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Do Not Fear the Zucchini.

May 27, 2009 at 8:46 pm | In Uncategorized | 20 Comments
Tags: almond butter, amy, apricot, art, broccoli cheese soup, carnation instant breakfast, cornbread, cottage cheese, couscous, dates, dietitian, egg, fear food, Kashi, lomography, mushroom ravioli, nazi, oikos, orange juice, pear, pilates, psychologist, raisins, sausage, silent hill, veal, zucchini bread

I got the idea for today’s post from Brooke over at Simply Vegetarian. I thought it would be a good idea to make a Summer To-Do list for myself since I really am planning on making this summer as fun and exciting as possible. No ED is going to ruin my break.

1. Go to Colombia with my mom, brother, and grandma

2. Finish my bedroom wall fashion collage that I have been working on since LAST summer

3. Visit Whole Foods for the first time

4. Buy a summer dress at Betsey Johnson

5. Eat cake on my 16th birthday

6. Go to the Zumiez Couch Tour with Emma and stay the WHOLE event this time

7. Make new masterpieces out of my old clothing items.

8. Write a novel

9. Go downtown often with friends

10. Make homemade sushi

11. Eat giant toasted ants during my trip to South America

12. Not get into any arguments with my mom

13. Stalk the sexy Kroger guy one more time with my friend Emily

14. Do pilates every day

15. Use my Diana F+ and polaroid cameras

16. Get Christmas’ lomography shots developed

17. Discover other people’s treasures at local thrift stores

18. Make my Silent Hill bubble head nurse Halloween costume

19. Learn to say I’m sorry

20. Grow to love myself for who I am

21. Work on starting the baking business with my mom

22. Begin my old hobby of making quirky jewelry again

23. Swim with my brother on a regular basis

24. Make at least one new friend

25. Recover.

FOOOOOOOD:

I woke up feeling like I had only slept for an hour or so the whole night. I couldn’t understand why at the time since I usually wake up feeling energized, but I managed to get out of bed anyway after about half an hour of just lying there moaning at my mother to “leave me alone.” The reason for my exhaustion became very clear when I looked at the clock and it was 7:50 AM! I usually wake up at 9:30… Please don’t throw rocks at me >.< For breakfast, I conquered fear food of the day #1: Zucchini Bread. This delicious bread has repelled me throughout my ED because of the sugar content, but nope… Mr.ED was not in the house this morning at breakfast! With the zucchini bread I had, 2 apple chicken sausages, an egg (not pictured), an orange dipped in Oikos (sweetened with some Stevia and vanilla extract), and a strawberry CIS.

As you may have been able to tell by the lighting of my breakfast photographs, today was a gloomy day outside. There was no sun shining, nor any birds singing. Strangely, gloomy days never get me in a sour mood. It seems as if when the nature outside my door slows down, so do the negative things in my life so I actually like those gray days.

My mom brought me some things from the market, like more Larabars, and for lunch, she bought me the Amy’s Southern Meal with Cornbread and Beans . I had this with an apricot and a chocolate CIS. She brought my dad the Black Bean Enchilada wholemeal and snuck it on a plate so he wouldn’t know it is frozen. He is a health food nazi so we always try our hardest to be sneaky when we give him our health food. My mom and I are sly foxes.
I did 10 minutes of pilates stretches after lunch to try and take my mind off of my fullness. I was also anxious about my 1984 test, so this helped alot. When I got to school, I was surprised that the test was actually not that hard! Usually, my English teacher’s tests are impossible, but I totally owned this one

By the time I got home, I was starving. Due to my starvation, I created the most delicious snack on the face of the planet.

The Best Snack in the World

1/2 c. Cottage Cheese
1/4 Kashi GoLean Crunch!
1 chopped apricot
2 chopped dates
1 tbsp. almond butter

After my snack, I proceeded to the day’s studies. Ew. During my minutes of procrastination I realized that my dog looks like Tweedledee from Alice in Wonderland and I took a picture of myself where my eyes are like: “HELLO!”

I did a bit of blog browsing during my break and added some more sites to my blogroll. I hope nobody minds if I happened to put them on there. The sites I put on my blogroll are ones that I find inspiring and entertaining, and always keep up with reading them.

My dinner was extremely exciting for me because I actually went to the store just to pick out my side dishes. I picked out TWO fear foods: mushroom ravioli (carbs) and Israeli couscous, which I have always wanted to try but it has no nutrition facts so I have always been afraid of it. No fear tonight! I had this with broccoli cheese soup (another slight fear food due to fat content) and 4 oz. of veal. I surprisingly felt no guilt after this meal.

