the new me

for the past 10 weeks my wife has taken an extreme bodyshaping course called 'max-10'. it involves working out every morning at 5:30 AM and eating six small healthy meals everyday. i thought it was totally wacko when i first heard about it, but was intrigued when some friends from work and her all had great results over the summer...the class is officially over and the next session begins in three weeks. i've been inspired to start working out and eating healthy

six months ago if you would have asked me to eat meatballs made of ground turkey, flaxseed, whole wheat bread crumbs, onion, and garlic i would have told you to shut-up and meet me at Buffalo Wild Wings. well last night, guess what i had for supper? yup... you guessed it. meatballs with a sauce of half Ragu and half plain tomato sauce with whole wheat spaghetti and snap peas...holy cow!

i've also started working out every morning...yeah i said it, i'm going to be working back towards fitness over the coming months...i'd really like to see my 60th birthday w/out having open heart surgery!

so here is what I've had to eat today:

breakfast - GoLean instant oatmeal w/ dried cherries & yoplait light yogurt - ~ 300 calories
snack- carrot chips w/ natural peanut butter & string cheese - ~ 300 calories
lunch - leftover lunch from yesterday - ? calories
snack - powerbar - 230 calories

yesterday i had a healthy choice 'steamers' lunch meal that was general tso's chicken, do you konw how many pieces of chicken are in those things? . . . four :( but it is only about 320 calories. it must be good for you?

i'm sure you'll hear more about this diet...oh by the way, i was talking last night with some friends about this diet and we were talking about how the organic food is probably better for you, but the cost is almost prohibitive at times. i made the comment that liz and i eat a lot deer meat and that is about as organic as it gets, however one of them pointed out that the deer meat would probably not be 'certified organic' because the deer could have dined on food that had pesticides on it! HAHA! True...I'm going to be try not to be a freakshow about this health thing.