Computers+ Fasting + BIG NEWS - 6 Inches + Raspberry Vinaigrette

The geek squad is coming tomorrow, and hopefully the problems we're having with our Internet connections will be resolved, at least for the present.

I didn't fast again today, and I don't care, though I did not eat between breakfast and dinner.  I'm looking forward to a time when I don't have to fast, with the exception of in-between meals. That's the ving of the thing, it's where I'm headed. As a wise woman once said to me, "It's not where you're coming from Marcel, it's where you're going to that counts." For the rest of the year I will continue to fast twice a week, unless I loose too much weight. This week is the exception to the rule. There's always an exception for everything it seems.

I've faced my food addictions and I've beaten them. I'm not declaring victory just yet because my year is not up, and my goal of 180 /170  total body weight has not been met. I don't look at food the way I did before I started this. In other words, I changed my mind set which was the major stumbling block in the past to loosing weight. I now look at healthy choices with an aside that I can have something that's not particularly healthy for me once in a while, and that this is the way it will be for the rest of my life. The alternative of possible health risks are just too vast to contemplate returning to my previous dysfunctional relationship with food.

The BIG NEWS is that I have decided that once this year of blogging my metamorphosis from a food addicted blob to a relatively normal healthy sixty year old man I am going to quit daily blogging, or as Lizzie the blog stalker once wrote to me, the "what I ate today" blog, and I'm going to move on dot org. I think I'll do a weekly blog instead, and post it on line each Sunday in conjuntion with the SF Chronicle, or maybe nothing at all. There will be no what I ate or exercised today segment, but a general overview of the week with recipes and other crap.

These last 6 months have been amazing, and I've learned a lot about myself. Learning is an on-going process. It never ends until we die. Dying it self is a learning process. I want to take what I've learned and apply it to living a better life. I'd like to help others who have problems with their weight.  How to do that I'm not quite sure just yet.

If you notice the title of this blog has a - sign after the word NEWS, and before the letter 6. I did that deliberately because that's how many inches I've lost from my waistline. I said I wasn't going to weigh myself until July 1st, and I think I have enough discipline not to get on a scale, but I never said anything about measuring my belt.

That's it.

Peace,

Make Food/Not War


What I ate today;

Breakfast; 2 poached eggs on 1 piece of wheat toast w/basil, 1 potato pancake w/olive oil, s & p and smoked gouda cheese, 1 cup coffee 1 sugar

Lunch; nothing

Dinner;  8 oz. grilled Cheese burger w/smoked gouda cheese and A-1 steak sauce, s & p, salad w/kale, tomato, cucumber, black olives, red bell peppers, raspberry vinaigrette, 2 beers

Exercise Today; 3 miles...back's out again...can't straighter up.....aleve


Raspberry Vinaigrette Recipe; This tart dressing should be used sparingly. It's powerful stuff.

Ingredients;
1 cup fresh raspberries
2 tbs orange juice
2 tbs sugar, honey or agave,
dash of herbs of Provence
pinch salt
2 twists fresh ground pepper
2 tbs good olive oil
4 tbs Champagne vinegar
pinch black cardamon
2 large cloves garlic
1/2 tsp very good balsamic vinegar

Put it all in a blender, pulse on high several times and you're good to go.