I haven't had a report from CoM as good as this in a while and I am surprised, both at the nutrition and how low the calories are now I've entered everything and totalled it up. They are probably a bit higher in reality because breakfast #1 was estimated and it's impossible to make hummus without licking the spoon (or maybe that's just me).
Breakfast #1: melon, blueberries, Total 0%, wheatgerm, almonds, pumpkin seeeds, flax seeds
Breakfast #2: grapenuts and museli flakes with 1 tsp LLBY and warm soya milk; 1 boiled egg, one boiled egg without the yolk.
Lunch: salad of pak-choi, spinach, peas, asparagus, green pepper and mushrooms with cottage cheese and LLBY and flax oil; baked butternut squash with cinnamon
Dinner: Romaine lettuce wraps with homemade hummus (with extra pumpkin, sunflower and flaxseeds blended in) with chopped raw zucchini, tomato and mint (this was yummy); steamed broccoli and the rest of the zucchini.
It felt like loads but actually it doesn't look like much now I write it down. I'll probably have some strawberries and a few nuts or something as a dessert later on.
Here's the crunch.
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Nutrition Summary for 14 May 2007
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General (85%)
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Energy | 1052.1 kcal 88%
Protein | 83.9 g 93%
Carbs | 139.7 g 116%
Fiber | 34.3 g 114%
Fat | 26.2 g 66%
Water | 1643.2 g 61%
Vitamins (100%)
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Vitamin A | 46040.9 IU 1973%
Folate | 1162.0 µg 290%
B1 (Thiamine) | 2.0 mg 185%
B2 (Riboflavin) | 3.9 mg 350%
B3 (Niacin) | 21.7 mg 155%
B5 (Pantothenic Acid)| 6.5 mg 129%
B6 (Pyridoxine) | 3.6 mg 278%
B12 (Cyanocobalamin) | 3.0 µg 123%
Vitamin C | 397.4 mg 530%
Vitamin D | 441.9 IU 221%
Vitamin E | 17.1 mg 114%
Vitamin K | 967.6 µg 1075%
Minerals (99%)
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Calcium | 1148.6 mg 115%
Copper | 2.3 mg 259%
Iron | 20.4 mg 113%
Magnesium | 464.8 mg 145%
Manganese | 3.7 mg 206%
Phosphorus | 1362.0 mg 195%
Potassium | 5057.8 mg 108%
Selenium | 97.2 µg 177%
Sodium | 1391.2 mg 93%
Zinc | 10.3 mg 128%
Lipids (80%)
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Saturated | 4.7 g 47%
Omega-3 | 3.6 g 331%
Omega-6 | 4.7 g 108%
Cholesterol | 219.0 mg 73%
Monday, 14 May 2007
No Place Like Home
Finally I get three whole days (more or less) in my own house, and three straight nights in my own bed, and (counts them) eleven completely CRON meals made by my own fair hands in my less than fair kitchen. Bliss. It's a shame I can't completely relax and chill out as well, but... work.
The weekend was pretty manic and, as usual, too much wine was consumed. Another good thing about being at home for three straight nights - little or no social temptation, and right now I have no desire to continue the indulgences.
I had my lovely visit on Friday as planned with N and C, who slept in my arms for most of the time I was there, stunning me as usual with the incredible weight of a child. N assured me that I couldn't break him, but there is something about the fontanelle of a five week old baby that is very disconcerting! But I didn't drop him, and he is a little angel.
On Saturday, since I had the car in London, P and I did a supermarket shop and when we got back to his place, we cleared out all his cupboards of all the old, dusty, half-opened packages of dried goods (pastas, rice, dessicated herbs!), and replaced them with my CRON staples of nuts and seeds. 0% Greek Yogurt and eggs in the fridge (since when did you eat eggs, bird?), and lots of veggies that hopefully will get eaten this week by P because I barely made a dent in them. We ate with neighbours on Saturday night (asparagus with foaming hollandaise (a tsp for me) and risotto (couple of spoons for me and a truckload of salad), and drank champagne and elderly burgundy.
