Day 12 of 100

You will notice a time lapse. I still want to do this for 100 days, but there was a re-group period needed. I have decided NOT to count macronutrients or calories, but rather focus on whole clean foods. If this doesn't work I will go back to the drawing board.

Breakfast-
coffee
half and half
stevia
ezekial bread
natural peanut butter

snack-
greek yogurt
sliced raw almonds
strawberries (organic)

lunch-
Ethnic Gourmet frozen meal- pad thai
(as much as I would like to make myself lunch everyday- time is limited. The ingredients in these meals are pretty solid. Not organic, but no overt chemicals...)

regroup! regroup!

Ok- not keeping track really didn't work out for me. I think I would learn by now that structure is really the key for me. All good- I am starting back where I left off, so it still will be 100 days of clean eating. There just was a little gap of about 6 days of not so clean eating. Accountability- I think I thrive on it. I also think trying this on the second-ish week of the challenge wasn't the wisest move. Maybe that will be phase 2 of the challenge or somthing....

In the meanwhile. Here are some good resources.

Eating Well magazine. Not hardcore clean, but good recipes. I like it better than Cooking Light. It has a more "whole foods" emphasis and more of an emphasis on ecologically sound food practices. www.eatingwell.com

Clean Eating magazine. Hard core clean eating information and recipes. www.cleaneatingmag.com

The Tosca Reno books (I have not read the kids one) and website. Totally hardcore. I don't think I could, or would want to, take it this far. www.eatcleandiet.com and www.toscareno.com (more about her public personality than the lifestyle)

I am also waiting for the book to arrive called "In the Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" by Michael Pollan. I ordered off amazon a few days ago. Here is a blurb...

Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should
anyone need to defend it?
Because most of what we're consuming today is not
food, and how we're consuming it -- in the car, in front of the TV, and
increasingly alone -- is not really eating. Instead of food, we're consuming
"edible foodlike substances" -- no longer the products of nature but of food
science. Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first
clue they are anything but healthy. In the so-called Western diet, food has been
replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion. The result is what Michael
Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less
healthy we seem to become.

He will be speaking May 19th at the Edina Barnes and Noble.

Also-- my friend Chris has a sister named Lori... She is involved in a program called Every Day in May. This is a fitness challenge. The goal is to work-out every day in May. www.everydayinmay.com Lori and her trainer will be here next weekend to work-out!