Friday - Watched Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Fell asleep to a horrible ending of a movie. Let's recast it with maybe Kevin Spacey as the strange guy, Ben Affleck as the husband (because Ben can made any role better), and get rid of the ugly chick who plays the sister...oh yeah and re-write the ending. Oh yeah, Red Truck wine is horrible.

Saturday - Woke up and cooked some breakfast with Laurie. I must say, we are a kick-ass team of cooks. Iron Chef style. I whipped up some Eggs Benny, my favorite breakfast dish, and since Laurie doesn't like anything runny, or raw-eggy, a spinach and mushroom omlette for her.
Are we Emeril or what?


Since we planned on nothing for the day, or rather we planned on a nice relaxing, magazine reading, music listening, couch day, we (read: I) decided to finally duplicate one of my favorite meals I've ever had. The original meal was at a place in Brussels, Belgium called The Belga Queen and reads as follows:
Meatballs as in Liège (sauce based on a meat stock and pear/apple syrup), cone of fries BQ, lettuce with beer vinegar and virgin olive oil

Now, this "Liege" or rather "Sirop De Liege", upon investigation. Is one of those traditional, only in Belgium, super-top-secret only made by one company, never homemade type of things. (see: website). Phooey. 50$ to have it shipped to me? no thanks. but it can't be that hard right?.....

So scouring the internet, even a pro like myself, proved difficult for a recipe. However, once I started searching in other languages, something came up. A few favors from some foreign speaking friends, and I "sorta" "thought" I had "maybe" the start of a recipe? But it was merely a crap shoot. But, what the hell, it sounded simple, why not give it a try. The recipe called for about 20lbs of fruit, pears and apples and a couple of handfuls of dates....with a total cooking process time of ~9 HOURS! ahhh. Must be good. Well, here are some process pictures, and here are some result pictures. I say it (the sauce) came out EXACTLY as I remember, even better. Out of 20lbs of fruit and 9 hours, it only yielded a jar of sauce/syrup.








Next time around, I'll mix the sauce with the meatball stock a little more as it was almost sweeter than Laurie!

While this was cooking, we had a blast listening to music and catching up on the stack of magazines that have been collecting! We also watched The River Wild - OK flick.

Sunday - Homemade waffles and some scrambled eggs for breakfast, again, tag-team iron chef style! Shopping at Bridgewater mall, Oil change, and bike show to collect a trophy.

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Went to the beach (Seven Presidents, Long Branch, NJ). This was a shot to my right...not TOO many people...to my left, looked like another summer day (only its Oct. and in NJ).

To my front...Banana Hammocks-R-Us.

Lunch, at MAX's. (Yep, dieting at its finest!)

Yum. I'm a real American.

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Diet update:
Fell off the wagon a little, still maintaining, but haven't lost any more. I have been eating "ok".

Eraserhead:
I saw this movie only for the first time last night. I consider myself fairly affluent with film. Enough to say that I know enough about film to be somewhat of a credible critic. Dare I be cocky and say I know what the hell I'm talking about.

Add Eraserhead to the list of movies that completely screwed up my head. Not in a horror/scary way and to be honest, I'm not sure WHICH what, but I haven't stopped thinking about it since I saw it last night. I won't even begin to try to interpret it, as I don't think I can. However an amazing movie. #2 on the list of movies that screwed me up.

BTW - Exorcist is #1 and there is no #3.

TV Shows I'm into this season:
Can't wait for DEXTER
Heroes...eh.
Earl and Office
Weeds
Curb Your Enthusiasm

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I maintained.

Monday

breakfast
2 eggwhites while walking to a meeting

lunch
sliced grilled chicken in a whole wheat wrap with a piece of lettuce
fruit

snack
banana

dinner
turkey burger a little bit of bread
small salad

Still 165

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Maintained a 4lb loss this weekend. Considering what I ate, I am happy.

Saturday:
3 eggwhites with Cajun Seasoning & Kethcup
Banana

Dinner - Chicken Parm & Ziti w/ whole wheat pasta (not that it helped!)
Baked sweet potatoes
Wine

Sunday:
Houlihans for lunch
1/2 Chicken ranch type wrap, all fat sauce on the side, didn't eat
House salad, local dressing (only at about 1/3rd of it) no croutons, cheese, or bread

Dinner - Ria Mar for dinner
Garlic Chicken
Potatoes (like the homemade fried chips kind)
Rice
Veggies
Ugh. it was horrible for one, two....it was bad.

At one point I was down to 164 this weekend, this morning I was 165.

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Friday

Breakfast:
Some pineapple
Banana

Lunch:
Grilled chicken caesar salad

Dinner:
Some Asian grilled chicken salad
Drinks (Jack and Diet Coke)

Before poop weigh in this morning was 165 even. Only 15lbs more to go.

Going to Laurie's co-workers house for dinner tonight...no clue what's in store for meal but I'm quite sure it is going to be great.

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I estimate loosing many-a-lbs to the porcelain god in a short moment.

