Calorie Countdown - Its Monday again (already). What are you eating?

Good morning.  I'm tired, thanks.  How are you?  I can't believe its already Monday again.  My weekend was so busy I don't feel like I had a weekend.  I want some more SLEEP!!  Today I plan to detox from my bad choices yesterday.  No more chocolate.  I am still having honey in my milk/tea drink though.  I don't seem to dump off honey - or the amount I use for flavoring at least, and I found a really nice varietal (acacia honey) that is pale, very thin, less sticky sweet, and absolutely delicious.  It has a very subtle vanilla flavor that totally comes out with the chai.  Oddly enough, it really seems to bring out the black pepper in the chai more too, which makes the drink I've been making for years suddenly taste new.  Yummy.  I don't know if you know (or care) but honey has a lot of interesting properties - micronutrients, phytonutrients, anti-bacterial properties, unusual anti-oxidants (look for dark strong flavored honeys like buckwheat honey for those - buckwheat honey is an experience, it almost tastes like molasses).  Its also hygroscopic so it makes your baked goods stay softer, and its sweeter per volume, so you don't have to use as much honey as you would use refined sugar in a recipe.  Anyway, I've always liked my honey.  My paternal grandparents were farmers in NM as a side project (grandpa worked for GE for his entire life and grandma was a housewife/farmer until she died when I was 5) - mainly to feed the family, but they grew a lot of everything and canned, etc.  They slaughtered their own animals (chickens, turkeys and pigs, no cows), and virtually everything my grandmother made was from scratch.  She didn't go so far as to churn her own butter or mill her own flour, but nearly anything else was from the farm - we had fresh eggs and goat milk every day.  I loved the summers I spent there and although I am not in contact with that side of the family any longer, I would LOVE to get hold of some of her recipes, which she passed down to my aunt.  The point of that digression is that grandfather also kept bees - 2 hives, and I used to chew on honeycomb while I wandered around the property as a kid - I spent a month or two there every summer and then Thanksgiving usually, and Christmas sometimes, until I was 12.  My two cousins and I were allowed one spoonful of honey every night with our bread.  Fresh bread and fresh honey, I soooo miss that.  Ever since, I've been interested in trying all kinds of different honeys, looking for something that comes close to the ones I remember.  I think its a regional thing because the ones I've tasted from NM and the Rocky Mountains are usually all kind of similar - probably the pine pollen.  They had apricot, plum, and apple trees, and then all the veggies they grew, so the bees had their pick of pollens, but I'm betting its the apricot that I am remembering because those bees LOVED the apricot tree.  If I ever have a decent amount of property, I would like to keep bees maybe.  I will definitely have a good garden (I inherited green thumb tendencies from both sides) but I will never slaughter my own animals, tasty as they may be.   Honestly, sometimes I think part of my eating addiction comes from searching out flavors that remind me of very happy times in childhood.  I didn't usually have much luck, but I ate it anyway. So that was a long story.  I am sentimental today, as opposed to semi-mental like I usually am.  What are you eating today?  I am considering skipping out on my pizza lunch and seminar.  I will work in the evening though, and try to make very good healthy food decisions.  I found this tea yesterday, a plum berry green tea.  Oh yum.  I'll have my share of that stuff today. 

I read somewhere that honey is often used to aid in healing stubborn wounds. So far today, all I've had to eat is a can of Instone protein pudding @100 calories, 20g protein. I'm trying to get motivated to get my day started, I really need to do so, just don't wanna.   More later, Kix =============================== here are my totals for the day: B: 1 Instone protein pudding @100 calories, 20g protein S: 1 venti decaf L: 2 tacos @ 340 calories, 16g protein S: 1 venti decaf S: 2 Atkins protein bars @ 300 calories, 22g protein E: 1 brisk mile lap at the mall, 100 calories expended D: 3 Atkins protein bars scattered throughout the evening @450 calories, 33g protein Total: 1090 calories, 91g protein Kix

