For breakfast yesterday I was really craving egg salad. On this diet, you can have eggs, either boiled, poached, or scrambled, but you can only have 1 whole egg and 3 egg whites. I was looking to see if I could add just a little mayonnaise to the mix, and discovered that while it isn't in the original protocol, you can have cottage cheese in place of the meat. So I figured since I was using home grown chicken eggs which are pretty small, I could make up for it with a tiny bit of mayonnaise, which has less fat per gram than cottage cheese (thats if you eat the low fat cottage cheese, which I do). So I put in about 1/2 a tablespoon, which, with the eggs, is practically microscopic (I know, I know... rationalization). At any rate, it was delicious. Definitely not the same consistency of regular egg salad, but the flavor was there just enough to satisfy my craving. I also ate an orange and some cabbage.
After lunch I met up with a new friend who happens to be a nurse midwife, and we went on a 2 hour somewhat fast paced walk (YIKES! What was I thinking?!) and picked her brain about the difference between getting an associates in nursing and getting a bachelor's, as it pertains to midwifery, my dream career (after my children are grown). Turns out that if you want to have your own practice, you only have to be a licensed midwifery, which means you can go to the Seattle School of midwifery. But if you want to have birthing rights at a hospital, thereby opening up the options available to your clients, you have to be a nurse midwife, and to be that, you have to have a bachelor's in nursing. So, now I have a 20 year plan :) I can just get my associate's degree in nursing now, and then in about 5-10 years or so (after my kids are well established in school) I can go back to get my bachelor's degree. Once I have that I will be able to get my midwifery license, and go on to be a nurse midwife in 18-20 years or so (depending on if I have more children or not). So YAY! I have a plan! Although none of this had to do with healthy eating, I was just so excited about knowing exactly what I need to do to reach my end goal that I had to share it :)
For dinner I met up with a classmate so we could go over chemistry homework. I ate a grilled chicken salad, which really only consisted of plain lettuce and a grilled chicken breast with seasoning. It was very yummy. I ate around 6.
Unfortunately, my walk caught up with me around 10, when I realized that I was STARVING! Taking the drops only dulled the hunger slightly, so I decided I had to have something. So I had a small amount of bread (about 40 grams) with a barely-there smear of peanut butter for protein. I ate it in teeny tiny bird bites to make it last a little longer. That did the trick, and I was fine. I will NOT be doing exercise like that again. The good news is that during the 2 hour walk, I drank 64 ounces of water! I guzzled it! I had already had about 32 ounces earlier in the morning, and I had another 32 ounces in the evening, while I was trying to stave off the starving feeling, so I drank a whole 128 ounces of water. I'm sure that must have helped to balance out the bread and the extra exercise. Supposedly when you exercise, you can retain water.
Notes: GET GRISSINI BREADSTICKS! I didn't get any this time thinking that I would just do without, but if I get starving like that I want to make sure I'm eating something I'm actually allowed. I'm not really supposed to have peanut butter, but I would have felt a little better about having it on bread I was actually allowed to have.
This morning I'm having egg salad again, and an orange. I'm going to put an apple in the mini crock pot for dinner :)
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