I love you, Fatty Fatty

I've gone on here before about the absurdity of some people's continued obsession with "low fat" foods as a key to dietary balance. Between the processing it takes to make what was once relatively whole foods into fractionated "diet" food and the ill health brought on by the imbalance as well as trying to make up for the dearth of flavor and satisfaction created by removing fat (hello, Snackwells!), it's very satisfying to see trend pieces that tout an increase in the consumption of foods that retain it's fat.

Public health authorities have long urged Americans to cut back on foods high in saturated fat like butter, meat and whole milk. But a new report on dietary-fat consumption suggests that the public is increasingly eating more, not less, of these foods.
The new report, which was published last week by the Credit Suisse Research Institute, found that sales of butter in the United States rose 14 percent last year and climbed another 6 percent in the first three months of 2015. Sales of whole milk rose 11 percent in the first half of this year, while skim milk purchases fell 14 percent. The report also predicted that consumption of red meat and eggs would climb in the coming years.
The trends reflect what appears to be a shift away from processed foods and toward those that are considered more wholesome, even when they contain saturated fat and other macronutrients that were once vilified as unhealthy, such as dietary cholesterol, said Stefano Natella, the Global Head for Equity Research at Credit Suisse and an author of the new report.
“I think this is part of a trend toward more natural foods — more organic, unprocessed and simple foods,” he said. “All these foods have a natural characteristic attached to them. Full-fat milk sounds a lot more natural to people than 2 percent or skim milk. Cows don’t produce skim milk. You have to process it to take out the fat.”

Regardless, when you get down to it, regardless of what macronutrient is vilified or celebrated, the cornerstone of any shift in nutritional thinking needs to be "all things in moderation". We shouldn't start slamming pints of heavy cream and start banning any and all sugar from our diets; we should perhaps make small changes, see how we feel as individuals, and slowly change our own diets accordingly.

Despite the rant below criticizing the federal school lunch program, I'm grateful there IS a school lunch program, happy people in government are actively doing something, and Michelle Obama is fantastic. OK?

But of course, when it comes to BIGG GUBBERMINT, such nuanced and micro-tweaks are impossible when trying to feed almost every single child 5 to 10 times a week in a school cafeteria.

MORE than 30 million children trundle through school cafeteria lines every day in the United States and thanks to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which took effect in 2012, they are no longer served greasy pizza, salty French fries and sauced up chicken wings. Meals must now be lower in fat, calories and sodium and contain lean proteins, more fruits and vegetables and whole grains. And kids from coast to coast are wrinkling their noses.
Food and nutrition directors at school districts nationwide say that their trash cans are overflowing while their cash register receipts are diminishing as children either toss out the healthier meals or opt to brown-bag it. While no one argues that the solution is to scrap the law and go back to feeding children junk, there’s been a movement to relax a few of the guidelines as Congress considers whether to reauthorize the legislation, particularly mandates for 100 percent whole grains and extremely low sodium levels, so school meals will be a bit more palatable and reflective of culinary traditions.
“Other than mandating more fruits and vegetables, the new regulations haven’t really changed anything except force manufacturers to re-engineer products” so they meet the guidelines but not children’s taste expectations, said Bertrand Weber, director of culinary and nutrition services at the Minneapolis Public Schools. “Now kids get whole grain doughnuts — whoop-de-do.”

The guidelines of the school lunch program is not keeping up with current nutritional thinking. They're cutting fat, cutting salt, cutting sugar -- three things kids love, and adding things kids hate -- fruits & veg. What they SHOULD be doing is using their economic power to get higher quality whole ingredients, amping up the good fats and flavor and reducing portion size. Paying for on site from-scratch cooking rather than pre-fabricated space-meals from a central commissary will be more expensive, but the kids will like it more, it will taste better and be fresher, and in the end serve it's purpose -- feed our kids good, not save a buck or allow Big Food untold profits. 

Fat is good for food, for flavor, for health, for kids. Anecdotally speaking, too many women (and, uh, "metrosexual" men) of my generation seem to conflate healthy eating, low-fat food and femininity itself. I hope my daughter (and my son) figure out for themselves what foods make them healthy and happy before a profiteering harpy like Susan Powter comes along and messes it up for everyone.

Never forget.

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WEEKLY AVERAGE: 2593

Not a bad week, not a good week. Livin' it.

