It's been a while.
Still doing the diet although I've been bad a few times. Last week went to the movies a lot and had nachos a total of some 3 or 4 times. Had 2 slices of pizza from Wild Oats too.
On Wednesday and Thursday I was working really close to some restaurants and since I had not packed a lunch I couldn't resist. I had Indian food on Wed and Chinese on Thu. First restaurant food.
Last night on the way to DJ a milonga I stopped at a Taco Bell and had some tacos - first fast food in two weeks.
So yea I dj'd last night. Little over 5 hours. I've a question, though. I've always been super self-conscious about smelling.. be it sweat.. my breath.. or my clothing (one of my cats peed on one of my shirts once and I didn't notice it until I started sweating and the odor started coming out). Several of the very few women I did dance with had very bad breath. Nice ladies I've known a long time.. but I just can't get around to telling them that their breath makes me nauseous... how could I? How could I let some of these ladies know of this problem in a politically correct way that doesn't offend them and before it gets so bad I don't want to dance with them anymore.
Out of the 26 full sets and half a dozen alternatives I played I only danced 8 sets myself. It's lame how slim my pickings are in my home state. I've danced many times more out-of-state this year than in-state. Many times more. Portland, Alaska, New York, Atlanta, W.D.C...
One good news was, though, that one follow that used to date someone, that effectively placed her outside the radar of acceptable follows, now no longer dates this person, and is again available to be asked, and she isn't half bad.
Gawd.. trying to tolerate my mom on an IM.. she doesn't get it through her head that caps is yelling.. it raises my bloodpressure to read all caps all the time.
Ta.
Showing posts with label Diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diet. Show all posts
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Diet morning of day 5
Time is flying by although I was bored as hell all day yesterday. I didn't want to work so I was left with very little to do, especially since Ms.Spain was stuck at work all night and we couldn't video conference.
I started this morning with the soy vegan chorizo (1 link is about 7-8 inches long and 1-1.5 inches in diameter), about 4 egg's worth of egg whites scrambled, and a handful of soy cheddar "cheese", with a dash of hot sauce. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM it was sooooooooooooo good. I had to fight hard not to inhale it but at the same time I am feeling that maybe I wasn't quite ready for "processed" food. I should have maybe waited another day or so. Oh well.
We'll see how I'll feel today and how long feeling full from this will last.
Ta.
I started this morning with the soy vegan chorizo (1 link is about 7-8 inches long and 1-1.5 inches in diameter), about 4 egg's worth of egg whites scrambled, and a handful of soy cheddar "cheese", with a dash of hot sauce. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM it was sooooooooooooo good. I had to fight hard not to inhale it but at the same time I am feeling that maybe I wasn't quite ready for "processed" food. I should have maybe waited another day or so. Oh well.
We'll see how I'll feel today and how long feeling full from this will last.
Ta.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Day 3 of diet.
Here we are.. day 3. Starting to feel a little bit better.. not so woozy anymore but darn hungry. it was very difficult to walk the isles at Whole Foods with all the yummy things that are available and on display. I got me a small cup of hot organic split pea soup and oh it was sooooo goood. Since it was a small portion (at least historically for me), I ate it very slowly and indulged in all the subtleties of the flavors. Split pea soap was the best that they had for me right now (least carbs in any form).
I avoided, as much as possibly, to buy anything with even pure cane sugar in it, or even dextrose (maltodextrin - a corn or potato derived long-chain carbohydrate).
Just for shits and giggles here's what I bought today:
"Pure" 's Blond Macaroons - organic coconut "cookies" with no sugar or carbs added for next week
"Pure" 's Grawnola - sort of granola chunks, also for later next week.
1 packet of Miso soup with seaweed - the only brand I found with no dextrose added.
2 cans of split pea soap with organic german mustard
Cans of dolphin-friendly wild caught albacore tuna and red Alaskan sammon and tongol tuna
Some Italian dressing for the spinach I got yesterday from Sam's
A bag of bing cherries
small box of grape tomatoes
4 kiwi
4 red apples
bunch of bananas - mainly to mix with the whole milk Bulgarian acidophilus and maybe with shakes.
Red small grapes - I'm having some right now.. little bombs of flavor; so powerful
A cantaloupe melon
small box of blueberries to mix with the shake
2 small jars of egg whites to go with the soy chorizo and soy/rice cheeses I got for breakfast starting maybe Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
3 bottles of Kombucha; a Chinese cultured tea
1 bottle of Pomegranate juice.
That's it. My goal is and has been to avoid all carbs not derived from the veggies or fruit I eat or have eaten. The shakes provide with more than adequate amount of long-chained carbs for energy. It is merely a matter of breaking the habit and addiction for processed white sugar and other forms of short-chained carbs. I am constantly hungry but I am eating and eating a lot. It is just my body trying to trick me into feeding it what it's used to. It has to find an alternative source for energy and stop storing fat.
