Goal Driven Diet

So you have a big event coming up in a couple of months and you want to look great or you want to train for something.
Let's get started TODAY.  Don't last day binge, do wild things like clean out all the not so great foods, we just need to say I'm not denying my body any more. 
Wait Deny??? You don't deny anything.  You have been eating cake, ice cream, pizza.  Deny nothing.  You also now I don't use the word moderation because I feel it really doesn't have a good meaning.
So what are you denied of??
1. Nutrition
2. Movement
3. Challenge
4. Rest
5. Friends without stress.
6. Clean living area.

So let's really look at some of these one at a time.

Nutrition
Do you eat high nutrition items in addition to items that are calorie high.
This is how I categorize food.
High nutrition low calories H/L
High nutrition high calories H/H
Low nutrition Low calories L/L
Low nutrition high calories L/H

Look at what you really eat in a day and which group do you eat the most of.
So today I had coffee and chocolate milk in the morning.  then some mixed nuts.  This would be a L/H for the chocolate milk and a H/H for those nuts.
I was full on those nuts and needed to get some things done today.  For dinner I had some left over broccoli cauliflower salad and then I drained the 5 bean salad I also had and put the beans into the broccoli salad.  Them I wanted to finish up some other things we had in the house so I ate chips and guacamole for dinner.  If you say, what did you have for dinner??  I can't believe I ran out of salad greens.  I eat a lot of greens, they are my # 1 H/L
Now I have to rate the other items I ate today,  chips L/H Guacamole H/H  I didn't track how many calories I ate today but for the most part my choices were all high calorie.  Eating just L/H and H/H are all heavy on the waste line.

So after today I better up the nutrition tomorrow  at the cost of lower calorie.
This was kind of a rest day.
So now you can see how it looks like some people could stay at a lower weight and be nutrition deprived.  I did get some things done which I needed to do.  Once in a while you just have to have a low stress day.  Do I feel the best right now.  UUUMMMMM... NO but I will live.  It was 1 day.  Not to be repeated.

Watermelon Picture it cut up

Start by cutting off both ends and then cut in half

Had to do a quality check.  I had some spongy areas that were not good.  I will have to cut that out.

This is the knife I like to use and then just cut going down while you turn melon.

Don't take to big of a cut

Discard the rind so it is not in your way.  I like this board so it traps some of the juice.

Cut it in half

And then each half cut into sections

I had to cut out the bad parts

I like to scoop it up into a container

And then pour it into a bag

Do the same with the other section of the first half.

This side didn't have bad spots so you tip it on it's side so you can slice it again

Try to keep things straight and uniform size. 

This makes the cubes

As you see it is a juicy melon

keep it stacked and turn the melon or the board.

This makes your last cuts

This is how I scoop it up.  I love this tool

It goes in the bucket and then into the bag.  I can't hold the bag open by myself.

Wash off your board between halfs so it doesn't get to messy.

And repeat

Half a melon fits into 1 gallon bag

And now my melon is ready to go to the party in the morning.

 

This whole Biggest Loser crap

I just have to vent to someone that will understand. So everyone is talking about the BL crap. BTW I give you great credit to you for keeping a large% off. First they keep talking about being on a diet I hate this. Diet=what you eat. So if the BL people go back to their old ways of eating or old diet WTHell do you think is going to happen?? Crap in=crap out. No way in hell can you go back to eating 5,000 calories a day and expect and maybe walking to the mail box and maintain a 140 pound body. The math just doesn't work. I wish they would do something on what it takes to maintain a weightloss. I tell you that when I chow down on a huge bowl of ice cream 5 days a week I should not say gee why did I gain fat. OK so now then are talking about metabolism. When you are 400 pounds it takes a lot of muscle to carry around 400 pounds so if you lost muscle and then gain it back as fat yes you your metabolism will be slower. Why don't they talk about that. Why don't they talk about body fat % That is because they didn't measure that on the show so they have nothing to reference it all to. You would of thought after being on BL you would of been higher in Muscle when you finished the show. Now here is my pissy point. If you don't use it you lose it. What person doesn't know this. Every one knows that if you do kettlebell swings or pick up a board everyday for a month or two by the end of month 2 the board or bell will feel lighter. If you sit on your but for 2 months and pick up the Kettlebell at the end of the 2 months it will feel heavier than hell. This is because you have successfully turned muscle to fat. Fat doesn't require as much attention to maintain as muscle. Fat can live on sugar but muscle must have nutrition to maintain. I do feel better and all I ask is why don't they talk about this.