Day 5 at Hippocrates

Thursday.

My favorite day so far because there was a kitchen techniques class today. Chef Ken Blue make it all look so simple and yet he creates recipe masterpieces, that's all I can say. I haven't anything yet that I didn't like.

Some of my friends here are having a tough time with the food, missing cooked food, missing noodles, but I'm happily enjoying everything!

I'm finding too that my appetite has been decreasing. When eating regular cooked foods, I would often go back for seconds and thirds, but here I'm quite satisfied with a single serving.

Today, my ankle definitely seems better - it was practically immobile when I first got here and now I'm able to rotate it no problem and I'm walking much better again. I'm also noticing that my nails are hard again and not brittle.

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Brenda's Lasagna (recipe), Overused Words and One of the Best Moms I Know

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Summertime Kale Salad with Kelp Noodles

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Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker

Despite reading about the importance of maintaining a food journal, I figured I could just keep track in my head. Boy was I wrong! I thought I was doing a pretty good job of approximating the number of calories I was consuming each day. After all, food is my passion and I have a pretty good idea of calorie counts. Over the years, my weight has slowly and steadily crept up, up, up to an all-new high. I brown-bag it during the work-week and prepare really good lunches: usually delicious salads, sometimes brown rice and steamed or lightly sauteed veggies and fruits and cut up veggies for snacks. But still... even though I know better, when I'm at work I find myself munching on a couple of handfuls of pretzels, some chocolates, peanuts, etc. later in the afternoon. Then, I go home and cook a large dinner. It's just the two of us, but I like to prepare extra so BF can take leftovers to work. But I would find myself eating 2 portions (and sometimes 3 if it tasted really good

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