April's CR Diary

What fun !
A typical day's food for me would be:

Breakfast: figs and low fat cottage cheese, Coffee, 2 brazil nuts During the day: Endless cups of redbush tea with skimmed milk

Lunch: Slice of my homemade fat free/gluten free/sugarfree fruit cake (see
below) + half an ounce of cheese OR
Salad and Large slice of homemade veggie loaf (finely chopped veggies, with small eggwhites and lots of herbs, lightly baked and serves 6)

Dinner: 1 glass of wine (usually red), vegetable quiche (no pastry, more of a veggie eggwhite flan really), OR perhaps April's lasagne instead + giant salad OR steamed fish and salad or steamed veggies.

Dessert at about 7 pm a small slice of homemade "cake", (a fruit slice:
really just chopped fruits in season and wolfberries, with a bit of brown rice, small egg whites to bind and baked lightly)

Typical calorie intake for the day is around 1400. Diet is invariably short in zinc, so of course I supplement.

Good luck at the Cheesecake Factory. Personally I'd refuse to go there ! But assuming I had no choice, I'd pick one of the salads, but definitely no dressing, or the ASPARAGUS, PORTABELLA AND ARTICHOKE OMELETTE, but no cheese

(Lindsay)

Hiya - I'll bite.

Here's what I'm eating tomorrow.

breakfast: around 6 am
1/3 cup 7 grain red mill cereal, whole grain, soaked (raw); 4 oz plain yoghurt - some russian 'old country' ish brand; 34 g whey protein powder - one of those no fat, high protein shake mix things; 2 cups french press coffee with a little skim milk //

snack - around 10 am
1 mango, .5 oz filberts, .5 oz almonds - both raw, organic, soaked //

lunch
3 cups of 'gazpacho' - consists of cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, red onions, garlic, lots o spices, a little olive oil, about 1/2 cup black beans, 1/2 of a silken lite tofu block//

dinner
kale (about 100g, steamed); brunswick sardines - one tin, 1 tsp flax oil, //

evening snack, 1 apple, homemade cocoa drink ( 1 tbsp organic cocoa, a dash of skim milk, 1 packet stevia)//

for the record - I'm 5'7" and usually aim for around 1400 cals per day (although lately, have been getting an exorbitant amount of exercise, bicycling everywhere in the nice weather, and consequently 'supplementing' with extra cals)

cheers,
christina

btw

@ the cheesecake trough, I'd order the goblet of strawberries and the tiramisu. have a bite or two of the evil one, get it packed up to go, and give the rest away to a friend (who cares, they're eating gak anyway). eat the strawberries.

:)
c

Here's yesterday, which is pretty darn typical:

Breakfast: fat-free cottage cheese with 1 cup frozen bluberries, whey protein, flax seeds, brazil nut, greeen tea.

Brunch: 1/4 cup cooked oatmeal stirred with 1/2 cup chopped raw carrots, 1/2 cup chopped raw apple, and 1/3 cup blackberries, some walnuts, psyllium, and whey protein; green tea.

Lunch: "Mean lean green lycopene lutein protein beta-carotene salad": 3 oz tuna with 2 cups chopped raw veggies (broccoli, carrots, red bell pepper, green onion, asparagus, celery), 2 oz. avocado, and 1/2 cup salsa served on 2 cups baby spinach leaves with carrot sticks; green tea.

High Tea: Scrambled egg whites with spinach, garlic, onion, bell pepper, and an oyster. Brazil nut, wlanuts, and green tea.

Supper: Fake fried rice made out of 2 cups grated cauliflower with 1 oz shrimp, 1/2 cup egg whites, spinach, peas, green onion, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, and sesame seeds; green tea. Frozen blueberries for dessert.

Total calories: 1210 (including supplements)

Have a safe trip, April!

-Liz

The Cheesekake Factory is, evidently, determined to add Calories senselessly to everything ... their "specialties" are almost all burgers ... However, the LUAU SALAD looks pretty good nutritioinally & likely delicious: "Fresh Slices of Grilled Chicken Breast Layered with Mixed Greens, Cucumbers, Green Onions, Red and Yellow Peppers, Green Beans, Mango and Crisp Wontons with Macadamia Nuts and Sesame Seeds. Tossed in Our Vinaigrette". It'd be nice to know what the vinaigrette is, and I'd suggest using the wontons as fork-catapult ammo, but other than that I'd say the dish would fit well into any CR program.

-Michael

Hi April, this is what I am eating today (and is fairly typical):
Breakfast: 2-3 cups black coffee w/Splenda (although I'd really like to stop). Sometimes I take an iron supplement too.
Lunch: very large salad with a lot (200-300 g) of finely chopped kale, one tomato, shredded carrots and dressing made with the juice of one lemon, 2 tsp almond oil (or sometimes olive oil). A side of scrambled egg whites (1 cup).
Dinner: about 200 cals of steamed green veggies, 200 cals of salmon puree--this is just canned wild salmon with bones (skin removed) and pureed so that I don't have to chew on the bones--or I sometimes have a tin of sardines instead. I also supplement 1 tbsp (molecularly distilled) cod liver oil, calcium and zinc.
Late PM snack: 6-8 oz red wine, large steamed yam drizzled with 1 tsp almond oil.
All for approx 1200 cals. I have recently moved my breakfast calories to the PM since I am not very hungry in the mornings but always want to eat at night.
If there are any suggestions by anyone on how I might improve my routine, they would be most welcome!
Have a wonderful trip,
S.

