Tuesday, April 27 -- Week 17, Day 3

Welcome to the Toss-It-Out-The-Window version of the Weight Watchers 365-Day Menu Cookbook Diet!

Today got off to a bad start. I went to bed early last night with a sick stomach, presumably from all the foreign foods my stomach was bombarded with. I woke up this morning, still queasy, and in no mood for eggs.



BREAKFAST:


Original:

• 1/2 medium grapefruit
• 1 hard-cooked egg, sliced
• 1 slice toasted rye bread
• 1 tsp. margarine
• 1/4 cup skim milk
• coffee or tea

My adaptation:

• a bowl of Rice Chex
• 1/2 cup 2% milk
• 1 banana

I forgot to take a picture, but if you use your imagination, I'm sure you can picture it. My stomach still isn't completely settled, but an egg (hard-boiled or otherwise) would have sent me over the edge.

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LUNCH:

Original:

• lunch box fish and cheese (fish, cheese, and lettuce in a pita pocket)
• 1/2 cup cauliflower florets
• curried cole slaw
• 1 small orange

My adaptation:

• deli turkey, cheese, and lettuce in a pita pocket
• 1 cup carrots
• 1 small apple

We didn't have any leftover fish from our non-existant fish lunch on Sunday, so I used deli turkey. And I was NOT in the mood for another salad, so I doubled up on the cooked vegetables. I had originally planned to have an orange for breakfast instead of a grapefruit, so I then had planned to have an apple for lunch instead of an orange for both breakfast and lunch. The day has gotten pretty scrabbled so far.

My turkey/cheese/lettuce pita pocket was pretty good. There was no dressing of any kind, so it was pretty dry, but the flavor was good.

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DINNER:

Original:

• 3 oz broiled veal patty
• 1/4 cup steamed chinese pea pods
• 1/2 medium tomato, sliced
• tossed salad w/ 2 tsp. vegetable oil plus wine vinegar
• club soda with mint sprig

My adaptation:

• 3 oz broiled ground turkey burger on 1/3 pita pocket
• 1/3 cup peas
• 2 slices tomato
• 4 boiled red potato chunks

I forgot to take a picture again! Turns out the nausea isn't just me. We ate dinner half-heartedly tonight. I didn't find ground veal, so we had ground turkey, which seemed to be a suitable substitute to me. I also didn't find snow peas, so we had regular peas. And I'm so sick of salad, so I took the day off. I don't want to totally ruin salad for me, so when I feel I need a break from it, I'm going to take a break from it. My stomach is so messed up right now (presumably from all this extra fiber) that I didn't want to risk adding more to it.

I have no excuse for the potatoes. They were there, and I wasn't strong enough to resist them. I was strong enough to only have 4 chunks though!

Snack still coming up tonight: pear frozen yogurt. We'll see how that goes. It smells funny.