Prior to OBM, I always had a jar of peanut butter and almonds in my desk drawer. Our company provides fresh fruit (apples, oranges and bananas) on each floor. At home, cottage cheese with fruit and/or nuts is one of my absolute favorite things to eat.

Thanks for keeping us engaged while Leigh is away. You’re doing a great job.

–Jim

Diana

OK guess I’ll throw out another question:

4. What are your favorite quick healthy snacks, but there’s a twist to this one. Gotta be combinations of individual foods (or just individual foods period) that you could eat on their own and not be seen as a bit of a freak for doing so. You can be a freak for weird combinations but not eating the food alone. In other words, no long ingredient lists. Let’s say 3 or 4 individual items tops. And since Leigh is traveling, let’s throw another monkey into this wrench and use that for a theme - it’s gotta be somewhat easily portable, something you can toss into a small cooler bag or will survive a road trip sitting in the back seat, or being locked in the bottom desk drawer at the office all day.

Examples: My personal favorites are peanut butter with celery or carrots or apple or banana. Strawberry yogurt with chopped fuji apple. Cottage cheese with pineapple or banana or walnuts or almonds. Hard boiled eggs.

Doesn’t matter if it’s something you actually eat or if you’re just making it up on the fly here cause you think it might taste good, Have fun.

2. I’m a pleasure eater for sure. AKA a glutton. I love the taste of amazing food, and as a child and up until a few years ago, I thought if I wasn’t absolutely stuffed to the point of not being able to move, I was still hungry. If some was good, more was better. I could eat three large pizzas. I have taken my love of food and learned to cook, making incredibly tasty healthy foods, and have learned the art of monitoring and measuring, aka portion control. I’ve been as high as 265, now am down to 194.5 (was 244 in June)

3. I did well (as I define it). I used thanksgiving as a refeed, and ate at least 4000 calories (total guestmate) but made sure to focus on white meat turkey and greenbeans so i didn’t eat as much of the stuffing as a I would have otherwise. I had a tablespoon of each of the 5 pies instead fo a slice, that help. The next two days I ate ata 1000 cal deficit per day, but continued to eat higher carb than usual, feasting on the left over steamed sweet potatoes, so my weight is up from Thanksgiving morning (192 pounds, an adult low) and has been stable the last two days at 194.5 after peaking at 197 the day after thanksgiving. Much of this is of course water and glycogen, but I am looking forward to being below 190 by dec 10. But my totally glycogen and water depleted weight at the end of the contest was 195 (with my “loaded” weight being 200. Now I am probably at 190 and 195, though I haven’t been depleted enough to see 190. I am suffering through a nasty cold, so I have stayed out of the gym the past few days and not done the planned glycogen depletion workouts.