Sunday we met an ex of mine and his new partner for lunch. I ate a fabulous spring minestrone - a shallow bowl full of tiny broad beans, asparagus, snap beans, peas, zucchini and artichokes in a light broth which I suspect was loaded with butter but was totally delicious and I'm going to recreate it asap sans fat - and the freshest buffalo mozzarella with arugala salad and yet more asparagus, grilled and served with shaved parmesan. White burgundy, followed by a Brouilly.
After all that, all I wanted to eat last night was watermelon and a tiny bit of feta cheese. In fact, I was craving watermelon and I'm glad that the little Turkish-Cypriot shops on P's street always sell it. I ate half!
So yes. This weekend I ate and drank (oh those "toxic calories"(?!)) and didn't measure because I'd forgotten my scale. But for all that, I still weighed in at precisely 112lbs this morning when I got home - and that was after breakfast #1 at 4am and breakfast #2 at 9am. So the extra eating is probably a good thing; I know I need to be careful right now. Actually I'm really looking forward to being careful; I have had such a sense of being on an out-of-control roller-coaster lately and I'd liek some control back please, thank you very much.
The weekend was pretty manic and, as usual, too much wine was consumed. Another good thing about being at home for three straight nights - little or no social temptation, and right now I have no desire to continue the indulgences.
I had my lovely visit on Friday as planned with N and C, who slept in my arms for most of the time I was there, stunning me as usual with the incredible weight of a child. N assured me that I couldn't break him, but there is something about the fontanelle of a five week old baby that is very disconcerting! But I didn't drop him, and he is a little angel.
On Saturday, since I had the car in London, P and I did a supermarket shop and when we got back to his place, we cleared out all his cupboards of all the old, dusty, half-opened packages of dried goods (pastas, rice, dessicated herbs!), and replaced them with my CRON staples of nuts and seeds. 0% Greek Yogurt and eggs in the fridge (since when did you eat eggs, bird?), and lots of veggies that hopefully will get eaten this week by P because I barely made a dent in them. We ate with neighbours on Saturday night (asparagus with foaming hollandaise (a tsp for me) and risotto (couple of spoons for me and a truckload of salad), and drank champagne and elderly burgundy.
Sunday we met an ex of mine and his new partner for lunch. I ate a fabulous spring minestrone - a shallow bowl full of tiny broad beans, asparagus, snap beans, peas, zucchini and artichokes in a light broth which I suspect was loaded with butter but was totally delicious and I'm going to recreate it asap sans fat - and the freshest buffalo mozzarella with arugala salad and yet more asparagus, grilled and served with shaved parmesan. White burgundy, followed by a Brouilly.
After all that, all I wanted to eat last night was watermelon and a tiny bit of feta cheese. In fact, I was craving watermelon and I'm glad that the little Turkish-Cypriot shops on P's street always sell it. I ate half!
So yes. This weekend I ate and drank (oh those "toxic calories"(?!)) and didn't measure because I'd forgotten my scale. But for all that, I still weighed in at precisely 112lbs this morning when I got home - and that was after breakfast #1 at 4am and breakfast #2 at 9am. So the extra eating is probably a good thing; I know I need to be careful right now. Actually I'm really looking forward to being careful; I have had such a sense of being on an out-of-control roller-coaster lately and I'd liek some control back please, thank you very much.
Friday, 11 May 2007
Thank you
Thank you everyone for your comments and kind thoughts. It's been a strange and disconcerting and disorientating week and it is somehow grounding to know people are reading this blog and taking the time to respond to my posts.
Thank you.
Irritatingly, once more I find myself on an unplanned visit to London because when I got home late on Wednesday, I found my ADSL router was non-functioning and of course without it, I can't really work from home. Slow is not the word. So after spending yesterday on dial-up into the office (urgh), I left home at 3.30am this morning to drive up because I was just too tired last night to contemplate it. I haven't been sleeping at all well recently, and feel incredibly stressed and hassled. This happens, I find, when I am away from home for an extended amount of time and not on vacation. I hate living out of a rucksack, not having my things around me, not being able to eat Sara food as and when, and I've been doing that for over a week now and will be doing so until early next week, and then some more when we head north for the funeral at the end of it.
On the bright side, I got to see the sun rise behind Stonehenge at 4am! Or as near to sunrise as it was going to get - it was actually raining and with a striking grey band of cloud on the horizon... but the concept is still good, right?
