First– Clean out the cupboards!
Out go the cookies! Right behind them the crackers, chips, snack nuts, potatoes, pasta and bread! For forty days this blog will eat only appropriate portions of protein, loads of vegetables, small quantities of whole grains and of things made of whole grains. The wine goes into the darkest, undisturbed corner of the cellar.
Spices, herbs and vinegars will suffice. Live culture dairy products are required. Daily. At least two liters of non-caloric liquid everyday, most of that water. A minimum of thirty minutes of movement each day is the law.
GO diet, South Beach, whatever you call it, everything here will represent the tastiest versions of low carbohydrate, lowered fat and fiber-filled goodness. There will be NO FAKE FOODS.
The first week you will eat too much. The second week you have to control yourself, but it will be easier. Bu the third week or so you will start to taste the sugar in a cucumber, because your holiday-sweet load will be wiped away.
Feel free to offer any meals, dishes or ideas that you have, because some of us will feel desperate sometimes. The small backlog of dishes that don’t fit this description will appear after Easter.
Why Lent? It isn’t a religious thing, it’s really that it follows a period of excess and is a time when traditionally people do give things up, and perhaps most importantly, there is a defined end. When the diet is in full swing, I can’t eat out anywhere, and can only cook for those able to eat happily without pasta, bread and wine. My acquaintance shrinks for a while. At the end I will slowly, slowly add back some carbohydrates and certainly wine. Forgive me if I do not completely return to current mode, but I figure it is going to take me more than forty days.
My goal is seven kilos or fifteen pounds, but since I do not weigh, I really will expect my nice pants to fit well and look good.
7 comments February 1st, 2007
