Purple!

 

Saturday Night Dinner: Cabbage, Potato, leek and chicken jalepeno sausage.  Plus a little chili powder.  So yummy and filling. 

 

Sunday Breakfast: "Slim Crepe"- spinach crepe with mushroom sauce, egg, cucumber feta, tomato and spinach.  Oh yeah, and a cheese crust.  (It was actually a little too cheesy for my taste.  I NEVER thought I would say that sentence! I justified it a little because I haven't really had much lately.  And it's protein.)  I also had 1/2 a 16oz iced 2% latte with a small splash of hazelnut syrup.  The espresso at the farmers market is sooo strong.  I saved the rest for tomorrow!

I had great success in intuitive eating.  I ate about a 1/4 of the crepe around 9:30 and another 1/4 around 10:30.  And then I wasn't hungry until past 1:30 though I did have tiny samples of orange and cheese at Whole Foods.  Each time I ate the crepe it was delicious and now I have more crepe for later in the week.  That is one of the great things I can tell myself about food.  If it's really good, it helps me to stop eating it if I remind myself that I can have leftovers!  It's cheaper too!  This $8 meal will last for at least 2 meals!

Sunday Lunch: left over cabbage mix.

Sunday Snack: Fage yogurt with trail mix

 

I started getting hungry around 5:30 but then did an hour of yoga and that definitely distracted my hunger.  I was hardly hungry after that.

Sunday Dinner: My first Risotto!  I used 3/4 cup Trader Joe's Brown Rice Medley (brown rice, black barley, radish seeds), 1 cup frozen peas, 2 cups organic, fresh asparagus, 3 cups organic, fresh spinach, 2 1/2 cups vegetable stock, water, 1T olive oil, 1T Yogurt Butter, 1/4 cup Parmesan, heaping T of frozen basil-but not in that order.  The rice was a little inconsistently cooked but it was super yummy.  The basil was a good idea!  I ate 1 cup of that and there is definitely lots leftover.

Then I had a few spoonfuls, errr, scrapings of my Kiwi sorbet.  It's about 6 kiwis blended with a 1/8 cup sugar syrup.  If you add a little alcohol to it, it's doesn't freeze into an ice cube, but I skipped that step.  Still good though! (picture tomorrow)

I've been making sure to have balanced (carb/protien/good fat/veg) meals and relying heavier on the veg.  I think the cabbage and risotto did that, no?

I also had a junk food revelation/duh moment!  I do prefer and want to eat healthier, whole foods.  However, when they are sub-par or not existent, I turn to junk food.  For example, in my grad school dining hall the food is pretty awful (salty!) and often the meat they use freaks me out.  And selection is booooring.  Thus why not have a bowl of fries!  But then comes the carb coma, plus the lack of nutrition and all.  This is something I used to do a lot but thankfully have been doing less of recently.  (Also thanks to the fact that the dining hall now posts the calories for all prepared food- Ignorance is not bliss!)  I guess the thought was, When I don't have good tasting regular food around, why not turn to junk food?  It can taste good and fulfills a void- though, thankfully, more and more I realize it does taste awful.  I'll hold out for some home made oven fries or some really fancy fries with truffle oil (had that once- AMAZING!)  Homemade cooking really does make a difference. Well now I know that I will just always have my preferred foods, meals and snacks with me at school.  

Sometimes it takes conversations with yourself, about things you already know, to really get the point across.