Trips Brief

 Sunday, September 25, 2022

Lots of junk to come.

Breakfast:  Deluxe omelette, coffee

Lunch:  32 oz Yuengling, Triscuits w pimento cheese spread

Dinner:  Logan's chopped steak, mashed potatoes, salad w ranch, rolls w butter, 16 oz IPA, butter pecan ice cream, an Oreo

Exercise:  18 holes with cart

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Road Junk

 Saturday, September 24, 2022

Travel day

Breakfast:  Hotel scrambled eggs, omelet, biscuit w gravy, sausage links, cinnamon roll, blueberry muffin, oj, coffee

Lunch:  Cookout burger, fries, chocolate mint shake

Dinner:  Cheddar onion burger, fries w ketchup, cole slaw, 12 oz Mich Ultra, two mini candy bars

Exercise:  Nope

Pieced Out

 Friday, September 23, 2022

Out of here.

Breakfast:  TB sausage crunchwrap, coffee

Lunch:  Jimmy Johns vito, little BLT, chips, diet lemonade

Snack:  Wendy's double stack, nuggets, fries

Dinner:  Wendy's single, fries, diet Dr Pepper, small frosty

Exercise:  Nope

36.4

Eater Unleashed

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Yeah, I let the beast off the chain last night.  I just ate until I was tired of eating.  Which of course is way past the point I should have stopped eating.  But that moment has been coming for a while, it just finally happened.

More badness today.  Leaving tomorrow.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.  Unsurprisingly I was not hungry.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese

Snack:  Little bag of trail mix

Dinner:  2x Culvers double deluxe, fry daddy's jalapeno ranch snack mix, 12 oz Coors Light, Nice oatmeal mini cookies

Excellent BOGO burgers.

Exercise:  Nope.  Come on vacation.

34.4

Backsliding Bigtime

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Not an unusual theme for the run up to vacation ... being extra busy I tend to take shortcuts and eat the wrong stuff.  And once you start doing that, it's easy to eat way too much of the wrong stuff.  Sigh.  I will definitely need a reset when I get back.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.  Could have eaten.  Did not.

Lunch:  Soup and grilled cheese

Again with the 1.5x sandwich.  And I'm still wishing to eat more.  Yeesh.  Somehow I forgot to take a photo.

Dinner:  Pep ham pizza

Holy hell did I eat a lot of pizza.

Exercise:  Nope.

32.8

Photo Instrusive

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Wasn't sure if I'd get a decent photo today, since my trip packing is intruding onto the table.  I think I "nailed it", but we'll see when I upload.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.  3 cup day.

Lunch:  Soup, supersized grilled cheese

Equivalent to 1.5x the standard GC.

Dinner:  LC pepperoni pizza w sauce, 12 oz Coors Light, Nice oatmeal cookies

Yeesh.

Exercise:  Nope.

31.8

Denseness

Monday, September 19, 2022

Felt dense this morning.  Which I suppose can be good or bad.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese, chips and onion dip

Uh huh.

Dinner:  2x mexican 2x american tacos, 12 oz Coors Light, Nicks cherry chip

And technically I cleaned up the few chips and little dip left from lunch.

Exercise:  Nope.

32.8

Thrown Way Off

Sunday, September 18, 2022

Weird morning.  In multiple ways.  Woke up at 3:30.  Awake awake.   Ended up nodding back off around 5:00 and predictably was much less awake after I woke up later.  Still kinda sluggish as I start writing this after breakfast.  

Also felt extremely heavy.  Dense.  Guessed a number and was very surprised when the actual number was much lower and ... down slightly?  What?  I mean, great, and I'm still up several pounds, but huh?  Weird.  

I was absolutely pouring when I woke up but I'm still hopeful to get in at least nine holes this afternoon.  Definitely need the exercise.

Breakfast:  Lazy bagels with cream cheese, coffee

Almost didn't buy yogurt to make these this week, since I'm going to be on vacation and will miss the next couple and the store didn't have any small cups, just the quarts.  May be a super dairy intensive week.