Thursday's meals

Breakfast:
2 eggwhites ketchup...brought banana, wasn't hungry
Coffee

Lunch:
Jalapeño Cheddar Chicken Burger, no bun (cheddar was mixed in with the burger unfortunately)
Small cup of fruit (I'm on a pineapple kick)
Pickles

Dinner (went out):
grilled chicken with fresh moz. and roasted peppers - BAD
Water

Still at 166.

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Yesterday, I got back into my usual wake-work-home-laurielovin routine.

Breakfast:
2 scrambled eggwhites with ketchup at 7:30ish
light and fit yogurt at 10ish

Lunch:
Roasted turkey lunchmeat
(I ordered a sandwich on whole wheat, but threw out the bread as soon as I got back to my office)
big leaf of lettuce
a few pickles
small cup of fruit

dinner:
left over turkey burger
string beans
applesauce

all water to drink all day.

woke up this morning to 166lbs.

Starting to get that "eating right" good feeling. I slept GREAT last night and felt great when I woke up. Not sure if I should wait until I get down to 150 to start really working out or what...

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Day 2.

Still away from home in Bumblefuck, NY on business. Therefore, I was pretty much stuck with crap to eat as being pressed for time, and 3 other hungry employees brings you to places like Panera Bread for breakfast. Have you ever been in there? I feel like I absorb carbs before I even walk through the door. As tempting as it was to get a cinnamon crunch, french toast bagel or a few chocolate chip muffies (muffin tops). I managed to squeak out still with "shit" for breakfast. A toasted multi-grain bagel with low-fat spread. I redeemed myself a little bit by not using spread...maybe half a teaspoon at MOST.

When you are dieting and used to eating crap, and a lot of it...when dieting, even crappy food tastes good.

I had a medium coffee with skim milk as well.

For lunch, we stopped on the way home to a pizza place/Italian place. I got a small side salad, no dressing, which came with roasted peppers, lots of onions and cucumbers. I didn't eat any of the onions for fear my co-driver/co-worker would pass out from my breath, but I did manage to eat about 3/4 of the salad....so yeah, I had 3/4 a plate of lettuce cucumbers and roasted peppers. And a diet Dr. Pepper. 0 calories, but still bad...however I needed a little caffeine for the car ride home in the torrential down pour.

I got home early, about 3:30pm. I made MY homemade turkey burgers. I'm too lazy to write out the recipe right now, but the ingredients consisted of:
Lean turkey
Italian breadcrumbs (I tried to avoid, but its a necessity. However only 1Tbspn to 4 burgers)
Onions
Garlic
Worcestershire sauce
Jalapeño peppers
salt/pepper
Parsley
1 Egg white, whipped

Then I made 1 can of french cut green beans. Moms homemade pickles (I tried to like them, but I'd rather vlasic...she's still perfecting them) and applesauce.
Ketchup on the George Forman cooked burger, and no bun.

Pellegrino to drink.

Yum.




Here is what I looked like after dinner.




at 169lbs!!! Ouch. I need to loose 20lbs. Goal is 150 with a 6pack.

Well, this morning I woke up and weighed myself again, and was 168lbs. I lost 1 lb in most likely water weight in 2 days. Expected. I also haven't shit in 2 days (being away from home stage freight and all) I plan on loosing a good pound to the porcelain potty today.

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Being away from home and traveling for work made day 1 a little challenging, and without a scale I have no clue on progress yet.

Breakfast:
Egg whites - Approx 1.5
Few small pieces of melon
Half a Lowfat yogurt
Coffee

Lunch:
Skipped due to being in the middle of bumblefuck, ny
I managed to score some Snackwells cookies (waste of 200 calories) and a diet Dr. Pepper

Dinner:
Ruby Effing Tuesdays
Salad bar where I filled half a plate of salad with cucumbers and chickpeas....low fat dressing. Only ate half of that. Then a "mini" turkey burger.
Few glasses of wine.

I didn't drink much water throughout the day yesterday.

I will be home today and I'll take some pictures and record my weight.

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Day 1 of my Diet.

To give a background about 2 years ago, I was 203ish lbs. I got down to 148. Then bounced slowly up to 160-165ish and have been that way ever since. Maintaining that weight. I did it without exercising. I am now hopping on the scale every now and then and noticed 167 a few times, and haven't seen 160 is a while. So, I decided to diet again, and when I get down to 145-150, start exercising and maintain 150ish.

I binged ate yesterday. I won't list. It will make you sick and involved brownie ice cream and Jack Daniels steak.

Everyone asked how I lost 50lbs in two months AND the most important part...KEPT IT OFF. (It's easy to lose the weight) So, I've decided to kind of track it here.

I will weigh in with my official weight when I get home and what I ate for the day.

Here is a previous before after.
Before




after

and

Now, I don't look like this anymore, stomach is a little bigger which is the reason for the diet...I'll take a picture later today and post so you can see a better before.

However this is how I look now. Picture taken last weekend.



My goal is to have a 6 pack by New Years.

Right now I am:
167lbs
5'8"-5'9"
32" pant size waist

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