#3525: Monday, April 6, 2026

Post 3525

- 16 years and 96 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious, but only one of us is jet-lagged.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     196.0 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/3/26):           193.5 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     +  2.5 lbs.

Diet Comment

Not a worrisome gain at all, and not a surprise, given that I ate a couple of restaurant meals over the weekend. Also, still a good weight for me.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:45pm: Onions, peppers, mushrooms, kale and spinach scramble with feta and Romano cheese. With Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grains toast and sweet potatoes.

Lunch

6:15pm: A David protein bar and pistachios.

Dinner

8:45pm: Roasted turkey breast on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grains bread with guacamole. Chili crisp cole slaw.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 24 oz.;  Water: 24+ oz.;

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#3524: Friday, April 3, 2026

Post 3524

- 16 years and 93 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious, but only one of us is jet-lagged.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     193.5 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/2/26):           193.5 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     -  0.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

No change, no comment.

Food Log

Breakfast
2:45pm: Onions, peppers, cabbage. feta cheese scramble with sweet potatoes.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

8:40pm: Roast beef on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grains bread with guacamole. Chili crisp cole slaw. A Quest bar. Pistachios.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 16 oz.;  Water: 46+ oz.;

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#3523: Thursday, April 2, 2026

Post 3523

- 16 years and 92 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious, but only one of us is jet-lagged.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     193.5 lbs.

Previous Weight (4/1/26):           195.0 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     -  1.5 lbs.

Diet Comment

This is a significant loss, and it comes, without a doubt in my mind, from low calorie eating yesterday.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:15pm: Feta cheese omelet with Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grains toast.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

7:55pm: A Quest bar and pistachio nuts.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 16 oz.;  Water: 42+ oz.;

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#3522: Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Post 3522

- 16 years and 91 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious, but only one of us is jet-lagged.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     195.0 lbs.

Previous Weight (3/31/26):          195.0 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     -  0.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

No change, no comment.

Food Log

Breakfast
1;55pm:

Cottage cheese pancakes with blueberriy sauce.

Lunch

6:10pm: A Quest bar and pistachios.

Dinner

7:55pm: Roast beef on Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grain bread with horseradish mustard.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 16 oz.;  Water: 40+ oz.;

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#3521: Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Post 3521

- 16 years and 90 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious, but only one of us is jet-lagged.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     195.0 lbs.

Previous Weight (3/30/26):          195.0 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     -  0.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

No change, no comment.

Food Log

Breakfast
2:15pm: Dal tadka (lentil curry) with eggs and broccoli.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

8:35pm: Pasta (high protein and fiber fucilli), with cottage cheese, cabbage, onions and peppers and chia seeds.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 16 oz.;  Water: 42+ oz.;

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#3520: Monday, March 30, 2026

Post 3520

- 16 years and 89 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious, but only one of us is jet-lagged.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     195.0 lbs.

Previous Weight (3/27/26):          194.6 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     +  0.4 lbs.

Diet Comment

A gain of less than a half pound, now five pounds under my original goal weight from sixteen years ago. I'm good with that.

Food Log

Breakfast
12:45pm: Onions, peppers, spinach, kale and cheddar cheese omelet, and sweet potatoes.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

7:45pm: Veggie sloppy Joe (Quorn Meatless grounds, Wegman's Grandpa's Sauce, chopped spinach and kale, vinegar, chia seeds and hemp seeds) with brussels sprouts.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 42+ oz.;

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#3519: Friday, March 27, 2026

Post 3519

- 16 years and 86 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious, but only one of us is jet-lagged.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     194.6 lbs.

Previous Weight (3/26/26):          195.7 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     -  1.1 lbs.

Diet Comment

No change, no comment.

Food Log

Breakfast
11:45pm: A slice of Ezekiel 4:9 Flax toast with peanut butter.

Lunch

1:40pm, at Kabob House:

Stuffed grape leaves (not shown) as an appetizer. Then, about half of a Vegan Feast (salad, falafel, baba ganoush, hummus). I ate the other half for dinner later.

