TOO much food.

 bout half an hour ago

1/2 cup of noodle kugel that I am making for tomorrow Rosh Hashana dinner

2 bites carrots & squash...also for dinner tomorrow

- note from Mary who is on  the phone.

"Never open scary skin water with your thighs"

@ 2::30 left over mac & cheese.v. bad I know.

@10:30 am

2 slices flaxfiber toast w/ cream cheese (maybe 2 tsp) spread thin

Apple

Tea

Sunday Night

1:30 am "magic  brownie" 1/2 + 1 cup skim milk.. was up because X decided to star t cleaning the house at 11pm and I was not allowed to cross the kitchen to go to bed until then , and I was derailed momentarily. it was medicinal though I fell asleep on the couch during my exile and was afraid I would not be able to get back to sleep unaided.

9pm Dinner:

"French Onion " soup :caramelized onions & garlic, added store bought beef broth (organic!), red wine & mushroom powder aslo added 1 cup shredded swiss chard.

 2 oz gruyere each and 1/2 a ciabatta roll used as crouton

Salad: Boston lettuce, celery, apples, hazelnuts..dressing apple cider vinegar w/ olive oil, drop of maple syrup & lemon zest.

1 glass red wine

Exercise: Cleaned the house kind of carried lots of heavy stuff

Snacks: handful almonds, bite of cheese

1 pm Breakfast: South Street Diner.. had an ordering issue, really wanted blueberry pancakes then couldn't decide Had  2 fried eggs w/ grits & sausage &  large grapefruit juice.. it wasn't so great.

12 pm Large coffee w/ milk

Saturday:

Dinner:

Piece of brownie

 

@8 Split a steak (we both had like 6 oz total I'd say)

Some potatoes made w/ leeks & bacon v. fattening, and really not that good.

Cup string beans & yellow squash- steamed

1 glass red wine

@4pm

big "magic Brownie" not as potent as I would have liked.. it was a spur of the moment thing, found the herb butter in my freezer.. taste good though lots of walnuts & some chipolte powder

Kind of a shitty day, slept until, 11, cleaned out closet put away summer clothes

@2

 x made me lunch .. 5 peirogies w/ yoghurt & hot sauce

2 cups coffee

slept until 11am!

friday night

Exercise:  1 hour of the naked kind

Small whole wheat pizza w/ fresh mozzarella, artichokes & sausage: to note there was maybe maybe 7 pieces of sauage on there and @ 2 oz fresh mozzarella. I was rather unhappy about the scant amount of artichokes. But it was good anyway

LOTS OF WINE

maybe we should have called it What we eat and why we don't exercise...

I thought this was supposed to morivate me to work out. I still have to get on that!! Granted yesterday was a 14 hour work day, but right now, I could be at the river climbing stairs. Instead I'm sitting here with teeth whitener gel making me look like I'm already in my halloween costume. But, I can catagorize that as self improvement and feel good about it.

Yesterday was a debacle on EVERY level. I started out good. I grabbed a hard boiled egg and a bananna on my way out the door. And, the scary skin water, which I'll admit was quite refreshing. I ate the egg but the banana was past it's prime. So, I get to the exton mall to set up for a VERY long....NON productive day and forgot food. So, there was a lady behind me selling cupcakes and a lady in front of me with whoppers and starburst to give out to passers by or the starving chick "not selling" clothes at the adjacent booth. I did keep it to one cupcake and only 2 servings of whoppers and of course 6 servings of starburst. I finally left my booth to get food court food. The only good option was Salad Works and I kept it good, no pasta or cheese. just walnuts, cranberries, eggs, onions, tomatoes, shrimp and maybe one other thing with lite balsamic vinegrette. Then out to my car which of course had a FLAT TIRE!!! So, I drowned my sorrows in penut butter covered pretzels (to be fair, I don't think I had a full serving.) Finally home in time for Eagles Kick off and a piece of tomato pie, a piece of white pizza with broccoli, 2 glasses of wine. And, another trip or two to the kitchen to take a bite size piece at a time of tomato pie. Ya know what....as I type this...I realize that although it wasn't the most nutritious day. It wasn't the worst it could have been. In the old days I would have drowned my flat tire woes with a few white castle burgers for the ride home and a pinto of ben and Jerry's during the game. Thank god I've matured to Shiraz from Double Super Fudge Chunk!


