sick

i have been battling being sick for several days now and i finally decided today...i am losing. of course i keep mixing up in my mind is it "starve a cold/feed a fever" or the other way around? well i can stop running that through my head as i am suffering from both! the first few days felt like eating and as of today...not so much.
my mind just blanked...think that is all i can do for today.
back to sleep for me. have a good day, whatever is.

time to start my 2012 resolutions

i broke down my plans for 2011 and then planned out what i still needed to work on as well as some new goals for 2012. one of the categories has to with health and nutrition. so, one resolution is to work on making two meals a week. and out of those two dishes have enough to last 4 days. well, we are 18 days into this year and pretty much zero meals have been made.
time to get going.
decide what to make.
buy the necessary ingredients.
prepare the meals.
ok, i am on it.

things are looking good

i have to say this day is starting off pretty nicely. i am lying in bed and i have my cafe au lait (made at home thanks to a gift card to purchase a coffee maker from my husband) and a bowl of greek yogurt and apple. knowing when i wake up that i have everything i need right here at home makes me feel so great. as i am a creature of habit i typically eat the same thing every day. and as of today's breakfast, i am out of apples. need to hit the store. becuase as for much this is a good morning tomorrow would be really bad if i woke up having nothing to eat. amazingly the emotional connection to meals can be over the top.
but i digress.
today is starting off pretty nicely thank you.

getting back in the groove

yep, three days in a row. i am on a roll. woo hoo. you may wonder how long this will go on my tracking when i write. i suspect it's going to go on for a while.
i have to say that in spite of having a cold, i am feeling good about this continuation of my food experiment. there is something about having a plan about eating plans that make me feel a little more settled. typically i would wait until i felt a starving feeling before even considering food sources. at that point what ever was nearby would then be consumed. now this could take many forms. on the one hand it might mean eating things that would not necessarily nourish me...aka pretzels or it meant feeling emotionally disturbed because there was no food and having no food solutions . now iam practicing being a little more proactive. i am not completely back to where i was when i was full on into this experiment but i am getting close. i need to make more frequent my visits to the grocery store. that's my goal for this week.

two days in a row

please excuse me if this post goes all over the place. i have had a cough, now a cold and am taking cold medication which apparently makes me quite loopy.
my first thought for today's blog is that i am hoping i am posting today. i wrote yesterday and now i am back it again today. hopefully this trend will continue and i will be back to posting regularly.
now my second thought is about the temperature of my food. random i know. i think i wrote about this a while back how someone mentioned that my food choices because of its limitations pretty narrows it to mostly cold temperature foods. my friend jamie, who is a Chinese medical practitioner recently sent out a newsletter that at this time of the year we should be having warmer foods. she wrote about the kidneys and removal of toxins...i think. anyway, my take away was that i need warm foods. hmmm. does coffee count? oh wait my nutritionist from a year ago told me "andrea, coffee is not a food". so now i am reminded once again that i need to incorporate this into my daily diet. i have added to my resolutions preparing two dishes a week so perhaps i will think of cooking warm foods. alright that is how i will redefine the resolution one step more. create two dishes that last longer than one day and that are warmer. ok i got it. time to get out that crock pot and look up some recipes.
happy cooking people.

and now it has been two more months.

welcome to 2012. thought i would get back on the blogging kick when i wrote the last blog but work, holidays, your basic excuses got in the way. but just like this season of the biggest loser i say...no excuses.
ok, so here i am back at it. i had a great holiday in mexico and yes, i did have a little of the forbidden white foods. i had everything in moderation from the tortilla chips to the chocolate that comes from that region. holidays are over and now as i said i am back at it...writing in my blog and continuing on with the food experiment. i had a physical last week and my doctor said i have lost 7 pounds since last year. she also said that at my age most women are gaining 2 to 5 pounds every year. we eat the same amount and our metabolism is slowing down. we need to look at what we are eating and how much of it. the diet needs to shift. and we need to move. so i recommit to this program.
happy new year.

it has been a month

(note: this was so painful to write that i am not even editing it. i just had to get it out since it has been so long. my advanced apologies to you.)

i am learning, rather slowly, but still learning. the only way to get into the habit of doing something well is to do it over and over. as you can see from the date of my last post october 31st, i have not been practicing that idea when it comes to my writing. not only have i lagged on my blog but i have also lagged on my book. so, i am jumping back in with the attempt to post here daily and hope that motivates my book writing as well. ok here goes.
what has happened on the food front since october 31st? first we had halloween and then the extended thankgsgiving holiday. basically there were potential minefields everywhere. i dodged every bullet...even when a few friends told me i was "missing out". i thought about eating a friend's cheesecake but after slicing a piece, i just had no interest. could this have to do with the fact that i can't get a check appointment until jan. 11 2012? maybe. i also think i have put some of those cravings on hold. so the food journey continues.
and for the writing, i know...rusty. just gotta work out the kinks.
happy holidays peeps.