Little And Late

Friday, November 17, 2023

TGIF.  Doing this late, so it's even the weekend already.  Yay.

Not a great day, not a great week.  Not even that much to say about it.  Weight will be up tomorrow.  Drinking tons of water tonight.

Breakfast:  Pancakes, sausage, coffee

Again.  Last of the sausage.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese

Again.  Last of the loaf, tossed what little was left due to threat of mold.

Dinner:  Subway meatball subs.  Siete salt and vinegar avo oil chips

Bleah.  Way too much.  Didn't really like the chips, will not buy again.

Exercise:  Nope.  Way too little.

82.4

Extra Fat, GCs Too

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Another day of meh.  No pep, no inspiration.  At least it was a productive morning.  Long ways to go on my project but it's coming.

Once again up way way too late.  Dunno that I got to sleep much before 1.  Which is nuts.  It's going to take some work to fix that I am afraid.

Breakfast:  Pancakes, sausage, coffee

Usual.  Did up the sausage as I am going to finish the package off tomorrow.  Hoping to switch to full CF product next week.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese

Extra fat sandwich.  First soup from the batch I made last night and it was very, very good.  One of the best bowls I've had.  I'm hoping that the small batch method continues to crank out this kind of result.

Dinner:  Dominos thin pep ham, stuffed cheesy bread, 12 oz Miller Lite

Think I'll ever get it through my thick skull that chain pizza sucks?  Dumbass.

Exercise:  Nope.  Starting to get really cranky about this, though I've felt so poor physically that it's hard to envision doing too much.

82.0

A Very Mid Kinda Day

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Midway point of the month and just an all around mid kind of day.

Nothing much to say.  Stress level is up and rising.  Exercise has been non-existent.  Sleep insufficient.  I am glad that a holiday weekend is coming, but I have a major project that's due before the break and that will make the next week miserable.

Breakfast:  Pancakes, sausage

Again.

Lunch:  Can of Bush's southwest zest beans, grilled cheese

Took a look at the soup I pulled and (a) it's not at all thawed and (b) it's from an old batch.  Not sure how it managed to hide in there as long as it did but I'm probably not going to eat it.  In hindsight I should have audibled to the leftover burger, but oh well.

Dinner:   Mixed nuts, 12 oz Miller Lite, leftover baconovencheeseburger, home popcorn w butter

Probably a bit much.  Not many regrets thought.  Ovenburgers are ridiculously easy.  I am out of ground beef at the moment, so repeats will have to wait for next week, but this is tasty stuff.

Exercise:  Nope.  Still do not have answers.

82.0

Hurried and Harried

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

It's been a rocky stretch.  Woke up this morning a little early but it wasn't because I was rested.  Instead, I got another flareup of back issues.  More obviously than this past weekend this one seems to be muscular rather than spinal.  But whatever it is, annoying to the max.  And I'm not sure what causes it exactly or how to solve it.  I was fine last night, so I imagine it has something to do with how I was sleeping.  Thankfully it is abating somewhat.

Anyway, otherwise more of the same.  Infinite work that needs to be done, not infinite energy.  On the plus side I gave up a little of Sunday's gains despite eating way too many (i.e. more than zero) potato chips.

Breakfast:  Pancakes, sausage

Standard couple buttermilk pancakes with a little butter and maple syrup.  I have enough sausage patties to get through the week, but that's it.  I think I'll have to hit the farm this weekend and hope that the pork is restocked, since I'm also out of packages of bacon.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese

Standard.  Fresh loaf of bread, I'm going to try freezing a bunch of it.

Dinner:  Mixed nuts, 12 oz All Day IPA, home ovenbaconcheeseburger

Sounded good, was good.  And will be had again tomorrow.

Exercise:  Nope.  Schedule off, injured, not good.  I also felt really off yesterday.  Today seems to be better in that regard.

82.8

Bad Thoughts Sad Actions

Monday, November 13, 2023

Sigh.  I knew yesterday wasn't great but I didn't think it was that bad.  The scale disagreed.  Good grief.  Nobody should have this much talent when it comes to massive gains (and, yes, the occasional massive loss).  It is ridiculous.

Not a great morning.  Happy that I was not as tired as I thought I would be, but I can tell that there is some accumulated fatigue.  Words aren't coming smoothly, I'm cranky and the excessive stress isn't doing good things.  Hopefully this afternoon will be better.

Breakfast:  Buttermilk pancakes w butter and maple syrup, sausage patty, coffee

Cut down quantities, this batch also quite tasty.  Eventually I'll need to ax this for fewer carbs, but for the next couple of weeks I'll probably continued to eat 'em.

Lunch:  Meatloaf sandwich

Can't believe I forgot the photo.  Dangit.  Leftover meatloaf, a couple slices of cheddar, 3 strips of leftover CF bacon, two slices of buttered bread.  Very, very tasty.

