Gained a pound since yesterday. I guess that’s the Good Sweet Lord Crying Baby Jesus burning me for enjoying a single beer last night, despite finishing the day 300 calories under my 2-pounds-a-week rate. (By which I mean: in order for a 265 pound man to lose 2 pounds in a week, I need to take in approximately 2231 calories per day; yesterday I ate 2235, but also burned about 323 calories exercising.) Still, I’ve been good so far today, including a long walk over lunch, and I’ve done a little research at work into tasty recipes with minimal calories.
I came across this one, from Alton Brown: Vegetable Curry. Some calculation seems to indicate it has less than 700 calories in the entire recipe, which purports to contain two normal-human servings. Obviously I’ll just eat the entire thing in one sitting and then look around for more, just like I do with bacon. Still, it starts with a pound of frozen veggies, yogurt, a little vegetable oil, and that’s about it from a calorie perspective. It calls for about thumbnail-scoop of sugar and a bit of cornstarch, not enough to greatly affect the diety-awesomeness. The end result is probably about a pound of deliciousness! I’m super-excited to try and make it.
Meanwhile, my father’s day present has arrived a few weeks early: a basketball hoop! I’m hoping to
- Lose a little weight slammin’ and jammin’ in the driveway
- Teach Charles an unstoppable pull-up jumper
- Try not to injure myself.
I intend to assemble it this weekend; if you are ready to go one-on-one against the unstoppable basketball force that is The Hearn, you just let me know, player. And prepare to be sweated on. (I mean that quite literally.)
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