Lunch:  Leftover deluxe rotel dip and Donkey chips

Tasty.  And excessive.

Also:  Wendy's single and 6pc spicy nugget

Dinner:  Hot dogs w MR, chips, salad, vanilla ice cream w choc sauce

Sigh.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart, quite a bit of extra walking

31.8

Pic Change

Saturday, September 17, 2022

Oh hey a day with no soup so the thumbnail will be something different.

Breakfast:  Standard pre-golf breakfast.

No photo.  Oops.  Was shorted one strip of bacon.

Lunch:  16 oz Miller Lite

Post golf beer.

Dinner:  Super deluxe rotel dip with donkey chips, 12 oz Coors Light, Nicks mint chip

Was hungry.  Kicked this up with a whole can of southwest beans, lots of cheddar cheese, jalas, extra chiles.  Yum.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart.  Decent amount of walking.

32.6

Ready Break

Friday, September 16, 2022

Glad it is Friday.  Still have to make it through, but we are close.

Relentless eating continues.  Looking forward to vacation, then coming back to a reboot.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese, Snyders pretzel balls

OK.

Dinner:  Fry Daddy's jalapeno ranch mix, 12 oz Coors Light, Pollo asado, mashed potatoes, Nicks strawberry

Super excessive.

Exercise:  Nope.

31.0

So Excessive

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Sigh.  Excessive eating continues.

Up slightly this morning but not at all unexpected.  Definitely did a little musing on how I'm feeling and I truly believe that if I reduce the carbs significantly and walk more regularly that I'll feel better.  Once I'm back from vacation that is.  I don't feel bad, just not as good as I could.  A little sluggish, sometimes dozy.  

Breakfast:  TB sausage crunchwrap, coffee

Late breakfast, just beat the changeover.  

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese, Siete ranch grain free tortilla chips

Last of the great soup.

Dinner:  Ham and pep pizza, Snyders pretzel balls, 12 oz Coors Light, Nicks PB cup

Sigh.

Exercise:  Nope.

29.2

The Mundane

Tuesday, September 14, 2022

Not a lot of pep right now.  Ate too much too late last night, resulted in a late, sluggish morning.  Life is pretty mundane, not a lot of interest in the endless quantities of work.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese, chips, Siete grain free tortilla chips and salsa

Ugh.  Did OK until I opened the Siete chips.  I am an absurd eating machine.

Dinner:  Domino's brooklyn ham beef mush, 12 oz Coors Light, mixed nuts, Nicks mint chip

Eating machine.

Exercise:  Nope.

28.2

And Then Minus

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Yup.  Some of that excess water and stuff went away.  Now if I could just stop accumulating so much of it on the weekends.  I probably would have dumped even more if I hadn't had so many chips last night.  Note to self, stop buying so much crap, you won't eat it if you don't have it on hand.

Also, just did a super quick scroll and man do I ever eat a lot of carbs.  What would happen if I, you know, didn't.  Might be worth exploring once I'm back from vacation.  Maybe.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and grilled cheese

Just about out of the best batch ever, will be sad to have to settle for very good.

Snack:  Mixed nuts

Dinner:  Steak, perch, mashed potato, salad w ranch, bread w bar cheez, 32 oz Labatt Blue, chips

Was hungry.  Ate too much.  Will be fatter tomorrow.

Exercise:  9 holes with cart, not much walking

27.4

Five Or Six

Monday, September 12, 2022

Super impressed with just how much talent I have for packing on the pounds when I binge.  I thought I had a reasonable estimate of a large gain this morning but blew past that like it was nothing.  Yeesh.  Not good, especially considering I have a banquet to attend tomorrow.

Got rid of a lot of water today though so tomorrow may not be as bad.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and grilled cheese

Standard.

Dinner:  2x mexican, 2x american tacos, 12 oz Coors Light, cleanup of chips and dip, Nicks cherry chip

Fat tacos tonight.  Needed.

