Janie's
August 2003 Journal
Friday 8/1/03:
~9am: water from 1 young coconut
~9:30am: 2 Fiji apples - cut 'em up for my son, but he didn't want
them...
noon-ish: 4 Jamaican lilikoi, 1 Panama berry, 1 purple lilikoi,
1 yellow lilikoi
~3 & 5:30: 3 papayas, 6 or 7 HI apple bananas - I was interrupted
when I started eating & only got to eat 1/2 of the 1st papaya
at ~3, then ate the rest at ~5:30
Pretty much caught up on my sleep last night - whew! I will probably
finish catching up tonight...
I ate apples this morning when I wouldn't have 'cause my son didn't
want his & I didn't want them to go bad... we were in the car
and they were already cut up & all.
At noon & started eating my lilikoi, but I didn't have much
of them. :-( They were yummy though. :-) They are each a bit different
than each other: the Jamaican ones are sort of sub-acid whereas
the yellow ones seem like acid fruit & the purple ones are in-between,
but towards the yellow ones... I got some Panama berries at the
farmer's market yesterday (haven't had them before) & I forgot
what they tasted like - thought they'd go with the lilikoi so I
started eating them after the Jamaican lilikoi. They're very sweet,
so I figured I shouldn't eat them with the lilikoi, which is why
I only ate one then...
Thursday 8/7/03:
~7:45am: 20min. almost bounce on rebounder, 5-10min.
sprint on rebounder
~9am: 1 large papaya (~7" x 8")
~10:30: 12 pushups
~1pm: 4 ati (2 med~3-4"diam., 2 small~2-3"diam.), 3 apple bananas
Question about building muscle...
Okay, now that I know that I need to adjust my fat levels down further
I'm back to figuring things out online with a calculator and all...which
brings me to FitDay. They have a place for goals & I figured
I'd put one in. The thing is, I'm having a hard time figuring out
what to put...
In the weight section it indicates that at almost 5'2" (1/4" short)
I'm underweight at 100lbs. - which I figured anyway. Their 'healthy'
weight chart indicates that weights up to about 130lbs is healthy
for my height (with the note that these higher weights are for those
with more bone & muscle mass - things I want to build). I figured
that about 120lbs. was a good weight for me to build my muscles
and bones to, but was guessing 'cause I don't really know how much
weight muscles weigh for their size... I've got a small frame &
little body fat (still some to go before there's a problem though
& will need to exchange a bit of it for muscle eventually).
Does 120lbs. seem right? I've really never paid attention to my
weight in particular before, probably won't now either, but would
like to figure this out to see if it helps me figure out what I
should do to get there...
It also has a place for a date for the goal, another thing which
I have no idea what to put in... I guessed and put a date about
15 months away (turns out to be 465 days). So the thing calculated
that I had 20lbs. to go in 15 months, which resulted in needing
to gain .301 lbs a week to meet the goal.
Friday 8/9/03:
Okay, so I've just found out that I wasn't doing the 80/10/10 quite
right after all... I was only conting overt fats in my 10% or less
of fat, rather than all fats, which means I was probably eating
more like 20% fat. Oh well, it has been working great for me anyway!
Can't wait to see how well it works when I'm actually doing it right.
;-)
Saturday 8/9/03:
Yay! The watermelon guy was back at market today! I got a 20 lb
one and a 24 lb one & will get more on Thursday if I see him
there! I just love his watermelons & they're so much more affordable
than at the store too! The seeded ones are 30 cents a pound (vs.
49-99 cents at the supermarket & double or more at the HFS).
I also got some more ati and a bunch of lettuce. My son is into
salads and lettuce, tomato and mayo sandwiches lately, which is
much better than what he'd been eating (stuff that had nothing fresh
or raw in it at all), so I want to be sure I've got enough... I
got some more apple bananas, but not many 'cause I don't know when
our rack's going to be ready - I think it's pretty soon though...
I stopped at the supermarket on the way back & got some organic
celery & tomatoes (never see those at market here, well, sometimes
tomatoes, but it's rare). I then went to the other market to get
coconuts from the guy we've been getting them from on Wednesdays.
He was out last Wed. I saw the guy who has the good papayas there
- he hasn't been around for quite some time. I arranged something
with him so that I can get stuff from him outside of market - cool!
He's the one who had the tree tomatoes. I downloaded photos I took
of the tree tomatoes recently too. Here they are:
I took pictures of the last rack of local apple bananas we harvested
then too. They're the 'HI apple bananas' I'm always eating. Unfortunately,
my hubby decided to cut them off the rack before I could get a photo
of them on it. I caught him doing it though, so took pictures of
that:
I actually don't remember exactly what I ate today - think I wrote
it down at home... will have to update this day's log later...
Sunday 8/10/03:
Abundance!!!
