Fooled by Food

What did you eat today? Did you enjoy it? Did it make you feel good mentally, physically? What drove you to make the food choices you did? Sorry. I've just started this blog and now I'm interrogating my audience. That's not my intent!

I do want to challenge you along the way. And I'd like you to challenge me. Hey, I'm no expert. I just like to make observations--lots of them--and draw conclusions. I've learned to listen to my body. It has a language and it speaks. You can ignore it or listen and be the better off for it.

Today I started with a couple of glasses of water. I always drink water first thing in the morning. You see, the body has been fasting while resting.

I found myself at Panera again. Hmm, that sounds mystical! Actually, I drove myself there. I had a medium coffee--yes with nutmeg. This time I also purchased an egg and cheese on ciabatta sandwich. My daughter can make a better one, albeit with much more grease. No breakfast sweet treats today.

At lunchtime I strode to the cafeteria. While I was striding, I decided what I wanted--pizza with whole grain crust. Our foodservice provider recently relinquished their white flour stronghold on us and started offering whole grain foods. My opinion is that you should minimize the amount of nearly nutrition-less white flour you put in your body. I grabbed a slice with four cheeses. I also opted for a cucumber and red onion salad. I strode back to my desk to eat it because I had to join a conferenc call.

My gorgeous personal chef prepared dinner--kale simmered in vegan broth, sweet and sour eggplant and grilled beef rib tips. Yes, you read it right vegan broth seasoned to taste like meat and real meat all in the same meal.

I read somewhere that 40-something males should have about four ounces of protein a day. If you know where I can find that study, let me know so I can burn it.  Anyway, I think I had about 3.5 ounces of protein in this meal--about two small beef ribs.

Tonight was date night with the gorgeous chef. We went to see a movie of her choosing. It was pretty good. We shared a very short bag of popcorn and a slushy. She brought two macaroons she purchased from the health food store. I ended up eating both of them! She thought they were too sweet. They were but that didn't stop me. I read the package afterwards and learned that each cookie had 300 calories. Well, I guess those cookies fooled me. They didn't taste like they had so many calroriess. Anyhow, I don't count calories. Good day and good night.