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today went well.
I went food shopping at a japanese deli.
I bought all the following food. I was AMAZED by how nutritious and yet low calorie Japanese food is. to illustrate, I'll list exactly what I bought and some of the striking components of these foods:
-green fresh onion (negligible calories, but very healthy)
-dried kelp (entire LARGE pack is 33 cals, 7grams fiber)
-massive bag of dried shi-ta-ke mushrooms (entire bag is 240 cals, 36grams fiber, 12grams protein)
-bag of dried shrimp (entire bag is 125 cals, 15grams protein)
-bonito flakes with sesame (seasoning for salad, broth, etc. one serving is 10 cals, 1gram fiber,1gram protein)
-entire large-size box of pickled ginger (55 calories)
-entire large-size box of pickled umeboshi plums (55 calories)
-large bag of dried fish with spices (100 calories, 25grams of protein)
-dried anchovies (entire large bag: 180 cals, 40g protein, 120% calcium, 20 calories are from fat)
-large bag of pickled wasabi cucumber (very spicy, and 0 calories)
-pickled taranome - a green veggie like bok choy - with spices (large bag : 120 cals, 12grams fiber, 4grams protein, 25% iron)
-dried seaweed for soup stocks and stews (neglible calories)
-whole picked cucmbers in chilli vinegar (0 calories, 0 everything)
each of these bags, keep in mind, is more than one serving, usually around five. bags contain around a pound of food, on average. put altogether, this would make a prodigous amount of food - even without an e.d., you'd never be able to eat all of this withtout being stuffed. you would normally only eat one fifth of a bag with broth, or something. nevertheless, even if you were to eat ALL of this food in one day, it would be ONLY 1150 calories. That's less than your bmr. However, those calories contain 56 grams fiber, 150 grams protein, 150% calcium, and 30% iron. This is amazing, statistically. no other cuisine provides the such a nutritive punch for such low calories. Furthermore, all of the food I listed contain no added sugar, very very low carbohydrates, much spice, no added fat and very little naturally occuring fat (almost none), and iodine and other important minerals and vitamins in abundance.
I've figured out why this is. Japanese normally eat everything in rice, which in the nutrition sense makes the diet more poor per gram, although it bumps up their calories to the number required to maintain a healthy weight. so, if you just throw out all the rice, which is simple to do because it's usually a side dish and not an integral part of prepared meals, you end up with a very low calorie count for a great variety of tasty and spicy food, and lots of vitamins and minerals, which, of course, are easier for the body to acquire from food than from supplements.
thus, if you stick to mainly Japanese foods and cut the rice (eat sashimi instead of sushi, make exciting broths with seafood protein, put seaweed in everything for iodine and health, eat lots of spices with everything, steam your vegetables or eat them pungent and pickled, drink green tea), you have no way NOT to lose weight. think about this.
today was the first time in many many months that I had trouble making myself eat and gave up listlessly in the middle of a salad rather than eating it. I used to have to put effort into it stopping, and now it seems, for the first time, that something alien and commanding has taken over me and I have trouble making myself eat. I didn't think it was true, when people said that. I mean, I'm still obssessed with food, calories, etc etc. but when I get to the food, the anxiety and attitude is such that to stop eating after a few bites feels natural, logical, not a big sacrifice but the norm. I think this development is exciting and quite beneficial. we'll see if it continues.
I also deep conditioned my hair with kelp and egg yolk, completely exfoliated, did my eyebrows, drank 8 glasses water, 4 cups green tea, 4 cups yerba mate (I'm a bit of a drinking fanatic).
food : diet red bull - 10 cals
half of a baja fresh shrimp ensalada - 100 cals
vitamins
TOTAL: 110
excercise : walked for three hours, but I'm only counting two in case
200 situps, 80 pushups.
tips of the day:
1) holidays and celebrations are meant to be festive and high-spirited. why ruin your own mood and create a bad association by overeating at every holiday? Why not make it a time when you feel good by undereating?
2)take multivitamins. for reasons to obvious to state.
3) if you do eat, make it mostly protein because hair loss and nail breakage is the result of protein deficiency, whereas its impossible to have carb deficiency.
Being thin is good because you never have to worry about suddenly and embarassingly getting a period, and then not being able to do anything fun for the next five days because of it, getting acne and being a horrible bleeding swollen mess. you can just skip it, while everyone else suffers (sorry, recovering readers).
tomorrow:
-continue working on transcription
-call a friend of mine
-email friends in Prague
-completely clean out the house we've been living with as we're moving now
-manicure and pedicure
-watch a marlon brando movie
-go to a bookstore
-call my employer and figure out what research I'm doing this week from home
-work on my handwritten diary
-go shopping in Santa Monica
-really spending time reading a novel about the last Tsar of Russia (I read every day, but multitasking)
-pay my dad back the 25 he lent me (have to find an ATM)
-cut up old magazines I have and glue useful stuff into diary
-look for Lancome blush online (lost my old one when I was wasted)
-read the newspaper
-order contacts and neostrata facial products
-write postcards to relatives
-read girlie magazines
compared to most people I know, I'm much more productive. I wonder what they actually do during that free time. I still don't get most things accomplished that I want to, but certainly more than them. Maybe because I'm manic, and I always burn burn burn to get things done:
"The only ones for me are the mad ones; those who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to think, desirous of everything at the same time; those who never say a common place thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars until the blue centerlight pops and everyone goes Awwww!”-Kerouac
I'll make it until the end of august like this, and then maintain.
my parents are so busy they're not even noticing I don't eat. they're not even realising that the lettuce leaves and few shrimp I eat in front of them, pushing half away, is the only thing I've eaten that day. it's sort of funny, because they think they're such watchful parents.
