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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Reboot Day 1

Although it doesn't really impact me, the first day of school for the local kids.  The end of summer.  And a convenient time to really kick it into gear.  I feel pretty decent this morning - got in six hours of sleep (the drama kept me up a bit late but it was a very minor dose), a short walk and I'm about ready to get out the door to tackle the workday.  I'm hoping for a good one since I took the weekend off.

I had a hard time getting a reading on the scale this morning.  Hopeful that I will shed some water weight and get off to a strong start as a result.  I have goals.

Let's do this.

Breakfast:  Leftover egg casserole, coffee

Lunch:

Dinner:

Exercise:  Short morning walk, about a mile, 20 minutes.

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Corn-centric and Reboot Fifty

Monday, September 2, 2013
Reboot Day Zero

Happy Labor Day.  After one of the worst weeks of my life, it really is time to get back on track.  When I say worst that's for non-food reasons, though the eating was fairly excessive too.  The good news, such as it is, is that the real life drama is slowly working itself out.  Not the way that I would like, mind you, but as the cliche goes, you can't always get what you want.

But I can get what I want when it comes to physical health, because that's all up to me.  I choose what I put in my mouth.  I choose what kind of exercise I get.  Oh, sure I can't control whether I get some incurable disease, but the basics are within my grasp.  It's again time to take steps to seize the initiative and fix things once and for all.

Today is involving cleaning up.  Getting rid of some stuff.  Due to that and because it's a holiday, there will be more food and less exercisin'.  I should start right this moment.  That would be the way to do it.  Instead, I am going to just try to be prepared to kill it starting in the morning.

Breakfast:  Corn bread scramble with eggs, bacon, cheese, tomato, avocado and pico de gallo, diced potatoes, coffee, 2 chocolate frosted donuts

Lunch:  Spicy beans with a hunk of cornbread.  I'm definitely on a cornbread kick today!

This might be the best batch of spicy beans I've ever made

Snacks:  A few chips and a little dip, some chips n salsa

Dinner:  Egg casserole (CF eggs, milk, Meijer sausage - didn't have any CF - seasoning, shredded sharp cheddar).  Another piece of cornbread with a generous whack of butter (not pictured).  Two oatcakes.

I'll be eating the egg dish for a few days...

Yeah, more cornbread.  I was going to have half a grapefruit too but decided to save it for tomorrow.

Dessert:  Haagen Dazs chocolate peanut butter ice cream.  Okay, done with that.

Exercise:  Nothing formal, just cleaning the house.  So:  None.  At least I moved around a bunch.

I Lack Discipline

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

As seems to be the case lately, I failed.  Try again.

Breakfast:  Bowl of spicy beans with lots of deli turkey, coffee

Lunch:  All meat omelet, 2 slices sourdough toast with butter, coffee

Dinner:  More than 1/2 of a Little Caesars deep dish crappy pizza

Dessert:  Culver's concrete mixer with PB cups

Exercise:  None.  Up late again for personal reasons.  By next week likely to be done.

Cratered late in the day.  I did get some new technology tonight that will help me be more faithful in my efforts to track what I do and I think it will help with accountability.  Kinda down in personal life, but I'll bounce back.

Trying to Build

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Let's see if I can do well 2 days in a row.  Not off to a good start - stayed up too late and between that and the fact that it's raining I did not get out for a walk.

Breakfast:  Leftover grassfed chuck roast with vegetables

Cooked this up last night, ended up with four hearty servings from 1 75 lb roast.

Lunch:  All meat omelet, 2 slices dark rye toast with butter, coffee

Dinner:  Oatcakes (way too many!), 5 slices CF garlic pepper bacon, a tomato, 1/2 grapefruit

Snack:  A small bowl of spicy pinto beans.  (Fresh batch.  Yum!)

Exercise:  None.  Stayed up too late for personal reasons.  It really looks like the personal reasons to stay up late are going away though, so I should soon be back on track.

Call it semi-fail.

Gersh

Monday, August 26, 2013

So much fail, so little time to report it.  Feeling motivated though.

Breakfast:  Small bowl of leftover ham and beans, 2 slices sharp cheddar

Lunch:  All meat omelet with onion, 2 slices sourdough toast with butter

Dinner:  Grassfed NY strip steak, sliced tomato, gluten free bread with italian cheese

Exercise:  Short walk,  less than1.5 miles, 30 minutes.

At least I felt rested when I got up and even though the walk was achy when I got started it ended up being fine.  I do not like humidity but it may well have helped a bit.