I will struggle through the rest of today with the help of strong coffee (and maybe power naps in the loos). I forgot to bring my scales with me this time, but I did manage to be organised enough last night to pack a salad and cottage cheese with LLBY for lunch, and enter it all into CoM so I know where I am nutritionally.
Then this evening, I hope I finally get to meet my good friend N's new baby boy C - I say hope because the poor little mite has been in and out of hospital for blood tests because he has a mild case of jaundice. Those of you who are mothers will be able to appreciate how frantic N is at the moment not knowing the results. With luck they will be in later today, and N can enjoy introducing C to his Bad Auntie Sara. I am very excited about this; I hope my friends' children will be an important part of my future.
I hope everyone has good weekends... with better weather than we are promised here! We've gone from summer in spring to winter in summer and I am not amused.
Oh, and out of curiosity, is anyone reading this not vaguely zoned in their eating? There was an interesting posting on one of the CR lists about 90g protein resulting in higher incidence of mortality... Of course, I don't understand these things, but the posting also used as an alternative example a diet that was lower in fat and protein and higher in veggie carb - and since I struggle with keeping my veggie carbs to 40%, and getting both my fats and protein to 30%, I was wondering if this might be a better ratio for me. Sometimes I feel really icky on a day when I've done 90g protein... Huh. My brain just keeps ticking away on the trivial, doesn't it?
Thank you.
Irritatingly, once more I find myself on an unplanned visit to London because when I got home late on Wednesday, I found my ADSL router was non-functioning and of course without it, I can't really work from home. Slow is not the word. So after spending yesterday on dial-up into the office (urgh), I left home at 3.30am this morning to drive up because I was just too tired last night to contemplate it. I haven't been sleeping at all well recently, and feel incredibly stressed and hassled. This happens, I find, when I am away from home for an extended amount of time and not on vacation. I hate living out of a rucksack, not having my things around me, not being able to eat Sara food as and when, and I've been doing that for over a week now and will be doing so until early next week, and then some more when we head north for the funeral at the end of it.
On the bright side, I got to see the sun rise behind Stonehenge at 4am! Or as near to sunrise as it was going to get - it was actually raining and with a striking grey band of cloud on the horizon... but the concept is still good, right?
I will struggle through the rest of today with the help of strong coffee (and maybe power naps in the loos). I forgot to bring my scales with me this time, but I did manage to be organised enough last night to pack a salad and cottage cheese with LLBY for lunch, and enter it all into CoM so I know where I am nutritionally.
Then this evening, I hope I finally get to meet my good friend N's new baby boy C - I say hope because the poor little mite has been in and out of hospital for blood tests because he has a mild case of jaundice. Those of you who are mothers will be able to appreciate how frantic N is at the moment not knowing the results. With luck they will be in later today, and N can enjoy introducing C to his Bad Auntie Sara. I am very excited about this; I hope my friends' children will be an important part of my future.
I hope everyone has good weekends... with better weather than we are promised here! We've gone from summer in spring to winter in summer and I am not amused.
Oh, and out of curiosity, is anyone reading this not vaguely zoned in their eating? There was an interesting posting on one of the CR lists about 90g protein resulting in higher incidence of mortality... Of course, I don't understand these things, but the posting also used as an alternative example a diet that was lower in fat and protein and higher in veggie carb - and since I struggle with keeping my veggie carbs to 40%, and getting both my fats and protein to 30%, I was wondering if this might be a better ratio for me. Sometimes I feel really icky on a day when I've done 90g protein... Huh. My brain just keeps ticking away on the trivial, doesn't it?
Wednesday, 9 May 2007
My grandmother passed away early yesterday morning. She'd just endured two weeks of radiotherapy in the hopes of gaining maybe two more months of life, of time to come to terms with leaving. Sadly, she wasn't granted that in the end. My grandfather told me he was with her all evening, talking to her, holding her hand. He said she didn't close her eyes at all until dawn, and then she went peacefully with the night. I hope that was how it was for her.
