Stupid Accomplishments for the Win

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

As of mid-day it's actually nice outside.  Mid 60s, a little sun and most importantly NOT raining.  It's a shame that it's the middle of the week and there is work upon work to be done.  About all I can hope for is that I can leave shortly after 5:00 and maybe squeeze in a little walking.

I'm starting to think that I really should have some jerky or other low carb snack food on hand at work to deal with situations like yesterday.  I didn't leave until after 6:00 and had a couple stops to make on the way home so I ended up not pointing the car toward home until 7:15 or so.  At that point I knew that I wasn't going to feel like waiting to cook anything and it had been six plus hours since lunch so I was hungry.  Being short on time and being hungry results in poor food choices.  Being lazy doesn't help either.  If I am going to get serious about breaking out of my current range and losing a few dozen more pounds I need to avoid putting myself in that kind of situation.  History doesn't lie, at least not in this case.

As for stupid accomplishments, I cleaned out my linen closet.  Made sure all the towels were nicely folded.  The sheets are organized.  The junk removed.  The only thing I didn't do was re-paper the shelves - it's ugly but whatever it's a linen closet.  Doing this made me unreasonably happy.

Breakfast:  Bowl of leftover stew, coffee

Added less water on reheat this time, more stewy than soupy as a result

The last of the stew.  I probably pushed this a day more than I wanted but it was still fine.  I have to say that I have rather enjoyed having it for breakfast and will probably make another batch this weekend if I have any kind of suitable meat in the freezer - or maybe I'll just use ground beef since I know I have that.

Lunch:  2 large eggs fried over medium in a pat of butter, ~ 5 strips CF garlic/pepper bacon, 1 slice sharp cheddar cheese, 5.5 oz can of V-8 juice, coffee

And the world was shocked ... eggs for lunch?!?

Eggs were very good, cooked to perfection.  Same for the bacon.  I even made a good cup of coffee.  Yum.  Went with the V-8 out of the cupboard since the avocados I bought yesterday aren't ripe.  I've kinda come to the conclusion that I don't actually like V-8 that much.

Dinner:  Roast beef wrap (some sub 500 cal version), dinner salad with ranch

Snack:  Chips and onion dip.  Too much.

Exercise:  Just under an hour of golf with cart.  Barely counts but I'll count it since I'm going to go spend an hour doing stuff around the house too.