Super Mango Chicken-o-Matic?

The story today isn't really my lbs. I've been having trouble getting two meals under control--breakfast, the most important meal of the day, and lunch, my favorite meal of the day. I thought I had breakfast down pat, but, as it turns out, the lack of structure of the summer is harder to deal with than the hyper-structure of the other three seasons. So, I'm trying to add a little bit of mealtime structure back to my schedule. Today is the first day of the newly structured meal plan.

Breakfast:  bowl of Cheerios, cup of blackberries, and a cup of skimmed milk. The book I'm reading, The 4-Hour Body, suggests eating more for breakfast, and I'm good with that, believe me. But, I'm not as clear on what to eat.  Ferriss suggests three hard-boiled eggs. Can't do that. Nope. Ick. Next he suggests low-fat meat. For a few months several years ago, I ate a chicken breast for breakfast. That's not bad. It gets a little boring, but that's probably okay. His third suggestion was the protein shake.

Okay, I'm trying to drink one of those right now. I bought it at the grocery store yesterday. It's a mango flavored Mix One enhanced protein shake. It has a lot of sugar, so I was reluctant to buy it. I'm trying not to drink calories, another Ferriss suggestion, and one that I like a lot. Easy to remember and pretty easy to do. The taste, smell, and mouth-feel are killing me. This is like trying to down medicinal mango, sidewalk chalk, and Golytely colonoscopy preparation drink.

Tomorrow, I'm going back to chicken--easy to prepare and delicious. Breakfast is going to look a lot more like lunch. Perhaps, this is a sign. I love a good Mexican breakfast. The problem is the making of it, not the eating of it. I have time now, but I don't really have time to prepare food the rest of the year. At least, I've learned that the protein shake is not the way to go.

Lunch: Easy when the ingredients for a great sandwich are in the house. So, I went shopping yesterday. In fact, it's 11:00 AM, almost time for lunch. It has to taste better than the stuff I just forced down. I keep waiting for the blow back. With apologies to the good people of Max One, I'm never touching the stuff again.

324.0 lbs.

My break from my blog has come to a close, so now I'm on summer break. I'm even dressed to work out today, and maybe I will.

324.0 isn't bad for having been on the road for about a week and a half, eating cafeteria food and fast food for most of the time. During the first week, I ate 19 cafeteria meals! I think the only thing that helped me was the fact that I knew this day was coming. I knew I'd have to weigh in. I knew I'd have to make a public statement about it.

In the meantime, I've been reading Timothy Ferriss's book The 4-Hour Body. He is, perhaps, a nut job, but some of the advice is helpful. Don't drink calories is nearly possible. His observation that awareness of weight is a factor in weight loss is fascinating. There are some things to think about here. I know I've been reluctant to weigh in since I got home. I was up a pound on my official weigh-in day, and nothing more powerful than knowing it got me back on track. Truely, if there had been no scale in the bathroom, this project would've been derailed.

Measure. I'm not sure I'm really interested in things like total inches or body fat. It's all about the lbs. for me. I can measure them down the the 100th lb. And 1/100th makes a big difference.

I'm not sure I'm rsponsible enough to put his Saturday blowout principle into practice. He suggests that one day a week anyone who is faithful to the slow-carb diet should eat until comatose. His words, not mine. The problem for me is that I will. Comatose is strong; sleepy is more my style.

We interrupt this hiatus ...

... to let you know that we're still on break for a few more days.

A Break from My Blogging Hiatus

I'm trying not to put on lbs. while at the AP Reading.  I figure I burn about 7 calories above death doing this, but it's worth it in the long run.  I'll be back in a few days.

The Countdown Timer

Was just sitting here checking out the countdown timer, and I noticed that it counted down in seconds from 34 ... 31 ... 21 ... 28.  I hope this weightloss plan doesn't come down to the split second.  I don't seem to have the equipment for it.  I'd hate to be somewhere trying to lose the last ounce or two, and I have to rely on this device to give me accurate data.

What if NASA did it this way?  10 ... 9 .... 6 ... no wait ... 7!  We might have landed on Mars already.

Five Meals a Day?

There's nothing not to like about this idea. Breakfast I have nailed down, I like what I'm doing for lunch, dinner is not so tough, but I'm struggling with what to eat the other two meals.

Dirt vegetables like carrots and radishes won't cut it for me. They taste like dirt. Yes, so do potatoes, but dirt enhances their flavor. Not so for the carrot.

So, I'm seeking suggestions that are low effort and transportable. I received a tofu-fruit suggestion through FB. Not bad. Need more.

325.6 lbs.

I was hoping for 325-even, but this is fantastic especially since my scale had a little setback last week.  I thought the fact that my high-tech scale measures things down to the one-tenth of a pound would be discouraging, but I was wrong.  I said it in e-print:  I was wrong.  This is as much fun as watching the price of gas--uh, if the price of gas were going down. I drive an F-150, so watching gas prices is my vocation.