Nearing the End

Notes regarding my diet.

My weight range for 20 years: 185-195 lbs. Below I list my current weight. I weigh myself on the same scale at the grocery store in the evening after yoga class. If I don't list it here that only means I didn't stop by the store after yoga or forgot to step on the scale.

Changes since starting diet

• Water goes right through me
• Hot flashes
• Less sleepy during the day and early evening
• Muscles no longer ache when cold
• Regaining strength while exercising
• Save money on food
• Save time by eating less
• Trips to the grocery store are likewise simplified

B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner, _=deviation

Sun 7-9-06 [ ]

Back from vacation.

Sat 7-1-06 [B _ ]

McD lunch and Snickers while watching Akeela and the Bee.

Fri 6-30-06 [B L D]

Thu 6-29-06 [B L D]

Finally, did dinner right.

Wed 6-28-06 [B _ _]

Lunch at First Watch (salad).

Fluffer Nutter for dinner. Chris chose a "peanut butter" sandwich over Hungry Howie's three cheeser bread!?!

Tue 6-27-06 [B L _]

Storm hit after yoga. Hid in Chinese restaurant.

Mon 6-26-06 [B L D]

Sun 6-25-06 [B L _]

Extra beer.

Sat 6-24-06 [B L _]

Extra beer.

Fri 6-23-06 [B L D]

Thu 6-22-06 [B L _] 189

Extra beer with dinner.

Wed 6-21-06 [B L _]

McD & Snickers dinner while watching Ice Age.

Tue 6-20-06 [B _ _]

Agh, bagel pizza for lunch and dinner. Makes me sleepy. Tosed out the last one. I'm through!

Mon 6-19-06 [B _ _]

First day, splitting one banana between breakfast & lunch. More bagel pizzas for lunch. Sooo sleepy later.

FN and peanut M&Ms for dinner.

Sun 6-18-06 [B _ _]

Cheesburgers, fries and candy while watching Al Gore. Green olive bagel pizzas at home for dinner.

Sat 6-17-06 [0 B _]

No breakfast. Tired all day. Fried chicken, fries and potato salad for dinner.

Fri 6-16-06 [B L D]

Thu 6-15-06 [B L _] 187.5

Extra beer and watermellon with dinner. I was celebrating.

Wed 6-14-06 [B L D]

Feeling hungry after dinner. Filled up on watermellon!!

Tue 6-13-06 [B L _] 188.5

Fluffer Nutter for lunch. Whew, can't do that everyday.

Extra beer for dinner in place of soup, rice & beans.

Mon 6-12-06 [B L _] 187.5

Extra beer for dinner in place of chicken and peanut sauce.

Sun 6-11-06 [B L D] 187.5

Added seven natural almonds to my breakfast. They were on sale!!

Sat 6-10-06 [B L D]

Fri 6-9-06 [B L _]

New lunch alternative: (Super Fluffernutter) Natural peanut butter, sliced banana, Ricemellow Creme (better than Marshmallow Creme!!) and a sprinkle of chocolate chips on lightly toasted whole wheat. Wow! And milk.

Extra beer and milk chocolate covered milk balls instead of chicken and peanut sauce for dinner.

Thu 6-8-06 [B L D] 188

Wed 6-7-06 [B L D]

Tue 6-6-06 [B _ D]

Sushi and Coke in place of applesauce sandwiches and milk at lunch.

Mon 6-5-06 [B _ _] 190

Pizza Hut Buffet lunch with cherry pizzert! Ugh!!

Soup, rice & beans plus beer for dinner... and Keebler chocolate mint cookies. Forgot all about these. Found them deep in the freezer.

Must... get... serious about diet!

Sun 6-4-06 [B L _] 188.5

McD cheesburgers while watching Da Vinci Code.

Sat 6-3-06 [_ _ _]

No breakfast. Leftover pizza for lunch. Fried chicken & extra fries for dinner.

Fri 6-2-06 [B L _]

Big sushi dinner.

Thu 6-1-06 [B _ _]

Lunch at Mac Grill. Only ate half a salad due to fetta chees contamination. Gross. Later ate regular lunch plus lots of watermellon. Extra watermellon and chocolate chips with dinner and a movie.

Wed 6-1-06 [? ? ?]

Tue 5-30-06 [_ L ]

Raw food "cheesecake" and chocolate mint sauce with my usual breakfast.

Mon 5-29-06 [B _ D] 187.5

Sonny's with Dave for lunch. After lots of junk food over the holiday, just 0.5 lb increase.

