Discovering Dad Diet Plan - Hospital Food

As most of you know, my wife Lori and I welcomed our baby girl Caitlin to the family three weeks ago. Unfortunately, she hasn't had an easy road during her first weeks of life, so we've been spending most of our time shuttling back-and-forth between the hospital and home.

Throughout this time, as I described for you last week, I have struggled with stress eating, which I guess is understandable. I have tried to stick to a few of the good habits I created before this happened though. I've only had two sodas the entire time, and I have been drinking a ton of water. In addition, I have continued eating bananas or other fruit for breakfast before leaving the house to go to the hospital.

Lori and I have been eating lunch together most days at the hospital. And, as you can imagine, the choices are not really that good. In fact, the lack of appetizing options has probably helped me, as I've actually eaten a salad almost every day. The problem is that I've treated myself a few times to some mega-portions of rice pudding or tapioca pudding with whip cream.

Dinners have been hit-or-miss, at times eating out and others eating nothing. The hospital food has certainly been the only consistent staple item in my diet for the past few weeks, other than the 2-4 beers I've had almost every night and 3-5 cups of coffee each morning.

Needless to say, I was nervous about stepping on the scale today. But, here goes nothin'.....



Whew! I can't believe it! I still would not recommend my diet to anyone else, but I guess something is working to increase my metabolism slightly (or maybe, all the salad is making me a little more....regular ;-)).

Now, if only Caitlin would come home, and I could take her, Ty and Chani for some nice long walks to get some exercise!!!

Make sure to check out my fellow weight loss dad companions: BusyDady, PG and NukeDad.

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