Wednesday, May 28

Post 1747, Day 148 of 2014
- 1,244 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

A confluence of stimuli has me thinking about meals - not in the diet sense, but the social sense.

My family was one that ate meals together - dinners every day, breakfast and lunch as well on weekends. There was no TV visible from the dining room, and there was classical music (dinner music) on the radio, at background levels.

Like almost everybody else, when I had a family of my own, I tried to have family meals as often as I could, but it wasn't the same, and it wasn't as good, and it definitely wasn't as frequent. And, although I did try and keep the TV out of site, it wasn't, usually.

Mealtimes also became contentious because I had a different philosophy about eating, and especially about feeding children than first wife and mother-of-my-son Nell. For her, it was about pleasing and nurturing and bonding and showing love, while for me, it was about nutrition, socialization and health. 

Alex became a finicky eater, and mealtimes became very unpleasant - for everybody. At no time did the family eat the same food at a meal.

These days, sharing a meal with friends and family has become very important and very gratifying for me. For one thing, I eat more than 90% of my meals alone - and by that, I don't mean at a table for one in a restaurant or dining room, I mean I eat almost all my meals in isolation, in my apartment.

So meals with other people are special to me. They are more enjoyable, and they elevate the quality of the meal, no matter the circumstances, in part by making the food itself less important, at least, not the only thing. The social factor is dominant when I'm sharing a meal. Even when the discussion is about the food, it is discussion, and it is missing from most of my meals.

This past weekend, that encompassed everything I did, and it was a blast!

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 Food and Diet Section

2014 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:         209.6 lbs

Previous Weight:        210.6 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 1.0 lbs

Diet Comment

A start has been made.

Food Log 

Breakfast
A Quest Bar.

Lunch

Chopped salad (roasted turkey breast, shaved parmesan, baby kale, baby spinach, chard and balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinner

Cheese toast, hummus, cole slaw.

Snack

Cheese and hummus.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 88+ oz.

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