Ok..now what was Saturday?? Oh..took the boys to the museums. So 1/2 of one of those HUGE pretzels for breakfast. LOTS of walking. A few bites of their ice cream. Really only 2 small ones. piece of tomato pie (man...that needs to go, it's like I can't walk into the kitchen without taking a bite)Sausage and peppers at the block party we went to. I opted for no bun and just dipped the bite size pieces in to horseradish or mustard depending on the bite. A coors light, A blue moon at the craziest concert I've been to in years. It was my friends teenage band at the trocodero. OH MY GOD!! I'm thankful I'm not a mom right now. I wanted to go to rite aid and buy them out of condoms to distribute. 15 year olds thrusting and cursing on stage with skinny jeans and long hair. And, little girls in the audience screaming and dancing and lookiing up all googly eyed. then off to Bahama Breeze to meet friends for 3 mojitos and split habanero wings and fried shrimp with hot fattening mayonaisy dip on them. Again. I was probably low enough on the calorie count. But lacking in real cardio, enough water and quality ntritional content.

Add to to day

Weird half cheese & pickles sandwich on whole wheat

Half cold lamb chop

Grapefruit juice


 It made my migraine go away
--
Ali 

Want to go work out but have vile migraine and still can’t stop working until I get this one quote finished.

This morning:
@11 am
Coffee w. 1% milk
2 slices fiberflax toast 1 w/ peanut butter 1 w/ 1/2 oz cheddar
Pear

Lunch @ 2:30
1 cup sweet potato soup

Last night @ 9:30

Orange
Piece of that DAMN!!!! Lemon chocolate

Dinner yesterday @8

Big bowl vegetable soup w. every veg in my house + white beans and mini pasta
3/4th of a piece of toasted cheese on whole wheat I gave x a 1/4 of it.

@3:30

Cup skim milk
Very thin slice of the chunk of pound cake I found in the freezer while looking for frozen tomatoes


Lunch yesterday@1

 Left over lamb on ww pita w/ hummus, feta & lettuce
--

Thursday....did I drink more calories than I ate?

Thursday: breakfast...somehow, I woke up at 5 and just started working, it was 10 when I realized I neede to eat something, anything. I took a swig of acai juuice and ate an pomogranate odwalla bar (im all about the antioxidants lately) wile I boiled some eggs for future use, switched the dishwasher and the laundry. I was a domestic machine yesterday morning for some reason. Of course now I can't even get out of bed. Guess that motivation streak is over :( lunch was at estia. Marinated chicken kabbobs. And, I ate every last french fry and pita bread and sadly all of the yogurt sauce that I think was for dipping ur chicken. Not fries, pita and fingers. Hummmm....why is it that those new capris don't fit yet? Dinner was at the cocktail classic, so I rounded out my 2000 calorie day with mojito, caihpirina, some kind of rootbeer float martini and sample sips of the others, as well as nibble size portions of each munchie. Ahi tuna salad with avacado, slider, cheese steak (2 bites, no bread) and cesar salad. Oh 2 glasses of wine and cucumbers with dip at jamie's bday party at loie. Once agai, its 9am and haven't eaten. Ugh...gotta get to breakfast and drinking water

Fwd:

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Ali Waks <ali.waks@gmail.com>
Date: September 25, 2008 12:04:58 PM EDT
To: "acorda@superiorprojects.com" <acorda@superiorprojects.com>

Scary Skin water

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My fridge... Eek!

Yesterday & this morning

Lunch.. Was going to have Chicken soup but X came home for lunch and I gave it to him

So at @ 2 pm I had  14 mini whole wheat ravioli w/ chicken & prosciutto... sauteed w/ 1/2 cup tomatoes & basil... no oil

Dinner w/ Mary!

baba ghanousuh, whole wheat pita, feta cheese some olives... we didn't eat much because I only put out like  a cup and we didn't finish it + X was eating too

Lamb Chops w/ arugula pesto ( no hardly any cheese & very little oil in that) we both had 2 lambchops but I picked the ends of X 's plate 

Potatoes mashed w/ 1/2 cup non fat greek yogurt, 2 tbsp olive oil, 1 tsp grated cheese. garlic & fresh thyme... I think we each had under 1//2 cup --  (hint : Save some of the potato water & mix it with the yogurt it keeps things creamy)

Grilled green beans w./ lemon zest sea salt & 2 tsp olive oil.. they were good we ate them all.

