Food Intake

breakfast:

Coffee

Gluten free granola with pear, flaxseed, chia powder, Greek yoghurt, and milk.

Lunch:

rice noodles in miso soup with egg

snack:

cherries, chips

Dinner:

pasta with pesto sauce and shrimp

peach and apricot

My skin has broken out -wondering if it's the pasta, which is not gluten free.

Food Intake

Breakfast:

gluten free toast with almond butter, and jam
cool down coffee

Lunch:

gluten free toast with lobster salad
fruit

snack: popcorn rice snacks

dinner:

bbq chicken, grilled monkfish, corn, potato and egg salad, cauliflower
sourcream coffee cake
camomile tea

Food Intake

Breakfast:

cooled down coffee

gluten free granola with vanilla yoghurt, fresh mango and apples, flaxseed, chia powder and milk.

Lunch:

noodles (had wheat in it which I didn't know till I cooked it) with teriyaki sauce.

banana

I think my face just broke out : (

Food Intake

Breakfast:

Gluten free toast with almond butter. Banana

Coffee -cooled down.

honey with hot water and lemon.

Lunch:

Corn tortilla with gluten free salame and grilled vegies.

Snack: gluten free ginger snaps and snickerdoodles.

Dinner:

Baked chicken with Thai marinade (fish sauce, hoisin sauce, garlic, cardamon, vegetable oil), rice, grilled vegies.

My face is definitely less pimply but still red. It feels like it is evening out.

Food Intake

Breakfast: Gluten free granola (with nuts) with fresh mango and pears, Greek yoghurt, flaxseed, chia powder and milk.

Coffee cooled down.

Dinner: flank steak, rice and bbq vegies -mushrooms, red peppers, zucchini.

Food Intake

Breakfast -Gluten free toast with almond butter, and blueberry jam
Lunch -corn tortilla with sausages

Dinner -baked fish in Balinese sauce, grilled vegies, rice

No change in face yet. No new pimples.

A New Start Again/Food Intake

I have decided to once again, start trying to get rid of my rosacea or at least improve my skin. I started reading posts on the Rosacea Forum and they had started talking about the co-relation between what you eat and how it affects your skin and most have agreed that a low carb gluten free/wheat free and low sugar/low refined white flour diet really improves the skin! So today is the first day that I am going to try the gluten free (and wheat free, if possible) and low sugar diet. So I went out and bought some gluten free wheat free bread.

Tomorrow I plan to go to Trader Joes and buy a lot more gluten free products.

Yesterday I noticed how red my skin became after eating strawberries so I won't be eating those again. And I decided to not drink any hot beverages as well. I will drink hot coffee but plan to let it cool down.

So I want to use this blog as a food journal and see whether my skin improves. I stopped going to the dermatologist because I felt like it was a waste of time as I was not going to do the things she wanted me to do, like moisturize my feet at night.

She did recommend washing my hair with head and shoulders and that seems fine for me. I also use it as a cleanser -not sure whether it helps or not. I need to clear up my skin first and then use it to see what happens.

I did read over what I had eaten when I started the food journal and I really didn't changed the way I ate which is probably why my skin stayed the same! I was still eating the same of old refined flour/refined sugar crap!

My main concern is that I don't want to be feeling hungry all the time and my first step is stop eating sugary snacks at night. I can snack but they have to be gluten free/wheat free snacks.

For breakfast:

Gluten free gorilla munchies with flaxseed, chia powder, blueberries, apples, activia yoghurt (which had mixed berries -note -need to buy Greek yoghurt), and a little 2 % percent milk.

Cappuccino with a little milk -cooled down.

For lunch:

Gluten free/wheat free toast with scrambled eggs (cooked with olive oil) and bacon.

Bosc pear and fuji apples

Leftover coffee from breakfast

Snack:

Gluten free corn snack called poppers
cheese on gluten free poppers

Dinner:

bbq sausages, sauerkraut, grilled onions, zucchini, mushrooms, peppers and eggplant.
rice
chimichurri sauce over flank steak (marinaded in soy sauce, olive oil and red vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper)

mini chocolate cupcake

I believe my face is less pimply but still red.

