Monday, December 6, 2010

Finland's Independence Day. Usually I don't have BOOST days so close together but sometimes you have to make your social schedule fit your diet. and the great news is that I had this hearty dinner and didn't gain an ounce:-) So this is a BOOST DAY even though I just had one on Saturday.

Weight 145.4

Breakfast

1 1/4 cup Shredded Wheat n Bran (200 cal, 8 g fiber)

1 tablespoon raisins (45 cal, 1 g fiber)

1 cup 2% milk (122 cal, 8.5 g protein, Calcium 31%)

2 cups of hot tea with sugar and 2% milk (31 cal each=62 total)

1/2 cup of fresh raspberries

VITAMINS

Snack

1 banana

Lunch

Fiddle Egg Salad Sandwich (egg salad=65 cal, 6.3 g protein)

on 2 slices of Trader Joe's Whole Wheat FIBER bread (per slice: 90 cal, 5 g fiber, 4 g protein)

with Baby Spinach on Sandwich (245 cal for complete sandwich)

1 small apple (2.5 g fiber)

2 stalks of celery (12 cal, 1.2 g fiber)

Lime La Croix Sparkling Water

2:45 Snack

1/2 cup rice pudding (120 cal, 4 g protein, 10 calcium)

4:00 Snack

1 tablespoon of pumpkin seeds (57 cal, .3 g fiber, 2.7 g protein)

Small Mocha from Starbucks (200 calories)

1 tangerine

1 blueberry Chobani yogurt

7:00 Finnish Independence Day Dinner at Consul General's in Bel Air

2 vodka tonics

Cheese and Crackers

Mashed potatoes

Salmon Casserole

Sauna Sausages with Mustard

1 Cabbage Roll

Finnish Beet Salad

Green Salad with Pecans and Pears

Finnish Meatballs with Lingonberry Jam

Karjalan Piirakka (my favorite!) with egg butter

small fried cheese with cloudberries

Pulla

I had small portions as all of this fit on one plate, except the piirakka that was passed and fried cheese with cloudberries that were also passed