Day 36: Cooking Like Crazy!

So with the first rain in LA for a long time I got the bug to cook. I made 4 YES 4 new things tonight. 2 of them I can't eat and were for Nils who said they were good, even if I failed and making them look good. 2 of them were for me, and they were good! So Veggie patties...blew. They didn't hold together. Deviled eggs. Nils said are yummy. I made another batch of chocolate w/ almonds and raisins. And I made shark. I won't eat it until tomorrow, but it's made.

Water
BK: sushi w/ avocado and brown rice. You just can't go wrong with that!
Snack: Apple
Lunch: Melon w/ honey, muesli, and pecans
Snack: 2 Dolmas, 1 apple
Dinner: Butternut squash casserole w/ honey & pecans. 1 big salad w/ dolmas olive oil and balsamic.
Dessert: licked the pan of chocolate and had 10 almonds in it.

Day 35: Another Cheat!

Okay so my weakness is for free or wasted food. My friend came over today from Starbucks w/ a Grande Green Tea Frap. This is one of my favorites. She had an extra one because they made hers wrong and then let her keep it. So she brought it to me. She put it in my freezer. I took it out, had 3 wonderful sips (yes sips!) of the now to me overly sweet drink and stuck it back in.

So, I feel good that I didn't drink the entire thing. I also feel good that it tasted too sweet. What I don't feel good about it giving in and drinking any of it at all. It has sugar, dairy, and sugar. Unlike the cupcake it didn't make me sick so hopefully it was only a tiny bit of extra work for my poor liver. *sigh* But unlike the cupcake I'm sure it was filled with chemicals.

In penance I came home and made my sugar free ketchup. It's always SO yummy.

I had a TON of protein today and for once didn't crave anything. I think the cravings have been due to lack of protein. Tomorrow starts my last week of the 4 week section of no protein and boy and I glad!

Water
BK: did I eat something? I totally can't remember!
Lunch: Spicy sushi roll w/ brown rice, 3 skewers of grilled shrimp w. sauce that I told them to leave off! Aaarg. Still good, but didn't need to Teryaki since I'm allergic to soy AND it has sugar in it.
Snack: Evil starbucks sips
Dinner: leftover pasta w/ 3 leftover crab leg meat. Mmmm!
Dessert: 1 apple w/ honey (not unfiltered I'm out!) muesli, and pecans. Tasty!

So more food than usual today, but I wasn't hungry and it all tasted good w/ zero cravings.

Day 34: Eating well and doing well

Still no TOM. Very late. I am going to chalk it up to the cleanse and not freak out - yet. I ate well and worked hard today. It was a good day. I'm nearly done the 5th week and I have to say that the no meat thing is wearing thin fast. I'm hungry a lot and heartily sick of salad, nuts, and veggies. They are all still tasty, but I'd kill for a hamburger! This may be the longest I've EVER gone without meat, let along beef.

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BK: Ahh nothing. Running out door.
Lunch: 1 sweet potato I grabbed from fridge in AM.
Snack: handful of almonds, some pecans, 1 energy chocolate, some dried apples
Snack: after seeing the awesome ZombieLand. Usual salad my man made for me!
Dinner: udon noodles w/ red sauce that I spruced up w/ mini squash, tomato chunks, carrots, and spice. Leftover for another day!
Dessert: what else? Honey, pecans, and an apple.

Day 33: Hunger is not my friend, but Dolmas are!

Busy day today which is always good. AND I even had time to eat food. :) I did cheat. I've wanted to forever. I've been crazing something that isn't what I'm eating. So I was over in the land of Dot's Cupcakes which I'm only ever at 4 times a year. So I caved and bought a mini carrot cupcake for myself. Do I feel guilty? Nope. Did I feel a little sick afterwards? Yes. Was it worth it? Yes?

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BK: carrot, 1/2 avocado, wheat pita w/ radish sprouts (didn't make me feel ill BTW)

Snack: (I cheated!) Dots cupcake. SO bad...and so good. Almonds for protein w/ the sugar. It was carrot at least...