She was 87 years old, and up till fairly recently she'd been in good health, if increasingly delicate and frail. They were still living in their own home, mobile, independent of the world but wholly dependent on each other. They were truly soulmates, truly two halves of the same person and I cannot imagine that my grandfather will endure their separation for very much longer. To live so long, to fight a war, to fight oh-so-very-many wars against the world itself after that (as I suspect many of the WWII generation did), to lose a son (my father) and now a wife... No, he will not go quietly, but I think he will go.
I have a real problem with accepting death, with accepting finality. Someone posted on Mary's blog during that we are all eating disordered in denial debacle to the effect that CRONers are terrified of fat and dying. The comment was flawed in context but it cut deep for me because yes, I am terrified of it - more of dying, than of fat, obviously - since I was at my father's side when he went. But then it's not death per se that frightens - it's the helplessness in the face of inevitability, of implacability. Can we delay the inevitable? I guess that is and has been my question since my father passed away five years ago and the attraction of CRON is that, pursued properly, it might offer that possibility; it might be the only way to fight.
Practiced properly.
But of course there is always the alternative. To find grace, to practice acceptance, to live as well as one can in all ways in the here and now.
I'd like to find a way to combine the two.
But this post shouldn't be about me. It should be about my grandmother and my grandfather, two very human, very flawed people, very much in love for over sixty years. They were, are, and will continue to be an inspiration for me.
RIP Doris. I wish you'd had your two months that you fought so hard for. I hope your son got to where he should be to meet you on the other side. Give him my love, and take mine with you too.
She was 87 years old, and up till fairly recently she'd been in good health, if increasingly delicate and frail. They were still living in their own home, mobile, independent of the world but wholly dependent on each other. They were truly soulmates, truly two halves of the same person and I cannot imagine that my grandfather will endure their separation for very much longer. To live so long, to fight a war, to fight oh-so-very-many wars against the world itself after that (as I suspect many of the WWII generation did), to lose a son (my father) and now a wife... No, he will not go quietly, but I think he will go.
I have a real problem with accepting death, with accepting finality. Someone posted on Mary's blog during that we are all eating disordered in denial debacle to the effect that CRONers are terrified of fat and dying. The comment was flawed in context but it cut deep for me because yes, I am terrified of it - more of dying, than of fat, obviously - since I was at my father's side when he went. But then it's not death per se that frightens - it's the helplessness in the face of inevitability, of implacability. Can we delay the inevitable? I guess that is and has been my question since my father passed away five years ago and the attraction of CRON is that, pursued properly, it might offer that possibility; it might be the only way to fight.
Practiced properly.
But of course there is always the alternative. To find grace, to practice acceptance, to live as well as one can in all ways in the here and now.
I'd like to find a way to combine the two.
But this post shouldn't be about me. It should be about my grandmother and my grandfather, two very human, very flawed people, very much in love for over sixty years. They were, are, and will continue to be an inspiration for me.
RIP Doris. I wish you'd had your two months that you fought so hard for. I hope your son got to where he should be to meet you on the other side. Give him my love, and take mine with you too.
Tuesday, 8 May 2007
One Inch Off A Vanity Size
This weekend I ended up being measured for Another Dress and found that I am 1 inch on my waist away from being a size 0. Not that this means anything whatsoever, of course, but it gave me a chance for a good giggle and a vague wonder if I can knock off that inch by July!
However, those measurements were taken on Saturday afternoon. After the rest of the weekend they may no longer be valid! P and I spent the long weekend with my good friend E in Leeds and the surrounding countryside; we ate and drank A LOT, shopped, walked (though not as much as we should have done because it has got COLD here), gossiped, lounged and slept. Last night when P and I arrived back in London I was hoping for an evening of broccoli and LLBY, but P decided he wanted to eat out so... we did. My weekend of gluttony culminated in the sharing of a cheese plate, but it's over now... and from reading everyone else's blogs, I don't sound as though I was alone in clinging to the CRON wagon by my fingertips. :-)
I'm looking forward to getting back on track again now though. I didn't actually eat anything bad (well, apart from two polenta fries yesterday, oh dear), and I did have some LLBY everyday, and nuts and seeds and gojis and lots of fruit and vegetables, but as usual with eating out there were loads of hidden calories and I know the nutrition couldn't have been as ON as it should have been.
