The starting of things

So I began a food journal. I was watching a T.V show called Superskinny vs Supersized. The premise of it is that two people switch diets to see how their diets can make them feel.

I started the journal because there is a part where they show the food consumption of the participants in tube. I don't know why this above anything else has inspired me to keep a food journal but it has. I used to watch another show where they did something like this as well, it was a woman who tried to help people with their nutrition.

But that show never made me want to try and work out what and how much I had been eating, mostly just made me a bit sick to my stomach. So here I am, trying to see it all int he course of my days what it is I'm doing right or wrong, as the case may be. This is what it looks like so far:

Monday 1/17/2011

Breakfast *

½ c cottage cheese

1 peach half

¼ cup syrup

Lunch **

1 slice of apple walnut bread

2 slices of bread

1 ts mayo

¼ ts mustard

1 slice of turkey

10 pieces of spinach

1 slice of havarti cheese

1 6 oz cup of strawberry yogart

Dinner ***

5 corn tortillas

2 flour tortillas

3 cups of chicken, onions, peppers

½ c sour cream

Snacks ****

½ almond snickers bar

12 spicy hot cheetos

½ c dried pears

1 fruit leather

1 sweet and salty granola bar

Drinks

1 12 oz cup of apple juice **

Tuesday 1/18/2011

Breakfast *

1 english muffin

½ ts unsalted butter

Lunch **

2 chimichangas

½ slice apple bread

Dinner ***

½ c multigrain cheerios

½ c 2% milk

2 slices of buttermilk bread

1 slice turkey

1 slice muenster cheese

6 pieces of spinach

1 6 oz blueberry yogart

½ c dried pears

Snacks ****

2 cheetos

4 oatmeal craisin white chocolate pecan cookie

¼ dry multigrain cheerios

1 baby bell cheese round

Drinks

8 oz mixed soda ***

Wednesday 1/19/2011

Breakfast *

1 ½ c multigrain cheerios

½ c 2% milk

Lunch **

Dinner ***

3 flour tortillas

70 g shredded chicken breast

½ c shredded spinach

½ c shredded cheese

¼ c chopped tomatoes

2 tbs sour cream

¼ c rice

Snacks ****

1 slice apple walnut bread

1 baby bell cheese round

1 oatmeal craisin white chocolate pecan cookie

Drinks

2 12oz c apple juice ***

I snacked more than I thought I did and though most of them were healthier snacks, it's never good to snack to excess. I did relatively well on the first and third day but my second I really failed at it. I also haven't been working out, I don't need a break from that I just couldn't seem to get up the motivation to do it. I've been in a big drawing and painting mood instead. I need to work through finding a good balance between that and my want to work out. I do enjoy working out, I just get lazy.

The drawings I've been working on:

Steampunk Girl by ~Katalalyn on deviantART

Dexter by ~Katalalyn on deviantART

Jump by ~Katalalyn on deviantART

The painting I finished and gave to my mom to give to her friend for her birthday:

Swirl by ~Katalalyn on deviantART

makes me think of an abstract boob.

The paintings I started but haven't finished yet, I do that sometimes, start and then stop because I've lost my inspiration and then I go back to them when I get it back, which is where the abstract boob also came from:

So let us hope I get over my laziness and work out some tonight. I dunno, I'm extremely tired it seems.