Exercise:  Nope. 

31.2

Rain Delayed

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Not a particularly interesting end to the weekend.  Rainy day, so no golf.  Stayed up WAY too late for football last night so I've been rather tired.  No great accomplishments had.

I didn't pay a price for yesterday's awful eating but today's ... hoo boy.  It will be ugly.  

Breakfast:  Lazy bagels and cream cheese, coffee

Best batch yet.

Lunch:  Subway meatball sub, leftover rotel dip and donkey chips

Dunno why that sounded good.  It wasn't.  The rotel dip however was delightful.

Snack:  Chips and onion dip.

Boredom eating.  Sort of.  Maybe apathy would be a better word.

Dinner:  American goulash, garlic toast, salad no dessing, blueberry pie and vanilla ice cream, 12 oz Mich Ultra

Oof.  Way too much.

Exercise:  Nope.   Did hit a bucket of range balls and moved around some this morning, does not really count.

25.4

Quick and Quick

 Saturday, September 10, 2022

Another quick late post.

Breakfast:   Standard pre-golf breakfast out.

Solid.

Lunch:  Lemon-lime Gatorade, 16 oz Miller Lite, mixed nuts

They didn't have G Zero and were out of waters.  On a humid day, I needed liquid.

Dinner:  Super Rotel dip with Donkey tortilla chips, 12 oz Coors Light, a tomato, Nicks mint chip

Rotel dip was sausage, cream cheese, cheddar, rotel, jalapenos and a half can of leftover southwest pinto beans.  Great.  Not good for me (especially the chips) but very tasty.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart, not much extra walking

25.2

Too Much Junk Again Again and Again

Friday, September 9, 2022

TGIF.  Made it through another week.  So much work to do.

Breakfast:  Coffee, donut (at 10:00)

Office birthday party, cracked and had a good donut.

Lunch:  Brisket, smoked mushrooms, a little hot BBQ sauce, pickles, brown butter rice krispie treats

Cracked again.  RKTs were good but not life changing, can probably resist in the future.  Also decided that I'm not a huge fan of whatever wood this place is using in their smoker.

Dinner:  Onion burger, chips, 16 oz Mich Ultra, Nicks mint chip

Post golf dinner out, won't be too many more this year.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart, average walking

26.8

Improving (and Not) With Age

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Whew.  Tired today.  Did too much last night, didn't get to sleep until probably midnight.  Had a very difficult time dragging myself out of bed and I'm definitely not operating at peak performance on less than six hours of sleep.

Unlike me the soup improved with age.  Go soup.  And I got rid of more water bloat.  Continuing to get lots of complements, which is nice.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and grilled cheese

Last of the fridge soup, back to more reasonable portion sizes tomorrow.  I'm rather full but once again have that urge to continue the eating experience.  Which, thankfully, I'm able to resist today because then I would really be hurting.  

Dinner:  Pollo asado, rice, beans, salsa, cheese, guac.  12 oz Coors Light.  A few mixed nuts.  Nicks pb cup

Okay.

Exercise:  Nope.  Rest day.

27.6

Do This Quick

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Posting in a hurry since it is way past bedtime.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and grilled cheese

Super-sized the soup, trying to use up the stuff I had to fridge because the freezer was full.

Dinner:  Qdoba chicken bowl, Nicks strawberry

My burrito artists were very generous tonight.

Exercise:  Sorta.  Messed around with the medicine ball this morning for a few minutes, hit a bucket of range balls and moved furniture for an hour tonight.  Counting it.

30.2

Predictable Gainz

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Well, in at least one way I'm glad the holiday weekend is over.  I ate horrendously once again and spiked the scale badly.  Control is rather lacking at the moment and I need to have a relatively good week to get back on track.  Less than three weeks until vacation too.

Nailed the weight prediction this morning, right down to the fraction of a pound.  Vaguely concerning that I can estimate a large gain with that much precision.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch Part 1:  CFA spicy chicken sandwich

On the road, needed more coffee and because I've been eating so much my body decided it needed food.  So I had lunch a little early.

