Vacation Crap Mode Fully Engaged

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Yuck.

Breakfast:  McD 2 burrios, coffee

Lunch:  McD 2 chzbgr meal, Hi-C, MacJr

Dinner:  Dominos brooklyn pepperoni bacon onion, grapeade

Some candy in there too.

Exercise:  Other than stress, nope

148.0

Linkage

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

There has to be a link between sleep deprivation and weight gain.  Must be.  I'm too lazy to research, but there has to be a study out there.  It simply cannot be otherwise.

Breakfast:  CF beef jerky, coffee

Lunch:  2 coney dogs with fries and ketchup, coffee

Dinner:  Taco salad, pork

4th Meal:  TB triple double crunchwrap spicy, chips and cheez, empanada

Exercise:   Nope.

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Checked Out

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Yup, not doing what I need to do.

Breakfast:  CF beef jerky, coffee

Lunch:  Quiznos brisket bowl

Dinner:  Mexican combo platter, most of a 32 oz Coors Light

Also:  McD MacJr, cheeseburger, Culvers mint oreo shake

Exercise:  45 minutes lots of arms and shoulders.  Pretty good workout.

142.8

Crumbling

Monday, March 27, 2017

Sigh.  Add some candy bars and pringles onto yesterday, too.

Breakfast:  TB sausage crunchwrap, cofffee

Lunch:  4 mexican style tacos, Reeses PB cups

Dinner:  2 Culvers single cheese burgers, fries w/ ketchup

Exercise:  Nope

144.4

Fundamental Lack of Under

Sunday, March 26, 2017

I just don't get it.  Here I had a bunch of pizza Friday.  Scale down.  Had a horrible blowout last night, no exercise (I spend most of the day reading), feel bloated and plugged today.  Scale down.  It's maddening.  But, then again, it's better than the alternative and I'll probably still pay for it later as things catch up to me.  But what a horrible stretch.  Yeesh.

Breakfast:  2 eggs over medium, 5 thick strips bacon, hash brown mix in butter, coffee

Glorious.

10/10, will eat again.  Second straight day of excellent oven bacon.  20 minutes at 375, flip once.  This is with the Wright thick cut applewood smoked bacon.  It's just the right mix of crispy and chewy.

Lunch:  Leftover hamburger patty, mashed potatoes with milk

Ended up being more like potato soup.

Dinner:  Chop suey casserole, cheesy beans, rolls with butter, cake and ice cream, 12 oz Miller Lite

Exercise:  Nope

143.4

Dam Bust

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Welp.  The messed up psyche won this one.  Late in the day, too.

Breakfast:  Some cheezits, coffee

Slept it.  Finished off the cheezits while lazing and reading a book.  No photo.

Lunch:  2 eggs over medium, 6 thick strups bacon, hash brown mix in butter

Perfection.  And a lot of it.

Extra bacon, lots of potatoes.  Didn't get me through.

Snack:  Greek Gods plain greek yogurt

Too lazy to thaw any berries.

Closed thing to a snack I had on hand, since I had already cleaned up the last of the Cheezits.

Dinner:  ~ 7 oz CF ground beef cooked oven slider style with dehydrated onions, mashed potatoes

Meat and potatoes, what could be bad?

Not bad, not exceptional.  I impulse bought a stick of Kerrygold butter with garlic and herbs at the store since it was new and on sale.  Added a nice flavor, but nothing over the top.  Terrible value, of course, but it was a cheap splurge and I still have most of the stick left.  The most annoying thing is that the stick is 3.5 oz, not the usual 4 oz, good thing I won't use it for anything measured, just on potatoes and veggies.

Blowout:  McD MacJr, cheeseburger.  Chili cheese fritos, no back cookies

Epic (and epicurean) failure.  I was not particularly hungry.  This was a pure failure of will, egged on by whatever defective part of my brain says this is OK.  No photo.  Awful.

144.4

Not Even Halfin' It

Friday, March 24, 2017

TGIF.

