Looks like whatever I eat these days, I can always get back into my new average. After a week of little to no fruits and vegetables, an entire pizza, and a couple of drumsticks (not the musical kinds) and throw out that post race weight of 168.5, I’m right back at where I started for.

Weight 171

Why is that? How can someone eat whatever foods they like to eat and eat 3-5, sometimes 6x’s per day and still remain the same weight. There’s article after article if you Google it, but in the spirit of keeping things simple, a food journal has to be the most useful accountability tool. I use MyFitnessPal.

I’m sure there’s others that do just the same, but this one has all the things I need. A food UPC scanner for ease of entry. You can remember your prior meals and create your own meals for future entries. And oh, it’s free. Life lesson #42 – there are no excuses when it’s free!

TODAY’S MEALS:

• 8am – Shake and vitamins
  • Herbalife Formula 1 Instant Healthy Meal Chocolate
    • 4 oz of Blue Diamond Almond Milk
    • 4 oz of water
    • 2 scoops of Herbalife Instant Meal Chocolate
    • 1/2 cup of raw cabbage
    • 1/2 raw (frozen) banana
    • 1 tspn of Skippy Chunky peanut butter
  • Supplements
    • Herbalife Formula 2 Multivitamin
    • Herbalife Formula 3  Cell Activator
    • Herbalife Herbalifeline
    • Nature’s Made B6
• 2:20pm – Jack’s Urban Eats — “we have no eggs today” To which I said, “huh?” and “to go, please” Going to eat this sucka at home because I have a drumstick with my name on it.
  • 1/2 Salad with balsamic vinaigrette
    • beets
    • since no eggs, two portions of garbanzo
    • tomato
    • broccoli
    • apples
  • Macaroni and cheese
  • Nestle Drumstick
• 5:45pm – Justin’s Chocolate Hazelnut Butter packet
• 7pm – VitaCoco Pure Coconut Water (1/4)
• 7:30pm – Top Ramen with egg
• 10:55pm – 1 1/2 cups of Kimchee Fried Rice at our late night spot. Wife was hungry after returning from Oahu and how can I turn down a late night snack with my wife. Those are precious moments.

Meal 1

Meal 2

Meal 2.2

Meal 3

Meal 4

Food and promising exercise

Today’s Activities:

• Within 45 minutes of waking up, attempted some pushups. Old school pushups. Drop down and give me … whatever! Keep in mind that I was only able to do 3 just about a week ago before the left shoulder pain kicked in. Today, drumroll please, 21 perfect pushups. Almost time to dust off that P90 disc!
• Church service. We had a new volunteer today. Welcome Nick!