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BIKE CREDIT: 1140
MONDAY COUNT: 2110

SLEPT: 8:30pm-6am, 9.5 hrs

AM SNACK: 6:30 am, iced black chai tea

BREAKFAST 1: 9:45am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 11am, steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal

BIKE SNACK: 1:30pm, homemade granola bar, 320 cal

BIKE SNACK: 2:40pm, homemade granola bar, 320 cal

BIKE LUNCH: 3:45pm, subway veggie patty hero, corn chips, diet coke, 750 cal


DINNER: 6:30pm, mahi mahi, roasted asparagus, poppa salad, 650 cal

EVENING SNACK: 7:30pm popcorn, +/- 400 cal

HUNGER SNACK: 8pm, kind bar, 200 cal, 9/10
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TUESDAY COUNT: 2820

SLEPT: 9:30pm-6:15am, 8.75hrs

AM SNACK: 6:30 am,  iced black chai tea

BREAKFAST: 9:45am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10:45am, fruit smoothie, 450 cal

LUNCH: 1:30pm, sardines and avocado on whole wheat toast, chicken soup, momma salad, pickles, 720 cal

PM SNACK: 3:45pm. cheezits, 210 cal

DINNER: 6:45pm, French Bread Pizzas,  poppa salad with dressing, 1080 cal

HUNGER SNACK: 8pm, kind bar, 200 cal, 8/10
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WEDNESDAY COUNT: 2795

SLEPT: 9:30pm-6am, 8.5 hrs

AM SNACK: 6:15am, iced black chai tea

BREAKFAST: 8:30am, 2 sausage patties of indeterminate animal and 4 mini pancakes, +/- 200 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10:30am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

LUNCH: 1:30pm, grilled chicken, poppa salad, 700cal

PM SNACK: 2:30pm, momma salad, cheezits, 310 cal

DINNER: 8pm, burrito, diet coke, ice cream, +/- 1425 cal
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BIKE CREDIT: 735 cal
THURSDAY COUNT: 2560

SLEPT: 11:30pm-6:45am, 7.25 hours

AM SNACK: 7am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 9:30am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10:15am, steel cut oatmeal, 450 cal

BIKE SNACK: 11:45am, homemade granola bar, 325 cal

LUNCH: 1:45pm, cheezits, poppa salad with dressing, 410 cal

PM SNACK: 2:30pm, kind bar, 200 cal

PM SNACK: 5pm, 1 slice streetza, +/- 500 cal

PM SNACK: 8pm, watermelon +/- 400 cal

DINNER: 9:30pm, instant ramen, 850 cal
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FRIDAY COUNT: 2680

SLEPT: 11:30pm-6:30pm, 10am-1:30pm, 10.5 hours
An active night with not the deepest sleep, good thing I had no where to go but sleep in the morning.

AM SNACK: 1: 7am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST 1: 9am, corn muffin, bacon, +/- 500 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 2:15pm, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

LUNCH: 3:30pm, grilled pork tenderloin on toast, momma salad, 780 cal

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, kind bar, 200 cal

DINNER: 6:30pm, bigos, potato pancake, peanut butter pie & ice cream +/- 1000 cal

Low fat dairy is for self-delusional fatties of all sizes.

Accept no substitutes, imitations, or percentages.

Once upon a time, I was very close to a person who claimed that fat-free Fage Greek Yogurt was just as tasty as full-fat Fage. When we'd have friends over, she'd give them a side-by-side taste test to try to convince them that there was no real difference. Friends would politely choose the full fat version, or try to say something politically sensitive like, "Well, they're both yummy in different ways." 

I don't eat a lot of dairy, but when I do, it's full fat. I don't purposefully avoid dairy, except for the reason that it's relatively high-calorie, makes my stomach go funny when I eat it with meat or fish,  and it's been squeezed out by the preponderance of fiber-rich, water-filled vegetables in my diet. Milk shakes, cheeses and souffles, I ain't got time for that.

When dairy meets hamburger in mah belly. The Kosher police, perhaps?

Since the beginning of the attempt to right my health through a combination of physical activity and (mostly) better eating, I've gone by the theory that whole, unprocessed food is better than fractionated, processed food in all classes of foodstuff, including dairy. Ideally, if I'm going to ingest something as strange and unnatural as the mother's milk from a whole other mammal, it would be best from their teat to my mouth. 

