The Expected Bloat

Monday, May 4, 2026

Not at all surprised to see the scale up today after a tremendous consumption of carbs yesterday.  A lot of carbs, a lot of food, a lot of junk.  Lots of tightening up to do.  Felt like I slept decently, woke up about five minutes before my alarm.  

While I was quite pleased by how well I kept my grocery spending in check (< $50) I do need to try and pare it down further in the form of not grabbing junk food from the aisle of super discounts.  No poptarts this week but I did buy more of the OF spicy nacho tortilla chips and some butterscotch chips to (someday) make cookies.  Just need to pass 'em up. 

Another week has arrived.  Lots to do, I had better get to it.

Breakfast:  Breakfast sandwich, coffee

 

Slightly different, no french bread in stock so I bought a loaf of jalapeno cheddar.  

Lunch:  Taco rice, guacamole, OF spicy nacho chips

 

Again.

Dinner:   Enchilada eggs, V-8 juice, 12 oz Miller Lite

 

Sounded good, was good.

 

And the capper, some NSA chocolate pudding.  Had a stray box in the pantry and I wasn't ambitious enough to make cookies. 

Exercise:  Nope.  Had some ideas earlier about an after dinner walk but since I cooked it would have been late and in the rain.

131.0 

Fun With Wakeups

Sunday, May 3, 2026

An amusing, if slightly painful, wakeup.  I'm in the middle of an elaborate dream.  I'm sure I don't remember every last detail but I remembered most.  At the relevant point I'm walking/sliding down a slippery road with a companion and I tell them I need to stop and fix my left foot, which is cramping.  And at that exact moment (4:15 am thank you very little) I bolt awake with a nasty toe curling cramp in ... my left foot.  Dream meets reality, full crash.  Ugh.

Fortunately it only took about ten minutes to deal with it but I still, as usual, did not get great sleep afterward.  But I tried and I did sleep in a half hour or so.  Hopefully I don't pay for it tonight.

Anyway, I'll chalk the cramp up to yesterday's overexertion.  Today will be much less ambitious.  A standard Sunday, no golf.

Breakfast:  Toast w butter, leftover LC pizza, coffee

 

Random stuff.

Lunch:  Buttermilk pancakes w maple syrup, 3 strips bacon

 

More random stuff.  Most of the pancakes went in the freezer.  Bacon not pictured. 

Also had some OF spicy nacho chips (still on sale) and pepsi later.

Dinner:   Deluxe pizza, 12 oz Two Hearted, cake and ice cream

 

Sunday dinner was out this week. 

Exercise:  Nope.  Active day but no specific exercise.

128.8 

Effects

Saturday, May 2, 2026

Ugh.  Suffering the effects of extra pounds and extra activity.  I am capital T tired.  Fortunately it doesn't take too much to type up today's post.

I did manage to pick up my groceries for the week.  Under $50.  That's not so bad. 

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

The standard pre-golf breakfast out.  It wasn't their finest effort.  Also not my finest, since I forgot the photo until I had eaten everything but the second slice of toast.  Oops.

Lunch:  12 oz Miller Lite

I was rather stuffed after breakfast, but somehow I was hungry again six hours later.  But I had to wait until after going home to eat.

Dinner:  CFA spicy w pepper jack, fries, strips w ranch, coke

As mentioned, I was hungry.

Also:  Ginger snaps and a glass of milk.  Might have some toast w butter.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart.  Plenty of walking, though nothing crazy.  Quite a bit of up and down.  As mentioned, it was a lot in my current condition.

129.8 

May Day

Friday, May 1, 2026

TGIF.  While busy, today might be a bit less extreme than usual.  Which I am, frankly, hoping for.  I got a fair amount of work done last night but as is typically the case it also made me realize just how much I have to do.  Which is, to an extent, a good problem.  Just not to this extent.

April was a fail.  Scale ended up a few pounds.  Body composition is worse.  I'm fatter and in worse shape.  And the drive to fix it is definitely not as strong as I need it to be.  I very much need to fix what I eat, spend a lot less money mostly by not eating out/driving thru, and start walking.  Need to do it.

Anyway.  Hoping for a productive day and to get a jump on the weekend chores for once this evening.  We will see if that happens. 

Breakfast:  Breakfast sandwich, coffee

 

Same sandwich as yesterday, local bakery french bread, butter, 2.5 strips of bacon, 2 slices of american cheese.  The only thing different was I turned the toaster one shade darker.  And for some reason it turned out incredibly good.

Lunch:  McD big mac mcdouble fries coke

On the road.

Dinner:  Taco rice, 12 oz Yuengling, OF strawberry poptarts, milk

 

Also, toast w butter.  Quite a bit.

Exercise:  Nope.  

132.0