Dinner:  2x mexican 2x american tacos, 12 oz Miller Lite, jalapeno chips

Fail.

Exercise:  Nope.  Schedule not improving.

83.8

Overcoming Fail A Theme

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Sigh.  Once again I have failure to reflect upon.  And it wasn't even delicious failure.  It was nothing but expedience, which is a nice way to say laziness.  Fast and cheap.  About the only way it could have been worse is if that slot hadn't already been planned for pizza.  It was just going to be home pizza, smaller in quantity and much higher in quality.  No seed oils and other crap.  At least the scale wasn't up.

Anyway, it was interesting to me to note that my pulse was a LOT higher last night.  After eating way, way too much and then pretty much just relaxing in the recliner for several hours, it was almost 100 when I went to bed.  It was still elevated this morning, though curiously I got a significantly lower than usual top number on my blood pressure.  I suspect that was just a bad reading and should have re-taken it but I did not.

No huge plans for today.  Very late, sluggish start, lots to do but not much pep.  Back is a little better than it was yesterday, which is a plus.  It was annoying having trouble even shifting in bed due to it.  Not much is going to get accomplished when moving hurts.

Breakfast:  Lazy bagels w veggie cream cheese, coffee

Late breakfast, zero satiety, early lunch coming up soon.  Also ended up having two slices of bread, one with a little butter, the other with cream cheese.

Lunch:  3 eggs over easy, hash browns, 4 strips CF bacon, hatch chiles, pace picante sauce, sour cream.  Bloody mary

You gotta love a breakfast bowl.

Dinner:  Meatloaf, box potatoes, green beans w cheddar cheese, 12 oz Miller Lite

Sunday dinner.  Almost forgot the photo.

Also:  TB 2x chipotle chx burritos, "root beer"

Exercise:  Nope.  Reasonably active day but as usual not the dedicated time.

80.2

D-Awful

Saturday, November 11, 2023

When will I learn?  Chain pizza is awful.  Just stop it.

OK day otherwise.  Tired this morning and a cranky back all day took some of the enjoyment out of the golf, but it was still nice to get outside.

Breakfast:  3 eggs over medium, hash browns, 4 strips CF bacon, green chiles, sour cream.  Coffee.

Very tasty.

Lunch:  Nope.

Dinner:  Dominos pep ham, bread bites, 16 oz Mich Ultra earlier

Mehhhh.  Just not good.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart.  Walking wasn't pleasant so I didn't do much extra.

81.0

The Point Of Too Much

Friday, November 10, 2023

TGIF.  Making it through another week.  Almost there.

Reached the point, apparently, of too much as the scale was up a little this morning.  Not a complete surprise as I didn't get enough sleep and also did not get rid of waste, but it was still a function of eating too much, too bad and not exercising.  Is what it is.  Improvements are needed.

Shaping up to be another busy weekend, though I do plan to cram in a round of golf tomorrow.

Breakfast:  Sausage patties, bread w butter, coffee

Again.  And again with the extra slice of bread.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese

Again.  Did not bulk up the sandwich. And I was not super hungry before, am well sated after.

Dinner:  Mixed nuts, 12 oz All Day IPA, deluxe taco bowl, Tillamook mint chip, home popcorn

Repeat.  All good.

Exercise:  Nope.  Schedule again WAY off.  Hit Walmart this morning and plan to do the grocery shopping this evening so I'll get some steps in but still, not counting it.

82.0

Dough Day

Thursday, November 9, 2023

And a very wheaty Thursday to all.  Yeesh.   Got a fresh loaf of bread (clean french bread from a local bakery) and had extra slices.  Plus I started a batch of pizza dough this morning before I left.  Flour consumption off the charts.

Anyway, the outflow slowed down yesterday, no big surprise.  I could probably trigger more with a little more discipline, but overall I'm pretty happy with the last couple weeks.  Only one notable stumble.  Now, to start slowwwly phasing things out, cutting down portion sizes, etc.  Oh, and:  Walk you idiot.

Breakfast:  Sausage patties, bread w butter

Again tasty.  But I do need to get my pork from the farm.  Hopefully when I go next, tentatively a week from Sunday, they'll have more pork in stock.  I think I may have a package of links, will need to check.  Won't be as convenient as precooked but I can batch cook them at least and reheat leftovers for a day or two.

Lunch:   Soup, grilled cheese

Again tasty.  Plan is to start using slighly smaller containers -- for whatever reason the 2C pyrex covered containers hold less than the pint mason jars -- with this weekend's soup batch.  I've been notably sated this week so I think the odds of success (wrt cutting back) are better than usual.

Dinner:  Mixed nuts, 12 oz Miller Lite, deluxe taco bowl (taco meat, half a can of Bush's southwest zest beans, peppers and onions, cheese, hatch chiles, sour cream, avocado, pace picante sauce), Tillamook mint chip, home popcorn

That might be the longest dinner entry ever.  All good tho.

