December 29, 2010

Over Christmas I had a nasty gastro-intestinal virus that caused me to lose 7 pounds in five days. So I am currently at my ideal weight and will therefore not be recording my food in this on-line journal. I have sent copies of the Fiddle Diet out to the recipe testers and once we finish with the talks with publishers I will make the diet available to all.

Thanks for your support and interest and Happy Fiddling! Maili

Thursday, December 16

My Fiddle Food Journal will resume, Tuesday, January 4. Enjoy the Season.

Here is a link to a great article about enjoying what you eat from Michelle May, MD.

December 11

Today was the Army Navy Game and we had a party and I was cooking most of the day for it. I'm exhausted and working on Christmas cards so I'm not going to type up what we ate today. But I kept it healthy and made The Fiddle Slow Cooker Chili for the whole group. Then I had big platter and bowls of fruit and tons of cut up veggies. Then my homemade chips with No-Chop Salsa and my sister's famous artichoke dip.

I just had Albondigas soup for dinner with cabbage slaw and more veggies and cinnamon iced tea.

We're leaving tomorrow to Disneyland for a three day trip. Then I have to teach a cooking class on Wednesday. I will resume my blog food journal on the 16th. I'll still be eating well and exercising and enjoying myself. I just won't have access to a computer and I know I'll be too busy when I get back to get all the info up.

ENJOY THE SEASON!

Friday December 10, 2010

Forgot to weigh this morning, which is a bummer because I felt lighter after yesterday.

Tonight we have a big wine dinner and you can bet I will be drinking lots of Champagne and wine and eating every course. So for sure a planned boost day and I've had very healthy balanced meals all day long in order to prepare for my feast tonight. (although, I'm still craving Grapefruit because Costco has been out that last two times I've gone so I'm missing that!)

I'll record all the food tomorrow night after the Army Navy Game

Breakfast

Fiber One Raisin Clusters

1 cup 2% milk

4 ounces orange juice

2 cups of tea

Snack

2 plain Finn Crisp without butter

Pomegranate Chobani Yogurt

2nd Snack

1/4 cup pumpkin seeds

Lunch

1/4 cup Fiddle Egg Salad on a bed of Arugula

1 cup Pumpkin Soup

Iced Tea

4:00 Snack

2 Finn Crisp with butter

Bites of meat and beans while I'm cooking Fiddle Slow Cooker Chili for Army Navy game tomorrow

Radishes

Apple

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Was so hungry at 5:17 AM that I had to finally get out of bed and get something to eat. This happens to me a few times a month when I'm so hungry in the middle of the night or early morning that I have to get something to eat.

5:30 AM Breakfast

1 bowl of Go Lean Crunch (190 cal, 9 g protein, 8 g fiber)

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

9:00 AM second breakfast

1 1/4 cup Shredded Wheat n' Bran (200 cal, 8 g fiber, 6 g protein)

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

4 cups of hot tea with milk and sugar (31 each=124)

I need to go to the grocery store today to buy more fruit and veggies! I'm all out of grapefruit and I'd love some right now!

VITAMINS

Lunch

California Pizza Kitchen (will transcribe from purse journal on saturday)

1/2 order of spaghetti bolegnese

Arugula Asparagus Salad

3 glasses Iced Tea

Dinner

Los Arroyos

1 Crispy Beef Taco

5 tortilla chips and salsa

1 cup Cabbage Slaw

1/4 cup black beans

2 large glasses iced tea

Snack

1 cup of popcorn at Tangled movie with my girls

Wednesday December 8, 2010

Weight 145.0 down .4 from yesterday

On my way to Dream Foundation Fundraiser where I will be all day. It is always challenging to find healthy and low calorie choices when out and about. I'll do my best and report back. I'll pack and apple and tangerine in my purse.