Yep, there are actually honey compresses available in some countries OTC or by prescription (Australia I know for sure) for burns and other stubborn wounds.  It has a low pH, and a high concentration of sugar, which are both unsavory to icky bacteria, but there is also some odd property that they can't identify because honey itself works a lot better than a plan fructose solution with the same pH.  Apparently honey also significantly speeds up the healing process and the scarring process, and keeps the area from gaining too much fluid, which is especially helpful with burns.  They've shown it to be as effective or more effective than over the counter ointments like neosporin, and its also effective against some antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.  So yeah, like I said, I like honey :)  I'm weird, but for some reason over the last 8 years or so I've collected a bunch of scientific articles about honey.  I don't know why no one is marketing it here for that.  Probably because it needs to be raw honey for optimal effectiveness.

huh...perhaps i should be smothering myself in honey...lol that would taste much better than the antibiotics i've been gagging down for the past couple of weeks... I have managed to keep down a protein shake this morning so far, and am going to try to have another in a couple of hours and maybe some soup later if i feel up to it...as for the rest of the day who knows...i have been averaging about 250 cals a day for the past 2 weeks and am about to drop, but i just cant get anything down...but at least some of the swelling has gone down in my throat so i can drink better now, thought i was going to have to go to the er for fluids the other night.

OK, I always think of honey as bee barf - lol Thanks for all the good info! Pre B - SF NF Eggnog Latte

B - ham, cheddar cheese, RF triscuits

S - cottage cheese and Splenda peaches

L - homemade turkey meatball/veggie soup

S - Kay's Naturals something or other

D - Turkey meatballs w/celery soup gravy and green peas

S - sliced mango, 4 cinnamon tea crackers

B- 6oz light n fit yogurt L- small salad w (black beans, corn, cheese, olives, cucumbers, ranch dressing) and ice tea with splenda D- not sure yet

Hi, Jen.  Interesting information about honey - I love the flavor of honey, but have never explored it's many uses.  Perhaps I'll have to work on that!  Anyway, here's what's on my plate today -  

B - 1 c. 1% milk in my coffee, 1 packet Quaker weight control oatmeal

S #1 - 1 c. lowfat cottage cheese, 4 tbsp. SF preserves, ~1/2 c. sliced strawberries

L - 1/2 c. rice, ~1 chicken stir-fry w/ assorted veggies

S #3 - 6 oz. Breyer's light yogurt, 1/4 c. Kashi granola

S #4 - 1 slice whole-wheat bread, 3 slices turkey, 1 slice low-fat cheese, alfalfa sprouts

[workout #2 - 45-60 minutes of some form of cardio]

D - 12 oz. homemade chili

S #5 - 2 sugar-free fudgesicles

Calories:  1807
Carbs:  222.6
Fat:  42.4
Fiber:  28.7
Protein:  145.8
Today's weight:  187.7

I'm with ya on the already Monday thing.   And the honey thing is good but  I always thought it was bee poop untill i just looked it up lol  I wish I was 4 again, why 4? well, When I was 4 I didn't have school or work after 4 it all went down hill lol  Todays Menu was well to say the least a bit embarrassing so far here goes, B=Coffee with cream S=2 pieces of sushi veggie  L= 2 bites of DHs burger and 2 bites of my sons Fish sandwhich and 2 french fries (I ordered chili but I never ate it) D= i'm goiong to eat the chili  I will probably have a protein shake and a sf ff coco too  EDIT: I never ate the chili but I did have the protein shake and 1 serving of kays chips. I did an hour on the tredmill and did the entire 5k in 55 mins :) I broke down today and got the digital scale so i'm more than sure that i'm going to weigh more tomorrow than I did today and its all I can think about. I know its stupid but Its like consuming me! which is probably why I cant make a good choice to save my life so i'm going to go Kill myself at the gym lol ugh I just wanna be normal .......  will you explain normal to me so I know what to shoot for? 

Aww Sunshine, even if I knew what normal was I still wouldn't want to be normal.  I liked being 4 also, no pressure. 

Here's my Monday breakdown.  Thai chicken fried rice - it was delicious, with peas, carrots, onion, corn and corn.  It almost tasted like spanish rice.  I had 5-6 bites of chicken and probably the same of the rice.  I also had a cup of their veggie soup.  32oz mootopia in the form of 2 honey chai lattes (4oz double strength brewed chai, 1/2tbsp honey, 16oz milk, and ice) 8 turkey roll-ups (8 slices of turkey, 1tbsp dijon mustard, 4 wedges of laughing cow light, 2tbsp nsa relish) Calories - 910 Fat - 14g Carbs - 76g Fiber - 5g Protein - 98g