We hope you are all staying safe and dry out there.
Lauren Mingus
Do you feel like you
are getting all the nutrition you need? I think I’ve found a good balance
with beans, eggs, and peanut butter for protein. My dairy has be limited to 1
to 1 ½ servings per day from cheddar cheese. While I’m eating vegetables and an
apple every day, I don’t think I’m making it to 5 servings (definitely not 7).
Grains have been limited to 1 or 2 servings per day (limited to brown rice).
Has your focus been
affected at work? Yes, especially the first few days. I think my body is
getting used to the changes in my food intake. I continue to be obsessed with
the thought of food, however, which I am sure is impacting my focus.
What has been the
hardest part of the challenge so far? The lack of variety. I’m missing
fresh berries, Greek yogurt, oatmeal and chicken to name a few. Case in point,
three of my next five meals will be rice and beans.
John Kefalas and Beth Helmers
Breakfast: 1
1/2 c millet with banana
1/2 c milk (Beth)
1/4 c strawberries (John)
coffee w/ milk (John)
Lunch: 1 1/2
c Indian curried lentil soup
2 hardboiled eggs (John)
1/2 c yogurt (Beth)
Dinner: 3/4 c
refried pintos
1 c brown rice
1/4 pico de gallo
1.5 oz. cheddar cheese (John)
4 oz. orange juice (John)
Snacks: None
John doesn’t
feel this challenge has affected his focus, and he thinks he's getting all the
nutrition he needs. Me? (Beth) -- I think I'm lacking Vitamin C -- I'm craving
clementines, and I may have to settle for John's orange juice, though I really
don't like it. I've been tired - but that's not unusual for me. And I am
fighting the onset of a cold or sinus infection. The hardest thing for
John is his work-related functions that happen over mealtimes, with often
back-to-back meetings before/after. He went for 10 hours yesterday without
eating, and had dinner with me at 10:30 p.m. My hardest thing is still the free
food available at work (extras, leftovers)… I'm pretty sure I'm losing weight,
but I need to.
Adam Wiemold
Breakfast: Egg, Potato, Cheese, and Chicken breakfast
burrito. I like these, they are easy. SO MUCH BETTER than oatmeal.
Lunch: Same thing as yesterday. Just chicken chicken wraps
with cilantro, chicken, cheese, and onion. My lunches are always repetitive. Im
used to this concept. The cilantro saves my taste buds. It adds a lot of flavor
to each dish.
Dinner: BBQ Chicken Pizza. I used my pizza crust last night.
It was so great to have pizza. I was going to eat a salad with it to be healthy
but once I realized how much pizza I had I quickly skipped the salad and just
ate the pizza. I have three more pizza crusts left. For fun I thawed one of the
extra balls of dough. Im going to see if I can bake it into two hamburger buns
for BBQ chicken sandwiches tomorrow.
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| Adam's Homemade Pizza.
Lauren Dewey
Breakfast: 1/4 cup of steel cuts oats, frozen blueberries, and NO coffee.
Lunch: 1/2 cup of chicken, 1/4 cup of cheese, 1 teaspoon of sour cream, cilantro, carrots
Dinner: Baked potato, 1/4 cup of chicken, 1/4 cup of cheese, 1 TBSP of sour cream
Snack: 2 cups of popcorn, 1/2 cup of green beans, 3 clementines
Do you feel like you are getting all the nutrition you need? I think I am coming in a little short. I have lost a pound and a half since Sunday night. I think that indicates that I am not getting enough calories. I have exercised every day of this challenge except Day 3 but I still think I could be eating more.
Has your focus been affected at work? Yes, I think it has been affected slightly. As you will notice this blog is going up later and later each day and every participant is writing less and less. i
What has been the hardest part of the challenge so far? The lack of variety. I am getting pretty sick off chicken, although I know it is a luxury that others on the challenge wish they had.
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Olivia Brown Fisher
Has your focus been
affected at work? I had a hard time focusing at work on Tuesday, but by Wednesday I
think I was doing a little better. I don't know if my total calorie intake
has been lower because of this challenge (I've never been a calorie counter)
but I feel like my body is getting accustomed to this strict "diet"
by day 3.
What has been the hardest part of the challenge so far? It has been hard to resist eating food that is not on my daily menu/budget. I've been offered fresh homemade food several times this week and each time I have had to turn it down. In a way that feels like an artificial restriction because if I were truly living on a limited food budget I would accept free food without a doubt. I understand the thinking behind that rule, for the purpose of this challenge, but in reality the people who are food insecure find many creative ways to compensate, including sharing food.
What has been the hardest part of the challenge so far? It has been hard to resist eating food that is not on my daily menu/budget. I've been offered fresh homemade food several times this week and each time I have had to turn it down. In a way that feels like an artificial restriction because if I were truly living on a limited food budget I would accept free food without a doubt. I understand the thinking behind that rule, for the purpose of this challenge, but in reality the people who are food insecure find many creative ways to compensate, including sharing food.
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Breakfast
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Peanut
Butter Sandwich
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2 slices
ww bread
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1 TBSP
peanut butter
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$0.25
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coffee
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6 oz
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half
& half
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1 TBSP
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Lunch -
leftovers
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1 slice
veg quiche
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ww pie
crust
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1 egg
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$0.28
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1 oz half
& half
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$0.09
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1 oz parm
cheese
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$0.46
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squash,
tomatoes
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*
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spices
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*
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Fresh
Mozzarella
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2 oz
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Olive Oil
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1 TBSP
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Tomatoes
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2 medium
tomatoes
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Basil
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Several
leaves
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Dinner
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Fried
Rice
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1.5 cups
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Tofu
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5 oz
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Egg
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1
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Pepper,
squash, green beans
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Snack
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apple
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1 apple
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peanuts
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1 oz
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Total
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