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June 13, 2005
Pink Eggs and Lettuce
No, it's not the title of a Dr. Zeuss book! It's what I ate for lunch!
I regret to report that this week I have been the victim of my own good planning. In preparation for my trip to Calgary I have emptied my fridge of all perishables, including my usual cottage cheese and yogurt. So other than a few hazelnuts that live in the freezer, I didn't have anything to pack for my all day meeting today. Had to, as the Black Moth puts it, "live off the land."
The lunch food was pretty awful at the meeting. Cold cuts and cheese, mayo covered pasta salad, basically nothing I would touch with a ten foot pole. VLC and I were the first in line to attack the lettuce, tomato and onion on the garnish tray for the sandwiches, and I put a dollop of mustard on my lettuce to make it seem like it had taste.
The highlight of the day was the pickled eggs. These are quite the delicacy in central Pennsylvania, and because I love anything pickled, I love pickled eggs. I ate four. Yes, 280 calories of hot pink pickled eggs and a side of shredded iceberg lettuce with tomatoes and mustard was my lunch. That's living off the land for you.
After we drove the two and a half hours home from the meeting, my two co-workers who rode with me stopped in for a glass of wine on my balcony. We enjoyed sitting in the sun... I especially enjoyed it with my SPF 15 sunscreen and my CR-increased heat tolerence.
Now I'm packing for Calgary, organizing my supplements and figuring what I need to pick up while I'm there. It's nice to go somewhere where I can be sure that excellent CR food will be provided. Takes me back to my first trip out to Calgary where among the many truly amazing things I discovered was the feeling of being totally safe eating someone else's cooking!
Low carb pancakes await me Wednesday morning...
Posted by april at June 13, 2005 8:30 PM
Comments
(I posted this on Fight Aging! Reposting here.)
What I've noticed about CRON disciples, bless their good intentions, is that they generally eat so incredibly poorly, on infrequently, they they are probably doing themselves more harm than good. I just took a look at all of their websites and I see people eating only two meals a day and skipping breakfast, eating too much junk food, or drinking too much wine (and then claiming a benefit from resveratrol, I suppose to make it all seem acceptable). Poor, poor misguided souls.
Not only that, I don't see where these people are supplementing like they should, even more important when you cannot possibly getting all the phytonutrients, anti-oxidants, polyphenols, etc., from a restricted food supply. (In fact, even people who eat a normal calorie intact cannot possibly get by without supplementation, assuming healthy longevity is a goal.)
I've even seen a TV show about CRON, and researchers where feeding their CRON victims white rise, white processed bread, pasta, iceberg lettuce salads (there no significant nutrition in iceberg lettuce), along with other very poor food choices. I wanted to jump through the screen and slap these white coated fools silly.
Proper exercises, nutrition and supplementation trumps CRON. But if you're going to do CRON, you cannot ignore these three things, and that's what I'm seeing among all CRON followers.
Here's an example of someone who has a great program of exercises, nutrition and supplementation:
www.bobdelmonteque.com
Posted by: Scott Miller at June 14, 2005 3:55 PM
Just a question for Scott Miller.
What do you consider a good daily diet?
Snez
Posted by: Snez at August 4, 2005 3:51 AM