Diet Update

Forgot to post last Friday, but I DID keep track:

Workout: 30 minutes on the treadmill, no situps (not enough time)

Weigh-in: -22

Breakfast: Another can of drinkable Clam Chowder - 120 calories

Lunch: Went to a restaurant with a friend and found out once I got there that they had absolutely NO SEAFOOD CHOICES whatsoever. It was a new-york style deli called "The Metropolitan Deli". Since I was going to have to cheat no matter what I did, I went all out - NY Style Roast Beef on Rye with Lettuce, Tomato, Swiss Cheese, Roasted Peppers, and a little bit of Mayo. oh, man - if you are ever in Westford, MA and looking for a good sandwich, I highly recommend trying this place. If you order it "NY STYLE" they will pile it so high with meat you fill find that you have trouble getting your mouth around it. I don't know how many calories and I don't care.

Dinner: Broiled Haddock, baked potato, and corn. Probably 4-500 calories. Unfortunately I was so hungry that at midnight when my week was officially over, I had a chicken Salad Sandwich and polished off the rest of the Sea Salt'n Vinegar chips.

Oh yeah - and thanks to the person who saw me this weekend (wearing socks and sandals) and came up to me and said "Hey, nice socks". Nice to know people are reading this....

Now on to this week:

I feel like Chicken tonight
As I was deciding on the menu for this week, I was considering travelin guy's suggestion of red meat, but I am afraid that having just recently gotten back on track, I might get tempted to eat too many double-cheeseburgers and quickly derail myself once again. However, it did get me thinking and I decided to do a chicken week.

Of course, that lasted until lunchtime when I went downstairs to the cafeteria and quickly discovered they did not have anything in the chicken realm that looked the least bit appetizing - but the deli special was a delicious-looking turkey sandwich, so I quickly adjusted the menu to include ALL BIRDS - since they pretty much all taste like chicken anyway.

Workout: I skipped my workout this morning because I needed to get to work early and because I have a softball game today, which I WAS planning to count as my workout. Every time I have done this in the last two weeks has proven to be a mistake. I always end up missing the game due to weather or some personal reason and therefore lose the workout. Fingers crossed but we'll see how the day goes.

Weigh-in: Forgot to weigh in this morning, but I DID do an unusual weekend weigh-in yesterday which was -24. I'm pretty sure this is a new low. I may have gotten close about 3 weeks ago before my hiatus, but I don't think I did any better than -23 and frankly I'm way too lazy to go through the archives and check. Anyway, it still feels pretty good.

Breakfast: As usual, I chose my week's menu with absolutely no planning ahead, so I had to get breakfast at the gas station where I filled up my car. You may be surprised to know that there are very few chicken based breakfast foods available at a gas station, so I had to settle for a Chicken Quesedilla Hot Pocket.



I will probably not choose this option in the future. It really wasn't that tasty. Maybe it was because I microwaved it instead of baked it, but if you can't microwave a hot pocket, why bother eating one in the first place? If I had 20 minutes to wait for one to cook in a conventional oven, I would have made myself something better.... anyway, it did NOT have a "great tortilla taste" as advertised on the packaging. What it had was a doughy, stale taste - and furthermore there was very little chicken in it. At 520 calories, I felt ripped off.

Lunch: Smoked Turkey with a sun-dried tomato Garlic spread, swiss cheese, carmelized onions, lettuce and Tomato on a delicous baguette roll. I'm guessing about 500 Calories. The sandwich was delicious, but in an effort to be good I chose the pretzels over the potato chips and was promptly rewarded with a broken tooth for my efforts.

Dinner: My lovely wife made Chicken Divan for me. This is not a particularly low-fat dish, but it's got broccoli so it must be good for you. The real problem is that is one of my favorite dishes and I usually have trouble limiting myself to a single plate. Tonight I succeeded, though - telling myself if I don't eat it all in one sitting I can enjoy it for breakfast tomorrow. Not sure how many calories, but it can't be that bad.

Total for the Day: 1020 Calories + Chicken Divan.