3/24/2012

UPDATE

pH: 5.5 (up a point from yesterday)

I ate the same foods, w/ a few minor variations from first menu post, consisting of:

Breakfast (fried eggwhite, clementine, 1/2 whole grain cereal, green tea)
Snack (whole grain cereal, 6 almonds, handful of raisins - saved half of snack for afternoon)
Lunch (rice w/peppers, black turtle beans, spinach, garlic, and chile powder,1/2 C. canned pinapple)
Snack (other half of morning snack)
Dinner (a "Chick Filet" salad with vinegrette dressing,  a slice of multi-grain bread)
PM Snack (2 celery, 1/2 med. cucumber, handful of curly kale, 1 Straub lager)

I dare say, eating more green is helping.
The difficult part is consiously making these choices over other options.
Knowing it is affecting health helps with those kinds of decisions.

Note - other beverages included 6-8 bottles of water, 2 Tim Horton's unsweetened iced teas, and a bottle of Lipton's Diet Green Tea, which has little artificial coloring and flavoring listed in the ingredients. (I was on the road a lot yesterday. Otherwise, I would be drinking homemade, unsweetened green iced tea.  I also like chewing gum, especially after meals. Most sugar-free chewing gums contain BHT, a preservative known carcinogen, so I now buy Spry, or Glee chewing gum, which uses Xylitol as a sweetener, and not aspartame. Spry and Glee do not contain BHT. )