So with July heading towards me at a rate of knots I am starting to think about a serious 2 month plan - drink lots of water, cut the caffeine, cut down on the booze, body-brushing, that sort of thing... I don't feel as polished as I should be. My body feels like a perfectly solid family car, and I want it to be as revved as a lamborghini. :-)
So, give me your best tips for feeling and looking fabulous... food, supplements, tips, tricks?
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Yes, well. I just caught up on all the blogs, inc April's post about the definition of being truly CRON. So perhaps the label is not one I should lay claim to any more. Not that I want to be labelled at all. I do love the feeling of community that exists around these various CRON blogs, but until I can really walk the walk perhaps this isn't the place for me any more... if I am somehow letting the side down with my less than perfect behaviour! I don't know; I don't know, I really don't! :-)
However, those measurements were taken on Saturday afternoon. After the rest of the weekend they may no longer be valid! P and I spent the long weekend with my good friend E in Leeds and the surrounding countryside; we ate and drank A LOT, shopped, walked (though not as much as we should have done because it has got COLD here), gossiped, lounged and slept. Last night when P and I arrived back in London I was hoping for an evening of broccoli and LLBY, but P decided he wanted to eat out so... we did. My weekend of gluttony culminated in the sharing of a cheese plate, but it's over now... and from reading everyone else's blogs, I don't sound as though I was alone in clinging to the CRON wagon by my fingertips. :-)
I'm looking forward to getting back on track again now though. I didn't actually eat anything bad (well, apart from two polenta fries yesterday, oh dear), and I did have some LLBY everyday, and nuts and seeds and gojis and lots of fruit and vegetables, but as usual with eating out there were loads of hidden calories and I know the nutrition couldn't have been as ON as it should have been.
So with July heading towards me at a rate of knots I am starting to think about a serious 2 month plan - drink lots of water, cut the caffeine, cut down on the booze, body-brushing, that sort of thing... I don't feel as polished as I should be. My body feels like a perfectly solid family car, and I want it to be as revved as a lamborghini. :-)
So, give me your best tips for feeling and looking fabulous... food, supplements, tips, tricks?
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Yes, well. I just caught up on all the blogs, inc April's post about the definition of being truly CRON. So perhaps the label is not one I should lay claim to any more. Not that I want to be labelled at all. I do love the feeling of community that exists around these various CRON blogs, but until I can really walk the walk perhaps this isn't the place for me any more... if I am somehow letting the side down with my less than perfect behaviour! I don't know; I don't know, I really don't! :-)
Thursday, 3 May 2007
BBC CRON Article And Lunchtime Ramblings
Our CR Life!
I do wish they'd drop the "Eat Less" angle though. I couldn't eat much more if I were a foie gras goose.
So, I am in London for a whole week. More accurately, London-Leeds-London but it still means a week of more ad-lib eating than usual. So this time... I brought my little red food scale with me. I give up; I don't care if P thinks it's weird. :-) Breakfast was a variation on the usual - non-fat Greek yogurt, pumpkin seeds, almonds, gojis, with flaxseeds - and a weighed bowl of melon and raspberries. For lunch I ate a perfectly weighed and measured salad with tomatoes, mushrooms, cannellini beans (I realised I hadn't eaten any legumes for ages when someone posted about the connection between legumes and longevity!), cucumber, spring onion, pumpkin seeds, LLBY and a mix of salad leaves from the local farmshop that seemed to include arugula, baby chard, dandelion, mustard greens. Yum. More yoghurt and wheatgerm and a tiny amount of dried cranberries and raisins for dessert - I will need to lock the pack away somewhere, too easy to munch on those in the afternoon hours. And before wine tasting tonight I am planning to eat 235g steamed spinach with flax oil. I think that gets me to pretty much complete nutrition on around 800-850 calories, so I can more or less relax and enjoy my evening. And try to remember to measure my wine intake equally carefully!
