Ah nuts. I am working a 12 hour day shift today on my day off, so here I am going off to work again. I am starting with a decent breakfast. Some leftover salmon from last night and 2 pieces of toast with peanut butter and jelly. CHIP says to eat  like a king at breakfast, so I am eating lots in hopes of deferring an afternoon slouch and binge.
While running around in a very busy emergency department this morning I munched on trail mix while visions of chocolate bars danced in my head. And I ate pat of a laughing cow piece of cheese which wasn't good so I didn't finish it. Thankfully there was no time to go in search of chocolate. One must be grateful for small things.
I am now eating a very nutritious lunch of spicy black bean soup and carrot sticks.
For an afternoon snack I had a piece of cheese and handful of almonds.
Supper was egg an egg sandwich. I also ate 3 small mints during the day and now I am done.

Today was kind of a grazing day not knowing really where any meal started or finished. I started with a handful of pistachios and raw cashews, and half an apple on the drive to work then ate a  bran muffin there and the yogurt with berries and crystal light berry crystals that I had planned for yesterday. Somewhere in the morning I ate a piece of cheese and another bran muffin and a chocolate chip cookie (it was the last one there and I had to get rid of it).
I was humoring a child of a patient and got him some pretzels and baked snack bites to eat. I ate most of them while he drew pictures.
Then I ate 3 chocolates that were there for flu clinic and headed home. I think I was stressed today because I felt inadequate for the pediatric simulation going on.
After I got home I ate some dried apples and went out for a walk. Supper was baked salmon and green salad.
Then I ate some more dried apples and 2 pieces of toast with peanut butter and Oregon grape jelly. I think I am done now.
And somewhere in there I ate a granola bar leftover from the night shift and a hard cinnamon candy. I don't know why that came to mind at 4 a.m. but it did!

And another day to eat and work and pray begins. I ate 2 pieces of toast with peanut butter and jelly for breakfast. I planned to eat a bowl of fat free greek yogurt with berries but ran out of time so will eat that for lunch.
Mid-morning I ate a handful of almonds, then 2 oatmeal muffins that my colleague made. She is always baking goodies to bring to work.
At lunch time there was a farewell luncheon for a colleague who retired. I attended that and ate a piece of pizza, 2 chicken wings a couple corn chips with salsa, several pieces of cheese, a sample of greek salad, and 3 chocolate chip cookie. By then I was stuffed and grateful to be distracted with work for the afternoon. As I left work at 5 p.m. I ate another 2 of the muffins then headed out to walk for an hour before going to a CHIP meeting. The food there was bean salad, quinoa salad, sauerkraut salad and carob cookie. I had a moderate sampling of each and am now pounding back some dried apples. Tomorrow is fresh with no calories in it.

A poor sleep leads to poor food planning and poor food planning leads to poor eating which leads to poor sleep. I didn’t have time for breakfast so I ate an apple and a handful of raw cashews and almonds. Mid morning I ate some dried mangoes that my collegue brought. At lunch I ate my instant bean soup and 2 pieces of cheese.
I worked overtime to look after a laboring patient. Had no supper planned so ate 2 bran muffins at work then headed out to a bridal shower right after work. I ate some dried apples on the way then at the shower I ate 4 mini quiches, a few raw veggies and dip and 4 oatmeal dried fruit cookies and I ate a mint. Tomorrow is fresh with no fat in it.

Back to work today fueled with 2 slices of toast with peanut butter and my jelly dried apples and a few raw cashews. For lunch I am taking spicy white bean soup.
I ate my bean soup for lunch then a colleague brought in some butter tarts and peanut butter marshmallow squares. Before the afternoon was over I had eaten 1 butter tart and 3 of the peanut butter squares as well as a handful of almonds.
For supper I ate 2 flax buns with Havarti dill cheese. Some days you just got to eat cheese.
My bedtime snack was another piece of cheese and a handful of dried apples.

