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February 5, 2006
Symphony in 946 Calories
Back when I was just stalking MR, I used to imagine that some day he would read my perfect, simple, delicious and nutritious tiny quotidian diet and realize that nowhere else on earth could there exist such an ideal mate for him. Well, that's basically what happened, but I never stop being excited about my new ways of fitting incredibly delicious meals, chock full of RDA's of everything, into very small calorie packages.
Behold the beauty of today.
Breakfast:
Something new! (Please do not die of shock, or anything else.)
1/2 cup of eggwhites with 23 calories Trader Joe's Asian Mushrooms and 1 fat free cheddar single, plus 1 teaspoon flax oil. Mushroom and cheese omlette -- super yum, better distribution of calcium, closer to Zoned (okay, not really, but closer) and more panto acid than you can shake a stick at!
Lunch:
Rather quotidian, to come down from the high of a different breakfast.
70 g kale, 30 g mustard greens, 1 cup nonfat plain yogurt with 4 tbsps salsa verde. 134 g olives. (I love olives!)
Dinner:
Cooking dinner for Mom again... she's coming over to keep me company and help with the kitty-nursing. It isn't easy getting pills into a six and a half pound cat, let me assure you.
A new and fabulous salad, created with the inspiration of a sale at Whole Foods this am on organic blackberries:
Blackberry Beet Salad with Ginger Balsamic Vinegarette
100 g blackberries, fresh, raw
120 g sliced beets
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar with ginger powder (or you could use fresh ginger)
1 teaspoon flax oil
For the main course, we're having an old favorite: cruciferous veggie eggwhite drop soup with brewers yeast. 100 g broccoli, 100 g cauliflower, no salt organic veggie broth, 1 tbsp Lewis Labs, and the juice of a half a fresh lemon (amounts per person) and 40 cals eggwhites, stirred in so it's like eggdrop soup. Sides of fats: 9.4 g almonds, 70 g olives.
In addition to my meals, I had two oz cranberry juice (totally unsweetened, the too-sour-to-drink kind) with morning supplements and diet Dr. Pepper, and two ounces just now with more DDP, served in a wine glass. It's just like drinking wine, except without any of the negative side effects!
Here, my friends, is the crunch for today. Behold and be amazed.
NUTRIENT TOTALS:
Abs. Values %RDA/SA
Calories 946.18__cal 47%
Protein 69.94__gm 127% RDA
Total Fat 31.63__gm 49%
Sat. Fat 8.63__gm 43%
Mono. Fat 15.62__gm 54%
Poly. Fat 5.17__gm 78%
Carbohydrate 106.16__gm 35%
Fiber 29.10__gm 97%
Cholesterol 48.29__mg 16%
Vit. A 10414.40__IU 208% RDA
Vit. B6 1.07__mg 67% RDA
Vit. B12 1.16__mcg 58% RDA
Vit. C 327.52__mg 546% RDA
Vit. E 12.23__mg 153% RDA
Thiamine 1.34__mg 122% RDA
Folacin 326.05__mcg 181% RDA
Riboflavin 2.10__mg 162% RDA
Niacin 14.91__mg 99% RDA
Panto. Acid 5.14__mg 103% SA
Calcium 1380.19__mg 115% RDA
Copper 2.63__mg 132% SA
Iron 16.16__mg 108% RDA
Magnesium 231.29__mg 83% RDA
Manganese 3.26__mg 109% SA
Phosphorus 560.00__mg 47% RDA
Potassium 3214.66__mg 161% RDA
Selenium 125.97__mcg 229% RDA
Sodium 4732.99__mg 197% SA
Zinc 5.44__mg 45% RDA
Tyrosine 1.78__gm 185% RDA
Lysine 3.20__gm 444% RDA
Phenylalanine 2.43__gm 254% RDA
Leucine 3.76__gm 392% RDA
Valine 2.93__gm 349% RDA
Methionine 1.24__gm 414% RDA
Cystine 0.84__gm 280% RDA
Tryptophan 0.64__gm 355% RDA
Threonine 2.02__gm 420% RDA
Isoleucine 2.47__gm 344% RDA
P:C:F = 30:40:30.
Right on the Zone. Check out those nutrients. Look at those recipes.
I really get into this sort of thing. Major geek out. But look: it's so elegant! So tiny and perfect! It's like a Barbie house of nutrition! It's like a snowflake, in its microscopic uniqueness and perfection. It's like, so yummy!
Now I'm off to actually put together the dinner that I have so lovingly constructed on my software. Happy blackberries to all, and to all a good night!
Posted by april at February 5, 2006 4:58 PM