Year 4, Day 62: No Walkees and 10,000 Nuts

After a frightfully bad night of sleep where Ruby was up five times, I could not bear to either make a hot breakfast (like eggs) or a cold prepared one (like cereal).   At 6:22, after both Emily and I had taken turns cooing to her, lying with her, sitting with her, she came in the room like Kramer from "Seinfeld" and said "Can I play with my dollhouse?" as if it were a code she had somehow cracked.  Instinctively, I got up and went into her room, glowering and skulking.  I asked her, when she was back in bed, 'do you know what time it is?'  She winced at the digital clock read out, and in a moment that only other tired, beaten and dissapointed parents can understand, she responded "six-two?"  An hour later I was facing breakfast and I chose two slices of bread and peanut butter.  Later in the day it was nuts, and then at night for dessert with Magnolia, it was pistachios, or as she pronounces it, "pee-stachios."  A nutfrenzy, and all I can say is I better work out tomorrow and I'm glad I skipped the beer I was dreaming of all day.

Breakfast

2 Slices of Balthazar Bread

Super Chunky Peanut Butter

Coffee

Lunch: Russo's (salad total unknown as I was weighed with another salad)

Romaine, hot peppers, peppers, broccoli, feta, chicken, tofu, balsamic vinegar, mushrooms

Dinner

Trout a la Emily (fantastic)

Cauliflower (ditto)

Year 3, Day 191: OMG Return of the 100 Nut Day

You really can't get around it: 25 Nuts=170 Calories, Therefore 100 is nearly 700 calories. There's really no way to make that OK, unless possibly you're running a marathon.

Breakfast
Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee

Snack
6 Sticks Beef Jerky
1 Very Bad Pink Lady Apple
100 Almonds

Lunch: Russo's ($5.21)
Romaine, red pepper, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini

Dinner
Fish
Cabbage & Balsamic
Edamame

Feel quite bad after my flour binge last night and nut-binge this afternoon. Really bad. Lots of stress in my life right now: Father in hospital, trip to NY for the holidays, travel to NYC next week.

Year 3, Day 171: No Walk But Yes to Russo's

A 1:00pm meeting meant no walk, but I did go to Russo's. Had to drive there. Fretting about the constant deployment of white plastic, oil-based bags and so have garnered some 'honey' bags from Whole Foods. However, I keep forgetting to bring them, so it is doubly-useless.

Breakfast
Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee


Snack
3 Slices of Ham
2 Sticks Beef Jerky
1 Apple
4 oz. Dale and Thomas Hot Wing Popcorn

Lunch: Russo's ($5.17)
Romaine, red pepper, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini


Dinner:
More Salad, with Bread & Circus TUna

Dessert
Peanut Butter with Chocolate Chips

Started thinking about all I have to and Martha's Vineyard and my father's surgery and my step brother's wedding, it drove me right over the edge to the chips. Then the popcorn arrived.

Year 2, Day 346 nutsapalooza/fake Balthazar

When my Mom was up in December, she brought a TON of Balthazar bread, which we are just getting to the end of now. The last bag seemed different from the rest of the multi-grain and I was very suspicious of it. It seemed like just 'regular bread.' I decided not to eat any of it, but Emily thought it was OK. It didn't have any multi-grain texture to it. In retrospect I think it was Rye, but I can't help it, I'm on tenter hooks.

Breakfast
2 Eggs
1 slice balthazar bread
3 slices turkey bacon
coffee

snack
60 almonds
40 cashews
2 oz 50% Jalapeno Cheddar
4 Beef Jerky Sticks
1/2 orville redenbacher popcorn

lunch: Demo's
Chicken Kebab 4 pieces
greek salad

Dinner
Cheeseburger with Onions
String Beans

Amazingly, I was reading the label of Orville Redebacher and I realized it was a Con Agra product (which is Spanish for "With Agra"). I determined that I should probably not eat any more Con Agra products, because of the recent article in the New York Times that said 'the more processed something is, the worse it is for you." I believe that Con Agra is responsible for creating food that is 250% processed. Just as I was thinking that I saw the article about how Peter Pan (a Con Agra product) sickened nearly 300 people across America. While I felt terrible for all the kids who were sickened, I couldn't help thinking that if everyone in the country would give up eating peanut butter with sugar in it, this would not have happened.

Year 2, Day 343: Sugary Chinese Lunch Leads to 100 Nut Day

The title of this post says it all. One of the reasons to avoid the carbs and the sugar is that it makes you crave other stuff that ultimately can be bad for you, like lots of fatty things. Essentially, skiing down the nut-cliff.

Breakfast
2 Eggs
Balthazar Bread
3 Strips Turkey Bacon
1 small toast of balthazar bread with super chunky peanut butter
2 slices of apple

Snack
Green Tea
2 oz 50% jalapeno
3 sticks beef jerky
60 almonds
30 pistachios

Lunch: Chang Shin Yuan
Meat of two dumplings
Chicken Soup (Shrimp, Tofu)
Moo Shi Pork
Chung King Pork
Shredded Beef with String Beans
Chicken with Spinach
Tea

Dinner
Tuna
Asparagus

Dessert
3 bites of Smartfood
1 Glass Red Wine (Coppola)
10 Chocolate Chips (Ghiradelli)

Sick on nuts, I hardly had any appetite for dinner. As a result, I ate a few asparagus, and maybe three ounces of tuna. Then I moved to get on with the night.


Study: Pistachios can lower cholesterol —Medical Laboratory Observer

Results from a new research study released at the 2001 Experimental Biology conference found that eating two, one-ounce servings of pistachios a day can help adults significantly lower their cholesterol levels. Pistachios joined the ranks of other nuts when clinical data was unveiled to show that if a person has a moderately high total cholesterol level (greater than 250mg/dl), the substitution of pistachios for other snack foods (20% of caloric intake) can significantly lower total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels by nearly 10%.