Last summer, I was very successful in changing my eating habits for a period of 5 months (through to Thanksgiving). I lost 15 pounds of dead weight, bicycled at least 3 or 4 times a week, gained some muscle, and felt great. Fast forward through the traditional food holidays to mid March and I had gained 10 pounds of dead weight, felt terrible, and was out of shape again. So in the last weekend of the month, I decided that it was far past time to get back to eating healthy.

Over the past 12 days, I've been keeping track of all the food I eat. I've tried to do this with various levels of success in the past. This time, I'm recording not just what I ate, but the calories and non-fiber carbs. Also, all my meals are cooked and eaten at home. This helps because immediately after eating, I sit down and enter the information into my spreadsheet.

When I look at the results so far, the thing that stands out the most to me is that fish is incredibly filling. I bought steelhead fillets and shark steaks early last week. The days that I ate fish, I stopped craving other food. Lesson learned, I'm making fish part of my regular diet.

This past week I've been focused on lifting weights for my daily exercise. I also ran roughly 3 miles in 1 mile segments at 90% speed. This next week my focus is running, with the goal of 3 miles per day. I'm not going for speed this week, just endurance training to get back into the habit of going for longer distances.