Lunch: Henry's is open! Yeah!!! All hail it! Sushi w/ brown rice and dolmas while
watching Whip It with my friend. Good movie BTW.

Dinner: Crab legs (sooo goood), walnuts & dried apple,

Day 32: Too much Soba!

Ate too much Soba. Came home SO SUPER hungry (can you see a pattern?!) and atea big bowl of Soba. Feel ill now. My stomach is too full and it feels hard. Never had this before...could it be the Wheat? Say it ain't so! Wheat....

Good day otherwise. I'm at the point that I want MEAT. I can't eat soy, and there is only so much fish a girl can make and travel with. Chicken oh how I miss thee.

Slept in to 10am which I needed with my late night, but it always makes me fee weird and throws off my day.

Water
BK: Juice
Lunch: almonds and an energy chocolate
Dinner: salad w/ apple. rest of apple w/ honey and pecans. two rows of Soba noodles w/ olive oil and salt.

Day 31: Posting Thurs morning....

So I'm posting Thurs morning because much fun was had last night at Knotts Scary Farm. The best part though was standing in line with a dad and his 5 year old. The kid was scared outta her mind, but her dad just kept telling everyone she loved being scared. Hilarious!

I did really good with the cleanse considering that this even was a long day with all kinds of goodies around. I am right before my TOM. AND I've been crazing sweets and bread. I actually had to force myself not to buy a cupcake today. No kidding. It's been tough.

Workout went well. I didn't have to do any cardio and that helped. I'm sore everywhere though. Go my trainer!

Water
BK: 1/2 cantaloupe, 1 nectarine, pecans, honey on pecans
Lunch: STARVING! 2 whole wheat pita, 5 dolmas (so good I love you TJ!), 3 tbs tahini, 2 carrots, 1 sliver of tomato, olive oil, salt. Water - lots of it.

I felt kinda bloated after lunch. I don't know if it was the water or all the food...

Dinner: Found the awesome fish place by Knotts. It took some searching but it was awesome. California Grilled Fish Cafe. The good. Stuck mostly to plan. The bad. Ate white rice and a white flour tortilla. I had 1 Mahi Mahi grilled taco on corn tortilla w/ cabbage no cream sauce and 1 grilled shrimp burrito w. purple cabbage, carrot, white cilantro rice, and no cream sauce.

Once again I felt really bloated. Also this AM I went to the bathroom A LOT.

Eating breakfast while I post this. Same as yesterday's lunch sans the pita and tomato. So we'll see how I feel later....

Day 30: It's hear! 1 MONTH DOWN...one to go...

Still moody and icky. Super headache hit me tonight too. Going to be early. I workout tomorrow and then go to Knott's Scary Farm. Want to make sure I'm feeling better for that. Still no bleeding, but it's gotta be coming with how I'm feeling. Energy levels are good though. Not tired. Just icky feeling.

Water
BK: Fruit Salad
Snack: honey, apple, plum, nuts
Lunch: Salad (yep got lettuce!) the usual one. Sushi in a bowl w/ brown rice and avocado. I am getting good at making this!
Snack: Almonds
Dinner: Got home late but was hungry. Had shrimp (lots of them) w/ broccoli in a TJ green curry sauce. Sauce had cane sugar so tried to not eat any of the sauce. Just used it for flavoring...it was good!

Off to bed... OH! BTW. The big wigs at Southwest refused to help. Then they fed up my cancellation of the tickets! I had to call 4 times! And they won't give me back my money - only "credit" Bastards. I don't want to fly your air anymore mother fers. I requested to speak to a supervisor about this. They said someone would call me by 5pm...9:47pm and no phone call. I'm writing a letter. It may help. All I know is that a few years back the CEO of Southwest said something like, "We can't make everyone happy so we aren't going to try. Losing a few customers doesn't really matter if they are customers who give us trouble anyway." Well while that's all well and good I've been a good, loyal, problem free, customer for many years now and they just shafted me. The main issue is that they didn't even offer to help in another way. They just said - sorry. F-off. Which essentially isn't a real apology at all. They are unwilling to accept that they did something wrong. Pisses me off!