A decent if not stellar day, a step in the right direction after weeks and months of FAIL.

Sometimes Not Enough

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Apparently I was tired last night.  I fell asleep on the couch, barely mustered the energy when I woke to move to bed and then I could not get up this morning.  No exercise, late for work.  Yuck.  At least I managed to deal with real breakfast stuff instead of surrendering to the inclination for a McBreakfast.

I am hoping to redeem myself by not blowing up in the evening - not planning on working, don't have social functions, I can just go home.  If the weather cooperates I might even do some yard work and call it exercise.  We shall see.

Breakfast:  Soup, coffee

Lunch:

Dinner:

Exercise:  None in the morning, boo.

Not So Easy

Not a fan of the fail.  Back on horse.  Hoping dinner buffet will be edible, fearing lasagna.

 

Breakfast:  soup, coffee

 

Lunch:  big bowl of spicy beans, 4 slices sharp cheddar cheese

 

Hungry.  Too much cheese tho.

 

Dinner:  2 Taco Bell shredded chicken burritos, Italian sub, garlic cheese bread w/ pizza sauce and 2 Miller Lites.

 

Golf league night.  FAIL.  Evenings, they are a problem.

 

Exercise:  same 1.5 mile walk as yesterday.  Also 9 holes with cart.

 

Using blogger app.  Not loving it.  Had to clean up later in web interface.

 

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rebound

Monday, July 29, 2013

Hey.  It has been a while.  So funny how you can fall out of a daily habit so quickly and how hard it can be to get back to that place.  The short version is that my life changed.  I lost the spots in my routine where I attended to this space and some other stuff - the time just vanished.

It looks like it may well be back.  And that is a sad thing in a lot of ways.  But not all bad.  I definitely lost focus over the last five months.  No reason to get into it, but it happened.  But with the extra time and some extra drive I just might be able to really get back at it this time.

So: 

Quick goal time.  I'll get more into it in a couple days, but here's what I hope to accomplish.  5 months.  75 pounds.  Ambitious, I know, but I'm pretty sure the first 20 will fall right off.  Gained some, you know.  Been bad.

Let's do this.

Breakfast:  Bowl of soup, coffee.

This is my usual homemade vegetable beef soup, though I 'beefed' it up by using 2 lb of ground beef instead of 1 in this batch.  I'm having smaller servings - I bought some pint mason jars and am filling those instead of filling quarter jars 3/4 full or so.  It's not a huge difference, but it is definitely less.

Lunch:  2 jumbo CF eggs cooked in a bit of Kerrygold butter, bowl of spicy beans.

Good stuff.  I cooked up my usual standbys for the freezer this weekend.  Not the best batch ever - a bit too much water.  Still yum.

Dinner:  little Caesars deep dish pepperoni pizza, Ben n Jerry's choc brownie ice cream

Epic fail!

Exercise:  Sluggish start.  Couldn't find my pedometer but pretty sure it was about 1.5 mile walk since it took 35 minutes.  Very creaky to start - I have done nothing the last ten days after coming back from a vacation where I walked 10-15 miles a day.  I'm afraid dietary issues are also contributing inflammation.  Hope to feel better quickly as I get back into the routine.

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Sinking In

Monday, June 24, 2013

Trying again to reboot and build a little momentum.  Leaving on vacation in less than two weeks and I would really like to be laser focused between now and then.  It probably won't work out that way, but it would be nice.  I am super busy today, so it will be a challenge.  But I feel decent so let's see how it goes.

Breakfast:  Coffee, yogurt

Lunch:

Dinner:

Exercise:  Managed to get up early enough - nothing like when I was really in a groove, but ... - to get in a short walk.  Pedometer said 1.5 miles in 30 minutes, as usual it was probably a bit less than that.  Slow.  My legs are not feeling good and some ankle trouble has resurfaced.

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June Is For Diligence

Saturday, June 1, 2013

... or something.  I need to reboot.  Desperately.  I am tired.  Fat.  Can feel the gains I've made slipping away.  Writing this at night after another day of bad eating.

Breakfast:  3 egg omelet w/ bacon, cream cheese and avocado, 2 slices sourdough toast w butter, coffee

Snack:  Package of peanut butter crackers, coffee

Lunch:  Corned beef reuben with fries, 12 oz Miller Lite

Snack:  Chips and onion dip

Dinner:  Taco Bell, chicken burritos and beefy crunch burritos

Exercise:  18 holes with cart

Otherwise felt meh.  Way, way behind on sleep.  May stress level was off the charts.  It has to get better.

