Day Ten

No pithy comments this time around just cold hard facts.  I won't always have something interesting to say, it will just be a list of food from the day and that is what we get this time:

Breakfast:  egg sandwich w/banana and 20oz of cold water.
Snack: yogurt w/almonds
Lunch: whole wheat pasta/homemade pasta sauce w/veggie meat and the last of the roasted veggies (they were much better disguised mixed in with the pasta)
No afternoon snack
Dinner:  Pear mixed with cottage cheese and mango/peach salsa followed by a salmon burger on a thin bun w/avocado.

I went to the gym after work and did two lower body weighted exercises and then did 12min on the treadmill followed by 24min on the recumbent bike.  So there we go short and to the point.  Come back again for more exciting stuff about losing weight and eating food.

Day nine

So here we are again.  Not much to say other than another not bad day in battle against overeating.  Ok that sounds pretentious and I'm sorry.  I was thinking earlier about how food can rule our lives.  When I eat something that tastes really good, I want to continue to eat it even if that means I eat until I, well not feel sick but feel wrong.  Does that make any kind of sense?  Eating can be addictive or at least the feeling of satisfaction that comes from experiencing the food in your mouth can be addictive.  Not sure if I'm explaining myself properly.  You want to keep that mental state that comes from a really good hamburger or an awesome pasta dish.  So we continue to stuff our face's until it's too late and we've eaten more food than we normally would have eaten in a week.  Don't laugh you know what I'm saying.  The trick is to realize what is going on before you over do it, but easier said than done.  If you know how to pull that off please let me know and together we'll become rich beyond our dreams.  Speaking of dreams and food, I'm reminded of my childhood and the prediction of the future concerning food.  They portrayed food as a pill and so if you wanted a cheeseburger it would be a pill.  Now my thought is great, except I'd be taking all the pills at once and end up being overweight and when asked saying "but I just eat the hamburger pill like they said".  Alright enough of this on to the food list for today:

Breakfast: see any weekday breakfast and it will be the same thing.  Don't plan on changing any time soon.  I enjoy it too much.
Snack: also same but it can change occasionally so for the record, yogurt and almonds.  Thank goodness no donuts today.
Lunch:  Today I took a serving (my size serving) of the homemade pasta sauce and spaghetti and mixed it with some mini peppers( didn't think I'd forgotten had you) and cauliflower.  Actually quite good and much better than the wrap I had planned on eating all week.
No afternoon snack as I haven't figured that one out yet, like I have the morning snack.
Dinner: Well I passed up a free dinner ( not sure where but it was free) to go to the gym.  I had an idea for dinner but ran into L and she shook that idea right out of my head.  Ended up eating a large salad of romaine lettuce mixed with mini peppers (ha) and cauliflower along with some leftover chicken from lunch, cottage cheese and low cal dressing.  Quite enjoyable.  Oh yeah had the last serving of the Refuel drink, chocolaty.

So as I said, I went to the gym.  I did some incline bench press and regular flat bench press and then headed to the treadmill.  I did 20 minutes at a brisk pace and then did 12 min on the recumbent bike doing intervals on the hills.  Ok done and out.  Tomorrow is another day and I am ready to giterdone.

day nine

So today wasn't bad.  I feel like my clothes are fitting better than they did a month ago when they were tight due to the holidays.  Lunch was better tasting today as I incorporated mini peppers along with the other parts of the wrap I had made at lunch.  I think my mistake this time was that I overcooked the veggies.  I will keep that in mind next time.  The mini peppers gave it some crunch and flavor.  I probably need to experiment with seasonings for the chicken also.  Spice Hut here I come!!


I went to a friend's after work and didn't work out.  I felt like I did fairly well eating but of course I could have done better.  Not going to get down on my self as that's counter productive, I'm just going to continue down the path I've set for myself.  Alright here's the menu for the day:


Breakfast: Same as yesterday which was the same as the day before that.  Egg sandwich with roast beef, tomato, and avocado on a thin bun. A banana and 20oz of cold water.
Snack: Yogurt w/almonds
Lunch: Chicken wrap with roasted brussel sprouts and asparagus.  Added mini peppers today, along with spinach and a squirt of ketchup.  Better tasting than yesterday but still not very satisfying as a whole.
No afternoon snack
Dinner: Alright for dinner there was a black bean/rice mix with chicken and sausage.  I brought two heads of romaine lettuce and some mini peppers ( yes there is theme for the peppers today).  I ended up eating two servings of both black bean/rice mix and salad.  First serving was 8"bowl of salad with bean/rice mix on top of romaine and dressing and cheese (Parmesan).  Second serving was same bowl size but smaller portion of bean/rice mixture but everything else was the same.  All in all I think I did very well this time as there was more than enough food to have at least thirds and a full bowl at that.  Granted the rice and bean mix along with the sausage probably not the best thing to be eating but at least I didn't do what I've been known to do and eat until my stomach hurt.  Which I could have done as that meal is a favorite of mine.

