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January 2, 2008
Fun With Software While Can Not Sleep
Woke up at 2. Cuddled cat in bed until 3:22. Still coughing and couldn't sleep so finally decided to get up and play with nutritional software.
Here is the plan for today:
Massive eggwhite omlette at the meeting with nurses this morning, including mushrooms, tomatoes, and onions. MR will pack flax oil and wheat bran for me to take along. I may even be a total freak and pack my own slice of nonfat cheese.
Lunch: the traditional April salad (kale, napa, tomato, green pepper) with Butterworks Farms nonfat plain organic yogurt, plus a little bit of vinegar or Walden Farms dressing. Almonds.
Snacks: 100 g blueberries, and more of the 50 g of almonds that I try to eat per day to get my Vitamin E and good fats.
Dinner: Brewers Yeast soup: no salt veggie broth + broccoli + cauliflower + 2 tbsps Lewis Labs Brewers Yeast. Nancy's organic cottage cheese, lowfat, with 1 tsp flax oil. Leftover almonds, no doubt. Wine.
I'm really, really hoping that at some point in my day that begins with leaving for work at 6:30 am and will end with getting home from my last meeting likely between 9 and 10 pm that I will somehow manage to get home and take a nap. Often I can swing home after lunch while things are quiet and lie down with the cat for a little while on very long days. That's why we bought a house six blocks from my office.
Since I'm up anyway, I'm just going to go to the gym as soon as it opens at 5:30 a to at least get a half hour on the treadmill before I have to head to my meeting. That way if I can get away from work I can go straight to nap.
Ooops. I forgot to add in my wheat bran. Add about 10 calories and a whole lot of fiber.
Report generated by CRON-o-Meter v0.9.3
Nutrition Summary for January 2, 2008
General (71%)
Energy 1432.0 kcal 59%
Protein 126.5 g 226%
Carbs 97.8 g 75%
Fiber 24.3 g 64%
Fat 35.6 g 55%
Vitamins (92%)
Vitamin A 8111.3 IU 270%
Folate 411.1 µg 103%
B1 (Thiamine) 1.8 mg 151%
B2 (Riboflavin) 5.2 mg 397%
B3 (Niacin) 16.7 mg 104%
B5 (Pantothenic Acid) 5.4 mg 107%
B6 (Pyridoxine) 2.0 mg 155%
B12 (Cyanocobalamin) 3.5 µg 146%
Vitamin C 246.3 mg 274%
Vitamin D 3.6 IU 2%
Vitamin E 16.8 mg 112%
Vitamin K 464.1 µg 387%
Minerals (95%)
Calcium 1111.5 mg 111%
Copper 2.1 mg 233%
Iron 7.9 mg 99%
Magnesium 339.7 mg 81%
Manganese 2.7 mg 120%
Phosphorus 1453.3 mg 208%
Potassium 3596.9 mg 77%
Selenium 180.2 µg 328%
Sodium 5223.5 mg 348%
Zinc 10.1 mg 92%
Lipids (86%)
Saturated 4.7 g
Omega-3 3.0 g 150%
Omega-6 7.2 g 72%
Trans-Fats 0.0 g
Cholesterol 21.1 mg
Posted by april at January 2, 2008 3:40 AM
Comments
Hi April,
Thanks for your great blog, I started CR a few months ago and have found a real energy boost, and much more. I wondered if you could tell me what Texas Pete is... there are often a few items on your list that I am not aware of - being from the UK - perhaps, if its at all possible, you could mention what the ingredients of these things are when you include them in a recipe..
Thank you so much and Happy New Year.
Jen
Posted by: Jenny at January 2, 2008 6:23 AM
Hi Jen,
Thanks for your comments! I'm glad things are going well for you!
Texas Pete is a red hot pepper sauce, sorta like a Louisiana hot sauce, but it's made in North Carolina in my father's hometown. I love it!
a
Posted by: april at January 2, 2008 7:04 AM
Hi April -
I've been doing CR and reading your blog for a few months. I use CRON-O-METER and I have a question about tracking the amino acids - I'd like to do this and wonder what the quanities should be? Do you track these? Should I be? Right now I weigh all of the food I eat and enter it all into the software. My only issues seem to be with these amino acids (well CR related issues that is:)). Please help. Oh and Happy New Year!!
sam
Posted by: Sam at January 2, 2008 3:30 PM
April! I have never seen that much sodium in my life! Does MR know about this?
Posted by: Healsie at January 4, 2008 7:37 PM
that's probably because COM doesn't have an entry for salt-free veggie broth, which is what I use, so I have to put it in as chicken broth, which is very salty.
Don't freak out. MR is well aware of my salt intake, and it's not bad. Two tablespoons of salsa, a bit in the cottage cheese, a bit in the hot sauce, and the rest No-Salt.
So, for the record, my sodium intake is actually much less than that. I should custom enter some of my foods, especially veggie broth.
But MR says: the average American eats 6000 to 7000 mg of sodium a day. So chill.
a
Posted by: april at January 4, 2008 7:54 PM