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar, coffee

Lunch:  McD 2 cheeseburger meal w/ Hi-C, Mac Jr.

For McFood it was quite good.  It was still McFood.

Dinner:  Pepperoni bacon pizza.  Will probably have a cup of decaf later.

Grossly excessive.  If I have access to pizza, I will eat it.  Ruthlessly.

Exercise:  Nope.

145.2

Halfin' It

Thursday, March 23, 2017

It's almost like I know that a vacation is coming.  I'm definitely not dialed in to eating right.

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar, coffee

Lunch:  Qdoba brisket bowl

Standard bowl of goodness.

Large and caloric.

Dinner:  2 Wendy's singles (bogo coupon), some Cheezits, might have a cup of decaf later

Exercise:  40 minutes, assorted.  OK workout.

145.2

Or Less Than Two Thirds

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Got through the super stressful day.  Phew.

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar, coffee

Standard no pic.  Is cheese.

Lunch:  Some kind of deluxe italian sub.

No pic.  Was quite tasty, though rather heavily mayonaised.

Also:  Raspberry sorbet cone.

Dinner:  Taco salad, pork.   Hot sauce.  Might have a cup of decaf.

Sometimes you get it to go.

Not quite as fantastic as other times but still very tasty.  This particular salad was heavy on the pork, I'm not sure it had any beans.

Exercise:  No, not unless you count stress.

144.6

Two Thirds

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Getting closer.  I even had a plan for dinner but cracked.  Stressful day coming up tomorrow, so I was weak.  So it goes.

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar, coffee

No photo.  Is cheese.  I will say that it was unusually good today.

Lunch:  Qdoba brisket bowl

Mr. Smooth with the iPhone

Another high quality Qdoba effort from my favorite burrito artist.

Dinner:  Domino's booklyn style pizza with pepperoni, ham, onion.  Decaf coffee.

Sometimes you just need cheap chain pizza.  No photo.

Exercise:  40 minutes mostly energy stuff.  Had really good pep, moved through things quickly.  Even the knees and ankles were on board, they didn't complain too much.

144.8

One More Day Of That

Monday, March 20, 2017

Slept well, just not enough after getting back from vacation semi-late night.  Ankles are a little grumpy, it will be interesting to see if they (and the achilles) are loose enough tomorrow for some exercise.

It was good to see that lots of walking on vacation offset a lot of bad eating pretty well.

Breakfast:  TB sausage crunchwrap, coffee

Lunch:  4 mexican tacos with hot sauce

Living near a good mexican place is a good thing.
Except for fatness.

Dinner:  2 culvers singles with cheese, fries with ketchup, 12 oz Bells Smitten Ale

Exercise:  Nope

145.8

Vacation Garbage Time

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Breakfast:  McD egg mcmuffin, hash brown, sausage burrito, coffee

Lunch:  N/A

Dinner:  Steak and Shake double cheeseburger, fries, mint oreo shake

Also:  Almond joy, honey roasted peanuts

Exercise:  18 holes with cart


Saturday, March 18, 2017

Breakfast:  French toast, bacon, coffee

Lunch:  Turkey sandwich, potato chips, 3 x 16 oz grape powerade, 2x peanut butter crackers, mini donuts

Dinner:  Cheeseburger, fries with ketchup, salad bar salad with ranch, chicken noodle soup w crackers, decaf, 12 oz Miller Lite

Exercise:  36 holes with cart.  LOTS of walking.