Snack

6:35pm: A Quest bar.

Dinner

11:15pm: Greek yogurt, walnuts cacaao nibs and honey.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 36+ oz.;

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#3518: Thursday, March 26, 2026

Post 3518

- 16 years and 85 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious, but only one of us is jet-lagged.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     195.7 lbs.

Previous Weight (3/25/26):          195.7 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     -  0.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

No change, no comment.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:45pm: Onions, peppers, mushrooms, cabbage scramble with goat cheese. With Ezekiel 4:9 Flax sprouted grains toast and sweet potatoes.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

7:55pm: A Quest bar and pistachios.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 22 oz.;  Water: 28+ oz.;

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#3517: Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Post 3517

- 16 years and 84 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     195.7 lbs.

Previous Weight (3/24/26):          195.8 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     -  0.1 lbs.

Diet Comment

This is the equivalent of no change.

While I think it is above my 'perfect' weight, that idea is not based on science. It's just a belief, and I am more than happy with the weight I'm at. You can't trust/believe everything you think.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:45pm:

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

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

10:35pm: Cottage cheese, pistachio nuts, and a Quest bar.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 22 oz.;  Water: 36+ oz.;

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#3516: Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Post 3516

- 16 years and 83 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     195.8 lbs.

Previous Weight (3/23/26):          195.8 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     -  0.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

No change, no comment.

Food Log

Breakfast
2:50pm: Greens and prosciutto omelet (with mixed greens, prosciutto, onions and mushrooms). Sweet potatoes.

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

10:55pm: A Quest bar and peanut butter, pistachios and frozen Greek yogurt.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 24+ oz.;

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#3515: Monday, March 23, 2026

Post 3515

- 16 years and 81 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     195.8 lbs.

Previous Weight (3/23/26):          195.8 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     +  4.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

Four pounds. in the two weeks I was in Florida, my net weight gain was four pounds.

Given how distant my diet was from its usual - drastically reduced amount of vegetables and beans and more refined carbs, for instance - I feel like I've gotten away with something. In a way, I have - I was actually heavier four days ago when I got back! I've been losing weight eating at home the last three days.

I think I will not gain any weight for a while, as I get back on track with my home cooking and regular eating plan. I suspect I may enjoy a little weight loss going forward.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:45pm: Veggie scramble (3 eggs, spinach, mushrooms, onions, peppers, garlic, Swiss cheese).

Lunch

4:30pm: Brussels sprouts with goat and parmesan cheese.

Dinner

10:15pm: A Quest bar and pistachio nuts.

Liquid Intake

Espressos: 1;  Coffee: 10 oz.;  Water: 36+ oz.;

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#3514: Sunday, March 8, 2026

Post 3514

- 16 years and 67 days since I started this blog -

Leo's sleepiness is contagious.

Food and Diet

Today's Weight:                     191.8 lbs.

Previous Weight (12/24/25):         192.3 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     -  0.5 lbs.

Diet Comment

From the standpoint of weight loss and gain, the above chart is quite misleading. On December 19, when I weighed myself after coming back from Chiang Mai, Thailand, my weight was 196 pounds. By Christmas, when I'd been sick with pneumonia for a couple of weeks, I had lost around four. By the time I recovered, I had lost fifteen pounds. My six-week LA-Cuenca-LA sandwich, I gained back ten, and now, here we are. January 11 and the last five days are the only actual weights I have. It has likely not been as smooth a restoration to a healthy weight as it looks, but who knows.

Anyway, the point is, I have had three visits with my grandson Leonardo and he is doing great and is totally adorable, and I totally adore him.

I'm going to Florida for a week-and-a-half. I'll pick up the blog the Monday after I get back.

Food Log

Breakfast
1:45pm:

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).

Lunch

Skipped.

Dinner

7:55pm: Pasta bolognese (high protein and fiber fucilli, with Quorn Meatless grounds, Rao's Tomato Basil sauce, chopped spinach, vinegar, chia seeds and hemp seeds).

Liquid Intake

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

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