Lyn-Genet Food Plan – Day 4 – cheese

It’s day 4 on The Plan by Lyn-Genet Recitas.

Testing: cheese

Adding: coffee(Joe), wine (Caroleen) and chocolate!!

Deep thoughts by poo master:

• I passed for chick peas!
• I hate goat cheese but I eat it and it tastes surprisingly OK.  If you could hear me talking, the emphasis is on * O * – * K *.  Not stellar, not amazing, but not gross.
• I am thrilled to be back on the wine.  Lyn-Genet says that happiness with wine is totally acceptable!  I’m almost 40.  I play tennis.  I have a teenager.  I have to love wine!!!!!!!!
• I’m starting to sound like those people in the book with all of their testimonials.  It works!  It’s like magic!  Hit mid to late 30’s and I just all of a sudden couldn’t make the scale budge and get more and more upset tummy.  I work out 5 days a week.  I eat healthy and still had issues.  I’m a skeptic and after four days on the plan, I’m telling everyone like I just discovered that I’m an alchemist!
• You’d think it would be diarrhea for days but it’s not.  Admittedly, my current diet is fairly high fiber.  The high veggie diet helps but it’s not a profound change.
• I’m SHOCKED at how much 1 oz of dark chocolate is.  Truth be told, I usually just eat as much chocolate as I want and then stop when I don’t want anymore.  Some days it’s more than others.  When I kept reading 1 oz of dark chocolate, I didn’t think it was much.  I mean, an ounce is like a bon bon, right?  Nope, it’s half a Trader Joe’s bar (see photo).

Exceptions:

• I play tennis again.  Once again, I don’t move around too much.  We are not supposed to exercise for the first seven days.
• I do give myself some extra water for the wine and tennis.
• After tennis, I feel a little nauseous and I think it’s the wine and chocolate and maybe even eating dinner right before the match.  Trying to stay on the finish eating dinner by 7:30pm time table, we have to eat before the match.

Breakfast

• Flax granola with blueberries and coconut milk

Lunch

• Roasted veggies – zucchini, broccoli, carrots, onions
• Spinach with pumpkin seeds, goat cheese

Snack

• Carrots with raw almond butter, sunflower seeds

Dinner

• Chicken with mango salsa
• Arugula with carrots, ¼ avocado
• Broccoli, onions, orange oil (skipped this oil)

Dessert

• Dark chocolate

This breakfast picture is getting kind of boring.

My colleague said the almond butter looks like poo.  This a poo filled blog today.  Don’t mind the portion.  It was double what it was supposed to be! I saved half for tomorrow.

Red wine is back in the menu!  It’s hard to see but there’s a half piece of chicken hiding under all that mango salsa!

Look at how much 1 oz of chocolate is!  I put the lemon and my hand as reference.  Plus I’m showing off my ring ; ) I don’t get to be engaged for too much longer!