Damn, more cookies. See day 153. I didn't go to the gym today as I went to the chiropractor. I ended up getting a fish sandwich with fries for dinner, instead of my normal salad. I didn't feel like eating lunch today as I felt a bit off when lunch rolled around. I had my normal breakfast, egg sandwich, banana, and the 20oz of cold water like I have every week day morning. I also had the greek yogurt w/almonds for my first snack and a peanut butter cookie Larabar for second snack. Pretty much an off day for me.
L is camping this weekend so I'm on my own for a Sat workout. I'm hoping I'll be able to get in one of my long bike rides. Sat will also be a BBQ and a DnD get together. Both of these are separate from each other. Could be trouble on the food front. I'll try to be good though.
Next week will be an off week as I have the gaming convention Thurs-Sunday and we'll be roughing it at a hotel. Lot's of bad choices will be available to tempt me and I know I will give in. So the rest of July will have to be tough love.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Day 153
Another day of not much to say. It's the middle of the week and it's just a normal day. The belt loop gauge is holding at 4 so that's good. Here's why:
Breakfast: Egg sandwich with turkey, tomato, avocado, on a skinny bun. Banana and 20oz of cold water.
Snack: Greek yogurt and almonds.
Lunch: Spinach salad with cauliflower, tomato, quinoa, red pepper, and chicken/Mahi Mahi mix. Had it with salsa.
Snack: See below
Dinner: Greek mini pizza from TJ's with salmon patty and cottage cheese. Also a big bag of popcorn a bit later as a snack.
So today they brought in the cookies. Yes our bosses bought a bunch of cookies and I mean a bunch. So as we know I luv cookies and by the time it was done I probably had at least a half dozen cookies. Not all at once but still a lot of cookies. Frankly couldn't stop.
After work went to the gym ( had to offset those cookies some how) and did the cardio. Wasn't feeling the weights so figured the cardio was a good substitute.
Breakfast: Egg sandwich with turkey, tomato, avocado, on a skinny bun. Banana and 20oz of cold water.
Snack: Greek yogurt and almonds.
Lunch: Spinach salad with cauliflower, tomato, quinoa, red pepper, and chicken/Mahi Mahi mix. Had it with salsa.
Snack: See below
Dinner: Greek mini pizza from TJ's with salmon patty and cottage cheese. Also a big bag of popcorn a bit later as a snack.
So today they brought in the cookies. Yes our bosses bought a bunch of cookies and I mean a bunch. So as we know I luv cookies and by the time it was done I probably had at least a half dozen cookies. Not all at once but still a lot of cookies. Frankly couldn't stop.
After work went to the gym ( had to offset those cookies some how) and did the cardio. Wasn't feeling the weights so figured the cardio was a good substitute.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Day 152
Here we are again. This is becoming a habit and a good habit at that. Nothing really note worthy to chat about so, here's a list of food that entered my universe:
Breakfast: Egg sandwich with turkey, tomato, and avocado on a skinny bun. A banana and 20oz of cold water.
Snack: Greek yogurt w/almonds
Lunch: Spinach salad with cauliflower, quinoa, tomato, red pepper, and diced chicken breast and Mahi Mahi with some dressing.
Snack: Slice of whole wheat bread and peanut butter along with a small serving of potato salad
Dinner: Two mini greek pizza's from TJ's with a salmon patty split between the two and cottage cheese. Also a serving of quinoa with a couple of spoonfuls of cottage cheese. Had four pieces of fruit chewy candy. And two slices of turkey plain.
The gym was it's usual fun place. I did my cardio and thought about tomorrow's weight workout. I'm thinking I will try to do the one L wrote up for me last Saturday. Should be a good workout.
Breakfast: Egg sandwich with turkey, tomato, and avocado on a skinny bun. A banana and 20oz of cold water.
Snack: Greek yogurt w/almonds
Lunch: Spinach salad with cauliflower, quinoa, tomato, red pepper, and diced chicken breast and Mahi Mahi with some dressing.
Snack: Slice of whole wheat bread and peanut butter along with a small serving of potato salad
Dinner: Two mini greek pizza's from TJ's with a salmon patty split between the two and cottage cheese. Also a serving of quinoa with a couple of spoonfuls of cottage cheese. Had four pieces of fruit chewy candy. And two slices of turkey plain.
The gym was it's usual fun place. I did my cardio and thought about tomorrow's weight workout. I'm thinking I will try to do the one L wrote up for me last Saturday. Should be a good workout.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Day 151
Just a list to catch up. I went for an hour long bike ride after work. Decided it was nice enough to not go to the gym. Loving the bike rides. Okay here's the plan from today:
Breakfast: Egg sandwich with tomato, avocado, turkey on a skinny bun. Banana and 20oz of cold water.
Snack: Greek yogurt w/almonds
Lunch: Spinach salad with cauliflower, a baked chicken breast/Mahi Mahi mix, quinoa, tomato, and red pepper.
