December 7th

My times are all over the place today - here's hoping I don't miss something!

Breakfast, 8am
1/2 banana
oatmeal (yep, the one with the forbidden honey, currents & cranberries) with goat yogurt
pumpkin muffin

Snack, 10:30
pumpkin muffin

Lunch, 12
lobster and goat cheese on foccacia bread

Snack, 1pm
Lg coffee with choc almond milk

Snack, 3pm
Small Tim Horton's decaf coffee with *gasp* milk
Tim Horton's plain tea biscuit (4g sugar, unknown dairy/wheat)
Approx 1/4 cup almonds

Supper, 5pm
Foccacia bread
1 grape

Snack, 8pm
Grapefruit

Snack, 9pm
Foccacia bread with goat's cheese

December 6th

Bleary-eyed breakfast, 8am
Pumpkin muffin
1/2 hard boiled egg
lg coffee with choc almond milk

Snack, 10-11
2 pumpkin muffins
foccacia bread with goat cheese

Lunch, 12pm
Vitamin soup
Pumpkin muffin

Snack, 2pm
Md coffee with soy milk (sweetened)

Snack/supper, 3:30-5
Lots of corn chips with fresh guacamole
2 bowls Greek chickpea salad
1 small chunk honeydew melon
Lots of homemade veggie sushi rolls (asparagus, squash, cucumber, avocado, onion, carrot)
1 tiny piece "freezer fudge" - just cocoa, almond butter & bit of maple syrup

Snack/teaser, 6pm
1 nibble each: shortbread cookie, "Divinity fudge", chocolate beer cupcake. All from my Christmas Goody Exchange Buddy. Soooo yummy! I had to throw caution to the wind and try them.

Snack, 8pm
Pumpkin muffin

December 5th

Breakfast, 8am
-1/2 banana
-2 pc spelt toast with goat cheese
-lg coffee with lots of vanilla soy milk (probably sweetened, but it was organic if that counts for anything)


Snack, 11am
-3/4 small Russet apple
-2 pumpkin muffins from Gluten Free Goodies (unfortunately, I later found out these delicious muffins were sweetened with agave syrup, which is most certainly not on my approved list of foods. Ahhh well, lesson learned. It was yummy, anyway!)EDIT: Hey! Spoke with the bakers and apparently, the listing for agave was a mistake - they were sweetened with applesauce only. Yay for me!

Lunch, 12pm
Spiced foccacia bread from Gluten Free Goodies with goat cheese, cucumber & sliced tomato

Snack, 1-2pm
1 foccacia bread (round)
1 medium apple
75g sesame rice crackers with hummus

Snack, 3pm
2 homemade spelt pumpkin muffins

Supper, 6pm
Small portion of 'Vitamin Soup' - kale, sweet potato, carrots, onion, garlic, navy beans, spices.

Snack, 7pm
-3 lobster legs
-1/3 pumpkin muffin

Supper 2, 8:30
2 lobsters

Snack, 9:30
Pumpkin spelt muffin
green tea

Snack, 11:30
Spelt pumpkin muffin

December 4th

Tortured myself by doing some Christmas baking today: made 1 large and 5 mini pans of fudge, a pan of Skor Squares and double batches of chocolate bark (almond and candy cane). Smelled and looked sooooooooo good. But I stood firm. I had to toss the dirty utensils and bowls and pots into the sink right away to resist scraping the bottoms, though!

Breakfast, 8:30am
2 pc spelt toast with goat cheese
lg coffee with choc almond milk

Breakfast 2, 10am
Tim Horton's breakfast sandwich - just egg on a biscuit. Supposedly 4g sugar. Unknown dairy. It was good.

Lunch, 1pm
Bowl Amy's Organic Lentil Soup
25g sesame rice crackers with hummus
1/2 banana

Snack, 5:30
1/2 cup chickpeas with last chunk of goat feta
Almonds

Supper, 6pm
Mashed potatoes, steamed green beans, meatloaf

December 3rd

Holy crap - I stepped on the scale this morning and had to get off and then back on a gain to double check the number. 161, unclothed. I was 162 when I started this blog back in July. And I was 169 at the end of October, 2 weeks before starting the Candida program.

I initially started following this program for health reasons, and I did hope that weight loss would be a happy bonus. And so it is! It only makes sense, since I'm not eating all the crap and packages of cookies and pans of fudge and loaves of bread in 1-2 sittings anymore. The scary part is that I don't know if I'll be able to keep away from those old habits once my 6 months are up. Positive - I MUST keep positive!!!

Today's foodies

Breakfast, 8:30am
1 spelt biscuit
2 buckwheat banana pancakes topped with almond butter
lg coffee with chocolate almond milk (Unsweetened! 0g sugar!)

Snack, 10am
1 plain buckwheat banana pancake

Lunch, 12
Sweet potato, chickpea, tomato stew on rice
1 spelt biscuit

Snack, 2pm
4 ryvita & sesame crackers with goat cheese
55g plain potato chips
peppermint tea

Snack, 5pm
Almonds

Supper, 6pm
Sweet potato, chickpea, tomato stew on rice
Grapefruit

December 2nd

Cheated a bit today...

Breakfast, 8am
Spelt and oat granola with currants, cranberries and honey.
Goat yogurt

Snack, 10am
Lg coffee with regular soy milk

Lunch, 12:30
Miso soup
Avocado & Cucumber maki roll

Snack, 2pm
Handful of almonds
32g bag of plain microwave popcorn
2 piece spelt toast with goat cheese

Supper, 6pm
4-5 spelt baking powder biscuits
chickpea, sweet potato & tomato stew with spices, served on rice
grapefruit

December 1st

Breakfast, 7:30
Organic cornpops with almond milk
Md coffee with almond milk

Snack, 9:30
2 ryvita crackers with almond butter

Lunch 12-1pm
2 pieces spelt sourdough bread, toasted with goat cheese
Bowl of Amy's vegetarian chili, made with tofu
Corn chips with pepper hummus

Supper, 6pm
Pork rounds with vermicelli noodles and brussels sprouts
grapefruit

Snack, 10pm
Most of a 145g bag of plain Kettle potato chips