A few frozen wild grapes

& between the 3 of us we had 2 servings of delicious lemon tart crunchy lidnt chocolate bar that you brought over!!!

Also we had ALOT OF WINE

(X ate the whole dark chocolate bar after you left)

This morning

9 am:

Hot apple cider

1/2 cold lamb chop

11;30

2  whole organic  eggs (beautiful yolks I can't stand to throw them away they are bright orange!!!) w/ tbsp feta, handful arugula, couple of small tomatoes (from my garden!!) dill & scallions in a whole wheat pita... I used 1 tsp of butter in the pan because I can't find my spray pam

1 glass iced mint/green tea

am considering tasting that skin water but I'm scared.. maybe I'll just splash some on my face 

FW:

------ Forwarded Message
From: Mary
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:07:38 -0500
To: Ali
Subject: RE: <no subject>

Ok...better late than never...
Sunday: Morning, got up and went to the diner with Michael.  2 bites of his
eggs benedict.  2/3rds of my egg white omelet with spinach, broc and
american cheese.  1/2 a grapefruit and 1/2 of my hashbrowns with onions.  2
cups of coffee.  A handful of peanut butter pretzels (not even a serving)
The monster jar is dwindling, so I have to hit up the store for another
soon.  Football food at my parents for the game.  1/2 piece of spanish
tortia, 1 1/2 bite size reuben, chips and salsa.  Definately stayed under
600 calories I think.  That is, until I had 1 1/2 servings of Ben and
Jerry's in bed.  But, all in all, a good day.  No exercise other than the
loading and unloading of the van (And, I even had help for that)

Monday: serving of fiber cereal for breakfast, wings, cheese fries and too
many beers for lunch.  In my defense, It was only 1 order of wings and
cheese fries and I split  them evenly with someone else.  Fell asleep
directly after getting home.  Woke up in time to make it to fashion fest
where I was still too full to eat.  But, had 1/2 glass of wine, 3 waters and
a vodka grapefruit.  Then at 8, ordered these fried mozz balls with tomato.
Only had 3, so although not the healthiest choices, I was probably under
1200 calories for the day. Oh wait...before I fell asleep, I finished my Ben
and JErry's. (Is that why my new pants don't fit yet???

Tuesday: McDonalds Egg Mc Muffin for breakfast in car on way to market (I
somehow can condone this behavior when I have to be in New Hope by 6am.  few
pretsel bites on the way home.  Yummy pan fried (very little oil and it only
touched the skin which I only had one bite of) salmon  with seared brussel
sprouts (with onion and red pepper) and 1/2 sweet potato with a dab of
honey.  Finished Michaels chocolate Ice Cream, (Note to self....can't keep
that shit in the house.

wednesday:  Worked out for a little over an hour at the river.  LOVE those
stairs, especially where there is a gaggle of construction workers cheering
you on at the base of them.  The weather was beautiful, I even got some dips
in for my arms.
breakfast was rebound cereal with 5 strawberries and a swig of blueberry
juice.  Lunch???  Oh yeah, grilled calamari and shrimp salad with baby
spinach and goat cheese. Unfortunately, I think there was too much oil.
But, yummy none the less.  Later a snack of shrimp gumbo.  Seemed
reasonable, not creamy.  But, who knows restaurant food is usually loaded
with calories.  then dinner at your house and since you know what it was,
I'm gonna skip the typing.  It's 6am and I can't sleep, so I should work
out, but I'm going to get through my desk so that my office is spectacularly
clean.  I think that will do just as much for my energy level and self
improvement and in some wierd way eventual weight loss, so I'm going to do
that first and hope to make it to the gym later or maybe even do the General
Hospital work out.

Yesterday-- bad- today so far so good

This Morning:

Worked out with Danny
5 min warm up on ellipitcial.. Hour  weights + Punched & Kicked bag for some interspersed cardio action.

