By the way, I take a nap during the day when possible. I’ve noticed since I’ve been eating my power salads I do not even need a nap doing the day unless I want one. I don’t have that heavy, bloating feeling after stuffing a hoagie with a side dish down my face. So this thread is about energy too. I discussed with a co-worker my age that I need a nap in the middle of the day and he acted like he could climb a mountain without one. I think one of us is fibbing.
Sunday meals are very ritualized and standard for us. We don’t eat until 12:30, although we are up at 7 or so and have yoga, exercise, and shopping. We make home-made bagels (w/ sesame or poppy seeds) and usually bake bread, then have bagels with home-cured gravlax, tomato, sweet onion, and (lowfat) cream cheese for brunch, with coffee and (for me only) kombucha or juice. Then, because Sunday is grocery shopping day, we usually have some fresh fish for dinner, not salmon though. This week it was broiled albacore steaks, blanched fresh green beans, green salad, and papaya with lime juice.
Yesterday:
Breakfast was my normal 3/4 decaf 1/4 caffeinated black coffee and multigrain waffle with almond butter and fruit (cranberry cherry sauce plus blueberries).
Lunch meeting at a new Chinese buffet. Green beans with garlic, chicken and broccoli, salmon, some white fish (my guess is pangasius / tra catfish), and a steamed barbecue pork bun.
Afternoon snacks of cookies (multigrain flour with coconut, Craisins, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, and chocolate chip) and a dark chocolate cherry granola bar.
Dinner was full-fat Greek yogurt with berries and flax, plus a couple slices of homemade flax bread with the toasted milk solids leftover from making ghee. And some Ben & Jerry’s Brewed to Matter.
Breakfast today was 1/3 of a Bavarian cream filled, chocolate frosted doughnut (leftover from kid breakfast), plus coffee / waffle / almond butter / blueberries.
Went to a local fish market (located inside of the seafood restaurant) that gets better products than the grocery stores and bought some trout. Pan fried it, and made a pot of beans in my instant pot. Small salad on the side. Very tasty.
@HImom, you can get coffee jello?!?
Pizza, sandwich, cotton candy, chips, juice boxes, airheads, taco, cookies. Listing this stuff all down, I can see why my stomach hurts >.<
You know what, as I begin my journey to healthy living, I am gonna use this every day to hold myself accountable!
Usual Tuesday breakfast, bacon and eggs coffee, bagel with cream cheese and jam. Lunch - left over steak with some green beans and asparagus. Dinner ended up being sitting shiva with an old friend - so it was bagel and lox, cheese, salad, brownie, ruggalah, hummus and no doubt some other stuff. My friend’s mother in law was a Holocaust survivor who married her first cousin. A lot of interesting stories.
Lunch: an avocado with sugar snap peas and grape tomatoes, pomelo, hardboiled eggs, and cookies.
Random snacks: chocolate chip cookies from kid’s violin teacher and a chunk of Colby Jack cheese.
Dinner: flax bread with toasty solids from ghee making and some more Colby Jack cheese.
The coffee jello is one of the specialties of that restaurant.
@#48,
I’d starve if that was all I had in one day.
Breakfast: One pancake with pecans and syrup. Side dish oatmeal with cinnimmin (spell?) sprinkled on top and, of course, would rather not wake up without it, a glass and a half of fresh OJ with the pulp in.
Felt good. No bloat. No heavy feeling. High energy.
Lunch: a power salad again. I am really into power salads now.
I didn’t have that tired feeling later. High energy all day.
Dinner: I was going to go with my tree bark granola nut cluster cereal again but my wife made cod with tomatoes and that smelled to good to pass up. The side dish was rice. The beverage was gatorade.
I’m looking forward to my Friday workout. If the sun is out me and my son’s brindle colored lab mix head out to a big grass field embedded in a neighborhood near a walking trail with a soccer ball, a jump rope, a tricep bar, a 13-lb medicine ball and a few other miscellaneous work out items and I combine running, lifting and situps while the sun heats me up. You can’t beat that.
Then Sunday morning is a weights day in my garage. I sometimes go out on the front lawn for no reason. I am sure the neighbors think I am a lunatic. I honestly don’t care.
I am pretty sure the muscle group on your sides just above the hips are called the obliques. As I mentioned, mine need a little help. So I saw a great movement to attack that area the other day on TV or maybe in a magazine I was reading. Basically, put a dumb-bell in one hand and lean to one side keeping the arm straight. Then straightened your body back up. It stretches and exercises the obliques. Between a healthy diet and a interval training type exercises, anything that works the cardio system will get it done, and some weights/stretching/movement/yoga you can make a big difference in your heath or maintain great health. But, in some cases, people are genetically predisposed to be heavy set and I hope and pray that doesn’t bother them. It is genetics. That is the hand you were dealt. I would not recommend banging one’s head against the wall I’d recommend accepting what gifts you have and letting it go.
What did I eat today? Hmmm… Crap, I am afraid, but it is honest accounting. 
Breakfast of the kings - farmers cheese with yogurts and fruit, coffee. And it went downhill from there! Lunch… was packed and forgotten at home. No time to run around, so a leftover meeting pastry and an apple did it for me. Dinner was Caesar salad at the cafeteria. I cook most of our meals, but geez I am not into it when Mr. is not home.
Wait, is this supposed to be a dieting thread? LOL.
@BunsenBurner That doesn’t sound bad to me.
Man, this thread is going to get very long if we write everything we eat every day! Today, I actually ate 3 meals for a change. H ate two–for lunch he had 1/2 of a huge serving of pumpkin crunch at a cafeteria.