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 (10:45 a.m.)
½ cup of Special K cereal
Calories: 55
Fat: 0 grams
Lunch (12 p.m.)
1 Healthy Choice smoked sausage
2 slices of multigrain bread
Calories: 370
Fat: 9.75 grams
Snack (3 p.m.)
1 bag of beef jerky
Calories: 280
Fat: 2 grams
Dinner (6:30 p.m.)
1 foot-long Subway chicken breast sandwich (with a little of the new red sauce whose name is escaping me right now. It turns out that stuff is just some mildly modified Frank’s Red Hot sauce and has five calories and no fat per serving. I asked to see the label, then I asked the dude to put just a bit on. Also, new girl at Subway today and to my total surprise this one is A) cute and B) not functionally retarded. She was nice. I hope she sticks.)
Calories: 640
Fat: 10 grams
Drinks
2+ liters of water
1 extra large Diet Coke
(I haven’t been putting drinks on lately because, for the most part, it is the same thing each day. Water and diet pop. Easily much more water. But I can’t shake diet pop. I can’t. It’s so gooood. Sorry if that makes you mad. If it does, then you should go into anger counseling.)
Total Calories: 1,345
Total fat: 21.75 grams
Exercise: Not much. I went to the gym to work out, but got sidetracked talking with two of the junior college basketball players I cover. One is a 7-footer from New Zealand who was shooting, so I rebounded for him and told him he was a pussy. (I always tell him that.) I also played a round of H-O-R-S-E with him. He can hit the three. Who knew? I got shut out. The lesson here is this: If you ever get a chance to play H-O-R-S-E with a 7-footer who can hit the three, go ahead and do it. Just don’t expect to win. Especially if you‘re like me and suck at basketball.
I apologize for not posting yesterday. I had quite a bad day on the eating side Tuesday and wasn’t sure what I could write about it. The plan was to think it over and then come up with something profound and indepth today to explain myself. I couldn’t really do that, though. So here is the best I came up with:
Article comments
1 - RJ Elliott
Try to think positive. You could realistically eat FOUR footlong Subway subs every single frigging day, and arguably not be gaining any weight (as long as you keep up the evercise).
Four subs is about 2,500 calories, which is perhaps a little more than the average person burns in a day.
But, even in your "weak" day, you only ate two subs, and then some other crap that probably equalled another sub or two.
So, even on your "weak" day, you didn't really lose any ground...you merely deferred your own goal...
2 - Dan
RJ, that is the crazy thing. I haven't mentioned it at all because I don't want to seem like I am making excuses, but according to the online calorie burning counter, I am burining 4,308 calories per day. It would be hard to get all the way up there in intake over the course of the day. If I just stay on the diet for one meal I would come in under that. But still, I don't want to bring that thinking to the forefront, but the reality is that I probably haven't hurt myself too much. But I want to stick, at least for now, between 1,200 and 1,500 calories per day.
3 - Than
You eat like crap!!!!
Try a day without
salt
sugars (of any kind)
i.e. sugar, honey, fruit, lactose, fructose. If it's a "tose" don't consume it.
vinegar
alcohol
preservatives
spices
caffine
carbonation
processed anything
see what happens.
Then try it for a week,
Oh and no breads, just grains and/or gruel.
4 - RJ Elliott
Dude, if he eliminates all that, what is there left to eat? Freeze-dried maggots?