Monday, November 24, 2003

South Beach Diet Day 6 I realized that I've been faithfully sharing with everyone what I'd been eating every day but not what I was feeling. I'm pretty creative with food and normally don't use a lot of fat when cooking. My weakness is carbs, things like tater tots, mac and cheese, rich, frosted brownies with nuts, basically things like that. When working out with my trainer I used to follow a really strict low-carb diet and had great results, but it was SO strict and SO limited that I began to get bored. That's why I decided to try this diet. The food choices are varied and it hasn't been difficult. I'm not hungry and when I am I can choose between different snacks like nuts, cheeses or veggies, and the goal is to feel full without stuffing yourself. Today for breakfast I had a 2-egg seafood omelet with lump crab meat, salmon and oven-roasted veggies including zucchini, red and orange peppers, asparagus and onion. I also had some vegetable juice. I wasn't even hungry for lunch and was at school and then yoga so I skipped it and went directly to my yoga class. For dinner I went to the store and bought a top-sirloin steak and asked them to grind it for me like hamburger, which they were so nice to do for me. Earlier I had cooked some black beans and when I got home I fried the ground steak with jalapenos, onions, garlic and spices and added that to the black beans to make chile. I'm from the Southwest and I love New Mexican foods like green chile, soapapillas etc... And I really missed tortillas with the chile, but it was great overall and very satisfying. This is so easy, it's like I normally eat except I have cut out all pasta, high-fat dairy, bread, flour-based products, sugars and fruits, at least for the next two weeks. You can do the first part for two weeks or longer but they recommend not longer than four because it's so strict. I'm thinking I will stay on it for three weeks because I'm getting great results and then I will start on Phase II, which is when you dribble back in the good carbs, things like apples, whole-grain breads and the like.   7:52:34 PM    Gimme your feedback! []

Dean Does the White Boy Shuffle                                                                                                    Girl, I hear ya' Howard Dean, denizen of Park Avenue and former governor of the whitest state in the country now claims that he's got "soul." In a recent interview, Dr. Dean summed up his relationship with black voters the way he had at a dinner with black leaders in South Carolina: "I've got soul." "I don't know what I mean by that — I wish I could tell you," he said in the interview. "There's something in me that gets it." What, exactly, is "it" that ol' Howie gets? When he was babbling about white guys with confederate flags on the back of their pickups it didn't seem like he was "getting it" very well. His campaign staff, volunteers and supporters are almost universally white and someone who grew up in wealth and privelege like Howie isn't one likely to have many interactions with blacks, unless they were cleaning his family's Park Avenue co-op. Maybe Howie spent a lot of time with the bruthas and sistas when he spent that long, life changing period in Aspen advocating for civil rights on the ski slopes. Yes, that must be it. Howie's got something all right, but I wouldn't call it "Soul" and I don't know many people who would either. 10:44:10 AM    Gimme your feedback! []

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