Mondays are no big deal anymore now that I work part time and will have Mondays off unless I choose to pick up work on those days. I had a leisurely morning starting with my usual spiritual pursuits in scripture prayer and pondering.  Breakfast was 2 slices of toast (it goes without saying that any bread I have in the house is high fiber, multigrain etc) with peanut butter and my own Oregon grape jelly. I munched on a few dried apples and am now going to head out for a super walk.
After my walk I ate an apple and went out to a friend's to work on the quilt I am making for my granddaughter. I ate an apple on the way out. Her husband made lunch for us. French toast with turkey and mozzarella cheese.
Later I munched on dried apples then had a skinny cow ice cream sandwich. Then my friend's husband brought out skinny cow ice-cream bars and we ate those too. Supper was also there-- rice, squash, chicken, bean salad and trifle for dessert. I have had enough for the day after quilting most of the day.

My gratitude fast ended at 6 p,m. today when I went to a birthday dinner for friends. I ate a small piece of lemon chicken and a smaller piece of sweet and sour chicken, a scoop of mashed potatoes, a scoop of steamed squash, a green salad and a piece of homemade black forest cake. I ate a few dried apples on the drive there and back. Life is good. Three different women at church commented on my tiny size. Keep moving and keep eating moderately.

I am setting out early today to set up shop at the local community craft fair selling and signing books. To fuel the morning I am eating a bowl of boiled wheat with honey and cinnamon.
Ok, now I have experienced an all day craft sale selling my books. I sold 14 books. While I was there I ate some carrot sticks, pistachios, a trail mix muffin and cashews. I also ate 4 mints because I had them to give out to people. Visited with a lot of people and saw some that I have not seen in decades. Tired when I got home and ate 2 garden burgers and called it a day as far as digestion goes.

I did a variation on my wheat thing this morning. No work today so I had time to play with my food. I made a wheat omelet of sorts. I put the boiled wheat in a blender with 2 eggs, some spices, and green onions, blended them together then fried in olive oil. It was sort of like a pancake with onions and garlic powder. I didn't know if I should put syrup on it or ketchup (and I never eat ketchup). Anyway I ate it as is, but think I might be onto something like a new type of super food pancake. Tomorrow I may try it again without the spices and eat it like a pancake with honey or something. Either that or I won't.  I pounded back a few dried apples because they were in my field of vision and called breakfast done. Now I am going out for an extreme walk if its not too cold.
My lunch was 2 garden burgers and a pile of fresh carrots a few dried apples and pistachios.
After a few hours of quilting I ate a handful of dried apples then headed home to eat the leftover quinoa salad. Not exactly a warm comfort food for a cold day but nutritious just the same.

Its cold outside. -10. I ate a hearty breakfast of boiled wheat with stevia and almond milk then 2 pieces of toast with 2 fried eggs. I feel ready to face the weather.

Morning snack—apple

Lunch—more lentil veggie soup. Be still my rumbling gut. I think that is the last of the soup for now. When  you live alone and make a big pot of soup that's what you eat for many days!

And some grapes and a bran muffin to further exacerbate the turmoil within.

Afternoon snack—2 pieces of cheddar cheese and handful of almonds.
Supper was black bean and quinoa salad and dried apples. Day is done and so is my mouth.

My wheat belly is looking not too bad. I ate a bowl of boiled wheat with maple syrup and almond milk and a splash of ground flax for breakfast -- and an apple.

Midmorning snack—apple and date.

More tempting trays of goodies surrounding me at work.

Lunch—lentil soup, fresh grapes, pineapple, melon pieces.

Handful of almonds.

Fresh fruit snacking—a sample of fruit dip that my colleague made – too sweet. I said “why does fruit need dip? It defeats the purpose of eating fruit as a healthy snack.” No response. Ate a few raw veggies—no dip and a bran muffin. Does abundance suck?

Late afternoon slump binge—2 cookies, a piece of shortbread, one gingerbread man, a Nanaimo bar, and a chocolate kiss and that’s done I hope.

