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Well, it's the third day of my diet and it's the beginning of my travel to Seattle. I'm going to try to moderate my eating while out at Seattle. Being carefull with what I eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I'll try not to be too restrictive, but I'll definately try to pay attention to my satiety.

I've ended up skipping breakfast this morning. That's not a great thing to do, but something that frequently happens.

While it isn't good for my diet, it makes writing up my breakfast pretty easy.

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It's Day Two and I haven't lost any weight. But I'm doing nicely on moderating my food comsumption. I had only half a bagel (with 2 1/2 tablespoons of cream cheese) for breakfast. And here is is 8:50 and I'm only starving. (Not really.) I have noticed that when I get a high proten breakfast, I don't get hungry as quickly.

I didn't drink any tea yesterday. So when I went to make tea this morning, I found last Friday's tea sitting in the tea pot. Not very cool. It was dark brown and slimy. I had to rinse out the pot before I made my next batch of tea.

There is a possibility that I'll be eating lunch at "cheap Chinese" today. If not, I'll be having left overs from yesterday's dinner.

I was correct in the "cheap Chinese" expectation. At our regular "cheap Chinese" restaurant, a large plate of General Tso's Chicken (including fried rice) is only $4.40, including a bowl of very good hot and sour soup. Today's hot and sour soup was extremely hot - in the spicy way. Lunch was quite filling.

Robin really blew our diet away during the evening meal. We went to Ruby Tuesday where we enjoyed a full meal and a yummy Chocolate Tallcake. The meal and the service were excellent.

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Today is the day that Robin and I have started (officially) our diets.

I've needed to moderate my consumption of food and increase my exercise for a while. So it's begun.

I intend to use this blog as a combination Food and Exercise journal as well as comments on the process of dieting. The Mikes (Mike Harris and Mike Sullivan) like to point out that the first three letters of "diet" are "die". I don't think it's that bad. Actually paying attention to my diet (meaning my consumption of food) I will be eating better and that should lead to an improvement in general health and feeling of well being.

I say this as I look into a tub of "rabbit food": lettuce, cabbage and carrots for my lunch. Fortunately, I’ve got a sprinkling of cottage cheese (about ½ a cup) and some croutons on top of the greens. Salt and pepper round out the meal. For dessert, I’ll have my tomato. This is actually a pretty nice lunch. Hopefully, it will be sufficiently filling to carry me easily through to dinner.

I had a really nice breakfast of two eggs, two strips of bacon and ½ of a bagel. I would estimate that there was about 2 ½ to 3 tablespoons of cream cheese on the bagel. According to Ann Collin's Weight Loss site there are 50 calories in a tablespoon of regular cream cheese. Kraft Foods and I wasn't able to find anything from them about the calorie content of their cream cheese. A Google search found a reference to this page but being an Austrailian web page, the calories comment was:

To determine the fat content and calories content for recipes made with cream cheese, check the package. Regular (full fat) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese has 10 grams of fat and 100 calories for a 30g serving. 1/3 Less Fat PHILADELPHIA contains 6 grams of fat and 70 calories per 30g serving.

I did find some interesting features at Kraft Foods' Healthy Living site. They have in their logs and journals sections for "Weekly Way-In", "Interactive Nutition Diary" and "Activity Log" . This could be an interesting resource for people who traveled (or didn't) and wanted to count calories, but didn't want to do everyting by hand.

For dinner I had a wonderful meal cooked by Robin. We had rice, roast pork and stir-fried veggies - peas, green beans, onions and zuccin. Dinner was really delicious.

I was pondering what to have as a dessert / evening snack while staying some what faithful to my diet. I would have liked almost anything somewhat sweet. Chocolate chips melted on digestives was high on my list. As was cake, pie, ice cream. Making a bowl of pop corn corssed my mine, but I thought that I didn't need the three tablespoons of oil that introduced. Then I remembered the apples in the fridge. I had one of them and it meet my desire for something sweet perfectly.

Well I seem to have survived day one.

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