Week 5 Meals

Another week, another pound or so lost. After 5 weeks, I'm down 10 pounds.

This week was rough. I've got some sort of respiratory thing going on - runny nose, cough, sore throat - that's kicking my butt. I also had a six-month ultrasound for a sus thing in my breast (luckily, it was a tad smaller than the last time, so they're thinking it's a benign cyst. Have to go back in 6 months for another scan.)

So yeah, a kind of stressful week. But I got through it with much less food-coping that I would've done a month a go. I am proud of me :-)

So onward to week 6.


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29 

Pb toast

Fake cheese and tomato sandwich; salad with vegan blue cheez dressing; grapse

Personal pizza with vegan sausage; quinoa chili

banana


3 lemon poppyseed muffins because this is the best batch yet

30 

Steel cut oats with blueberries, ground flax seed

Quinoa chili over brown rice

Curry - 2 garlic, splash of olive oil, 2 big spoons pataks, cauliflower, chickpeas

PB on rice cakes

banana

3 lemon poppyseed muffins because this is the best batch yet

31 

PB toast x2

Fake cheese and tomato sandwich; salad with vegan blue cheez dressing; banana; quinoa chili. Basically ALL THE FOODS

Brown rice (1/2c dry) with leftover curry

larabar


2 lemon poppyseed muffins

32 

Fryup - shroom, vegan sausage, sweet peppers

Fake cheese and tomato sandwich; salad with vegan blue cheez dressing; banana

2 potatoes, air fried; rest of the chili



2 lemon poppyseed muffins

33

Steel cut oats with blueberries, ground flax seed

Fake cheese and tomato sandwich; 

Pizza and cheezy bread

PB on rice cakes

Cheetos & chocolate chip cookies :-(


34

Pb toast

Fake cheese and tomato sandwich; salad with vegan blue cheez dressing; 

Brown rice and curry

larabar

Rice cakes plain

Chow mein; pb toast. Man I am hungry today.

35 

Steel cut oats with blueberries, ground flax seed

Fryup - shroom, vegan sausage, sweet peppers; potato with margarine and salt/vinegar powder

Fake cheese and tomato sandwich; salad with vegan blue cheez dressing; 

banana

2 potatoes made into fries

2 lemon poppyseed muffins; oh how i’ve missed you

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