Day 2 (Sunday 12/16/07)

After a successful day 1, let's see if I can build some momentum. So far, this is fun.

Breakfast: Ahh, the joy of weekends. I took a whopping twenty minutes or so to make breakfast. Even though I can certainly spare the time during the week, I always feel too pressed for time to do anything like this.

Anyway, what you have here is 2 eggs scrambled with another 3 oz or so of Spam and some diced green peppers and onions. A small pat of butter in the pan before the onions went in and a little pepper on the finished product. On the side is a little grapefruit and a mug of black coffee. Absolutely delicious.

I should mention that I'm not enough of a glutton for punishment to actually dice up a green pepper and an onion for this. Instead, I used pre-diced frozen versions. Our local supermarket sells them this way - if you watch for a sale you can get them for a buck or less each. In hot dishes, they work out beautifully. Less effort, less waste.



Lunch: The hazards of not eating at home. Went to a birthday party. For a main course, a small bowl of "chili" and two open face turkey sandwiches. Just turkey and a slice of cheese.





And you can't have a party without cake. No, I did NOT eat the whole thing. That would be rude. I did have a piece with a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream.

It was pretty good cake, although it really set off the hunger pangs a little while later. Sugar is not my friend.





And somewhere in there, I had several (at least six) handfuls of homemade Chex mix. Chex mix is like kryptonite to me. Love the stuff, even though I know it's no good. Aargh.










Dinner: Back to normalcy. They had a great deal on ham at the store this week, so I bought one. Biggest ham I've ever purchased - about 6 pounds. The whole hams were less than the half hams, about the same as the quarters. Guess I'm going to be eating a ton of ham this week!

Oh, yeah, I couldn't eat all that. I ate the full slice but couldn't touch the half. On the side was just some green beans out of a can. Pretty tasty. Water to drink.

Day 2 is in the books!

A New Beginning, Day 1 (12/15/07)

Let's try this again. I kind of misplaced my password to this thing and life also got in the way of posting. Anyway, the basic premise is that I take pictures of what I eat and post them. It's a way of keeping myself accountable.

Anyway, here are today's eats:

Breakfast: No picture. I was reorganizing my computer stuff, so I didn't get one. Anyway, it wasn't anything exciting. I was going to have a plate of scrambled eggs and Spam, but my eggs were older than I'd like so I just had about 3 oz. of Spam. And a small bowl of grapefruit.

Um, no, I'm not going to win any awards for dietary excellence. I went to the store later.


Lunch: Just a couple of simple oven roasted chicken drumsticks. I did sprinkle a little garlic power and Italian seasoning on them before baking, but since I ate almost none of the skin it really didn't matter. They were OK, nothing more. Next time I try and jazz it up a bit.

I've got a couple left over - cold chicken is usually pretty good. Here's hoping anyway.







Dinner: This was both easy and very good. I got a small piece of chuck steak (roast, whatever, it was labeled as steak), sliced it up and threw it in the slow cooker with a small can of Ro-Tel (diced tomatoes with green chiles). It just cooked away all afternoon and came out delicious with the addition of a little salt.

Not a very exciting day, was it? A little short on veggies. As always, I'll try to do better tomorrow.

I only had water to drink today. Tomorrow I might break out the coffeemaker - I don't usually drink coffee, but since I'm trying to not drink soda it might be necessary. I didn't miss the caffeine today but tomorrow might be another story.

While I'm typing away, one more thing. Although I could stand to lose quite a bit of weight, I am not on a diet. Not a particular one, anyway. I'm hoping to cut out a lot of the sugars and starches and processed crap and actually cook more. It may not happen - cooking for one is a pain especially with a high-stress, time consuming job.

Until next time.