#3369: Friday, April 25, 2025

Post 3369

- 14 years and 116 days since I started this blog -

Me, getting some great news!

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    192.4 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/24/25):         191.7 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    +  0.7 lbs.

Diet Comment

Nothing to do with weight loss, but I just found out I'm going to be a grandfather (first time for me). That news is the only news I care about right now.

Food Log

Breakfast
12:15pm: Cottage cheese pancakes (cottage cheese, rolled oats, eggs) with butter and maple syrup, and honey-sweetened chia gel with blueberries.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

8:55pm: Popcorn, a Quest bar with peanut butter.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 16 oz.;  Water: 48+ oz.;

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#3368: Thursday, April 24, 2025

Post 3368

- 14 years and 115 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    191.7 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/23/25):         192.4 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  0.7 lbs.

Diet Comment

The weight range I'm in now - the low 190s - is the lightest weight I've been in decades! I doubt this weight is sustainable, and this weight loss my be due to a new medication I started last week.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:35pm: 

Prosciutto and cabbage omelet (red and green cabbage, mushrooms, onions and peppers, prosciutto and eggs) with sweet potatoes.

Lunch

7:00pm: Mixed nuts, cottage cheese and a Quest bar.

Dinner

9:45pm: Salmon with coleslaw on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 10 oz.;  Water: 72+ oz.;

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#3367: Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Post 3367

- 14 years and 114 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    192.4 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/22/25):         193.3 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  0.9 lbs.

Diet Comment

No comment today.

Food Log

Breakfast
2:05pm:

Super oatmeal (steel-cut oats, chia seeds, hemp seeds, blueberries, cherries, whey protein, walnuts, kefir, Greek yogurt, cacao nibs, nutritional yeast, mushroom powder).

Lunch

7:00pm: Mixed nuts and a Quest bar.

Dinner

9:15pm, at Shifty's: Beans 'n' greens.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 10 oz.;  Water: 62+ oz.;

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#3366: Tuesday, April 22

Post 3366

- 14 years and 113 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    193.3 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/21/25):         194.0 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  0.7 lbs.

Diet Comment

A nice change in direction from the weekend's gain. Yesterday's eating was on-plan, as far as content, but not normal. I came home from a rehearsal at about 8:30pm and I was starving. I opted for what was immediately edible: mixed nuts. And Swiss cheese. Then a Quest bar. And that, as they say, was that. No more food, not the dinner I was planning, for sure.

Food Log

Breakfast
2:05pm: Brussels sprouts with eggs, prosciutto and goat cheese.

Lunch

6:00pm, at CoreLife Eatery: Buddha bowl, with spicy chicken subbed for tofu: sweet potatoes, spinach, quinoa, black beans, chick peas, avocado, chicken.

Dinner

11:55pm: Mixed nuts and a Quest bar.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 10 oz.;  Water: 48+ oz.; and a couple of shots of Tullamore Dew.

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#3365: Monday, April 21, 2025

Post 3365

- 14 years and 112 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    194.0 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/18/25):         192.4 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    +  1.6 lbs.

Diet Comment

Pretty normal weekend weight-gain, for the first time this year.

Food Log

Breakfast
3:05pm: Dal tadka (lentil curry) with mixed greens on riced cauliflower.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

9:25pm: Mixed nuts, Swiss cheese and a Quest bar.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 0 oz.;  Water: 44+ oz.;

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#3364: Friday, April 18, 2025

Post 3364

- 14 years and 109 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    192.4 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/16/25):         191.9 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    +  0.5 lbs.

Diet Comment

A little gain - I think my body is adjusting to some new medication I started taking this week. I might gain more, even keeping on plan. We'll see.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:15pm: 

Fretta (red and green cabbage, eggs, prosciutto, peppers, onions, mushrooms, goat cheese).

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

9:55pm: Mixed nuts and a Quest bar. Scrambled eggs on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain toast.

Liquid Intake

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

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#3363: Thursday, April 17, 2025

Post 3363

- 14 years and 108 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    191.9 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/16/25):         193.0 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  1.1 lbs.

