2/22/12- Food Journal

I have found the 10th circle of hell.  Sense of smell took a hike today.  I am so looking forward to feeling better.  The only improvement today is no fever.  I walked with a fever last night only because I knew I'd be outside and it felt so good.  When I get a fever I apparently get antsy.  Tonight we went to the park and walked the flat, paved terrain so that I could get in some activity without "inflaming my bronchial airway."  Plus it was so gorgeous out today that I couldn't be in the house anymore with the creeping death.  I feel like I want to wash everything in the house.  I have project materials sitting all around me asking to be worked on and I know the Mr wants the stuff out of the way but would never ask me to do anything as long as I'm not well.  But I want to make the house a place he wants to come home to, not dread seeing all of the unfinished crap when he walks in the door.

But that's not why you're here...bring on the eats.

Breakfast was purely about fueling my body as I could taste nothing.  The cholesterol thing is still nagging at me and despite my body revolting against oatmeal, I decided I need to add it back in and what better time than when I can't taste it?  HA!  So I've got 1/2 cup of quaker oats with 4 oz of skim milk, 1 tbsp of chia seeds, 1 tbsp almond butter for protein, 1/2 tbsp of honey and cinnamon for their anti-inflammatory properties and I chopped up a banana in it.  Hey Jamie, this bowl is one of my Anthro purchases!  :-)

Lunch was just to get something in me and I didn't want something entree wise I couldn't live without tasting so I made a TJ's soy corn dog and my usual.  (Fruit salad of cantaloupe, watermelon, grapes & clementine, raw veggies with 1/2 tbsp dip, pink lady apple with 1/3 serving of apple dip, TJ's chocolate chip oat brownie bar)  I craved the milk again so I had 9 oz of skim milk with the low fat hershey syrup which was ironically the only thing I could taste with lunch.  I loved my bowl so much I washed it up and used it again.

Dinner was a heartbreaker.  It was time to use the other cornish game hen so I made a quesadilla with hummus and onions and I used hot taco sauce to get the nose runnin'.  I made some brussels sprouts for some extra vitamin C.  (Did you know 6 brussels sprouts have 90% of the vitamin C required for the day?  Just one more reason for you to get on board with these much maligned for totally undeserved reasons veggie!)

Snack once the Mr gets off of his zillionth hour of overtime will be Twizzlers because we rented The Rum Diary with Johnny Depp and Aaron Eckhart.  If nothing else at least I'll be able to enjoy the eye candy even if I can't really taste the real ones!

Calories for the day 1,983 and exercise was a walk in the park including a couple go's down the turn-a-round slides for a calorie burn of 500.  I've never seen the Mr sport a wider smile than when he went down that thing for the first time.  Soooo cute.  I even brought my camera...too bad the memory card was at home.  DER!

Feel free to share what you ate today in the comments!

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