After work I went to a church women's Christmas craft party. I ate more lentil soup and 3 pieces of whole wheat bread, and 2 date caramel bars. By the end of the party my gut was rumbling so bad that I turned down the homemade shortbread. And that's one bad day of eating gone.  

I am battling the trend to hunker down and eat as the days get shorter and the nights get longer. Today for breakfast I am eating a bowl of boiled wheat with ground flax, maple syrup, and almond milk with some raw cashews thrown in and a few dried apples on the side. I don't know if its the breakfast of champions or chubbies! Time will tell.

I ate a handful of almonds for my mid-morning snack.

The family of a patient here brought in a lovely huge basket of goodies for the nursing staff. I know. I know! This is an obesagenic work environment. Thankfully there were nutritious options in the basket as well as the chocolate options. I ate a date and an apple with my lunch which was a bowl of bean soup. Thankfully the sun was shining at noon so I went out for a good walk on my lunch break.

Later in the afternoon I ate 2 bananas and a barely-there mini orange. Now it is pouring rain and all I want to do is curl up and sleep but that wouldn’t look too good in the workplace.

I ate 2 pieces of cheese and 2 bananas then a bran muffin-- gut rumbling big time.

I am now home eating 3 pieces of toast with peanut butter.
and then I finished that off with a handful of dried apples which did not help my rumbling gut.

I woke up early but went back to sleep so was rushed this morning. I ate dried apples and almonds on the fly.

I thought that I had taken some of my homemade lentil soup for lunch today but realized when I went to get it that it was peanut butter. The soup was in a peanut butter container but in my flurry this morning I grabbed the peanut butter instead. So I had carrots and an avocado for lunch

A colleague had pity on me and gave me an apple and boiled egg. I added a piece of cheese.

For supper I had the lentil soup that was going to be lunch and a handful of dried apples.
And then I ate 2 pieces of toast with peanut butter and jelly.

I am sitting in a hotel in Calgary eating a volleyball girl's leftovers. Greek yogurt with fresh strawberries and Honey Bunches of Oats thrown in. Hey! Hungry beggars cannot be choosers, although that's not really true. I could choose to stay hungry until I go out in the blizzard to my car and eat the carrots waiting there. They're probably frozen. I could also choose to fast but right now I am choosing to eat what's here in this hotel room. I am eating what is in front of me before hitting the road again to return to beautiful British Columbia.
Lunch on the road was a chicken wrap and hot chocolate. Snacks on the road were fresh raspberries (always good for low calorie munching) and almonds.
Stopped in Cranbrook to pee so bought a cliff bar and energy bar-- more out of duty to buy something because I used the washroom than out of hunger. And I think that was it today. Now I am off to my overeaters anonymous meeting and shutting down my digestive system for another day.

On the road again. And without internet access until now so here goes the food report from yesterday and today. I was up early yesterday and headed out to Alberta so ate an apple on the road then had breakfast at Tim Horton's in the Crowsnest Pass-- a multigrain bagel and a mint hot chocolate.
Lunch was grazing on more apples and carrots and almonds. I take carrots and apples to eat on the road to avoid nasty stuff like chips and crap.
Supper was at the University of Calgary food court. I had some Vietnamese grilled chicken and veggies. I got my credit card stuck in a parking pay machine so I ate a chocolate that my friend gave to me. Then I ate some trail mix while watching volleyball. And that was it for yesterday.
This morning I woke up to a blizzard in Calgary. Headed out to go to the temple, ate 2 apples, 2 carrots and a handful of almonds for breakfast.
I had lunch with my daughter's volleyball team-- an orange, grilled chicken breast with spinach salad, a white roll smothered in butter and fresh berries with frozen yogurt for dessert. I threw in a handful of trail mix somewhere there.
While watching volleyball I ate more trail mix, more than I needed which was likely none.

