Day 3 - Mediterranean diet and herbal medicine

 July 31

I had to kill some time today so I looked into the mediterranean diet, since most of the internet is convinced it's the best one. 

Yesterday's dinner with mom and dad proved a little different. She didnt talk about the dieting or the cheetos (although we did have them) but is focused on dad's upcoming hip surgery. 

Despite that, I still had both a hamburger and a hotdog, chips and cheetos. And rootbeer. 

And seconds on the cheetos because they were so good and had been on my mind. 

So it's more about remembering how good they were and wanting more of the bad stuff from what I can tell. 

I read up on the mediterranean diet (not as in to lose weight but to eat healthy, diet as in what you eat not weight loss.. am I making sense?) Anyway it looks like the pattern of eating is like this: 

Eggs or whole grain toast or oats for breakfast, salad or soup for lunch, fish 4x a week, chicken, lean beef 1x a week. They have you have a snack between lunch and dinner, which really helps. And then for dessert a chocolate or a popsicle and fruit with your meals. I can do that. 

I did have whole wheat half bagel for breakfast, a salad for lunch, hummus/crackers and vegs for snack, figs and cherries for fruit and 1 piece of chocolate instead of the usual 4. And even the tea i drank was made with stevia, so only 20 cals. 

But for dinner I had a small plate of mac n cheese leftovers. I couldn't part with the leftovers. 

I feel like I did okay and am easing into it. I will have tea on stand by if I start craving. 

OH and I'm studying herbal medicine so that seems to go hand in hand with eating well. More to come on that.