Lunch Part 2:  Soup and grilled cheese

A couple hours later.  New batch of soup, quite good but not quite to the level of the all timer batch from last time.

Snack:  Mixed nuts

Dinner:  Taco salad, 12 oz Miller Lite, Nicks mint chip

Excellent effort tonight.

Exercise:  9 holes, nearly all walked.  Lots more than usual.

33.8

Uh Tired

Monday, September 5, 2022

Labor Day

Tired this morning, not sure why.  Dozed for an extra hour before I got going.

Bought underwear the next size down, wore a pair today, fits fine.  Yay, I can retire another size.

Breakfast:  2 eggs over medium, hash browns, 3 strips bacon, raisin toast w homemade jam, coffee

Standard pre-golf.

Lunch:  12 oz Miller Lite, chips and pretzels and onion dip.

Cleanup.

Dinner:  Dominos brooklyn extravaganzza

Doh.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart, average extra walking

31.0

Ballooning Then Deflating

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Still have not gotten rid of all the excess water brought on by the unnecessary dalliance with pizza hut.  I don't know why their pizza is so much more thirst-inducing, but it is.  And then it takes a few days to get rid of it.  I'm not exactly helping things with other choices, but still.  I know it's water.

On an unrelated note, I bought a medicine ball at Walmart this morning.  I see russian twists and stuff in my future, would be nice to recover a little core strength.

Breakfast:  Lazy bagels with cream cheese, coffee

Easy and dependably good.  And I should not eat them.

Lunch:  Leftover mushroom and swiss burger, Snyder's seasoned pretzel twists

OK.

Dinner:  Home cheeseburger, chips, Nicks cherry chip

Ate 1.5x burger plus extra tomato slices.  And too many chips.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart, average extra walking

29.8

Oops Forgot Again

Saturday, September 3, 2022

Forgot to weigh in this morning.  I was so focused on getting out the door to do my grocery shopping that I didn't remember until I was fully dressed to the shoes.  Decided it wasn't worth it to start over, I'm sure I was up a fair amount after another way too salty Pizza Hut experience.  Drank a ton of water and could never completely kill the thirst.  Definitely maxed out the water intake.  Got rid of some of it but I'm sure it wasn't all.

Breakfast:  2 eggs over medium, 3 strips bacon, hash browns, raisin toast w homemade jam, coffee

Standard pre-golf breakfast.

Lunch:  Bloody mary, 12 oz Miller Lite, chips and onion dip

Tried to change up my luck, didn't work, had a beer after.

Dinner:  Home mushroom and swiss burger on a pretzel bun, 12 oz Coors Light, Nicks triple choc

Quite good.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart, lots of extra walking today

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Rebound Again

Friday, September 2, 2022

Predictable.

And the pizza jag continued tonight.  Oh well.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  TB 2x chipotle chicken burrito, potato taco

They were out of fire sauce.  Quick grab, I was late.

Dinner:  Pizza Hut thin pep beef pork, breadsticks, 12 oz Coors Light, Nicks mint chip

Sigh.

Also 12 oz All Day IPA and a glass of pinot grigio.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart, no extra walking

25.0

Repitition

Thursday, September 1, 2022

I went back and looked at the first of the month and remembered what I had posted, that it was nice to start the month off with a new low.  Once again .... nice to start the new month off with a new low.  Which frankly was surprising since I had pizza, but not as much given that I did a lot of physical stuff for three or four hours after that.  Burning off the calories is still a bit of a thing.

Hopefully this month I don't balloon way up.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and grilled chese

Standard.  This really is the best batch of soup I have ever made.

Dinner:  Pep and Ham pizza, Nicks mint chip

Local place.  Tasty.

Exercise:  Nope.  Didn't get to sleep until after midnight, let myself sleep until 6:00 and I knew I had a million things to do at work today.

23.0