Need More Synonyms For FAIL

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

About the only good thing I can say about the last 24 hours is hey, I had an okay breakfast yesterday.

Just getting killed by work.  Went home at about 11 last night.  So much to do and it's causing me to overeat and eat drive thru crap that doesn't even sound good.

Sigh.

Breakfast:  Mcdonald's bacon egg cheese biscuit, hash browns, 2 sausage burritos, coffee

Lunch:

Dinner:

Exercise:

Reboot One Hundred

Monday, May 20, 2013

Trying again.  I really need to embrace my inner Yoda ("there is no try, only do or not do" or something like that).  Or my inner Nike ("just do it").  It makes me laugh to try those things.

The last week or so has been brutal on several fronts.  One, allergies.  I was so miserable I broke down and bought benadryl.  I hate taking meds.  But when I can't sleep or function that counts as necessity.  Two, eating and exercise.  The binging and slacking continued.  Three, work.  OMFG, this is horrid.

This morning, though I was very, very sluggish getting going, it's going okay so far.  It's a couple hours into the day and I'm just getting cranked up at work, but at least it's going.  And I'm optimistic that I'll get some things done for once.

Edit:  More super FAIL.

Breakfast:  Yogurt, coffee

Lunch:  Jimmy John's vito sub, salt & vinegar chips

Dinner:  Double cheeseburgers, fries

Snack:  2 Taco Bell chicken burritos, 1 black bean burrito

Exercise:  None

Anticipating the Fail

Tuesday, May, 14, 2013

Golf season is underway, and on Tuesdays that means a few beers and trying to extract value out of a buffet, which is a polite way of saying that I'll eat too much.

Yesterday got off to a promising start but I really need to not wait until 4:00 to eat lunch.  I was too hungry and ended up eating way, way too much.

Breakfast:  Yogurt, coffee

Lunch:

Dinner:

Exercise:

Monday Morning Coming Up

Monday, May 13, 2013

We'll see if I can successfully get refocused, starting right now.  Off to an okay start this morning, though instead of being awake and going for a walk I found a chair and snoozed.  Otherwise feeling okay.  I have been so very far off the last couple of months.  My conditioning hasn't fallen off a cliff - I have walked 18 holes a couple of times - but it's definitely diminished.  I have gained some weight and it's quite noticeable around the middle.  So let's get back on track.

Spring and summer are always challenging.  Beer.  BBQs.  Golf.  Other temptations.  We'll see how it goes.

Edit:  It went poorly.  Actually, it went swimmingly until 4:00, when I had lunch.  And it was downhill from there.

Breakfast:  Yogurt, coffee

Lunch:  12" Subway ham and pepperjack on italian herb, lots of Fritos

Dinner:  Double cheeseburger and fries

Exercise:  None.  Was supposed to go for a walk in the evening, walking buddy didn't make it so I didn't go.

FAIL.

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A Placeholder

Intervening days.

Probably not going to add much detail here.  Fat and (mostly) happy.  Unfocused.  Awful, awful eating.

One Tiny Step

Monday, April 22, 2013 through Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Still failing, except today got off to a good start.  Monday and Tuesday were more fail, no exercise and all McFood and/or pizza plus chips or something.

Wednesday:

Breakfast:  Yogurt, coffee

Lunch:  2 Spicy McChickens, large fries  (oops)

Dinner:

Exercise:  Hey, a walk!  It really felt foreign it has been sooooo long.  Short loop, pedometer said 2.33 miles in 45 minutes.  Knees cranky, felt fat (am fat), ruled out jogging quickly.

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Still Failing To Relaunch

Wednesday, April 17 - Sunday, April 21, 2013

Still failing.  Really rough day on Friday, carried over into the weekend.

Still eating like crap and not exercising.  Haven't weighed.  It will be ugly.

Let's Try This Again

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Okay.  As mentioned in prior post, I'm writing this mid-day even before I get back on the horse.  Oh, logically I should start right this second, but instead I'm going to be realistic.  Lunch will be rushed again -- I'm severely out of whack that part of the day -- and I didn't have energy to exercise this morning.

So instead I am going to hope to get started with some modest accomplishments this evening - a sound dinner, probably some beans and turkey or bacon and eggs, then clean up and get set up for tomorrow.  Set out clothes.  I know lunch tomorrow will be more normal, so I have hopes for an entire day of being good to get the ball rolling.

