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February 7, 2006
The Secret of Life Is A Full Cup of Eggwhites
Faith Hill does a great version of the song "The Secret of Life." It ends with, "The secret of life is there ain't no secret -- and you don't get your money back!" I beg to differ. The secret of life is a full cup of eggwhites for breakfast.
Was it really this easy all along? I asked myself as I glanced in the mirror at the gym? I love my food, I'm not hungry, and I have the body I always wanted, and every expectation of keeping it for a long, long time. Why didn't someone tell me about this ten years ago? Where was my angel then? Huh? What the hell was he doing before he started spreading the gospel of adequate protein, unsaturated fat, and the eggwhite divine?
My hunger wigginess was gone. I ate lunch about 12:15, and was definitely ready for my delicious organic kale and mustard green salad, etc., but wasn't flipping out. I enjoyed my afternoon snack, but wasn't dying for it. I loved my dinner, and now feel totally satisfied.
Here's today:
Pre-breakfast supplements:
25 cals unsweetened cranberry in Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper
Breakfast:
1 cup eggwhites
23 cals mushrooms
1 fat free cheddar cheese (30 cals)
1 teaspoon flax oil
Morning:
coffee, green tea, decaffienated black tea
Lunch:
69 g organic dino kale
38 g organic mustard greens
1 cup (75 cals) nonfat plain organic yogurt with 20 cals salsa verde mixed in
100 g olives!
Afternoon snack:
130 cals lowfat organic yogurt, maple vanilla
100 cals almonds
Dinner:
100 g broccoli
100 g cauliflower
40 cals eggwhites
1 tablespoon Lewis Labs brewers yeast
All in a yummy no salt organic veggie broth!
100 g raw blackberries w/1 teaspoon flax oil (that's good, try it)
Another 100 g olives!
1 tablespoon wheat bran, soaked and drained, for fiber (I eat that every day but forget to write it down as it has negligible cals)
Here's the crunch:
NUTRIENT TOTALS:
Abs. Values %RDA/SA
Calories 1048.38__cal 52%
Protein 80.48__gm 146% RDA
Total Fat 36.41__gm 56%
Sat. Fat 12.78__gm 64%
Mono. Fat 16.99__gm 59%
Poly. Fat 4.44__gm 67%
Carbohydrate 110.18__gm 37%
Fiber 25.92__gm 86%
Cholesterol 53.26__mg 18%
Vit. A 10680.61__IU 214% RDA
Vit. B6 1.03__mg 65% RDA
Vit. B12 1.91__mcg 95% RDA
Vit. C 307.52__mg 513% RDA
Vit. E 13.74__mg 172% RDA
Thiamine 0.96__mg 87% RDA
Folacin 323.04__mcg 179% RDA
Riboflavin 2.86__mg 220% RDA
Niacin 12.16__mg 81% RDA
Panto. Acid 5.57__mg 111% SA
Calcium 1572.50__mg 131% RDA
Copper 2.29__mg 114% SA
Iron 13.54__mg 90% RDA
Magnesium 279.74__mg 100% RDA
Manganese 3.37__mg 112% SA
Phosphorus 764.54__mg 64% RDA
Potassium 3344.36__mg 167% RDA
Selenium 120.76__mcg 220% RDA
Sodium 4738.80__mg 197% SA
Zinc 5.98__mg 50% RDA
Tyrosine 2.43__gm 253% RDA
Lysine 4.30__gm 597% RDA
Phenylalanine 3.33__gm 347% RDA
Leucine 5.12__gm 533% RDA
Valine 3.97__gm 472% RDA
Methionine 1.75__gm 583% RDA
Cystine 1.19__gm 396% RDA
Tryptophan 0.78__gm 431% RDA
Threonine 2.67__gm 555% RDA
Isoleucine 3.30__gm 459% RDA
P:C:F = 31:38:31
Wow. What a delicious, nutritious day. Feeling good at 1050, and thinking that will do for now. Had a great workout, a busy day at work, and now I'm going to take my chamomile tea upstairs to make work calls with the cat.
Posted by april at February 7, 2006 6:48 PM
Comments
Don't worry April dear,
Sorry to state that,
the secret of life is definetly, definetly not in eggwhites. It might be in anything else or in nothing else, but it's definetly not in eggwhites.
Posted by: zeynep at February 7, 2006 7:58 PM
I forgot to mention the 100 more g olives with dinner... they were gone so fast that I forgot!
The secret of life is olives?
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Posted by: april at February 8, 2006 3:52 AM
I have to agree with zeynep on that.. I tried eggwhites after reading about them in your blog.. and I just don't find them particularly edible.
Now olives, yes, they're yummy :)
Posted by: gregg m. at February 8, 2006 10:30 PM