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!!!