Friday, March 17, 2017

Breakfast:  Buffet scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, biscuit and gravy, grits, coffee

Also:  Peanut butter crackers, grape Powerade, 24 oz Miller Lite

Dinner:  Reuben, french fries, salad bar salad with ranch, vegetable beef soup

Exercise:  18 holes with cart


Thursday, March 16, 2017

Breakfast:  Cracker Barrel double meat breakfast, coffee

Also:  Pretzels

Dinner:  Ham and swiss sandwich, fries, salad bar salad with ranch, cup of pinto beans

Also:  36 oz Miller Lite

Exercise:  18 holes with cart


Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar, coffee

Lunch:  McD 2 cheeseburger meal, orange drink, Mac Jr

Dinner:  Culvers single bacon deluxe, fries, root beer

Also:  Almond Joy candy bar

Exercise:  Nope

Blame Rice Have Rice

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

It's weird.  I didn't have a good eating day yesterday, and yet the scale ticked lower.  The one thing different was rice.  I had potatoes - both mashed and fried.  But no rice.  I had corn.  No rice.

No, I don't really believe that's a thing - all starches are going to keep me bloated - but it would be something if it was.  I could give up the rice, if it made that kind of difference.  Too bad it probably doesn't.

Oh yeah, I didn't have any beer either.  Right.

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar, coffee

No photo.

Lunch:  Qdoba brisket bowl

No style points for the less-than-suave food photo in public.

Tasty as always.  With lots of ... rice.  Right.

Dinner:  Leftover chuck roast, mashed potatoes.  Probably 12 oz Bells Two Hearted in a bit

Leftover chuck looks a lot like brisket, you know?

Yup.  Didn't have any gravy left.  And yeah, this was way too much potatoes.

Exercise:  45-50 minutes, all over.  Worked hard, good sweat, got the heart rate up.

144.8

The Suck

Monday, March 13, 2017

Couldn't sleep last night, between the time change and sleeping in I was all sorts of messed up.  Had to get up relatively early, too, though I did go back to bed for an hour which was less than ideal.

Only photo I took today was lunch, maybe I'll catch it up later.

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar, coffee

Standard.

Lunch:  4 tacos mexican style

Not the prettiest tacos but so so good.

Went with the extra taco, hungry today.

Dinner:  2 Culvers singles with cheese, fries with ketchup

Yup.  Is what it is.

Also:  Some leftover mashed potatoes

Exercise:  Nope.

146.2

Death To DST

Sunday, March 12, 2017

Is there anyone on the planet that actually likes Daylight Savings Time?  Didn't think so.  Just like everyone else losing an hour last night has me thoroughly scrambled today.

Fighting a sore and swollen ankle last night and this morning.  Finally feeling a bit better now.  I'm sure the hard floors aren't great for it, I should probably put on some shoes.

Breakfast:  LOL, no

Slept in, plus losing an hour, plus being a lazy slug meant that it was after noon before "breakfast" was on the table.  Pathetic,.

Lunch:  2 eggs over medium, 5 strips bacon, hash brown mix in butter, veg juice, coffee

Can't say enough.  Ok, I can,.

The usual weekend fave.  Backtracked on my no oven bacon pledge since I wanted to cook up the rest of the package and it turned out really good for once.  375, 20 minutes, flip after about 12.  Eggs were on the wrong side of medium so a point docked there and the hash browns were also a whisker shy of perfection.  Still a fantabulous meal.

Snack:  Taco Bell shredded chicken burrito

Didn't quite make it to dinner.  Fat people problems.

Dinner:  Leftover chuck roast, mashed potatoes, carrots, gravy, 12 oz Miller Lite

Next time, make more gravy.

Every bit as good, maybe better the 2nd time around.  Oh, and make more carrots too.

Also:  Fig Newtons and a glass of whole milk

Exercise:  Nope.  Having ankle issues so I'm hobbling.

147.0

Sometimes Failure Is Both Epic And Epicurean

Saturday, March 11, 2017

On the road most of today = garbage eating.  Honestly I was in a pissy state of mind and I didn't care very much.  Not a whole lot better this evening, but some.  I had planned to hit the farm on my way home this afternoon but I got a late start and took a whole lot longer than I had planned so no dice.  Fortunately I still have quite a bit of stuff on hand.

Brunch:  A whole bunch of Chik-Fila-A.  Coffee.