On Friday night my blood pressure shot up through the roof as my body was realizing the shock of lacking sugar. My face was as red as a Yule ornament and there was this uncomfortable pressure behind my eyes and in my sinal cavities. Pretty common occurrence, actually, and not something to worry too much about.
I did a 5-hour glucose test at a hospital a year and a half ago, when I was having bad bouts of low blood sugar induced by my poor diet. This, of course, is one of the early indicators and signs of diabetes and a flash of light to change your diet. I did fine for a while but dropped it like a bad habit. Well anyway you go to the hospital in the morning having not eaten or drunk since the previous night. You drink a glucose mix and they take your blood and a urine test every 30 minutes; normally only for 3 hours but I wanted to do 6 from a book I had read about low-glucose, and they settled on a 5-hour one. Well by around the 4th hour, having already gone through shakes, shivers, cold sweat, and tremors and what ever else, my blood pressure started to shoot up.. I actually had to stay an extra hour after we stopped taking blood and urine because it wouldn't go down. It finally started dropping around the 6th hour to the point where they released me. I wasn't very worried since I knew what it was all about, as was my physician when I saw him the following day, but ER docs wanna pump drugs into you to bring the pressure down. I was wise to decline them and to just wait for the pressure to go down.
Ta.
I avoided, as much as possibly, to buy anything with even pure cane sugar in it, or even dextrose (maltodextrin - a corn or potato derived long-chain carbohydrate).
Just for shits and giggles here's what I bought today:
"Pure" 's Blond Macaroons - organic coconut "cookies" with no sugar or carbs added for next week
"Pure" 's Grawnola - sort of granola chunks, also for later next week.
1 packet of Miso soup with seaweed - the only brand I found with no dextrose added.
2 cans of split pea soap with organic german mustard
Cans of dolphin-friendly wild caught albacore tuna and red Alaskan sammon and tongol tuna
Some Italian dressing for the spinach I got yesterday from Sam's
A bag of bing cherries
small box of grape tomatoes
4 kiwi
4 red apples
bunch of bananas - mainly to mix with the whole milk Bulgarian acidophilus and maybe with shakes.
Red small grapes - I'm having some right now.. little bombs of flavor; so powerful
A cantaloupe melon
small box of blueberries to mix with the shake
2 small jars of egg whites to go with the soy chorizo and soy/rice cheeses I got for breakfast starting maybe Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
3 bottles of Kombucha; a Chinese cultured tea
1 bottle of Pomegranate juice.
That's it. My goal is and has been to avoid all carbs not derived from the veggies or fruit I eat or have eaten. The shakes provide with more than adequate amount of long-chained carbs for energy. It is merely a matter of breaking the habit and addiction for processed white sugar and other forms of short-chained carbs. I am constantly hungry but I am eating and eating a lot. It is just my body trying to trick me into feeding it what it's used to. It has to find an alternative source for energy and stop storing fat.
On Friday night my blood pressure shot up through the roof as my body was realizing the shock of lacking sugar. My face was as red as a Yule ornament and there was this uncomfortable pressure behind my eyes and in my sinal cavities. Pretty common occurrence, actually, and not something to worry too much about.
I did a 5-hour glucose test at a hospital a year and a half ago, when I was having bad bouts of low blood sugar induced by my poor diet. This, of course, is one of the early indicators and signs of diabetes and a flash of light to change your diet. I did fine for a while but dropped it like a bad habit. Well anyway you go to the hospital in the morning having not eaten or drunk since the previous night. You drink a glucose mix and they take your blood and a urine test every 30 minutes; normally only for 3 hours but I wanted to do 6 from a book I had read about low-glucose, and they settled on a 5-hour one. Well by around the 4th hour, having already gone through shakes, shivers, cold sweat, and tremors and what ever else, my blood pressure started to shoot up.. I actually had to stay an extra hour after we stopped taking blood and urine because it wouldn't go down. It finally started dropping around the 6th hour to the point where they released me. I wasn't very worried since I knew what it was all about, as was my physician when I saw him the following day, but ER docs wanna pump drugs into you to bring the pressure down. I was wise to decline them and to just wait for the pressure to go down.
Ta.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Time to turn over a new leaf - Day 1.
I have finally reached the point where I can no longer look at myself in the mirror. It is time to pounce it action and to reclaim my body. I made a decision last night during my two hour commute home that I was going to start eating less and healthier. This also means starting to take supplements to get the ball rolling.
I've put on quite a bit of weight in the last 2 years having gone through two breakups in that time and having eaten partly out of depression. Also, my activity levels have consistently decreased over the last 12 years and my metabolism has slowed.
