Mid March can't come soon enough

Easy going Saturday. Took a walk into Soho with the fam in the morning, took my road bike up to a shop in midtown for a full tuneup for the upcoming season in the afternoon. Riding it up 1st Ave made me a little excited for all the riding we're gonna do together come mid-March! Stayed home in the eve while B went out with friends. B brought me home some food from her night out, which was nice.

AM SNACK: 10:15am, iced green tea


PM SNACK: 1pm, slice of streetza, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


PM SNACK 3:45pm, handful of cashews


LUNCH: 4:45pm, 2 large fishsticks, large green salad, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 8pm, peanut butter, cashews, chocolate chips, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 10:30pm, 2 steak tacos, rice, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

Full day

Busy body Friday. Went up for a lunch at the Food Network with MAP while Edie slept through most of it. After hitting up home, went to a playdate in the East Village with some sinful snacks. In the afternoon, out with Y and Baby Giraffe to a nice dinner at Frankies, a snack at the Dessert Truck outpost, then a movie. A very Edie-centric and full day.

Tomorrow, refocus on eating a bit better. Social things tend to knock me off the horse, time with the HVS excepted.

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, organic cheerios with organic dead milk, .5 bowl, hunger 3/5


LUNCH: 12:15pm, sausage and cheese crepe, orange soda, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3:30pm, small piece of chocolate cake, small piece of lemon meringue pie, cookie, small amount of champagne, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 7:15pm, papardelle bolognese, antipasto, bread pudding, water, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 9pm, popcorn, water

Lunch smoothie

Supermarket in the morning, assembling some dishes in the afternoon, off to the restaurant for a wine tasting in the evening.

TODAY'S COOKING
Green Salad: For the week's health.
Quinoa Salad: Out of the Veganomicon. Made more for Betsy, but actually tasted OK.
Smoothie: Wanted this for breakfast, but chores prevented me. So I went nuts and had it for lunch instead.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea


BREAKFAST: 10:30am, brown rice California roll. .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


LUNCH: 1pm, smoothie, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 3:15pm, quinoa salad, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5 

PM SNACK: 5:15pm, sips of 8 different wines, 2 slices of pizza, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 7:30pm, wholewheat mac n' cheese, breaded flounder, Jaques Torres dark chocolate cornflakes, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5

Need more doohickies

I guess it's normal not to be hungry when you just wake up, I need to work harder to accommodate my body's cycles. For a second day in a row I have packed the oatmeal and brought it to work. Maybe I should devise a series of containers (aka doohickies, as my mom called them) to bring other breakfasts to work, like milk and cereal, smoothies, fish n' bagels, etc.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea
 BREAKFAST: 10:15am, the good pinhead oatmeal, water, 75 bowl, hunger 4/5
 LUNCH: 12:45pm, 3 slices Sicilian with mushroom & onion, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 4:15pm, large green salad, fried shrimp, 8 oz Sprite, 1.25 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 7:30pm, 1 slice pizza, .5 bowl, hunger 3/5

DINNER: 10:30pm, burger, fries, apple pie, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
No comment.

No Breakfast Pizza

Woke up a bit sniffly and stuffy and very unhungry. The iced tea helped me wake up (maybe I should fresh brew hot tea on a day like this?) and zapped a container of oatmeal to take to work. Good thing, as riding the bike in this "wintery mix" of snow, rain and ice took twice as long as usual, with twice the exertion. By the time I went through my morning opening routine, the oatmeal hit the spot much better than a late morning pizza.

AM SNACK: 8:30am, iced green tea
BREAKFAST: 11am, pinhead oatmeal, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
LUNCH: 1pm, 3 slices super thin pizza, small amount of freshly roasted potatoes, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 3:30pm, large green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 5:15pm, shrimp in garlic butter, garlic bread, water, 8oz sprite, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 9:30pm, chocolate chips
Looked for something to water this down with and add to the nutrition, but didn't have anything. Will remedy that on my next shopping excursion.