I went food shopping at a japanese deli.
I bought all the following food. I was AMAZED by how nutritious and yet low calorie Japanese food is. to illustrate, I'll list exactly what I bought and some of the striking components of these foods:
-green fresh onion (negligible calories, but very healthy)
-dried kelp (entire LARGE pack is 33 cals, 7grams fiber)
-massive bag of dried shi-ta-ke mushrooms (entire bag is 240 cals, 36grams fiber, 12grams protein)
-bag of dried shrimp (entire bag is 125 cals, 15grams protein)
-bonito flakes with sesame (seasoning for salad, broth, etc. one serving is 10 cals, 1gram fiber,1gram protein)
-entire large-size box of pickled ginger (55 calories)
-entire large-size box of pickled umeboshi plums (55 calories)
-large bag of dried fish with spices (100 calories, 25grams of protein)
-dried anchovies (entire large bag: 180 cals, 40g protein, 120% calcium, 20 calories are from fat)
-large bag of pickled wasabi cucumber (very spicy, and 0 calories)
-pickled taranome - a green veggie like bok choy - with spices (large bag : 120 cals, 12grams fiber, 4grams protein, 25% iron)
-dried seaweed for soup stocks and stews (neglible calories)
-whole picked cucmbers in chilli vinegar (0 calories, 0 everything)
each of these bags, keep in mind, is more than one serving, usually around five. bags contain around a pound of food, on average. put altogether, this would make a prodigous amount of food - even without an e.d., you'd never be able to eat all of this withtout being stuffed. you would normally only eat one fifth of a bag with broth, or something. nevertheless, even if you were to eat ALL of this food in one day, it would be ONLY 1150 calories. That's less than your bmr. However, those calories contain 56 grams fiber, 150 grams protein, 150% calcium, and 30% iron. This is amazing, statistically. no other cuisine provides the such a nutritive punch for such low calories. Furthermore, all of the food I listed contain no added sugar, very very low carbohydrates, much spice, no added fat and very little naturally occuring fat (almost none), and iodine and other important minerals and vitamins in abundance.
I've figured out why this is. Japanese normally eat everything in rice, which in the nutrition sense makes the diet more poor per gram, although it bumps up their calories to the number required to maintain a healthy weight. so, if you just throw out all the rice, which is simple to do because it's usually a side dish and not an integral part of prepared meals, you end up with a very low calorie count for a great variety of tasty and spicy food, and lots of vitamins and minerals, which, of course, are easier for the body to acquire from food than from supplements.
thus, if you stick to mainly Japanese foods and cut the rice (eat sashimi instead of sushi, make exciting broths with seafood protein, put seaweed in everything for iodine and health, eat lots of spices with everything, steam your vegetables or eat them pungent and pickled, drink green tea), you have no way NOT to lose weight. think about this.
today was the first time in many many months that I had trouble making myself eat and gave up listlessly in the middle of a salad rather than eating it. I used to have to put effort into it stopping, and now it seems, for the first time, that something alien and commanding has taken over me and I have trouble making myself eat. I didn't think it was true, when people said that. I mean, I'm still obssessed with food, calories, etc etc. but when I get to the food, the anxiety and attitude is such that to stop eating after a few bites feels natural, logical, not a big sacrifice but the norm. I think this development is exciting and quite beneficial. we'll see if it continues.
I also deep conditioned my hair with kelp and egg yolk, completely exfoliated, did my eyebrows, drank 8 glasses water, 4 cups green tea, 4 cups yerba mate (I'm a bit of a drinking fanatic).
food : diet red bull - 10 cals
half of a baja fresh shrimp ensalada - 100 cals
vitamins
TOTAL: 110
excercise : walked for three hours, but I'm only counting two in case
200 situps, 80 pushups.
tips of the day:
1) holidays and celebrations are meant to be festive and high-spirited. why ruin your own mood and create a bad association by overeating at every holiday? Why not make it a time when you feel good by undereating?
2)take multivitamins. for reasons to obvious to state.
3) if you do eat, make it mostly protein because hair loss and nail breakage is the result of protein deficiency, whereas its impossible to have carb deficiency.
Being thin is good because you never have to worry about suddenly and embarassingly getting a period, and then not being able to do anything fun for the next five days because of it, getting acne and being a horrible bleeding swollen mess. you can just skip it, while everyone else suffers (sorry, recovering readers).
tomorrow:
-continue working on transcription
-call a friend of mine
-email friends in Prague
-completely clean out the house we've been living with as we're moving now
-manicure and pedicure
-watch a marlon brando movie
-go to a bookstore
-call my employer and figure out what research I'm doing this week from home
-work on my handwritten diary
-go shopping in Santa Monica
-really spending time reading a novel about the last Tsar of Russia (I read every day, but multitasking)
-pay my dad back the 25 he lent me (have to find an ATM)
-cut up old magazines I have and glue useful stuff into diary
-look for Lancome blush online (lost my old one when I was wasted)
-read the newspaper
-order contacts and neostrata facial products
-write postcards to relatives
-read girlie magazines
compared to most people I know, I'm much more productive. I wonder what they actually do during that free time. I still don't get most things accomplished that I want to, but certainly more than them. Maybe because I'm manic, and I always burn burn burn to get things done:
"The only ones for me are the mad ones; those who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to think, desirous of everything at the same time; those who never say a common place thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars until the blue centerlight pops and everyone goes Awwww!”-Kerouac
I'll make it until the end of august like this, and then maintain.
my parents are so busy they're not even noticing I don't eat. they're not even realising that the lettuce leaves and few shrimp I eat in front of them, pushing half away, is the only thing I've eaten that day. it's sort of funny, because they think they're such watchful parents.