Day 12: Dining Out Difficulties?

Breakfast: 2 oz extra sharp cheddar cheese

Snack: can Cherry Coke Zero

Lunch: Huge "taco salad" with carne asada steak, lettuce, tomato, onion, cilantro, cheese, beans and lots of hot sauce, some chips and salsa

Snack: Dill pickle half

Dinner: 2 eggs scrambled with a little jalapeno and cheddar, 6 bacon strips

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I got an invitation to lunch today and mexican sounded good to both of us. The "taco salad" -- NO SHELL -- was a good choice although I forgot to tell them to hold the beans. I don't think there were all that many, so not a big deal. I could have skipped the chips and that would have been a good thing, I probably had a dozen or so of various sizes. I'm a fan of this place and will continue to eat there once in a while -- I think this meal (again, other than the chips) is perfectly fine. Okay, it could be less huge.

The rest of the day was normal and very much on plan. Really, other than the chips, this was a pretty good day.

Day 10: Can You Be In A Rut And Like It?

Breakfast: 2 oz extra sharp cheddar cheese

Snack: can Cherry Coke Zero

Lunch: 3 jalapeno and cheese smoked sausages with jalapeno mustard, small green salad with 2 pickle spears and olive oil & vinegar dressing (pictured at right)

Snacks: 1/2 dill pickle, 1.5 oz of Meijer hot & spicy pork rinds

Dinner: 2 eggs scrambled with a little onion, jalapeno and sharp cheddar, 4 strips bacon

Dessert: 1/2 grapefruit

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So, yeah, pretty much the same stuff. Dinner was exactly the same only with less bacon. I can only do 4 strips at a time and didn't feel like making more. I like all this stuff. I could probably skip the pork rinds but they do take the edge off and I can eat dinner later.

Tomorrow will be a bit different as I know I'm going out for dinner.

I bought some Claussen pickles today. They're the kind that is always refrigerated, not cooked. I've been trying pickles in my salad, partly as a way to add a little more of a vinegar kick to the dressing. Hopefully I get to try it with the "ooh fancy" pickles tomorrow!

Went to the store after work, so no accomplishments this evening. Tired. Stress related.

Day 9: Snowslick

Breakfast: 2 oz. extra sharp cheddar cheese

Snack: can of Cherry Coke Zero

Lunch: 3 jalapeno & cheese smoked sausages with jalapeno mustard

Snacks: 1.5 oz Jays Hot Sauce pork skins, 1 Old Wisconsin beef sausage stick

Dinner: 2 eggs scrambled with a little onion, diced jalapeno and sharp cheddar, 6 strips of bacon (pictured at right)

Dessert: 1/2 grapefruit

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Pretty routine day today, but very, very stressful. I'm backlogged at work and that makes life extra difficult. Plus I had to drive to the big city (about 30 miles each way) this afternoon in the snow. That was two hours of white knuckle time round trip.

Quite enjoyed everything I ate today. I definitely should eat more greens and regular meats, but this is still an improvement.

Nothing on the accomplishments list today either. Got home about 7:00. Beat. Okay, I've been playing around a little with Fitday.com, it tells me that I had about 1800 calories today, sounds about right. I suspect that I could eat 1800 calories of anything and lose weight at the moment, but I'm glad to have a plan of sorts.

Day 8: Not Quite Crack, Not Quite Kryptonite

Breakfast: 2 oz. extra sharp cheddar cheese

Lunch: Western omelet, 1.5 slices of homemade wheat toast with butter, coffee

Snack: 1.5 oz bag Jays Hot Sauce pork rinds

Dinner: about 5 oz ground beef with jalapeno mustard, green salad with 1/3 cucumber, dill pickle spear, a little diced jalapeno and olive oil & vinegar

Dessert: 1/2 grapefruit

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Thankfully this morning wasn't as painful as I'd feared it might be. I guess all that sleep this weekend meant something.

Went out to lunch today. The place in question serves a homemade wheat toast that is just about the closest thing to crack. It's ridiculously good. I knew ahead of time that I'd have a piece. I'm pretty happy to have had just 3 of the 6 half slices they gave me.

For dinner I cooked up some ground round and it just wasn't great. I usually buy chuck which has more flavor in my opinion. I only ate about half of what was on the plate. It didn't help that I'd had the bag of pork rinds.

Otherwise, not much to report. Busy watching the football game so accomplishments will be nil tonight.

Day 7: Well Now THAT Was Different

"Breakfast": 2 oz. extra sharp cheddar cheese

"Lunch": Green salad with 1/2 cucumber, olive oil & vinegar dressing, 3 pepperocinis

Dinner: About 6 oz chuck roast, 2 spoonfuls mashed potatoes, about 8 baby carrots, gravy, 1.5 french rolls with butter

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First things first. I slept later today than I have in years. I knew I was in trouble when I wasn't the least bit sleepy last night, even after 1 a.m. I think I finally fell asleep about 2. I got up at 1:00 this afternoon. Totally ridiculous. Tomorrow morning is going to suck.

So that got today off to an odd start on the food front. I had my usual "breakfast" and mid-afternoon had a salad knowing that dinner would be about 6:30.

Sunday dinners will be an ongoing challenge. They're always a big family production and most of the approved menus are fairly starchy. Tonight's went about as expected, although I could have skipped the extra half roll and the gravy (which was flour-thickened). I think I'm still under 60g carb for the day and the calories are very reasonable. Also, no food pictures today.

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Today's accomplishments are few. I did some more work on the kitchen and rearranged the pan cupboard. Other than some other routine housework, that's about it. Maybe I can count being well-rested as an accomplishment?