No picture.  Tasty but very excessive.  And there was sugar involved because they have great lemonade.

Lunch:  4 White Castles with cheese

No picture.  Tasty but very WTF.  What can I say, we don't have the Castle around here.

Dinner:  CF chuck roast, mashed potatoes with gravy, carrots, later 12 oz Bells Two Hearted Ale

Gold, Jerry!  Gold!

Delicious.  It created a lot of dishes, but I'm glad I made it.  Threw the roast in the crock pot before I left this morning, 10 hours later it's splendid.

Exercise:  Nope.  Negative exercise, sitting on my ass in the car.

147.0

Failure Of The Will, Part Infinity

Friday, March 10, 2017

Today seemed like it lasted an eternity.  I was not feeling it at work.  And tonight I have the hunger.  Sigh.

Road trip tomorrow, there will be Chick-Fil-A in my future.

Breakfast:  ~2 oz sharp cheddar, a few slices salami, coffee

Same old.  No photo.

Lunch:  Taco salad, al pastor pork, hot sauce

I might get a photo up tomorrow.

Terrific as always.

Dinner:  2 Wendy's singles (BOGO coupon), chips and onion dip

No photos.  FAIL.

Exercise:  Nope.  Total slug.

149.2

Ongoing Bloat

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Feeling bloated this evening. (Edit:  Oddly less so after eating dinner?!)   Had a carby lunch late, but this has been kind of a theme.  I may need to reduce the carbs further - cut out the rice and remaining potatoes too.  I have to admit that I'm not too excited about that - giving up potatoes may well be more annoying than giving up (most) flour.

Breakfast:  ~2 oz sharp cheddar, a few slices of salami, coffee

Ran out the door this morning, so forgot the photo.  Even took the coffee with me.

I could use a prior pic as a stock photo, but I'm not going to bother.

Early lunch (noon):  Taco Bell shredded chicken burrito

I decided to test a theory - let's see if it makes any difference in my workout if I have some food - carbs and protein and fat - a while before my workout.  Verdict:  No discernible difference.

No photo, was eaten in car.

Lunch (2:00 or so):  Qdoba brisket bowl

Pretty standard Qdobowl.  

Having a good burrito artist make your bowl is a good thing.  The young woman who made mine recognized me as a regular and did a fine job.  Quite tasty.  I thought about getting chicken instead of brisket due to the calories in the earlier burrito but figured nah, let's stick with the good stuff.  Few regrets.

Dinner:  2 eggs over medium, rest of the CF beef bacon, hash brown mix in butter, vegetable juice

Yum.  10/10, would eat again.

6 strips of the "bacon" today.  Seems like 20 to a 1 lb package.  I like the stuff and will get some more when I go back to the farm, which could be as soon as tomorrow.

Will probably have a 12 oz Bells Smitten Ale.  I think I have two of those left and a couple Two Hearted.  Might need to wack the beer too.  We'll see.

Exercise:  45 minutes "all body".  Solid workout but perhaps not quite as intense.

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More Mind Tricks

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Mind games.  Left work late, brain said I'm super hungry, must eat now.  Stomach was kind of buying in.  I had just barely enough willpower to go directly home.  Arrived, and suddenly I'm not so hungry.  Which I would expect, having had a large lunch at 1:00.  Stupid mind tricks.

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar, a few slices of salami, coffee

I somehow forgot to take a picture.  At least I remembered the breakfast, which was not exactly a sure thing.  My morning routine sucks.

Lunch:  Taco salad, al pastor pork, hot sauce

I'm amazed that I don't have several fingers
in this shot, trying to be suuuper smooth.
FAIL.

Huge and delicious.  I definitely like what this place does for taco salad.  And it wasn't even too busy today, though I suspect it being after 1:00 was helpful in that regard.

Dinner:  2 eggs over medium in a pat of butter, 7 strips CF beef "bacon", leftover mashed potatoes

That's the elusive double-yolk egg right there.

