Day 19-20 and shellfish are now good for us

Last night's dinner: clams with garlic and onions.
Good taste, bad breath!

Thursday's weight: 213.2 lbs
Friday's weight: 212.0 lbs
Goal: 190 lbs

Several days of actual progress with no backsliding.  My wife has been experiencing the same too.

Without much fanfare, we are now on the second Cycle of the 17 day diet.  What does this mean?  On the good side, we get to eat shellfish, not of the fried variety of course.  On the "sounds good but not really too exciting side", we get to eat some starchy vegetables and legumes,  like potatoes, sans all the things that make said starchy vegetables and legumes tasty, like butter.  We can have fat-free sour cream though.  Oh, and only before 2PM.  Yeah, it's like Gremlins.

We are also allowed to have amaranth and quinoa now, as well as breadfruit.  I think I'll pop right over to Market Basket and pick some quinoa up.

That's on odd days.  On even days it's the Cycle 1 foods.  This will be a pain to keep up with.

The exercise part of the diet is still hard to achieve with our schedules.  We're hoping to get in another snowshoeing adventure today, and I'm planning one with some friends tomorrow as well.  Keeping up the energy level for this is hard, but maybe my plain, pre-2PM potato and some grilled quinoa (is that what you do with quinoa?  maybe quinoa kebabs instead?)  will help.

Day 17-18

Tuesday's weight: 214.2 lbs
Wednesday's weight: 214.0 lbs
Goal: 190 lbs

Mostly back on track after our Saturday of feasting.  We were snowed in today and got up rather late, hence the lack of a lunch below.

Breakfast today:
Green tea
"Smoothie" with strawberries and blueberries

We've found that using the frozen packages of fruit gives the smoothies a texture a little more like an actual smoothie.  Or rather that our taste buds are numbed to the point of not noticing that it doesn't have the usual tasty bits like sugar and milk.

Dinner:
Green tea
Whole chicken, baked with yet another spice mix

We ate the skin.  So there diet.  And the dark meat.

Heck, we might even simmer the whole thing and use the stock to make soup.  At this point, we're finding which little departures from the diet as written can work for us.  In truth, I can't stand the notion of letting so much food go to waste on a bird, just because it has a bit of fat (also known as "taste") to it.

We'll be moving on to the second Cycle soon, and some of these little diet breakers might be becoming legal anyway.  Our plan is to read up on it tomorrow and move into it for the weekend.  We've added a couple days to Cycle 1 because of Saturday.

Unshaven and totally out of fashion,
that's how I like it.

Being snowed in did have some benefits though, as we got a chance to explore the woods behind our own back yard on snowshoes today.  The best part of which is having an excuse to lounge around the house in long underwear afterward.

Sorry, no pictures of that available.