The Incredible, Edible Egg (Diet Log: Week 6, Day 1)

I was planning an article about placing blame for my weight problem on Holidays, and if you're going to blame a holiday, Easter is a good one for me. I love eggs in just about any form - but especially deviled. I also Much prefer Ham over turkey and Potato salad is way better than stuffing or mashed potatoes, so for that reason Easter is (for me) way more dangerous than say Thanksgiving or even Christmas. However, it occurred to me that blaming Easter for my weight problem would be tantamount to blaming Jesus for my problems - which I certainly don't want to do, even in jest. So I decided that for this week only, I will take responsibility for my own problems.

In honor of Easter, though, (and because we have 4 dozen hard-boiled eggs in our refrigerator that need to be used up) I have decided to make this EGG WEEK. Now, an egg has approximately 76 calories, so if I go with ONLY eggs, I would need to consume over 26 of them per day to fill up a 2000 calorie diet. This would be fine with me except that each one contains approx 200mg of cholesterol. 26 eggs would be 5200 mg which is approximately 18 TIMES more than the daily limit. I don't think I have a cholesterol problem, but I don't want to start one either, so I will expand the diet a little bit to dishes FEATURING eggs. I realize this is actually a pretty big list so we'll see how it works out.

Workout: 40 minutes on the treadmill. I Cut the workout a little short today because I had to go wake my son up. When I got off, I realized he was already up, but it didn't make sense to get back on for 5 more minutes. I started to do pushups and situps, but the dog would not leave me alone, so I gave up after 20 pushups.

Weigh-in: I felt fat from my Easter feast yesterday, so I opted to skip the weigh-in this morning. No news is good news!

Breakfast: 2 pea-green hardboiled eggs. They were the colors that only a 3-yr old makes when he decides to dip his eggs in several different colors. I got a little frightened when I looked up on this website I go to a lot and discovered that a serving was over 200 calories. Naturally, I had assumed that 1 serving of hard-boiled eggs was 1 egg. How silly of of me. Their idea of a serving was one-cup chopped - which is actually a lot of egg. Turns out a single hard-boiled egg is only about 76 calories. Total Calories: 152.

Lunch: Went to the cafeteria here at work and ordered egg salad on a tomato wrap. The sign posted says it is 58 calories per oz, and I'm guessing there are about 6 oz. of egg salad. I also had lettuce and tomato on it. Then I had a dilemma - Included in the price is always a handful of chips. You can decline the chips if you want, but it doesn't save you any money. Anybody who knows me knows that I have this driving need to always get my money's worth, so it is totall against my nature to turn something down that is in fact already paid for. Fortunately, today, the lunch lady helped noticed my hesitation and offere instead a "salad" that she had made out of cucumbers and tomatos and some sort of light vinagarette dressing. I gladly accepted a small serving of that in lieu of the chips. Anyway, the calories for the lunch are about 400.

Dinner: Two more Egg Salad Sandwiches (w lettuce and Tomato), with some pasta w/Alfredo sauce on the side (Alfredo sauce has eggs in it). Calories: about 650

Total for the day: 1202