The Junkie Inside

Last night I hard boiled a few eggs and had two for breakfast with my tea. They weren’t bad. Although I was like a junkie on Methadone – as I ate the egg all my brain kept telling me was “This reminds me of a sausage and egg McMuffin. Mmmm, wouldn’t a sausage and egg [...]

Oh Crap. It’s July 1st.

“Oh crap. It’s July 1st”.
That thought hit me as I stood in line at McDonalds for lunch. Today is the day I start “The plan” so I quickly rethought my lunch order and went with two grilled chicken chicken wraps (no sauce but I kept the shredded cheese) and tea (1/2 and 1/2).
Luckily my breakfast [...]

What I Ate Yesterday

Breakfast: 4 Fig Newtons (“The cookie that thinks it’s a fruit” per my daughters) and the 24 oz home brew of ice tea
Lunch: McChicken plain. Small fries. Large tea 1/2 sweet, 1/2 unsweet
Dinner: Taco Bell chalupa, apple empanada (sp?) and Large tea 1/2 sweet, 1/2 unsweet
Night: small (leftover) portion of iceberg salda w grilled chicken, [...]

A Plan Begins To Form

All this is tentative but I am starting to see a plan form…
Start date July 1. Commit to 90 days.
- Cut out most sugar, high fructose corn syrup and other obviously bad food choices such as candy bars, ice cream, chocolate etc.
- For most meals I don’t plan to limit quantity but try to cut [...]

Turn Around and Bend Over

D-day has come and gone. Worst part? My appointment was at 3:15 and I couldn’t eat all day in preparation for my blood work. Did I mention that when I don’t eat I get a headache?
All looks good pending blood work results. 6′0″ and 170. My giblets are ok and whatever the doctor was looking [...]

My pre-diet diet: Day 1

I plan (keyword plan) to log everything I eat for the next 7 days. Again, as a baseline of sorts. Even though I don’t eat a lot in terms of volume. When you have to write it down, it really is painful. Here goes:
Breakfast: Nature Valley granola bar 2-pack and 24 ounces of 1/2 sweet [...]

The Pizza and Krispy Kreme Doughnut Diet

Since it’s Father’s Day weekend and I have not yet started my modified diet plan yet I have somehow made today “leftover pizza and Krispy Kreme” day.
Last night for dinner – Pizza
Breakfast: Krispy Kreme
Lunch: Pizza and Krispy Kreme
Dinner: Pizza and Krispy Kreme
For those of unfortunates who don’t know what Krispy Kreme’s are – all I [...]

Traveling and eating healthy are mutually exclusive

On the road for business
Breakfast: Iced tea, nature valley granola bars
Lunch: 1/2 Tukey sandwich and cup of soup and coke
Other: Twix bar and 20 oz coke
Dinner: 8 oz filet topped w crab meat (mmm goood)
This might explain why my heart is racing…