Cats, Mixed Personality Eating.

Last weekend, to celebrate my 1 year non-dietversary, we got ourselves polished up and headed into the outside world to see Cats, which is currently playing at the Isaac Theatre Royal. I’m not quite over it yet. I have at least 10 feline acquaintances, some of whom just like to swan past the food bowls now and then, and I’m not sure that they are used to being greeted with “Hail, cat!”. Usually, it’s “get away from that, you don’t live here!”. I had an unfamiliar visitor this morning – a fluffy black and white cat that I’ve never seen before, probably a Jellicle cat like Rumpleteezer, given the acrobatic way it exited the catflap. Word must be getting around.

I was packing my daily eats this morning and observed that my eating is increasingly edging toward multiple personality disorder. It looks like half of my food was planned by a nutritionist and they other half was thrown together by someone with a liking for pies, chocolate and diet soda. This ‘Yin/Yang’ way of eating is what I’ve found works for me lately and it took me a stupidly long period of time to master the basics of it. The old way was to either be ‘on’ (protein, veges, fruit) or ‘off’ (pies, fudge, lattes). As we know, the old way is soooo last year. Today we have:

Breakfast: Berries and Greek yogurt

Mid morning: Home made protein fortified brownie (I’m perfecting the recipe for this – currently it’s a bit too crumbly, but the previous batch would stick your teeth together with the power of superglue. Once I get it right, I’ll post the recipe)

Lunch: Quentins gourmet steak pie, large mixed salad. This is something I sort of keep ‘on standby’ for days when I’ve either not organised anything else or I know I’m gonna crack if I don’t eat a pie. These Quentins pies are the best of the bunch and damn hard to get hold of. They are only made in small batches and sell out a nano-second after they hit the shelf. If I see them at the one supermarket that seems to stock them, I buy the lot. They are high in protein and low in that awful mushy stuff that cheap pies are full of. Also the pastry isn’t real pastry – it’s pastry-like but not greasy.

Mid Afternoon: Another protein brownie, an apple, a couple of squares of dark chocolate and I also packed a sugar-free Red Bull, but probably won’t drink it. I keep one in the fridge at work in case of serious mid-afternoon sugar craving or slump in enthusiasm. That only occurs if I’ve been letting my bedtime stretch out to, say 1 or 2 am.

Dinner: It will be my venison mince burgers, which have grated carrot, onion and mushrooms in them. I’ll make some baked kumara slices and vege-up the plate with greens. Being Friday night, there will be a glass of cab sav, maybe two.
Later, if I get hungry again I’ll have yogurt and berries. I'm going through a berry phase. All those anti-oxidants, so purple, so yummy, so healthy.
Supplements today are: 6 x Omega 3 capsules, 2g vitamin C, 2g L-Glutamine, 200mg Niacin.
Hydration will be lots of Green Tea.

In other goings on, we should all spare a thought for Kek, who is currently attending the Filex convention and running wild in Sydney. All that shopping can be hard on a girl!