My hubby and I went on a hike with our dog & we all had a terrifically
fabulous food finding time. We went for exercise and to see if there
were any Jamaican lilikoi still fruiting and how close the fuzzy
blueberries and strawberry guavas are to being ready... We discovered
that not only were the strawberry guavas ready now, but they were
just about perfect in their ripeness - ripe, but not found by the
fruit flies too much yet! Then we saw that some of the rose myrtle
(fuzzy blueberries) were ripe too!
We were snacking on stuff from the beginning and really
excited about it. We were hoping that we could at least find a few
lilikoi too, but kind of didn't expect to find any. In past years
we would go there often and hardly be able to find anything 'cause
other people would have picked 'em, the pigs & chickens would
have eaten the fallen ones and/or the birds would have eaten the
ones on the vines. We came accross a small area of a few vines before
we got to the spots we used to find the most & found a few.
We were so excited. They were delicious!
Then we went a bit further and found more -and more
- and more, just laying accross the path and on the sides of it!
We then discovered that there were some in and off the path so we
ventured in there. We found so many that we had to go back to the
car & empty our little day pack & get a bag. We went back
and started to look in the wooded areas & found tons of them!!!
Really! So many that we couldn't gather them all... We must have
gotten about 200 or so of them - good ones too! Wow!
We were never able to get enough of them to even make
a meal for one of us before & now there were more than we could
eat together! It was so exciting - we were both running around gathering
them, eating them on the spot and having a great time! At one point
I was skipping & jogging along reaching out my hands & getting
strawberry guavas, fuzzy blueberries and then reaching down and
picking up lilikoi without having to stop - it was truly like a
raw food eaters paradise! It was great & wonderful to share
it with my hubby who had been eating all raw that day & the
day before too - so he had an even greater appreaciation of it.
Oh - and our dog was in food-finding heaven too 'cause
she found an old fish carcass (big one too) that she carried with
her when we moved on and munched on almost the whole time. I had
the things we harvested today along with katuk from our garden for
dinner - and there were plenty of them left over afterwards! Here's
a picture of my dinner, although I didn't end up eating all of what's
in the photo:
watermelon (~ for breakfast
longon, rambutan & ?? for lunch
30-50 Jamaican lilikoi (30 at dinner & lots when gathering),
strawberry guava (20-50), rose myrtle (30-60), katuk (~2 cups of
leaves) for dinner
My hubby discovered that our rack of bananas is ready for harvesting
tonight. He'll probably harvest it tomorrow! Yay! Now this
is why we moved here...
Monday 8/11/03:
watermelon breakfast
ati & ice cream bananas & apple bananas for lunch
Jamaican lilikoi dinner
raw peanuts from market as snack...too late at night...oops!
My hubby did harvest the bananas. It's the only rack we have going
right now so he harvested it pretty early to make sure we got the
most out of the rack as possible. The birds get it if you let them
ripen up on the plant & they also tend to split, both of which
let the fruit flies get in and put their eggs which quickly turn
to larva... Most people don't wait for any to turn yellow, my hubby
always does. He usually waits for more to be yellow, but I guess
he was wanting to put them in a picture with the lilikoi and all...
;-) He wants to take a photo of me with our recent harvests tomorrow
morning before I go to work. I'll share some of those photos in
tomorrow's log...
Tuesday 8/12/03:
Woke thirsty with a cleansing BM in the works, not ready to release
though. Yesterday I was a bit short on sleep and long on work &
I was feeling it a bit this morning. Thought it was a shame 'cause
my hubby wanted to take my photo this moring. Oh well... I washed
my face (with water), did about 10 or 15 min. of light rebounder
work, 20 pushups, brushed my hair and got dressed for the photos.
(After the photos I took my shower & got ready for work, then
had the BM, whew! Felt much better after that - too bad my hair
was wet or I'd have wanted to take more photos...) Here are a few
that we did take:
And that's not even all of the lilikoi! We ate lots of it already
- 2 of us for 2 days before the photo!!! Just think how much money
we saved too - the small and/or older ones are 3 or 4 for $1 at
the farmers markets, if you can find them there at all - and you
rarely see the good big ones... So cool! My hubby and I think that
they are about the best fruit on Earth & now we've got tons
of them! Awesome! ;-)
Oh yeah - about the photos... that's in our yard in front of the
fence we have the Jamaican lilikoi growing. It's produced some so
far, but not anywhere near this much. LOL Oh, and that's a bathing
suit top I designed the pattern for and crocheted myself (proud
of that BTW). I did 3 bathing suits and then got my hubby to make
me a wooden crochet needle. He amazingly found a small piece of
ebany in some of my mom's old stuff and made it out of that - so
cool! I love dark woods and ebony's so beautiful. I'm working on
another bathing suit with the new needle now (well, not right now
- on my days off).
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