Oh Tom Green, your hilarious foibles exposing the ridiculousness of every day life, how we miss you so.

But that's not how it works, for the same reason we don't keep and slaughter our own pigs and cows in our studio apartments. Modern dairy is already pretty damned processed -- after being mechanically milked, the product is cooked a.k.a. pasteurized, which makes it both safe and dead, then it's separated into it's components. The components are then measured back into different batches, to make consistent cream, half and half, "whole" milk, 2%, 1%, fat-free, etc, then shot through a pressurized cannon at high speed against a wall to make all the fat globules stick to the water molecules (homogenization). Supposedly "whole" milk is close to the natural fat content of the original pre-processed product. I've had raw milk before, and it's quite delicious, and quite illegal, but that's for another post.

RIP ODB: he liked it raw.

So it's nice to hear new research that confirms my hypothesis: if you want to be healthier and happier, avoid fat-free dairy all together and just eat a calorie-correct amount of full-fat dairy. NPR has been touting a couple of recent studies that people who eat fat-free dairy are fatter than those who tend to eat full-fat dairy.

It's not clear what might explain this phenomenon. Lots of folks point to the satiety factor. The higher levels of fat in whole milk products may make us feel fuller, faster. And as a result, the thinking goes, we may end up eating less.
Or the explanation could be more complex. "There may be bio-active substances in the milk fat that may be altering our metabolism in a way that helps us utilize the fat and burn it for energy, rather than storing it in our bodies," Miller says.

The science just isn't there yet to say exactly why, but the evidence is mounting to say exactly what.

The entire marketing push behind "fat free" and calorie-reduced food is not for your health or even to help you control your weight. The reasoning behind these hyper-processed foods is to encourage you eat more without fear of gluttony, or at best keep you eating (spending) the same amount while giving yourself a virtuous illusion. To paraphrase Pollan and the new foodists, the real solution to our obesity woahs is to eat real food, and less of it.

There is too much nutritional mystical mumbo jumbo out there -- the fact is the science has yet to be funded and uncovered. We're still in the hang-over phase of the 80s, where fat was declared the enemy and Susan Powter was a thing. (Carbs were the enemy of the '00s and some vegans are trying to make protein happen. Cut it out, vegans!) 

Not gonna happen.

When one macro nutrient is declared the enemy, it opens up a field for the marketers to sell you on another macronutrient (hello, evil sugar-filled fat-free Snackwells!) It serves no one's profits to tell you the truth, because that would set you free from the need for marketing -- just eat less, dummy. And maybe cut out the foods that you find compulsively tempting, like certain laboratory-tested combinations of sugar, salt and fat.

Twice a week, I eat my full fat Fage, and it's rockin'. Some people (mostly female) complain it's too rich, like that's a problem. Easy solution -- eat less of it. This is my recipe for perfect breakfast yogurt, which I eat twice a week:

• Fage Total -- 110g
• Honey -- 5g
• Vanilla extract -- 1 to 2 tsp
• Almonds -- 28g

Mix all together, eat. 285 calories. It's a tiny amount of honey, less than 1/3 of a teaspoon. It doesn't make the yogurt sweet, but it is powerful enough to knock out all the bitter top notes of this rather tart product. It's a small portion, but it's full o' protein & fat and it satisfies until lunch.

Of course, with the Fage taste test of fat free vs full fat, it's a ridiculous notion -- food with fat tastes better than food without fat because we are biologically programmed that way.  It's not a choice, but I guess self-delusion is not a choice, either. But hey, this is a food blog with some personal stuff, not a personal blog with food stuff, so I'll quit it. Fage Total roolz!
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PORN!! Urmagerd! (Safe for work. You trust me, right?)

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WEEKLY AVERAGE: 2690

Something is afoot. Looking at the numbers, yes, I started out on track then as the week went on, the numbers kept on going up. However, due to some things outside the scope of this blog, my eating over the weekend was a lot less....compulsive? Wild? Over the top? Certain emotional components are shifting, suggesting my over-eating was a symptom of a seemingly unrelated issue, not the issue itself. Perhaps this will be the topic of it's own entry, but for now, I'll just take it as it comes.

