Alligatorob's Diary

Rob it sounds like you are doing good with your cravings and calories. What are your plans when you retire?
 
Shell, no really specific plans, except to do a cross country trip for 6 weeks or so right after Christmas, probably to Florida with stops in Louisiana and lots of other TBD places. Thanks for asking.

It was a good day, busy we had old friends from Florida fly in for the weekend.

Wednesday

breakfast
yogurt 80
cereal 100
banana 94

lunch yogurt 80
cereal 150
pluton 40

dinner - ate out with friends I was pretty careful, ordered the lowest calorie thing I saw and only ate half the steak and mushrooms
4 oz buffalo steak 112
sauteed mushrooms and peppers 81
salad, no dressing just lettuce and 3 cherry tomatoes, no cheese, no meat, nothing else 70
watermelon 87
beer 156

total calories 1,050

In 1050 Weltenburg Abbey brewery began making beer and has been doing so ever since, making it the (disputed) oldest continuously operated brewery in the world. Or one of them anyway. A significant step forward for civilization.
 
I'll be very surprised if you don't learn to love retirement. It does require some adjustments, but I'm loving it more & more. I wish I could get my brain around dropping my cals down a lot more. 1200 would be good, but I really do get hangry. I coped for 6 months on what was probably a lot less than that, but I couldn't and don't want to do that again. You are SO focussed (just like I was back in 2007)
PS. I don't actually like the taste of beer & neither does G.
 
Oh Rob I had to google pluton and I'm assuming it's a typo otherwise you are eating igneous rock ???
Typo, I meant Pluot, its a plum apricot hybrid. Not eating rocks, not yet anyway.

Actually it wasn't a typo, I just misunderstood the name at first. Not till I looked it up after Petals question that I saw I was using the wrong word. This is the first I had heard of them, and the first I have tried eating, they are pretty good. More like the plum than an apricot.
 
What a horrible name for a delicious fruit :D
I agree, and Pluton flows off the tongue a lot better. Maybe I should stick with that since no one really seems to know the name anyway.

It was a really busy day, took our company out for a long day of desert touring, drove about 40 miles of the old abandoned transcontinental railroad bed and went a bunch of other places. Got home late and a lot of folks came over. I mostly grazed rather than eating meals, other than breakfast, but I think it turned out fine. I feel good about it, maybe it was the two beers?

Saturday

breakfast
milk 50
cereal 200
peach 59

no real lunch, just snacked on things
smoked almonds 130
apple 95
cheese 80
crackers 80
smoked salmon spread 45
cherries (2) 9
grapes (4)12

dinner
the smallest piece of Dominoes pizza I could find 240

2 beers 312

total calories 1,312

Its too late, and I am too tired for history tonight.
 
1312 could mean ACAB, but let´s stick to years. Pope Clement the fifth forcibly disbands the Knights Templar after 5 years of gruesome persecution. Not very clement. Also King Edward the third of England is born. Not the best year if you ask me!
 
Rob I enjoy a snacky kind of day too . However if I ate so little I would be collapsed in a heap on the ground lol . Perhaps the beer does help !
 
I'm agreeing that pluot is an ungainly word, but the common names of new (or existing) fruits/vegetables are pretty much determined by the marketing campaign - as in the marketing of the kiwifruit, formerly known in English as the Chinese gooseberry. (Cleverly done, New Zealand! Not especially admirably, but cleverly.) So we might be stuck with pluot.

(On another topic, carrying over from discussion elsewhere - yes, Lady Godiva was real, and so was her anti-oppressive-tax campaign!)
 
Today was a good day, ate well and I feel good. Our company departed and we are back to our quasi-normal.

Thanks Amy, I did not know the story of the kiwi, I like them but despite trying a couple of times have not been successful in growing them.

Petal, yes I am sure its the beer! You know before I started this diet I would not have though I could live on a calorie intake this low without feeling like I am starving, but surprisingly I don't. I attribute it to eating plenty of fruits and veggies, more than I have ever eaten before. Though today was not as fruit and veggie rich as most and yet as I sit here about to got to bed I am not hungry.

Sunday

breakfast
bread 180
butter 51
banana 94

lunch
8 oz buffalo steak 224

dinner
2 corn on the cobs 310
mayonnaise on the corn 200
dusting of cheese on the corn 25
cherries, not local but good 95 snack banana 94

total calories 1,273

In 1273 Muhammad I was killed in a riding accident and his son Muhammad II replaced him as Sultan of Granada. At that time the Emirate of Grenada extended more or less from the Straits of Gibraltar to well east of the modern day city of Granada. It was the last independent Muslim state on the Iberian peninsula and remained so for over 200 years when it fell to the Catholic monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand. Gibraltar, once a part of the Emirate of Grenada is in British hands today, but that story will have to wait until I start eating a few more calories.
 
We had mini kiwis in the garden when I was a kid, growing against a southern wall. The only thing I can remember (other than them being delicious) is that the guy we bought the plants from messed up the first time around and gave us two males instead of one male and one female.
 
I just love kiwi fruit & G hates them. It seems weird as I love them so much.
Rob, you seem to have got yourself into a rhythm with your eating & must have found the right balance for you. Not feeling ravenous makes such a difference. I think I need to re-train my body to get used to eating less. You are doing very well & entertaining us at the same time. I love your history snippets :)
 
It was a good day, ate well and I feel good. I am enjoying wearing my "new" smaller clothes, mostly the shirts I put away as I was gaining weight. Most of them are 4xls, smaller than the 5xls I was wearing, but still a ways from where I need to be. But I feel like I am getting there.

Monday

breakfast
yogurt 80
cereal 100
banana 94
watermelon 85

lunch
4 oz. buffalo steak 112
sautéed mushrooms and peppers 81

snack
beer 156
jerky 20

dinner - big salad
lots of lettuce 40
cherry tomatoes 36
boiled egg 78
cheese 40
watermelon 85

snack pretzels 95

total calories 1,102

1102 BC is year zero on the Mayan calendar. Some people believed the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world December 21, 2012, but apparently they were wrong. Turns out they just misinterpreted the Mayan long count, turns out that was a special date on the Mayan calendar, the beginning of a new b'ak'tun, the Mayan date 13.0.0.0.0. Putting us in the 13th b'ak'tun, one b'ak'tun lasts 144,000 days. Nothing to do with the end of the world. Today is 13.0.6.13.11. I've gotten pretty used to our calendar, probably won't be changing over.
 
The French tried changing the calendar after the revolution. It didn´t catch on outside of France and it didn´t last long (until Napoleon, perhaps?).
 
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