Post Vac

 Monday, April 26, 2021

Got home about 12:30 this morning.  Hoooo boy was I tired today.  Kinda nice though to not gain weight despite holiday eating.

Breakfast:  Peanut butter filled pretzels, coffee

Lunch:  CFA spicy x2, frosted lemonade

Dinner:  Ham and salami sub, garlic cheese bread, rice krispie treat

Exercise:  lol no

108.8

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Breakfast:  2 slices cold pizza, McD egg mcmuffin, 2x hash browns, coffee

Lunch:  Mini snickers bars

Dinner:  Steak n Shake plain double cheese, fries, strawberry shake

Exercise:  18 holes with cart, was over 10k steps

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Breakfast:  2 eggs scrambled, american fries w ketchup, bacon, biscuits and gravy, coffee

Lunch:  Mini snickers bars

Dinner:  Ham, pep onion pizza, soft serve twist ice cream, Yuenglings

Exercise:  9 holes with cart

Friday, April 23, 2021

Breakfast:  2 eggs over easy, american fries w ketchip, bacon, biscuits and gravy, coffee

Lunch:  Hot dog KMR, Powerade Zero

Dinner:  Cheeseburger, fries w ketchup, Diet Coke

Also:  Goose Island IPA, cheddar cheese pretzel chips

Exercise:  27 holes with cart

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Breakfast:  Cracker Barrell double meat breakfast, coffee

Lunch:  Almond butter biscuit

Dinner:  Cheeseburger, fries w ketchup, Diet Coke

Also:  Yuengling, microwave popcorn

Exercise:  18 holes with cart

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Breakfast:  Marble cornbread scramble, potatoes, coffee

Lunch:  Wendy's double

Dinner:  Culvers mushroom and swiss, fries, diet pepsi

Exercise:  Nope  

Respecting Power

 Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Giving thanks today for the power ... of nasal spray.  I don't like to use it and do so only a couple times a year, but when called upon it's a miracle worker.  Sprayed last night and it defeated whatever combination of fat, dust, dairy, mattress chemicals and other environmental hazards that prevent me from getting enough oxygen.  Slept straight through, quality appears to be have been decent with mild snoring.  Being able to breath normally through the nose is an underappreciated blessing!  Kind of like my experience living in a place without a functional hot shower a ways back.

Looking forward to eating at home again when I'm back from vacation, this eating out all the time is just dumb.

Breakfast:  McD sausage biscuit, mcchicken biscuit, hash browns, coffee

Lunch:  CFA I think

Dinner:  Pizza I think

Exercise:  Nope

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Let's Make The Connection K

 Monday, April 19, 2021

More stress, more awful eating, more super awful sleep.  So tired.

Breakfast:  Bagel sandwich w bacon, egg, cheese, veggie cream cheese.  Coffee

Lunch:  CFA spicy, frosted lemonade, chicago dog, fries

Dinner:  Super deluxe pizza

Exercise:  Nope.  Did "detail" clean the car.

110.8

Time So Short

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Feeling the pressure.  Sure didn't help that I got a lousy night of sleep, woke up at 4:45 and despite trying for three hours didn't get any additional restful sleep.

Breakfast:  Leftover deluxe pizza, spicy guac tortilla chips, coffee

Yeah that's the breakfast of champions alright.

Lunch:  Wendy's Daves Double

Dinner:  Roast, carrots, four cheese potatoes, garlic toast, Culvers chocolate shake

Exercise:  18 holes with cart.  Came in under 10k steps.

110.0

Almost Vacationtime

Saturday, April 17, 2021

Getting close.  So very much to do first though.

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

Lunch:  CFA 2x spicy, frosted lemonade, 12 oz Miller Lite

Dinner:  Culvers mushroom swiss burger, raspberry lemonade, chocolate shake

Exercise:  18 holes with cart.

109.4

Friday, April 16, 2021

Breakfast:  2 slices extra sharp cheddar, coffee

Lunch:  Jimmy Johns vito, salt and vinegar chips

Dinner:  Deluxe pizza and way too much of it, also had a cookie and swig of lemonade earlier

Exercise:  Nope

108.6

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Breakfast:  2 slices extra sharp cheddar, coffee

Lunch:  CFA 2x spicy, frosted lemonade

Dinner:  Sack of Taco Bell, diet Pepsi

108.4

Another FailDay

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Sigh.  Tired this morning, didn't get in as early as I wanted and was definitely done by 5.  Sad.  So much to do, it's completely overwhelming.  The only good thing about today really was the blip down on the scale which of course will be reversed big time tomorrow.

