100 Days

What I ate today

Breakfast (9:15 a.m.)
1 cup lowfat cottage cheese
1 grapefruit
Calories: 250
Fat: 3 grams

Lunch: 1 p.m.
2 ounces of Turkey
1 Healthy Choice smoked sausage
Salad
2 servings lettuce
6 grape tomatoes
2 mushrooms
1/6 Green pepper
2 servings fat free Italian dressing
Calories: 490
Fat: 9.75 grams

Snack (4 p.m.)
1 clementine orange
Calories: 90?
Fat: 0 grams

Dinner (7:30 p.m.)
4 chicken filets
2 servings baby carrots
Calories: 185
Fat: 1 gram

Snack (10:45 p.m.)
2 large dill pickles
Calories: 0
Fat: 0 grams

Drinks
3 liters of water
20 oz. hazelnut coffee
20 oz. decaf coffee
12 oz. diet Mountain Dew

Total Calories: 925
Total fat: 13.75 grams

Exercise: basic 40 minute elliptical workout (15, 10, 15). Burned about 620 calories Did upper body on weights.

Hmmm, I am racking my brain here. Really, I am thinking hard. Give me a second …

Nope, I can’t think of anything else I ate today. 925 calories might be an all time low. And get this: I had to estimate the calories of the grapefruit and orange. I went to calorie-count.com and took the highest caloric value for oranges and grapefruits and inserted those. It might be less than 925.

I don’t know if that’s good, but I know how it happened. I got off the bread today. Not one slice. A few glances, sure, but not one slice. But now I realize that if I am going to kick the bread, I need a calorie substitute. Any suggestions? I guess I could up the intake of certain things like chicken or baby carrots. Or I could find something else to eat. But all of my ideas would basically do the same thing as bread. Boy, what do I do here? I guess I could check out some protein bars. Maybe soup. How does everyone feel about soup? Let’s make this an interactive experience. Since there are people reading this that obviously know more about nutrition than I do (No, that is not sarcasm), I want to hear your suggestions about calorie replacements for bread. Eggs have already been suggested, so leave that one out. But, let’s make sure suggestions are cheap. So no shrimp. I can’t afford it. Bread was cheap. Me and bread had a good thing going. But I realize it was the last food dependency I had. So now I am going off of it except for the Subway experiences. If that fat bastard Jared can do it, then so can I. But really, I need some ideas, people. I promise I am listening.

Interruption: By the way, right now I am totally rocking out to Weezer’s vastly underrated sophomore effort “Pinkerton”. I think it is their best effort, narrowly beating out the blue album. “Pinkerton” just has the right mix of emo, pop and rock. This, the mid-1990s was when Rivers Cuomo was a genius. Now he’s just crazy. But in a good way.

Sorry to get off topic. I just wanted to point that out. So anyway, let’s get back to today. I guess if the idea is burning calories then I did a fantastic job today. I just worry about metabolism and such with so few calories. Also, I am not sure about all the citrus. The orange was a gift from coworker Jen, who has urged me to try them in the past (Like I’ve never had an orange before. But still, she believes in the clementine orange and I respect that.)

Interruption: Hey, there’s a fat baby on television. At age three, he was 130 pounds. Wow, that’s fat. I didn’t weight 130 pounds until I was in third grade (hit 200 in fifth). Oh, he has a disease that makes him big. What an excuse. He’s 11 now and weights 244. But he looks normal, I guess. Alright, thanks, Inside Edition, for that story.

So, Jen gave me the orange today. Those probably won’t be a regular staple of the diet. But I do have a bag of grapefruits in the fridge. That makes me nervous because former roommate Cameron sent me a link on the main site to a diet that strictly forbids fruit. Luckily, I am not on that diet. But I am still a bit concerned about the sugars. Any thoughts?

I went out for coffee around 5 p.m. today. Now, I don’t know if this is standard procedure at coffee shops that aren’t in the sticks, but this place puts three thermoses of brews out each morning. They don’t refill them for the rest of the day, and when they are done, they are done. So when I showed up, all that was left was decaf or hazelnut. I finished off the stale hazelnut. So how does that affect me? Are there calories in hazelnut coffee even if I take it black? I would have to assume there is some. I mean, isn’t it a syrup? I didn’t really think about that until I finished it.

As for my workout, it went great today. A friend of mine, who happens teach nutrition classes at the junior college I work out at, offered to help me out. He gave me a sheet suggesting exercises to do and how much to do them. It said 20 reps. I was doing 10. So I lowered the weight and upped the reps. I finally felt like I got a workout from lifting. Before I always felt that I was somewhere between toning muscle and building it. Obviously, I want to tone right now, but doing anything over 12 reps seemed wrong to me since I have never done that. But, no matter how much weight you are working with, once you get to those last 10 reps of the third set, you are feeling the burn no matter what.

That’s all for today. I really am looking forward to hearing replacements for bread. Definitely.