Diet Comment

A good loss after yesterday's light eating.

Food Log

Breakfast
2:05pm:

Super oatmeal and quinoa (steel-cut oats, quinoa, chia seeds, hemp seeds, blueberries, cherries, whey protein, walnuts, kefir, Greek yogurt, cacao nibs, nutritional yeast, mushroom powder).

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

10:50pm: Melted cheese with chicken breast on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread. Mixed nuts and a Quest bar.

Liquid Intake

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

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#3362: Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Post 3362

- 14 years and 107 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    193.0 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/15/25):         194.0 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  1.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

Good reversal, should continue.

Food Log

Breakfast
12:05pm: Scrambled eggs with goat cheese on toasted Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

10:55pm: Mixed nuts, Quorn Grounds sloppy Joe (Quorn Grounds mushroom protein, Rao's Tomato Basil sauce, kale, spinach, chia seeds) with peas on chick pea pasta.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 0 oz.;  Water: 40+ oz.; 

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#3361: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Post 3361

- 14 years and 106 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    194.0 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/14/25):         193.0 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    +  1.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

A lot of nuts, a lot of cheese, a lot of chocolate, and that's in addition to two big meals. Hence, weight gain. Temporary, of course. I hope.

Food Log

Breakfast
2:05pm: Quorn Grounds sloppy Joe (Quorn Grounds mushroom protein, Rao's Tomato Basil sauce, kale, spinach, chia seeds) and scrambled eggs with goat cheese.

Lunch

6:00pm: A Quest bar.

Dinner

10:25pm: A chicken-prosciutto-Swiss cheese melt on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread with spicy coleslaw, mixed nuts and a Quest bar.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 30+ oz.;

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#3360: Monday, April 14, 2025

Post 3360

- 14 years and 105 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    193.0 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/11/25):         193.8 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  0.8 lbs.

Diet Comment

I don't journal my food or track my weight Saturdays and Sundays. No good reason for it, it just gives the weekend a little more definition (I'm retired, weekends no longer have built-in differentiation - every day is pretty much the same) by letting me relax my scrutiny and discipline.

Typically, that means I am more willing to abandon the plan and indulge, and, historically, gain some weight.

Not this year - so far.

Food Log

Breakfast
2:45pm: 

Prosciutto and cabbage omelet (red and green cabbage, prosciutto, provolone cheese and eggs). Air-fried brussels sprouts.

Lunch

6:00pm: Mixed nuts and dried apricots.

Dinner

9:15pm: Salmon burger with cole slaw, broccoli and Swiss cheese, mixed nuts and dark chocolate.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 10 oz.;  Water: 60+ oz.;

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#3359: Friday, April 11, 2025

Post 3359

- 14 years and 102 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    193.8 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/10/25):         191.8 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    +  2.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

Whatever has been taking the weight off, it couldn't correct for my having eaten almost a full jar of peanut butter last night. We'll see how that works out over the weekend.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:15pm, at Munjed's Middle Eastern Restaurant: A Gyro (lamb and beef).

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

11:55pm: Celery, cottage cheese, melted Swiss cheese on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 16 oz.;  Water: 40+ oz.; and a nice pour of Jameson's Irish whiskey.

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#3358: Thursday, April 10, 2025

Post 3358

- 14 years and 101 days since I started this blog -

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                    191.8 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/9/25):          191.9 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                    -  0.1 lbs.

Diet Comment

I think I figured it out. For the last three weeks, I've been taking a new supplement that supplies a heavy dose of capsaicin. I think this is what has kept me losing weight while going definitely off-plan eating. 

Weight loss is not the goal of the supplement, but a welcome side-effect.

Food Log

Breakfast
2:30pm: LEO (Lox, eggs and onions) With Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain toast with cream cheese and sweet potatoes.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

11:55pm: Greek yogurt, a Quest bar, celery and peanut butter (also spooned the peanut butter to finish the jar).

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 21 oz.;  Water: 40+ oz.; and a Jameson's Irish whiskey.

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