On Thursday I'll be leaving town for five days, so I'll be curious to see how well I'll do eating out at restaurants. I used to have mad dining-out skills I learned from my weight-reduction Bible Lean and Mean by Dr. Morton Shaevitz, a book written especially for simple-minded men, who don't want to spend a great deal of time planning meals, weighing portions, and counting exchanges. Actually as a compulsive type I don't mind counting exchanges, but Lean and Mean is still an excellent resource.
Breakfast, for which I actually had time today, was a bowl of shredded wheat with soy milk, and a banana, a combined total I think of around 400 calories. I no longer have the cereal box so I can't ascertain the exact breakdown of the cereal. I bought the cereal at Sam's Club in a huge two-bagger, and as soon as I finished the first bag threw the box away.
I've got one day down and did quite well--let's go for two.
I'll commence my exercise regime as soon as I return from my trip. By then I should have my dietary discipline well in hand. I think the trip should be a good test of my determination. There will be lots of pressures on me to succumb to temptation.
I also just noticed today is the first of February, the worst month of the year. I hate February. It's a sulky, cold, bitter, useless month. Nothing good ever comes of it. I wrote a poem in High School about it:
February is the Unshaven Month.
It lays around in a tattered gray shirt
Too dispirited to even finish
A full thirty days.
Which pretty much sums it up.
Let me keep the running food tally here:
Bowl of cereal with banana: +- 400 cals
Lunch: The other half of the Subway Tuna Sandwich 540 cals
Cliff bar: 185 Cals
Mid-day Total == 1125 cals.
Leaving me 900 cals +- for dinner. I know exactly what I'll have I think.
Update: And I did: I had an Amy's Mexican dinner, 340 Cals and a banana, 125 cals. total for dinner 440 cals.
Snack: 2 waffles with margarine: 300 cals
Total for today = +- 1900 cals.
So for so good; this isn't very hard at all.
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