Breakfast was 2 slices of toast with peanut butter and red plum jelly.
I attended an education seminar which provided lunch-- seafood sandwich and vegetable chowder. I wasn't totally content with it but that's what I ate anyway.
For supper I ate a bowl of my lentil soup with a green salad.
After a long walk I went to my CHIP meeting, forgetting that they had told us not to eat because a meal would be served. I ate the meal anyway-- brown rice and beans with salsa, avocado, and cheese sauce. It was all nutritious but too much just the same.
When I got home I ate a handful of dried apples. I hope they don't keep me awake because I have a big day ahead of me driving to Calgary to watch my baby play university volleyball.

I can tell that I ate too much sugar yesterday and cheese, however today is fresh with no binges in it. I ate 2 slices of toast with peanut butter and my homemade jelly for breakfast.

Lunch lentil soup, 3 carrots, then I ate a few dried apples, almonds, and a scrap of pumpkin bread. That was all that was left.

At weigh in I was up by a quarter of a pound so the cheese and bread and ice-cream etc have caught up with me. I had a cheese and avocado and sprouts sandwich and an apple for supper then pounded back the rest of the mozzarella cheese.

I hope I am done for the day.

I can tell that ate too much sugar yesterday and cheese, however today is fresh with no binges in it. I at 2 slices of toast with peanut butter and my homemade jelly for breakfast.

Back to work early this morning. I have eaten my breakfast 2 slices of toast with peanut butter and Oregon grape jelly and a slice of swiss cheese because I left it on the counter last night and it was in my direct field of vision.

I ate a handful of stale popcorn left over from nightshift because it was there. It probably had C-difficile contamination as well as the few almonds that were sitting in a bowl in the emergency department.

Lunch—my homemade lentil soup and 3 carrots and half an avocado. I have a colleague who eats an avocado every day and she is thin so I figure it must be the avocado!
I ate an apple then 3 chocolates sitting at the nurses’ station. I passed by them one too many times and then they were in my mouth (one at a time of course). Thankfully there was only 3 left so I could not eat a 4^th. I am grateful for small blessings.

After work I ate a handful of dried apples and a skinny cow ice-cream sandwich then headed out for a long walk. I am now eating 2 rye crackers with swiss cheese.
I added a few more pieces of mozzarella cheese then a handful of raw cashews and another mint ice cream sandwich (skinny cow brand).

I am eating a bowl of boiled wheat with maple syrup, almond milk and cinnamon and it almost tastes like a cinnamon bun!
My boiled wheat kept me for the morning while I hung out in Sandpoint with my sisters and mother. We had lunch at the Panhandler. I had a frilled cheese veggie sandwich with rye bread and a green salad.
After another couple hours of snooping around Sandpoint I ate a handful of black bean, flax, quinoa chips exploding with nutrition.
Supper back home was a cheese and avocado sandwich and a carrot fresh from Moore's organic farm. I love their carrots.

I made a lentil vegetable soup today and ate a bowl of that plus a carrot and apple and handful of dried apples so far today. Feeling virtuous.
I also ate a handful of raw cashews.

I sleep so much better when I don't eat anything in the evening and I am grateful for a wonderful sleep last night and for the awesome day to the temple in Spokane that is ahead of me.
Breakfast: a lumpy fruit smoothie with boiled wheat, mixed berries, spinach, almond milk and a sample of strawberry flavored protein mix that someone gave me. I can manage my appetite as long as I don't eat anything that tastes good.
And then I ate a mandarin orange.
And headed off for the day. My midmorning snack was a handful of jalapeno almonds and a granola bar.
Lunch was a foot long veggie subway -- I didn't eat it all. I was actually full and listened to my body. Imagine that!

I ate a handful of raw cashews for breakfast then ate and orange and apple midmorning. Lunch was a cheese and lettuce sandwich on multigrain. I ate 2 pieces of bitter dark chocolate. I ate the second piece to see if it was as bad as the first piece and it was.
afternoon snack was a few dried apples and some more raw cashews then went for a lovely walk.