So there we are my food list for the day.....wait I conveniently forgot one small addition.  Someone brought donuts and left them in the lunch room today.  On my break there they were and I had planned on eating my yogurt and almonds as usual.  There were people in the lunch room and so I bravely declared that I was not going to be tempted.  Ha as soon as I was done with my yogurt and I was alone with the box of donut's, I decided that I would have just a piece not a whole donut.  So I did tear off a chunk and eat it and then another piece and then another small piece.  In total probably about a 2"x2" chunk.  Not bad considering but still a bit disappointing.  Especially since the donuts were still there at lunch time (about an hour later) and I had another small chunk.  Oh well I tried and frankly I didn't eat a whole donut so I'm ok just wishing I could have avoided the situation entirely.  Once again food for thought (ouch a food reference to remind me of food).

day eight

Well the beginning of the second week of food blogging.  So today was typical in the sense that breakfast was the same as every week day and lunch was just ok, so will need to spice it up a bit for the rest of the week.  I went to the gym after work and did cardio.  I did 5 min on the stair climber (set the timer for 15 min) and had to stop and move to another machine as that stair climber was killing me.  I was sweating like a fat man in a sauna.  Sorry couldn't help that one ;).  I moved to the treadmill for 20 min at an accelerated pace with hills.  During the work week I feel that I can only do about 45 min total at the gym which includes warm up and after work out stretching.  I still need to get home and eat at a normal time.  I go to bed @10pm so that doesn't leave a lot of time to do stuff.  I got to stay focused on the prize.  Alright here's food for Monday Jan 30th:

Breakfast: egg/thin bun/roast beef/avocado/tomato/mustard/banana and 20 oz of cold water

Snack: Greek yogurt/almonds

Lunch: Chicken wrap with roasted brussel sprouts/asparagus/ketchup

No afternoon snack

Dinner: Spaghetti  home made sauce with veggie meat and wheat pasta and a salmon patty from Trader Joe's.  The amount of spaghetti was about what you could hold in your hands cupped together (no I didn't measure it that way.  It's just a guesstimate.  I didn't go back for seconds as I was satisfied with the first go around.  I also had an after work out drink called Refuel.  Two servings in a container so only drank half of it.  It's 180 cal plus protein and other stuff that's supposed to be good for you after a workout.

So Tuesday is my other get together with friends where it's a minefield for those of us trying to be good and not eat all nite.  I think I will try to take a couple heads of romaine lettuce to make salad.  That way there is something other than just eating pizza or chili or something similar which is probably what will be available for dinner.  I also picked up some mini peppers so will try to incorporate those into my lunch wrap.  That might spruce up the wrap a bit.  Alright stay tuned and come back Weds to see how Tues went.

Sunday day seven

Just a quick list of food from today:
Breakfast: oatmeal w/cottage cheese and tablespoon of honey
no snack
Lunch: Frittata-two eggs w/another egg sans yoke, mini peppers and some tomato.  A couple of spoonfuls of cottage cheese and mango-peach salsa.
Dinner: Big ass salad w/cauliflower mini peppers and 8 breaded shrimps from Trader Joe's  with cottage cheese and dressing.  After dinner 1 piece of candy, chocolate covered fig(fancy).

I spent the afternoon on the coming week menu for dinner and lunches so that was fun.  More chicken wraps and roasted veggies for lunch.  Home made spaghetti sauce w/veggie meat and wheat pasta mixed up with asparagus.  Actually can't wait to eat dinner this week.

No work out today just grocery shopping at Costco and Trader Joe's.  Also washed clothes and cleaned up the kitchen, including loading the dishwasher.

I feel pretty good from the Sat work out.  Only really feel it in my butt.  ;)

Saturday day six

Well here's the word on my first Saturday in the new regime.  Not great but still not as bad as it has been, at least I feel like I did better than I have in the past.  I did my Sat personal trainer work out and she worked me good so we'll see how I feel on Sunday.  As I said in the previous post Saturday's are trouble as I get together with a group of friends and it's grazing at the food trough for 3-4 hours.  Tonite it was burgers, chips and M&M's.  So with no apologizes here's my Saturday food log:

Breakfast: on Sat I change it up and have been eating a bowl of oatmeal that consists of oatmeal and a tablespoon or two of honey.  Today I tried something a bit different in my oatmeal, cottage cheese.  I read where it adds some protein and creaminess.  So I tried it and I like it so that will be an addition.  And my 20oz of cold water.

An hour of concentrated work with L my personal trainer.  We did a bunch of step ups followed by upper body w/weights and then lunges followed by squats across the floor among other types of workout torture.  I love it!

I had a Gatorade drink that I read about to try but won't be continuing to buy it as it wasn't the best tasting and water is free.