Breakfast:  2 slices extra sharp cheddar, coffee

Lunch:  CFA 2x spicy, frosted lemonade

Dinner:  Pizza Hut thin crust pep ham green olive

Exercise:  Nope

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Interesting To Me Anyway

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Weird.  I felt good when I woke up this morning.  I first woke at 10 minutes to 4:00, but was able to doze back off until the alarm went off at 5:00.  Actually got up and felt fine.  Dawdled a bit but never felt the need to go back to sleep.  I figure I got six hours and the snoring was pretty bad, so I have no idea why I felt decent.

I'll take it thought.

Breakfast:  2 slices extra sharp cheddar, coffee

No cocoa butter today.

Lunch:  Home tacos with jack cheese sour cream and homemade hot sauce, plain greek yogurt

Good stuff.  Made 2 lb of taco meat so I'm stocked.

Dinner:  Dominos hand tossed pep ham mushroom

Sigh.  Should have had leftovers.

Exercise:  Nope.  Work at max stress level.

108.4

The Very Logical Consequences of Apathy

Monday, April 12, 2021

Paid the price this morning for the weekend's gluttony.  And I didn't do anything today to reverse it, obviously.  Going in the wrong direction here before vacation, which is only ten days away but who's counting.  (Hint:  IT ME)

Breakfast:  2 slices sharp cheddar, coffee with min cocoa butter

Only had one cup this morning for some reason.

Lunch:  CFA 2x spicy, frosted lemonade

No photo.  Wanted chicken, got chicken.

Dinner:  3 tacos mexican style plus avo and hot sauce, chips and salsa

Been wanting some crunch, pretty sure this was a suboptimal way to get it.  Good though.

Exercise:  Nope.  Limping today, darned corn.

107.0

Fat Sunday Like A National Holiday

Sunday, April 11, 2021

It's true what they say, you can't outrun (or in my case outwalk) a bad diet.  Sigh.  

Plan for today is TBD, rain forecast is somewhat improved so maybe golf will happen after all.  If the course isn't too soggy after yesterday's deluge that is.

Breakfast:  2 eggs over medium, hash browns in butter, 4 strips Meijer regular bacon, grapefruit, coffee

As is often the case, breakfast of champions today.  Glorious.  Bacon a shade overdone, may want to drop the temp when making regular thickness I dunno.  But still 9.5/10.  Really enjoying the homemade hot sauce too.  Will have to make another batch when I get back from vacation.

Lunch:  Wendys Daves Double (before golf), Popeyes spicy chicken (after golf)

Junk food but both sandwiches were good.

Dinner:  Meatloaf, four cheese mashed potatoes, cheesy green beans, rolls with butter, peaches

Sunday dinners man.

Also a Culver's concrete mixer.  And I need to add 12 oz Miller Lite to yesterday.

FAT.

Exercise:  9 holes walking.  Pedometer said almost exactly 10,000 steps.

105.4

Dodging the Drops

Saturday, April 10, 2021

Thank goodness for the weekend.  Up too late last night, so I was sleepy this morning.  Barely made it to golf in a timely fashion.  That's life I guess.  After vacation I really need to make a push to fix the sleep schedule.

Anyway, feeling pretty lucky tonight, we dodged nearly all the forecast rain this morning.  Rained hard all afternoon after we finished and still going this evening.  I don't enjoy being out in the rain.

Breakfast:  2 eggs scrambled, tortillas, jack cheese, homemade hot sauce, 4 strips Kiolbasa pepper bacon, coffee

So late I didn't take the time to eat my grapefruit.  Just stuck it back in the fridge.

Lunch:  CFA spicy chicken, frosted lemonade (no photo, eaten in car)

More like dinner part 1, since it was after 4:00.

Dinner:  2x Taco Bell beef burritos  (no photo, eaten in car)

Lots of calories today.  They were meh.  Home tacos would have been a better option if I had thawed any beef or made the batch that I'm planning on doing tomorrow.

Exercise.  18 holes with cart, good extra walking.  With the trip to the grocery store the pedometer reported 15,750 steps, of which over 11k were from golf.  Not bad.  Even better, I felt pretty good.

105.4

Not Sure There Is A Limit To Fail

Friday, April 9, 2021

Sigh.

At least it's Friday.

Breakfast:   2 slices sharp cheddar, coffee w min cocoa butter

Standard.

Lunch:  Smoked brisket w bbq sauce, sausage, dill pickles

Way too much food, the guy was very generous with my 1/2 lb order.  Bolted it down and would have liked to have saved some.

