Today’s Weather: Simultaneous Dark Clouds + Sunshine
Speaking of dark clouds, Stats has been a dark cloud over my head ALL semester. It’s an online class and while the material isn’t that hard, navigating between a textbook that does everything by hand and a professor that wants us to do everything on the calculator and loves to talk in “stat language” makes the methods of learning it and testing our knowledge quite challenging. You never know if an online lesson will take 10 minutes or 4 hours.
So I sat down to do some of the remaining lessons this morning not knowing how much I’d get done in a few hours and somehow I managed to complete all five of them which means I AM DONE WITH STATS!!!!!!!!! Well, I still have to pass the final test, but I’m done learning!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!
Lunch
Amazingly, my breakfast held me over until about 1:00! But then I decided to make some bean balls and actually didn’t eat until 2!
These are made from our leftover corn and bean dip – along with oats and vital wheat gluten. It’s kind of a combo between chickpea cutlets and Veganomicon’s bean balls. The recipe isn’t worthy of typing because they weren’t really that great, but it was a wonderful way to use up some of the leftovers.
I put 7 bean balls (about 15 kcal each) over a salad with baby spinach, Annie’s Goddess, leftover grilled veggies (SO GOOD on salads!) and more goat cheese. I loooooove goat cheese and have really enjoyed this log!
Plus half a chopped apple (split with the hub) and some leftover flatbread. This bread is soooooooo doughy!! I definitely recommend giving it a try 🙂
Lunch was about 520 kcal, 13 grams fiber and 22 grams protein.
I’ve got to get crankin’ on my Physio lab exam prep and would love to fit in a walk today but the sky is so iffy! I did manage to clean the kitchen floor with a sponge and a bucket and it looks loads better than with a wet jet mop. If only I could keep it this way!
Nick says
That picture of today looks real gloomy and scary. Those bean balls at least look tasty, I’m sure you can fix em up to be real good. The flatbread looks awesome, especially grilled. I’ll have to try some.
– The Peanut Butter Boy
RachelD says
Kath,
It just started pouring here so no out door fun for me today either, but I was wondering if you could repost the link you gave for the time planner website you use? you mentioned it a few times recently but I can’t find the post and am in desperate need of some organization.
Thanks!
Romina says
I’m sorry to hear you didn’t like the bean balls. They taste delicious in pasta though. =D
Beth says
Have you seen the article in Self which talks about disordered eaters. According to this article, Kath is a calorie prisoner, because she countscalories obsessively at every meal. Not that I agree with everything it says, but I think maybe we all have just a few tendecies that border obsession just abit. Anyone agree?
VeggieGirl says
Okay, now we’re experiencing the SAME weather, haha – was WAS raining and dark this morning, but now the sun is out (for brief moments).
Your lunch-choice was the PERFECT way to celebrate being done with stats (congratulations!!!!) – now let’s hope that ALL the dark clouds cease from the sky!!
Kate(the teenager) says
The weather is the exact same way here in SC. I hate it….
Yaz says
That bread looks amazing must try it A.S.A.P. as well as the dressing you’ve raved about!
Sidi says
I am ready to share with you our 20C in Montreal, even though the normal for this period is 13 and cloudy. 🙂
Yaz says
That bread looks amazing must try it A.S.A.P. as well as the dressing you’ve raved about! Can’t wait to see what for dinner…
Yaz says
sorry 4 the duplicate entries, i dunno what happened!
Lauren says
same weather even here in Texas :/ now if only I didn’t have so much studying to do because it would be perfect weather for a nice nap!
Betsy in Pittsburgh says
Don’t mean to gloat but it’s beautiful today in the ‘burgh. 🙂
Made the danish pancakes this morning and they were GREAT! I made a sort of banana/strawberry chunky chutney for over top and it was perfect.
Amy says
The sky looks dark, but beautiful. What a delicious looking salad!
Beth,
I read the article also. I can kinda see what you mean, but I don’t think we are being obsessive, we just care about our bodies and nutrition. Maybe if it would be so sever that it interferes with our lives, but we all seem to have pretty balanced happy lives. Anyways, maybe we border obsevvive a bit, but not in a bad way!