Time to amp up the want and to turn it into action.

Breakfast:  McDonalds bacon egg & cheese biscuit, 2 sausage burritos, coffee

Lunch:  I forget, but it was fast

Dinner:  Forget, but it was undoubtedly pizza

Exercise:  None.

Not Just Fall Off

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 through Monday, April 15, 2013

This might have been the single worst week of my life in terms of diet and exercise.  No exercise, which is not unusual.  Non-stop binge eating.  Working until midnight every night.  No sleep.  Gained a significant amount of weight though I don't know exactly how much b/c I haven't weighed.

I feel like crap and deservedly so.  Time to regain control.  As I write this (on Tuesday morning), I had hoped to get rebooted first thing.  Instead I was up well past midnight working last night and I just cannot get up before dawn to exercise under those circumstances.  So I had a crap breakfast and I'm hoping to get started with a good meal this evening.

Did not track specifics but pretty much every day began with a mcbreakfast, some kind of rushed fast food lunch, pizza for dinner, chips and dip when snacking and lots of them.  The only positive is no sugar.

Icking

Monday, April 8, 2013

Title was going to involve 'ticking' but this might actually work better.

Breakfast:  Yogurt

Lunch:  Forgot what it was specifically, see next post

Dinner:  Forgot what it was specifically, see next post

Exercise:  None.  Schedule totally out of wack, major sleep deficit, endless stress.  This week is going to suck even though I really really do want to get on track.

Some More Fail

Saturday, April 6, 2013 - Sunday, April 7, 2013.

Yeah, still more fail.

Saturday:
B:  Bacon egg & cheese biscuit, 2 sausage burittos, coffee
L:  Qdoba naked burrito, usual
D:  Deluxe pizza, a couple Bell's Two Hearted Ales
S:  Chips and onion dip, doritos
Ex:  None

Sunday:
B:  Same
L:  2 Spicy McChickens
S:  Chips and onion dip, lots
D:  Spaghetti w/ ground beef, garlic toast, salad w/ italian
Ex:  18 holes with cart

Week Of Vacation

Saturday, March 30, 2013 through Friday, April 5, 2013

Vacation travel means all kinds of weirdness.

Saturday:  Breakfast - sausage burritos, coffee;  Cracker Barrel double meat breakfast, coffee
Lunch:  Wendy's double with cheese, value fries
Dinner:  Applebees chicken fajita rollup, draft Miller Lite
Snack:  100 cal almonds
Exercise:  None, in car all day

Sunday:  Breakfast: Cracker Barrel double meat breakfast, coffee
Lunch:  Cookout burger cheddar style, fries
Dinner:  Outback 9 oz sirloin, mashed potatoes, salad w/ ranch, Miller Lite
Also:  2 Yuenglings
Exercise:  27 holes w/ cart, lots of walking

Monday:  Breakfast:  hotel eggs n sausage w/ cheese, coffee
Snack:  Small bag of peanuts
Lunch:  Reuben w/ fries, Yuengling draft
Dinner:  Pizza, salad w/ italian, 2 garlic rolls
Also:  2 Yuenglings
Exercise:  36 holes w/ cart, LOTS of walking

Tuesday:  Breakfast:  hotel eggs n bacon w/ cheese, oatmeal w/ butter, coffee
Snack:  Small bag of peanuts
Lunch:  Reuben w/ chips
Dinner:  Olive garden chicken parmesan w salad and breadsticks, yuengling draft
Also:  2 Yeunglings
Exercise:  36 holes w/ cart, not quite as much walking

Wednesday:  Breakfast:  hotel eggs n sausage w/ cheese, oatmeal w/ butter, coffee
Snack:  Small bag of fritos
Lunch:  Sonic bacon double cheeseburger
Snack:  lots of peanuts
Dinner:  Applebees combo fajitas, yuengling draft
Exercise:  18 holes w/ cart

Thursday:  Breakfast:  scrambled eggs and bacon, 1 slice wheat toast w/ butter, biscuit w/ gravy, coffee
Snack:  small bag of peanuts
Lunch:  Panera 1/2 ham and swiss on rye and small greek salad; coffee
Dinner:  2 spicy mcchickens, chips and onion dip
Exercise:  None

Friday:  Breakfast:  2 salt bagels w/ veggie cream cheese; coffee
Lunch:
Dinner:
Exercise:  None

Friday, A Friday

Friday, March 29, 2013

I actually got up early, was organized and plowed through a bunch of stuff.  A day that turned out better than expected.  Of course I was up until 2:00 and left at 6:00, but whatever.

Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner:  Again, don't really remember.  I think it was same deal, a couple of sausage burritos and coffee for breakfast, taco bell chicken burritos for lunch and a pizza for dinner, chips and onion dip for a snack.

Exercise:  I believe that I got in an abbreviated walk.

Short On Time, Long On FAIL

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Yergh.  Never going to be ready to leave on vacation on Saturday.

Breakfast:  McD bacon egg and cheese biscuit, 2 sausage burritos, coffee

Lunch /Dinner / Snack:  To be honest, I don't even remember.  I think it was a couple spicy McChickens for lunch, pizza for dinner and chips and onion dip for a snack.  This is why I need to do this daily, not a week later.

Exercise:  At least I made myself get out of bed (on < 4 hours as usual) and get in an abbreviated walk before going back to work.  1.5 miles in 29 minutes according to the pedometer ... I really should double check my stride length.

Deserves Explanation, Gets None

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

So busy.  Just nuts.

Breakfast:  2 McD sausage burritos, coffee

Snack:  A few potato chips

Lunch:   2 Taco Bell chicken burritos

Dinner:   Domino's pepperoni, bacon, onion pizza

Snack:  Chips and onion dip

Exercise:  None

Fail Ongoing And Continual

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Not getting much better, that's for sure.  Yeesh.

Breakfast:  2 Mcdonalds sausage burritos, coffee

Lunch:  Qdoba naked buritto, usual

2nd Lunch:  2 Spicy McChickens

Dinner:  Double cheeseburger and fries

Snack:  Chips and onion dip, lots

Exercise:  None

Unhappily Resigned

Monday, March 25, 2013

Starting to become resigned to being screwed up this week.  Personal stuff keeping me up still, huge steaming mounds of work to do.

Breakfast:  Yogurt, coffee

Lunch:  2 spicy McChickens

Dinner:  Spicy beans with a bunch of Meijer deli turkey, popcorn

Snack:  Chips and onion dip

Exercise:  Abbreviated walk, clocked in at 1.4 miles in 26 minutes.

At least it was something.  Felt good.

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Dude, Just Stop

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Stayed up so very late last night.  Didn't get up until 9:30 this morning, the latest I've been up in years.  So very very screwed up.

And then I compounded it by messing up the eating.  So much for my one day streak.

Breakfast:  None

Lunch:  3 johnsonville beef brats w/ jalapeno mustard, 3 slices sharp cheddar

Snack:  2 Taco bell chicken burritos

Dinner:  Casserole w/ pork, rice, cream soup, celery; roll w butter, green beans w/ cheddar cheese

Snack:  Chips & onion dip.   LOTS.

Exercise:  None.  MAD.

Possible Corrective Step(s)

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Not off to a world-beating start this morning, but at least I'm functional.  At least so far.  Between the bad eating and the erratic, limited sleep I am way, way off in the mornings.  I finally conceded that I should change my alarm time - moved it a half hour later to see if it would help.  I was able to get up but didn't do anything, ended up dozing for quite a long time.  So no exercise again this morning.  Is problem.

Breakfast:  Yogurt, coffee

Had to get coffee from McDonalds, resisted any temptation to order food.  Positive sign for the day.

Lunch:  Bowl of homemade vegetable beef soup, a couple ounces Meijer deli turkey

Oh hai soup, it's been a while

This was good.

Dinner:  Taco salad, spicy pork.  Lots of hot sauce.

Continuing with the old school theme

Snack:  2 servings of frozen leftover oatcakes

Also:   a glass of Concannon pinot noir.  Not the fullest bodied wine I've ever had, but not bad.

Exercise:  None.  Got up and dozed.  FAIL.


I will be so, so glad when things slow back down at work.  This is just crazy.

Bottomed Out Again

Friday, March 22, 2013

It's been a dismal month and this morning I had a talk with myself.  Going to try and get square tomorrow.  Be extra good this week going into vacation.  I can do that.  Vacation will be a struggle.  Then really hit the gas.  I have dreams yo.

Breakfast:  2 McDonald's sausage burritos, coffee

Lunch:  2 Spicy McChickens

Dinner:  Deluxe pizza, chips and onion dip

Exercise:  None.  Fat and lazy.

Back on the horse tomorrow.

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