April 29, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, blueberries, chia seeds, b sugar, 10 almonds
L: spring greens, beet, kabocha, strawberry, 1/4 avocado, sesame seeds
S: 1 med apple
1 square dark chocolate (46 cal)
D: 1 chicken drumstick, broccoli/cabbage/tofu/shirataki/edamame stirfry (a lot)
Dess: 1/2 frozen banana
tea

Exercise: 60 min Zumba

April 28, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, raspberries, chia seeds, b sugar, 10 almonds (Mark was sweet and bought me a bunch of berries. Little did he know they were all over-ripe and about to go bad! Very, very squishy raspberries and deep red strawberries. It's the thought that counts. I froze the rest)
S: black coffee w/ splash of almond milk
L: spring greens, cucumber, kabocha, strawberry, 1/4 avocado, sesame seeds
S: 1 med apple
1 square dark chocolate (46 cal)
1 pear
(clearly not eating intuitively, again..hmm)
D: 1 chicken quarter, tomato/onion/eggplant/tofu/red cabbage/shirataki
Dess: 1/2 frozen banana
tea

Exercise: 3 mile jog (3 loops around park)

April 27, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, chia seeds, b sugar, 10 almonds
S: 1 pear
L: kale, cucumber, kabocha, beet, 1/4 avocado, sesame seeds
S: 1 apple
D: 1 chicken quarter, broccoli/onion/tofu/mushroom/shirataki stirfry (w/ gochujang)
Dess: 1/2 frozen banana
tea

Exercise: none :/

April 26, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, chia seeds, b sugar, 10 almonds
L: kale, cucumber, kabocha, beet, 1/4 avocado, sesame seeds
S: 1 med apple
- mid-afternoon I had the biggest headache I've had in years. There was a throbbing in my occipitals and vertigo as I laid down. Of course, studying for boards turned me into a hypochondriac and probably made me panic - all I could think of were the worst possible scenarios. Never self-diagnose when you're learning diseases, lesson learned. Headache lasted 1.5 hours, during which reading anything just made it worse. I realized tonight that this was probably some sort of delayed sugar crash, as yesterday I ate chocolate and cake for the first time in a very long time. I did feel better after eating cake today (below), but perhaps I should avoid artificial sweets for a while.
1 thin slice cinammon coffee cake (Linh's birthday today. Eulanca brought this to celebrate)
3 bites zucchini date cake (thanks, Mark...)
D: 1 entire chicken quarter, tomato/eggplant/tofu/edamame/mushroom/carrot/red cabbage w/ gonjuchang

Exercise: 60 min Zumba

April 25, 2014

Today was a terrible today in terms of food intake (and practice question scores), Mom/future me is right...I can't let my confidence or mood be swayed by one day's numbers - on the scale, on the Qbank, on NBME. I let it get to me today...but the buck stops here!

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, chia seeds, b sugar, 10 almonds
S: 1 pear :(
L: kale, cucumber, kabocha, beet, 1/4 avocado, sesame seeds
S: 1 med apple
1 square of dark chocolate (46 cal)- Eu bought me a whole giant bar (she keeps bringing us food...) and I caved! Solution: gave 1/2 the bar to Mark for his test.
black coffee
D: zucchini 'pasta', a little bit home-made chickpea curry w/ brown rice (thanks Margaret), 2/3 breast of chicken katsu
Exercise: 60 min Zumba
Dess: 3 bites zucchini date cake (thanks M) - left rest for T
tea

Exercise: just a 2 mile walk, unfortunately

April 24, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, chia seeds, b sugar, 10 almonds
S: black coffee
L: kale, cucumber, kabocha, beet, 1/4 avocado, sesame seeds
S: 1 med apple
1/2 pear
D: swai filet (steamed), triple spicy broccoli/tofu/mushroom/red cabbage/shirataki stirfry (cajun + red pepper paste + red pepper flakes)
Dess: 1/2 pear

Exercise: 60 min Zumba

Went on campus today b/c we needed to get TB chest x-rays. Going to school left me super tired for the rest of the day! I don't know why...thanks Margaret and Eu for driving me.

April 23, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, chia seeds, b sugar, 10 almonds
S: 1/2 pear, tea
L: kale, beet, kabocha, 1/2 avocado, cucumber
S: 1 apple
D: 'Amazing saute' -  celebration dinner for Margaret at Loving Hut, a vegan restaraunt.
Tried a stirfry w/ soy protein and veggies. Texture was good, unfortunately way too salty and fried quite a bit :(. Tried to order healthy on the menu but that didn't work out quite as planned....ate ~1/2 of the brown rice that was on the side. It's ok, overall the portions were small....resisted the urge to get the any fried noodle dish or coconut milk curry. It was nice to go out w/ friends!
Dess: 1/2 pear
tea

Exercise: 40 min Zumba videos

April 22, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, chia seeds, b sugar, 10 almonds
S: black coffee
L: kale, beet, kabocha, 1/2 avocado
1/2 pear
S: tea
1 apple
1/2 pear
D: eggplant/tomato/onion/mushroom/tofu/shirataki
- used Korean gochujang (red pepper paste) - very yummy! like bibimbap w/o the rice
- I just realized this is the third day in a row I didn't eat meat. weird! plenty of egg/tofu to fill in for protein though.

