I am into my fourth day of journaling everything I eat. Yes, you read that right! I have a small Moleskine journal of thirty or so pages wherein I am chronicling my palate’s culinary adventures–well, I’m not sure if a bowl of oatmeal in the morning can qualify to be categorized as a culinary treat, but you know what I mean.
Do I hear you asking me why I am doing this? I am doing this to stem the tide of life in the 40s! Yes, I am aging but I won’t go down without a fight. I am determined to exercise and eat right if it kills me. Hey, if I don’t then something else is sure to kill me so I might as well at least enjoy a good season of health.
I took a physical recently and I wasn’t so pleased with the outcome. So, I decided to do something radical and drastically cut back on certain dietary choices that are not so conducive to good health and force myself to be conscious of what I am actually consuming every day by writing down everything I eat.
It’s actually a very humbling thing to write down everything you eat. It reminds one of how we as Americans don’t eat to live but rather we are a nation of food consumers that live to eat. Perhaps by the end of the month I will be able to have an enjoyable backward glance and see some measure of progress.
I am also currently reading Dr. Andrew Weil’s book “Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition.”
Let me bore you to death and share my food consumption on May 1, 2006. Don’t laugh!
Breakfast
• Bowl of Uncle Sam’s Cereal (whole grain, flax seeds, etc.) 2% milk, some honey
• Cup of green tea with some honey
• 16.9 oz bottle of Dasani water
Mid Morning
• One lonely tangerine!
Lunch
• Plate of leftover spaghetti with meat sauce (compliments of Macaroni Grill), threw away the meatball though! Noooo!!!!!! Someone save me!
• Boring bottle of water
Afternoon
• Went out to Publix and went on a trailmix shopping spree. Picked up a can of whole almonds, bag of raw (no salt boooring!!!) sunflower seeds, bag of lightly salted and roasted sunflower seeds and a bag of Oceanspray dried cranberries. Made myself a concoction to munch on when I’m feeling the urge feed myself filet mignon!
• Bottle of water #3
Dinner
• Bowl of brown rice with pinto beans (Yum! Really was tasty, I was hungry! How could I not be after eating all that goat food up above! Sheesh!)
• Cup of yogurt
Evening
• I was going to have a glass of wine but I opted to have a cup of green tea.
1 comment:
what a good boy...i'm sure you will see the results in improved health. i have tried before to journal my food intake, but soon found myself "fibbing" as a doughnut morphed into half a dry rice cake. perhaps your success will motivate me to a more honest and diligent attempt. keep us posted!
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