Day 78

GOALS

• Goal date:                     March 26, 2011
• Weight goal:                 206.0 pounds
• Total Inches goal:         120.9 inches

 Today's Weight:        211.2 

 Yesterday's Weight:    210.2 

 +Gain/-Loss:           + 1.0 

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Well, we've seen this before! Up a pound the day after a semi-fast. So, no worries.

For the first time since I started this diet I screwed up my shopping schedule this weekend. This morning, I had no cold cuts and only a small amount of salad available for lunch. Luckily, I had done some food prep over the weekend, so I had cole slaw and home-made mayonnaise available and I found a can of tuna, so my lunch problem was solved. There will be more than the usual amount of fat consumed today (the mayo in the tuna salad and cole slaw is pretty much all extra) which means higher calories, so I made dinner as low-fat as possible.

I have no problem with consuming fat. I've known (all right, felt) for a while that fat was not the great evil the US Dept of Agriculture, AMA and CDC makes it out to be. Some fats, for certain, are unhealthy to eat: Processed fats (trans-fat), and vegetable and grain oils should be avoided, the latter, at least, for cooking (the polyunsaturates in canola oil, it turns out become trans-fats when heated), I limit my oils to seed, nut and fruit oils (hemp, coconut, macadamia nut, walnut, olive oils are the oils of choice. I use only organic, cold-pressed oils. Of them, only the hemp oil cannot be cooked with; its fat and nutrition profile is substantially degraded when heated, so it is only a component in my salad dressings). Coconut oil is one of the best oils to cook with.

The saturated fat that comes from meat is also not a problem for me. I use grass-fed beef, which has a nutrient and fat profile that is quite different from, and much healthier than, the industrial beef otherwise available. For this reason, I rarely order beef dishes when I dine out, unless I somehow know that the restaurant uses organic and/or grass-fed, free-range beef in its preparations.
Here's today's chart:

The food part:

Breakfast  

Let's see: Lentils, spinach, 2 egg whites, 1 whole egg, fry them in coconut oil, top with salsa. What could be bad?



Lunch

Cole slaw, Spring Greens, lentils and a little vinaigrette, tuna and home-made mayonnaise. Great lunch.

Dinner

Baked mahi-mahi with a side of broccoli, cauliflower. Everything dressed with herbs and balsamic vinegar. (Not pictured but eaten before dinner: A hard-boiled egg with the same spices used to prepare dinner).

After Dinner Snack

Oh, well. Winner of the day's "best-laid plans" award is having a low-fat dinner to make up for a higher-fat lunch. I stayed up too late and got hungry. Result: finished off the cole slaw I'd made. While this is a nutritionally-dense snack, it is also a bit high in calories. Sigh.

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