Not That Joy

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Day Twelve

No love from the scale this morning.  That's okay, it was again just the smallest blip up imaginable.  And since I was notably inactive yesterday, not a huge surprise.

Got to sleep early, slept decently, woke up at ... 4:15.  Geez.  Haven't done anything, but going back to sleep was just not in the cards.  Should get going shortly, I have lots of cooking and cleaning and laundrying to do.  It'll be a good day for it, the winter storm has arrived and I probably won't go anywhere at all.  I hate driving in winter.

For entertainment I looked up the carb counts of some various things.  I was curious about popcorn - it's something that looks like it would be doable on a day where I don't have many other carbs.   Also checked the tortillas that my local Mexican place uses -- looks like I was getting 80g carbs every Monday just from the torts.  So why was there a positive correlation with weight loss?  It's a mystery.  

Breakfast:  Meijer plain greek yogurt (7), wild blueberries (3), coffee (0)

All things being equal I prefer fewer carbs for breakfast.  But I have these things and I'm going to eat them.  Sporadically.  Anyway, half as many blueberries as last week.  Was ample.

Lunch:  3 egg omelet with veggie cream cheese and guacamole (6), CF sausage patties (0)

Cleaned up the cream cheese and the sausage patties.  A very tasty cleanup.  Had to watch the carbs on the omelet given how many I had at breakfast and since dinner is preplanned (and calculated).

Snack:  Barbacoa (0)

Had to sample the new batch.  Has some serious heat.  Ignoring that it might have a carb or so from spices.

Dinner:  Home cheesesteak bowl (11), 12 oz Miller Lite (3), Sugar free lime Jell-o (0)

Had a package of shaved steak in the freezer to use up.  Next time it's on sale I think I'm going to vacuum seal it, there was quite a layer of ice when I took it out.  I also wonder if it could be sous vide'd, it was a little on the chewy side.  Tomorow I'll be sure to melt the cheese when I eat the rest of it, that would have also been an improvement.  Not bad tho.

Exercise:  Nope.  Not going out, though it seems like it could be possible later.  

Day totals:  $0.00 spent,  30g carbs, success, barely

82.2

Positive Check

Friday, January 12, 2024

Day Eleven

So far so good.  We're supposed to get a vicious winter storm, but nothing much yet as of lunch time.  I do think there is a pretty good chance we shut down early, but we'll see.  I was unwilling to fight the crowds last night to get groceries but it was merely busy (not crazy busy) when I went early this morning.

I happened to look back at my December log and I noticed that my current weight is lower than any day in December.  I also looked at November, October and September -- I don't remember exactly but I think I'm within a pound or two of being lower than all of those too.  Even August is very much in range.  I have a ways to go to get to where I was just after surgery, but to wipe out months of impact in just ten days is great.  Oh, and I noticed this morning that my legs were definitely less bloated.  I don't know why the water loss affects the extremities first, but I'll take it ... just as long as the barrel that is the middle of my body gets some benefit eventually too.

Breakfast:  CF sausage (0), coffee (0)

Again.

Lunch:  Soup (10), pickle (1)

Yup.

Dinner:  Leftover CF italian sausage w sauce and cheese (9), lettuce salad (1), pork rinds (0), 12 oz Miller Lite (3)

Again.  Way fewer pork rinds tho.  Going in the rotation, I think.  At least whenever I buy another pound of italian sausage.  I guess there is a chance I have one in the freezer.  Thinking about adding a shot of brown liquor to the tally.

Exercise:  Nope.  Instead of going to the Y I hit the grocery store, got gas and went to work early.

Day totals:  $ 59.62 spent, 24 g carbs, success

82.0

Not Nicked

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Day Ten

A good morning.  I did not want to, but I used some Afrin last night and it was SUCH a pleasure to breathe freely through my nose.  Delightful.  Slept well if not quite sufficiently.  Woke up on time, though I did not get moving early enough.  Mostly positive.

Went to Walmart yesterday evening and since I was there I was going to pick up a pint of Nick's ice cream.  It used to be necessary to go there, it was the only place I knew that carried it.  Even after Meijer started carrying 3 flavors I'd still buy it at Walmart since it was cheaper and they had an additional half dozen flavors.

