Serious Fat

Saturday, November 2, 2013

I have been unable to maintain any kind of discipline.  The results have been horrific.  I will weigh in tomorrow morning for the bad news, but I know that I have gained weight at an alarming rate.  My midsection is much bigger around than it was six months ago, or even in July.  NEED to do something about it.  So:  Try again.

Simple rules:  No sugar.  No fast food.  No pizza.  Minimize starch.  Eat real food.  Eat at home, or when eating out choose breakfast foods, salads, etc.  This isn't rocket science.

Breakfast:  All meat omelette, 2 slices sourdough toast with butter, coffee

I could have done without the toast.  And I think I'm going to switch to a different omelette.  On the bright side, I didn't eat it all ... because I was full.

Lunch:  Spicy beans with turkey.  I also had more coffee during the morning.

Not the best batch of beans ever - more watery than gravy-y

This has become a standby.  It is so easy to jar pints of beans and stick them in the freezer.  What I really hope to do is to do a batch of beans or soup or chili each week and stock the freezer - I should use them up at about that pace so it should work out nicely.   I can skip a week from time to time to reduce any excess inventory.  And I can let the stuff cook while I'm doing weekly cleaning stuff or watching football.

Dinner:  ~ 8 oz grass fed NY Strip steak, mashed potatoes with milk, butter and sour cream, green beans

Yumm-O !

 The quality of meat makes such a difference.  Even though the steak was undercooked just a bit (on the border between blue rare and rare instead of rare/medium rare as I prefer it) it was very good.  I got a little carried away with the potatoes - I had 3 small russets left from a couple weeks ago so I used them up, it was more than enough for 2 servings.  I am ... full!

Snacks:  ~ 2 oz dill jack cheese

Exercise:  I actually woke up early enough to walk this morning.  I didn't and I'm slightly ashamed by that.  In fairness it was cold and raining and I had not organized my rain gear or cold weather gear.  So I'm doing that now in order to not have that excuse tomorrow.  I am getting in some movement cleaning the house and I'll walk around the grocery store later.