Dean’s Dinner

by emily on August 9, 2009

OK, so here’s what I did for dinner tonight on the Dean Ornish diet:

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It was mixed veggies on a Trader Joe’s habenero lime tortilla with a little mustard and dried oregano.  There was a little more salad that didn’t fit on the tortilla.  No culinary masterpiece, I’m afraid!  And the mustard was hot, which had me crying!!!

OK, so technically speaking, the tortilla is not on the diet because it has 4 grams of fat.  According to the diet, I’m not supposed to have anything commercially prepared with more than 2 grams of fat.  But since everything else was totally whole food, I figured I’d let that one slide…

By the way, those tortillas are good!  Trader Joe’s habenero lime… only 150 cal each, too.

So at this point, my eggs were boiled.  I had the white of one egg and about 4 of these green beans from the farm share, great raw!

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I was really was scrounging!

Then I remembered the ear of  farm share (:D !!!) corn that I had microwaved, so I sprinkled that with lime juice and chili powder – great combo!   Sorry, at it up so quick that I forgot to take a picture….oopsies.

For dessert, more of the mango/berry mix and some fresh grapes and cherries that my roommate had leftover from a party:

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At this point, I’m at 2,097 calories for the day.  According to Fit Day, my diet today was 78% carb, 8% fat, and 14% protein.  My one downfall was the cereal I had for snack – Barbara’s Shredded Spoonfuls.  I ended up going back for more… to the point where it made up almost 1/3 of my calories for the day!

In theory I could eat a little more - I did some exercises today, so I have up to 2,485 calories in my “salary.”  But, my tummy is pretty full now, and to tell you the truth… all these carbs are making me gassy! :O

So, one day down, two to go.  I’m doing OK, but my food is a little bland to say the least.  I’d like to throw in a little more yogurt, but that is one of those “eat in moderation” foods.

Allrighty then, I’m calling it quits for the day, as far as my stomach goes ;) …. Fingers are crossed that I don’t crave ice cream later tonight!

‘night,

Emily

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