Wow, good question. What's typical in a day for me? Well, at the moment, nothing.

I was fairly consistently eating bagel sandwiches for breakfast, but I've been mixing it up lately. I guess I'm trying to keep some variety, mainly because I haven't analyzed my diet, so I figure I run a lower risk of being horribly malnourished in several vitamins and minerals. If I mix it up, I'll probably only be moderately malnourished in a lot more vitamins and minerals. Hehe.

Anyway, I'm going to start tracking my micronutrients soon, once I'm more consistently avoiding gak, and more consistently preparing my own foods, so that I know a little more precisely how much of each ingredient I'm using. That way I can supplement a little intelligently, instead of just taking a one-a-day every second or third day in the blind hope that I'm covering my bases.

I still haven't found a food scale at the store, and I may have to give in and order one or go to a specialty store.

Anyway, lately, breakfast has been one of the following:
a low-carb bagel with Smart Balance peanut butter and fruit spread OR with whipped cream cheese and deli meat. The whipped cream cheese will be replace with fat free cream cheese when the current tub runs out.

OR, I might eat 1/2-3/4 cups oatmeal with wheat germ, and now I'm starting to add 3 tablespoons ground flaxseed.

Most days, I drink a cup of skim milk, and when I have them, I try to add two types of berries, e.g. blueberries and raspberries, OR raspberries and strawberries.

Lunch and dinner have not settled into a routine yet, so you can check out my blog to see how those usually go:

http://longevityfirst.org/CR/

This is what I normally eat...I add extra calories if I've been playing lots of tennis.

BREAKFAST:
* Egg white & veggie scramble - 150g egg whites, sweet potato, mushroom, bell pepper, zuccini, marinara, 1 tbl olive oil, served on bed of raw spinach
* Fruit 'n' yogurt - 1/2 cup kefir, blueberries, rasberries, chopped orange with peel, pineapple, mango, banana, 10g almonds, 10g hazelnuts, 1/2 tsp flax oil, and 1/2 tbl psyllium husk

LUNCH:
* Sweet potato thingie - Mashed sweet potato, 30g whey protein powder, 10g almonds, 10g hazelnuts, raisins, cinnamon
* Raw salad - Broccoli, cauliflower, red cabbage on a bed of organic baby lettuce/herb mixture with dressing of 1 tbl olive oil, 1 tbl balsamic vinegar, and horseradish mustard or other seasoning
* 1 organic apple (usually Fuji)

DINNER:
* Steamed veggie concoction - Sweet or red-skinned potato, beets, carrots, peas, "protein source" (either fish, turkey, Quorn, shrimp, scallops, soy protein burger, or black beans w/ rice protein powder) served with a curry or other sauce mixed with brewer's yeast and 1 tbl olive oil all over a bed of raw kale
* Fruit 'n' yogurt (same as the one at breakfast)

Im still learning the whole CR thing and havnt really got any good routines that I go along, yet.

Morning:

Green Tea
Small bowl of Nestle Shreddies(wholeWheat)with medium size banana
10ml Cod Liver Oil
Orange

Green Tea

1pm +

Green Tea

Lettuce - Red cabbage - Red/Green Bell pepper - celery - red onions - tbl Olive Oil(garlic) - cucumbers - sometimes tuna or chicken

Apple

Whey Protein powder

6pm +

strawberries
Green Tea
Beans ( Somedays when calorie count is good )
fruit Yogurt

And throughout the night while studying...

Green tea + Green tea + Green Tea...

I am usually getting around 1500 - 1800 calories a day. Depending if I go out with friends to eat (healthy food of course!)

I am 5ft 7" and I weigh around 130 pounds and have a BMI of 20.4

In a way I've always been on some sort of Calorie restricted diet for a very long time but It wasnt that healthy one... The difference now is I've added the ON part. I don't find CR hard to deal with at all to be honest. Infact, I could never eat the typle amount of food one would consume in the western world. I'd find that much harder !

Yes that was a typo at the end of that... =/

My usual day is:

Breakfast:
6 oz fresh blueberries
1 cup of fat-free fromage blanc dusted with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cocoa

Lunch
10 oz veggie mix (cauliflower, broccoli, and baby carrots) with hot sauce/salt and pepper/mustard/Bragg's liquid amino acid (not all at once though!)
8 oz fat free Greek yogurt with cinnamon
1 apricot or 4 cherries

Dinner
2 cups salad greens and one button mushroom with lemon juice, salt, and pepper
2 scrambled egg whites with hot sauce
1 can pureed pumpkin with cinnamon and nutmeg

Post-Dinner Snacking
1 large Fuji apple
1/2 cup dry oatmeal prepared in water

This usually adds up to 800 calories, but if I am hungry I may snack on up to 200 more calories of some kind of nut. I am 5'2" and 95-100 pounds.