Friday 3/19.2010

Welcome to the weekend!

Once again, curiosity got the better of me and I crept onto the scale.  I'm loosing weight but I'll not say how much (that was a really bad homage to Billy Bragg)  I try and not bore you to death with the minutia of my day in day out diet but let tell you about tonight's dinner.  Tomato and cucumber salad with Basil oil and vinegar. All organic and unprocessed... etc... etc... etc... NY strip steaks (click the "steaks" link!) medium rare, cooked on the B.G.E.  Steamed artichokes, char-grilled red onion's and a broccoli, walnut and dried cranberry salad, dressed with a yogurt dressing.  I do try to keep the meat portion reasonable and by that I mean 4 to 6 ounces but other than that I eat however much I want.  It did take us a full week to find out where to buy the various foods but now that we have fully stocked and know where to go, I'll be damned if I know that I am on a diet.

I've been eating some cheese, raw, unpasteurized, unhomogenized cheese made by Hippy's in a commune, if you are out of your mind, you could buy it at almost any tree hugging, dirt eating "health food" store.  But be warned, if you try it, when you go back to "normal" cheese it will taste like shit!  I'm a raw cheese convert!  And I run with scissors too! (from what I've read, kids and old folks or people with a compromised immune system should not do this, eat raw milk cheese that is... but I guess that the same holds true for running with scissors).  Remember: I know nothing, nothing (Sargent Schultz rules!) about food or nutrition.  I'm just a fat old bastard trying to get healthy.

I've been trying to keep an eye on how I feel before I eat as well as how I feel afterwards, not to mention how I feel in general.  Here are some random observations:

• I'm not as cranky when I'm hungry.
• Despite being totally stressed the fuck out, with our business circling the drain.  I'm actually dealing with the stress a little bit better.
• I feel a bit bloated.  That might be the fucking Olympic swimming pool of water that I'm drinking daily.
• I crap and pee more than before, a fact that surprises even me, as I have never been lacking in that department!
• I'm still out of shape; today I carried a few hundred pounds of "stuff" down to a customers basement and while I took three trips to carry down around 180 to 220 pounds, I was panting like a priest at a middle school wrestling meet.  I'm going to start riding my bike (the pedal one not the vroom, vroom one)
• I sleep like the dead and have an easier time waking up.  Then again, it could be that I drink my vodka on the rocks right before bed.  Yeah, I know how bad it is to consume calories, especially alcohol right before going to sleep.  Whatever!  I'm loosing weight and not going insane.  I'm okay with it.

I ripped off  had a great idea that I saw in several places on the web I'm going to start over the weekend.  I'm going to go to a giant chain restaurant and buy a cheeseburger, then I am going to make one at home using all natural, organic ingredients.  Next I'll plate them both and put them in my office (Lisa asked me, or actually forbade me to do this anywhere else in the house) and take their picture... everyday for a month or longer if the smell of the "real food" rotting does not kill me.  What am I attempting to prove, you ask?  Beats the fuck out of me!  It just sounded kind of funny to see if a McShit burger will ever start to decay.

Well it's time for vodka and TV, more tomorrow!  Thanks for reading!

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