Goundrey Merlot 2006

Another good wine.  And i love that it was only $14.99.   Also i want to point out that the last Goundrey I reviewed was also just $14.99.  We'll be trying to get a case of the Merlot, unfortunately the Cab Sav is out of stock at our local bottle shop.

Organic Cafe Maroochydore

I love this place and the silly people in Maroochydore choose the cafe around the corner that is the same price and suits their upper class attitudes.  oh brother!  This means I will always get a seat at the Organic Cafe, and it certainly stays busy enough to turn a profit.  The coffee is good and it caters to the meat eater and the veg alike.  It also caters to those with food intolerances.

I asked them to cut the pancake in half so that the kids would have half each and they did even better, they made 2 individual pancakes with extra ice cream and extra banana.  gotta love the babycinos.  I had the vegie stack which is always great(aparagus, avocado, mushroom, salsa and hollandise sauce on pumpkin toast.  not doing the rating system this time (a bit sick i am) but I can guarantee that there is a great range of food there.

I feel bla so i'm going to go now.

my weight and the low carb veg diet

I've been without body weight scales for about 2 months and finally on Monday I bought some nifty ones that do body fat %, muscle% and water%.  And of course they do your actual weight.  After a month of illness and no gym I knew that I had put on some weight, as evidenced by my increasing love handles and the fact that my size 12 jeans were all a little too tight.  Well I was right, I'd gained 2 1/2kg  blerghh!!  It may not seem like a big deal to most but my ideal weight is 63kg, I look good at that weight and I'm usually 65kg which I was just ok with, but that extra 2 1/2 is a killer.  it all goes on that butt and thighs.  Anyway my body fat is good at 24%(22-25 is normal).  I'm aiming for 22.  Not sure if this will equal to 63kg but we'll see.

Continuing to the point, I eat way too many carbs.  Its easy to over do it as a veg i think as you cut out so many fats by not eating meat that you just think you can eat pretty much anything.  So i'm cutting out potatoes and I'm going to try to cut out white carbs like white bread.  So i'm going to record the food i eat here as well as my scale readings.  I don't know if some of what i'm doing is right on this diet but we'll see.  I'm increasing my protein to compensate a bit.

Breakfast yesterday

weetbix with bran and full cream milk

lunch

bocconcini, fresh tomato and basil slices

a couple of drinks of chocolate soy milk to tie me over

dinner

pumpkin and balsamic onion quiche

baked sweet potato

quartered mushrooms

a small serve of soy sesame tofu

fresh asparagus.

My scales this morning read at 

66.5kg  24%BF 38.4% MM(muscle mass)

Oh and I've bought a low carb veg cookbook of Amazon so I should get that next week.