Saturday Food

Breakfast:

• None

Lunch:

• Catfish sandwich on whole wheat bun at Red Butte
• Potato chips
• Fruit
• Coke

Snack:

• yogurt

Dinner (halloween party):

• Chili with cheese and sour cream
• chips and guacamole
• chocolate chip cookie

Didn't walk today.

Today's Food

Breakfast:

• VMHC

Lunch:

• Leftover spaghetti with mushroom sauce
• pineapple
• yogurt
• a few crackers
• half a Choxie chocolate bar

Dinner (my wife and I cooked):

• Chicken piccata
• mashed potatoes
• asparagus
• milk
• ice cream

We walked the usual route.

Food of the day

Breakfast:

VMHC

Lunch:

I had intended to meet a friend at Mazza, but she bailed on me. So I went to “old reliable” – Red Butte Café – and had the salmon special. I really like Red Butte Café, and they do really good salmon specials. I’ve often wished they’d sell a cookbook with their salmon recipes in it. The specials change every couple weeks or so. Today’s was

• pistachio-crusted salmon
• orange-cumin lentils & yellow raisins
• asparagus and wilted spinach

It was rather tasty. Of course, there’s the bread that comes with it, and I couldn’t help but get a chocolate chip cookie for dessert. I drank water instead of my usual Dr. P or Coke.

Dinner:

• Whole wheat spaghetti with mushroom cream sauce (homemade)
• mixed greens with "vegan caesar" dressing
• wheat bread with almond butter
• milk
• half a twix bar

I did the usual walk.

Today's Menu

Breakfast:

• my usual vending machine hot chocolate, which shall be known as VMHC from now on

Lunch:

• Minestrone soup
• Salad with fruit, nuts, & poppyseed viniagrette
• yogurt
• can Dr. P

Snack:

• banana
• Doritos

Dinner:

• Panda Express Shrimp and steamed rice (Not my first choice, but I was in a hurry before I went to the Warren Miller movie)

Dessert:

• Apple spice cake at my mom's after the movie (yum)

I didn't walk, since I was at the movie and didn't get home until late.

Today's Menu

Breakfast

• Vending machine hot chocolate

Lunch

• Salad (leftovers from last night)
• Pita and hummus
• Yogurt
• Dr. Pepper

Dinner

• Fish taco, rice, beans from Lone Star Taqueria
• Dr. Pepper

Walked - the usual route.

What I ate today

Breakfast:

• Vending machine hot chocolate at work (free, and I don't usually eat breakfast - I'm not usually hungry)

Lunch/snack:

• Minestrone soup (homemade)
• BBQ potato chips
• Whole wheat bagel
• Peanut butter
• Some fresh pineapple
• Yoplait Light yogurt
• Can Dr. Pepper

Dinner:

• Salad (greens, onions, apples, grapes, walnuts, celery, blue cheese dressing)
• Whole wheat pita
• Hummus
• Chocolate brownie with nuts
• Glass of 1% milk

Did I walk? Yes. The usual route.

This morning I weighed 165 lbs.

Introduction

The other night while walking my dog, I was thinking about lots of things. One of these things was what I eat. And I like to eat. When I visit a city for the first time, one of the things I do is figure out where to eat. Zagat is my friend. Luckily, I've been blessed with a good metabolism, so I've never been really overweight. But, I've definitely been (and still am) out of shape at various times in my life.

I'm 6 feet tall, and at my heaviest, I weighed about 200 lbs. That was about 2 years ago. My weight and "fitness" have drifted around over the years due to various reasons, including lack of exercise, diet, stress, knee injury (and surgeries), laziness, commitments to family & work, etc. I won't bore you with the details. Most recently, I've lost about 35 pounds. The only reasons I can come up with are that my last job was stressful, I sort of started eating better, and occasionally exercised. I didn't diet, or anything really drastic at all. However, in the last year, my cholesterol has stayed about the same, most recently at 228. My blood pressure is ok, hovering around 120/80.

So, I decided to try to cut back on meat. I didn't want to go vegetarian (because I like meat), and I didn't want to get all strict about it. So I decided to try to limit myself to some extent, but stay flexible if necessary. Turns out, there's a name for that: flexitarian. So I decided that in my version, I would try to eat poultry and meat only once each every week. I decided that I can eat as much seafood as I want, since I think fish is good for you. I also hope to walk the dog at least 5 days a week. Our usual walk is about 2 miles.

This blog is for me to track the process and record what I eat, how I feel, and what I think of the whole thing. I unofficially started last week, and I was pretty successful, but I didn't record what I ate. So, I'm starting now.