Glass of green tea (am trying to get away from coffee)
Apple
Toasted flax & fiber bread w/ tsp hummus, pepper jack cheese & sprouts.


Late last night @ 10

4 small biscotti cup of spicy chocolate tea w/ t tsp muscavado sugar & milk ( SOOOO GOOD)

DINNER @ 8pm

Bison Burger on Potato roll (sent X out for them and that’s what they had at CVS) w/ 1 oz Jarlesberg cheese & half piece of very well done bacon, onions & pickles
About 1/2 cup of oven fried
2 cups salad (boston lettuce & arugula w/ lemon & olive oil)
 half glass red wine

@7:00
Handful amonds
Three whole grain crackers

@ 5

 half my coffee mug of chicken soup ..no noodles.. Homemade
Apple
1 oz sharp cheddar

@ 3
60 minute ellipitcal machine


@ noonish

Few bites of left over pork from the night before



@ 10 am

English Breakfast tea w/ milk & tsp raw sugar
Two pieces toast w/ scant amount butter & 1/2 oz sharp cheddar


Monday Night
@11

Small cup chocolate icecream.. Guess the craving wasn’t over 260 calories of fat & sugar

@ 930 Spicy sweet potato soup.. Made w/ sweet potatoes carrots leeks, garam masala, chicken stock & coconut milk
2 thin slices toasted semolina bread w/ chopped kale & shallots topped w./ small amount grated parm and 1//4 of a slice of bacon

monday September 22

Lunch..leftover farro/rice risotto

apple

two bites left over pork

Dinner plan:

Indian Spiced Sweet potato soup

Bruschetta w/ kale & garlic

Thursday night dinner

Kasha –Buckwheat groats w/ onions & bowties (made w/ chicken stock & olive oil)
Oven “ fried” chicken breast...marinated in yoghurt, rolled in toasted panko & grated parm..baked in oven
Chopped steamed broccoli w/ lemon...
1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce


Friday breakfast...

@ 9 am Leftover kasha w/ 1 egg and handful swiss chard


Lunch @ 2pm – 3pm

Leftover chicken (I’m thinking 1 breast)
Apple


Dinner... Whew// we ate together!!

Olive (you didn’t have any because you hate them)
Bread & olive oil.. Not much mebbe 2 pieces each

Split 3 ways:

Beet salad
Steamed calamari & clams
Grilled tomato w/ bread crumbs and gorgonzola

me: 2 bites risotto, 1 forkful pasta— I was waiting for X

you: split in half appetizer size pasta w/ tomoatoes & shrimp rissotto

Me 1 small  slice spinach ricotta tomato sausage pizza


Lots and lots and lots of wine

Then we ate more pizza, clam and bacon pizza...yum


Exercise: X and I danced to hip hop in the backyard for about 45 minutes’

Saturday:

@ 10 am
2 slices flax and fiber toast 1 smallest amount of butter, 2 tbs homemade jam, 1 inch cube asiago cheese
Coffee rice milk



@ 2pm.. Half of a very small espresso granita


@4pm  @ 25 roasted almonds,

@ 5 1 slice semolina bread w/ olive oil & tomato

@7:45 Dinner party

Some Olives, some cheese, some tomatoes, some salami
Some wine

Roast pork (@ 4-5 oz) -no gravy- marinated in garlic rosemary & pink peppercorns
1 cup risotto made half risotto half whole grain..made w/ chicken stock, saffron wine, grated cheese (1/2 cup) butter 1 tbs. for 10 servings
1 cup mixed swiss chard & kale..sauteed olive oil, lemon & guanciale

More wine

Wedge of plum tarte tartin.. Made incorrectly w/out enough sugar or butter
1 tsp of marscapone
 more wine

Exercise: Walked around a lot carrying heavy things

Sunday

@ 11 am.. Small bowl organic wheatcorn whatever cereal w/ skim milk
Grapefruit juice
Coffee w/ skim milk & raw sugar



@ 2pm

2 thin slices toasted semolina w/ truffle butter (small small amount) 1 poached free range organic natural egg, grated parm & fresh mint
Grapefruit juice


6pm
1 glass white wine
@ 25 roasted spicy almonds


8:30 pm

Few olives, 1 small slice salami, 2 pieces toasted bread 1 w/ garlic spread
Wine (maybe 2 glasses)
Pasta w/ shrimp & arugula ( hard to find but it was there) .. Way too much oil, luckily table was tilted so it pooled to one side of the plate
2 bites X’s steak


Coffee ice cream w. hot fudge... Yes well menstruation won out ..i would have ripped someones head off for chocolate. I’m better now

Exercise: lay on my butt all day w/ cramps..I feel pain burns calories though.

