Results of Week 1 of the White Ghost Diet:

I’ve been eating steamed rice and light proteins for every meal, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything…no Big Mac attacks, no Crave Cases dancing through my head– I’ve never been a big fast food guy.

I tried out the bike path that snakes around the perimeter of my subdivision, and got in a 45 min. ride Saturday. I was winded after the first two miles, but I pulled off 8 miles and felt great after. No soreness. Guess my legs remember when I used to put in 20-30 mile rides just over two years ago.

On Sunday, I goaded my wife into riding with me. Got the kid cart attached to my bike, and then lubed and aired up my wife’s bicycle. We rode for forty minutes, and Nora complained the entire time, but she was glad to get back in the saddle. The little guy howled when I would stop, but as long as we were moving, he just looked at his board books and played with his Mozart cube. The toy makes electronic sounds, jingles of famous classical music. Some little kids playing in the street heard me ride by, Beethoven’s Fifth blasting out, and they thought the ice cream man was coming.

MMmmm. Ice cream. Or, maybe sorbet is a better choice.

Mike and I were both fortunate to have Tim Ezell at Fox 2 News interview us about our book and one of my past inventions that I launched in 2001 before 9.11 happened. We had a great response to the lost my cup magnet in 2001. However, after 9.11.01 this inventions hype lost its appeal to the media and retailers.

Tim helped us launch this invention in 2001 and loved the “lost my cup magnet” and wanted to play some April fools jokes on drivers while talking about our book.

The interview is a good laugh and gave us some White Ghost book awareness and more book sales at the Sunset Hills Borders Book Stores.

Check out our Fox 2 segment One interview on You Tube:

Segement TWO on You Tube:

Segment THREE on You Tube:

So I’m watching myself on TV, and I’m thinking, “How in the heck did I get so fat?!” I look like a human a balloon! I’m swollen!

And then it dawned on me: over the past 2 1/2 years, since my wife and I conceived our first child, I’ve been on a food binge freefall. The old Me went to the gym three times a week. He biked 10 or more miles each day three or four times, weekly. The old Me ate healthy foods and rejected high-carb, refined sugar-loaded foods.

In a nutshell, the old Me was lean and healthy.

The current Me has gained fifty pounds and has the activity level of a garden slug. Time to get back on board the health train, I thought, as I watched a very bloated Me on replay.

So here’s the White Ghost Diet Plan:

1. Hit the gym 3X each week, working out with weights for 30 min.
2. Biking 5-10 miles 3X each week.
3. Walk as much as possible, especially since the weather’s turning to spring.
4. Follow Xiao’s Cantonese nutrition plan: slow-cooked rice with each meal, with steamed vegetables and lean meats.
5. No eating after 7:00 p.m.

My goal is to lose 30 pounds in sixty days. I will be blogging my progress and taking pictures along the way. Right now, I wouldn’t go out in public without my shirt on. By May, I plan on being ready for the pool.

To make the nutrition side easy to follow, I bought an electric rice steamer (which also doubles as a vegetable/meat steamer), frozen chicken breasts and tilapia filets, and a dozen bags of frozen vegetables.

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