P has gone on a bit of a health-kick himself, purchasing a smoothie maker and coming over all enthusiastic about blended fruit concoctions. We shared a melon, strawberry and peach smoothie last night (not weighed!) - I ate mine out of a bowl with a spoon, like a chilled soup. Smoothies are, I know, fairly high calorie so it won't be something I indulge in very often (and I prefer my fruit whole) but it will be interesting to see if the same machine will cope with veggies like carrots and beetroot. The really good part of this is that there is more Sara friendly food in the house, and he has also ordered an organic vegetable delivery from Abel and Cole, to arrive weekly so that I won't be scrabbling around grumpily trying to feed myself from his usual meagre stores. We don't share tastes in food at all at the best of times, but it's always great when he starts paying more attention to his diet; after all, I don't want to see him (or me!) suffer for poor nutritional choices in the future.
I do wish they'd drop the "Eat Less" angle though. I couldn't eat much more if I were a foie gras goose.
So, I am in London for a whole week. More accurately, London-Leeds-London but it still means a week of more ad-lib eating than usual. So this time... I brought my little red food scale with me. I give up; I don't care if P thinks it's weird. :-) Breakfast was a variation on the usual - non-fat Greek yogurt, pumpkin seeds, almonds, gojis, with flaxseeds - and a weighed bowl of melon and raspberries. For lunch I ate a perfectly weighed and measured salad with tomatoes, mushrooms, cannellini beans (I realised I hadn't eaten any legumes for ages when someone posted about the connection between legumes and longevity!), cucumber, spring onion, pumpkin seeds, LLBY and a mix of salad leaves from the local farmshop that seemed to include arugula, baby chard, dandelion, mustard greens. Yum. More yoghurt and wheatgerm and a tiny amount of dried cranberries and raisins for dessert - I will need to lock the pack away somewhere, too easy to munch on those in the afternoon hours. And before wine tasting tonight I am planning to eat 235g steamed spinach with flax oil. I think that gets me to pretty much complete nutrition on around 800-850 calories, so I can more or less relax and enjoy my evening. And try to remember to measure my wine intake equally carefully!
P has gone on a bit of a health-kick himself, purchasing a smoothie maker and coming over all enthusiastic about blended fruit concoctions. We shared a melon, strawberry and peach smoothie last night (not weighed!) - I ate mine out of a bowl with a spoon, like a chilled soup. Smoothies are, I know, fairly high calorie so it won't be something I indulge in very often (and I prefer my fruit whole) but it will be interesting to see if the same machine will cope with veggies like carrots and beetroot. The really good part of this is that there is more Sara friendly food in the house, and he has also ordered an organic vegetable delivery from Abel and Cole, to arrive weekly so that I won't be scrabbling around grumpily trying to feed myself from his usual meagre stores. We don't share tastes in food at all at the best of times, but it's always great when he starts paying more attention to his diet; after all, I don't want to see him (or me!) suffer for poor nutritional choices in the future.
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
A Correction
In a moment of blog-immersed enthusiasm, I posted on April's CR diary to the effect that I rarely feel hunger on CRON if I have done the ON right - and that is indeed true. What I neglected to say, and what I am saying here in case people follow the link and then see me saying over and over in this very blog "I was hungry", "I was bad-tempered with hunger", "my food came too late", "argh where is the decent food??!!!!???", is that getting ON right 100% of the time is sooo tricky and takes so much concentration and effort that... well, sometimes it doesn't happen and sometimes you get hungry... at inconvenient moments.
Like late this afternoon, right after posting that comment, I went to visit one of my wedding suppliers to talk about catering equipment. I was fine; I'd eaten lunch and an afternoon snack... He and I were having one conversation. And then my stomach suddenly decided to make its best growling efforts to generally distract and interrupt us with another. Grrrr.
And what had I done? I think I'd missed all the fat out of my lunch. 300g romaine, spinach and rocket with mushrooms, artichoke hearts, tomatoes and cucumber topped with fat-free cottage cheese and LLBY, and blueberries, Grapenuts and goji berries for dessert. No nuts, no flax... and it really does seem to matter. Tiny details that I really must pay attention to.
So dinner tonight had a double helping of flax oil on. It's officially asparagus season now - for 14 days!!! - and I am taking full advantage. The farm shop had gorgeously fat, locally grown spears for sale at not too horrific a price, and my treat to myself this evening was a whole bunch, steamed alongside other veggies and drizzled with the flax. Yum. I shall spare you pictures this time though.
Hmm, this is a bit low in calories. Maybe I need some tofu chocolate mousse...
