Discouraged

Today Im totally discouraged. Not neccessarily about the diet. Or weight loss.Or portion control i.e. being hungry. But Im discouraged about food today.

I ate this lunch, that smelled awesome when I cooked it, but tastes horrible. Its extra lean groung beef, a small tomato chopped up, and minced garlic. Ew. Ew. Ew. I couldnt do it. I forced myself to eat it a few days ago and today I couldnt. I ate all the meat out of it, and tried to eat some tomatoes and couldnt.

Then for dinner I went out on a limb and prepared some shrimp. Ive never bought or fixed shrimp in my life. However it looks delicious and Im very excited about it. The issue was I didnt know what vegetable to fix with it. SO last minute I grabbed a baggie and put fresh spinach in it. Im sure that wont be real delicious by any means.

So here's where I am. Ive eaten everything I know I like fixed just about any way I know how to for two meals a day for 19 days. Im out of ideas. And not only am I out of ideas but Im burned out on things. Im burned out on chicken. Im burned out on tomatoes. Im iffy about raw spinach. I really only like (or atleast how i'd know to cook it) beef, chicken, shrimp...onion, tomato, mixed greens/spinach. SO my diet has been very limited. Ive been all over websites finding receipes but my issue is that I need receipes that I can throw together in a total of 30 minutes. Im in real estate school at night after working a full day and the last thing I want to do is cook up some grand meal. Not to mention lots of the meals require a ton of spices that I dont have and probably wont use again (im not much of a cook to begin with).

Im not saying Im quitting. Im just discouraged. I need to know something delicous, particularly in the vegetable department, so that I dont get so discouraged I give up. I have amazing encouragement not just from my friends, boyfriend, and family here but from NYC (yay harrods!). But its getting hard to be bored and unpleased with food.

Any suggestions? Id gladly appreciate them. I can only eat the following:

100 grams of veal, beef, chicken breast, fresh white fish, lobster, crab, or shrimp.
One type of vegetable only to be chosen from the following: spinach, chard, chicory, beet-greens, green salad, tomatoes, celery, fennel, onions, red radishes, cucumbers, asparagus, cabbage.


and I have the one fruit down. I just need help with creativity for the vegetables and meats. Badly. No sauces, oils, spreads, starches, sugars. Pretty much any seasoning though. Got it? Ok. Who wants to come cook for me?

OOO I am excited about being reminded about eggs. I can have 1 whole + 3 whites. I bought that stuff last night. Trouble is, I have to be able to cook it at the time Im going to eat it. Which means Monday - Thursday, and Sunday lunch is not an option for egg. Bummer right.

On the bright side I have lost 21lbs in 21 days. On the other side, Im running out of gusto with food choices and still have 10 more days of this particular phase of the diet. Atleast after that I can eat things like cheese.

Wow. This took me the few minutes of my lunch break left and my whole afternoon break. Oh well. Its worth it.