Exercise: 60 min Zumba (w/ David, love this class too)

April 21, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 10 almonds
S: tea
L: spring greens, beet, kabocha, 1/2 avocado, orange
S: 1 apple
D: celery/carrot/tofu, leftover cauliflower 'fried rice'

Exercise: 2.3 mi run (2 loops)

Mark and Linh brought a huge stash of cookies over to our house last night....and left them for us. -_____-

April 20, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 10 almonds
S: tea
L: spring greens, beet, 1/2 avocado, sweet potato, orange
S: 1 med apple
10 pcs edamame
D: cauliflower 'fried rice'- finely cut cauliflower as rice bed + egg whites, mushroom, onion, and snow peas
Dess: 1/2 frozen banana
tea

Exercise: 2.3 mi run (2 loops in park)

April 19, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 10 almonds
S: black coffee
L: spring greens, beet, 1/2 avocado, sweet potato, orange
S: 1 med apple
D: swai filet (tried to stirfry it in egg-white + katsu flakes, but didn't cook very quickly....probably too wet to use egg-white)
tomato/eggplant/tofu/onion/mushroom/shirataki
Dess: 1 frozen banana
tea

Exercise: 60 min Zumba (great new instructor in Miramar, Fabiana)

April 18, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 10 almonds
S: tea
L: spring greens, beet, 1/2 avocado, sweet potato
S: 1 med apple
some steamed edamame
D: tomato/celery/carrot soup
mushroom/broccoli, salmon (thanks Mark)

Exercise: 45 min Zumba videos (by myself, did some more challenging ones)

April 17, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 10 almonds
S: black coffee (I've been re-using coffee grinds. oops)
L: spring greens, beet, 1/2 avocado, kabocha, orange (ran out of lemons and they're so expensive these days...so I'm just using our front yard oranges for now)
S: 1 med apple
1 salted caramel macaroon (40 cal) - mmm
D: eggplant/tomato/mushroom/onion/tofu/shirataki
steamed swai filet
Dess: tea tea tea!

Exercise: 60 min Zumba (w/ my favorite instructor - going less often makes me appreciate the classes more!)

April 16, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 5 almonds
S: black coffee
5 almonds
L: spring greens, beet, 1/2 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
S: 1 apple
1 slice cantaloupe
D: 1 'small' vegetable pho (congrats on finishing Taz!)...resisted getting the large

Exercise: 45 min Zumba videos w/ M

April 15, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, homemade applesauce, b sugar, 5 almonds
S: 5 almonds, tea
black coffee, decaf
1 banana
L: spring greens, beet, 1/2 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
S: 1 apple
2 slices cantaloupe
D: broccoli/tofu/carrot/mushroom
steamed swai filet
tea, tea and more tea

Exercise: 1.8 mi run (150 cal, 1 loop), 1/2 Freeletics w/ T and Eu (75 jacks x 3, 25 burpees x 3, 50 lifts x 2, 50 situps)

ate a little more fruit than usual...

April 14, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 5 almonds
S: 5 almonds, tea
black coffee (decaf)
L: spring greens, beet, 1/2 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
S: 1 apple
D: 1 chicken drumstick
"spaghetti" (shredded 1 zucchini into noodles, very fast + tomato/onion/garlic), 1/2 cup edamame
Dess: 1/4 cantaloupe

Exercise: 60 min Zumba

April 13, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 5 almonds
S: 5 almonds, tea
L: spring greens, beet, 1/2 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
S: 1 apple
D: 1/2 chicken quarter, salmon (Mark came unexpectedly after I was done! thanks Mark)
broccoli/shirataki/tofu/carrot stirfry
Dess: homemade baked applesauce (took some older spongy green apple, put cinammon, and baked in toaster oven. tasted like apple pie! obvi shared w/ Mark)

Exercise: 50 min Zumba videos w/ M and Eu

April 12, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 5 almonds
S: 5 almonds, tea
L: kale, beet, 1/4 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
S: 1 apple
D: 1 chicken drumstick, 1 filet steamed tilapia (70 cal)
broccoli/tofu/shirataki stirfry
Dess: korean melon (brought this to Eulanca's for a girl's night in. unfortunately, Marg Eu and Linh are ALL slightly allergic to melon and I had no idea -___-. but they liked it!)

