August 8

• I have no recollection. Must get back on track with recording meals.

August 9

• I don’t remember what I ate, but I did go to the gym for some cardio and weight training. Yay cardio and weight training!

August 10

• Breakfast: frosted flakes, the kind from Whole Foods – unfortunately these flakes are not frosted enough. Plus they do this weird texture thing where they stick to my teeth.
• Lunch: homemade pad thai, plus an orange
• Snack: cinnamon sugar pretzel and vanilla rooibos tea
• Dinner: salad with avocado, crab, grapefruit and cheese. Plus ice cream!

August 11

• Breakfast WF frosted flakes again. I might start adding sugar.
• Lunch: last of the homemade pad thai, then bbq chicken and beef stew from Au Bon Pain – very spicy, cleared my sinuses temporarily. Also got a vanilla frappuccino with toffee nut syrup shot – actually too sweet, I think.
• Snack: cheese, rice pudding. Not together.
• Dinner: homemade drunken noodles! I used namya sauce that I got from the Asian market. I made it with chicken, shallots, tomatoes, Thai basil – pretty similar to pad thai except for the sauce.

August 12

• Breakfast: raisin bran and frosted flakes.
• Lunch: my drunken noodles.
• Dinner: a burger and some chips. Probably ice cream.

August 13

• Breakfast: raisin bran and frosted flakes.
• Lunch: drunken noodles. I don’t tire of Thai food easily.
• Dinner: roast. Ice cream for dessert.
• Exercise: 30 mins on the elliptical. I got lazy after that.

August 14

• Breakfast: sausage
• Lunch: spinach salad with tomato and roast beef, plus some bread and butter
• Dinner: burger. Ice cream for dessert.
• Mental health: I finished Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo while getting some sun on the beach =) Unfortunately, I don’t always get enough sunscreen along the lines of my swim suit and sometimes get burns there. So I kinda look like neapolitan ice cream in some places.

August 15

• Breakfast: pancake with maple syrup
• Lunch: spinach salad with tomato and roast beef, plus some bread and butter, plus some cantaloupe
• Snack: ring bologna
• Dinner: drunken noodle

August 16

• Breakfast: raisin bran and frosted flakes
• Lunch: crab cake melt at Cosi with Darryl. Funny, they pack a snack bag of carrots instead of chips now if you ask.
• Dinner: last of the drunken noodle, ice cream

August 17

• Breakfast: grapefruit and avocado
• Lunch: experimental pad thai made with silver noodles. I’ve concluded that even though pad thai is great, making it with these noodles is even better. Note to self: even though the silver noodles (thick, round tapioca noodles in the refridgerated section) are somewhat moist, they still do better with a soaking in hot water before stir-frying.
• Snack: okay I went a little crazy. Two bowls of frosted flakes, some ice cream, and some rice pudding with whipped cream. That whipped cream did me in, way too much sugar.
• Second snack: apple and cheese. The apple is usually an excuse to eat the cheese.

August 18-24

• Vacay with Mom and bro in South Carolina = no tracking of meals. Let’s just say Southern food is not friendly to the anh health plan. Mmmmmm biscuits and gravy!

August 25

• Breakfast: two sunny side-ups
• Lunch: sweet potato burrito at the food cart. I forgot how good food carts can be!
• Snack: large chai tea latte
• Dinner: a grapefruit tossed w/ 1/2 an avocado and cheese, plus 1/2 a slice of roast
• Exercise: 2-mile run. Slowly working back into routine. Ohh, biscuits and gravy.

August 26

• Breakfast: iced decaf caramel macchiato
• Lunch: salmon sushi roll and tea
• Dinner: cereal and a piece of roast, maybe?

August 27

• Dinner: I hadn’t seen Mital since she started med school! She was curious about Vietnamese food, so we checked out Vietnam Cafe in West Philly. I tried the banh cuon, which they have dubbed “Vietnamese ravioli.” I guess if it’s a wrapper of savory meat filling, it’s a variant of ravioli? The ca kho to (anything “kho to” refers to clay pot; ca = fish) was also good.

August 28

• Breakfast: cereal
• Lunch: grapefruit avocado salad
• Dinner: at Jenn’s! chicken in salsa marinade, brown rice and green beans. Butterscotch chocolate chip cookies, which I baked – we would have had twice as much, except that I knocked over one pan and burned myself upon reflexively grabbing it. Alas, the spinal circuit kicked in and I dropped the pan, spilling all the cookies. Well,if I was going to lose the cookies anyway, I kinda wish the circuit had kicked in sooner so that I wouldn’t have burned myself as badly.

August 29

• Breakfast: cereal
• Lunch: sea salt brownies from Trader Joe’s, baked salmon, and grapefruit avocado salad
• Dinner: udon noodles with an egg dropped in.

August 30

• Breakfast: pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese and apple jelly
• Lunch: grapefruit avocado salad, baked salmon

August 31

• Breakfast: large chai tea latte and ham and egg wrap at Cosi
• Lunch: turkey cheese avocado sandwich
• Dinner: KFC. It was a splurge. So, so good. Do the specifics of what I ate really matter? I know it wasn’t good for me. Plus ice cream.