. It's in hte oven now.

Dinnerish: Loaf sandwich with bbq sauce, 1/2 almond butter and jelly sandwich, apple, chips with salsa and hummus, sweet tea.

12/4/09

didn't get the best nights sleep. snoozed the alarm.

Breakfast:
Smoothie (1/2 cup oats, cocoa powder, almond milk and rice protein), Apple

Lunch:
Moe's burrito (rice, beans, tofu, salsa, guac, jalapeno), corn chips, lots of salsa

Dinner:
Nuts, grapefruit
Amy's roasted vegetable pizza (OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!)
morningstar farms veggie sausage ack!! Did not have the box, did not know they had egg whites.


Roof is leaking.

12/3/09

Didn't get up to go to yoga, decided I needed more recovery time after cramps last night. My legs were cramping a little in bed last night too....

Breakfast:
Smoothie (Banana, peanut butter, cocoa powder, almond milk, and rice protein)
Lunch:
Tangerine, pear, green salad (romaine lettuce, shrooms, sprouts, squash, bacos, and avocado), Vino de Milo tomato dressing.
Dinner:
Butternut Squash soup, mixed nuts, whole wheat pita, white bean dip, mandarin orange.

I felt ravenous tonight.

Veggie Pho for lunch tomorrow, hopefully!

12/2/09

Didn't sleep well last night, my son had come into bed and was crowding me, so I didn't work out in the morning, opting to go back to bed at 5am. 255 on the scale this morning.

I started a twitter account: http://twitter.com/sixweeksvegan

Breakfast:
Fruit smoothie, banana, strawberries, greens + , flaxseed and tbls nutribiotic rice protein powder
Apple
Lunch:
Salad (Spinach, shrooms, bacos, sprouts, green lettuce, cilantro, salsa verde), tangerine, apple
Pre-workout: red grapefuit, apple
Dinner:Salad (spinach, cashews, scallions, carrots, sesame seeds) + Wishbone asian vinaigrette
Aldi Vegetarian Chili + 1/2 avocado (doctored up with some salsa, roasted tomato taco sauce, garlic, cumin, smoked paparika) + nutritional yeast + flaxseed

Man, workout was rough. 1 hour of kung fu was good, half hour of cardio kickboxing was good, but 20 minutes into the SPRI resistance training, my legs started cramping up. I guess I need to eat more starches during the day.

Salad dressing was a compromise, I was ravenous.

12/1/09

Started out this morning with 45 minutes of spinning and 50 minutes of yoga. I was getting a cup of coffee at the YMCA, and someone asked me how the pool was. Heh, guess I was sweating a little.

Weight was 256.5 on my scale. I'll take that as my starting weight.

Breakfast:
1/2 cup oatmeal with flax seed, cinnamon and sliced almonds.
small apple
Lunch:
Salad (Shrooms, sprouts, bacos, squash, maters, spinach, romaine) + tomato dressing
banana
Grapefruit
Dinner:
Brussel sprout, leek, cauliflower soup. Green salad with cilantro, salsa verde and fat free refried beans. Apple. Cashews.

Crashed early tonight, didn't have a lot of energy.