Just Repeating Myself

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Most repeated phrase in the history of this space?  If not it probably will be soon.  Say it.  TGIS.

Happy to have a nice relaxing morning and to have not paid a big price for last night's frozen pizza, which I enjoyed way too much.  More bad eating on tap this weekend, I am afraid, but hopefully I can get straight soon.  

Breakfast:  Apple fritters, coffee

Kind of a meltdown purchase yesterday.  Oh well.  I'll eat up the stuff I bought and it'll get better.

Lunch:  Taco bowl w cheese, salsa, sour cream and guac

Cleanup since I didn't eat this yesterday.  One of the better ones I have made - a little lighter on the sour cream, cooked on a new pan which I stuck under the broiler for 2 min after heated to melt cheese.  My biggest complaint with my own taco bowls is stuff gets cold, so if I make sure the meat is hot and I add less cold stuff it's better.  Also first try of Aldi guac cups, bought spicy.  Good, and I got 6 cups for less than the price of 4 on sale at Meijer.

Snack:  Chips and onion dip

Dinner:  Home pizza w sausage and red peppers, 24 oz All Day IPA

Tasty.  Might have a post-dinner drink, either a hard seltzer or a gin and light tonic.

Also had to test out the new batch of soup.  Not bad.

Exercise:  Nope.  Blowing up to 50mph out there, windchill was way below zero.  I did actually wake up at 6:00 again which was nice (no alarm), but didn't do anything for a long time after that so it hardly counts as a success.

47.2

Not The Day Of Action

Friday, February 18, 2022

Not too peppy today.  Got up without trouble which was nice considering the six hours of sleep or so, but that was pretty much the highlight.  I've eaten way too much sugar this week and need to dial it way back.  Too much other junk too.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Snack:  Donuts.  More than one.

At least they're gone now.  Held up remarkably well.

Lunch:  Soup and toast, cottage cheese

Standard.

Dinner:  Home Run Inn deluxe frozen pizza, 12 oz Miller Lite

Impulse buy, poor choice.  Could have eaten 20 minutes or more earlier if I had stuck with the plan.

Exercise:  Nope.  Blimp.

47.4

Full of Talk

 Thursday, February 17, 2022

Sigh, another binge.  I'm full of talk but the action has been very much lacking lately.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup

Snack:  Donuts

Darned good donuts.  Will be glad to see them gone.  Thought I took a photo but looks like NOPE.

Lunch:  Soup and toast

Given donuts decided to save the rest of the cottage cheese for tomorrow.

Dinner:  Pizza w sausage, green pepper and onion

New pizza place, just opened up this week.  Half a block away.  Back to having four places within two blocks.  Dangerous, dangerous territory.  May decide to have a beer too, we'll see.

Exercise:  Nope.  Schedule getting worse and worse.

44.6

Some HODLing Of The Wrong Kind

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Getting rid of the weekend's excess hasn't been fast or obvious.  It's like the body is holding onto it for some reason.  No need to fear famine, body, I have food for weeks and there's lots of onboard stores that could be consumed.  Oh well.  It'll come.

On the bright side I have been averaging about a compliment per day lately, which is especially interesting because I don't see all that many people.  Provides some extra motivation, too, though there are definitely challenges in the form of excess work, stress and other stuff.  I would definitely be excited to drop ten pounds and be below my lowest weight in the last 10 years.  I'd be very excited to hit the milestone that's twenty or so pounds away.  And I'd be over the moon to hit my long time interim goal, but that would take about three really good months without the big setbacks and bad bad weekends.  So it may be a while.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup, toast, cottage cheese

Standard.  Very late today - 1:45 - so I was fairly hungry.

Snack:  Apple fritter.  

Office got a dozen very high quality donuts, I had one.  Will probably have another one tomorrow.  Bad.

Dinner:  Chopped sirloin w cheese, mushrooms and onions, mashed potatoes, garlic toast, salad with ranch, 32 oz Labatt

Also:  Wendy's double stack, small fries, chocolate frosty, smokehouse almonds.  Why do I have THE HUNGER.  All very good at least.