Breakfast

1 1/4 cup Shredded Wheat n' Bran (200 cal, 8 g fiber, 6 g protein)

1 tablespoon of raisins (45 cal, 1 g fiber)

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

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

VITAMINS

Snack

1 cup of chopped pineapple

I'm entering this the next morning as I often do, transcribing the notes from either my purse journal or the notepad I keep in my kitchen.

This is the week before my period and I'm starving. So to help my sister work at the Solvang Bakery Gingerbread Boutique fundraiser for the Dream Foundation is not the most ideal place to be when you are hungry and trying not to eat dessert. Actually, I'm not really a sweets fan and can walk by it any day of the week. As my friend Sarah said "Cheese is my chocolate." So that is truly me and I'd rather eat Cheese and Bread any day over cookies. But there is one giant exception: GINGERBREAD! I love Gingerbread and our bakery makes the best gingerbread so I sat there at the boutique and literally ate gingerbread samples the entire day. The hosts, The Spivey's, also made all sorts of food. So I'm going to list everything I ate but please know that this was not an intended Boost day, nor is it a Fiddle Diet day to replicate. I'm just trying to stay true on this blog to what I'm actually eating, so here it is for better or for worse. (and perhaps I should go back to my main goal during the holidays being to MAINTAIN weight and not lose)

Since I ate the food pretty much continuously from 10:30 to 5:30 I'm just going to list it without times or meals:

Gingerbread Cookies (yum!)

2 mini quiche

fruit from fruit platter

chobani yogurt that I packed

veggie tray with yummy dip

tea sandwiches (chicken salad, cucumber, etc.)

chocolate almonds from Jessica Foster

Then I went to make a Starbucks run about 3:30 and swung by Mike and Jill's and was hungry so had Veal Scaloppini and Asparagus.

Then picked up two Venti Starbucks Tea Latte's for my sister and me.

3 glasses of Champagne

Croccantini Crackers

Then back to Mike and Jill's for Fish Tacos! Delicious!

Definitely not enough fruit or water during the day even though I had 3 bottles of Perrier. I usually drink a lot more!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Weight 145.4

Because fresh Fruit and Veggies are such a big proponent of the Fiddle Diet I'm no longer going to list the calories with the fruit, but just the fiber and vitamins. The benefits of fruit in your diet are enormous!)

Breakfast (late breakfast at 9:00 AM)

1 cup Fiber One Raisin Clusters (170 cal, 11 g fiber, 3 g protein

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

2 cups of hot tea with milk and sugar (62 calories total)

5 ounces of fresh pineapple (2.2 g fiber, Vitamin C 123%, Iron 2%, .8% protein)

12:00 Snack while I'm making lunch

1 cup oil popped popcorn (55 cal, 1 g fiber, .8 protein)

12:30 Lunch

1 Cheese Quesadilla (140 cal in tortilla, 90 cal in cheese. 8 g protein)

1/4 cup Fiddle Egg Salad

1 cup arugula

1 small apple (2.6 g fiber)

Grapefruit La Croix

VITAMINS

took them after lunch because I forgot to take them after breakfast

1:30 Snack

1 cup of oil-popped popcorn (55 cal, 1 g fiber, .8 protein)

3:00 Snack

Raspberry Chobani Yogurt (140 cal, 1 g fiber, 14 g protein)

4:00 Sample at Fresh n' Easy

Small Sample of Bangers and Mash (guesstimating 35 cal)

5:00 Snacks while cooking dinner

Pineapple, Cherries, Radishes and Cabbage

6:00 Dinner

Fiddle Chicken Enchiladas (252 calories)

Cabbage Slaw (from just cabbage: 22 cal, 2.2 g fiber, 1.1 g protein, 54% vitamin C)

(ingredients from Cabbage Slaw are shredded cabbage, lime juice and salt. That's it! Radish, jalepeno, cilantro are optional)

1 tablespoon sour cream (29 cal)

Lime La Croix Sparkling Water

then made chicken broth so munched on some celery while I was making that

7:30 After Dinner Snack

a handful of cherries

Cinnamon Apple Tea