Snack: Hamburger bun with peanut butter
Dinner: Two little Greek pizza's from TJ's with a salmon patty and a small portion of cottage cheese. A handful of baby carrots and a 5.5oz can of low sodium V-8. Oh and some roasted yam slices.
Breakfast: Egg sandwich with tomato, avocado, turkey on a skinny bun. Banana and 20oz of cold water.
Snack: Greek yogurt w/almonds
Lunch: Spinach salad with cauliflower, a baked chicken breast/Mahi Mahi mix, quinoa, tomato, and red pepper.
Snack: Hamburger bun with peanut butter
Dinner: Two little Greek pizza's from TJ's with a salmon patty and a small portion of cottage cheese. A handful of baby carrots and a 5.5oz can of low sodium V-8. Oh and some roasted yam slices.
Day 150
It's day 150 and what a day. It started out normal and then went a bit off the rails. Not in a bad way just a real life way. I had decided to get up at my normal weekend time and have breakfast. I'm going thru my emails and eating my regular weekend breakfast which is the oatmeal and cottage cheese mix with some lemon curd. I'm just finishing my 20oz of cold water, when I see an email from a friend inviting me out to breakfast....First thought is damn can't go, just ate breakfast. Then I realize I haven't hung out for a while so what the heck.
We meet up about an hour later and I figure I will have something lite but there isn't anything lite on the menu (that sounded good). So I go for a breakfast burrito with sour cream and water. The food gets set in front of me and it smells great and looks good too. I dig in and smear the sour cream all over the burrito and dump the salsa on top of that. It's very good and the hash browns are crispy just the way I like them. Yum. So we're talking and eating and I realize I've eaten about half of the meal and damn I feel full. I normally don't recognize the full feeling so I heed the warning and stop eating. I don't feel stuffed, like I normally would, I feel happy. That's a new one, feeling happy that I didn't clean my plate. The waitress brings me a box and I bring it home for later.
I have to say it was one of the best meals I've had in a long time. Just the fact that I could enjoy the food and still stop before I had that bloated feeling was a revelation of sorts. It gets better though. I went grocery shopping for the week and as usual I park far enough away so I have to stretch my legs to shop. After coming home and seeing that the rain from the day before is turning into a nice day with sunshine, I decide to go for a bike ride. Something I haven't done enough of lately. So I do and it's a good ride, about an hour long. I then get to eat the rest of the breakfast burrito along with some cottage cheese and roasted yam.
I was quite lazy the rest of the day. By dinner time I was ready to eat again. I had the Mexican salad from TJ's that is fast becoming my regular Sunday nite dinner. It's quite good especially when I add some cottage cheese and quinoa. I also had a late snack of a small bag of popcorn, lime-n-pepper flavor.
Overall a good day. Good food but not overdoing it and exercise. Excellent combo.
We meet up about an hour later and I figure I will have something lite but there isn't anything lite on the menu (that sounded good). So I go for a breakfast burrito with sour cream and water. The food gets set in front of me and it smells great and looks good too. I dig in and smear the sour cream all over the burrito and dump the salsa on top of that. It's very good and the hash browns are crispy just the way I like them. Yum. So we're talking and eating and I realize I've eaten about half of the meal and damn I feel full. I normally don't recognize the full feeling so I heed the warning and stop eating. I don't feel stuffed, like I normally would, I feel happy. That's a new one, feeling happy that I didn't clean my plate. The waitress brings me a box and I bring it home for later.
I have to say it was one of the best meals I've had in a long time. Just the fact that I could enjoy the food and still stop before I had that bloated feeling was a revelation of sorts. It gets better though. I went grocery shopping for the week and as usual I park far enough away so I have to stretch my legs to shop. After coming home and seeing that the rain from the day before is turning into a nice day with sunshine, I decide to go for a bike ride. Something I haven't done enough of lately. So I do and it's a good ride, about an hour long. I then get to eat the rest of the breakfast burrito along with some cottage cheese and roasted yam.
I was quite lazy the rest of the day. By dinner time I was ready to eat again. I had the Mexican salad from TJ's that is fast becoming my regular Sunday nite dinner. It's quite good especially when I add some cottage cheese and quinoa. I also had a late snack of a small bag of popcorn, lime-n-pepper flavor.