Exercise:  Nope.  Same deal.

43.4

Halfs

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Past the halfway mark for the month.  Now, we just need to get there for the week.

Haven't noted that I had a bunch of water queued up to leave after this weekend, guess it's going to take longer than usual to wipe out the excesses.  So it goes.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Ham soup and toast, cottage cheese

Standard.  Last of the ham soup.  Back to hamburger for tomorrow.

Dinner:  Taco bowl - taco meat, shredded cheddar, sour cream, guac and salsa.  Siete grain free tortilla chips, 12 oz All Day IPA

Bumped up the meat and cheese, taking a new approach with that.  Eating the chips because I had one bag left, may be giving those up as part of an effort to dial back the carbs a bit once they are gone.  May end up drinking more Miller Lites too.  We will see.

Going to have some smokehouse almonds too.

Exercise:  Nope.  Not getting nearly enough sleep and making no progress on fixing the schedule.

44.4

How Many This Week

Monday, February 14, 2022

Happy whatever today is.  Monday.  A long, long day.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Standard

Lunch:  Ham soup and toast, cottage cheese

A typical lunch, this time with cottage cheese.  I bought a container (Meijer brand) since it was a lot cheaper than the precooked hard boiled eggs and I didn't boil any.  Nice to have a little extra boost of protein at lunch.  I bought large curd for the first time (was always small curd at our house growing up) because it was 4% fat instead of 1%.  I have no idea what the difference is otherwise.  

Dinner:  2 american style, 2 mexican style tacos

Didn't bother with a photo, went straight back to work and ate at my desk.  Not as fat as they have been lately but still good.

Exercise:  Nope.  About five hours of sleep or thereabouts.

46.4

You Don't Have To Be A Star

Sunday, February 13, 2022

No deep thoughts this morning.  Off to a slow and late start.  It's going to require a push to get myself out the door and to the office for some much needed work time.  

Paid the price for potatofest plus pizza, but it's just temporary.  Today won't help as I finish off some stuff and then have a Super Bowl party to attend this evening.  I've been treading water for the past three or four weeks and it would be a good time for another push.  

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and air fryer fries with ranchified sour cream, chips and onion dip

Same as yesterday, just sour cream instead of NSA ketchup.  Finished the fries finally!

Snack:  Pizza toast (w cheddar and parm) and way too much of it

Dinner:  Sub sandwich, potato salad, chips and guac, bbq cocktail franks and wings, a carrot stick

Fourthmeal:  2x McDouble, vanilla shake

JFC what fail.  Awful.

Exercise:  Nope.  No progress on the schedule.

44.0

A Broken Record Is Right Exactly Once Per Week Or Something

Saturday, February 12, 2022

Say it with me.  With feeling.  TGIS.  TGIMFS.  

Whew.  Just ran out of (mental) steam this week.  And earlier than usual.  I did not come close to hitting my objectives for Thursday and Friday.  I'll have to make up for them some this weekend, but at least this morning I can take it easy and take comfort in the familiar routine home chores.  Bread is underway and I'll tackle a batch of soup shortly so I have some for lunch.

Speaking of which, trying to kick off 2MAD on the weekends today.  So far so good,  I'm obviously very familiar with the routine so it's not like I have to play some massive trick on my body.  Just have the mental side and (so far) that's no problem.  Of course there will be chips and onion dip ... and I had way too many last night, but at least I didn't pay a price on the scale this morning.   I have next week's menu mapped out already and am going to try a couple tweaks to the dinner plans.   Not major changes, just small mods that will hopefully allow me to be more consistent slightly less carby while still eating things I enjoy.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.  I did get a small taste of honey during bread baking (gotta clean off that spoon before it goes in the dishwasher you know), but doubt it was more than ten calories.

