Food Blog for March 30, 2014

Hey Y’all,



This is my first post, in keeping with my food blogs to see just exactly what I eat, and see how I can improve or alter my eating habits to best benefit myself and try to lose some weight and also see just what I do in a day. Because I just live my life and don’t really pay much attention to what it is I do.

As I stated before my goal is ten pounds, a manageable goal for a month, I believe.

So…my day started today at 9:30. On my non-dialysis days, I try to get up between 9:30 and 10, so I can sleep a little bit longer. And I had my first “meal” of the day--a 16 ounce cup of Folgers Black Silk Coffee with four spoons of sugar and a spoon of non-dairy creamer.

To be honest, I don’t really like to eat breakfast. I’m rarely hungry in the morning, and I prefer to eat when I am actually hungry, rather than trying to force myself. I DO eat breakfast on dialysis mornings because I’ve found without it, I become weak. But on my free days, a cup of coffee suffices.

Coffee is the most important thing I put in my body on a daily basis. My day starts with it. Before I dress, before I put on my make up, I have that coffee.

I would rather have a mug of steaming coffee than a plate of scrambled eggs and bacon strips any day. I know some people drink their coffee black--I looked at a diet Bette Davis did in the 30s, where she had a cup of black coffee and 2 slices of toasted raisin bread. I tried, I quit because black coffee, no sugar, nothing is too bitter for me. Yuck. And the raisin bread I tried was too sweet. So I just skip it.

Get used to this--Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, my off days from dialysis--coffee is my “breakfast”.

This is an off day for me, so all I’m “really” going to do, is work some more on the latest chapter of my Michael Jackson Fan Fiction Saga Rage in Hell, and cook dinner later this afternoon. Don’t worry, real food will get into my system before the day is over. LOL.

At 10:20, I had a teeny morsel of coconut cake. My father bought a cake from the grocery store yesterday and while I have no intents of eating any of--all those needless calories--I had to cut it for him, as my father shakes too much from his Parkinson’s disease to do it himself. A little bit clung to the knife I used and I licked it off. I know I don’t need it, especially since I’m going to State Fair this coming week and will probably eat stuff I don’t necessarily need. I view eating not as something enjoyable--that way I avoid overdoing it--but as something simply to shut up my stomach and knock the hunger pangs out for a while. Most often, I can last until about 4 or 5 in the evening before I have to eat.

Today was a weak day. Around noon I became so violently hungry, I had to cave and eat. So I baked off one of those Classic Pepperoni Tontino’s Party Pizzas. I hate to cook, mainly because I hardly ever get to cook what I WANT to eat. Most of the money I spend is not spent to feed me, but to feed my dad. And in a place were I can take half an hour to bake a fillet of fish for myself or grill a steak, like I’d like, I CANNOT. Because my father only has three teeth and its difficult to chew, I instead have to spend 4 to 5 hours smothering some type of meat that I do NOT want and would choose not to eat, so HE can eat. So I will try to make this pizza last me most of the night or ideally until tomorrow. And eating rich, gravy covered food is not the way to LOSE, it’s the way to GAIN. And I have no desire to weight 260 pounds ever again. I’m a woman, not a linebacker.

I drank some Calorie Free Kool-Aid with the pizza. Because of my dialysis and no-existent kidney function, I have to monitor my fluid intake to keep from going into fluid overload and having congestive heart failure. I did this one a few years ago and it was scary.

Around 3:00, I had a Cup of Noodles, Chili Lime flavor. I ate most of the broth and left most of the noodles behind. I’ve been snacking on Roasted, Unsalted Peanuts off and on throughout the day.

It’s almost 4 pm and I am basically THROUGH for the day.

My Food Experiment...

Hey Y'all!


I know it's been a very long while since I've written to my personal blog, and to be honest, nothing really all that interesting has been going down lately. I've just been writing, Michaeling, and going back and forth to dialysis. Just the usual.


But in a little over a month--May 8 to be exact--I am going to have my birthday. And as a treat to myself for my birthday, I'm giving myself a make over. New hairstyle, new nails, mew makeup, new clothes, etc.
And there is the one thing I'm lacking...the smaller figure.


So in order to keep my eating in check and see just what I am consuming on a daily basis, I will keep a food log between now and my birthday. Right now I weigh about 155 pounds, I'd like to lose about ten pounds, which I think is a fair goal for a month.


So fingers crossed. Wish me luck! Food blog #1 goes up tomorrow.