#3454: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Post 3454

- 14 years and 240 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    188.4 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/26/25):         190.6 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  2.2 lbs.

Diet Comment

Down a kilo. Sweet! Actually, no big deal, but I enjoyed typing "Down a kilo."

Food Log

Breakfast
1:15pm: A LEO (lox, eggs and onions) and brussels sprouts with goat cheese.

Lunch

5:00pm: .

Dinner

11:45pm: Mixed nuts, carrots and blue cheese dressing. A Quest Bar.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 54+ oz.;

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#3453: Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Post 3453

- 14 years and 239 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    190.6 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/25/25):         190.7 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  0.1 lbs.

Diet Comment

Almost no change, almost no comment, but this: chile spiced mangoes are delicious. Also cheap. I cannot stop eating them once I start. Luckily, the only place I know of where I can get them is Trader Joe's, and it is the most inconveniently located place I get food from, so now that I've finished off the half-dozen packs I bought last week, I'm safe for a while.

Food Log

Breakfast
12:55pm: Sardines with celery, mayonnaise and chili crisp and Ezekiel 4:9 Flax toast with cream cheese.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

10:35pm: Cottage cheese. Carrots and blue cheese dressing. Mixed nuts. A Quest Bar.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 18 oz.;  Water: 62+ oz.;

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#3452: Monday, August 25, 2025

Post 3452

- 14 years and 238 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    190.7 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/22/25):         194.1 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  3.4 lbs.

Diet Comment

Great loss, and easily done.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:55pm: Italian-style chicken sausage and veggie omelet with Swiss cheese, and Ezekiel 4:9 Flax toast with cream cheese.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

9:35pm: Carrots with blue cheese dressing. Mixed nuts. Broccoli and goat cheese. Chile spiced mangoes. A Quest Bar.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 10 oz.;  Water: 48+ oz.;

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#3451: Friday, August 22, 2025

Post 3451

- 14 years and 235 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    194.1 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/21/25):         194.5 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  0.4 lbs.

Diet Comment

I hope I have seen this year's high weight. Going forward, I hope to return to a weight under 190 pounds. We'll see how things go this weekend.

Food Log

Breakfast
11:55am:

Super oatmeal and quinoa (steel-cut oats, quinoa, chia seeds, hemp seeds, blueberries, whey protein, walnuts, kefir, skyr, cacao nibs, nutritional yeast, mushroom powder, stevia). Super-size, too.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

8:55pm: Popcorn. Salmon burger on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax bread with coleslaw. A Quest Bar. Mixed nuts and chile-spiced mango.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 10 oz.;  Water: 48+ oz.;

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#3450: Thursday, August 21, 2025

Post 3450

- 14 years and 234 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    194.5 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/20/25):         193.5 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    +  1.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

I was a little drunk and very stoned. I wasn't even hungry. But, 'round midnight, I demolished an entire package of chile-coated dried mango and its weight in mixed nuts. Until then, I might have registered a loss today, but the chile-coated dried mangos I get from Trader Joe's are like crack, and I am helpless when I have a package. Hence, today's gain.

Food Log

Breakfast
3:15pm: 

Fretta with chicken sausage, eggs, mushrooms, peppers, onions, celery, cabbage, kale, spinach and Swiss chees

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

10:35pm: Veggie pasta bolognese (Quorn Meatless Grounds, Rao's Marinara sauce, kale, spinach, Edamame spaghetti, shaved parmesan cheese). A Quest Bar.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 0 oz.;  Water: 48+ oz.;

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#3449: Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Post 3449

- 14 years and 233 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    193.5 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/19/25):         193.5 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  0.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

No change, no comment.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:15pm:

Cottage cheese pancakes (eggs, cottage cheese oats, almond flour, chia seeds, cacao nibs) and blueberries (with butter and stevia).

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

6:25pm: 

A B.A.S - big-ass salad - with Spring Mix, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, prosciutto, chicken, shaved parmesan and Blue Cheese dressing.

Snack

12:00am: Mixed nuts and chile-crusted dry mangoes.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 48+ oz.;

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#3448: Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Post 3448

- 14 years and 232 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    193.5 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/18/25):         194.8 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  1.3 lbs.

Diet Comment

A halt to my increasing weight. I like it, coming off my high weight for the year.

Food Log

Breakfast
12:55pm: Sardines (with mayonnaise, celery and onions), a fried egg, and Ezekiel 4:9 Flax toast with cream cheese.

Lunch

4:45pm: Chili-spiced dried mango. Mixed nuts.

