Oops

Apparently dinner wasn't proteiny enough... :/

(That's tuna and the rest of the tomato passata :p I'm not doing a very good job of this so far…)

Dinnah!

Steak in paprika and tarragon rub with green beans, cauliflower, broccoli and carrots. Steak was cooked in a non-stick pan without oil, and the veggies were steamed together. :) (And cooked yesterday :p)

Hmm...

I seem to be a bit hungry, which probably means I didn't eat enough for lunch. I've got a load of kidney beans left over, so I've got a bowl of them with some tomato passata (plain, unsweetened) and some pepper to help fill the gap.

D'oh!

Forgot to take a photo of my lunch. Oh well!

It was about half the amount of the lentil thing I cooked yesterday with a couple of large handfuls of spinach.

Fail, Ben, fail!

Breakfast

Three egg whites with one egg yolk mixed in to give it a bit of flavour, some kidney beans, and spinach and kidney beans on the side.

Dinner

Not too sure about this. It's broccoli, green beans, and chicken in a tomato, paprika and tarragon sauce. Apparently tomatoes are the only fruit allowed in this diet.

Oh well!

Glass of Wolf Blass Cabernet Sauvignon on the side. :)

Edit: Well, this didn't really work all that well. The sprouting broccoli really needed to be steamed for at least 20 minutes before being put into the sauce, and the sauce itself didn't quite taste right. :/ Oh well! Chalk that one down to experience.

Me-surements

See what I did there? :p

Anyway, apparently I measure up like this:

Left upper arm:	16.25"
Right upper arm:	16.5"
Left thigh:	30.25"
Right thigh:	30.5" (Yes, the circumference of my legs is bigger than some people's waists)
Midriff (at navel):	43.75"
Cake shelf (AKA muffin top):	49" (Eegh…)

Total inches (I'll explain this in a bit): 186.25"

So, firstly… Eeeegh. :/

Anyway. The total inches number makes it a lot easier to track if I'm actually losing body fat, as changes in that number are much easier to track than changes in weight, which can fluctuate a lot more than the total inches number, and may not even change at all if I start gaining muscle weight at the same time as ditching the fat. Not sure how often I'm supposed to be taking these measurements, though, so I'll probably do it twice a week.

Interestingly, I wrote last night that I'd have to forego the guacamole, as it contains avocados which are quite high in fructose, but the book actually recommends having extra guacamole with Mexican meals as it contains a lot of electrolytes which you'd usually lose with excess water that the diet causes you to lose naturally. So yays! I can have guacamole in my burrito box. :D

Edit: The data above in a completely useless single-point chart. :) I'll update this as I take new measurements. Left axis is inches, right axis is lbs.