What I ate: April 5, 2011

Breakfast: Sausage, egg, and cheese on a homemade 100 % whole grain whole wheat and oat English muffin . With homemade sausage , Cabot cheddar cheese and one organic egg.

Lunch: Beef with broccoli and scallion stir-fry, rice.

Snack: 1 vegetable pakora as I was cooking.

Dinner: Mb'atten, a Libyan dish of deep-fried potato stuffed with lamb, herbs and peppers. I'd never had it before, but the recipe that I made was delicious! Served with sriracha (not authentic, obviously, but tasty) and a glass of Switchback beer.

Dessert: 1 square of Lake Champlain dark chocolate raspberry truffle. And 2 glasses of Finca la Linda malbec.

Snack: 0.7 oz. pretzels.

Steps: 7,986

Weight at beginning of the day: 112.0 lbs. Weight at the beginning of the next day: 110.8 lbs.