Never Enough Batteries, Never Enough Charge

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Wow, halfway through November already.

I think I finally reached a point yesterday of saying enough.   I've been close - which is obvious given the number of false starts I've had in the last couple of months - but never quite there.  I think it is time.  I had a major life event two and a half weeks ago I have just been feeling lost.  I'm still somewhat lost but I know that I can find a small measure of purpose in fixing my weight and condition, so I'm going to grab on and see how it goes.  This morning has been great, though.

Oh, and I'd like to track weight again, but I have very little confidence in the batteries in my scale.  I should remember to get new ones.

Breakfast:  2 jumbo CF eggs fried in a very small pat of butter, 5 strips Plumrose bacon, ~ 1 oz Sargento 4 states cheddar cheese, 1 1/3 C Alexia hashbrowns fried in 2T of butter

Advanced fat guy strategy:  Hide the hash browns
and cheese under the healthy eggs!

Delicious as always and I think about the right quantity.  I ditched the toast and cut the hash browns way down (about in half, I think) to 2 servings.  I didn't measure the cheese but I'm comfortable it wasn't more than that - I've been using this bag for a while.

Lunch:  Bowl of homemade vegetable beef soup

Comfort food.

Good stuff.  Not the finest batch I have ever concocted, but good none the less.

Dinner:  2 slices of salami, a couple of carrot and celery sticks, 1/2 claussen dill pickle, 1 tub Fage full fat greek yogurt with 1T of raspberry fruit spread

Crudites?

This was a pleasant light dinner.  Lighter dinners are definitely part of the plan - if I am going to continue to go to bed early, there is no reason to eat much in the evening.

Other:  2 mugs of chicken boullion.  Not the healthiest thing in the world (seriously, just read the ingredients and cringe) but warm and comforting.

Also, ~ 4 oz of Simply Lemonade.  I was feeling pretty awful this afternoon, so I took in some carbs and took a long hot shower.  It helped.  I hope that carb withdrawal isn't a big issue, it really hasn't been in the past.

Exercise:  Yes!  Walk of somewhere around a mile.  Maybe a hair more.  Much like the old days of success.  Got up at 5:00, dawdled for a little while but got out there about half past.  Beautiful cold crisp morning, no traffic.  Distance felt about right for the first day - I wasn't super tired when I got home but I could feel that I had been working.  Not much pain, just some complaining by the muscles around my right knee.  Hoping to add a few blocks tomorrow.  I need to find my pedometer.

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