TODAY

! 11 am coffee w/ skim milk
1 bowl of half organic wheatcornbarley square cereal & half Uncle sam horse feed w/ added dried unsweetened cherries & walnuts
Organic skim milk

Grapefruit juice



--
Ali 

Lunch Thursday

Me: White Wine
You: White Sangria

Split:

Weird Scallops on parship puree that was probably LOADED with butter and topped with fried parsnips and those poor sad grapefruit segment-ettes

We each had 1 1/2 scallops...also I dunno my scallop had like a vein in it or something. Lets never eat scallops there again.

A few tablespoons of the canned tomato/bloody mary mix gazpacho
Half each of that wee baby salad


You .. ( yours was better, I was swayed by yogurt sauce)

Tilapia w/ roasted cherry tomatoes, garlic cream sauce and really delicious rice


Me: Roasted? Salmon w/ some sweet onion stuff  (they called it chutney but it wasn’t), Isreali couscous w/  Dried Cranberries, pistachios and maybe lots of honey or something ..too sweet.. Sad yogurt sauce w./ discolored mint

And we each had another round of drinks.

Yesterday and today

Never drank that watermelon juice.. Gave it away
Needless to say got off the train STARVED at 5pm, was at Reading Terminal got a chicken skewer...i would say mebbe 3-4 oz white meat chicken with teriyaki stuff on it.

Was going to go to the gym but  had to do work when I got home and then it was 7 an X was also starved and lit the grill

 Dinner:

Grilled branzino w/ lemon juice olive oil & rosemary .. I probably ate 1 filet maybe 5 oz, I got kind of skeeved halfway through it happens some times with whole fish

Roasted potatoes, cauliflower & onions w/ smoked paprika, olive oil ( 1 tsb whole thing!) I had prob. 1 cup mostly cauliflower

1/2 cup steamed dinosaur kale

1 glass wine


 ok now we go into the downturn:

2 more glasses of wine

@ 3/8” of a small individual size bundt cake ... I cut it into 8 pieces I ate 3 of them
2 fresh figs

11:30  HUGE vodka & some kind of juice drink at neighbors house..unexpected block party ‘ cause  our black was on TV


2:30 am cold meatloaf from inside fridge. I find it impossible to sleep if there is cold meatloaf available.. Its weird but one of my favorite foods. Ate it right from the baggie sitting on the couch in the dark

2 of those chocolate chipolte almonds.




Today

Coffee



10:30 half a individual spinach quiche

11:15 the other half


For far not too good but it is that time of the month as of @ 5:30 last night, my body tries to sabotage every attempt at weight loss by menstruating within 4 days of the onset of any diet and exercise plan so I feel cranky and fat and crampy and tired and bloated.




--
Ali 

Tues. Night & Wed.

60 min on elliptical 10/7 first 45 last 15 at 14/12 532 cal. 5.04
miles
Was a bit leisurely about it reading newsweek and listening to the
stones

Got home @ 7 30 grabbed @ 12 roasted almonds

Showered

Dinner
Italian wedding soup from my broth. A turkey meatballs (maybe 5
gumball sized) beet greens, @ 3 tbsp orzo (x put it together while I
was showering and threw the whole bag in) topped with tbsp of grated
park and lemon

Whole wheat crackers and hummus and leftover roasted peppers
about 4 whole crackers -
1/4 cup hummus, 1/2 a pepper

Glass cheapie red wine

@ 930 60 cal sugarfree rice pudding which was not as delicious as X's
dulce du leche single serve haagen-daz (320 cal)

Today

Tried again to wake up calmly but phone started too early

930 am 1 cup organic English breakfAst tea milk
Turkey sandwich flax bread sprouts 1
Tsp mayo

11 am slice of turkey meatloaf ditectly from fridge

Right now grande coffee 1 pump syrup and skim milk.