Anyway, I went to go grab a pint and ... nothing.  They no longer carry it.  Doh.  I guess if I want some, I'll have to get it at Meijer.  They do now have a large variety of pints of Rebel ice cream, which is fine, but I have enjoyed the texture and immediate eatability of Nick's.  Might have to do a comparo.  Or just, you know, not eat diet ice cream.

So it was back to the drops on the scale this morning, which was another plus.  Not a huge one, but very solid.  Let's keep it moving in the right direction.

Breakfast:  CF sausage patties (0), coffee (0)

Again.

Lunch:   Soup (10), pickle (1)

Again.

Dinner:  Bakenets pork rinds (2), 12 oz Miller Lite (3), CF italian sausage (0) with Classico italian sausage pasta sauce (7), mozz (1) and parm (1).  Iceberg salad (1) with vinegar/olive oil and a little parmesan (0)

Not again!  Tried something new.  Basically just did a pound of CF italian sausage ovenburger style, divided it, topped with melted mozzarella, a half cup of pasta sauce and some parmesan.  Delicious.  And as usual I have leftovers for tomorrow.  Very pleased with how it turned out.  The lettuce salad was meh but it was kind of nice to get a little extra vegetation.

Exercise:  Nope.  Again.  I was awake but not that awake and a super busy early morning got all of my nervous energy.  Maybe tomorrow?  Depends on when the megadeathsupersnowstorm starts.

Day totals:  $0.00 spent, 26 g carb, success

83.0

Ticked Up Not So Much Off

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Day Nine

Bah.  It was going to happen eventually.  A very slight tick up on the scale this morning.   By the smallest amount my scale reports.  A little annoying, since I hit my target yesterday, but also understandable.  You've got multiple factors - I think between the lunch meat and pickle I got too much salt.  I didn't sleep great or enough.  Didn't get any exercise.  And I've gotten rid of so much water it would not be a surprise to hold onto a bit.  I was definitely puffy this morning.

But hopefully it will all go away, along with a lot of underlying fat.

Breakfast:  CF sausage patties (0), coffee (0)

I am going to continue to list this as 0, though I read the label yesterday when I opened the package to cook them up and the ingredient list does include, down toward the end, turbinado sugar.  So it's not a true zero, but given that (plus the fact that there isn't even a hit of sweetness to my taste) I'm not going to worry about it.

Lunch:  Soup (10), pickle (1)

Good as always.

Dinner:  Barbacoa bowl (10), 12 oz Miller Lite (3)

Out of guac so I added a small avocado.  Would count an extra carb, but I discarded a decent portion.  Otherwise, the same.  I have something new to try for tomorrow night.

Exercise:  Nope.  As mentioned, didn't sleep well.  Still working on getting that schedule fixed.  I did get in a lot of work-related walking, a couple thousand steps anyway, but I'm not counting it unless I hit a much higher number.

Went to Walmart after work, while I was there I picked up a couple cans of salsa, one of chipotles in adobo, a chunk of Cabot cheddar and a bag of pork rinds.  All very reasonably priced.

Totals:  $8.55 spent, 24 g carbs, success

83.8

Let's Add It Up

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Day Eight

As expected, stayed up WAY too late last night.  Too much adrenaline.  Hoping to crash early to make up for some of the sleep I did not get.

I was thinking this afternoon that I may need to re-evaluate my exercise plan.  I am finding that when I have lots of work-related deadlines I'm stressed about it in the morning and that impacts my getting out the door.  I haven't been super successful in just getting moving and going to work if I'm not going to exercise, but whatever I decide to do I definitely need to spend less down time.

Also, I noted that I appear to be less visibly bloated in the face.  The midsection is still terribad, but it's nice to see a little more definition somewhere.  Legs are also better.  Now if they would just stop cramping...

Breakfast:  Bacon (0), coffee (0)

Yup.  Last of the bacon.  Need to cook up some sausage tonight.