Exercise: 60 min Zumba (not the greatest class, but it's ok)

April 11, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 5 almonds
S: 5 almonds, tea
L: kale, beet, 1/4 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
S: 1/2 cantaloupe
D: celery/tofu/onion
cauliflower/carrot/mushroom, salmon (I tried steaming it w/ basil, cumin, and lemon, ended up perfect! will definitely steam in the future) - thanks Mark

Dess: 1 TJ pistachio macaroon - Eu brought these, stilll have poor self control when offered food :( (40 calories)
tea

Exercise: 2.3 mi jog (2 loops around park)

April 10, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 5 almonds
S: 5 almonds
tea
L: kale, beet, 1/4 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
2 wontons (cooked wontons for Linh)
S: black coffee
1 med apple
3 kumquats
D: 1/2 chicken quarter, broccoli/carrot/onion/tofu
boiled edamame
Dess: 1 slice cantaloupe

Exercise: 60 min Zumba

April 9, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 5 almonds
S: 5 almonds
tea
L: kale, beet, 1/4 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
S: 1/2 cantaloupe
D: eggs/tomato, vietnamese bokchoy (very bitter), 1/2 chicken quarter (I had actually cooked for Mark and worked my exercise into a time so he could come, but he couldn't make it last minute. hence the variety!)
Dess: 4 kumquats

Exercise: 40 min Zumba (at home videos w/ Margaret)

April 8, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, b sugar, 5 almonds
S: 5 almonds, tea
L: kale, beet, 1/4 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
S: black coffee
1/2 cantaloupe
D: bean sprout/broccoli/carrot/onion stirfry (not as much as usual; running out of veggies, may need to go on a mid-week grocery run), ~1.5 scrambled egg

Exercise: 60 min Zumba

April 7, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1 banana, sugar, 5 almonds
S: 5 almonds
tea
black coffee (mmm thanks mom)
L: kale, beet, 1/4 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
S: 1 med apple
D: 2 chicken drumsticks, tomato/celery/carrot soup (less than normal)
Dess: 1 pc green tea sponge cake (140 cal) :( I caved on day 2!

Exercise: 60 min Zumba

have been quite a bit heavier ever since I went home this weekend. will wait!

April 6, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1 banana, sugar, 5 almonds
S: 5 almonds
tea
L: kale, beet, 1/4 avocado, cucumber, kabocha
S: 1 med apple
D: 1/2 chicken quarter
broccoli/edamame/tofu/carrot/bean sprout stirfry (I tried using just the Cajun seasoning. unfortunately I put too much! it was wayyy too salty. in the future I will have to use it sparingly b/c it has more salt than I expected)
Dess: 3 kumquats
(resisted offerings of green tea cake)

Exercise: 60 min yoga

April 5, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1 banana, sugar, 5 almonds
S: green tea
5 almonds
L: over-ate AGAIN
- xue cai/edamame
- celery/carrot/peanut
- chilean sea bass
- 3 long ribs :(
- 1/2 multicolored corn (very interesting)
S: watermelon
D: 3 home-made dumplings
hotpot! spinach, lettuce, tofu, 1 shrimp, rice noodles in chicken soup w/ peanut sauce

Exercise: 60 min Turbokick! whoo, this class kicked my butt.

April 4, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, brown sugar, 5 almonds, almond milk
S: green tea
1 orange (one of the last items from our CMA box!)
L: kale, beet, kabocha, 1/4 avocado, cucumber
S: 1/2 apple
D: wayyyy too much food. delicious home cooking, thanks mom:
- 2 pcs pai gu
- 3 long BBQ ribs
- chinese celery and beancurd
- pea sprouts
- 4 pcs salmon sashimi, 1 pc tuna sashimi
- egg drop tomato soup
- mint/mango salad
Dess: 3 strawberries
1/2 red bean mochi ice cream (45 cal)
1 dark chocolate praline (80 cal?)

Exercise: none

:'( no self control!

April 3, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, brown sugar, 5 almonds, almond milk
S: green tea
5 almonds
L: kale, beet, kabocha, 1/4 avocado, cucumber
S: black coffee
1 small fuji apple
1 small green apple (oops.)
D: 1 reg vegetable tofu pho with peanut sauce (after discovering how many cal were in hoisin plum sauce, I tried to limit my previously generous dollops. did enjoy this peanut sauce that came with M's spring rolls though; probably the same calorie-wise but hopefully fewer sugars)

Exercise: 60 min Zumba

April 2, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, brown sugar, 5 almonds, almond milk
S: green tea
5 almonds
L: spinach, fennel, beet, kabocha, 1/4 avocado, cucumber
S: black coffee
1 small apple
2 kumquats
D: chicken breast katsu, broccoli/onion/beansprout/shirataki stirfry
Dess: ba bao tea

Exercise: 2.54 mi run with M and T - 3 loops in park (we walked the 0.5 mi back)

April 1, 2014

B: 1/2 c oatmeal, 1/2 banana, brown sugar, 5 almonds, almond milk
S: 5 almonds
green tea
L: spinach, fennel, beet, kabocha, 1/4 avocado, cucumber
S: 1 small apple
ginseng tea
D: 1/2 chicken quarter, 1/2 chicken breast katsu
basil cauliflower and mushroom stirfry
Dess: 4 kumquats, 2 strawberries

Exercise: 60 min Zumba

I think I had ~8 cups of tea today...