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.
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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