Dan Nied's 100 Days is the chronicle of one man's quest to improve his health in 100 days. Feel free to email him at nieddan@yahoo.com with any questions or comments you might have.

What I ate today

Breakfast (11 a.m.)
2-3 servings of Special K (spilled ¾ of the first bowl on the carpet. Dumb schmuck)
2-3 servings of skim milk
Calories (3 servings of each to be safe): 600 (probably lower)
Fat: 0 grams

Lunch (2:30 p.m.)
2 slices of multi-grain bread
2 ounces of turkey
2 ounces of roast beef
1 serving of fat-free mayo
Calories: 255
Fat: 5 grams

Dinner (6 p.m.)
1 foot-long Subway chicken breast sandwich
Calories: 640
Fat: 10 grams

Desert (6:20 p.m.)
2 Special K cereal bars (so fucking good. I probably can never buy them again. I am separating these from dinner to make myself feel better)
Calories: 180
Fat: 3 grams

Snack (9 p.m.)
2 servings of baby carrots
Calories: 70
Fat: 0 grams

Total calories: 1,745 (probably less)
Total Fat: 18 grams

Exercise: 45 minutes on elliptical machine, burned 830 calories.

My old roommate Brendan will probably leave a comment telling me I shouldn't do this, but a fat guy only gets so much satisfaction from dieting. He's got to find the joy where he can, especially if he polished off 800 calories at dinner.

But if you take the roughly 1,745 calories I ate today and subtract the 830 calories I burned on a fairly intense elliptical workout, you get 915 calories. If I go to my online calorie burning calculator and put in my stats as a "moderately active" 26-year-old male standing 6-3 and weighing 319 (my new weight as of today) it says I burn 4,243 calories per day. I am thinking that is just from sitting around, and not with any exercise. At least that's what we are going with for now.

So what does that mean? That means that the caloric difference for the day was 3,328 calories. How accurate is that number? How the fuck should I know? What I do know, is that I think this was a pretty good day all around. So there ya go.

Saturday, not so much. Although I stayed within my new rules of cheating.

The new rules, well actually one rule, is this: I will eat no fast food, pizza, fatty things at restaurants and nothing that, in general, I know is stupid (like spaghetti and meatballs or macaroni and cheese). Basically, if I am going to cheat, it's got to be with food that I would actually eat if I wasn't cheating.

After the pizza on Thursday, I decided that I at least had to make an effort to keep the occasional slip-ups within reason. It's one thing to screw up by eating too much roast beef in a day. It's another thing to screw up by eating too many double cheeseburgers in a day.

Saturday I went to evil Wal-Mart for some shopping. A large box caught my eye, it was chicken fajita mix. It had 230 calories and three grams of fat per serving. I thought it was perfect. So I decided that fajitas would be my dinner. All I needed was tortillas (although, I very easily could have skipped the tortillas and just had the chicken, but I'm not that smart). I looked around for the tortillas that would do the least amount of damage.