Overall a good day. Good food but not overdoing it and exercise. Excellent combo.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Day 149
242. So there's that number again. Working hard not to be discouraged and with L's help it's okay. We talked again ( becoming a habit that I hope isn't annoying) and she reminded me that if I'm feeling good and my clothes fit better than it's all good. I know I'm going to have to take a break from worrying about it. Due to real life though it will be three weeks before we get together again. In those three weeks there is another game session with my friends and then the following weekend it's a mini vacation. The mini vacation is out of town and I know I'll be eating a lot of junk and going to restaurants. L offered to do a week day after I get off work but I'm looking at this as an experiment. I want to see if I can maintain or maybe lose a pound on my own. I went to the gym this morning at 7am. Wow was that early. I don't do that on a regular basis as it's just too damn early. L needed to meet at that time due to a commitment she had and I figured it would be good for me. It was fine and even gave me an opportunity to get some stuff done that I normally would do on my Sunday. We did another weight training workout and again my arms and possibly my chest will be sore on Sunday. We're starting to combine upper and lower body exercises so I'm getting a lot of choices for later down the road. Okay here's what I did in the food department:
Breakfast: Since I was getting up around 6am and meeting for the workout at 7am, I wasn't sure if my normal breakfast (oatmeal/cottage cheese/lemon curd) would sit well. So I just had a Larabar (peanut butter) and my usual 20oz of cold water.
After workout meal: This is a meal I normally would eat around noon. Today though it was closer to 9am. So I made a frattata with two eggs and an additional egg white, brussel sprouts, spinach, tomato, cottage cheese, and salsa.
Lunch: Today again a bit different time in a way. This was around noon. And I ate at this time as I was hungry. I normally don't feel hungry, at least that I notice like I did this time. So I had a baguette with a chicken patty, tomato, pickle, and almond butter. Had a small bowl of yogurt pretzels.
Dinner: So was at a friends for a game and we ate dinner there. It was a bit of a potluck so I ended up eating a fried chicken thigh and some JoJo's. Also a small portion of Shepard's Pie (hamburger,mashed potatoes, cheese) and some home made Mac-n-Cheese. Also ate a big bunch of yogurt pretzels and had an orange juice and vodka drink.
Looking over the day's food intake it's not as bad as I was thinking. I still could have done a better job in my choices. Once again though I just can't become a food hermit, it's life and you gotta deal.
Breakfast: Since I was getting up around 6am and meeting for the workout at 7am, I wasn't sure if my normal breakfast (oatmeal/cottage cheese/lemon curd) would sit well. So I just had a Larabar (peanut butter) and my usual 20oz of cold water.
After workout meal: This is a meal I normally would eat around noon. Today though it was closer to 9am. So I made a frattata with two eggs and an additional egg white, brussel sprouts, spinach, tomato, cottage cheese, and salsa.
Lunch: Today again a bit different time in a way. This was around noon. And I ate at this time as I was hungry. I normally don't feel hungry, at least that I notice like I did this time. So I had a baguette with a chicken patty, tomato, pickle, and almond butter. Had a small bowl of yogurt pretzels.
Dinner: So was at a friends for a game and we ate dinner there. It was a bit of a potluck so I ended up eating a fried chicken thigh and some JoJo's. Also a small portion of Shepard's Pie (hamburger,mashed potatoes, cheese) and some home made Mac-n-Cheese. Also ate a big bunch of yogurt pretzels and had an orange juice and vodka drink.
Looking over the day's food intake it's not as bad as I was thinking. I still could have done a better job in my choices. Once again though I just can't become a food hermit, it's life and you gotta deal.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Day 148
As it is the day before weigh in I'm always a bit concerned. Have I gained or lost? This morning as I was dressing I found that the belt loop was still at 4. So that's good, right? Not sure what I will have for lunch today as there is still the BBQ stuff from yesterday's potluck. Tomorrows workout with L will be another good one but have to meet her at 7am. Hopefully I will be awake as I exercise.
Breakfast: Egg sandwich with turkey and tomato on a skinny bun with almond butter. 20oz of cold water.
Snack/Lunch/Snack: So still eating stuff from the BBQ potluck that happened the day before. I had potato salads, pasta salads, a hamburger, 7 layer bean dip with a handful of crushed chips( would have had real chips except they were all gone and the dregs of a chip bag was all that was left) and no dessert but ate enough bad stuff I didn't need any dessert. Thank goodness there were no cookies. We know how I feel about cookies.
Dinner: Homemade meatloaf sandwich on a baguette and a Mahi Mahi burger on a skinny bun. A regular size bag of popcorn and an orange juice and vodka drink.
So we'll see how weigh in goes tomorrow.
Breakfast: Egg sandwich with turkey and tomato on a skinny bun with almond butter. 20oz of cold water.
Snack/Lunch/Snack: So still eating stuff from the BBQ potluck that happened the day before. I had potato salads, pasta salads, a hamburger, 7 layer bean dip with a handful of crushed chips( would have had real chips except they were all gone and the dregs of a chip bag was all that was left) and no dessert but ate enough bad stuff I didn't need any dessert. Thank goodness there were no cookies. We know how I feel about cookies.
Dinner: Homemade meatloaf sandwich on a baguette and a Mahi Mahi burger on a skinny bun. A regular size bag of popcorn and an orange juice and vodka drink.
So we'll see how weigh in goes tomorrow.
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