In bag for lunch soMe 260 cal juice thing I won't finish
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Lunch

Have barely moved my butt from my work chair... Did not bring lunch to the boy , but he came home for lunch & I had

Chicken soup (HOMEMADE!) w/ tbsp of orzo & carrot, parsnips & leeks & fresh dill
Chicken sandwich w/ 1 tsp light mayo, sprouts on flax & fiber bread

Lots of flax and fiber today.. And very very little sodium ..WOOHOOO

Think I am going to change soup for dinner plan.
--
Ali Waks

Superior Projects, Inc
awaks@superiorprojects.com
Tel. 800.506.5521 ext. 207
Fax 215.947.7151
Mobile 917.821.4631

Tuesday -Ali -Sept16

Plan for getting up early and relaxing before work did not go well. Phone rang super early and then it did not stop. Till now, when I am waiting for people to get back to me. Wheww...anyway.

Last night had about half of a small Asian pear, it wasn’t so great. Then was feeling snacky and ate two chipolte chocolate covered almonds (which are incredibly good, salty, chocolaty spicy and crunchy..thankfully I only bought a small bag) , and a frozen After Eight I found in the back of the freezer (I was looking for ginger, though not for candy).

So got into bed with Sue Grafton book (mind candy).. Fell asleep without flossing or moisturizing...got up to pee @ 3am and took a bite of the rather revolting German chocolate cake X’s mom made us take home & have a full swallow of X’s full fat milk. The cake was in the fridge ever since Saturday night and I had no desire for it..because I don’t like German Chocolate cake, it going in the garbage tonight!

Food: 10:00am

1 small organic local apple, 1 capful organic maple syrup, 2 tbsp greek yogurt,  1/4 cup of Uncle Sam cereal...

For those unfamiliar with Uncle Sam cereal it has 10 grams of fiber. It most closely resembles animal feed, except I think that animal feed may be tastier since is usually covered in molasses. This is very close to what I imagine feed for diabetic horses must taste like. So in order to vary my breakfast from a horses here’s what I did.

I chopped up the apple in to 1” cubes, tossed in a bowl w. the cereal added a capful of maple syrup and nuked it for 2 min on high. Then I added @ 2 tbsp of non fat Greek yogurt. It was pretty good I must say, kind of like apple crisp.

Its kind of cloudy & chilly out and I am making chicken stock which will turn into Italian wedding soup (w. Turkey meatballs & my friend Swiss chard in lieu of spinach)

Off to yell at people for not returning calls, and make lunch for X , going to bike over and have lunch with him today.
--

Monday September 15- Ali

Overslept missed Trainer appointment.

9:30 AM Oatmeal w/rice milk and leftover wild blueberries from last nights undiet-y french taost w/ wild blueberries & goats milk yogurt dinner-- Coffee w/ Rice milk*

12:30 Hard boiled- organic egg w/ teeny bit of grey sea salt

1:30 Gym Elliptical machine 60 min: incline 10/resistance btw 9 & 7

3:00 Two slices whole wheat flax & fiber bread w/ tbsp hummus, sprouts & sharp cheddar

Am making dinner now , whole wheat organic penne w/ free range chicken breast & roasted yellow, red & orange peppers ( Local grown!) &  tiny mozzarella balls (local made!)my own basil . side of rainbow swiss chard.

1 glass spanish carmenere

Actually measured the pasta and realize I habitually eat  something like 3 servings of pasta every time I make it...oy

Part of this exercise is that Mary and I realize that while we very good at indulging ourselves we are not always so good at taking care of ourselves..so it's more than just diet and exercise its taking the time to get enough sleep,to moisturize, to work responsibly (we both essentially work for ourselves)-- I have the bad habit of sleeping in and going from sleep to work in 30 seconds which makes it very difficult to have good day--So part of our posts will also be what we did for ourselves that day...even if it's just remembering to floss or  using the expensive soap I hoard for no good reason.

Lets see if this works!

* only used rice milk because my boyfriend, we'll call him X,  thought I liked it and it was on sale two for one organic vanilla rice milk... I don't really LOOOVE rice milk I prefer Soy . but I do appreciate the sentiment.

Also I am about to eat either an apple or an asian pear.