Exercise:  Nope.  Woke up 2 minutes before my 7:00 alarm.  Schedule remains way off, hoping to move it this weekend.  

80.8

Go With Flow

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Another day.  Lots of work to do, crazy busy.  OK morning, though there are always things that could have been done.  Really, the days seem to be mostly on repeat at the moment.

The only thing I did differently yesterday was adding the popcorn.  For whatever reason I'm getting extra flow this morning, so maybe I should do that again.  Losing water is always good.

Breakfast:  2x sausage patty, bread w butter, coffee

Forgot to take a photo.  First day with the substitute sausage patties, I think they're Jimmy Dean.  They are okay, I guess.  Thicker, smaller.  But fine.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese

Again.  And good.

Dinner:  Mixed nuts, 12 oz All Day IPA, home tacos, Tillamook mint chips, home popcorn w butter

Why not have a repeat.  I'm surprised my tortillas are still edible, they've been in the fridge for a minute.

Exercise:  Nope.  Still way off on sleep schedule and this is starting to get annoying.  Need to figure it out.  It hasn't helped that I've had plenty of back twinges, but that's not an excuse.

81.2

Electing Changes

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Decent morning.  Slow start, as expected.  I just cannot stay up that late.  Got to sleep about midnight, needs to be a lot closer to 10:00.  But once I got things going at work ... eventually ... the rest of the morning was very productive.  Call it a win.

Testing out a tweak to the evening routine.  We'll see if I can make it two nights in a row here.  Then I just need to figure out how I'm going to fix the sleep schedule and where I'm going to consistently work in exercise.  I still would prefer to do it first thing, but I struggle so much to get going in the mornings I may have to do it later.

Breakfast:  Sausage patty, slice of bread w butter, coffee

Again.  Almost forgot the photo.  Last of the Meijer sausage patties, RIP king you were perfect.  (For sausage)

Lunch:  Soup, grilled cheese

Again.  A little toastier than usual.

Dinner:  Mixed nuts, 12 oz All Day IPA, home tacos, Tillamook mint chip, home popcorn w butter

Again.  Added the popcorn since I have a bit of THE HUNGER tonight.

Exercise:  Nope.  FAIL.

82.8

Failure Rebounded

Monday, November 6, 2023

Welp.  Last night's messup produced a rebound, predictably.  I mean it could have been worse, but still.  I'm otherwise pretty OK with the week and hopefully this one is as good.  Off to a bit of shaky start as I had to audible on breakfast and lunch due to not making pancakes and not taking out a jar of soup to thaw until bedtime.  Fortunately I had another serving of bacon and all the other ingredients for a breakfast sandwich.  

Getting vey worried about how much work I have to do.  Need to find another gear that has been conspicuous in its absence.  I've been dragging.

Breakfast:  Sausage patty, slice of bread w butter, coffee

Solid audible.

Lunch:   Breakfast sandwich (3 eggs, 2 slices cheese, 4 strips bacon, hatch chiles)

Again very tasty.

Dinner:  2x mexican, 2x american tacos, 12 oz Miller Lite, mixed nuts, Tillamook mint chip

Tacos were definitely less fat tonight.

Exercise:  Nope.  Didn't get to sleep until after midnight and there was no chance I was going to be functional when I woke up.  Spoiler:  I was not.

84.0

So Close But

Sunday, November 5, 2023

Very glad to have the extra hour with the time change, it was much needed.  Stayed up too late last night, watched a football game to the end that I otherwise would not have.  Woke up at 6:30 but was very much not ready to be up.  Went back to sleep in the recliner and got up about ... 10:15.  Yikes.  

Anyway, it was mostly a good week.  And even a decent weekend, other than the very end tonight.  FAIL.

Also just realized that I forgot to make pancakes, not that I would have had time this morning really  Fortunately I have some bacon left so I have something for breakfast.

Breakfast:  None.

As mentioned, slept in.

Lunch:  Breakfast sandwich (3 eggs, 4 strips CF bacon, hatch chiles, 2 slices cheddar asiago cheese), coffee

Same as yesterday except went hatch instead of jalapenos.  Once again super tasty.   This package of CF bacon is one of the very best packages of bacon I've had.  It's incredible.

Dinner:  Steak, mashed potatoes, salad no dressing, 12 oz Miller Lite, a slice of banana nut bread w butter

Sunday dinner.  Not bad.

Also:  Big Mac, 2x McChix, Sprite.  Very bad.

Exercise:  18 holes with cart, not as much walking as usual.

82.6

Rotundity

Saturday, November 4, 2023

TGIS.  Glad to have a day with plenty to do but on my own schedule.