Dinner:  Pizza hut thin crust pep ham green olive

Not their best effort.

Exercise:  Nope.  Fatigued.

105.0

Sticky Weight

Thursday, April 8, 2021

I remember fondly when big weight drops happened last month.  Getting rid of that easy surplus water is such a good feeling.  The little drops that come later in the process, especially after a big jump, are much less enjoyable.  Better than gains but way less fun.  Some of the weight this time seems to be sticky, it's going to hang around until and unless I get serious.

Breakfast:  Coffee w cocoa butter

Pretty amusing, I was thinking about cutting back to 2MAD after vacation and the next thing I knew I was out the door without having grabbed my cheese.  Oops.  No harm done.

Lunch:  Home tacos w refried beans, jack cheese, fire sauce and lettuce.  Plain greek yogurt.

Dependably good.

Dinner:  3 eggs sunnyside, hash browns in butter, 4 strips Kiolbasa pepper bacon, hot sauces.  24 oz Miller Lite

I was hungry, then I ate this enormous plate of perfection and now I'm not hungry.  It may have been a bit much but ... no regrets.

Exercise:  Nope.  Very sluggish (and late) this morning, pouring rain this evening.  Not much pep and no projects that involve weightlifting tonight.

106.4 

Just Desserts Without Dessert

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

I am suprisingly OK with last night's meltdown.  Reasons.  Was pleased that I didn't feel bad this morning, I thought there might be a lingering effect other than the anticipated bump on the scale.  As a bonus I have not been hungry so far.

Breakfast:  2 slices sharp cheddar, coffee with min cocoa butter

Standard.

Lunch:  Keto sausage balls, plain greek yogurt, hot dill pickle chips

Just reaching for convenience here.  All good.

Dinner:  Home tacos with refried beans, jack cheese, lettuce, sour cream, fire sauce, leftover restaurant hot sauce from Monday.  24 oz All Day IPA

It was a very cheesy day.  It has occurred to me that I should eat less of it.  Anyway, I put beans between the tortillas instead of cheese this time and it worked out great, these were delicious.  Tacos FTW.

Exercise:  Nope.  Super sluggish this morning due to staying up far too late.  Lots of home projects this evening.  Excuses, excuses.  Edit:  Yes.  I took my TV off the wall and had to lift the darned thing a bunch of times to get it back up there.  It's like I lifted and you're darned right I'm counting it, that was a fun hour.

106.8

Awaiting Side Effects

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

I seem to be having a hard time really getting in the groove.  I did get a lot accomplished (relatively speaking) at home last evening, while the day was not productive at work.  Can't seem to put it all together.

Breakfast:  2 slices sharp cheddar, coffee with min cocoa butter

Standard.

Lunch:  Wendy's Dave's Double, Dr Pepper Zero Sugar

Decided not to cook after taking care of some personal business. 

Dinner:  Dominos thin crust pep ham green olive, Lays potato chips

Audibled.  For reasons.  And atypically I don't feel bad about it.

Add a CFA spicy and a frosted lemonade to the damage.  Yikes.

Exercise:  Nope.  Reasons.

105.0

Salad Failure

Monday, April 5, 2021

In a normal world this week would be spring break.  Since I really can't go anywhere ... or at least shouldn't go anywhere ... instead it's work as usual.

Not a good night of sleep.  Tired this morning and have some aches and pains that were not there last evening, a leg is cranky, I can feel the corn on the bottom of my foot and pretty stiff in general.  Oh well, I suppose it comes with being old and fat.

Breakfast:  2 slices sharp cheddar, coffee with min cocoa butter

Standard.

Lunch:  Taco salad with rubbed pork, 2 Lewis butter rolls with butter and Meijer honey ham leftovers

Salad was a fail.  Ate about a quarter of it, then a few bites picking out the pork, then I just gave up.  I thought the pork would be fine when I ate a small piece yesterday but I just didn't care for it.  Back to the adovada plan for when I want pork.  Going to try just using taco meat tomorrow.  Fortunately I had leftovers from last night on hand to fill in.

Dinner:  4 tacos, mexican style with avocado and hot sauce.  24 oz Miller Lite

Dependably good and I remembered to keep it to 4.  Soon I should downsize to three.

Exercise:  Nope.  Rest day, as mentioned my body is cranky today.  Which is disappointing.

