Month: October 2018

One of the problems that I have every weekend is my eating. I tend to eat pretty well during the week and can tweak that if I want but on weekends I tend to eat pretty badly and inconsistently. Why do you think that is? Well the reason is a daily meal plan.

All major diets have a meal plan where they say to succeed you must eat this food at this time and eat this food at that time. No one questions this they just eat what they should.

I have my eating plan during the week right down to the individual food and time starting with a big glass of water in the morning and finishing with a snack at 8:00 in the evening while watching TV. On the weekend days I do not have any schedule, I get up when the kids wake me. I get dragged off the computer when the kids want breakfast and I hunt, just like any other guy, for snacks and cookies. If I ever want to make big changes to my caloric intake it would just be a matter of having a fixed schedule on the weekends until those new habits stuck.

If you are having some problems now with your eating look at your eating schedule for the weekdays. Is it good? Is there something that you would like to change? Do you go out for lunch too often? Once you have those five days sorted out you can work on the bigger battle which I believe for most people is the weekend schedule and eating

Today I watched my first Oprah episode in years. The reason I watched Oprah?

Kirstie Alley was on to talk about her weight loss over the last year. It has been a pretty amazing year and between the media machine that Jenny Craig created and the media machine that is Oprah this was a very talked about event with Kirstie Alley showing up in a bikini and then getting interviewed while wearing a dress.

It was an interesting episode where Kirstie Alley was very forthcoming about how tough it was to lose weight the and get comfortable with herself as a 55 year old woman, actress, and all that she is at. Kirstie is 5 foot 8 and lost 75 pounds so she is now at 145 pounds.

The best quote of the show to me was that she never appreciated her body when she was 30. She says she would never appear on TV in a bikini then because she was too introverted. She says women never feel like they’re good enough, or thin enough, or pretty enough, but they are.

One very sad story to me, was a story about a woman that lost 170 pounds by having gastric bypass surgery to make her father love her.

As we all know gastric bypass surgery is very dangerous with close to half of all people getting the surgery dying within just a few years.

This story was a real painful one to watch as it really showed the lengths that women are willing to go to for acceptance in society.

I am blessed to have two crazy kids, well mostly blessed. My wife, Michelle, works on the weekends and I end up looking after the kids. When I first started looking after the little ones on the weekends I would make myself a big breakfast and then a smaller one for each of the kids. Did not work so well.

Kids tend to eat at their own pace and I was for a couple of weeks having these huge breakfasts of six eggs and four pieces of toast and even a couple of bowls of cereal. I learned fairly quickly to not cook breakfast for myself and just live off the remains of the kids.

Where does the human garbage can come from? Kids seem to have their own internal hanger clock, mine will snack a lot and eat small meals so as soon as I adjusted to that I was much better off. Before I adjusted to the kids weekend eating schedule I would eat whatever I prepared for them that they did not eat. Now I make decent sized meals (except breakfast) and whenever they are looking for a snack I just grab something out of the fridge for them to eat.

Parents are bad for being a human garbage can, constantly eating that little bit of food that the kids did not want, eating everything that is left and eating the leftovers in the fridge before they have gone bad. I have found that one of the best methods of feeding the kids is to make generic meals that they can eat over and over again although I always make sure to microwave to reheat only once….well I started doing that when my wife told me it was bad to reheat reheated food.