Lunch:  Ham and potato soup, air fryer french fries w Heinz NSA ketchup

LOL, realized when I started eating that this is what the hoi polloi would call a "potato forward" meal.  Throw in some chips and onion dip later and it'll be a super potato-y day.  Anyway.  Fresh batch of soup right off the stove.  Loaf of bread for the week cooling in the background.  A good morning.

Dinner:  Home thin crust italian sausage pizza, 24 oz All Day IPA

Standard and very tasty.  Ran out of mozzarella so I threw on some cheddar and extra parm.  Oh, and yes I did have chips and onion dip earlier.

Exercise:  Nope.  Finally some slightly warmer weather in the long range forecast so I need to get cracking on getting that schedule fixed.  Got up at 7:00 today without issue, let's see if I can move that to 6:00 over the next week.  Not a very active day.

42.2

Okay Then Not So Much

Friday, February 11, 2021

Not sure what really fueled last night's binge.  But man, it was ugly.  I was pleasantly surprised by the Halo Top bars, they were good.   So, for that matter, were the grain free pretzels.  But since I have no self control I don't think I'll be buying either again any time real soon.  Paid a price on the scale, of course, but that was to be expected.  It hasn't been a good week.  Will be trying to shrink the eating window this weekend.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and toast, 2 hard boiled eggs

Standard.

Dinner:   3 eggs scrambled, biscuits and gravy

Easy fast dinner.  Biscuits and gravy pulled out of the freezer last night, so just heat and serve.  Very tasty.

Oh, and there will probably be chips and onion dip.  Bought some.  Going to try to spread them out, maybe having a little every day (and fewer other carbs hopefully) I'll get sick of them.  Nice theory anyway.

Exercise:  Nope.  Schedule still way way way off.

42.2

Fueled By Food ... And By Compliments

 Thursday, February 10, 2022

It was nice to get a couple complements this week, including one this morning.  Interestingly I'm now getting asked how much down and I don't really know how to answer that so I just chose an arbitrary and fairly small number, call it since fall sometime.  Regardless, it's nice.

And kinda funny given that I've been treading water for a couple weeks here.  Haven't been as easily sated, especially at dinner time.  Lunch has still been fine, especially on days where I have had a couple hard boiled eggs too.  Like today.  I'm quite sated.  We'll see how it is come dinner time.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.  Only one cup though, too much running around.

Lunch:  Soup and toast, two hard boiled eggs

Yup again.  Always good.  I got the thin end of the loaf today, I find it odd that my bread slicing guide has a range of slice thicknesses.  I should probably cut my loaf in half and choose a section on the guide that is fairly uniform instead of just slicing it all in one go and I get the different thicknesses.  /shrug

Dinner:  Taco salad with ground beef

Was hungry so I grabbed a taco salad from the local taquiera.   Pretty good.  I'd love a version without the rice or some/all of the beans, a la the keto bowl, but it's still not too bad for me.  Just kinda.

Will have a few mixed nuts later and maybe a drink.  Out of beer though.  Edit:  No drinks but definite meltdown.   Finished off the nuts.  Then some grain free pretzels from Aldi.  And Halo Top keto ice cream bars.  Yeesh.  Need to go to bed just to STOP.

Exercise:  Nope.  Still way way off.  Not helping that the foot callus is getting worse.

41.4

Happy National Pizza Day

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Thanks to social media I'm more aware than ever of what day it is.  Too bad I "celebrated" last night with that unplanned pizza.  Would have been ever so slightly easier to justify tonight.  Oh well.  Paid the price on the scale but it wasn't too awful.  Back at it.

Also lost all the progress I made on my sleep schedule and then some, was back at work until after 11:00pm and wasn't able to wind down until after 12:30.  Dragged myself out of bed - okay technically at that point the recliner - shortly before 8:00.  Sigh.  More of the same the rest of the week I am afraid, too much work.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup

Lunch:  Soup and toast, 2 EB hard boiled eggs

I have to say I like having the hard boiled eggs around.  Very sated at the moment.

Dinner:  Barbacoa bowl, siete chips, 12 oz Miller Lite

Probably going to have some mixed nuts too, the satiety signaling is NOT working tonight.

