Rules Of The Road

In order for this lifestyle change to work I'm going to need some rules. If the experts are right about our bodies fighting weight loss then I'm up against some powerful hormone hitters. After seeing my wife Geri go through the change for the last 3 or 4 years, hormones are tough and I need to be tougher. These are not in order of most important and there are do's as well as don'ts.

1) limit red meat intake
2) Eat complex carbohydrates, beans, brown rice, nuts, quinoa, wild rice etc.
3) Walk after evening meals
4) Eat lots of fruit a vegetables
5) Limit salt intake
6) Eat meals slowly
7) Limit dairy...cheese
8) Limit desert with processed sugar, opt for fruit
9) Limit chocolate
10) No coffee (I've been good about this)
11) Limit alcohol intake
12) Limit reefer intake..opt for toklas
13) Join palates class
14) More exercise
15) Nuts, fruits and juices for snacks
16) Pizza once a month, no more
17) Smaller meals
18) Tell myself I can live without that
19) blog or record my food intake daily

That about covers it. There may be more in the future. I don't eat "fast food" per se, but I love french fries, pizza, and white flour. I don't go to McDonald's or Burger King what so ever, so that's not going to happen. My problem is ice cream after dinner, a whole pint. Remember "A pint is a pound the world around."
As a Chinese nutritionist once told me; "Your problem portion control." Can't argue with the facts.

I will be weighing myself again April 1st, and not till then. I started out at 242 pounds and I need to loose a a little more than 5 pounds a month. Doesn't sound like much. It's not like a school project that you can put off till the end of the semester, take a bunch of speed and finish it in 24 hrs. This is a long slow process. If I fall behind I fail, and like I've said before, I hate to lose.

Lastly, I won't lie about what I eat during the day. If I fucked up I'll put it in there. I will write about what I'm going through, the good, the bad and the ugly.

I'm going to leave it here. Wish me luck, which I don't believe in, but I'll take it if I can get it.

Peace,

Make Food/Not War


Food Consumption for 1-2-13

Breakfast: Cereal, soy milk, banana, lemon yogurt, black tea w/agave

Lunch: Small green salad with olives de Provence and red belle peppers, 1 piece of white fish, 1/2
            cup of long grain brown rice

Snacks: Nuts/raisins, fresh mint tea w/agave

Dinner:  1 piece of Tilapia, black eyed peas and brown rice, 2 small piece of rustic baguette w/little
              butter

Exercise: 3 miles trails, 1 mile street walking