Day 3 - May 6, 2013

Weight:          251 lbs

I got a good night's sleep.

Today was a good day food wise.  No wasting any food around here.  I finished off yesterday's frittata for breakfast.  I used the leftover chicken in two different ways for lunch and dinner.  The fresh homemade blue cheese dressing was delightful on the salad.

The scale showed some progress.  It's possibly just water peeing out or just regression to homeostasis after  I stopped eating like crap. Hopefully, the progress will continue.  I thought about going for the full-fledge analysis (body fat and H2O), but chose not to.  I didn't want to get too caught up in the numbers and analysis there of over short periods of time.  After all this is a long journey, possibly a lifetime of change. 

 

Breakfast:
Leftover Spinach Frittata from yesterday
16 oz water w/ lemons juice

Lunch:
1 large Apple Walnut salad w/ Blue Cheese dressing:
Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing (recipe from Food Network)
   made with homemade mayo (recipe from Food Network)
Homemade rosemary croutons (saute cubed slice of bread with olive oil (2 Tbsp) and a sprinkle of rosemary
1/2 apple
1/8 C pecans
1/2 (leftover) shredded rotisserie chicken thigh (skin and bones removed)
1/4 large head of romaine lettuce

16 oz water w/ lemons juice
16 oz water

Dinner:
 1 (left over) rotisserie drumstick
1 cup Roasted Tomato soup
16 oz water w/ lemons juice

Dessert:
1 pear
1 orange
16 oz water

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

Day 2 - May 5, 2013

Weight:         253 lbs (115 kg or 18 Stones for our British friends)
Body Fat %:  36%
Fat:                91 lbs
Lean Mass:    162 lbs
H20%:           47%

Today started out much better than yesterday. I decided to make a frittata for breakfast.  I bought fresh spinach yesterday, so I could add some different flavors to the inevitable omelets and frittatas I will be having for breakfast.  For some reason the recipe called for crouton.  I dropped those from the recipe.  I replaced half the feta cheese with cheddar, just because feta's kind of expensive to use the whole container for one dish. Not a bad breakfast. Lunch was a little hectic.  I had planned on making a salad, but I wanted to make it with homemade dressing.  To make the homemade dressing I needed to make homemade mayo. According to the recipe the mayo has to sit for an hour.  So that threw off lunch.

I wound up grabbing a chili from Wendy's.  It was kind of bland (even with the pepper sauce).  I've had it on previous occasions and found it quite good. Dinner was good, had some leftover chicken with roasted tomato soup. I added a a hand full of croutons that I made.  It being my first time making croutons, perhaps I was off.  They may not have been crunchy/toasted enough. They became really soggy in the soup almost immediately.  The soup was expensive, it called for 4 cups of fresh basil.  Fresh herb get pretty expensive at the grocery story.



Breakfast:
Spinach Frittata (recipe from Food Network)
16 oz water w/ lemons juice

Lunch:
1 large Wendy's chili w/ 1/8 C of cheddar on top
16 oz water w/ lemons juice
16 oz water

Dinner:
1/2 large rotisserie chicken breast
1 cup Roasted Tomato Soup (recipe from Food Network)
1/2 cup homemade croutons
16 oz water w/ lemons juice
16 oz water

Dessert:
1 large banana
1 apple (peeled)
16 oz water w/ lemons juice
16 oz water

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