105.0

Uppepped

Sunday, April 4, 2021

Happy Easter.  Off to a good if a bit slow start this morning.  Woke up at 5:00 and have lazed about for quite some time.  Not sleepy but still kinda tired.  It's probably going to take a bit to get used to being more active but that's okay.  I'm looking forward to the time outside.  It was cold yesterday morning but eventually the wind died off and it got well up into the 50s.  Today is forecast for mid-60s which will be glorious.  I was pleased that I wasn't too wiped out yesterday after golf, hoping that's a sign of real if small progress.

Oh and I managed a great accomplishment before 6:00 a.m., I managed to reset my pedometer.  I can actually read really small type when I don't have the contacts in.

Breakfast:  2 eggs over medium, hash browns, sour cream and hot sauce, 4 strips leftover bacon, grapefruit, coffee

Another deluxe weekend breakfast.  I prefer the hash browns less crispy (use the smaller pan my guy) but still tasty.  The Kiolbasa bacon didn't reheat notably well, I'll have to remember that.

Lunch:  Keto sausage balls, medium avocado

Made the sausage balls, maybe not my finest batch but they're fine.  And lots for the freezer.

Dinner:  Ham, box scalloped potatoes, corn, rolls with butter, pineapple, carrot cake and vanilla ice cream

Pretty traditional Easter dinner.  Very starchy but it all was good.  Next year we'll hopefully have the whole family together again.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart, good extra walking.  Pedometer said just over 12,000 steps.  I should check my stride length, because it calculated that as almost 7 miles when for a normal person it would be more like 6.  But whatever, I'll probably just go with it.

105.2

Bloat And Retain

Saturday, April 3, 2021

It's never a surprise when there are consequences for eating commercial pizza.   I mean, I'm always thirsty after I eat it and then I notably retain that liquid.  /Shrug.  It'll be gone soon enough.  I shouldn't eat it and maybe someday I won't.

Breakfast:  2 eggs over medium, 4 strips Kiolbasa pepper bacon, hash browns, sour cream and hot sauce, grapefruit, coffee

Fueling up for a day outside.  Looking forward to it.

Lunch:  Bacon wrapped hot dog w/ KMRO, tater tots with ketchup, dill spear, 12 oz Miller Lite

I won't eat a lot of the time after golf, but I was ready for something.

Dinner:  Culvers mushroom and swiss burger

Always delivers, even if they're crazy slow getting the orders out.  Almost 8:00 by the time I ate it.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart.  Not a ton of walking, just about 10k steps.  If I can find a magnifying glass maybe I can fix the settings on my pedometer.  Add in a trip to the store and I hit 12,500.

105.6

A Pretty Good Friday

Friday, April 2, 2021

Not as rested this morning for whatever reason.  No idea why.  I will say that it does not help when I wake up and am immediately stuck thinking about work stuff.  That needs to stop.

Breakfast:  2 slices sharp cheddar, coffee w min cocoa butter

Standard

Lunch:  Home tacos w ground beef, mexicheese/cheddar jack, sour cream and homemade hot sauce.  Plain greek yogurt

Made hot sauce for the first time last night and broke it out for the tacos, turned out quite good.  Just a little heat (jalapenos, not anything hotter), good flavor, spooned on nicely.   Once I have a bottle freed up I'll probably use one of those, this was just an overflow container since I made more than fit into a pint jar.  Should last a few weeks I would think.

And yes, I only sauced one taco until I tested it out lol.

Dinner:  Pizza Hut thin crust pep ham green olive pizza

Was so good last week I had it again.  I love my homemade pizzas and the local joints but sometimes a ten buck chain pizza is exactly what you want.  Three thousand calories of yup.

Exercise:  Nope.  At least golf is in the plans for the weekend.

103.8

Simply A Fool

Thursday, April 1, 2021

March is over, never a bad thing.  Bring on spring and some warmer weather.

Actually woke up early this morning, before 5:00 and didn't feel bad.  I didn't get anything accomplished other than getting some blood drawn before work but still it was nice to not be dozy.  Trending in the right direction there.

Breakfast:  2 slices sharp cheddar, coffee w min cocoa butter

Standard.

Lunch:  Home tacos with ground beef, mexicheese, sour cream and fire sauce.  Fage 5% plain yogurt.

Messy but it tasted good.  Lousy photo too, weird lighting.  

It appears the TruBlend yogurts might be dead in favor of a variety that has sugar on the ingredients list.  Oh well, I can always buy plain and doctor it up if I feel the need.

Dinner:  2 eggs, 2 sausage patties, medium avocado, cream cheese, banana bread w butter, 24 oz All Day IPA

Decided not to cook up more bacon.  It's better with bacon.  Still delicious though.  Huge hunk of banana bread, felt the need to be done with it.

Exercise:  Nope.

104.8