Cheese is the new cocaine...
They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step, and to quote Beckett's existential mind fuck, Waiting for Godot, "there is nothing to be done".
Hi, my name is Scott and I'm addicted to cheese.
As such, it is unlikely that I will be able to report any weight loss for this week. Now don't get me wrong, this past week was, all in all, a pretty good week. Except for the cheese. And the unscheduled hot dog, and the two bottles of red wine..... oh, and I forgot about the cookies....
I remain undeterred. Another week dawns.
Food notes:
1. Although almonds (and other nuts) contain good fat, there is just not enough bang for the fat buck. Just 1 oz (22 almonds) has something stupid like 14 grams of fat.
2. I need to change up my salmon consumption with more turkey. I'm already getting my omega 3s from my eggs at breakfast and by doing so, I can further reduce fat grams.
3. I'm going to explore high fibre, low fat, dry cereal as a snack option in place of the almonds.
4. Apparently, I cannot have any kind of cheese in the house except for fresh ground parmesan that I won't eat as a snack food. I had to log a lot of unnecessary cheese calories last week.
5. Please God help me to avoid the cookies and Friday chips at the office this week. Eating this junk is nothing more than bad habit and unhealthy response to stress.
As for exercise, I've had another great week. I worked out twice on the treadmill, did two yoga classes, and I walked a total of 3.0 miles to and from work one day (due to a wildcat transit strike). Unfortuneatly neither my work schedule or the weather allowed for any tennis. I'm a little frustrated that I haven't had any chance to play since I was hitting so well during my vacation.
On Thursday, I went for my treatment with GOD who says I only need to come back every other week. My Visa card likes that idea, but I'm not sure that I do.
The yoga is great because it is getting me out of my office for a much needed lunchtime break. When I was a smoker, I was always in and out for my smoke breaks but since quitting, I'm in the office from the time I arrive until the time I leave.
My schedule this week is a bit frightening but with any luck, I'll be able to hold it all together and eat and workout according to plan.
Thanks to I-Tunes and YouTube and the like, I'm finding all kinds of music that reminds me of my past and causes me to want to trip down memory lane.... I would have been in my very early twenties (circa 1985) when "We're Not Going to Take It" by Twisted Sister was a big hit. I think the video is hilarious and I love working out to it. I think it reminds me of my youth when I had both the balls and the energy to stand up to speak truth to power. In retrospect though, I've come to understand that some of my anger was totally self-righteous and regretably, not used very effectively.
To date, I've found dozens of videos for such songs and I'm planning to use each one as a tool to get me into some writing about what was going on in my life when these songs were popular (remember Saturday Night by the Bay City Rollers?). Hopefully, I'll be able to share some of my insights, though some it will no doubt be too intimate for this space.
Shameless brag:
The view directly across the street from my office is not too shabby.
Even though I don't need to defend Toronto as one of the world's greatest cities (it is though....), we have been known as the only so called world-class city without a world-class Opera House.
Not any more. At a cost of $150 million dollars, The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts officially opens this month and even though I'm not (yet?) an opera afficionado, it is pretty impressive.
Hi, my name is Scott and I'm addicted to cheese.
As such, it is unlikely that I will be able to report any weight loss for this week. Now don't get me wrong, this past week was, all in all, a pretty good week. Except for the cheese. And the unscheduled hot dog, and the two bottles of red wine..... oh, and I forgot about the cookies....
I remain undeterred. Another week dawns.
Food notes:
1. Although almonds (and other nuts) contain good fat, there is just not enough bang for the fat buck. Just 1 oz (22 almonds) has something stupid like 14 grams of fat.
2. I need to change up my salmon consumption with more turkey. I'm already getting my omega 3s from my eggs at breakfast and by doing so, I can further reduce fat grams.
3. I'm going to explore high fibre, low fat, dry cereal as a snack option in place of the almonds.
4. Apparently, I cannot have any kind of cheese in the house except for fresh ground parmesan that I won't eat as a snack food. I had to log a lot of unnecessary cheese calories last week.
