Quick update

Just a quick update on my EODD adventures. I’m definitely doing better on the eating plan than I am on keeping this updated.

Last week was rough in general. Found out that Mondays with the kids are the hardest for me to eat EODD style. I new I tended to eat whatever I’m feeding them so I could avoid that automatic thing. What I didn’t expect was that I’d miss the shake and throw the whole day off from there.

Speaking of shakes! I figured out that part of my problem was that I was using brown rice protein powder which is extremely gritty/chalky compared to
thd whey powder a friend gave me to sample. I figured being able to get twice the protein per scoop would be cool not realizing the texture difference! I had notice that some protein powders upset my stomach in the past which is why I thought the rice powder my be good. I have not tied the whey powder to any intestinal distress yet, so I’m thinking I’ll play with different protein powders and see what I see.

Otherwise I’m just playing with timings of thd different mini meals. My day is skewed compared to most people so it often makes meal times hard to figure out. Plus, I don’t always have the right mini meal ready when I’m ready so the order occasionally gets swapped.

This week I’m concentrating on getting my evening meal’s protein level up where it needs to be. 25-50 g of protein is a lot! I don’t recall what I found for black bean protein content but I’m pretty sure I’m not eating enough of them at once to get that much protein!

How are you doing on your nutrition goals? Are you enjoying the EODD? Let me know so we can support one another.

Second feed day and beyond

Yesterday was my second scheduled feed day and I took full advantage of it. Lunch was a big salad, pasta, pasta salad, and enchiladas w/sour cream. A little carb heavy, but yummy!

Last night I was lazy and did turkey sandwiches for dinner. Again, a bit carb heavier than I’d like for EODD.

This morning I followed the protein and somewhat the produce content with eggs scrambled with black beans and cilantro. Good stuff!

I’m off to find the almond.
Eat well and enjoy your day!

Still going strong

Yesterday went well. This morning I remembered to do my 9 mins *before* my shake.

I have to figure out this shake thing. Had more sludge this morning. Maybe I’m just not being generous enough with the water. Dunno.

The afternoon got things out of order since I couldn’t find the stash of almonds and I did have an apple with me on the car. Ended up with pistachios at my desk. Not sure that’s quite what Benson had in mind.

Oh bother. I’d meant to get my body fat measured today. Will have to see about that on Tuesday.

Dinner was romaine with cooked black beans (because they were there) and a big bowl of brown rice, black beans, with some cheese on top. I’m still considering a second bowl.

I haven’t done the calcs to see how much protein this heap has in it. All the more reason to eat a second serving!

Tomorrow is a feed day — intentionally placed on the potluck day!

How is everyone else doing with their EODD?

Lessons learned — EODD day 2

Well, yesterday went fairly well, even though it was not at all what I’d planned.

Had my snacks on the right timing and then when I expected samosas for my feed meal I ended up with pistachios and pomegranate juice. Had to go with my backup plan of the cold pizza from the night before.

Because of the timing of what else was going on last night I had several carrots while driving back and forth to return my parents’ truck and then had my protein meal of turkey and cheese wraps on whole wheat tortillas with homemade salsa. I suspect the cheese was stretching the “lean protein” a bit.

This morning I realized my shopping had gone awry as well, so I made a random shake with cucumber, tomato, and rice protein powder. One word: blech! I added water to make it drinkable and honey to make it palatable. And after all that struggle realized I’d forgotten my lesson from yesterday and realized again that I should have done my 9min morning exercise sequence before filling my belly with that much liquid.

Today’s lesson (which I will remember): don’t make up your own shakes w/o the experience from having followed the recipes in the book for a while. That and check your produce to make sure it is good by itself (the cucumber seeds were bitter, which didn’t help the overall concoction.)

Mañana.

EODD for reals

Inspired by a facebook conversation with my friend KatieHS I am getting serious about stripping off the squishy middle bits and putting more functional muscle on this skinny geek frame of mine.

Katie and I are committing to 10 weeks of the “Every Other Day Diet” – which puts us out to Thanksgiving. I’ve used my friend Jon Benson’s protocols loosely before, so since I’m going to actually follow the plan, as written, I’m diving straight into the Lifestyle 2 plan with feed days on Wednesdays and Saturdays which coincides nicely with the social eating that I already do.

After re-reading bits of EODD last night I made myself a shake this morning using what I had on hand — protein powder, water, and frozen peaches. I’ve got plenty of goodies on my shopping list for today, so tomorrow’s shake with be much less, um, gross.

My snack/mini-meals are set for today and I just need to figure out protein to go with the samosas tonight. Oh, and for tomorrow I need to remember to do my 9min morning exercises before dumping this much liquid in my belly!

Are you ready to play along?

WPMUDev plugins/contest

I’ve been looking at options today for moving a client’s ning site to WordPress. In my searching, I ran across BuddyPress.org, BuddyDress.com, and WPMUDev.com.

BuddyPress is a plugin to create a social networking type site.
BuddyDress has a bunch of premium themes for BuddyPress.
WPMUDev is the parent of BuddyDress and includes all those themes plus a ton of plugins.

What caught my eye thus far is the BuddyPress Social theme and the Ning to BuddyPress plugin. While scouting for the theme I ran across their contest and figured I’d share the link love for the chance to win a year subscription.

I played a bit with FireBug to tweak the Social theme on their demo site and the colors should be easily changed — including the “gradient” since it is just a transparent png with various opacity over the <div> background color. If they don’t have a built-in option it’ll be straight forward to change the CSS file and get instant color changes.

The only downsides I’ve heard on the Ning user import plugin are that it only works on WPMU installs (not standard single site installs) and that while it does it all for importing users it doesn’t get any of the ning site content. The first was solved and posted by Don somebody, but the second is limited by ning’s closed nature and the lack of API or export function for the rest of a ning site’s content. It could be done, but it’s a lot more scraping of the site than just pulling user avatars and entered data.

Overall BuddyPress looks cool and the stuff that they’ve built over at WPMUDev makes it even cooler. (Now to finish bidding the job so I get to play with them while getting [directly] paid for the gig!)

Morning

1000h – 0.5L water, Energy Boost, ginseng, ginko, acai, D3, stress B/C, elderberry, echinacea.

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Evening

Another 0.5L water around 2200h.
Popcorn in the car around 2300h.

Salad, greek dressing.
Mixed vegetables.

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Water

Been sitting in the dungeon working at the computer too long. Hands are cold and neck is stiff.

Drank another 0.5L+ and am pondering going home to eat real food rather than the random bready stuff that I need to remove from my desk.

Am eating an apple and heading back down into the depths.

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Food+excercise log

Today I decided to go really low carb and focus on real food protein and produce. Maybe I’ll delve into the background later, but the short version is that I pretty much self medicate with carbs and I don’t want to deal with the crashes from the addictive behavior.

So, I decided to keep a log of my eating and excersize where I can get accountability and share with others what is and isn’t working for me.

Thus far today I had a scoop of Brown Rice Protein Powder in orange juice (around 1100h) with my usual morning supplements (Ginko Biloba, Ginseng, Acai, Echinacea, D3) and my Time Release Energy Boost. I also had air popped popcorn in the car about 1300h.

Wasn’t paying attention to how much water I drank this morning, but it was at least 0.5L with the capsules. Just had another 0.5L and am munching on some raw almonds.

Notes: need more almonds at my desk, need to find other juices/fruits for my morning “shake.”

Celebrate: consciously avoided the candy bowl on the secretary’s desk, am drinking at regular intervals rather than being a camel.