Well all right then.  I have decided that I like the beef "bacon" for what it is.  It has some nice flavor to it and I like the texture, it has a little chew without being tough.  And then you have the rest of the meal.  Of all the ways to prepare potatoes I like mashed best and these were sublime... even if you can't see them under the eggs.  They aren't good for weight loss, but I might just eat them anyway.

Will probably have 12oz Bell's Smitten Ale again tonight in a bit.

Exercise:  Nope.  This is the thing that's a problem.  Better weather is coming though.

149.6

Let's Rebound

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Okay.  So yesterday featured a meltdown.  Let's get back on the horse.

I didn't pay a big price on the scale today despite well over 2k calories for dinner, we'll see if it shows up tomorrow.  I had a hard time getting to sleep since I was still working on digesting all that food, but otherwise no obvious adverse effects.  I did remember to bring some jerky in to work but I didn't need it.  It wasn't a bad day.

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar, a few slices of salami, coffee

The dynamic trio.

Spread the cheese and the salami out some since I knew lunch would be late.  Seemed to work fine, I wasn't hungry.  I usually don't have morning hunger issues.

Lunch:  Qdoba brisket bowl

I probably should tell them to go easier on the rice tho

Standard.  Pretty good today.  I didn't eat until after my workout, so it was 2:15 or so.  It made the end of the day a non-issue.

Dinner:  7 slices of CF "spicy beef bacon", some sauteed onion and jalapeno in butter, mashed potatoes, a glass of vegetable juice.

Not a great photo, but it shows the general idea.

lol, oops.  I was planning to make meatballs, thinking I pulled out some ground beef over the weekend to thaw.  Um, nope.  So I decided to try the beef "bacon".  This worked better than expected, but it was a few notches short of great.

I may have 12 oz of Bells Smitten Ale, not sure as it's already 8:00.

Exercise:  45 minutes, focus on arms and shoulders, though there's always plenty of loaded cardio.  Went pretty hard, worked up a very nice sweat.

147.8

Meltdown Deluxe

Monday, March 6, 2017

Sigh.  It's a fascinating glimpse into how messed up my brain is.

I made a mistake today.  I let myself get too hungry.  And I didn't have anything handy to solve the problem.  When I left work I was ravenous.  I went through the nearest drive thru and got the deal of the day.  Which helped.  BUT... because the switch had been flipped I wasn't satisfied to stop there.  I mean, I almost saved it and contained the damage.  But I didn't.  Despite a feeling of relative satiety that built gradually I still got pizza.  And ate pizza.  Which I didn't need, at that point it was purely reflexive, emotional, the subconscious-calling-the-shots eating.

Awful.

So tomorrow.  More water.  And I need to bring a package of jerky to work so that if I get hungry like that I can eat something.  Immediately.

Breakfast:  ~ 5" leftover Subway ham and cheese

Five inches of "meh".  I thought about just not finishing it.

It wasn't as good the 2nd day.  I think my urge for the subway has been sated.

Lunch:  3 tacos mexican style with hot sauce

Pictured fully dressed with 2x hot sauces for variety.

I just didn't eat enough lunch.  Last week 3 was enough.  I felt pretty good after eating 3.  But by 5:00, good night.  Maybe I should have eaten lunch later.  That was probably the real problem.

Dinner:  2 Culvers single cheese butterburgers, Domino's brooklyn crust with pepperoni, ham, onion

It was hard to delay long enough even to take this crappy photo.

Obviously complete and utter failure.  I didn't take a picture of the pizza, I just plowed through it.  Like I said above, by the time I ate it my stomach was feeling pretty content, but some part of my brain said MUST.  EAT.  MOAR.

Exercise:  Nope.  More walking around the office than usual, by quite a bit, but it does NOT count.