MONDAY COUNT: 2050

SLEPT: 8:30pm-5am, 8.5 hrs
Presidents day, no work or school. Lifted weights in the early AM, caught a good yoga class with the HVS later in the morning. Despite such an unstructured day, was able to keep my eating tight. After the last few weeks of multiple disruptions, just needed a tight day to feel good about things. Hopefully I can roll this into an entire tight week.

AM SNACK: 5:30 am, iced green tea, 0 cal

BREAKFAST: 7:15am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10:45am, steel cut oatmeal, 300 cal

AM SNACK: 11:30am, spicy pickle, 10 cal

LUNCH: 12:45pm, sardine & avocado on whole wheat toast, health salad, pickles, 600 cal

PM SNACK: 2pm, momma salad, 100 cal

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, cashews, 170 cal

DINNER: 6:30pm, 2 pieces tilapia, asparagus , poppa salad with homemade Italian dressing,  590 cal

EVENING SNACK: 6:45pm, pizza crackers from graze box, water, 120 cal

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TUESDAY COUNT: 1930

SLEPT: 8:15pm-6am, 9.75 hrs
Good friend E came over with wine and shared dinner with me, then helped with the evening routine. Despite later night hunger, it helped me not indulge in any food. Second day of keeping' it clean!

AM SNACK: 6:30 am, iced green tea, 0 cal

BREAKFAST: 7:30am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10am, Fage whole yogurt with honey, almonds and vanilla, 285 cal

LUNCH: 1pm, chicken meatballs, steamed string beans, madras lentils, pickles, 680 cal

PM SNACK: 3 pm, momma salad, with baguette crackers and BBQ relish from graze box, 185 cal

PM SNACK: 4:30pm, poppa salad with homemade Italian, 150 cal

DINNER: 6:30pm, chicken breast, roasted brussel sprouts, kimchi, half glass of wine, 470 cal
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WEDNESDAY COUNT: 2435

SLEPT: 10:30pm-6am, 7.5 hrs
Though I busted the budget, I did not lose control or eat compulsively. Though I intended to stop after dinner, I still felt honestly hungry, recognized it as such, and had a snack that did not set me off. -pats self on back-

AM SNACK: 6:15am, iced green tea, 0 cal

BREAKFAST: 7am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10:30am, steel cut oatmeal, 300 cal

LUNCH: 1pm, chicken sausage, brussel sprouts, sofrito black beans, pickles, 600 cal

PM SNACK: 3 pm, momma salad, cinnamon pretzels  from graze box, 235 cal

PM SNACK: 5pm, poppa salad with homemade Italian dressing, 150 cal

PM SNACK: 6pm, cashews, 320 cal

DINNER: 8:15pm, shirataki stir fry with shrimp, shitaki mushrooms and oyster sauce, 360 cal 

EVENING SNACK: 8:45pm, cheetos, 300 cal
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THURSDAY COUNT: 3590

SLEPT: 10:30pm-4:30am, 6 hrs
Woke up earlier than expected, took the time to concentrate on weight lifting and cleaning up the house. Woke up unusually hungry, too, guess the cheetos last night didn't do much damage. Unfortunately in the evening, I fell off. Got home late, felt good but it was a combination of real hunger, tiredness, emotional turmoil and…that secret sauce of compulsion. Ugg. Not gonna beat myself up, tomorrow is a fresh start.

AM SNACK: 4:45am, iced green tea, 0 cal

BREAKFAST: 7am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10:30am, Fage Total with honey, vanilla, almonds, 285 cal

LUNCH: 1pm, chicken breast, quinoa, health salad, pickle, 710 cal

PM SNACK: 3 pm, momma salad, herby crackers  from graze box, 190 cal

PM SNACK: 4:15pm, poppa salad with homemade Italian dressing, 150 cal

PM SNACK: 5:30pm, cashews, 160 cal

DINNER: 7:30pm, Subway 6" veggie burger sub, diet coke, 435

EVENING GORGE: 9:30pm, 2 bowls of cheetos, 2 portions of ziti, a few spoonfuls of almond butter & chocolate syrup, +/- 1500 cal
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FRIDAY COUNT: 3445

SLEPT: 12am-6am
As expected, my stomach was a bit off this morning but I made myself do the juice. Swapped out an early fruit smoothie for a lighter yogurt breakfast later.