Today's title is courtesy of a spectacularly unflattering camera angle yesterday on a Zoom call.  Holy crap.  I looked like a collection of round blobs piled on top of one another like a particularly fat snowman.  Awful.  Even my head looked ridiculous.  Which isn't super normal - I know that I have a ton of excess weight in the midsection but the extremities haven't been so bad.  But this was uuuuuughly.

Also broke my streak of drops, though I'm sure a lot of that has to do with putting off some waste disposal.  Was the same diet, just an extra beer in place of the ice cream.  Anyway, I'm off to the store with hopes of buying relatively little so that I can continue to eat down what I have at home.

Did my grocery shopping this morning and was very disappointed to learn that Meijer has apparently discontinued my preferred frozen sausage patties.  None found in any of the local stores via online search, appears to be kaput.  I guess that's just further reinforcement that I need to get all my pork from the farm.

Breakfast:  Lazy bagels w meijer veggie cream cheese, coffee

Tasty as always, but something that needs to be eliminated from the diet.

Lunch:  Bacon egg and cheese breakfast sandwich, bloody mary

Delightful.  Fat sando, tasty bloody.

Dinner:  Home pizza w pepperoni and ground beef, 12 oz Miller Lite, Tillamook mint chip

Last of this batch of pizza doughs.  I do have a couple more pounds of flour, so Saturday night pizza is likely to continue for a bit.

Exercise:  Not really.   I did finally push myself out the door this morning but I hurt.  Foot, knee, back, you name it.  Hurt.  So I aborted mission pretty quick, came back home, got in the shower and eventually headed back out to do errands.  If I'm going to feel like that in the mornings, yikes.  I was typically active around the house, hit two grocery stores, etc etc.

84.0

Hard Shifting

Friday, November 3, 2023

TGIF.  So glad it's coming up on the end of the week.  One more work thing this afternoon, lots of things that should be worked on, and out.  Of course I'll need to work a bunch this weekend, but that's okay.  I have come to grips with that and it's easier to deal with when the phone isn't ringing, the emails are not pouring in, etc.  Which is why someday I hope to change my work schedule.

Anyway, continuing to gradually drop off last weekend's gains.  And then some, it's actually even better than that.  Not good, of course, but an improvement.  Eating at home makes a difference.  Now let's see if I can hold the line some this weekend, weekends have been awful lately.

Breakfast:  Buttermilk pancakes w butter and maple syrup, sausage patty, coffee

Last of the frozen pancakes.  I'm actually considering making another batch and just shrinking the portion size while going another week.  As long as the scale keeps ticking down I'm happy.

Lunch:  Soup and grilled cheese

Standard.  About out of the homemade bread, have to decide if I am going to bake more.  LOL'd at the super thick slices today, maybe I should actually use my slicing guide.  First of this week's soup batch, turned out fine which was a question as I messed with the ratios to try and make a bit less.  Carrot-y but otherwise nothing weird.

Dinner:  Mixed nuts, 24 oz Miller Lite, home tacos

All familiar stuff.

Exercise:  Nope.  Sleep schedule continues to be WAY off.  Even the hour this weekend isn't going to fix it.  Shifting it is hard.

83.6

Shorten the Lead

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Another day, more of the same.  Glad to continue losing some surplus water.  Got a reasonable night of sleep, but still off on the schedule.  Struggling to fix that.

Breakfast:  Buttermilk pancakes w butter and maple syrup, sausage patty, coffee

Once again excellent.  One left for tomorrow, then a decision.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled ham and cheese

Once again tasty.  Sated, though I acknowledge this is a lot of food.

Dinner:  Mixed nuts, 12 oz All Day IPA, home tacos, Tillamook mint chip

Repeat of yesteday.

Exercise:  Nope.  Snow is melting some, but it's still with us.

85.2

Let It Go Ma

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

New day, new month.  Middle of the week though so it's mostly the same old stuff.  October was an abject failure, up six pounds, not doing well on the walking, just generally bad.  About the only area I made any progress is my home is more picked up than usual.

Anyway, nothing unusual so far today.  Routine morning of modest productivity.  Lots to do this afternoon.  Stress level definitely rising.

Breakfast:  Buttermilk pancakes w butter and maple syrup, sausage patty, coffee

These have been very satisfying.  I think I have enough to get through tomorrow and Friday, then I am out.  And I should stop eating them, either for 2MAD or just plain fewer carb reasons.

Lunch:  Soup, grilled ham and cheese

Another good soup day.  Added some ham that I bought for a weekend plan that did not come off.  Fortunately it's just a few slices and can be eaten up in a sandwich or two.

Dinner:  Mixed nuts, 12 oz All Day IPA, home tacos, Tillamook mint chip

Yup.

Exercise:  Nope.  Determined last night that it wasn't going to happen due to the ~ 8" of snow we got yesterday (WTF).  I do not like snow and ice.  Hopefully it melts today, it's not going fast so far.

87.0