148.2

Stupid Biochemistry

Sunday, March 5, 2017

I see a lot of people on the internet arguing that nothing determines weight loss but calories in versus calories out.  Many of these folks are intelligent, well-educated people.  They argue that position with passion bordering on fanaticism at times.  I just don't buy it.  There is too much going on in the human body for it to be so simple - we are not a 99% efficient natural gas furnace, where it's easy to calculate thermal efficiency.  Sure, over the long run, calorie surplus or deficit is closely - even very closely - correlated to weight gain or loss, but it's not just that simple from day to day.

There is without a doubt short-term inefficiency.  I can have a day where I eat at my target of 2,000 kcal and I still am up a pound or two, despite knowing with absolute certainty that my basic metabolic rate will burn more calories than that... it certainly isn't negative!  Fluids matter.  Waste removal matters.  Stuff matters.

As a result I try not to really pay much attention to calories.  As long as I'm eating decent food I'll be okay for a while, especially if I get back to walking consistently.  I still get frustrated by the short term variance and have the impulse to think about calories consumed, but that's just being human.

Breakfast:  2 eggs, 3 strips bacon, hash brown mix in butter, vegetable juice, coffee

Consumed later than the usual breakfast, just shy of "brunch"

The usual favorite.  Only gets 9/10 today, the eggs were cooked on heat a notch too high, the bacon left on 20 seconds too long.  Still delicious.

Lunch:  Qdoba brisket bowl

The peaks of Mt. Guac always make it look enormous.

Good as usual but nothing particularly noteworthy about it.

Dinner: ~ 7" Subway ham w/ provolone, all the veg minus spinach, southwest sauce.  Later, 12 oz Bells Smitten Ale

This is a photo of a 12" sandwich

In a rarety, I didn't eat the whole thing!  I thought I was hungry, but when I got home I determined I wasn't as hungry as I had thought.  So I ate the larger half and stuck the rest in the fridge.  This counts as a good thing.

I had intended to do a little cooking tonight, but I got tied up in an unpacking project so I went easy.

Exercise:  Well, it wasn't exactly the exercise I had planned, but I'm going to count it - went to the storage unit and wrestled with stuff for quite a while, then brought a number of boards and boxes home.  Had to be well over an hour of lifting, hauling, bending and twisting.  Then there was some unpacking, and moving stuff ... I'm tired and I'll sleep tonight!

147.8

Salad Motherlode

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Thank goodness it's the weekend.  Lots to do, much of which I do not care to do, but still.  So nice to be "off the clock" and able to tackle things at my own pace.  And, for the record, my pace is very.  effin.  slow.

Breakfast:  3 oatcakes with a drizzle of maple syrup, 4 strips bacon, vegetable juice, coffee

Now I know what pure carbon tastes like.

Unmitigated fail.  Round 2 with the oven bacon and I screwed up.  Left it in too long and it was carbonized.  I think I'll just go back to doing it on the stovetop -- yes that means I have to attend it, but given that I'm 0/2 getting comparable results with the oven I can do that.  I don't screw up like this real often - it's more typical that my cooking fails are underseasoning or just poorly conceived food combinations.

I ate it anyway.

Lunch:  Taco salad, al pastor pork, hot sauce

The motherlode (of taco salads)

I figured, hey, it's 2:00, it'll be dead.  WRONG.  Every seat taken, so I got my salad to go and went back to work.  Holy huge salad Batman.  I was able to see some of the cook making it - a couple scoops of rice, one of beans, a healthy scoop of meat and then the veggies.  Enormous and satisfying.

The only ding is for the crappy plastic fork.  I guess I should have had a real fork at the office.

Dinner:  Subway 6" ham, provolone, all the veg minus spinach, southwest sauce

Pretty standard Subway

Worked until about 8:00, so I knew that cooking was not going to happen.  Despite the salad lunch I still wanted veggies so I got Subway again.  Added bonus, it was the sub of the day so it was 75 cents off.

Satisfactory.

Exercise:  Nope.  Ten hours at the office (minus lunch) not condusive.  That and me being a lazy ****.