I used to play Football and work out/lift weights 4-5 times a week on top of that. I was even in the Junior National Team for my country 3 times; I played Inside Linebacker and sometimes Iron-Manned offensive line as a guard.. I'm even responsible for breaking someone's thigh bone by doing a crab block on him with the Center :P It was quite unintentional, though, and the victim was actually a semi-friend with us and a future team mate.
I've gone from that, to just working out, but when I moved to the US, I began framing and that was very hard work. So eventually working out kind of petered-out, as well. Since then I've also moved to easier work/jobs that burns considerably less calories.
I've gone from rock-climbing 4 times a week to not having done it in years. I did Kendo for 8-months twice a week but busy schedule also terminated that love. It was really harsh on my feet as climbing was harsh on my hands and arms. I'm built too much like a linebacker to really ever be really good at either.
Before and during the beginning phases of Tango I was doing Ballroom dancing 3-5 times a week. That dropped eventually in favor of Tango.. the form of dancing that burns the least calories of the dances, lol.
So today.. and the last few years.. dancing Argentine Tango has really been my only exercise.
Now.. dancing is and can be good exercise but not alone and by itself. But busy schedule, tight budget, etc, all conspire against trying to start another program or activity. 4-5 years ago I bought a few year membership to Bally's and I went like 6 times in 2 years. I won't waste money like that again knowing that on a very short notice I might spend half the month out-of-state and on the road.
So I've decided to start a diet that initially will be built on the back of Myoplex shakes. I used the protein shakes when I was still working out and out of the many different brads I always liked these the best. I also intend to only buy groceries I never buy or that go bad if I do.. vedgetables and fruit. I have the interest and the motivation to burn off what I've put on as quickly as possible. Later down the road I intend to reinstitute more physical activities to assist in this goal. For right now, though, I need to accomplish the weight loss by way of my diet. Get back on the schedule of eating small and often.. 5-7 times a day versus what I've been doing last few months.. eating only once or twice a day and then gorging myself with crap.
And what has really bugged me the most about my diet and weight gain is that I know how good I look and feel when I am in shape.. and I also know exactly what to eat but I always revert back to the American TV-culture-diet. When I was playing football I even went through weeks of measuring everything to the gram to figure out what my intake was and to figure out how many calories I was burning each day. Back then it was 2,600 calories to maintain muscle and to slowly burn fat. These days I might pound in 5,000 calories in a day, easy.
I'm 6'-2" and currently weight 240 lbs. Now, all my life I've been outside the "normal" weight for someone my height and that is mostly due to muscle and bone density. I could never weight 180 or under and never have. I did weigh 190-195 when I was thin(ner) and much younger and I was a lean machine.
I believe that today with the muscle mass, or rather lack of it, my ideal weight would be between 200 and 210 lbs. I don't care, per se, how much I weigh as long as that weight is in muscle, but that isn't and is not going to be the case anytime in the near future. Muscle outweighs fat cells by a ratio of 9 to 5.
I thought about starting heavy and just doing shakes but I won't and shouldn't do more than 2 myoplex shakes per day or I'll be overloading on protein and that is bad too. I just need to make every other mean a banana/apple, etc. The first few days and the first week will be the hardest.. I remember when I did a 3-day fast and worked myself into it for a week by limiting my input and went completely organic and veggies and fruit only, and found out that after a certain amount of time things get easier. The 3rd day of the fast is also the best feeling one.. I didn't want to do a longer fast as I needed lots of calories and energy those days to support my work style and schedule. I, of course, ruined the benefits of the fast by breaking it with a huge meal of eggs, sausage, and pancakes >.< Oh well.
Feeling a little woozy right now and it's probably from starting heavy with the metabolism boost that has caffeine in it this morning. Caffeine from like soda never does anything for me and has never for example kept me up at night, but taken in an empty stomach can and has in the past put me in a weird flux. I tried some caffeine pills once to try and stay awake after a milonga in Denver for the hour and a half drive home but those made me seriously sick - I was hungry and dehydrated after the milonga. I'm actually online right now just to settle in on the feeling and let the shake I had an hour and a half early settle in and do it's job before heading down to the basement for work. I'm up in the mountains doing some trim carpentry in a house I trimmed out a year and a half-2 years ago. A little sidejob project. Certainly the thin air contributes to my feeling as well. First day is always a little off at an elevation of 10,000 feet above Sea Level.
Now.. the trick is to keep this diet going for the next few months is going to be a bear of a challenge. I hope to get the support I need to keep at it - or better yet.. quick results to keep me motivated. We'll see how much 'middle-age' has changed my metabolism.
Ta.