Food/Drink Intake

Saturday July 24th, 2010

Breakfast: egg and bacon sandwich, coffee, apples

Lunch: roast beef sandwich, coffee, pound cake

snack: apple pie

Dinner: steak, rice, corn and tomatoes


Friday July 23rd, 2010

Breakfast: toast with jelly, coffee

Lunch: leftover spaghetti shrimp pasta

Snack: banana bread

Dinner: sushi

Food/Drink Intake

Breakfast:

seeded toast with almond butter, coffee

Lunch: noodles

Dinner: leftover chicken curry and rice


Wednesday July 21, 2010

Breakfast: toast with jelly, coffee

Lunch: leftover pizza and sticky bun (this did not make feel good at all-never again!)

Dinner: shrimp pasta in tomato cream sauce, salad, bread, fruit.

Food/Drink Intake

My skin is red from being outside. It is very hot and humid. I was outside for an hour watering our trees so my face is all red from doing that.

Breakfast:

Toast with vegemite, toast with jelly coffee.

Lunch:

noodles with egg.

Dinner:

Chicken curry, Basmati rice and roasted cauliflower.

Snack: cheese nacho chips. (I need to stop eating these!).

Food/Drink Intake

Monday July 19th, 2010

Breakfast: toast with almond butter, coffee

Lunch: chicken dumplings, vegie fried rice

Dinner: cajun catfish, roasted potatoes, salad.

Snack: mango icecream bar

Sunday July 18th, 2010

Breakfast: granola, croissant

Lunch: hotdog, rice and cucumber

Dinner: leftover spaghetti bolognese

Saturday July 17, 2010
Breakfast: bacon and egg sandwich, cherries, coffee

Lunch: rice with leftover seafood stew.

Dinner: spareribs, grilled mushrooms and zucchini, corn.

Dessert: apple pie

Friday July 16, 2010

breakfast: granola, toast with jelly, coffee

Lunch: croissant with roast chicken, tomatoes and lettuce, chips.

Dinner: beef with broccoli, sesame noodles with roasted eggplant,
Dessert: apple pie.


Thursday July 15, 2010

Breakfast: toast with almond butter, coffee
Lunch: fried rice
dinner: seafood stew, coconut cake, berry pie, chocolate cake, coffee


Wednesday July 14, 2010

Breakfast: toast with jelly, coffee
lunch: tuna and chicken salad sandwiches, salad, apple pie, coffee
dinner: leftover spaghetti bolognese

Tuesday July 13 ,2010

Breakfast: toast with almond butter, coffee
lunch: leftover risotto
dinner: baked pork chops with kimchi, fried rice

Food/Drink Intake

Monday July 12th, 2010

Breakfast: coffee, pumpkin seeded toast with almond butter

Lunch: pizza

Dinner: spaghetti bolognese, bread rolls, watemelon


Sunday:

buttermilk waffles, nectarine/blueberries, coffee

Lunch:

cheeseburger, fries.

Dinner: leftover butternut squash risotto

snack: kettle corn

Food/Drink Intake

Saturday July 10, 2010

Washed face with vanicream soap, put on topical gel, sunscreen. My skin is definitely less pimply but still red. I feel it is looking better.

Breakfast: bacon and egg sandwich, cappuccino, pear/nectarine.

Lunch: meatballs, red potatoes.

Dinner: steak sandwich, coleslaw, lentil salad. zucchini salad.

Dessert: apple tart.

snack: handful of cheese nachos

Friday July 9 2010

Breakfast: cappucino, toast with almond butter

Lunch: noodles with dumplings, and lettuce

Dinner; salmon nicoise, apples

snack: mango bar

Thursday July 8, 2010

Breakfast:

toast with jelly, cappuccino

lunch: biryani rice, chicken dumplings, banana

snack: nuts

Dinner: butternut squash risotto with prosciutto

Food/Drink Intake

I have been drinking tons of water and eating lots of fruit so my skin is looking good. A lot of my pimples have gone.