Fri 5-26-06 [B ]

No cheese for my omlete today. Dang! Also, tried a new organic salsa. Too much vinegar.

Thu 5-25-06 [B L _]

I was sooo close to going to Pizza Hut buffet for lunch. I felt the need. But once I ate my diet lunch at home the need was gone. Thanks goodness I dodged that bullet.

Dinner at Olive Garden. Wine, salad, bread sticks with extra butter, ravioli and chocolate cheesecake. But... no little chocolate mints at the end. That's good, right?

Wed 5-24-06 [B L _]

Two plates of salads at Sweet Tomatoes. That wasn't too bad but I finished with soft-serve chocolate ice cream. Or maybe it was yogurt? Doesn't matter because it was covered with chocolate syrup and chopped peanuts and toffee bits. About half ice cream and half toppings. Like a bowl full of partially melted candy bars.

Tue 5-23-06 [B L D] 187

Finally made it back to regular yoga class and stopped by the scale. No damage after all those deviations.

Mon 5-22-06 [B _ _ ]

Ate peanut butter after the banana was gone for lunch. Long after. I'm amazed that I now like natural peanut butter.

Sushi and a chocolate soft server ice cream cone for dinner. I wanted that cone on Thursday at Sea world but they apparently now only serve vanilla. I guess that makes the line move just a little bit faster since there's only one flavor. I passed and it was worth the wait!

Sun 5-21-06 [B _ _]

Lunch included a Boar's Head hot dog sold outside the grocery store. Dinner was sushi, chicken w/ peanut sauce but also some Reese's peanut butter cups.

Sat 5-20-06 [B _ _]

Had breakfast at noon in place of lunch. Dinner was fried checken, potato salad, black eyed peas and Reese's peanut butter cups.

Fri 5-19-06 [B L _]

Fried cat fish, gator and frog legs for dinner.

Thu 5-18-06 [B _ _]

Vacation.

Wed 5-17-06 [B L D]

Tue 5-16-06 [B L D] 187.5

Did it. Didn't "taste" the peanut butter as soon as I opened the container today. And I didn't lick the knife when I was done. I don't know if this explains why my weight was down last night. It's too soom from me to draw a big conclusion. I do feel a little empty between meals. That's what I was after. I think it's more mormal to cycle between being full and empty rather than feeling full most of the time.

I felt something was missing after eating my soup and getting the chicked and peanut sauce ready. I thought, this just isn't going to satisfy me. Then I remembered that I can have a Miller. Problem solved.

Weight was up but I wasn't surprised. I had the urge to pee during yoga but I never took care of it.

Mon 5-15-06 [B L D] 186.5

Sun 5-14-06 [B D _] 187.5

Okay, today's the last day I give myself credit for not deviating on breakfast while eating peanut butter straight from the jar long after the banana is gone. Part of the problem is that I eat the banana while browsing news on the web and I'm reluctant to get up and cook the omelet. That and I'm surprising addicted to the natural style peanut butter. Yesterday I found the best deal in town, 18 oz. of deli-fresh peanut butter for only $2 at Chamberlin's Market & Cafe. Starting with lunch today I either stick to peanut butter on the banana or I'll mark the meal as a deviation.

Managed to get by with just a few grapes & grape tomatoes while watching American Dreamz (B). A comedy that's enjoyable unless you happen to be a Republican seething with hate or a vengeful Muslim extremist. Funny how those two groups keep showing up side by side.

Up half a pound. Hardly significant. Probably due to eating dinner in place of lunch. I just did that because I was out of bread and bananas.

Sat 5-13-06 [B L D]

Fri 5-12-06 [B L _]

Did it. Added Peanut Sauce to the dinner portion of the recipe. I don't use it so much for dark meat but I really like it for otherwise boring white meat. Even my teenage son likes it. Plus, it's simple to make. Last night I ran out so I made a double batch for tonight.

Also moved optional juice from dinner to breakfast as a standard item. I've rarely exercised the option to have juice with dinner, I miss it, I have about six jugs (bought on sale) and I'm concerned I'm not getting enough fruits and vegetables. Plus, I like the extra liquid in the morning best.

Chinese buffet dinner. Oh, well. At least I had a good appetite. I really enjoyed the food and didn't eat more than usual.

Thu 5-11-06 [B L D] 187

Dropping the fancy table format. Too much trouble, especially entering links in HTML. It goes against the simplicity of infogami so I'm switching to this format for now. I'll leave the old table entries for now.