Lunch:  Jimmy John's Unwich #9 (9), no mayo or oil/vinegar, add mustard, pickles and peppers (1).  Pickle (1).   22 oz Light Lemonade (4)  ($19.49)

Time to break out the calculator!  Work necessitated an audible and I wasn't too unhappy about it.  This was fine, tasty, just expensive and I was hungry by dinnertime.  I eliminated the mayo and oil/vinegar in hopes of avoiding most of the seed oil.

Dinner:  Barbacoa bowl (10), 12 oz Miller Lite (3)

Again tasty.  Same as yesterday, so I skipped typing out the detail.  One more day forthcoming.

Totals:  $19.49 spent, 28g carb.  Fail on spend, success on the food choices

83.6

Week In

Monday, January 8, 2024

Day Seven

Quite a first week.  Weight loss is predictably slowing as the outpouring of water slows down, but I still had another nice drop this morning.  Keep it going.

Slept okay, I guess, and woke up about 5:00.  Did not, however, get going or kick myself out the door.  All I managed was to get to work a little early.  I didn't quite get enough done yesterday so I stewed about what I had to do instead of getting a walk in.  Need to fix that, though tonight looks like it might be a late one.  Ugh.

Breakfast:  3 strips CF cherrywood bacon (0), coffee (0)

Again.

Lunch:  Leftover barbacoa (2), mexicheese (1), salsa (2), guac (2), sour cream (1) and jalapenos (2)

Almost forgot the photo!  Added jalapenos and a little hot sauce for extra kick.  Was tasty.   I think I'm going to make this a regular dinner -- had it for lunch due to having leftovers to eat tonight.  Pleasantly surprised that packing a 1C glass container (which I bought last week) gave me what felt like the right portion size of barbacoa.  

Dinner:  Leftover chuck roast (0), soup (3), slices of american and cheddar cheese (2), pickle (1), 12 oz Miller Lite (3), Rib Rack hot and spicy pork rinds (4)

Meh.  I had a runt soup (less than half a container) and tossed it in with the chuck roast,  it was okay.  Filled in around that.

Exercise:  Nope.  Disappointing.  I was awake.  Just didn't do it.

Totals:  $0.00 spent, 23g carbs,  success

85.0

Managing Those Expectations

Sunday, January 7, 2024

Day Six

Grateful for another weekend day, though I'm already wishing it was a three day weekend.  I won't have one of those now until Memorial Day. 

A little later than I wanted getting to sleep, but not too bad.  Slept okay and dreamless until 5:30, very slight foot cramp got me up.  Snoozed with much dreaming in the recliner until actual leg cramping got me moving at 8:00.  Glad to get some extra sleep, I'm definitely feeling a little more recharged this morning.  A nice drop on the scale.  We're off to a good start.

Actually with the massive water dump I'm not that much above numbers from the last three months.  Looking back a significant gain happened in September (I didn't look back further), but I'm only five pounds or so above early October.  With more than three weeks left in the month I'm hoping to get past that and start tackling the September inflation, maybe get below that by the end of February.  Gotta keep those expectations reasonable, so far it's just water weight.

Breakfast:  3 strips CF cherrywood bacon (0), coffee (0)

Figured out last night that I should watch the carbs carefully early, since I'll probably have a spoonful of mashed potatoes with Sunday dinner.

Lunch:  Home Barbacoa (2) with avocado (2), mexicheese (1), sour cream (1) and salsa (2)

Like a Chipotle bowl with no rice, no beans and yes avo -- I usually decline to pay the upcharge for guac, so the avo is a bonus!  Skipped the peppers and onions to save a couple carbs.  Used a recipe from the internet to make the barbacoa yesterday - verdict is that it's quite good but doesn't quite nail Chipotle's version.  Theirs has more zip than this did.  But it's fine.

Dinner:  Chuck roast (0) with gravy (5e), carrots (10e),  mashed potatoes (20e), sugar free Jell-O (0e), 12 oz Miller Lite (3)

Sunday dinners.  A very chuck-y day.

Exercise:  Nope.  Slept in, day of rest.  Hoping to get back at it tomorrow morning.

Day totals:  $0.00 spent,  46 estimated g carbs, semi-success

Probably over the limit but hard to calculate exactly since I didn't have dinner at home, no scale, etc.  But no blowout so it's a semi-success.  By Sunday standards it was very successful.

