After assessing today’s actual diet and exercise, all I can say is that I haven’t been doing everything I to do to build bone! On the good side, my diet consisted of “real food”–no processed sugars or flours, no hydrogenated oils or transfats, and no artificial ingredients–and I took all my supplements. However, my pH level is too acidic, which means I need to be eating a higher percentage of alkaline foods. The worst part of this account is that I didn’t get any exercise at all! That’s no way to strengthen bone.
Hopefully, I’ll do better tomorrow. It’s amazing how much improvement comes about when you make yourself accountable to someone else. So, thank you, OsteoDiet readers, for being my accountable partners!
Here’s a summary of the foods eaten today, along with their approximate calorie content:
Upon rising:
35 1 Cup of coffee with 1 tbsp. of Natural Bliss creamer (Publix brand)
Breakfast:
150 2 Slices of millet bread, toasted
50 1/2 tbsp Earth Balance buttery spread
77 Scrambled egg
70 11.5 oz. can of V-8 vegetable juice
0 8 oz. water
*Morning supplements:
Garden of Life RAW Calcium (5 capsules)
Garden of Life RAW Vitamin Code for 50 & Wiser Women (2 capsules)
Garden of Life Q-Zyme ULTRA Ultimate Digestive Enzyme Formula (2 capsule)
Bioidentical Hormones: Progesterone cream + AdreneVive capsules (2)
Test pH levels (aiming for 7.0 or higher):
Saliva: 6.2 (acidic)
Urine: 6.6 (acidic)
Snack:
105 Banana, fresh
99 Almonds, raw, 11
0 8 oz. water
Lunch:
170 Quest Bar protein bar, chocolate
0 8 oz water
Snack:
130 + 21 + 6 Cup of FAGE brand yogurt, plain + 1 tsp honey + 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
0 8 oz. water
Supper:
307 + 45 8 Meatballs + spaghetti sauce
20 + 10 + 10 + 75 Tossed Salad: Romaine lettuce, Matchstick carrots, Cucumbers, + 1 tbsp Brianna’s Homestyle Asiago Caesar dressing
0 Bottle of Perrier with Lime, 11.5 oz.
0 8 oz. water
323 Small slice of pumpkin pie, homemade
Bedtime:
0 16 oz. water
*Evening supplements:
Garden of Life RAW Vitamin Code for 50 & Wiser Women (2 capsules)
Garden of Life Growth Factor S (3 capsules)
Garden of Life Perfect Food Super Green Formula (2 capsules)
Garden of Life Omega-Zyme Ultra, Ultimate Digestive Enzyme (1 capsule)
J. Crow’s Lugol’s Iodine Solution 2% (2 drops on inside of forearm)
NOW brand Glucosame & MSM (2 capsules)
Minami brand MorEPA Omega 3 Fish Oil (1 capsule)
Bioidentical Hormones: Estrogen Cream + Progesterone capsule (1)
Exercise: None
Approximate calorie total for 11/9/12: 1703
