Not Falling Off the Regimens-- for a year.

Uh...so my new plan is this: Instead of cleansing up my eating for 10 days or eating well until a special occasion comes along, I'm just going to eat well for 365 days, pretty much without exception. I know I don't have to explain myself, but I don't mind. See: this blog.

• 80/20 rule works for most people, but has been remarkably ineffective for me.
• I still plan to investigate medically for further reasons/solutions concerning the above.
• Yeah, I'm probably not going to drink...or will only drink a bit of wine here and there. Eating less carbs makes every drink super potent anyhow, so its for the best. This might suck too much, such I'll let you know.
• So it's the usual: little/no gluten, little/no sugar, lots o protein, veggies galore, not so much processed, little/no cow dairy. No undereating.
• A few concessions to make life manageable: Not worrying about small amounts of sugar in condiments, wine (yes I wrote this again), coffee for now, 1 smmalll dairy item per day...like a drop of cream or sprinkles of cheese in a salad...also goat cheese! Also, if some BBQ happens,and that meat is sugary, that's okay. (I'll revisit this, if somehow I have BBQ everyday).
• I'm starting a new job, that's somewhat in a food desert relative to the amount of time I have for lunch. I have a fridge and a willingness to burn through plastic containers though.
• Don't worry if you are really attached to having a lot of Miss Lady to love. I'll always have muscle. And this may not work!

This actually already started. I always start some sorta healthy refresher after my birthday, for healthy reasons and fear of getting older reasons. Funny, its always supposed to start on the 3rd but doesn't happen until the 4th because I need a bday recovery day. So let's say that I'm doing this for 364 days at least, so that I can have something decadent, like wheat bread, on my 38th birthday. Here's what I've eaten so far:

August 4th
Breakfast: 3 eggs with onions, tomatoes, and red bell peppers. Someone else cooked before I could tell them not to use milk or cheese...so there's milk and cheese too. Failure already! But I'm not worried.

Snack: Larabar-- Peanut Butter and Jelly

Lunch: Carrots with guacamole. Greens with sausage, tomatoes, and berries.

Snack: Peanut butter with banana

Dinner: Catfish panfried with olive oil. Mango pico de gallo, greens, tomatoes.


August 5th
Breakfast: 3 eggs with mango pico de gallo..

Snack: Larabar-- chocolate something?

Lunch: Chipotle salad with brown rice, black beans, guacamole, pico, and barbacoa.

Snack: Fake ice cream: Frozen bananas, coconut milk, blackberries. Delicious...but a tad sugary.

Dinner: Catfish panfried with olive oil-- except actually microwaved today. Mango pico, tomatoes, guac.