Greg's Running Blog

Today I ate great again despite the sabotaging efforts of my wife. Breakfast was yogurt and almonds. For lunch I didn’t have time to prepare anything so I took a bag of 90 second brown rice with me and 6.4 oz pack of albacore tuna. Added a cup of broccoli to it and it was an awesome last minute no effort meal. I’ll definitely make it again when I’m strapped for time. Nutrition doesn’t get much better than this for a fast meal. It will cost you more than the dollar menu at McDonald’s but it sure is better for you with huge amounts of protein, carbs and very low saturated fats. Kind of the exact opposite of a double cheeseburger.

For dinner I was planning on eating shrimp with the remaining brown rice and some veggies but my wife made chicken in a paprika cream sauce. I really like the stuff and the chicken is not bad for you, only the sour cream and flour in the sauce but she uses that in moderation too so it’s not entirely bad. It’s certainly more calories than shrimp so I had to give up the brown rice and have only veggies with the chicken and sauce to stay within the calories. I have traded carbs for fats but it was OK. Kept the wife happy and it was a tasty dish.

I’m also happy to announce that my no longer obese. Based on BMI, which I don’t believe in, I’m now at 29.6 which is below the 30 threshold for obese. I’m just simply overweight. And the funny part is that I’ll stay there until I get all the way down to my target weight of 160 lbs which will be the high end of normal. Based on my current muscle mass I’ll be at 9% BF at 160lbs and I will look pretty good. Doubt anyone would call me the top of the normal range. But BMI works in such a jacked up way and this is why I don’t give too much credit for it.