Amy
Teddy says
i loovve goat cheese too 🙂
mel says
beth, I personally don’t like to count exact calories bc I think it makes me too obsessive about the number but I do usually aim for a cal range for meals and snacks like 400-500 calories for breakfast and lunch and about 200ish for snacks. I do think it can get obsessive if say 2000 cal was your limit and you didn’t eat something you really wanted or you were hungry and didn’t eat bc you met your max calories for the day or if it controlled your life and all food choices. I think anything and everything can be taken to an extreme so its just different for everyone
Ally says
I love how you used the leftovers for mini beanballs, those look fantastic!
The weather today has been crazy, it’s either cloudy or beautiful.
Jess says
Everyone has their own way they need to maintain their health. If it’s counting calories for Kath that works. For me it’s exercising daily and making healthy choices, no counting.
I got accused of having an eating disorder today because I’m thin….by an obese person I might add. It’s so sad that being thin (5’3″ and 109lbs….not THAT skinny FYI…I know you would all ask!) is a reason to accuse somone of that. Just because I don’t follow today’s American overindulgent lifestyle doesn’t mean I have “food issues”. Does anyone agree?
BethT says
I saw the Self article too. I think those people are more those who will not go over a certain number in a day or meal, and who fall apart if their plan goes astray. There was one girl in there who wept during her interview saying if she ate a cookie she felt the need to run at least 5 miles to burn it off and not upset her overall balance for the day. THAT is a disorder….counting calories to lose or maintain weight is different. It’s all about perspective and how you manage when you can’t totally control everything.
Kiala says
Mmmm…I think as Americans most of us have disordered eating patterns and food issues. I mean, I know I spend an inordinate amount of time planning what to eat from one meal to the next so that I don’t eat something “bad” which will make me feel “bad”.
I don’t know, I think there are some people, i.e. MEN, who don’t worry about it…they just eat when they’re hungry or whatever but for women it’s a much more complex and emotional issue.
I guess I don’t have an answer for you, Beth, but I do think that Kath’s blog provides a place for us all to see and remember what controlled, healthy eating looks like. Is it obsessive? Maybe a little. Is it helping some people? Maybe a little.
It’s an interesting question though.
Kath says
RachelD,
I use Google Calendar for my scheduling and ToDoist.com for my to-dos!
Romina ,
I’m definitely going to try the “real” bean ball recipe – these were my own combo and were just a little mushy.
Beth ,
I think you need to re-read the article. It defines a “Calorie Prisoner” as someone who “eats tiny portions, obsessively counts calories, and eats only a few ‘safe’ foods (often nonfat, low-carb) to keep from gaining.” I hardly think that describes me. Furthermore, the article details a long list of habits and says that they CAN become a “diet danger.” The psychiatrist writes, “The litmus test is whether the behavior negatively affects your health or interferes with your daily functioning.” I don’t think either of these apply to me either?
Counting calories is not unhealthy.
Counting points is not unhealthy.
Tracking food groups is not unhealthy.
Keeping a food journal is not unhealthy.
Exercising everyday is not unhealthy.
Thinking about food is not unhealthy.
Planning meals is not unhealthy.
In fact, I read these habits as recommendations from MD’s and RD’s all the time. What makes these good habits dangerous is when they interfere with your life and/or health in a negative way. What works for some may be dangerous for others, but why don’t we let each person decide what is making good decisions for health and what “obsessive” for them.
Betsy in Pittsburgh ,
So glad you liked the pancakes!! I want to do a fruit syrup for them one day, but PB is just too irresistible!
Kath
mel says
hey kath and everyone- have you all ever made ratatouli (sp?) ? I got a huge eggplant this weekend and tomatoes, and peppers at the farmers market and want to try it tomorrow- the only thing is I forgot zuchinni! hopefully it will still be ok! any ideas would be great!
BethT says
Mel, there are several good ratatouille recipes at foodnetwork.com. Not knowing which spices you have at home I didn’t want to suggest one, but a lot of them look tasty! Go to the site and search the term and enjoy.
mel says
thanks beth!