86.0

Breaking Down All Over

Saturday, January 6, 2024

Day Five

TGIS.  Seems like I say that weekly, but it's true.  I so appreciate the break from routine, even if it is just to do a different routine.  I can definitely use the mental refresh.  Especially this week, where on top of the usual piles of stress I have been considering some steps that could result in a major job change.  It would take the rest of this year to potentially get there, but it is a possibility.

Scale-wise, another nice drop.  Progressively smaller, but that is absolutely expected.  We'll rapidly get to the point where a pound or two a week is great.  I also had my best blood pressure reading in a while this morning.  

Another poor night of sleep.  I went to bed at a reasonable hour but had difficulty falling asleep again, which is just not usual.  I was definitely tired enough, just couldn't shut down the brain.  And I experienced the unhappy return of cramps, in this case a most unpleasant foot cramp.  I would imagine that losing all this water has flushed out a bunch of electrolytes -- I switched to using Good Salt which has potassium and magnesium, but I may need to supplement.  Situation to be monitored.

Lots to do today, I had better get busy since I lolligagged around for a long, long time after I gave up on sleep.

Breakfast:  Meijer plain whole milk greek yogurt (7), Meijer organic wild blueberries (6), coffee

A little high on the carbs this morning, but I won't have many at lunch.  I did the blueberries by weight, I definitely could have had fewer and it would have still been fine.  Might halve it next time.

Lunch:  3 eggs (2) scrambled with american cheese (3), hatch chiles (2), sour cream (1), CF cherrywood smoked bacon (0)

Pleasantly surprised how much I liked the cherrywood bacon.  It's more expensive than apple or hickory or black pepper garlic, but it was delightful.  Guess I'll have to buy some in the future even if they aren't wiped out of all other kinds.  Too many stray carbs on the egg addins, going to have to watch it at dinner.

Dinner:  Ribeye steak (0), sauteed mushrooms and onions (6), 12 oz Miller Lite (3)

All good.  Ribeye was one I bought from the store before the holidays, dry brined and vacuum sealed.  Did it sous vide, finished on the stove in a little tallow.  Intentionally cooked it to medium, ribeye fat is much better when it's more cooked, otherwise I like more rare.  Had to scale back the serving size on the mushrooms and onions - yes, I calculated and weighed.  Not a problem, though I could have easily eaten the other two servings!

Exercise:  Nope.  Should have gone this morning but didn't.  Will need to make up for it with a very active day, which seems ... likely.

Day totals:  $ 92.11 spent,  30g carbs, success

Went to the farm, decided to stock up in advance of the weather predicted to be coming next week.  I hate the drive out there when the roads aren't good.  They were out of sausage patties (doh) but had plenty of bacon for the first time in a while.  The freezer is quite full.  I would have been fine with about half as much stuff, but like I said, plus I had a little extra cash.

87.4

Is This That Day

Friday, January 5, 2024

Day Four

Once again I think the flow is slowing.  I think today is the day where the multi-pound drops of water weight slow down to a much more understandable rate of loss.  It's not realistic to expect the big drops -- I'm stunned to have had them three days in a row.

But not complaining. Noooo, not complaining one bit.

Tried a new gizmo last night to see if it would help with the sleep and the answer, alas, is no.  I slept very poorly until I gave up on it about 3:00 am.  I am definitely afraid that unless significant weight loss happens quickly and is effective I'm going to end up on a CPAP.  I just do not breathe well enough.  Is problem.

Likely to hit the grocery store tonight, so I'll break my streak of spending no money, but that is to be expected.  Happy to hit four days in a row of eating at home!

Breakfast:  CF sausage (0), 4 oz spicy low sodium V-8 (4), coffee (0)

Again.  Had an extra patty to eat so I ate it.  I am going to run out to the farm if I have time tomorrow to make sure I'm stocked up on bacon and sausage and eggs before we get any bad weather.

Lunch:  Soup (10), Bubbies kosher dill pickle (1)

Again.  Time to abbreviate pickle as pickle, since I'm likely to stick with these even though they are expensive.