Dinner

8:35pm: Veggie pasta bolognese (Quorn Meatless Grounds, Rao's Marinara sauce, kale, spinach, Edamame spaghetti, shaved parmesan cheese). A Quest Bar.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 10 oz.;  Water: 48+ oz.;

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#3447: Monday, August 18, 2025

Post 3447

- 14 years and 231 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    194.8 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/15/25):         192.9 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    +  1.9 lbs.

Diet Comment

A 'bad' weekend, and I'm at the high weight of the year. Sigh. It's a good weight, more than five pounds below my original goal weight from 2010, which I reached more than fourteen years ago. But I was happier five pounds lighter.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:10pm: Prosciutto and veggie omelet with Swiss cheese.

Lunch

5:45pm: Mixed nuts and a Quest Bar. 

Dinner

9:35pm: Salmon burger on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grains bread with guacamole. Mixed salad (cabbage, Spring mix, spinach, tomatoes) with blue cheese dressing. Skyr 'sundae' (skyr, blueberries, walnuts, cacao nibs, stevia).

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 72+ oz.;

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#3446: Friday, August 15, 2025

Post 3446

- 14 years and 228 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    192.2 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/14/25):         192.7 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  0.5 lbs.

Diet Comment

A continuation from yesterday, hopefully starting a trend. Trying not to have expectations about further loss, but I would like to get back to 190 or less.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:15pm:

Cottage cheese pancakes (eggs, cottage cheese oats, almond flour, chia seeds, cacao nibs) and blueberries (with butter and stevia).

Lunch

6:15pm, at King David's Middle Eastern Restaurant: Veggie Plate (salad with tzaziki, falafel, hummus, baba ganoush, taboulleh).

Dinner

10:20pm: Mixed nuts and chile coated dry mango. A Quest Bar.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 48+ oz.; and an unsweetened ice tea, and 12 oz. can of hard cider

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#3445: Thursday, August 14, 2025

Post 3445

- 14 years and 227 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    192.7 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/14/25):         193.6 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  0.9 lbs.

Diet Comment

A welcome reversal after days of gain. I admit, it feels good.

Food Log

Breakfast
12:55pm: Prosciutto and veggie omelet with Swiss cheese and brussels sprouts.

Lunch

4:45pm: Chili-spiced dried mango and mixed nuts.

Dinner

10:45pm: immi Ramen (high-protein, high-fiber ramen) with spinach, kale, peas and chicken. Chili-spiced dried mango and mixed nuts.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 64+ oz.;

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#3444: Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Post 3444

- 14 years and 226 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    193.6 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/12/25):         193.0 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    +  0.6 lbs.

Diet Comment

Another gain. I have been gaining weight since I stopped taking capsaicin at the end of July. Still not at my year's high, I have seen an increase in my appetite, which might be related to the weed I've been smoking. Not that that will make me stop smoking. Last night, after I had finished dinner, I got a craving. I am week. My first 'midnight snack' in a long time. Until then, I was on plan, and probably wouldn't have seen this gain.

Food Log

Breakfast

12:25pm: 

SPOG (sardines, peas, onions and eggs) with sweet potatoes.

Lunch

4:45pm: Skyr 'sundae' (skyr, blueberries, walnuts, cacao nibs, honey).

Dinner

9:35pm: Chicken sandwich on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax bread with guacamole. Salad with Spring Mix, cabbage, spinach, tomatoes, peas and blue cheese dressing.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 10 oz.;  Water: 66+ oz.;

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#3443: Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Post 3443

- 14 years and 225 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    193.0 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/11/25):         190.4 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    +  2.6 lbs.

Diet Comment

A big gain for one day. Probably an anomaly, we'll see how the rest of the week goes. It is within a pound-and-a-half of my high weight of the year (194.4 lbs.), which happened (twice) in May, and my highest weight since then. To be fair, I earned it by eating a long, long dinner - lots of calories over an almost 2-hour stretch.

Food Log

Breakfast
12:55pm: Prosciutto and veggie omelet with Swiss cheese. Sweet potatoes.

Lunch

3:45pm: Mixed nuts and dark chocolate. A Quest bar.

Dinner

8:35m: A B.A.S. (Big-ass salad with chicken breast, arugula, cabbage, chard, kale, spinach, tomatoes, shaved parmesan cheese, walnuts, and blue cheese dressing). A Quest Bar.

Snack

11:15pm: Cream cheese and walnuts on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax bread.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 72+ oz.;

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