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 you might have.
What I ate today
Breakfast (10 a.m.)
1 can of spinach
Calories: 90
Fat: 0 grams
Lunch (1 p.m.)
1 foot-long Subway chicken breast sandwich
Calories: 640
Fat: 10 grams
Snack (6 p.m.)
1 stick of beef jerky
Calories: 150
Fat: 2 grams
Snack (9 p.m.)
1 stick of beef jerky
Calories: 150
Fat: 2 grams
Snack (12 a.m.)
1 stick of beef jerky
Calories: 150
Fat: 2 grams
Total calories: 1,180
Fat: 16 grams
Exercise: None. I am such a rat bastard. I talked and talked yesterday about getting in five good days of exercise, and then I didn’t do it today. Ha. The reason is pretty simple, I was unusually sore from Thursday’s workout. I decided to push Friday’s workout to Saturday. So I will still get in the five days.
It’s pretty easy to tell when I have no food in the house and I am too lazy to go shopping. I eat spinach for breakfast and three sticks of beef jerky in a six-hour span.
Just to go on record here: I’m not even close to including jerky into the regular makeup of this diet, but I will say that it is the perfect thing in a pinch.
I devised the three-jerky plan this afternoon while I was dreading heading back to the basketball tournament and the motherfucking buffet that has tripped me up so much lately. I decided that I needed some sort of substitute for the fried chicken that would be romantically calling my name from under its sinister lid. I didn’t think baby carrots would really hit the spot. So I decided that I would go with the jerky because A) it is salty and delicious B) at only 150 calories and 2 grams of fat per, uh, stick, it has some value to this diet and c) the three sticks would put me right within my calorie range for the day.
Article comments
1 - htom
Canned spinach and jerky sticks? [giggles] Probably a bit better, overall, if there were mini carrots in addition, but it's not as bad as it sounds. Not liking canned spinach and thinking of jerky as a survival food, neither of these is on my plate frequently.
Fried chicken is one of my dangerous foods. I will sometimes try to take the battering and skin off of it ... but if I succeed, I'm usually munching on it ten minutes later.
Sounds like you did well.
2 - chantal stone
you're not a loser Dan, you're awesome. and the simple fact that you actually ATE the can of spinach shows how strong you really are.
way to go!
3 - Dan
I actually like spinach, raw, out of the can. No canned things are cooked in my house. It's kind of weird. I know I'm not a loser. Well, I don't really know that for sure yet. I hope to have a definitive answer by the time I am 35.
4 - Grace
I have never had canned spinach. But I LOVE spinach. I love french cut canned green beans better than the real stuff.
Anyway I found your website becuase I too have been on a Beef Jerky diet - because I'm lazy and it's the perfect snack - sugar, or fat? Thanks for answering my questions - Yes, low cal and low fat over high salt content. I'll just get a heart attack but I'll be skinnier on my death bed, right?
Also, thanks for flipping off the chicken. I think I'll try that - that one last thing you can do to really put a wall between you and those things that make you eat them!
~Grace