Day 32 - Myth Busting

Yesterday I was chatting with last year's second place winner (who, I must add, only beat me by 0.57%). He decided not to join the competition this year because he had done a good job keeping off all the weight he lost. However, yesterday he confessed that recently he has gained a lot of it back and is regretting not being in the competition! He attributed his weight gain to late night eating and shamelessly blamed it on his newborn baby's sleeping/eating schedule, or lack there of. Excuses, excuses. Just kidding :)

So I decided to do a little research on the validity of the statement that you shouldn't eat past 8pm (or wherever time "they" say...who are they anyways??). Although I'm sure there are tons of studies out there that can argue both sides, I found an article on http://www.livestrong.com/ that was pretty interesting. The main point of the article was: A Calorie is a Calorie! It doesn't matter what time you're eating if you're too much of the wrong thing and not exercising.

The article contains to say: "In America, dinner is the biggest meal of the day and tends to contain the most calories. When you follow it with dessert or a midnight snack or both, you may end up doubling the amount of calories you ate previously in the day, destroying your diet in the process." Lesson of the day: Skip the late night binge!

Yesterday's Recap
2/15

Breakfast: Clementine, a couple leftover dark chocolate covered bananas, and one dark chocolate covered strawberry - I know, I know...shame on me. I have no self-control.
Lunch: Homestyle chicken and wild rice soup
Snack: Apple
Dinner: Valentine's Day Round 2 @ Bonefish: Appetizer of Mussels sautéed with tomatoes, garlic, basil and lemon wine sauce, scallops and shrimp with a pan asian sauce, asparagus, and jasmine rice. SO GOOD!
Water: five 24 oz. bottles

Exercise: 1 hour in the gym: 30 minutes on the treadmill, 30 minutes strength