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.

Wild Diet Mid Review.

Wild Diet Mid Review.
From any diet you can learn something.  Here is a few concepts I learned from the wild diet.
1.  I spend to much time sitting.   Between blogging and working I am really looking at the amount of time I sit.
2.  The wild diet doesn't count and log every calorie.  I am finding I feel better and eat better when I don't have to meet a calorie total.  I am thinking more nutrition   which as you know is one of my concepts.  Looking up and logging every calorie is a good thing but it does take time.  Lesson learn is that you know the higher calorie items you may eat, I no longer play the game of - If I eat this what will happen to the scale.
3.  It is getting warmer so it is easier to get outside.  I am looking into a 5K so I have something to look forward to.  I may not know someone that is also doing a 5K so I am training by myself.  On the day of the race I will find more people that are training by themselves.  Look at the activities of your friends.  I have a friend I am meeting up with this weekend for a drink.  I think we need to go for a walk first.

4. Sugar.  This is a word in it's own.  I haven't had ice-cream in  a couple of weeks and so far I'm not missing it as much as I thought I would.  I don't know if it is because I blame ice cream for some of the sugar addiction I have  or that I am just not having a taste for it.  I am feeling better without it so I am going to keep it up.

5. Not afraid of some foods.  Rice, potatoes and other high starch items are in their place. 1/2-3/4 of a cup,
 
My weight hasn't really changed because there is a learning curve to a different way of thinking about food.  Note that I am saying the way I think about food. The other think that is changing it the need to get things done.  Are you tired of saying I need to .....  This is another area I am working on.  Some people call it spring cleaning.  All I have to say is get it done.  Stop saying I hate this.  If you hate it change it.  So I hate those mini blinds on our home.  They are going.  What am I replacing them with?  I am trying to think of what I really want on our windows.  I don't want to just put up something different I want to put up what I will like.  Curtains, shades the ones that open when the alarm clock goes off.  I also have to look at what I can afford.

I will let you know how the rest of the month goes.

The person I am following blogging the -What diet next" seems to be having a case of burn out.  Burn out is very common thing because most of us find that being healthy isn't the normal between our friends.  Why is it so accepted that going to the doctor is a high priority but going for a walk isn't.  We all just accept that getting older means spending more time on medical fixes. Why don't we do more medical prevention.  I read something from beyond diet, do you need a cleanse?  I came up with no to most of the questions on her test.

Prevent the need to cleanse, Stop putting junk in the body.  Get off the get sick, take a pill wagon.  Work more on the prevent so you don't get in the sick wagon in the first place.

My trip to woodmans.  I went to the grocery store the other day and got asked a question in the health food aisle.  I spent an hour talking about how to eat, not what to eat bout how to think to eat healthy.  It's not about following a diet, it is about how to live your life in a healthy style.

BTW the thing I like the most about the Wild man is that you are not doomed if you don't eat breakfast.  I remember it is the 3 S not SS& B
It also is not SS&Shaming. Do I eat a ton more because I didn't eat breakfast?? NO!  I eat more because I am bored, Doing something I don't like so I eat to avoid the activity.  I also eat more because what I really want is some down time with a hot cup of coffee or some chat time with friends.  What activities am I trying to avoid??  Cooking, Cleaning, working out.  So I am thinking clearing your life plate may get rid of some of these bad activities.
1. when your done with it put it where it belongs.  If it is junk mail, get to the recycle bin not the kitchen table.  Clothes are to be put away when they are clean.  Laundry basket is not their home unless your baskets double as draws and fit into your 9 cube shelving and then the likes better be together or it's not really working for you.
I think this is a topic in itself

The wild man diet Review

Coconut oil in my coffee with almond milk.  I am not adding the coconut oil again.

Snack and breakfast

Almost always lunch

Apple slaw

I had to add just a little of this

Wild meatloaf.  I put BarBQ sauce on top.  Using up what I had.

This scores a make again

Working on that C-5K

I used coconut flour so I had to add extra apple sauce and eggs and egg whites.  Coconut flour needs almost 3-4 times the liquid.

Baked for 45 minutes.

Send note to Able James (wild diet) It turned out great.

Egg Rolls for dinner.  Carrot, Cabbage, red onion, celery, ground beef, and flour.

I had to bake these because I don't deep fry anything.

I should of made them all smaller.  They were really good.  I should of put them on a plate for the picture.

As you can tell Mike is enjoying the wild diet.  I did have apple with peanut butter with coffee for breakfast.

What diet next

I am following Whatdietnext.com 
She is taking on 12 different diets in 12 different months.  Unlike me she is going all over the board from the 5 and 2 fasting, vegan, whole 30.  Check out her site.  It is interesting with how she is doing the first few months of the year.  I did send her an e-mail checking if she is having many problems like I also am.
Blogging takes time.  This is a big one for me.  You have to remember to take pictures to post pictures.  This is one reason some of my pictures have a fork in them.

Here is my post to her today.  We all try to be supportive but when you are a blogger doing reviews for free we all know this means we have real jobs.  Jobs that take up a bunch of our day along with house cleaning, cooking, family and working out.  I hope she took my post in the most supportive way.  I can't wait to hear how April is going.

From today; How is the vegan thing going?? I really want to know. There is no way I am putting butter and heavy cream in my coffee from the wild diet but I did find some meatballs I want to make from the cookbook. I figure if you learn 1 thing from a diet it was worth testing out. So far recap on wild, I am really thinking about when I eat. I notice I am fuller more than I really thought but I just like to eat. I like to eat while watching TV, in the afternoon at work things like that. The scale never goes down fast enough and when you gain a pound or two back you want to give up. I have never done a vegan because I am married to a meat eater. There are somethings that really look good but there are some others that I question, no meat but deep fried. I, as you are, look at the whole picture. Is it healthier for you, is it a fad, or does it bring some great things to make and eat during the day? Let me know if you make something really good.

I can't not post recipes because they are out of someone Able's book but I can post a picture.

I will let you know if I lose any weight at the end of the month and what my bodyfat scales flashes at me.  I have a fitbit scale so it logs it every time I step on it for the good or bad.  It was expensive so it still lives in my house.  Sometimes I look at the scale as a mini Jillian Michaels.  There are days it say Good job!!  and others when it says- hey buddy? what's up?  What's going on?  Looks like we have a problem and what can we do about it?  My scales doesn't yell at me because it knows better.  Roam was not built in a day.  I just keep thinking about all the positive I am doing and push forward.  I know there are still fat rolls but I am done pointing them out. 

I am also done with the need to empty the pot.   If there is a little left in the pot, toss it or save it for lunch the next day.

I also downloaded the C-5K app and want to do a really fun 5K this summer.  So far I can get 2 miles in about 30 min +1-2.  Sometimes we just need to look at some tools that may or may not be free and pick 1 thing and stick with it.  Others I chat with have used the C-5K and with good results so I am giving it a test.  I need to also do some fun things so I am off to zumba tonight.

I am following   http://whatdietnext.com/12-diet-plan/  
I find it interesting as we test out some of these diets that hit the news.  Do they work?? What is the good, the bad and the ugly of these diets,  On the show - My diet is better than yours I am just not thinking the yoga vegan person would not of been for me. I will post some pictures of Easter dinner where I am trying to add some wild foods.