Exercise:  Nope.  See above.

41.2

Souper-Sized And Yes I'll See Myself Out

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Eliminated a lot of liquid from the weekend's "fun".  Which is good, except at 6:00 a.m.

Otherwise, just a standard work day.  Lots to do.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and toast

More soup than usual, this container had the odd quantity that was left over after I filled my jars.  Figured the extra was mostly liquid but I did get a little bonus meat and veg too.  I don't know what it is about toast but man I could keep eating it indefinitely, thank goodness it's not convenient to griddle up more of it.  At least it only took a couple minutes after I got up from the table for satiety to kick in.  Still wish it was faster!

Dinner:  Pizza Hut thin crust pep ham beef pork pizza

Ugh.  Didn't leave work until 7 and knew I had to get back quickly (stayed past 11) ... my planned dinner would have taken an hour due to reheating time.  So I scrounged around to come up with something else.  Oddly enough not much sounds good -- I should have gotten Qdoba (no Chipotle in range), though that may have taken a few minutes longer than the pizza did, the Hut is pretty fast.

Exercise:  Nope.  Woke up at 6 at least and I didn't go back to sleep.  Progress.  Went to bed much earlier, to sleep a little earlier than I have been.  Yes, progress.  Just not exercise.

40.2

Putting Paid To Price

Monday, February 7, 2022

Another Monday after another weekend of excessive eating and inadequate exercise.  Need to fix those.  Soon.  Very soon.  The exercise part may have to wait, but I can definitely improve the eating.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and toast

Fresh batches of both.  Good as always.

Dinner:  2 american tacos, 2 mexican tacos, 12 oz Miller Lite, mixed nuts

Good as always.  I really should cut back to 3 tacos, but so far I haven't.

Exercise:  Nope.  Woke up at 6, but snoozed.  Will be trying to make progress this week.

42.6

Wrong Direction Wrong Direction

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Sigh.  Stayed up even later last night, so of course I got up even later today.  Not even for any good reason or because I accomplished anything of note.  I didn't.  It was just dawdling.  Wasting time.  Stalling.  So effing stupid.  At least my gain from yesterday STUPID eating wasn't too brutal.  Got rid of a lot of it before weighing in.  Time to fix that too.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Got up so late no reason to eat anything labelled "breakfast".  Just wait for lunch.

Lunch:  Home burger with extra sharp cheddar and mustard, air fried fries w Heinz NSA ketchup

Turned out really good.  Did the burger smashburger style except lower heat since I don't have ventilation and didn't want a ton of grease flying everywhere.  Bun was homemade and would have been better yesterday.  Went easy on the cheese.  Successfully made fewer fries, it was still a couple too many.  Oh well.  They were decent.

Also more Coke Zero Sugar.  I don't usually bother noting zero calorie soda, since it's usually DPZS and no more than a 12 oz can a day.  In this case I had to settle for a 2L and it's something different.

Snack:  Chips and onion dip.   Also ate some scratch biscuits I made with butter.  

Cleaned 'em up.  The dip isn't bad (mostly fat), it's the chips.

Dinner:  Busy day casserole, green beans w cheese, rolls w butter, peaches, 12 oz Miller Lite

Sunday dinner.  Ate too much as usual.

Edit:  Add the heel of today's loaf of bread w butter.  Had to test it, plus I ended up with an odd number of slices lol.

Exercise:  Nope.  See above.  Walked around some stores, stood around cooking.  Not impactful.

40.6

Say It Weekly

Saturday, February 5, 2022

... and not weakly.  TGIS.

After a long week, not a lot of ambition.  Slept in, which was undoubtedly a bad idea.  Usual laundry and cleaning coming up.  Light cooking.  Should be a good day.

Breakfast:  2 eggs scrambled with a splash of milk, a little diced ham, mexicheese.  Most of a small avocado, sour cream, toast w butter, coffee

Pretty funny how my "extra" loaf of bread last weekend was small enough to pretty much give me toast fingers.  All good. 

