A little bit of Friday afternoon humor with a great sustainability message.

I woke up fighting my PMS battles yet again - I tend to have these buggers for a minimum of 4 days prior to the arrival of the dreaded witch, Aunt Flo.
Yogurt was missing from the caferia this morning and after I did a little bit of whinning, the gentleman who works the dairy section decided that the best way to get rid of me was to go to storage and bring me back my yogurt. Which he did - a wonderful fella this one! But on unpacking all of the yogurts my regular one was amiss which immediately prompted more whinning. The poor fella search high and low but to no avail - did I mention how wonderful he is - anyway after a while I gave up and had my bowl of fruit without yogurt Must say it was not as exciting, very lacking in more ways than one.

Lunch
Obviously given how unsatisfying breakfast was, I was ready to eat again by 10:30 am. I coerced a friend to join me for lunch, which we ate at 11:15 am.

- mixed greens
- strawberries
- blueberries
- oranges
- pecans
- piece of whole grain bread

Oh what a joyous lunch that kept me satisfied late into the afternoon.

Dinner
For dinner we hit a local eatery. Where I certainly feel like I over indulged.

- grilled steak
- mashed potatoes
- roasted vegetables

While we waited for our meals we nibbles on a hummus appetizer, again which I thought I delved way too much into. I only ate half of the dinner and saved the rest for tomorrows dinner. With dinner I also had a glass of red wine, which I haven’t had in more than a month - It went so well with the steak. After dinner I was dreaming of dessert - so we stopped at the grocery store and got carrot cake. Bad Bad Bad! When I got home I had a bite of it and it just didn’t taste good, sort of metallic so I tossed it. Yes! victory is mine! It felt so good to know that my body was rejecting the very bad food that I have been trying to condition it to not respond to - class is certainly going well. I remained content for the rest of the evening.

Observations
- Another PMS day
- I think I ate more at the end of the day because of a combination of the incomplete breakfast and PMS?

So this morning I got up in a better mood and looking forward to an enjoyable day. I prepared some steel cut oats, blue berries and a couple slices of mangos for breakfast.

It was super delicious and very filling.

Am going to have to be very careful about what kind of yogurt I buy for breakfast. According to Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, if you don’t recognize or can’t pronounce the ingredient in the food then it’s not natural food and should not consume it. Why does yogurt need high fructose corn syrup anyway?

Lunch
So we had appointments to ran to this morning and once all was done at around 11 am, hubby and I decided to hit a local indian restaurant for their midday buffet.

What a delight! Now granted I don’t really know what unnatural stuff could be in this meal - I would still think it fairs better than a cheese burger with fries. Maybe I just want to re-assure myself….LOL. Anyway the contents were
- rice
- Dal (lentils)
- Paneer (spinach cooked with cheese)
- Chicken tikka
- potatoes and cauliflower
- Naan

I was so stuffed all afternoon I could not hold back the sleep. I just wanted to put my head down and take a power nap. However given that I had work to do, I drank a cup of coffee and right away I was fully awake. Shortly after I had the rans..grrr.

I remained satisfied all through the afternoon and into the evening. I decided to have a smoothie at about 8 pm.

- frozen fruit (strawberries, blackberries and blueberries)
- milk
- honey
- ground flaxseed
- apple
- yogurt

Observations
- Mild PMS
- No appetite after lunch probably due to a combination of a heavy lunch and PMS
- Love Pollan - found out from his book that when fat is stripped from milk to make it low-fat, powdered milk in added into it to make it creamy. Powdered milk however adds oxidized cholesterol into the milk which is worse than regular cholesterol. Yikes!
- I love food and love discovering all there is about food.
- Am on day 20!!!