I watched "Julie and Julia" and "Fat Head". Julie and Julia made me hungry. Fat Head got me thinking. I am at, about, 216 pounds, clothed. I have some issues with doctors and their scales. I weigh myself, go to the doctor's office, and, low and behold, I weigh more and I am dressed the same. Today, I had this wonderful idea. I have two dumbbells that are slotted as weighing 10 pounds, each, the scale read them at 21 to 22 pounds, together. I will, from now on, take them with me to the doctors office and prove to them their scale is off and that they should be checked monthly as to how accurate they are.
Tom Naughton, the creator and idea behind the movie "Fat Head", had some really good points. Even with the items pushed to the max (the super sized meals) in the movie he was dissecting, "Super Size Me" there was no way he could order the supersize meal and come up with 5000 calories a day. The most he could max out on was about, roughly, 3500 calories, give or take. He also went on to point out that the high carb idea that has seemingly become the norm, actually supports the possibilities of causing diabetes.
I love my pressure cookers. [I have three. One is a gallon, one is a flat gallon to fry meat in, made of a much thicker metal (designed by Colonel Sanders) and a 16 qt pressure cooker that I use to cook a frozen turkey from solid to fully cooked in just over 2 hours.] They make healthy meals in less than a half hour. I realize that Julia Child would be in an uproar over relying on such an item, but, here goes.
As I said, today I weighed in at roughly 216 pounds, fully clothed, (normal weight blue jeans, tee shirt, under wear, socks and deck shoes) on a scale that may be weighing heavy to begin with. I am taking the weights to the post office to see if they are, in fact, 10 pound weights, and see if I can compensate the scale thusly. It would probably, at best, be a one or two pound difference, however, if, for every 20 pounds the scale adds 1.6 more pounds, then most scales would be way off.
Today, for breakfast, I had something rather healthy, I forgot totally what it was....(I will have to start logging in and entering everything I eat, d@mn!) {or I could just keep a little note pad with me, DUH!!!}
for lunch I had one pound of vegetables, 7 plum tomatoes, one chicken leg quarter, one pork steak two med small onions (tossed in the pressure cooker) and some coffee with 1% milk and 6 drops of stevia (a no calorie sweetener derived from a leaf of a plant native to south america) The amount of meat I ate in this meal seems a bit much, but, it was stretched over an hour and a half, and, without the carbs, I am still hungry. I also had 2 tablespoons of processed peanut butter with soy/vegetable oil. No bread and no jam. It would be a lot better for me if I ate just all natural peanut butter. I have a large stock of the vegetable oil sort, I really like peanut butter. I will get the all natural when I use up what I have now.
I walked to K-mart to get some batteries and a charger.
Yes, with every eating style change I am feeling weird, and this weird feeling will last for a few days, until my body adjusts. I will also have to enter my activities. GREAT!
(as I do this edit my cat is groaning and mumbling in her sleep, I think it is cute!)
I had a small cup of coffee with about 6 oz of soy milk in it at about 3:30.
It is now 6:22 and I am not hungry. I am sure you are probably thinking after what I had for a late lunch I will probably not be hungry until wednesday afternoon....(manners!!!)...I am getting a slight headache again, I get them a lot. I had a couple head injuries when I was young and have been getting headaches ever since. I am going to go take a few aspirin and a couple ibuprofin and hit the sack for a while. (no, amazingly enough, that is about what the dr prescribes for me when I go to him.)
for a late night snack I finished the vegetables, what were left, that were in some broth, and had 8 oz 1% milk with it
it was a good first day
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