Lunch:  Home chili cheese dogs, crinkle fries w/ Heinz NSA ketchup, Coke zero sugar

I give this lunch 3 fakes out of 5.  Legit dogs on fresh buns, leftover chili.  Fries are basic Aldi frozen done in the air fryer - maybe a touch long and way too many.  First time trying the Heinz NSA ketchup, it's fine.  All good but too much too late (3:00).

Snack:  Chips and onion dip.

Of course.

Dinner:     Home pizza thin crust w italian sausage, 24 oz All Day IPA

Lots of clean up today, now out of prepared sausage and IPAs!  That will never do.  I think I only have one more pizza dough in the freezer too.  Excellent as ever, even if it shrunk a bit more than usual during rollout and prep.

Exercise:  Nope.  Slept in.  Way past walking time.  Don't like cold, dark and icy either.  We really need a break from the deep freeze and snow to let the streets and sidewalks clear.  Or, you know, I could get my ass out of bed and do the alternate thing.

39.8

Garbage Food In, Weight Gain Out

Friday, February 4, 2022

I knew that yesterday's dinner wasn't going to produce good things on the scale.  Blend in a very long work day, stress, not enough sleep and no exercies and you have a guaranteed recipe for a big batch of Not Good.

Ok so it wasn't the end of the world of course, just annoying.  The week is time for losing, not a rebound.  Make better choices dummy.

He says as he plans to eat stuff on the weekend as usual.  Doh.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and toast

Standard.  You onky know it's a different day from the orientation of the toast plate (and maybe the size of the slices).

Dinner:  Keto bowl w ground beef.  Siete chips and guac, 12 oz All Day IPA 

Audible, since it was convenient.  Waited in line 20 minutes.  Worth it.

Exercise:  Nope, didn't get to sleep until after 1:00.  Too many nights at the office, too much screen time.

40.8

Limpalong

Thursday, February 3, 2022

The week limps along.  Busy busy busy.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yep.

Lunch:  Soup and toast

Standard.  I could probably eat an infinite quantity of the buttermilk bread.  So good.

Dinner:  2 Koegel hot dogs, home chili sauce, cheddar, mustard, Alexia potato puffs with sour cream.  12 oz All Day IPA, mixed nuts

May also try the everything pigs in a blanket I got from Aldi.

Exercise:  Nope

38.6

Now With Added Egg

 Wednesday, February 2, 2022

At least winteramageddon is mostly missing us.  It's snowy, slippery, the roads are a disaster but we're missing the two feet of snow.  Thank goodness.

Breakfast:  Coffee.

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and toast, 2 hard boiled eggs

Last day for the potato ham.  Lunch wasn't until 2:00 and I was actually hungry so I added the eggs and now I am quite full.

Dinner:  Soup, Siete grain free tortilla chips y guac, Fage 5% plain greek yogurt, 12 oz All Day IPA

May have a handful of mixed nuts too.  Last of the soup, back to stuff from the freezer tomorrow.

Exercise:  Nope.  Way off.

39.8

Progressions In Progress

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Another month in the books.  Quite a successful one.  Other than the lack of exercise/wonky schedule and some weekend binging issues it's going very well.  Progress it's happening.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.  A little scratchy this morning, it would be so nice to not be allergic to my bedroom.

Lunch:  Ham and potato soup, toast w butter

Standardish.  One more day of the soup left.  Edit:  Can't believe it, I forgot to take a photo.  Even had the phone parked right there next to the bowl.  Sheesh.  So here's yesterday's photo again.

Dinner:  Leftover meatloaf and box potatoes, 12 oz All Day IPA, pork rinds, mixed nuts

Kinda hungry when I got home, so I ate quite a few pork rinds.

Exercise:  Nope.  Worked until after 9:30 last night so it took a while to wind down.  Progress was not made on the sleep schedule.  Felt lousy this morning too.