AM SNACK: 6:15am, iced green tea, 0 cal

BREAKFAST: 8:15 am, apple/beet/celery/carrot/cayenne/cucumber/ginger juice, 160 cal

BREAKFAST 2: 10:30am, Fage Total with honey, vanilla, almonds, 285 cal

LUNCH: 12:45pm, almond butter & grape jelly on whole wheat, health salad, pickle, 600 cal

PM SNACK: 3 pm, momma salad, smokey gazpacho dip & crackers  from graze box, half a roasted vegetable sandwich, +/-350 cal
Lots of food and sweets floating around the office, including bowls of chocolates in the sinks on the bathroom, grrrrr.

DINNER: 5:30pm, Quarter pounder, fries, diet coke, 1 nugget, some of Edie's fries, an ice cream cone, a cookie, +/- 900 cal

SNICKLE SNACK: 7:15pm, some popcorn, +/- 300 cal

EVENING SNACK: 10pm, 2 small cups of ice cream, cheetos, +/- 850 cal
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WEEKEND REPORT
Nice "warm" weather weekend buried in an otherwise unremitting harsh NYC winter. Got to get on the road bike twice, especially sweet as I just took it home from the shop on Friday, where it had it's once-every-2-years overhaul to make it run like new. Too bad just got a whole set of new salty gunky all up in it.

SATURDAY
SLEPT: 11pm-4am, 5 hrs
BIKE CREDIT: 600 cal

AM SNACK: 4:15am, iced green tea & 100mg caffeine

BIKE SNACK: 6:15am, homemade granola bar

BREAKFAST: 9:45am, sausage mcmuffin, hash brown, water

AM SNACK: 10:15am, chocolate cookies, tea
With Edie at a cute pastry shop

BRUNCH: 12:30pm, french toast, water

PM SNACK: 3:30pm donuts

DINNER: 6pm, box of frozen White Castle burgers

SUNDAY
SLEPT: 9pm-6:30am, 9.5 hrs
BIKE CREDIT: 965 cal

AM SNACK: 7am, iced green tea

BREAKFAST: 8am, pancake, corn muffin, potatoes, bacon, diet coke
Shared with the kids, not particularly heavy

BIKE SNACK: 12:30pm, chocolate bar, 100mg caffeine

BIKE SNACK: 2pm, homemade granola bar

BIKE SNACK: 4:15pm, homemade granola bar

DINNER: 6pm, shrimp burrito, guac & pico with chips, water

EVENING SNACK: 8pm, almond butter & chocolate syrup
Not a huge amount. Found myself honestly hungry and looking for something sweet. Glad I didn't have the Costco 10 lb bag of M&Ms anymore, or I certainly would have gorged. This was a few tablespoons, not a few bowls...

Susan Powter is a Hypnotizing Twinkie

Susan Powter was a big deal in the 90s, along with C&C Music Factory and scrunchies. Before there was a Shamwow or a Tony Robbins, she was something of a mash up: a motivational huckster.

What Susan Powter was not:

• A doctor
• A nutritionist
• A dietician

What Susan Powter was:

• "housewife that figured it out"
• an awfully good, charismatic snake-oil salesperson

Thinking about Susie P yesterday, I did an in depth email survey of a representative segment of S.P.'s target market back then (a.k.a. emailing my wife, B.) I asked her, without internet-thinkin' googling, what her memory of SP was. She said:

powter = shaved head, telling (oprah? some interviewer) about the first time in her life she realized her thighs weren't rubbing up against each other. she was walking in a mall, i think, and she just stopped and started screaming: my thighs! my thighs!

I was impressed. I just remember her lookin' kinda hot in spandex and a butchie haircut, kinda smiling and shouting at people to bend to her will....and the catch-phrase that she hung her empire on: FAT MAKES YOU FAT. B remembered a very personal, charming story, irrefutable and mushy. I only remembered her bald-faced (bald-headed?) lie and, ummm, sex.

According to a lengthy profile in the NY Times at the time,

"It's not food that makes you fat. It's fat that makes you fat," Susan Powter thunders into her microphone, as she is broadcast live on the New York City radio station WPLJ. While she paces the stage, the women watch, transfixed. It's not just that her blond buzz cut so closely resembles Sinead O'Connor's. It's that if you're hungry enough and don't sit too close, she can look like a giant Twinkie.

I don't think SP looks anything like a twink....what's that? It's a what? Oh.

