The new meal plan.

This past week has been a fairly boring week.  I seemed to lack the motivation to do much, so I did nothing.  Well, almost nothing.  I began a new food lifestyle (diet) from a book that Sandy wanted me to buy titled "The Belly Fat Cure", by Jorge Criuse.  Of course this necessitated several trips to the grocery store, health food store and central market in Fort Worth.  The one thing I noted is that a good deal of the items listed in the book are unobtainable and if you do find them, they are super expensive.  For example, a can of soft drink with xylitol sweetner is $1.00 per can. Compared to my Sams Diet Caffine Free cola is less than $.25 per can. 

But, we pressed on and purchased what we could and made minor substitutions for others.  The entire book is based on the premise that you should not take in more than 5 sugars and 2 carbs (this has to be explained and I wont go into it here) per meal, for a total of 15 sugars and 6 carbs per day.  With this magic formula you will loose weight since it keeps the insulin in your body from spiking and storing fat.  The cover of the book boasts you will loose 4 to 9 pounds the very first week.  Of course that did not happen for me and though I ate strickly by the meal plan, I still managed to gain 1 pound.  This was after enduring 3 days of diareah flush out due to the change in my diet and the added fiber that I am taking in.  Sandy then informed me that xylitol often has a gaseous effect until your body gets accostomed to it and finally yesterday my system seems to have settled down.  Now I am just waiting for the weight loss that is claimed by the book. 

I spent some time with Ryan (Sandy's son) this past week helping him target potential customers for this upcoming summer season.  Ryan owns Majestic Lawnscapes, a business that mows lawns, performs custom landscaping, sprinkler system installs, and high end night lighting for homes/businesses.  He taught me how to bid a business and we will work this week on submitting bids to companies in our area to help build his customer base.

Saturday, Jeremiah and Sandy took apart the old cabinet style TV that is in our bedroom, removing the entire guts from the cabinet, so I can install shelves.  The shelves will go in the cabinet to hold the DVD player and the Direct TV tuner box.  Sandy wanted to keep the cabinet since it is a solid wood cabinet with bifold doors and makes a nice looking piece of furniture.  So this week I will install the shelves before I go to Vancouver for the Olympics.  I need to order a new skylight this week as the one we have in our master bathroom is showing its age, so another trip to the roof is warranted.  Wish me luck and no more broken bones, or the trip to the Olympics will be out of the question.  Have a great day.