40.8

Let's Dispose Of That

Monday, January 31, 2022

No way to describe yesterday other than as an eatin' day.  Ate too much too often.  And did I mention too much?  Yeesh.  Oh well, disposal activities got under way last night and have continued today, I expect to undo the damage posthaste.  Didn't even gain quite as much as I expected.  Still, it might be time to make weekends look a lot more like weekdays though I admit I am loathe to give up the Saturday night pizza and the fun of trying new things (like the chili dogs with scratch buns and sauce) that I'd never make during the week.  So maybe I can just dial it back ... and not eat chips and onion dip.  Maybe.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.  Same old dependable.

Lunch:  Ham and potato soup, toast w butter

Yesterday's soup.  Similar to last time, no onions this time and smaller diced ham.  Quite tasty if not quite as exquisite at the prior batch, we'll see if another day in the fridge boosts the next bowlful.

Dinner:  2 american tacos, 2 mexican tacos, 12 oz All Day IPA

Hit the jackpot, nice fat tacos and extra hot sauces.  Fantastic.

Exercise:  Nope.  Not much sleep again.  I did wake up at 5:00 but not in a way that would have lent itself to walking.  Which is too bad, because conditions are tolerable at the moment.

42.2

Predictability

Sunday, January 30, 2022

I am definitely improving at some things.  Making bread products (doh!).  Oh, and predicting my weight.  Was very confident that I'd be up this morning, felt it.  And I was.  Not a big surprise at all, yesterday wasn't a good day for the eating or for activity.  A little bloated, a little backed up.  Bad sleep.  But that's the way it goes.  A short term blip.

Breakfast:  2 egg omelet with mexicheese and guac, sour cream, 1 sausage patty, grapefruit, coffee

All good.

Lunch:  Chili cheese dogs, chips and onion dip

Cleanup.  Delicious.  Better with a five minute toast in the oven to melt the cheese, which may have also helped tame the onions a bit.   I did botch the cut of the buns when I put them away yesterday, wayyy too deep.  Oops. 

Also: tasted a little of the ham and potato soup I made for the week.  And the bread.  With butter.  And some pork rinds.

Dinner:    Meatloaf, box potatoes, green beans, rolls w butter, peaches, Culvers concrete mixer

Sigh.  It was a eating kind of day.

Exercise:  Nope.  Schedule is getting worse, asleep last night after 1, woke up just after 6.  Felt, predictably, like crap (stupid winter).  Perked right up after a shower though.

42.0

When You Repeat Yourself Every Week

Saturday, January 29, 2022

I mean, I know I say it every week, but say it with me.  With authority.  TGIS.  Seriously.  I just seem to run out of gas by Friday afternoon - not physically so much, but more mentally.  It gets hard to fight through the dontwanna.  But now, even though I have a million things to do, I'm not locked into being at the office, chained to the phone.  Feels good man.

Not as much cooking planned for the weekend.  Going to make a pot of soup but that may be about it.  Have a new item on the menu but otherwise a lot of same old dependably good stuff.

Breakfast:  1 egg over medium hard, 2 slices toast with butter, guacamole, a sprinkle of mexicheese, grapefruit, coffee

A little sandwich action this morning, nice and easy and delicious.  Wasn't super hungry so it was easy to keep things in check.  And I cleaned up bread I didn't eat when I missed lunch on Thursday.  All good.

Lunch:  Chili Cheese Dogs

Something new!  Homemade buns -- yes, I made them giant on purpose, next time I'll make them smaller -- Kogel's beef franks, homemade chili dog sauce, mustard and oops I remembered onion halfway through eating.  Quite good and better, honestly, without the onion.  Next time I'll use a milder onion.  Might also toss them in a heated oven to melt the cheese (since I didn't have any finely shredded cheddar open).  But all in all very good.

Snack:  Chips and onion dip.

Didn't have lunch until 2:00 so I had a snack.  Doh.  Weekends.

Dinner:  Home thin crust pizza with sausage and onion, 24 oz All Day IPA

I do love the Saturday night pizza and it's so very easy (at least when you have dough and sausage thawed from the freezer ready to go).  Just delightful.