146.4

Oh Well It Was Still Fine

Friday, March 3, 2017

Back to normal today.

Also:  Glad it's Friday, even though the weekend forecast is PAIN work.

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar

This photo has an orientation problem.
Plus, it's a lousy photo.  

The end of the block is always the worst, because air exposure for multiple days, no matter how well you wrap it, is not good.  Oh well, it was still fine.

Lunch:  Qdoba brisket bowl

Needed more warmth.

This was not one of their better efforts.  The rice in particular wasn't hot, which brought the temp of the bowl down.  That's what I get for going early, I guess.  Oh well, it was still fine.

Dinner:  6" Subway ham on italian herb with pepperjack, all the veg minus spinach, southwest sauce

Not to be confused with good food.  Edible though.

Sometimes you just want a bunch of vegetation.  This was one of those times.  And for less than $5 it worked.  Audibled seeing that I wasn't going to get home before 7:30.  It wasn't great.  Oh well, it was still fine.

I will probably have 12 oz Bells Smitten Ale in a bit.

Exercise:  45 minutes, various.  Didn't seem like we pushed as hard today but still a solid workout.  Still feeling like it's coming easier due to a bit less weight.  Hoping for more yet.

146.2

Unknown Bloat

Thursday, March 2, 2017

I felt rather bloated last night after dinner.  That feeling carried on into today.  Not enjoyable.  Also not enjoyable is the side view I just got.  Need to turn up the intensity, especially with the exercise.

Breakfast:  5 slices Armour novara salami, coffee

Glamour shot.

I was glad that I bought a couple ounces for the week, it meant that I had something easy for the off day when out of cheese.

Lunch:  Subway 6" Ham with american cheese, all the veg minus spinach, southwest sauce

Not the most fabulous lunch but I'll take it.

Had someone pick this up for me, glad I did.  Not a stellar choice but not the worst.

About 4:00 pm:  Taco Bell spicy triple double crunchwrap

One of the finest Taco Bell items.

I had planned to have a bowl or a salad for lunch today but work did not permit it.  The sub wasn't quite going to get me through and I didn't want anything heavy late so I had this as a second lunch and will have a light dinner.

Just looked up calories, Subway calculator says 420 for the sandwich, Taco Bell says 780 for the crunchwrap.  Let's hear it for a pile of veggies.

Dinner:  Greek Gods plain yogurt with ~ 1 C frozen Meijer raspberries

Thatsalottayogurt

A quite satisfactory end to the day.

Exercise:  Nope.  I may need to abandon all hope for early morning, getting up is consistently a problem.  The problem is that evening isn't much better.

148.2

Marching Forward

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

It's a new month?  Oh.  Okay.  February was good in the sense that I finally have about ten days of decent eating strung together, otherwise the year's been a trainwreck.  But I'm still feeling pretty positive.

YTD Results:

January:  Down 0 pounds

February:  Down 10 pounds

Trying does make a difference, you know?

Breakfast:  ~ 2 oz sharp cheddar cheese, coffee

Too ugly to be a stock photo.

Hey, what do you know.  I remembered to take a picture as I was running out the door late.  That's one nice thing about cheese for breakfast, as long as you remember it, it sure doesn't take long to grab it and it's perfectly portable.

Lunch:  Taco salad with al pastor pork, hot sauce

Now that's what I would call "heaping".

Oh, yes.  Fantastic today.  And huge.  I was quite full.  Waited until 1:00 which made for a bit less of a crowd.  I may have to do that more often.

Dinner:  Chicken fried rice, a glass of whole milk.  Later, 12 oz Bells Two Hearted Ale

And then it was gone.

The fridge, it has been emptied.  I didn't have that much chicken left, so I had the milk for a little more protein and fat.  I know, I know, I eat way too much dairy.  Oh well.

Exercise:  Nope.  Regrettably.  Could get some tonight, I suppose, but it's cold and snowing sideways.  I think I'll stay home and be cozy.

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