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May 27, 2007
Everyone Is Of A Certain Age
We were just listening to a report on NPR on which the announcer said, "If you are a woman of a certain age..." and MR pointed out that everyone is of a certain age, whether that's old, young, or whatever.
We went to a little dinner party last night... I fed MR his dinner in advance, but I ate there. The food was quite lovely... appetizers were artichoke hearts, cucumbers, carrots, these interesting little hot peppers that I think were called piquant peppers, a selection of cheeses and bread. My friends are all good wine drinkers, so we had quite a few excellent reds. I try to avoid bread, but I did have a small slice of it with dinner and a little bit of the goat cheese on cucumber slices. I had never used a cucumber slice as an object on which to spread a spread, and it worked quite well. I even made a small sandwich of goat cheese, artichoke hearts and piquant pepper between two cucumbers. Dinner was a big salad, veal chops, and roasted asparagus, mushrooms and red peppers. I had never eaten veal before and felt a bit odd about it since I've read for so many years about the bad treatment of the baby cows. I ate it anyway, my old vegan heart giving me some trouble, and I'll admit that it was delicious. I've never been much of a fan of steak, and hence concluded that I dislike beef in general. I never eat beef, except for the occasional bite off a friend's plate. Our hostess had made homemade strawberry shortcake, which was also quite amazing: not too sweet, fresh from the oven, very good strawberries.
Needless to say, I'm having a lower calorie day today. Breakfast was 125 calories of eggwhites with flax oil and Carolina Treet, for a total of 185. Lunch will be the usual salad. Dinner will be something small. It's easy to eat light when at home.
Today MR and I are staying home, and I'll finally get to relax a bit. The house needs a lot of cleaning, and the gnomes are not arriving to do it for me, so I suspect I'll spend a considerable part of the day on the cleaning.
I've gotten a few requests for a repost of my quotidian diet. It's been under so much revision lately that I've been putting off re-posting until I get it all straight. Between processing the effects of exercise, slight changes in my tastes, and getting past the stress and travel associated with the campaigns we're working on, it's just not been a time of CR tranquility. I'm still eating out too much, and still working out how to get all my nutrition in even on days when I eat a meal out. I really need to just cut back on the eating out, but the week after a major win involves so many celebrations that it's not the greatest time to focus.
Here's a recent stab at the new quotidian:
Breakfast:
cup skim milk with 50 calories banana chocolate whey protein and 1 teaspoon flax oil
Snack:
8 oz low sodium vegetable juice, 60 cals almonds
Lunch:
Salad of kale, turnip greens, napa, tomatoes, green peppers, topped with 1 cup nonfat yogurt, 4 tablespoons salsa, + 60 calories almonds
Sometimes snack:
another whey shake, or a cup of nonfat fruit yogurt, with some almonds
Dinner:
Something with two tablespoons brewers yeast, like a lot of veggies, and some mushrooms for Bs. Or if I'm out, most likely a fish dish or a salad with grilled chicken.
Lauren "tagged" me in this interesting little bloggie game, and now I am supposed to put eight random facts about myself up on my blog, so here goes:
1. I have never taken a yoga class, but I think I should.
2. I am not quite sure what my natural hair color was.
3. I have very few shoes, and basically wear the same shoes every day. One pair for work, one for casual. I am not a shoe person.
4. I received a Hello Kitty backpack from MR as our second anniversary present.
5. I love sugar free jello, especially black cherry and strawberry kiwi flavors.
6. I despise the public radio show "Praire Home Companion."
7. I have taken a vow that I will never attempt any sort of house painting ever again.
8. My cat is polydactyl, meaning that he has thumbs, and he can use the thumbs to do neat things like open tupperware.
Speaking of Lauren, and her recent comments re: yoga and CR... actually, quite a few CR practitioners practice every other day fasting, which sounds pretty much like what you're describing. Others fast maybe one day a week. The main difference would be in the attention paid to nutrition, sounds like. Lots of CR practitioners like Arturo are also yoga practitioners or one stripe or another.
Aha, now I have tagged eight other bloggers. I hit up mostly folks who haven't been posting much lately, hoping to inspire them to write a quick post of eight facts as a little window to get back into blogging more frequently. I do miss my CR bloggiefriends when you're away!
Okay, off to the gym.
PS: I owe a post on protein restriction. I really do mean to get around to it. Sorry it's taking so long.
Posted by april at May 27, 2007 6:38 AM
Comments
Hi April
The way you describe the tagging doesn't seem so labor intensive. Someone had tagged me earlier in the week and I declined. Maybe I need to rethink. The other day I was reading a favorite blog, donutszenmom, and she tagged a few other interesting blogs, which I am now reading. So it's a good way to find out good thinkers out there.
Cheers,
Arturo
Posted by: Arturo at May 27, 2007 8:45 AM
Would it be possible to post a snapshot of what MR usually eats on a daily basis? You are a tiny female who doesn't eat a large quantity of food, whereas MR is a male who eats a lot. I think it would be very useful for readers to see the contrast. :-)
Posted by: Judith at May 27, 2007 10:30 AM
Do it the easy way. Just hit 'print screen' after an average day from cron-o-meter.
Posted by: Jon at May 27, 2007 11:12 PM
Hi April...
I'd appreciate knowing a bit more about the protein restriction studies because I cannot understand A WORD about them when it's being discussed on the CR list, and I'd like to know whether I'm still okay eating my LLBY every day or whether to cut back on it! Unless you're talking about something completely different, of course... :-)
Cheers
S.
Posted by: Sara at May 28, 2007 5:08 AM
I've been reading for a long while but this made me comment - I hate Prairie Home Companion, too!!!
Posted by: Allison at May 29, 2007 2:28 PM