Dinner:  Leftover home bunless cheeseburger - beef (0), spices (3), cojack cheese (2), mustard (0), green chiles (2).  12 oz Miller Lite (3).  Ribrack Hot and Spicy pork rinds (4)

The pork rinds were an impulse buy, but I'm glad I got them as I got home late from grocery shopping and it was a bit before the burgers were ready.

Exercise:  Nope.  As mentioned, sleep was a problem.  I did not get up until after 7:00.  We will see what tonight brings.

Day totals:  $ 73.10 spent (groceries),  29 g carbs.  Success. I also spent nearly $50.00 on non-grocery items.  Yeesh.

89.6

Will The Flow Slow

Thursday, January 4, 2024

Maybe.  I think the flow of water out of the body is finally slowing down.  Didn't have to get up as many times last night, didn't have to make too many pit stops this morning.  Okay.  I was still blown away this morning by how much more left.  How is it possible to carry that much straight excess water weight?  Amazing.

Anyway, I will say that it is nice to have it gone.  Things are already feeling better with less bloat.  Now, it just needs to STAY gone.  And take some more with it, please.

Last night was a mixed bag - I was super productive, but at a cost of having a hard time getting to sleep.  It doesn't appear that the sleep I got was high quality, either, as I was rather tired this morning.  Did not stay awake when I got up, and I certainly could have slept much longer than I did.

Breakfast:  CF sausage patties (0), 4 oz spicy low sodium V-8 (4), coffee

Once again very tasty.

Lunch:   Soup (10), Bubbies kosher dill pickle (1)

Also again very tasty.  I suspect the coming months are going to feature a LOT of repeats.  It's just so easy to eat the same thing, more or less, every day.

Dinner:  Bunless cheeseburger - 1/2 lb grassfed ground beef (0), spices (3), cojack cheese (2), mustard (0), green chiles (2).  12 oz Miller Lite (3), 100g Meijer plain whole milk greek yogurt (4)

Yum.  A little uncertain as to how many carbs to add for the spices.  This recipe calls for quite a few spices and I know it's not zero.  Some research may be necessary.  But I'm not super worried about too many carbs in spices.

Exercise:  Nope.  I wondered if it might happen this morning, but any hope was dashed by the inability to get to sleep promptly.  Glad that's not often.  Maybe I'll get something in tonight.

Edit:  Again, yes, evening.  More furniture moving.  A good hour's worth of movement.

Day Totals:  $0.00 spent,  29g carbs.  Success.

93.0

Aqua Mannn

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Day Two

My goodness.  My body is not screwing around, as soon as it figured out that piles of carbs were not incoming, WHOOSH.  Let's get rid of that water.  And more.  And more.  Good lord.  I can't say that getting up every two hours was enjoyable, but shaking my head in disbelief at the scale this morning made it worth it.  I'd have to check but there is a darned good chance that I haven't dumped more water than that in a single day ever.

And it has continued this morning.  I should count the number of bathroom trips (but no, I'm not going to).  Water, water everywhere, just keep on leaving.

Yesterday went fine.  I was never annoyingly hungry, could have been more productive but wasn't awful, did a couple things around the house and went to bed at a decent hour.  I even had a bit of pep coming home but I think that was mostly an urgent desire to get inside where it was warm.

Breakfast:  CF sausage patties (0), 4 oz spicy low sodium V-8 (4), coffee

Solid.  I really like the CF sausage.

Lunch:  Soup (10), Bubbies kosher dill pickle (1)

Also solid.  A good batch of soup.

Dinner:  Same scramble as yesterday, a bit less ham, more jack cheese (8), 12 oz Miller Lite (3), 100g plain Meijer whole milk greek yogurt (4)

Again really tasty.  Bumped up the carb count 1 for the bit of extra cheese.  I am now out of ham.  May need to give CF ham another go, I was ambivalent toward it the last time I had it but that was years ago. 

Had a couple extra carbs in the budget so I had yogurt for dessert.  Done eating by 7:00.

Exercise:  Nope.  I did wake up at 5:30 and didn't feel horrible but decided not to push it.  Got in a little extra snoozing.  I am hopeful that by the end of the week mornings will be more steady.  I am happy about the progress toward fixing the schedule.

