Teammates,
After getting over myself and posting my diet and exercise profile in myfitnesspal.com, I have the following observations.
1. I am an unsuccessful liar. My wife prepares this wonderful Javanese dish called rendang which is a spicy boiled beef cooked in a chili coconut milk sauce. (You probably already see where I'm going with this.) I have always thought, {hmm. Boiled beef = no fat. I'm eatin' healthfully!} I then plug it into myfitnesspal.com, discovering to my pleasure that rendang exists in the database, and thereby registering my honest, typical nice and hefty portion. KABAM! The calories, fat, and cholesterol accounted for that entree alone counted for 45% of my recommended daily intake. So, I reduce the size of the portion and moved on. ... Then once my conscience quickly got to me, I re-registered the truth and allowed the software to inform me (almost with the smugness of a typical GPS system) that if I were to consume that day's diet over 5 months, I would risk turning spherical. Darn.
2. My daily runs only account for a 1/2 meal. I sat at the table with my boys this evening and counted my dinner in miles. I have a bag of Sun Chips in my home office where I am typing this. ... Must resist ... Must resist ... ok, I feel better now, but hmmm, my eldest didn't eat that last chocolate chip c--- Must Resist!
3. There are no calories, none whatsoever, in my nightly post-study reward beer.
4. And finally, the worst thing in the world is packaged salad dressing. We doth kiddeth ourselves that salads are part of the path to a healthier life. Apart from the rendang, the dressings are a gotcha waiting to happen. (On a similar note, I thank heaven that six months ago I stopped taking cream and sugar in my daily seven cups of coffee and have learned to take it black.)
So, I guess you can say that my personal sign of learning through the CI project is the need to be more circumspect about things I treat with benign neglect.
Good luck, y'all.
Regards, Neo
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