BACK HOME

After a attending a successful tradeshow and eating out each night at extremely nice restaurants, it becomes an extra joy to just be home and eat a home cooked meal.  My wife, makes a great salad and piles on different healthy, low calorie items - hearts of palm, tomato, mushrooms, beets and  artichoke hearts on spinach topped off with delicious zero calorie dressing.   It is a fabulous treat and it never fails to satisfy.

BIG SALAD, Trader Joe's turkey burger, potato pancake, zucchini, miso soup  440 calories

The nice thing about my meals prepared at home is that I almost always add a soup.   My needs are so uncomplicated.  I don't require fancy recipes.  I can be made happy with a turkey burger (like I had last night) or a salmon burger or a piece of fish or a piece of meat.  I do think that I am lucky that satisfaction from the dinner plate comes easily to me.

MONDAY MENU

breakfast   pear, two apples, 28 almonds                                                                          382 calories

lunch        PANERA BREAD smoked turkey breast 1/2 sandwich, soba noodle soup    610 calories

dinner       BIG SALAD, MISO SOUP, TRADER JOE's TURKEY BURGER

                 potato pancake, zucchini                                                                               440 calories

SNACK   one DEWAR'S on the rocks   (at birthday farhbrengen of a dear friend)        70 calories

total calories consumed 1502 calories

calories burned 

1AM elliptical 45 minutes 450 calories

MONDAY NET CALORIES   1052 calories













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CHILEAN SEA BASS

Yesterday I was invited back to visit a customer of who buys fabrics, trims and buttons from me.  I met them for the first time just five weeks ago.  I had told them back in February that I had recently lost 40 lbs.   This time, they did more than invite me back to their home for me to show them the various lines that I carry.  This time they invited me back for dinner.  It is a very high compliment for a salesman to be invited to share a homemade dinner with a customer.   This invitation to dinner came when my when my weight loss has now reached 70 lbs.  I had some trepidation about being a dinner guest as I did not want my aggressive low calorie daily intake to be sidetracked.  I agreed to be their dinner guest as long as they would be not be offended if I didn't eat too much.  I am not presumptuous enough to tell a host what I can or can not eat.  My friends, Kerri and Aaron prepared a feast of good tasting, healthy, low calorie foods.   It was the first gourmet meal that I have eaten since my weight loss journey began on December 24, 2014. The main attraction was Chilean Sea Bass, served with cauliflower, asparagus, beet slice and Quinoa.  I sampled everything.  I have conservatively estimated that the entire feast was approximately 400 calories.  It was an absolutely fabulous dinner!  Thank you,  Kerri and especially Aaron who did the cooking while Kerri was busy buying fabrics, buttons and trims.  What a great meal!

Chilean Sea Bass dinner - approximately 400 calories

WEDNESDAY MENU

breakfast   two poached eggs, cup oatmeal w/prune, two strips turkey 'bacon'         355 calories

lunch         spinach salad w/roma tomato                                                                      30 calories

dinner        Chilean Sea Bass, cauliflower, beet, Quinoa, fresh asparagus                 400 calories

TOTAL CALORIC INTAKE   785 CALORIES

CALORIES BURNED

ELLIPTICAL MACHINE 20 MINUTES 233 CALORIES

40 MINUTES STRENGH TRAINING, 10 REPS, THREE TIMES ON THE MACHINES DEPICTED BELOW.   Each setting was set to 50 lbs.   Some of the reps were much harder to do that others.... It was my very first 'strength training' workout.    There is not an easy way to figure out how many calories were expended doing 'strength training.'   I will arbitrarily assign 100 calories for the session.

TOTAL NET CALORIES   452 CALORIES