A good day gone bad……..And, no exercise to boot!

Dad was up in the hospital convalescing from yesterday’s Stent Implant.  And, I was going to have to miss another day of exercise to go up there and visit him…..not because I think he needed or wanted visitors….but, simply because he was trying to bull his way out of there.  And, from the texts I had received from mom, it sounded like someone needed to get up there and keep him from rushing headlong into his own death as a result of his incredible level of impatience.  Regardless,  no exercise again today.  (I would be doing CrossFit at lunch.  And, it was going to be the Hell workout of all time.  So, truth be told, I am kind of glad that dad needed some tending.)

20130413-214915.jpgFor breakfast, I ate my traditional protein shake and IMG_4613berries.  Let’s not go into it.  You know the drill.

 

 

 

 

 

20130413-214915.jpgFor mid morning snack, I ate another protein shake……..no berries.

 

 

 

 

Lunch.  Glorious Lunch.  I had called Grand Street as I was leaving the hospital with dad just to verify that they did not have a wild fish special of the day.  (If they did not, I was headed for McCormicks and a serving of Wild Corvina.)  But, as it happened….Thank God….Grand Street DID have a wild fish special today.  And, brace yourself, it was GROUPER!  I am not sure what on this earth I love more than Grouper….seriously.  Why can’t that be the fish special at all restaurants….every single day of the week?  Everyone loves it.  It seems so obvious to me.  Anyhow, take a look at the
IMG_4698picture of the Grouper I ate…….Wow.  Perfectly pan sauteed/seared….right to where it makes that very outside part of the fish a little crunchy and browned…and, the inside is perfectly flaky and white.  Put that atop a huge helping of yellow squash, zucchini  and onions…….Mmmmm good.  The veggies were all sauteed in olive oil and real butter….as is my norm.  I cannot remember what that green stuff is you see sitting there on my plate.  But, I did not eat it.  It was more to make it all pretty rather than for taste.  And, actually, as you know, I will never argue against something done to make your plate look prettier and more appetizing to you.  And, you shouldn’t either!  Another perfect lunch down the hatch!

I headed back to the office and proceeded to lazily go about the rest of my Friday afternoon at work.  (Not very characteristic of my norm.  But, this freaking cold is sucking the life force out of me….seriously.)  Anyhow, about  3:30 pm, I decided that I would go make my own apple and almond butter snack…just to get a little break from the phone and the desk.  Take a look at the picture.  If you cannot find items in your own kitchen (at a moment’s notice) to IMG_4700make a similar picture to this one, there is a problem….and, you should address it now!  By the way, if (while eating this snack) you run out of Almond Butter before you run out of Apple Slices, you probably need more Almond Butter.  In other words, if you are going to have more of one thing than the other (in this snack’s example) let’s have more almond butter……..not more apple slices.  Remember, the almond butter doesn’t spike your blood sugar….the fruit does.  Put the two together.  And, the combination of the two really doesn’t cause a significant spike to your insulin or blood sugar levels.  Bingo.  (Again. A bigger Bingo would be to just leave the Apples out of this snack altogether.  That is what my wife did.  She came down, grabbed a huge tablespoon of Raw Organic Almond Butter, downed it in one gulp, and headed back up the stairs.  She said she felt great the rest of the afternoon.  Perhaps we should all Eat What She Eats…………..!  I am not setting a very good example here.)

Well, it was Angie’s birthday night.  And, I knew we were eating at Zocalo on the Country IMG_4716Club Plaza.  This much maligned restaurant has really treated me pretty well during its short tenure on the Plaza.  Their fresh guacamole is incredible.  (Their margaritas are so so….that is probably actually a good thing since margaritas will send your blood sugar into the sky.)  And, their beef short rib tacos are incredible.  And, I was about to eat all of that above….and, unfortunately, a bunch more that might not be considered a healthful option as well.  Here goes:  We started the dinner with chips and guac.  The guacamole is, of course, a fantastic low glycemic, healthy fat option that would be a wise addition to your daily nutritional intake…….as long as you can figure out a way to get it in your mouth without some sort of chip or tortilla to carry it there.  (Unfortunately, we did not accomplish that goal this evening.  We ate enough of IMG_4718those fried tortillas pictured there to send our blood sugars to the moon and leave them there all night.)  Following that, I ate all the beef short rib tacos you see pictured there……unwisely, I left my tortillas as part of the dish and ate the tacos in the traditional manner…with tortillas holding everything that was inside them.  Angie made the smart move and dropped the tortillas and just ate the stuff that was inside them as its own dinner dish.  You should do what Angie did.  (I was counting this as a planned “cheat meal”.  So, I wasn’t worried about what was right and what was wrong.  And, that is fine….as long as your “cheat meal” doesn’t start turning into 4 or 5 IMG_4719cheat meals per week!  We typically eat one….although this week, we are going to be eating two (if I have anything to say about it.)  Remember, the after-Yoga Sunday Houston’s outing…I DO plan to uphold that tradition on Sunday!

In hindsight, the evening was bad, badder, and baddest.  We ate a ton of chips and tortillas.  And, worse yet, we both ingested I don’t know how many of those sugar filled margaritas.  My belly is still flat………but, it wouldn’t be if I did it again tonight.  In short, if you want to fit comfortably in that next size down pair of pants any time this spring, I would suggest that you just skip what we did tonight altogether.  I assure you that that decision will do your belly good!  And, do you really need another night of high glycemic Mexican food anyway?  Really?

We got home just in time to push our alcohol soaked, over fooded bodies into bed.  I assure you that neither of our pituitary glands even THOUGHT about secreting ANY growth hormone.  Those high insulin/glucose levels that we created by our food and alcohol choices had tricked the pituitary into thinking that our HGH levels were high…..(Evidently, the two substances are deceptively similar in appearance when viewed by your brain/pituitary gland.)  And, as such, we both missed an evening’s opportunity at anything approximating a normal secretion of natural growth hormone into our bodies.

Bad, Bad, Bad……all the way round.  And, to top it all off, we would be rising to the early wakeup call of our post-toddler triplets……….

Not a great day of Eating What I Eat………..Over and Out.

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