The Holiday Hangover is officially over. . . on November 10 I weighed in at 231 pounds. November 10 is my wife's birthday, and we went out for dinner. Since then, we've had 3 more family birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, my wedding anniversary and a few retirement receptions at work. My weight "peaked" at 241.5 on the morning of December 28 and I've been losing ever since.
This morning, after a weekend of being very well behaved food-wise and getting lots of exercise . . . the scale revealed 231 once again. Now it's back to weight loss.
This is down about 9 pounds since January 1, which was our last full day not being at least somewhat strict about the diet.
This weekend we've been rediscovering the joys of fresh seafood.
Last night, as an example: I baked two four ounce tillapia fillets with just salt and pepper and a little brush of olive oil. When they were done (15 minutes at 400 degrees), they went down on a small plate, and I covered them with sauteed vegetables. This was from a mix we got from Schwann's but was just roasted red peppers, onions and tomatoes. I added a few olives to the plate as a garnish. While I was handling fish and vegetables, Karen made us salads. These were 3 ounces of raw spinach, a half ounce each of dry roasted peanuts and fat free grated cheddar cheese, a half strip of turkey bacon cooked until very crisp and broken into pieces and a sesame oil dressing (Newman's own -- low fat and low calorie). This would have been great with a nice white wine, but alcohol is off limits on Phase One of the diet, so we had iced tea.
The boys got mac n' cheese, because they've had strong negative reactions to baked fish. :-)
Hope you're all doing well on your diets also.
Hey Pat! I don't remember if I've commented on here before, but just wanted to give you a shout out and let you know I've been reading your blog! I have also been working on my own fitness/nutrition plan (although it revolves around lots of protein and gaining muscle mass) over the last year, which has kind of spurred me into the possibilities of health promotion as a career. So, I'm really interested in people's health journeys and such.
ReplyDeleteOne of the books that I recently read is called "Eat This, Not That." It basically recognizes that inevitably, you cannot cook every meal at home, so it offers suggestions for healthy options at major restaurant chains. There are even some articles about getting kids to eat healthy! There are several versions of the book, including one called "Cook This, Not That" which includes tons of recipes, each under 350 calories. (Wow, I sound like I'm trying to sell it, huh?) Anyway, I know you've talked in your blog about the struggle of balancing busy schedules and eating healthy, so I thought I'd recommend this book.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your journey, and keep up the good work!
-Cheri
Oh...this is Cheri Long...in case you know more than one of me.
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