state of the diet

[serinde]

The good news is: the very delicious veg curry I've been making is quite acceptable for phase 1 of this diet. Mmm, chickpeas & cauliflower.

The bad news is: I have just used up the last of the required spice blend, which was hand-carried from Australia for me. Woe.

(It can be ordered online, but only in giant amounts. We may do it anyways. Lord only knows when it'll get here, though.)

I am less crazed than I was at the start, so I guess this insulin resistance whatever is starting to break up. I would still cheerfully stab someone for a glass of juice, or a cocktail. The latter especially, today. But I am surviving.

It is to be noted I've not had over 1500 calories a single day this week. Half of them are from fat (mostly monounsaturated; I think that's good, isn't it?). I am not sure whether to be concerned about this or not. Fact is, I'm eating a lot of veg, but when a cup of the veg works out to 40 calories--.

I oughta go eat something else; I'm only at 1150 for today and I'm hungry. Turkey sausage maybe. Though three links of that won't really put me up much higher.

Comments

[naudia.livejournal.com]

You're right. You *REALLY* need to have something else. Eating less than 2,000 cal can cause shock to the system if you're even moderately active. Please incorporate more protein...Please.

[crypticgirl.livejournal.com]

What is this spice blend you speak of? If it's available around here we'd be happy to pick some up in a more reasonable quantity and airmail it.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

It's the South Indian Vegetable Blend from Mudgeeraba Spices (http://www.mudgeerabaspices.com.au). Who are somewhere around Brisbane, or else I would have already been attempting bribery & corruption on youins to send me some. :) (My kind courier had gotten it at some big huge show that the vendor was at, I forget what it is; it sounded something like a state fair, or maybe more like the Canadian National Exhibition; but it was in or near Sydney.)

If you should ever see it, though, I can't recommend it highly enough. It's pleased everyone I've fed it to, from raging carnivores to Mr. Fussy Vegetarian Who Doesn't Like Vegetables.

[crypticgirl.livejournal.com]

Aha. Yes Outer Woop Woop, Queensland is a skritch too far from here :).

Your friend might've gotten some at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, which is in fact the equivalent of a state fair. There have been an explosion of foodie exhibition weekends in most major capital cities, though, so I thought they might've expanded. No such luck.