It’s not a nothingburger! It’s a tasty, tasty grilled pork burger. I had it for dinner with cucumber salad and tomatoes on the side.
The burger itself got horseradish sauce, onion and lettuce. It was so good it didn’t need anything else!
Alas the angle of my photo doesn’t show how delicious the burger looks. That’s a lesson for next time. At some restaurants they leave the top bun off just so you can see the full burger glory. That would have worked, too.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – fried chicken (200); bread (120); crackers (80);
- 400 calories
Lunch – meatballs (280); cheese (70); Ole wrap (50); Reese’s candy (170);
- 570 calories
Dinner – pork burger (450); roll (200); cucumber salad (40);
- 690 calories
Snacking – chocolate (40);
- 40 calories
Total for the day: 1700 calories (limit 1700)
A high calorie day!
1700 calories doesn’t sound like a lot for a whole day for a man in his 40s, does it? But it’s more than it appears. A year ago I was losing a lot of weight eating 1850 calories per day. It’s just I have become less active with all the corona virus restrictions. I am also burning fewer calories now, since I weigh 100 pounds less than when I started.
These are things that comes up on a long term plan to control your weight. I don’t say diet, it’s a bad word for me. I associate dieting with deprivation and heavy use of willpower. I can’t handle that, as I have shown many times. I never lost any real weight that way.
Almost two years ago, I decided I needed a new set of values and a new life built around those values. That life would have to be attractive so I would want to keep it going. I would have to negotiate with myself (!) to find out what I wanted. And I had to come up with a system of rewards to keep myself happy and encouraged so I wouldn’t feel unhappy and deprived.
What I came up with was a mental transformation and a new lifestyle. Now I prize hunger, instead of being full. I want to be hungry going into a meal because I will enjoy it more. When I was gaining weight, I would never pass up cookies or cake at the office, because being full was associated with good feelings. Now, I actually *throw away* cookies and cake that I didn’t like very much. They were wasting my time with bad cookies! I’m not going to get good and hungry (which takes work) and reward myself with bad-tasting food.
Mental transformation has worked for me and I have had a great time and have enjoyed getting hungry and then eating restricted portions, while losing weight. That’s only half of the puzzle. Negotiation with yourself is also important.
-The Doctor