Edit:  YES.  After I hit publish I went back to my reorganization project and got a little carried away.  Ended up with more than an hour of furniture moving.  Lots of contortioning, lifting, all the good stuff.  I am absolutely counting it.

Day totals:  $0.00 spent, 30g carbs.  Success.

99.0

Smaller Bowl Smaller Me

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Day One

And away we go.  Not necessarily the ideal start -- I got sucked into the college football playoff games and stayed up way, way too late.  Thank you very little NCAA for the late night.  Fell asleep in the recliner before the second game was even over.

But, anyway, I survived on not enough sleep.  So far anyway.  Hoping that tonight I can work on the shift toward a more ideal schedule, since I need that in order to hit my exercise and other goals.

Although I'm sure it was not a good thing for my numbers I am glad that I cleaned up and got rid of all the miscellaneous junk food, it has made not eating that stuff easy so far.  Now, to just not buy any more!  Had an appalingly high scale number as a direct result -- if there were ever a contest that involved gaining weight rapidly I'd be a top seed -- but I think a decent amount of it is just water and should go relatively quickly.  

Speaking of which, let's GO.

Breakfast:  4 strips Frederik's by Meijer center cut bacon (0), 4 oz spicy low sodium V-8 (4), coffee (0)

Last of the store bacon.  Need to cook up some CF sausage tonight.

Lunch:  Soup (10), Bubbies kosher dill pickle (1)

Excellent soup.  I totalled up the carbs per batch the other day, so I should be accurate (or at least very close).  No idea how they get away with saying 0 calories and 0 carbs per half pickle, so I'll bump it up to at least 1.

Dinner:  3 CF eggs scrambled (2) with jack cheese (0), hatch chiles (1), leftover spiral ham (2) and guac (2), 12 oz Miller Lite (3), 2 CF sausage patties (0)

Scramble turned out really good.  Will be repeated tomorrow with the rest of the leftover ham.

Cooked up the sausage and had a couple to bump up the protein total.  A bit late to be eating, but should digest well and it's not anything huge.

Exercise:  Nope.  Short on sleep.  Didn't feel great this morning, but if I'd had a couple more hours I would have liked my chances of kicking myself out the door.  Not going to stress yet, I'm expecting an adjustment period (while hoping to avoid a major case of the keto flu).

Day totals:  $0.00 spent, 25g carb.  Success.

106.8

Zeroing Out For The New Year

Monday, January 1, 2024
Day Zero

Here we go, happy New Year.  I have said for years -- and still stick to it -- that New Year's Day is not the day to start on resolutions.  For me, staying up late means I'm not going to get up early, at least not without suffering (and I'm not big on suffering), plus we have a family meal that isn't exactly diet-friendly.  So all things start no earlier than January 2.

I took the time yesterday to write out my goals for 2024 and I have to say they are pretty audacious.  I have little doubt that I will not accomplish them all -- there are not enough hours in the day -- but if I can make major progress on weight, eating and exercise habits, sleep and consistency I will be thrilled.  Maybe I should organize them by tiers -- it's less important, for example, that I do some of my decluttering and home improvement projects.

Anyway, 2023 kinda sucked.  Significant surgery and recovery from that, gained more than fifty pounds (most of that in the last three months), not much progress personally or professisonally.  Let's do better.

Breakfast:  Leftover buttermilk pancakes w butter and maple syrup, 3 strips bacon, spicy low sodium V-8, coffee, banana

Cleanup.  Another FAT stack.  I still have bacon left for tomorrow -- it's store bacon, not CF, left over from holiday cooking.  Since I'll be eating conventional ham tonight and probably tomorrow I'm not going to sweat it.  Obviously.

Lunch:  5 Guys little cheeseburger all the way plus jala, little fries w ketchup ($15.56 + $1.00)

Tasty as it is every year.  Also didn't feel like as much of a terrible value, seems like their prices haven't gone up as much as some places.

Also:  I'm glad I don't feel the need to track any macros today.  Lots of ingredients in that burger!

Snack:  Avo oil maiz tortilla chips, guacamole, mexican coke

I do like the Maiz chips, nice clean taste.  But alas, carbs.  Also, I have to admit I have enjoyed the mexican cokes.  I'll be completely fine giving them up -- being mostly off soda for years now -- but it's been a treat.  Done.