Its a blizzard out there. Nevertheless, no excuse to eat comfort food.
I had a bowl of boiled wheat with almond milk and maple syrup and a throw of ground flax. Then I munched a handful of raw cashews and took a bite of a carrot while making my salad for lunch.
I had an apple midmorning then a green veggie salad with garbanzo beans for lunch.
This afternoon I ate 3 peanut butter oatmeal cookies that my colleague made. They were delicious.
And I ate a small piece of cheddar cheese.
Tonight I went out for a vegan feast. I ate a serving of pecan loaf, mashed potatoes with cashew sauce, and a green salad with nuts, beans, corn, and seeds topped with  mango dressing. I felt an urge to run away and get a mint oreo blizzard at the DQ but did not. I am happy to say I came home, had a nice hot bubble bath and headed to bed.
I forgot about the 2 pieces of multigrain bread with nut butter that I ate too.

First big snowfall last night. Something about waking up to snow increases the appetite somehow but I managed so far to keep it in check.
For breakfast I had an apple and some dried apples. I have a lot of apples! For lunch I had the rest of Sunday's greek salad and boiled wheat with quinoa and tomato sauce. Afternoon snack was another apple and a few more dried apples. Now I am lying down with my legs elevated in hopes that it will flush out another pound of water before my weigh in tonight.
the flush out didn't work. I weighed the same as last week. Ate a multigrain bun with chicken and lettuce-- felt sick again so didn't finish it.
Went quilting them came home and ate a few dried plums and apples.

I had a good food day today, cashews and boiled wheat with maple syrup for breakfast. Then squash and bean soup with a carrot for lunch, 2 apples for snacks somewhere in there. Didn't have much of an appetite for some reason so just ate a couple rye crackers then more raw cashews for bedtime snack. Not sure why I don't have an appetite. Must be sick or something.

Today was a totally scattered eating day. Not sure why. I had a lot of leftovers to take to work for lunch but didn't really feel like eating them. I grabbed an apple and handful of raw cashews for breakfast. For lunch I had the leftover chicken from last night with some steamed squash. I took a bite of the chicken and completely lost my appetite. I actually felt nauseated. Don't know what that was about. It seemed to be ok last night. I ate a bit of leftover greek salad.
Mid afternoon I ate 2 small packages of fat free chips of some sort that my colleague provided then ate 2 small pieces of pumpkin cake, just because it was there.
After work I ate a few dried apples and headed out for a long walk til after dark then ate another apple and dried pieces while filling the dehydrator. I am now eating 3 rye crackers with half an avocado.
I was thinking all month that the vegetarian lifestyle I was sort of living would make me gain weight. At the official end of month weigh in I had actually lost 6 pounds so maybe I will continue to live on beans and wheat and legumes and such for awhile. Its a cheap way to eat especially since I have so many beans and bags of wheat stored. Good little Mormon girl!

After a peaceful Sabbath fast, I had m siblings over for a birthday pot luck dinner for my mom. I ate a small piece of chicken, a serving of steamed squash with butter, mashed potatoes, a sample of potato salad, greek salad, green salad, and broccoli salad. I topped it off with 2 pieces of carrot cake with cream cheese icing. That was it for today.

I ate an apple and a handful of raw cashews this morning then headed out for a long walk in the rain. After drying off I made some lentil/flax pasta with sauce for lunch then pounded back another handful of dried apples. It probably adds up to 5 or 6 apples! I should never have a problem with keeping doctors away!
I forgot that I ate a green salad as well with my pasta. Busy afternoon, but had time for a carrot and orange.
Supper is quinoa with tomato sauce, an avocado and cup of fresh raspberries. I feel virtuous.

I am proud of myself that I did not give into all the chocolate treats at work today.
I had a scattered day as far as food goes though. I ate 2 apples for breakfast then didn't have time to eat again until having some ancient grain flax chips and rice crackers at noon.
Later I ate a bowl of spicy black bean soup and 2 oranges.
Then 2 pieces of cheese and some dried apples.
I saw whole grain lentil flax spaghetti on 50% off at the grocery store so I picked up all the packages left. I had pasta and low fat tomato sauce for supper then munched on more apples while I sliced and filled my dehydrator.