friday

ok yesterday was a bit of a crisis but i am back. you know that empty fridge with just the light bulb glowing inside almost set me over the edge. but hey that is over. i got a few food items to tied me over and i am so much better. that was a little scary but thankfully the blood sugar level has returned to normal.
happy weekend people.

it is just an ongoing thing

i understand that yoga is something that i will do for the rest of my life. like brushing your teeth it is an ongoing thing. i am learning that is also true for buying groceries! as i look in my empty refrigerator, i begin to understand that the food just doesn't replace itself. for as much as i have made a habit of all the foods i don't eat, i have not made the habit stick of replacing the foods at home that i do eat. hmmm...maybe i should sign up for grocery delivery. i wonder, does anyone do this....well, this is an area i need to continue to work on. ok, time for e to look at safeway.com!

the banana

i realized this morning that the banana is a perfect food.
i dropped off my car for service and since it is such a beautiful day i decided to walk home. coffee in hand...life was perfect. in the back of my head however, i thought...hmmm hunger is kicking in. tried to satiate the hunger feeling with another cup of coffee. remembered what nutritionist told me...."andrea, coffee is not a food". as that thought entered the brain i saw mr. perfect food, the banana. love that. quick, easy, tasty, cheap, good for you. fits all the important categories. i hate waiting for the preparation of food, the cost and the question, is this good or bad for me. the banana is a perfect food....and yes, so is the bagel...but don't get me started on that.

it crosses my mind

I think we have all experienced being super hungry in a place that doesn't have great food choices. Sometimes you just have to compromise and eat what's there. Amazingly that happened to me at whole foods! I was in Sonoma working with my client for the first half of the day and then I had to head to pacifica to teach yoga. That meany I needed food which would last me from 10am through 9pm. Amazingly every prepared food item, including salads, was on my restrictive list. Before I knew it, I was compromising in my mind. I was shocked when I heard that little voice say..."It will be OK to eat chicken salad". Wow. I know I liked eating that at one point but besides the food experiment, I am a vegetarian. Thankfully after walking around many times my better judgment kicked in. I bee lined to an arugula salad, then to the cashier and I was out the door. That was interesting.

it is monday again.

start of a new week. always feel refreshed and renewed to continue on with this experiment. i know i said it before and i will say it again. mondays, i can conquer anything. it is thursday/friday that the doubts come in. but hey, i am living present moment. i am feeling on top of the world. i worked yesterday (which means cash in my pocket). i have completed 11 weeks on this food experiment. and, i see that this week i flip the calendar to october...home stretch of the food experiment. rock on people. here's to monday. to goals being completed. and to hopefully me taking on new clients.
peace out.

so what do i eat

i am often asked..."well, what do you eat"? there are many things that i have added guilt free to this food experiment. many of these things i ate occasionally but now i enjoy them as a regular part of my day. here goes...
avocados, eggs, butter, milk in my coffee, caesar salads (love them)and best of all buttered popcorn with salt at the movies. basically you can say i have added fat and i absolutely 100 percent love it. so there you go.
11 weeks completed today.

walking can make me hungry

well it turns out just walking around sf can bring up some triggers of foods i miss...here we go...(hope I don't introduce you to some tasty new bad foods!)

starbucks - red velvet whoopi pies, little cakes on lollipop sticks...so yummy.
i first learned of these items at heathrow airport trying to get rid of the remaining pounds in my pocket. no one takes the change so i figured i might as well spend it.

cake batter frozen yogurt - introduced to me by my friend Samantha (no, it doesn't come in sugar free)

Madeline cookies...bite size yummy fun and great with a cup of coffee

rice...any with any type of asian food.

the new fad of eating cupcakes

oh and of course the old list...bagels and pizza.

hungry yet?

sometimes this food experiment seems easy but right no well, not so much.