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 Weight today: 189.0

Whew. Broke 190! That is huge for me. I haven’t weighed less than 190 since a record year in 2000. I was at 190 then. I am getting close to my high school weight. It feels great. I hope I can hang here or go down. Hopefully I will drop another pound or two and be safely in the 180’s.

Today I did something new. I took what I learned from The Abs Diet and combined it with The Zone friendly stuff from the Zone book and made myself a breakfast smoothie. I used the following ingredients:

The Zone Meal Smoothie by DozenDiets:

• 1/2 cup of oatmeal (1.5 carbs)
• 1/4 cup of yogurt (0.5 carbs and 0.5 protein)
• 1 cup of milk (1 carb and 1 protein)
• 23 gram of Protein Powder (or 5/6th of a oz) to get 2.5 proteins
• 1 tsp of peanut butter (2 fats)
• 2 tsp of flaxseed (2 fats)
• 2 cups of chopped ice (free)
• 4 packets of splenda

That left me at 4 proteins, 3 carbs and 4 fats and weighed in at 500 calories. I added (on the side)

• 1/2 grapes (1 carb)

To get my total of 4 blocks of each component. It was ayummy breakfast and I am pretty full. It worked pretty well. I will probably do that again on this diet.

Lunch is:

• 4 oz of chicken (4 protein)
• 1 apple (2 carbs)
• 1 cup of grapes (2 carbs)
• 4 tsp of almonds (4 fats)

I will still have to suck down 3 snacks as well as dinner at some point today. Today is a running day and we will be out late at a 4th of July celebration (on the 3rd?). So I will have plenty of chances to eat.

My snacks turned out to be

• 1/2 zone bar (1 block of each protein, carbs and fat)
• 1/2 zone bar (1 block of each protein, carbs and fat)
• 1/2 zone bar (1 block of each protein, carbs and fat)

Then for dinner I had:

• porkchop  (4 oz) (4 proteins)
• 1/2 cup of green beans (1/2 a carb)
• 1 cup of celery (1/2 a carb)
• 1/4 cup of hummus (1 carb)
• 1 apple (2 carbs)
• 12 olives (4 fats)

I ran my five miles so I felt pretty good about this day on The Zone!