Dinner:  Ham, scalloped potatoes, corn, rolls w butter, 12 oz Miller Lite, pecan pie w vanilla ice cream

And a few cheezits to top it off.  Jeez I'm fat.

Exercise:  Nope.  Slept in until just after 8:00, didn't really get moving until well after 9:00.  Just poky so far today.

$16.56

104.2

Bring It Home To A Close

Sunday, December 31, 2023

TGIS.  No not that one, the other one.  And I'm super glad that tomorrow is a holiday.  It's almost noon and I'm finally about to kick myself out the door.  I have a bunch of work stuff I'd like finish at a reasonable hour, since I want no part whatsoever of being out and about tonight.  It's amateur night.

A stray thought I had this morning - I am optimistic about beaujolais being a wine I can drink without the nasty side effects (aka leg cramps) I have had in the past.  Had some at Thanksgiving and two consecutive nights at Christmas without issue, though of course there was also a metric ton of food involved which could have possibly covered up any issues.  I guess we will see in the new year, I bought another bottle and will crack it once I am out of Lite beers.

Otherwise, it was a fairly unpleasant start to the day.  Woke up at 2:45 to get rid of some water, did go back to sleep quickly (moved to recliner) and did not fully wake again until 8:00.  Despite the eight hours plus I felt like ass.  When I finally got around to checking it's another morning of high BP, lowish pulse, though that only explains some things.  I'm also apparently deathly allergic to something environmental.  Maybe all the dust I stirred up yesterday.

Breakfast:  Buttermilk pancakes with butter and maple syrup, bacon, spicy low sodium V-8, coffee

A monster stack of cakes and I have one just like it for tomorrow.  And I want to figure out if there is anything I should do with the last 2C of buttermilk I have left.  The cakes were above average, nice and fluffy.

Lunch:    Jersey Mike's #56, later chips and onion dip, mexican coke

Very tasty.

Dinner:  Pepperoni bacon pizza, mexican coke, York peppermint patty

Elite pizza.

Going to open a bottle of cava that's been in the fridge for a looong time.  TBD if it's drinkable.

Edit:  It was.  Nice.  Also had some Cheezits.

Exercise:  Nope.   It would have been a huge struggle this morning even if I had been awake given how lousy I felt.

101.6

Stupid Traditional Meals And Stuff

Saturday, December 30, 2023

TGIS.  Or maybe, as I first typed, TIGS.  Go tigs.

Not the most restful night.  Sinuses are being cranky, ate too much and too late again, just all around not good.   But I am enjoying mapping some things out for the new year and I am ready to go.  Almost.  I know I will be annoyed with myself -- heck, I already am -- for not stopping the slide earlier, but so it goes.  I have a couple more 'traditional' meals to get out of my system.

Breakfast:   Lazy bagels w veggie cream cheese, coffee

Good as always, not good for me or for satiety, as always.  Done.  Also feeling accomplished since I managed to clean out the spice/baking cupboard and the fridge while they were baking.

Lunch:   Italian beef, fries w ketchup, later some Cheez Its

These fries do not need ketchup.  They got some, tho.  

Dinner:  Deluxe pizza, 355ml mexican coke

Not their finest but still tasty.  Check another one off.

Exercise:  Nope.  Active day but no trip to the Y.  Looking forward to changing that too.

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Coffee Nap Required

Friday, December 29, 2023

TGIF, the last one of '23.  Yay.

Not much to observe today.  Woke up at, ugh, 3:00.  Got back to sleep about 4:30 - after a cup of coffee.  Let's hear it for coffee naps.  Feel decent, just sluggish due to fatness.  Speaking of which, saw myself on video and yikes.  It's bad.

Breakfast:  Panera asiago bagels and cream cheese, coffee

Yeah.

Lunch:  Popeye's spicy chicken, Wendy's JBC, fries and ketchup

Yuh.  You know, I observed that I'm really getting enthusiastic about doing some home cooking.

Dinner:  Soup, cheese toast, Meijer spicy guac tortilla chips, caramel peanut clusters

Cleaned up some stuff that was in the fridge.

Exercise:  Nope.

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