Wed 5-11-06 [B L _]

Chinese for dinner, plus almost a whole package of Andes choclate mints. Tasted great while I was eating all of it. Only uncomfortably full afterward. Ugh, I had grapes and grape tomatoes in the fridge. Good reason not to keep candy in the house.

Watched The Weather Man (C).

Day	Date	Meals	Lbs	Comments	Movie
Tue	5.9.06	B L D
Mon	5.8.06	B L _	187	Ate some cake a friend brought me. It was her anniversary with her boyfriend so it was special. I had to eat some, right? Plus it was chocolate with raspberry in between layers and butter cream frosting. So I ate a third of what she gave me and the rest went to my skinny son. Then something weird happened. I lost consciousness and he wasn't much better off. I woke up alone on the couch. The TV was off and my son was in bed. I struggled to walk. Maybe it was the cake or maybe it was the yoga earlier. I was so into the yoga class, it was a very intense workout. Then, on the morning after, I noticed a large soup bowl was missing. My son had collected all the "garbage" from our meal. We eat on the floor, picnic style on a sheet of plastic made from a 39 gallon black yard bag, cut open and spread over the expensive rug. I knew what happened. I found the soup bowl, wrapped up with napkins, chicken bones and other trash in a big black wad in the trash. I asked my so and he has almost no memory of the evening. All he could piece together was that he made it to bed but skipped his shower. I think it was the cake that affected us both. No swim today. Pool being used to teach babies, yikes! I've gotten sick swimming after baby training classes before. I don't think it was a coincidence! Plus I don't think the classes are effective. When my kids were small I was the one to get training, in how to properly teach my kids to swim to swim with me. Weight is bake to 187. I think I was dehydrated yesterday. I felt unusually thirsty after yoga. Plus, on Sun, it's an extended two hour class.
Sun	5.7.06	B L _	185	I think I know what's upsetting my digestion. I ate 1/2 of the jar of natural peanut better in only two days. That's half a pound! So, what do I do next? Today I bought more natural peanut. This time in a plastic tub at the grocery deli. Ground fresh, this has the advantage that it does not require the initial vigorous stirring to mix Smucker's oil and peanut butter. The disadvantage is that it has even less taste and has the consistentcy of wet sand. My response... I ate even more today. I hope it's healthy. Soemthing unusual at the end of my swim today. Part of my ritual is to swim the last length of the pool, 25 yards, underwater while holding my breath. I don't even make it all the way. It's more of a quick test to get some objective feedback on my condition. I usually surface 3/4 of the way, before I become uncomfortable. Today was different though and I could feel it the moment I put my head underwater. I swam all the way in one breath! So... right away I start mentally listing all that has changed... Sky Line Chili, I just recovered from my cold, yesterday was my first day back at yoga, the Coke or... is it my new diet?!?! Desperate for a movie I saw a man burned alive and finger hacked off in The Hills Have Eyes. And those aren't the worst parts. Disturbing. Peanut sauce on chicken. I may add it to the diet but I still deviated tonight, ate last of the Easter candy. Finally weighed myself after yoga. Only 185? Makes me wonder if the scale is off.	C
Sat	5.6.06	B L _		My stomach was a little upset yesterday. Was it all the natural peanut butter? Or the bitter beer I had with dinner? I'm still eating the new peanut butter today. I have to keep moving forward. Coke on the way to Clearwater, Florida. I stopped to take a nap and bought the soda at a Burger King drive-thru partly out of an old habit of using a Coke to keep me awaye on long drives. There was some internal struggle though. I had the perfect 12.5 minute nap so part of me knew I would be fine without the drink. But any one sided behaviour like this diet seems to involve some back slidding, just to verify there isn't a better way. As soon as I got the Coke, drank a little then I was pretty disgusted and was tempted to toss it out the window while driving on the interstate. But there was too much traffic, it was broad daylight so I kept it and, natuarally, eventually finished it all. Hopefully this will now be something to remember that I don't need to repeat. Dinner on the balcony at Sky Line Chili with a beautiful view of the beach, the sun sparkling off of the Gulf of Mexico and lots of women in bikinis. Just one more reason why I had the Coke earlier. I knew where I was heading. Deep into my past.
