The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.. keeping a record of everything I eat to inspire me to be ever-conscious about what goes into my body, to look for holes, to inspire more research, to motivate me to get rid of unhealthy habits, and to become accountable to my choices.

This post goes hand-in-hand with the following post (too big to have on the one page)

• Food Diary PRELUDE (basically my current beliefs & practices about foods – my rules)

Food Diary Prelude

My health focus this week: Cheap Eats & Birthday Week

Spent $12.75 on fresh produce this week and have to make that work with my existing “pantry” food (although I had to cave and go back to the grocer to get some fruit because I was really noticing the difference in my health & mood without them). This week I spent a bit much getting a bad haircut, buying from a health food shop, bills, and only have 4 hours work this week so next week’s pay will be kinda pathetic. So this week will focus on making do with what I have, although it’s also my birthday and we plan to go out for my once-a-year meal at my fave Thai/Indian restaurant (Chilipadi Watergardens) that we go to about twice a year.

Weather Check: Hot 25°
Mood Check: Happy, Really Happy
Sleep Check: 6 Hours
Activities: Facebook, Drive to work & Podcast (20 mins), Work (4 hrs), Browsing the store that I work at (45mins), Driving (30 mins), Shopping Centre for chemists & health food shop (1.5 hr), Facebook, Rebounding.. hehe.. jumping and playing games on the trampoline with my nephews (30mins), Dinner, watching “The Block” with sis, Facebook, Almost finished reading the rest of the book that I started last night (Heal your Face).. hoping to finish it tonight and then take some notes from it too, although I’m starting to get a bit tired now, so perhaps I’ll just try to finish reading it and then have an early one instead of the notes.

What I ate:

Breakfast

Homemade Muesli, Strawberries & Blackberries

Lunch & Afternoon

Freshly Squeezed Juice (Carrot & Apple & Watermelon)
$1 Potato Cake

Veggie Samosa from the Indian grocer
1 Artichoke Heart from the deli
1 tub Yogurt & fruit from Tutti Frutti

Dinner

Salad (Red-leaf Lettuce, Wild Rocket (Arugula), Watercress, Olives, sundried tomatoes, nutritional yeast, broccoli, coriander, nori flakes, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, cayenne pepper)
Sausage, 6 cherry tomatoes, 2 garlic cloves, 1 asparagus, 1 artichoke heart (grilled)

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Weather Check: Sunny, warm 27°
Mood Check: Little stressed in right-shoulder blade.
Sleep Check: 8 Hours
Activities: Facebook, Breakfast, Facebook, Lunch, lol. Ok, so maybe not the most ‘productive’ day. :), Finished reading the book “Heal Your Face” – love it, it’s like he took my whole website and made a book out of all the health & mindset stuff, but he is actually living the advice that I try and give to myself lol, and there was a few nuggets in there that I didn’t know. But it’s reaffirming that someone on the complete other side of the world, has done the same research as me and came to the same conclusion. Though I think he needs to cite his sources because some of the things I have found conflicting research about (I think it’s more his opinion rather than fact?), but all-in-all.. absolutely fabulous read – something I can highly recommend to ‘everyone who lives on this planet’, and I can take so many notes from this book. It has also inspired me to have a “fast” sooner rather than later – both water & juice. So I’m looking forward to preparing myself for those in the near future (after I get all the ingredients/equipment and have a work/home plan to be able to “not” work on the days that I’m fasting or the days while I’m transitioning back to food). I had already started planning the whole body organ cleanse, but had not thought about “fasting” in that, so if I hadn’t of read this book, I might not of fasted until after the cleanses (and the cleanses will take about a year).

What I ate:

Breakfast

1 Banana, 1 Egg, 1 Tbsp Chia Seeds, Blended, Pan fried with Coconut Oil/Butter (Was trialling both since I’ve never made this before.. turns out the coconut oil was a bad choice – see burnt one above lol), Served with drizzled Manuka Honey & Molasses

Lunch

Ingredients for my Afternoon Smoothie: Kale, Coriander, Frozen Banana, Frozen Mixed Berries, 1/4 Cucumber, Red Cabbage, Red-leaf Lettuce, Watercress, Chia Seeds, Hemp Seeds, Cacao Powder, Water, Spirulina, Manuka Honey

Dinner

Mashed Cauliflower, Sushi Rolls & Olives

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Weather Check: Cloudy 35°
Mood Check: Easy, at ease, don’t really care about anything, not high, not low, just neutral, calm, content.
Sleep Check: 6 Hours
Activities: Phone woke me up this morning, it seems like every company in town was trying to call at 9am (/end over-dramatization). 3 separate numbers in a space of a few minutes. Crazy. So yeah, I turned it off & rolled back over but couldn’t sleep. When I turned it on again, I had a network error and couldn’t return anyone’s calls or listen to voicemails heh. Anyway. Facebook, Breakfast, Juice, this blog post, returning phone calls. Podcasts. Driving to work (35 mins), Work (4 hours), Drive home (25 mins), Facebook, Jumping on Trampoline with Zane (nephew) for 20 mins, Dinner, The Block with sis, Finished reading the book I bought last night The Prosperity Secret (notes to come), had a craving for cake or pavlova, but couldn’t find any junk, so made my own “junk food” by turning my healthy foods into a junk-food like dessert, this blog post, and now will work on the notes post.

What I ate:

Breakfast

White Seedless Grapes, Black Grapes, & Red Grapes

Apple, Carrot, Cucumber, Lemon, & Ginger Juice

Lunch

Carrot, Apple, Watermelon, Lemon, Ginger Juice
2 Potato Cakes

Dinner

Mashed Potato, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Kale, Cherry Tomatoes, Garlic Bread, Watercress, Coriander, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Olive Oil, Himalayan Salt, Butter, Chia Seeds, Hemp Seeds, Nori Flakes, Black Pepper, Cayenne Pepper, Turmeric

Dessert

Frozen Banana, Frozen Mixed Berries, Cacao Powder, Hemp Seeds, Chia Seeds, Dates, Shredded Coconut, Chocolate

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Weather Check: Cool 16°
Mood Check: Calm, in Good Spirits. Sleepy after Lunch. Sleepy after McDonalds. Seriously – no good can come from this food. Looking forward to a new year of fasting and cleansing.
Sleep Check: 7 Hours
Activities: Facebook, Breakfast, This blog post, Outside, Birthday Lunch with Family, Walk around shopping centre, DVD with sis, McDonalds cake & coffee. Home now and don’t feel like doing anything except resting.. :) , Watching TV, Bumming around on Couch for most of the night. After Sis & Nephews went to bed, I decided to make homemade makeup and blonde hair toner… and now it’s 1am.. almost time for bed..

What I ate:

Breakfast

Fresh Banana, Frozen 1/2 Banana, Frozen Mixed Berries, 1 tsp Cacao Powder, 1 tsp Hemp Seeds, 1 tsp Chia Seeds, 1 Kale Leaf, 1 Tbsp Shredded Coconut, 1 Tbsp Coconut Oil …….. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm

Lunch

Curry Puffs, Malaysian Curry Chicken & Beef Rendang, Roti, Rice

Dinner

Cookie Cheescake & McDonalds Latte

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