Flyer's diary

well today i slept in... 6am ... lol ... yes, that's late for me... i'm usually up at 3am. and son of a gun... i must have slept through that "hunger" time. having a cup of coffee and the world is back to normal. i have a ton of food in the fridge and i could care less.
 
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two ways i can look at this....

second day in a row i "seem" to have gained a pound ... oh, oh... what's going on :(
i haven't see a weight in the 170's for few weeks... :) ... yaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
 
Bagel Pizzas...

Whole Wheat Everything Bagels... i actually have an unbelievable story about this bagel shop. not those fat, doughy grocery store bagels.

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preheat oven to 425° ... usually at ~330° when i get done with prep, but that's ok...

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i use Ragu Hearty Traditional sauce... couldn't find it last time i shopped... maybe just an experiment ... oh well.

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today i just chopped up some onion. if it was closer to when i shopped i'd probably have mushrooms, ...peppers sometimes ...

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mozzarella cheese.... sliced works better than shredded...

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top with a little more sauce, oregano and i added some hot pepper flakes today...

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cook 'em... this first shot is at ~15 minutes... i like them a bit more done...

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after 23 minutes... :) ... find something to do for 8-10 minutes to let them cool... believe me, you'll only make that mistake once.

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breakfast...!

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two more for dinner later on. ... cheers.
 
alt version of pizza bagels...
a lot less of everything, stick them under the broiler for a few minutes...
put a grilled hamburger patty between ... pizza burger... !
 
so that might have been a mistake... had a lot of bacon that i forgot about in the fridge, so it was a bacon, bacon, bacon and eggs day yesterday.... ok, along with some other better stuff. but there could be a silver lining. aside from some random veggies, the fridge is almost bare, so today might be a good day to start a multi-day fast... maybe one day, maybe three... we'll see.

i really haven't kept track of past fasts, but curious if anyone has a routine for their "last meal" before a fast starts. i have a feeling a completely veggie day would be the best and frankly it's all i got, so i'll see how that works out.
 
i seem to be hitting a frustrating quirk with intermittent fasting. when i first started this practice, my eating window typically started about 11am and varied from a 20/4 IF day ending at ~3pm up to about a 16/8 day running my eating window as late as 6-7pm. toward the beginning i was doing a lot of 20/4 to 18/6 days, but withing the past 6 months i've been sticking more to between a 18/6 and a 16/8 IF day .

however, another change has been prevalent these past few months. i cannot seem to start my daily eating window earlier than ~2-3pm and it is getting even worse. today i was moderately busy doing some gardening chores and before i knew it, it was 4pm and i had yet to eat breakfast. as i got done with my chores i did finally get hungry and wound up having breakfast at about 5pm. i had a moderate meal about 8pm and one of my 220 cal snacks around 10pm.

over the past few weeks i'm tried various methods of trying to move my eating window earlier in the day, but it seems useless. a few days i almost forced myself to have something around 10:30-11am, but i wasn't really hungry and even worse, i still wind up having something to eat up until the early evening anyway.

so for now i will surrender to this schedule. the only problem i see is social. there are times when i would like to have brunch or even an early lunch with a friend, but i find it difficult to manage and the last thing i want to do is try to explain my weird habits to someone.
 
well, after all the running around i did yesterday combined with having time for just one meal, i can't say this is a total surprise...

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now comes another question, though. i actually passed my goal weight months ago. for years i was hovering around 210 lbs and all i wanted to do is get back to the low 190's. well i blew past that before i had too much of a chance to even think about it. now i've registered a weight i haven't seen since graduating HS. the BMI chart indicates a 23.1. it would take another 8 lbs to hit a BMI = 22 and yet another 7 fir a BMI = 21.

physically i still have a little gut, but i have to confess, doing a sit-up now and then probably wouldn't hurt.

ever since i hit ~173 i really haven't been trying that hard to actually lose, though i cannot see giving up the intermittent fasting, either. i guess i'll just continue and see where i wind up.
 
made up some new snack packs... 220 cal...

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i took out everything with chocolate... now it's just sesame sticks, pistachios & soy nuts. 15g/14g/10g ... fat/ carb/ protein
 
Hey Flyer, I have been watching your diary, you seem to be nearing a weight maintenance level. I am sure it is harder to lose weight and may be hard to figure out where to end up. I hope one day to get some where near where you are.
 
Today is Wednesday, today is Wednesday, Wednesday soup...
ok, ok... it's Thursday... i did start it on Wednesday, though. :)

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so i tend to add oregano to everything, but today, sadly, i'm out... probably should have realized this before, but it gives the marrow soup a nicer dark color. oh well... it still tastes super!!

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didn't think the 164 would hold up for more than a day, but hey... i haven't seen a 170 in quite a while now. reminds me of the carnival saying... "where it/she stops? ... nobody knows!"
 
i'm a klutz. a few weeks ago i stubbed the same toe three times in one day. if you've ever done this even twice, you know what i mean. ... so, i was looking at my legs this morning and realized... hey... no cuts, no cuts healing up! that hasn't happened in a while. not even 10 minutes later...

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...*sigh*
 
overlandflyer said:
i used to go crabbing up in Cape Cod in the 60's when i was a kid... likely very different now. that one seems a lot bigger than the blue crabs (think that's what they were) we caught
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I had to look it up, I did not realize blue crabs were found as far north as Cape Cod, but apparently they are and people do crab for them there. Florida and the Gulf also has blue crabs and they are both more plentiful and easier to catch than stone crabs. I have caught a lot more blues than stones. I like the flavor of blue crabs as well or better than stone crabs, but they are more work to eat. Maybe its because I grew up eating them but I think both are more flavorful than any of west coast crabs I've eaten.

The blue crab is a swimmer and a predator of fish, so it is pretty fast. It needs good muscle in the body for swimming and that is where most of its meat comes from. You can also eat the claws but they have less meat, and it is not as rich in flavor as body meat. Stone crabs live fairly sedentary lives on the bottom, they are very slow and eat a lot of oysters and clams, those big claws can crush a full size oyster. Result is most all of a stone crab's muscle tissue and meat is in the claws.

Blue crabs are more estuarine, you can find them up rivers and bayous into pretty fresh water. The best blue crabs are caught in brackish water. Stone crabs are pretty much saltwater only, on sandy or rocky bottom dwellers.

The crab in that picture actually has a smaller body than an adult blue crab, but much larger claws, the stone crab has more meat total than a blue. Which is larger is hard to say. Both make great eating!
 
all i remember is that we first stopped at the market and picked up some fish scraps... heads were great. then we went to a place there was a pier going out about 30 feet into a backwater channel... i'm not sure if it was on the bay or the ocean side.

using regular heavy fishing line and just tying the head to the end, we could actually see down to the shallow bottom and when a crab started to feed, pulling it up gently, it would often hold on until we could net them from below. pretty simple method, but far from an easy catch. most of them were very quick and it took a gentle touch.

going out to dig clams in the Bay was definitely my favorite, though. i do remember having to do some swimming coming back in at times. the tides in Cape Cod Bay are quite unusual if you've never experienced them. i have my mother's cookbook... i'll have to see if her Clam Cake recipe is there somewhere. i loved digging clams, but nobody but my mom ate steamers. i was in college when i tried one for the first time and as with most things i'd put off for years, kicked myself for not trying them sooner.
 
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