Day 10, Post 157

 Goal Weight: 188 pounds  

Today's Weight:        202.4 lbs
Yesterday's Weight:    202.8 lbs
Net Loss/Gain:         - 0.4 lbs

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Do not focus on weight. Do not focus on weight.  Do not focus on weight... 


Really, it is the most meaningless measure - it doesn't tell you what kind of shape you're in, and it doesn't tell you how you look and feel. I was just looking at a couple of pictures taken at my lightest weight in the last 20 or so years, and... I don't like the way I look. 


I was near my ideal weight (defined by me as the weight I was at, as an adult, when I felt most fit) , but there was no look of health, and there was no look of fitness. I like the way I look now, more than 15 pounds heavier, better. And if I should manage to lose the weight I want to, and I look like that, I will start eating starches and sugar again. Or something.

OK. Got that off my chest. I want to note that I enjoyed every bite of food I ate today and yesterday.

Last night's grilled marinated steak (store bought) was excellent. 

Today's morning omelet (made with 3 whole eggs and coconut oil, and a filling of 1/4C Ricotta cheese, a cup of spinach, 3T of hulled hemp seeds, a teaspoon of inulin, red pepper flakes and other spices) was also noteworthy for how delicious it was.

I really like to cook. I'm what I call a 'gadget cook,' which is to say, I like to use cooking tools to make stuff. When I see a new recipe that interests me, if it requires some special tool, that adds fuel to the fire. So, over the years, I have accumulated a rather large collection of kitchen gadgets and appliances. My Foreman Grill (not the smallest or the biggest, it holds about 2 burgers) did up last night's steak perfectly. I make my protein drinks on automatic setting '4' of my BlendTek. I used 2 attachments on my KitchenAid immersion blender in preparing today's omelet (and finished it in my toaster oven).

Such fun.

   

Food Log

Breakfast

3-egg omelet with a ricotta cheese, spinach and hemp seed filling.

    Carb count: 6 g. Net

Lunch

Organic uncured ham and freshly grated Parmesan Reggiano cheese with vinaigrette on Spring Mix greens.

    Carb count: 1 g. Net

Dinner 

Wild-caught mahi-mahi burgers on Spring Mix greens with vinaigrette.

    Carb Count:  1 g. Net

 

Snack

A fried egg white with mayo and a half ounce of Manchego cheese, plus 2 oz raw almonds and an ounce of cheddar cheese.

    Carb count: 6 g. Net

Day total carbs:  
    14 g. Net carbs. 
Net carbs = total carbs - fiber


Liquid Intake
    Coffee:  48 oz,   Water: 158+ oz. 

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