Today has been a really wonderful day due to the fact that my mom has been acting very sweet towards me and I have actually enjoyed the foods I have eaten today. Eating just didn’t feel like so much of a chore and my ED only visited me sporadically today to tell me something like “you are eating too much, stop” or “get up and do something, you are so lazy.” I tried my hardest to ignore those foolish orders, and did pretty well and I am glad, because I LOVED the couscous!

Funny story about how we got the couscous actually, because my mom is a VILLAIN! She thought it would be silly to pay for 1 oz. of couscous so she walked out of the store with it in a little cup without paying. I told her she was going to have some bad karma for being a little thief and sure enough, on our way to the car… she dropped the couscous and it fell all over the Kroger parking lot! Hahahaha, she had to walk back in and get more. That is what happens to fiends

I watched a horror movie called “100 Feet” with my mom while I enjoyed a nice glass of orange juice. I highly recommend that movie to any horror fans out there! Once the movie finished, I had a large pear dipped with almond butter and raisins. Perfect, perfect combo.

Tomorrow is my psychologist appointment and on Friday, I have my weigh in at the nutritionists’. I am feeling a little bit anxious about seeing her and finding out how I am doing weight-wise. Also, I’m going to be talking to her about coming up with a goal weight, which is one of the things I am most anxious of talking about because she may not agree with the weight I have in mind. I am also going to ask her to tell me how much I am weighing because I really want to know. You see, at the clinic I go to, neither my mom or I can know my weight because they want to get my focus off of “numbers” and more focused on health so she only tells us whether I have gained or not. While I see the positive logic behind this, I am still going to try to convince her to tell me because the mystery about my weight is driving me absolutely crazy. *Sigh* We’ll see what happens.

On the bright side, I got an award from the lovely Nancy! I’m going to pass this award onto some of these other very awesome bloggers:

Goodnight everyone. Hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow!

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Ahh, I wore a Betsey Johnson dress to my senior prom! I loveee her dresses, and the summer ones are so cute, so flirty!

I’d seriously eat EVERYTHING in this post…I just made note to try that cottage cheese/dates/almond butter snack veryyy soon, and I also want to try the pear dipped in almond butter and raisins! I’m so glad that you tackled some fear foods girl, that’s what it’s all about….once we try to overcome what we’re so afraid of…it gets SO much easier!!

I hope you have a good Thursday and good luck with the appointment!

Comment by Jessica (jesslikesithot) — May 28, 2009 #

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- Her dresses are GORGEOUS! They are so quirky and fun, yet feminine and classy. Fantastic designer, you must have looks beautiful!
  and thanks!
  
  Comment by Karina Pinzon — May 28, 2009 #
  
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WOW you’re so GORGEOUS girlie!! your eyes – wow! oh btw, I shopping around for a camera atm … what camera do you use? I love the quality of ya pictures – do you photoshopped dem at all? thanks!!

Comment by Cecilia — May 28, 2009 #

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- Thank you!
  I use a Canon Powershot S51S, which I love! It is bulky enough for the person to have control over how they hold it but not SO bulky that you can’t carry it in your purse, which I find is a problem with the cameras with massive lenses.
  I do photoshop, but I am what I call a “light photoshopper.” I only use the program to sharpen the photographs, increase the contrast, and occasionally color enhance. I don’t add anything in to my pictures because I think that photography is all about what you are actually shooting, and it should be real.
  <3
  
  Comment by Karina Pinzon — May 28, 2009 #
  
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beautiful post my love,
my daddy is a health food nazi too. haha he is like organic? ah whatever. dont need that.
glad to hear you had a better day today, keep up the positive spirit
xxx

Comment by Neela Marijana — May 28, 2009 #

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- Like, he lies about the taste. he thinks he can tell the difference between the taste of organic and and non-organic..which is silly! If you were to tell him something that is organic is not organic, he won’t complain. But if you tell him it is organic, he says: EEWWW THIS IS SO GROSSS.
  A silly man he is.
  
  Comment by Karina Pinzon — May 28, 2009 #
  
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I love this post my dear! I know this will be your best summer yet!

You’ve never been to Whole Foods?!?!? Once you go, you’ll never be able to get it out of your head!

Enjoy your day, love!