Might have a gin and tonic later just for something different, I think I have a little bottle of tonic that's been hanging out in the fridge for a long time.  Edit:  Nope, never got around to it.

Exercise:  Sigh.  I think it was 5 degrees when I woke up.  Which was not at 5:00.  Not close.  Going to try to make up for the absence of regulation exercise by being nice and active today. 

39.0

Good Disbelief

Friday, January 28, 2022

Another lesson in why I don't believe my scale, even when it's a good day which it was today.  Jumped on, saw a big drop and was skeptical enough to re-weigh.  When I did, it wasn't as big.  Third try gave me the same number as the 2nd, so I'm going with that.  Too bad it didn't match the first but I'm still very happy with it and now I'm not as likely to see an annoying big jump tomorrow.  Still a win.

A happy side effect of all the cooking I've done lately is that I spent less than $40 at the grocery store.  Don't think I even made it to thirty on the food I bought, though in fairness I spent about fifteen bucks the other day.  Still, it's nice to be stocked up with a full freezer I can eat down.

  

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  Soup and toast, Chobani zero sugar key lime flavor yogurt

Can't believe I forgot to take a photo.  Oops.  Same as usual, hamburger soup, homemade toast with ample butter.   I liked the key lime flavor better than the coconut flavor but I still won't be in a rush to rebuy.

Dinner:  2 egg cheddar cheese omelet with leftover sausage gravy, leftover biscuits with butter, 12 oz All Day IPA, mixed nuts

Same as yesterday, just in different format with a little butter and cheese.  Ok maybe not a little.  Very tasty, even if I only went 1 for 2 on successfully fork-splitting the leftover biscuits.  They really were not tall enough for that.

Exercise:  Nope.  No progress this morning.  I do want to get it going though.  Maybe not tomorrow, I think it's supposed to be below zero tonight.  Brrr.

39.8

About Thursdays

Thursday, January 27, 2021

Whew.  Long day.  Busy day.  Work thing went through lunch again.

A very random note, today was the first day I wore a pair of my smallest size pants.  I had tried them on a couple weeks ago, but had been wearing the next size up.  I dirtied them up and didn't feel like doing laundry last night so a pair of the smaller size it was.  Went just fine, which was not a surprise.  Feels pretty good man.  Still haven't moved down a shirt size, though I did wear one once and it was fine.  I kinda enjoy the fit of shirt and pants being just a bit big, it's a nice change from stuff being too small.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup.

Lunch:  2 hard boiled eggs

I guess you can call 2:45 lunch.  Grabbed these on the go.

Dinner:  2 eggs scrambled with a splash of milk, biscuits and sausage gravy, 12 oz All Day IPA, mixed nuts

Happy that this worked out the way I envisioned.  Did the biscuits in the air fryer, they're basic scratch buttermilk biscuits.  While they cooked I made the gravy.  Scrambled a couple eggs and it was dinner time, all in 20 minutes.

Exercise:  Nope.  Did wake up at 6:00, so there's a little progress there.

41.0

Set Up For Success

Wednesday, January 26, 2021

I stacked the deck when it came to today's weigh in -- I got my hair cut yesterday.  Between that and some efficient disposal it was a good morning on the scale.  A new low, in fact.  Only a few more pounds to go to surpass the prior all time (blog time) low.

Breakfast:  Coffee

Yup

Lunch:  Soup and toast, Chobani zero sugar "coconut" yogurt

Another new thing, the yogurt was on sale and I had a coupon so I gave it a go.  It was fine, just not very inspiring.  Tasted like, well, artificial coconut.  Probably won't buy again, honestly the plain full fat greek yogurt is more my style.

Dinner:  Barbacoa bowl, 12 oz All Day IPA, handful of mixed nuts

Same bowl as yesterday.  Still excessive.  Quite enjoyable.

Exercise:  Nope.  Got to bed slightly earlier, did not translate to up earlier.

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