Fri	5.5.06	B L D		Switched to Smucker's Natural creamy-style peanut butter. Mostly because I ran out of Jif. I bought the Smucker's a long time ago, with good intentions to some day eat something healthier than the lard-like shortning found to Jif. The Smucker's has much less flavor, a gritty consistently and yet I like it. Anything this unpleasant must be good for me. I'm switching my diet to recommend "natural" peanut butter. Watched About a Boy at home while eating dinner. Having a cold Miller went well with the show. The first time I saw this movie was at the end of a four week sabatical. I had just stayed at home since my life is already pretty much a constant vacation. But watching this show had made me determined to be an even bigger goof off. A day later I arranged for a massage, only the second one in my life. That would lead me to meet Ingrid and the one hour massage turned into three and my life would never be the same. But back to the movie... I've heard some people weren't thrilled with it, focusing on one particular character. I not only like it as a guide to the good life in solitude but I also like how the four or five main characters all struggle with the same issues, although each is out of step with the other, either in time or in their response. Not unlike Falling Down.	A
Thu	5.4.06	B L _		Drove to a local "Food Pantry" yesterday. They had a long row of bread racks along the front of the building with a hand painted sign saying "Limit: 3 loaves per family". I told my son to jump out and grab three for us. He glared at me. Just the place where I can donate all the stuff in my kitchen that I don't plan to eat. Mostly boxes of cereal and crackers that I had stocked up whenever I saw a good sale. It's surprising that I've gotten this far. Finished the Raisinets while watching Yin shi nan nu, the perfect diet movie.	A
Wed	5.3.06	B L D		Substituted banana and more peanut butter in place of rice and beans tonight. To avoid this being a deviation I'll just make this an official option. It will come in handy when I've forgotten to cook the rice in time for dinner.
Tue	5.2.06	B L D		Cut back milk from 12 oz. to 8 oz. Was feeling too full. Switched to Canadian Bacon. Better taste (almost as good as regular bacon) and small consistent serving size.
Mon	5.1.06	B L D
Sun	4.30.06	B L _		Ate some Raisinets while watching Basic Instinct 2. Makes me think of the short story, "It's A Good Life" by Jerome Bixby. In the movie Sharon Stone has complete power over everyone and she knows it. Well done, dark and, by the end of the show, she starts to take control of the audience too. If I was more masochistic I would have liked it better.	C
Sat	4.29.06	B L D		Must try... to eat... at home... before hitting the movies. Hmm, maybe not. I made it through Friends With Money with just a few cinnamon Altoids. I think it helps to watch a movie with reasonably good acting and writing that's not too interesting. I chose the movie just to see Joan Cusack, who I believe is Drew Barrymore's elder sister. She doesn't prove women get better, not older. She proves they don't have to (get better). What a goofball. I also like Frances McDormand. Supposedly she's a physical and mental wreck in the story. I think they could have done better, I found her reasonably attractive and sane. What's-her-name was her usual blank self. I guess it's all downhill after her most memorable and heartfelt line from Office Space when she said "I love Kung Fu". She does have one moment in the film but you have to wait for it, until the final 30 seconds. As a reward she gets the one male partner who's not obviously gay.	C
Fri	4.28.06	B L _		Same dinner as last night but watched Eight Below (chilly dogs) instead. What a mistake! Disney, ugh, I forgot who made this. Thirty minutes into film I decided to sneak next door to watch Slither again. Just then it became bearable and I, gulp, watched it all. One scene made me jump, scarier than anything in Slither. That's a plus. Otherwise this film is best watched on TV while sleeping on the couch.	D
Thu	4.27.06	B _ _		Lunch at Boston Market (think "BM") & two giant chocolate chip cookies. I felt dizzy 90 minutes later. McD cheesburgers, fries, Coke & Snickers all while watching Thank You for Smoking. Now I'm coming down with a cold. Tomorrow's another day.	C
Wed	4.26.06	B _ D		Cut back a little on breakfast, too full. A little homemade applesauce cake with lunch.
Tue	4.25.06	L B D	187	Too busy, swaped breakfast & lunch. First beer, seemed bitter.
Mon	4.24.06	B L D		Interesting effect, water goes right through me while on diet.
Sun	4.23.06	B L _	187	Sushi, chicken & chocolate brownie cookie for dinner.
Sat	4.22.06	B L _		Snickers while watching Slither. Fried chicken dinner later.	B
Fri	4.21.06	B L D		Watched Donnie Darko for the fourth time.	A
Thu	4.20.06	B L D	187	Added milk & chicken. I'm not hungry now.
Wed	4.19.06	B _ D		Lunch: 1/2 Ham & chees sub + left-over Easter chocolate.
Tue	4.18.06	B _ D	187	Hershey kisses before lunch.
Wed	4.17.06	B _ _	187

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