Late lunch (i.e., around 16:00):
• cheeseburger w/bacon
• fries
• Gatorade
• ice cream sandwich
…yeah, I know.

Late night:
• last little bit of Coconut Bliss
• whole wheat english muffin w/butter on one half, and Smart Balance + strawberry preserves on the other
• half a whole wheat bagel w/melted cheddar
• bit of Absorbic-C under the tongue (feeling some soreness in the back of my throat)*

Afternoon snack:
• cheddar and Kashi crackers

Regent Thai, family style…yum! Some each of:
• coconut soup w/chicken
• 1 fried shrimp
• pad see ew, avoiding the broccoli (so tofu, noodles, egg, and a carrot slice or two)
• yellow curry w/tofu
• bit of fried banana w/coconut ice cream

And back home:
• Coconut Bliss
• kefir*

• Quick-scrambled egg on butter-warmed tortilla w/swiss cheese
• Swigs of kefir*

Update: Around 5pm…1 Haagen Daaz bar, then later still….
• 2 oz. steak
• 2 oz. meatloaf burger on toasted bun w/extra sharp cheddar and barbecue sauce
• Kombucha* a la Larry (tastes almost like beer, only better)
• Small bowl of Coconut Bliss

…and still later…
• More kefir*
• Small bowl of macaroni in peanut sauce
• 1 peanut butter pavé
• Couple small handfuls of Snapea Crisps

Well, so much for a play-by-play food log, but I’ll try to remember what I’ve eaten today, leaving out the 2-3 corn chips or Snapea Crisps here and there.

Lunch – Pasta Pomodoro, where I at half of each dish except the lemonade.

• Lemonade, no sugar added by me, though it wasn’t so tart that they probably didn’t start it off with some.
• Ravioli di Zucca, which is butternut squash ravioli in a butter sauce topped with parmesan and fried sage leaves. Yum.
• Beef lasagna. Not much beef in it, and spinach and onions make it a bit dangerous. Still, yummy, and good practice at eating half-portions.
• Focaccia stick with basily olive oil. Didn’t ask for this, but at least I only ate half. As you can tell, eating half doesn’t come naturally to me.

Afternoon

• Orange/carrot/ginger/apple juice, freshly juiced yesterday
• Swig or two of peach kefir*
• Coconut Bliss, Mint Galactica flavor

Dinner

• 1/2 baguette-style roll from Arizmendi, toasted with raw butter
• Camelia goat cheese, also purchased at Arizmendi
• 2 oz. meatloaf burger from Three Stone Hearth, on a plain bun with extra sharp Tillamook cheddar
• Another swig of kefir*
• Tiny peanut butter pavé, also from Three Stone Hearth

And I’m liable to have another snack before bedtime, along with a DanActiv*.

It occurs to me that I’ve not been doing my food log “properly.” Even before the start of my decade-long bout of on-and-off diarrhea, I never had enough meat on me for the thought of dieting to even cross my mind. So I haven’t done Weight Watchers, or any of the similar programs that give step-by-step instructions on how to monitor one’s food intake.

That said, I’m guessing that writing vague remembrances of food past doesn’t cut the mustard. Presumably one should at least take a stab at listing the time of day the food was eaten, along with some portion information. So here I go, starting now.

And to make sure I don’t psyche myself out of keeping up with this, I’m going to hold all editorial comments and/or guilty explanations of why I decided to…I don’t know, eat a pint of ice cream followed by a leftover baby back rib and 3 Jelly Bellies. Not that I plan to eat that…wait, no more editorializing. Here goes:

23:30
• several sips of peach kefir*
• 1 DanActiv blechy probiotic drink*
• 1 fish stick w/lemon juice
• 2-3 swigs of orange juice
• 4-5 Snapea Crisps

* count as supplements

Noni juice. (Third day in a row, actually.)

Iron, 1 ea.

Iron, 1 ea.

1 iron, Willy St bottle, just in case my sudden urgency I related not to the cortenema but to mixing in the Hemagenics.

2 iron, one of each brand henceforth. (Minor bet hedging.)