Comment by Kiki — May 28, 2009 #

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This is such a great post! Your list of things to achieve is great – I think I will try and make one of these too. What fantastic motivation!
All your food looks yummy. You did such a good job of kicking ED into place with tackling your fear foods, haha I bet he doesn’t know what hit him!
Good luck with the appointments my dear

ps your story about your mum and the couscous made me giggle!

pps YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL! (how did I forget to say this earlier??)

Comment by determinedtoshine — May 28, 2009 #

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- Aaw shucks, thank you! That is sweet of you. <3
  
  Comment by Karina Pinzon — May 28, 2009 #
  
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Heyaa,
Well done on the breakfast and fear foods!! I’m so proud of you!
Loving the list! I adore shops like WholeFoods, so I’v set myself a target of going when I’m in london (hopefully this summer and another one is to have a whiskey on my 21st birthday too! Not quite cake though so you are much braver lol. Shopping in charity shops/thrift shops is the best fun and you get loads of great bargains! Omg Superbad was a hilareous film! Don’t quite agree with you on the eyecandy though hehe. A breakfast party…with suppliment drinks *runs to start organising it*

Aww *wipes a tear* (for the award).
I would like to thank my mother…..

Have a great day, keep well and keep up the good work xxx

Comment by Emma — May 28, 2009 #

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- You deserve that award, miss Emma!
  
  Comment by Karina Pinzon — May 28, 2009 #
  
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I agree with the others – you are stunnnnning! Thanks so much for the award girl! *hug* And they sound like very reasonable things to talk to your care team about. When I first started knowing my weight, they prepared me for it slowly over a couple of weeks so that I pretty much knew round about where I was at before I ’saw’ the number full-on. Hope it works for you!

Comment by Jemima — May 28, 2009 #

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- Aaw thank you
  yeah, I think I would be in less fear if I at least new what my weight was. It is just such a mystery that sometimes I think.. should I REALLY keep gaining? It is just unsettling.
  
  Comment by Karina Pinzon — May 29, 2009 #
  
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aaaw!! thanks girlie, for the award!
wow…this is one mega post, and I feel like I want to respond to all of them!
first of all…LOVE this list of things you wanna do in the summer…and write a novel? really? what kind? um..giant toasted ant? sounds…interesting…lol. but I did hear it’s great for protein…
and oh my god. I can’t believe you’ve never visited WholeFoods! I live right across it, so I can’t imagine life without it…I’m a WF addict!
and you better love yourself, girl, because you’re one heck of a loveable gal and if you can’t love yourself, there ain’t no hope for the rest of us! and I don’t think you need to worry about making a new friend…you’ll make plenty in this blogging world!
and good luck with the weigh-in. try to be more open with the nutritionist’s suggestion…she knows what she’s talking about!

Comment by burpexcuzme — May 28, 2009 #

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- You are very welcome
  
  Yes, I’ve started to write like 3 novels, but I never finish them because I run out of time or inspiration. I love to write and I am a member of my school’s newspaper staff. I have absolutely no idea what I want to write about actually, hoping to get some ideas so I can start writing this summer while I am in Colombia!
  And yes, giant toasted ants. There is a city in Colombia that made toasted ants very famous. In South America there are some BIG ants and they are apparently REALLY delicious. I know they sound super gross, but it would be such an experience to be able to tell Americans “Yup, I’ve eaten an ant before.” and hear them say: “EEW REALLY!?”
  And thank you thank you! You are so sweet. I hope I do make some good friends on here! Everyone seems so nice.
  
  Comment by Karina Pinzon — May 29, 2009 #
  
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you are an inspiration! dealing with some mr.ed and fear issues myself and you are doing so well. great motivation. you pictures are beautiful as are you. i love you list of things to do this summer!

Comment by randomlymikey — May 28, 2009 #

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- Thank you, dear Sorry you are having to deal with horrible mr. ED. Such a jerk isn’t he? We can get rid of him though with a little effort and positive thinking! We have to be strong <3
  
  Comment by Karina Pinzon — May 29, 2009 #
  
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I’ve never visited Whole Foods either (there is only one store and it’s downtown). Your summer plan sounds so awesome! And you’re only 15?! Wow, I thought you were my age this whole time (16).

Comment by Nancy — May 28, 2009 #

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- Really? I guess I do appear to be older than I am XD
  
  Comment by Karina Pinzon — May 28, 2009 #
  
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Thanks so much for the award, beautiful!

Whole Foods = LOVELOVELOVELOVE.

Comment by ohsoravenous — May 28, 2009 #

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