I've put on quite a bit of weight in the last 2 years having gone through two breakups in that time and having eaten partly out of depression. Also, my activity levels have consistently decreased over the last 12 years and my metabolism has slowed.
I used to play Football and work out/lift weights 4-5 times a week on top of that. I was even in the Junior National Team for my country 3 times; I played Inside Linebacker and sometimes Iron-Manned offensive line as a guard.. I'm even responsible for breaking someone's thigh bone by doing a crab block on him with the Center :P It was quite unintentional, though, and the victim was actually a semi-friend with us and a future team mate.
I've gone from that, to just working out, but when I moved to the US, I began framing and that was very hard work. So eventually working out kind of petered-out, as well. Since then I've also moved to easier work/jobs that burns considerably less calories.
I've gone from rock-climbing 4 times a week to not having done it in years. I did Kendo for 8-months twice a week but busy schedule also terminated that love. It was really harsh on my feet as climbing was harsh on my hands and arms. I'm built too much like a linebacker to really ever be really good at either.
Before and during the beginning phases of Tango I was doing Ballroom dancing 3-5 times a week. That dropped eventually in favor of Tango.. the form of dancing that burns the least calories of the dances, lol.
So today.. and the last few years.. dancing Argentine Tango has really been my only exercise.
Now.. dancing is and can be good exercise but not alone and by itself. But busy schedule, tight budget, etc, all conspire against trying to start another program or activity. 4-5 years ago I bought a few year membership to Bally's and I went like 6 times in 2 years. I won't waste money like that again knowing that on a very short notice I might spend half the month out-of-state and on the road.
So I've decided to start a diet that initially will be built on the back of Myoplex shakes. I used the protein shakes when I was still working out and out of the many different brads I always liked these the best. I also intend to only buy groceries I never buy or that go bad if I do.. vedgetables and fruit. I have the interest and the motivation to burn off what I've put on as quickly as possible. Later down the road I intend to reinstitute more physical activities to assist in this goal. For right now, though, I need to accomplish the weight loss by way of my diet. Get back on the schedule of eating small and often.. 5-7 times a day versus what I've been doing last few months.. eating only once or twice a day and then gorging myself with crap.
And what has really bugged me the most about my diet and weight gain is that I know how good I look and feel when I am in shape.. and I also know exactly what to eat but I always revert back to the American TV-culture-diet. When I was playing football I even went through weeks of measuring everything to the gram to figure out what my intake was and to figure out how many calories I was burning each day. Back then it was 2,600 calories to maintain muscle and to slowly burn fat. These days I might pound in 5,000 calories in a day, easy.
I'm 6'-2" and currently weight 240 lbs. Now, all my life I've been outside the "normal" weight for someone my height and that is mostly due to muscle and bone density. I could never weight 180 or under and never have. I did weigh 190-195 when I was thin(ner) and much younger and I was a lean machine.
I believe that today with the muscle mass, or rather lack of it, my ideal weight would be between 200 and 210 lbs. I don't care, per se, how much I weigh as long as that weight is in muscle, but that isn't and is not going to be the case anytime in the near future. Muscle outweighs fat cells by a ratio of 9 to 5.
I thought about starting heavy and just doing shakes but I won't and shouldn't do more than 2 myoplex shakes per day or I'll be overloading on protein and that is bad too. I just need to make every other mean a banana/apple, etc. The first few days and the first week will be the hardest.. I remember when I did a 3-day fast and worked myself into it for a week by limiting my input and went completely organic and veggies and fruit only, and found out that after a certain amount of time things get easier. The 3rd day of the fast is also the best feeling one.. I didn't want to do a longer fast as I needed lots of calories and energy those days to support my work style and schedule. I, of course, ruined the benefits of the fast by breaking it with a huge meal of eggs, sausage, and pancakes >.< Oh well.
Feeling a little woozy right now and it's probably from starting heavy with the metabolism boost that has caffeine in it this morning. Caffeine from like soda never does anything for me and has never for example kept me up at night, but taken in an empty stomach can and has in the past put me in a weird flux. I tried some caffeine pills once to try and stay awake after a milonga in Denver for the hour and a half drive home but those made me seriously sick - I was hungry and dehydrated after the milonga. I'm actually online right now just to settle in on the feeling and let the shake I had an hour and a half early settle in and do it's job before heading down to the basement for work. I'm up in the mountains doing some trim carpentry in a house I trimmed out a year and a half-2 years ago. A little sidejob project. Certainly the thin air contributes to my feeling as well. First day is always a little off at an elevation of 10,000 feet above Sea Level.
Now.. the trick is to keep this diet going for the next few months is going to be a bear of a challenge. I hope to get the support I need to keep at it - or better yet.. quick results to keep me motivated. We'll see how much 'middle-age' has changed my metabolism.
Ta.
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