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Fat Chef gets Fit Day 8

June 22, 2006 on 7:21 am | In Fat Chef gets Fit | No Comments

Update for June 21, 2006

So it went fairly good today, I had a fruit salad, and a spinach salad today.  However I probably had more cashews than I should have.  I have also been drinking lots of water.  I did my walk today and exercises in the evening.  I am up to 18 of each, and I am in such bad shape, that the pushups are starting to kick my butt.  I had hopped they would get easier with time.  The 4 count jumping jacks are good and get my heart beating and make my lungs really work.  So far I have enjoyed working a little bit each day on the challenge.  I even enjoyed coming up with different salads, and dressings each day.  I wanted to thank Chris for his kind words in his pod cast, and meant to mention it yesterdays update.  He brought up an interesting topic on not grazing at the table.  I find that I have that tendency at work to sit and eat anything that is available.  So I have started bringing carrots, and celery to snack on. 

I have never been much of a writer, as a kid, every paper I wrote came back covered in red marks.  Yes I am probably the worlds worst speller.  Luckily we all have our talents and mine just don’t include spelling.  So if for some reason something slips through the spell checker, I apologize.  I am so happy that most kids of today don’t have to worry about spelling quite the same way we did 30 years ago.  However one of the biggest effects of this for me was that I never developed a good writing vocabulary, I only used words that were easy to spell.  So the fact that I am actually writing a blog at all is incredible in its own way.  But the reason behind it makes it (getting fit) worth while.  It takes me quite a while just to write these few sentences each night.  If anyone actually reads this, I would love to hear some feedback.  Hopefully with a little feedback I can improve my writing style and end up with something interesting. 

Tip of the Day:

Are you one of those people who don’t like plain celery, try it with peanut butter, or light cream cheese spread.  What I do is I put the cream cheese mostly on one end.  Then I eat my way towards the end with the cream cheese.  That way I don’t need a lot of cream cheese, but get the lingering taste and texture of the cream cheese in the last bite.

Breakfast: 
Coffee
Cottage cheese with a chunky grilled tomato sauce.

Lunch:    
Coffee
Whole grain bread with light cream cheese.
Carrots and celery
Pear
 
Afternoon snack:
Fruit salad
Cashews and celery
Apple cinnamon tea.

Dinner:
My ever popular citrus spinach salad with sliced almonds, and a citrus honey mustard  vinaigrette.