You Signed Up For What??? My Mid-life Crisis

So, we've been on this diet for a little over a week now. I have to say I feel good. Don't know if I have really lost any significant weight yet, but I do feel better in my skin. Tonight I made a taco salad from one of Suzanne's books. How is this a diet food you ask? Well, again, her thing is properly combining foods when you eat them. For example, the taco salad consisted of the meat (seasoned with cumin, cayenne, paprika, onion, garlic, tomato paste and chili powder), lettuce, chopped tomato, shredded cheddar and sour cream. No carbs, all proteins/fats and vegetables. It was delicious and filling. Tomorrow we will have some sort of fish I think. She's a kook, but she may have something here...

We decided to give Suzanne a try. It's a pretty easy diet really. Her concept is you can eat pretty much what you want as long as you combine or don't combine certain foods. For example, you can eat carbs with vegetables or you can eat protein with vegetables but you can't eat protein and carbs together. It has to do with how your body breaks down the different types of foods. You can eat fruit, but only by itself and on an empty stomach (45 minutes before a meal or 2 hours after). She has a list of what she calls "funky foods" that you are supposed to stay away from (white flour, processed sugars, vegetables high in sugar like carrots). At least until you reach your goal weight and then you can treat yourself I guess. The one thing we are refusing to do is cut out caffeine. She wants you to stick to decaf and I won't do it! She eats like a pig. I'm serious, you should see the amount of food she has on her "sample menu." It's ridiculous. She ...

The Twin Towers fell on September 11th, I was diagnosed with cancer on September 12th. That was a bad week... Today is the nine year anniversary of my diagnosis of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. I am a lucky man because I have not had a single recurrence since I ended chemo on December 28, 2001. The doctors say I am "cured" although they can't technically say that with cancer as there is no "cure for cancer." I've had a pretty good life over the past nine years. 1. I changed careers 2. Met Dan 3. Moved to Boston 4. Ran the Boston Marathon You get the picture. In one year, I will have been cancer free for 10 years. That's big. What to do to commemorate? I have decided to run the 2011 New York City Marathon. I have 14 months to get myself ready for it. Where to start... I need to get myself in training condition which means I have to loose 30 lbs. That sounds like a good place to start!