Day 12 - May 15, 2003

Weight: 248 lbs.

Looking down at the scale this morning was very frustrating.  The scale was still moving in the wrong direction.  It's more infuriating that  I have also worked out both of the last two days (which means I burned more calories than any of the days that the scale moved in the correct direction. These are the type of things that usually drive me to give up and console myself with a pizza (or at least half of one.) 

Breakfast was leftover dinner bits from the other night, plus 2 eggs (for even more protein).  Lunch was also mostly leftover from the fridge.  I'm experimenting with shakes/smoothies.  Getting the proportions and taste right are the tough parts.  For dinner I grilled a package of chicken thighs, so there's chicken for dishes for the rest of the week.  Shredded chicken can be added to salads or just about any dish.  The thighs can also be eaten as they are.

So today is the third day at the gym.  It's very hot outside and only going to get hotter.  It was 102 yesterday.  So, I need somewhere to take my son in the afternoon, but its too hot out to go to the park.  So I take him to the gym (free childcare included).  While I'm there, I figure I might as well get a workout in (otherwise people look at you funny).  My gym has a cardio theatre where you can watch movies while doing your cardio.  So the last two days I watched the last hour of Forrest Gump and Big while walking and bicycling.

I wonder if it's possible that I'm not getting enough calories, so my body is holding tight to what it has.  I'm thinking of adding a few smoothies  to my daily menu.   I noticed in previous diets that when I've fallen off the wagon, I lose weight and look leaner for the next few days, perhaps my body responding to an end of scarcity. Still trying to figure it all out.


Breakfast:
Leftover bits of steak and shrimp from a couple days ago
2 eggs.
16 oz water


Lunch:
Leftover Tuscan white bean soup
smoothie - plain yogurt, honey, 1/3 banana, 3 strawberries, tbsp of crunchy peanut butter


Dinner:
chicken thigh
ear of corn
16 oz water w/ lemon juice
16 oz water


Dessert:
1 mango

we'll see what the scale says tomorrow ...

Day 11 - May 14, 2013

Weight: 247.4 lbs.
 
 
The scale has been stalled or moving in the wrong direction the last few days, even though I worked out (boxing) yesterday.  What's going on?  Anyway, I had an omelet with chorizo this morning.  I originally meant to add spinach.  That would have been even better.  Something to think about for tomorrow.

I wanted to keep the GI Load low for breakfast, but I was still hungry, so I ate fruit (mango).  Preferably I'll replace it with a vegetable tomorrow.  I've run out of animal proteins in the house.  I boiled a couple eggs and diced them.  I added them to my salad.  The salad could have used a little bacon for flavoring.  I've been avoiding bacon because of the nitrates.  Dinner was more trying to clean-out the fridge of leftovers, mostly soup.  Dessert was a quick apple.

Went to the gym again today.  Hope it shows on the scale tomorrow.  I'm really sore from Monday's boxing workout.  Instructor decided to skip the warm-up.  At my age that's muscular suicide.  I've been paying the price with DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness.)  My pectorals are sore and swollen, and my arms don't have a full range of motion.  I imagine it's similar to what it must feel like immediately after breast augmentation surgery.


Breakfast:
2 egg omelet with chorizo, onion and cheese
1 mango.
16 oz. water w/lime juice
16 oz water

Lunch:
Romaine salad w/ 1.5 diced boiled eggs, homemade blue cheese dressing, blue cheese, and a few croutons.

Dinner:
1 bowl Tuscan white bean soup
1 bowl Roasted tomato soup
no room for water
 
Dessert:
1 apple (peeled)

 we'll see what the scale says tomorrow ...

Day 6 - May 9, 2013

Weight: 248 lbs

Today did not start well.  The scale put me a pound up.  I know these things fluctuate, but I know I ate less yesterday than on any given day before I started, yet the scale moved in the wrong direction.  By far the most frustrating part of dieting or eating healthy.  It has been the cause of many a fast food-junk food binge and relapse in the past.  This time I'm taking it all in stride.  I was up late night and ate some banana late as well.  I don't know the true cause of the scale moving in the wrong direction, but I'm not going to worry about it.  Perhaps, I'll have some breakfast sausage or have a smoothie (made with Almond milk instead of the Moo stuff) tomorrow for variety.

Breakfast was surprisingly enough eggs again.  Lunch was leftovers.  Non sequitur: it's getting hot in Vegas.

The white bean soup for dinner was tasty.  I strongly suggest using a blender or food processor, not an immersion blender for better consistency.   I think I could use a break from chicken.  Tomorrow = steak.


Breakfast:
2 boiled eggs
Yogurt (2 tbsp left over from feeding my son)
1 Tangelo


Lunch:
1.5 cups Roasted Tomato Basil Soup (leftover)
1 El Pollo Loco drumstick
16 oz water w/ lime juice

Dinner:
Tuscan White Bean and Garlic Soup (recipe from Food Network)
1 El Pollo Loco thigh
16 oz water w/ lime juice
16 oz water


Dessert:
1 pair
1 banana
16 oz. water

we'll see what the scale says tomorrow ...