Resolutions

The thing I’ve niether liked nor understood about New Year’s resolutions is why wait until the 1st? Okay, so if you are going to use the remaining time in the year to for instance, indulge in something you have resolved to stop indulging in, then I guess I get it. But that just seems like a bad idea anyway, oh well.

So my New Year’s eve, eve, eve, eve resolution is to eat better. I eat pretty well as it is, but there are definitely changes that I need to change. Most of these just revolve around consistency, hence the resolution. Here is what I want my daily diet to look like (consider this the base):

• 1 egg, slice of cheese and ham on an English muffin (I fry the egg in olive oil)
• peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
• cereal with soy milk and whey protein powder
• South Beach Diet high protein cereal bars (I only like the chocolate flavor)
• fruit

Some things to note here:

I’ve included everything food-wise above, so for instance there is no butter or margarine on my English muffin. The only beverage I drink is water (1 cup of milk only goes down with the cereal). For those of you who don’t think I eat enough as is (which is pretty much everyone who reads this blog), I eat multiple peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every day. The number usually depends on how much exercise I’ve done.

I would like to point out that I think I eat like a king with this plan. The fat content is hidden from the untrained eye (or mouth I suppose) but don’t worry, the olive oil and peanut butter have loads of (good) fat.

So if I eat so well, why do I need a resolution to eat better? Good question. My problem is I like eating out (at a short list of specific places). I’ve noticed that when I eat out just for the sake of eating out and eating ‘eat-out’ food I always regret it and it never tastes as good. But when I go out just because someone wants to go out it is always great. So the moral of the story is I’m allowed to eat out (I’m allowed to anything I want) but I shouldn’t deviate from my diet just for the sake of eating something different.

As with the walking, I’m going to try and keep a food page updated so everyone who is so inclined can keep tabs on my eating habits. (I will update the walking page as well, there have just been some external issues interfering with that).

Now just so we’re all clear, here are some things that are NOT my New Year’s eve, eve, eve, eve resolutions:

• Blogging every week (who are we kidding)
• Shaving every -insert time frame here- (see blogging every week)
• Losing -insert pounds here- (I’m still losing weight but it is not a priority)

And to update everyone on my January 20th resolution from 2007 (which was to lose 50lbs) I have lost 75.5lbs since.

Do you have a resolution? Post it in the comments!