Fatty Thoughts

Woke up with a croaky throat and a veil of tiredness, but got up and pushed myself to eat a good, healthy breakfast to avoid a lunch-binge later on. Due to the MLK holiday, B had off but the restaurant was open.

Been thinking about dramatic weight-loss recently, and the options available. It's easy to say "eat less-do more", but the longer I live, the longer I realize that the psychological, physiological, biological and sociological all team up in a wicked brew to take the teeth out of this simple credo. My body mass index is 35.4, and over 30 is considered "obese". I'd have to be 163 lbs (a loss of 70 lbs) to be official "normal weight". I know I'm a bit of a chubster, but I never saw myself as a superfatty "obese" person.

Trawling Amazon under a "weight loss" search, a lot of books came up. A drug, "Alli" came up a lot, which seems to be the same stuff they put into "diet" potato chips in the 90s that made people shit a lot and soil them selves. My quick research made me conclude that it is not a magic weight loss pill, so much as a harsh stick that makes people afraid to eat fatty food, lest they let loose farts of indeterminate nature. A bunch of other pills looked like either snake oil or straight-up scariness. Speed-like drugs aimed at weight loss will make you lose weight, sure, but it'll make you lose sleep, lose focus, eventually lose your mind.

Then there are the surgeries, I've been reading up on lap-band technology. A band is inserted through a small incision in the belly button around the top of the stomach and through injections, can increase or decrease the size of the band. It's considered the safest of bariatric procedures because their is no actually cutting up of the corpus - it's a same day procedure. Still, a) your still getting hacked up, b) it required regular needles and c) in the end you have a lot less control of what you can and cannot eat, and what portions. Eating well is important to me. I would like to eat less, but do I really have to go under the knife to do this?

Am I content to be an obese person for the majority of my life? Two things make me think not: As I push into my 40s, my health will suffer more from excess weight. And secondly, if I could drop 70 lbs from what I have to carry around on a bicycle, oh my GAWD how much faster I could be!!

"Diets" are false, because they end. For Edie's and my family's sake, I need to take a good hard reevaluation of what I'm doing, or surgery will be in my future, minus the choice.
BREAKFAST: 8:30am, iced green tea, toasted pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese and sable, 1 bowl, hunger 3/5
LUNCH: 12:30pm, 2 small slices of Sicilian, 2 small slices of white Sicilian, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
PM SNACK: 3:45pm, large green salad, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5
DINNER: 5:30pm, a few experimental "garlic crisps", roast potatoes, 8oz sprite, water, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

EVENING SNACK: 10pm, pint of pork fried rice, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

Stupid Hippies

Spent a day in (mostly) motion. Woke up late, got out quick with the gals to C's house in Brooklyn to cook and prep then scurry out before Edles could have a melt-down. By the time we got home with a blissfully sleeping baby in the carriage, I took off on the tandem and picked up T and squired her to a movie. Surprisingly, I did not fall asleep!


TODAY'S COOKING:
"Mexican" cornbread: We were over at C's house early to help set up for the party, I ended up making this out of some hold hippy vegetarian cookbook. I just followed the recipe, but while making it I saw it would not have a lot of flavor -- not enough salt, not enough sweet. It had whole corn kernels and some cheese in it, but how that makes it "Mexican" is beyond me. Stupid hippies!! :)


BREAKFAST: 9:30am, iced green tea


LUNCH: 1pm, beef chili over brown rice, corn bread, 1 piece of shortbread, diet coke, water, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


SNICKLESNACK: 4pm, popcorn, chocolate vegan cookie, lemon soda, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Spent the afternoon at the movies with the HVS.



DINNER: 8:15pm, green salad, hot dog, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5


EVENING SNACK: 10:30pm, smal amount of peanut butter with chocolate chips
B made me, she made me watch the damn Golden Globes!