5. Please God help me to avoid the cookies and Friday chips at the office this week. Eating this junk is nothing more than bad habit and unhealthy response to stress.
As for exercise, I've had another great week. I worked out twice on the treadmill, did two yoga classes, and I walked a total of 3.0 miles to and from work one day (due to a wildcat transit strike). Unfortuneatly neither my work schedule or the weather allowed for any tennis. I'm a little frustrated that I haven't had any chance to play since I was hitting so well during my vacation.
On Thursday, I went for my treatment with GOD who says I only need to come back every other week. My Visa card likes that idea, but I'm not sure that I do.
The yoga is great because it is getting me out of my office for a much needed lunchtime break. When I was a smoker, I was always in and out for my smoke breaks but since quitting, I'm in the office from the time I arrive until the time I leave.
My schedule this week is a bit frightening but with any luck, I'll be able to hold it all together and eat and workout according to plan.
Thanks to I-Tunes and YouTube and the like, I'm finding all kinds of music that reminds me of my past and causes me to want to trip down memory lane.... I would have been in my very early twenties (circa 1985) when "We're Not Going to Take It" by Twisted Sister was a big hit. I think the video is hilarious and I love working out to it. I think it reminds me of my youth when I had both the balls and the energy to stand up to speak truth to power. In retrospect though, I've come to understand that some of my anger was totally self-righteous and regretably, not used very effectively.
To date, I've found dozens of videos for such songs and I'm planning to use each one as a tool to get me into some writing about what was going on in my life when these songs were popular (remember Saturday Night by the Bay City Rollers?). Hopefully, I'll be able to share some of my insights, though some it will no doubt be too intimate for this space.
Shameless brag:
The view directly across the street from my office is not too shabby.
Even though I don't need to defend Toronto as one of the world's greatest cities (it is though....), we have been known as the only so called world-class city without a world-class Opera House.
Not any more. At a cost of $150 million dollars, The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts officially opens this month and even though I'm not (yet?) an opera afficionado, it is pretty impressive.
posted by Scott at 7:02 AM
8 Comments:
wow...
benny has a huge addiction to cheese. i didn't quite get this early on when he was trying to lose weight and i would bring home a bag of shredded cheese. i, myself, do not snack on cheese... only use it for cooking and stuff. one week i brought home a bag of the stuff, and when i went to use it in a dish two days later, it was gone. he had eaten the whole thing. this is when i realized that keeping cheese in the house to him, is like keeping chocolate in the house to me. we no longer keep either.
by the way, i wouldn't recommend snorting cheese through your nose. that can't end well.
OMG OMG OMG I heart cheese.
Fitting that you wrote this just as I needlessly SNARFED a hot fudge sundae. ??!!!! Why, oh why? I guess we all fall off the wagon sometimes. :)
Opera house looks beautiful! I've only been to Toronto once, and it was a long time ago, but I remember being very impressed!
I could definitely think of worse things to be addicted to so I think you will make it through this latest addiction. That is a pretty sweet looking performing arts center. Toronto sounds like a wonderful place.
Scott,
Oh boy, do I ever feel your pain with the cheese. Nytro is right, my cheese consumption was out of control. Cheese, along with ranch dressing, are probably the two main reasons I was fat, followed by laziness, beer and TV. I loooooooove cheese. It's a problem really. But, if you can quit smoking, surely you can walk away from cheese. Best of luck, it's an uphill battle.
Benny
Just say NO to cheese!!! I've been considering an almond alternative too - not much bang for your buck, you're right. Lately my 3 pm snack has been Kashi Go Lean Crunch with soy milk. Just a half cup of cereal gets me thru that late afternoon blood sugar low and I'm not as tempted to eat office junk food...and I make it to dinner without being totally STARVED.
I LOVE Cheese!!!! I could eat my weight in cheese every day! Or anything cheese related - like CHEETOS!! YUM!!
there is a reason that they call me "mouse". I too, love the cheese, dear friend.
:)
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