Diet & Exercise Log - Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Breakfast
3 eggs, scrambled
1 cup hot tea with Splenda

Lunch
1 salad (lettuce, broccoli, cucumber, lite ranch dressing)
20 oz. Diet Mountain Dew

Dinner
2 medium hamburger patties
20 oz. Diet Coke
1 tbsp. sugar-free peach preserves

Snacks
2 oz. salted peanuts
2 oz. salted almonds

Exercise
30 minute walk
45 minutes Rock Band drumming

Thoughts
Well, the first day is usually the hardest, and if this is as hard as it gets, I should be alright. I cooked up the eggs last night so that this morning all I had to do was pop them in the microwave and go. That's something I think I'll want to do fairly regularly, as one of my biggest problems was grabbing something fast on my way to work, usually a donut, a danish, or some other sweet snack. I went to the grocery store today and bought eggs and microwavable bacon, so between those two I should be able to keep my breakfasts diet-friendly.

Depending on the quality of the entrees at Westat's cafeteria, I may end up going out for lunch more frequently. The salad I had today was fine, but I doubt I could keep getting salads there without getting bored of them...fast. Even if you keep the dressing off, Chipotle can make a pretty mean salad, and the crucial part would be the well-seasoned meats they offer.

The first post-diet weight is in the books, though obviously it's not going to be a tremendous gainer. I just want to have a day-by-day tracking of this, for kicks.

Day 2 Weight: 333.2 lbs.