Dan Nied's Fortress of Weight Loss: Day 2

What I  Ate Today:

Breakfast

• 2 slices wheat bread
• 4 slices lean turkey
• 2 servings fat free mayo
• Yellow Mustard
• Calories: 270
• Fat: 4 grams

Lunch

• 1 can Campbell’s spaghetti
• Calories: 400
• Fat: 4 grams

Dinner

• 12 inches of delicious Subway Club, yellow mustard, tons of vegetables
• Calories: 640
• Fat: 12 grams

Snack

• A crapload of grapes
• Calories: 100 (100 calories is the default amount I will use when I don’t know the caloric intake of something like fruit, vegetables or fried dough, except that fried dough is probably more than 100 calories, which means I may want to rethink that.)
• Fat: 0 grams

Snack

• 2 slices wheat bread
• 3 slices lean turkey
• 2 servings fat free mayo
• Yellow Mustard
• Calories: 245
• Fat: 3.5 grams

Total Calories: 1,655
Total fat: 23.5

Exercise: A heart-healthy 30 minutes on the old elliptical machine, burned 500 calories. Flirted with working out, but decided against it, partly because I am lazy and partly because… well, mostly because I am lazy.

As we roll into Day 2 on the Fortress of Weight Loss, there is already a big announcement I need to get out of the way. Instead of posting to Blogcritics once a week, as stated in the preamble, I’ve decided to go ahead and post to BC every day. I figured I would present this project in full for as many people as possible, and BC is definitely the best way to do that.

Since that’s out of the way, there is even bigger news to report.

I should preface this by pointing out that the actual first day of the Fortress was on Wednesday, not Thursday as the preamble might have led you to believe. So Thursday morning, I woke up and weighed in on my fancy newish digital scale. It turns out I lost 1.2 pounds in the first 24 hours. Officially, I am down to 297.8 pounds. As you can see, I am conquering this quest right from the start. And let me tell you, I feel pretty damn good about how Day 2 turned out: fewer than 1,700 calories, less than 30 grams of fat. For the first time in at least two months, I am actually looking forward to stepping on the scale Friday morning.

Article Author: Dan Nied

Dan Nied is a journalist, of sorts, living near San Francisco. He is a college graduate, but you wouldn't know it by looking at his bank statement.

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