After the workout I went for my after work out meal: Down the street from the gym is a small Mexican lunch counter type place.  Basically like a taco truck but inside.  I had three soft tacos with Asada (beef) and water.  Very good and pretty much just meat, chopped onions and cilantro.  So that was essentially lunch, oh I almost forgot.  They gave me chips and salsa also.  I tried not to eat to many chips but no luck.  I didn't eat every one though but almost.  Next time I will get it to go and so avoid the chip trap.

Snack: about three hours later I had a Greek yogurt.

Dinner: Ok here we go.  When I got to my friends house they had the Foreman grille's out and the offerings were beef burgers or turkey burgers.  I had picked up some coleslaw at Hagens along with some baked chips.  Others had picked up some bags of chips also.  So I had two burgers, one with a jalapeno beef burger and a turkey burger, both burgers had a mustard condiment with cheese, avocado, and tomato.  I also had some coleslaw and chips.  I ended up having more chips and more chips.  It's to hard to quantify the amount of chips, so let's just say I had more than I should have but that's the way it goes.  Especially in that type of environment  Then the M&M's came out, two big bowls, so no limit to how many you could have.  I remember reading an article where they gauged how many of a type of candy equaled 100 calories and if I remember right M&M's were about 20-25.  Well I figure I hit the 2-300 mark.  Not proud of that, just trying to keep it honest.  Then I found the Rice Crispy treats and had one of those.  I was finally done for the evening.
I believe in cheat meals so that was my cheat meal.  Which means that I have to be good the rest of the weekend and get in the work outs the rest of the week.  I've been skipping Thursday's and Fridays,but I have stuff on Friday.So it looks like Thursday needs to be added into the work out schedule on my part.

So there you go, my Saturday meal log.  Nothing to write home about and I'm sure L will have something to say (maybe not but....).  I'm committed to making this work worth it so will have to get a bit more serious about this food thing.  I know that I can eat what I like, I just have to adjust how much I eat and make sure I'm getting exercise every day or close to it.

Day five

So after five days I've lost three pounds(255) and my clothes continue to fit better.  I was at three belt loops and had gone done to two and am still there comfortably so expect to get back to three soon.  I didn't work out on Friday other than my morning routine which really isn't a work out, more of a way to get my metabolism going after 8 hours of sleep.  It's mainly body movements with a set of push-up/squats that I do.  Which I do M-W-F with Tues/Thurs same body movements but instead of the push-up/squat I do a superman.  The superman is laying on your stomach and lifting alternate leg and arm for 5-10sec.  I do three sets of 8-10.  The push-up/squat consists of a pyramid type of work out that goes 5 push-ups/1 squat, 4 push-ups/2 squat and so on until you've reached 1 push-up/5 squats.  This a variation of the original which starts with 10 push-ups/1 squat and so on, until you reach 1 push-up/10 squats.  I have run this as starting with the ten push-ups and by the time I finished I was doing the push-ups on my knees.  It's a killer.  It's called the 55 workout because when you've finished you've done 55 of each exercise.  Ok on to the food for Friday:

Breakfast: the same as everyday for breakfast.  Some might think I'd get bored with the same thing everyday but I like eggs and I change the meat from roast beef to turkey or sometimes Canadian bacon and that seems to help change it up.
Snack: Greek yogurt and almonds this is also the same almost everyday it's only different if I forget the almonds and occasionally the yogurt.  Of course the flavor of yogurt does change everyday.
Lunch: So this week I went with Subway.  I had a 6" roast beef on 9 grain wheat with all the veggies including avocado and no cheese.  I drank water and didn't have chips.  So I avoided the "make it a meal for just a dollar or three more" pitch.  Oh yeah not that it's a work out but I do have to walk about two blocks to get to the Subway.  So total of 4 blocks to get my sandwich.
Snack: I skipped the afternoon snack as I wasn't working out after work and my dinner was planned but I wasn't sure if I would stick to it.
Dinner: I had purchased an oven baked chicken breast from the store and shredded that into a spinach salad with a small yellow zucchini, tomato, carrot chips, and a couple of scoops of cottage cheese.  The dressing I used was store bought, olive oil vinaigrette Tropical Mango(30cal/10g fat/5g carb/4g sugar) good taste and I didn't use a lot but probably more than a serving.
Late night snack: Yes I did have a bowl of 100cal popcorn around 9pm (didn't go to bed until 11ish)

So that's my first week day effort.  The weekend is always different as Saturday I meet with L and have an awesome hour workout and then later that night I generally get together with a group of friends that can turn into a nightmare in the sense that we plan a food smorgasbord and it goes all night.  When I was going to the nutritionist we talked about trying to just consider it a meal and not graze all night.  HAHA right that will work when everyone around you is eating and eating.  So this Sat will be the first meeting of the new year and I will be honest and record it in all it's glory.  I doubt it will be pretty.