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Nutrition Summary for 01 May 2007
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General (84%)
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Energy | 997.9 kcal 83%
Protein | 84.1 g 93%
Carbs | 130.1 g 108%
Fiber | 39.7 g 132%
Fat | 25.5 g 64%
Water | 1760.5 g 65%
Vitamins (100%)
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Vitamin A | 29917.5 IU 1282%
Folate | 1573.8 µg 393%
B1 (Thiamine) | 2.1 mg 190%
B2 (Riboflavin) | 3.9 mg 357%
B3 (Niacin) | 20.8 mg 149%
B5 (Pantothenic Acid)| 5.9 mg 118%
B6 (Pyridoxine) | 3.0 mg 232%
B12 (Cyanocobalamin) | 2.3 µg 96%
Vitamin C | 375.6 mg 501%
Vitamin D | 424.9 IU 212%
Vitamin E | 23.0 mg 153%
Vitamin K | 1214.6 µg 1350%
Minerals (98%)
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Calcium | 1144.0 mg 114%
Copper | 2.8 mg 313%
Iron | 20.2 mg 112%
Magnesium | 509.4 mg 159%
Manganese | 4.5 mg 249%
Phosphorus | 1378.0 mg 197%
Potassium | 5349.3 mg 114%
Selenium | 161.0 µg 293%
Sodium | 1134.4 mg 76%
Zinc | 10.7 mg 133%
Lipids (60%)
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Saturated | 3.7 g 37%
Omega-3 | 3.7 g 339%
Omega-6 | 5.3 g 120%
Cholesterol | 8.1 mg 3%
Like late this afternoon, right after posting that comment, I went to visit one of my wedding suppliers to talk about catering equipment. I was fine; I'd eaten lunch and an afternoon snack... He and I were having one conversation. And then my stomach suddenly decided to make its best growling efforts to generally distract and interrupt us with another. Grrrr.
And what had I done? I think I'd missed all the fat out of my lunch. 300g romaine, spinach and rocket with mushrooms, artichoke hearts, tomatoes and cucumber topped with fat-free cottage cheese and LLBY, and blueberries, Grapenuts and goji berries for dessert. No nuts, no flax... and it really does seem to matter. Tiny details that I really must pay attention to.
So dinner tonight had a double helping of flax oil on. It's officially asparagus season now - for 14 days!!! - and I am taking full advantage. The farm shop had gorgeously fat, locally grown spears for sale at not too horrific a price, and my treat to myself this evening was a whole bunch, steamed alongside other veggies and drizzled with the flax. Yum. I shall spare you pictures this time though.
Hmm, this is a bit low in calories. Maybe I need some tofu chocolate mousse...
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Nutrition Summary for 01 May 2007
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General (84%)
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Energy | 997.9 kcal 83%
Protein | 84.1 g 93%
Carbs | 130.1 g 108%
Fiber | 39.7 g 132%
Fat | 25.5 g 64%
Water | 1760.5 g 65%
Vitamins (100%)
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Vitamin A | 29917.5 IU 1282%
Folate | 1573.8 µg 393%
B1 (Thiamine) | 2.1 mg 190%
B2 (Riboflavin) | 3.9 mg 357%
B3 (Niacin) | 20.8 mg 149%
B5 (Pantothenic Acid)| 5.9 mg 118%
B6 (Pyridoxine) | 3.0 mg 232%
B12 (Cyanocobalamin) | 2.3 µg 96%
Vitamin C | 375.6 mg 501%
Vitamin D | 424.9 IU 212%
Vitamin E | 23.0 mg 153%
Vitamin K | 1214.6 µg 1350%
Minerals (98%)
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Calcium | 1144.0 mg 114%
Copper | 2.8 mg 313%
Iron | 20.2 mg 112%
Magnesium | 509.4 mg 159%
Manganese | 4.5 mg 249%
Phosphorus | 1378.0 mg 197%
Potassium | 5349.3 mg 114%
Selenium | 161.0 µg 293%
Sodium | 1134.4 mg 76%
Zinc | 10.7 mg 133%
Lipids (60%)
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Saturated | 3.7 g 37%
Omega-3 | 3.7 g 339%
Omega-6 | 5.3 g 120%
Cholesterol | 8.1 mg 3%
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