He he, the NY Times made the funny back in the 90s. Twinkies are always funny (twinks, not so much -- do NOT google "twink" without safe-search on). Anyway, remember, Susie P. is not a doctor, nutritionist or dietitian, the same way wonder-mom Jenny McCarthy is not a scientist or biologist, but still does real harm. Fat makes you fat. Hmmm. Let's look at some nutritional thinking from the 90s:

 Fat doesn't make you feel full, while carbohydrates take far longer to do so. Restricting calories doesn't help you to lose weight permanently because it leaves you hungry all the time and most sane people refuse to go to bed hungry when there's plenty of food around.

 Oddly enough, I had 3 strips of bacon instead of a big bowl of kolon-bloe. It was delicious but it didn't feel like enough, despite it having about the same calories at the bloe. My hunger remained in check until when it was supposed to. Of COURSE fat makes you feel full, it has TWICE the calories at carbs. Of course, you dismiss restricting calories and promote carbs, so you can sell a whole lotta junk like:

Sweeeeeet

These fat-free foods held the promise of weight reduction while literally eating your cake, too. Unfortunately, cake without fat is akin to wood pulp and cardboard so they pumped them up with sugar to mask the dull flavor. Even as a kid, I remember eating one of these things and thinking, "nope,too sweet." The sugar enabled these things to have more calories than their full-fat counterparts. The author goes on:

The key is to mix lots of different foods into the same dish, sweeten beans and corns with fruit, such as pineapple or apple slices, grapes or raisins and add lots of spices.

AAAIGH!! EWWWW!! 90s food sucked!! Back to Susie:

"I just spoke at a big conference of the American Medical Association, and I said, 'Please tell me I'm being irresponsible, tell me if I'm saying anything wrong, and I'll stop.' And it was silent. Because the information is all out there. The problem is that no one understands it. I just interpret it. None of this is mine."

The medical establishment didn't object because they were equally in the dark. We now know, due to binging on things like Snackwells and spicy bean & pineapple salad, fat doesn't make you fat -- over consumption makes you fat. Remarkably, despite speaking 19 years in the past, Susie P took a personal jab at me:

"Do we need to keep food records every day?" one woman asks timidly. "Food records!" Powter shrieks. "If you have the time to write everything down, get a job. You have too much time."

A love a lady who speaks her mind, she was. She made untold millions of dollars back in the 90s with a veneer of being anti-diet establishment, but really, she was just a part of it, raking in the big bucks with books, videos, gyms, products, etc etc. In fairness, she did proselytize a lot of things that made sense, such as eating less, against obsessing over scale-readings and women's dependence on men, etc. It was the media and lazy people who perhaps took "Fat Makes You Fat" out of context and put it into quite fattening Snackwells. So what does SP say now?


OOooh, she's hypnotic! She says "Daily Caloric Consumption Chart" sooo many times...must follow the Daily Caloric Consumption Chart. All hail the Daily Caloric Consumption Chart. Chart chart chart. Xenu. Here is the chart she speaks of:

Actually, I already follow the Daily Caloric Consumption Chart. You must obey the Daily Caloric Consumption Chart.

Susie P is pretty much towing the line of today's nutritional establishment. Though as a self proclaimed "Radical Feminist Lesbian", it's not completely shocking she doesn't appeal that much to today's housewives. Looking around her (not very updated) website, I can't help but really like her, though at arms length, the way you like a good friend who has some good ideas, but is susceptible to cults and paranoid conspiracy theories. Huckster? Perhaps. Charismatic? For sure. Saleswoman? The best. Source of advice on diet? Well, she has some really cool stories about walking in the mall with her thighs...

THE COUNT:2500
Started the day off with some surprisingly filling bacon, once it sat in my stomach for about thirty minutes and made me feel full. B hoe late, but gramma was over to help out, and we ordered in Chinese. No idea how many calories, but kept the portions reasonable and the main dish vegetable-heavy, but it's safe to say probably half my budget came from the meal.


AM SNACK: 7am, iced green tea, 25 cal


BREAKFAST: 8:15am, 3 slices of bacon, 300 cal


AM SNACK: 10am, 7oz diet coke, 0 cal

LUNCH: 12:15pm, Stoufer's French Bread pizzas, momma salad, 950 cal

DINNER: 6pm, shrimp & string beans in garlic sauce, veg fried rice, fried wontons, diet coke, water, +/- 1225