Wednesday July 7, 2010

Breakfast:

Toast with jelly, cappucino

Lunch:

chicken sandwiches, pasta salad, chocolate squares, coffee

snack: nuts

Dinner:

chicken marsala, roasted kale, spaghetti with tomato sauce.

snack: mango bar

Tuesday July 6, 2010

Breakfast: seeded toast with almond butter, cappuccino

lunch: leftover seafood pasta

dinner: salmon nicoise, naan bread

snack: pear/berry cobbler

Food/Drink Intake

Monday July 5th, 2010

Breakfast: crossiant, custard croissant, coffee

Lunch: lamb burger, water melon

Dinner: pasta with seafood, potato pancake, decaf coffee

snack: kettle corn.

Sunday: cereal with fruit, toast with marmalade, coffee, blueberry muffin

Lunch: sunflower seeded bread with roast chicken and tomato.

snack: icecream sandwich.

Dinner: lamb burger, Asian pork burger, grilled pepper and broccoli, corn.

Dessert: raspberry and peach pie.

Saturday July 3rd, 2010

Breakfast: bacon and egg sandwich, apples, coffee

Lunch: roast chicken sandwich, chips.

Dinner: T-bone steak, salad, roasted potatoes.

Dessert: pear and berry crisp with vanilla icecream.

Friday July 2nd, 2010

Breakfast, coffee, dinner roll, cheese danish.

Lunch: roast chicken sandwich

Dinner: baked cod fish, salted fish with pork belly, Chinese vegetables.

Food/Drink Intake

Breakfast: toast with almond butter, cappuccino.

Lunch: sushi

snack: kettlecorn

Dinner: cheeseburger, salad, corn, donut.

Food/Drink Intake

Wednesday June 30th, 2010

Breakfast: cappuccino, toast with raspberry jelly.

Lunch: spaghetti with proscuitto and lettuce.

Dinner: Spanish rice, roast chicken, cauliflower, brussel sprouts.


Tuesday June 29th, 2010

Breakfast: whole wheat toast with almond butter, cappuccino.

Lunch: egg noodles with chicken and red pepper.

snack: sponge cake.

Dinner: egg noodles with chicken and red pepper
Decaf coffee, biscotti, mini donuts, cake.

Food/Drink Intake

My face still has pimples but it isn't that red.

Saturday June 26th, 2010

Washed face with Head and shoulders shampoo, put on topical cream and sunscreen.

Breakfast:

Nectarine, Sourdough toast with egg and bacon, cappuccino.

Lunch: fried rice, blueberry buttermilk cake, blueberries.

Dinner: fried rice.

Nacho cheese chips, licorice.

Sunday June 27th, 2010

Washed face with Head and shoulders shampoo, put on topical cream and sunscreen.

Breakfast: toast with almond butter, cappucino.

Lunch: mushroom and anchovy pizza, caesar salad, cookies, decaf coffee.

Dinner: fried rice.

Monday June 27th, 2010

Breakfast: granola, cheerios, Greek yoghurt, blueberries. flaxseed, milk. toast with raspberry jelly, cappucino.

Lunch: soba noodles with zucchini and seaweed and chicken.

Snack; tea, blueberry cake.

Dinner: pasta with lettuce, peas and proscuitto, fresh homemade bread.

Food/drink intake

I woke up with new pimples : ( probably from the shrimp and tomato pasta dish.

Breakfast: whole wheat toast with almond butter, cappuccino.

Lunch: noodles with dumplings and zucchini.

Snack: baked chips, iced coffee

dinner; leftover shrimp pasta.

Food/drink intake

Wednesday June 23rd, 2010

I feel that my face is clearing up of some of the pimples! it is definitely looking less red.

Breakfast: blueberry waffles, cappuccino.

Lunch: egg salad, tuna salad, whole wheat bread, salad, brownie, coffee

snack: almonds

Dinner: baked Tandoori chicken, roasted potatoes and brussel sprouts. Nectarine/apples.

I have been good about drinking lots of water during the day and with meals and I haven't snacked at night in 2 days.

Thursday

Breakfast: whole wheat toast with almond butter, cappuccino, Asian pear.

Lunch: potato and leek soup, focaccia bread.

Dinner: pasta with shrimp, prosciutto and spinach, ricotta cheesecake, decaf coffee