Not bad for a road trip

Yesterday was the VA-St Louis road trip.  I am notoriously bad on road trips - eating food that isn't any good and a lot of it.  This time was one of my best, although not great.

Breakfast:

McD's:  Medium Strawberry Smoothie

50% of a sausage, egg, and cheese muffin

75% of an egg, sausage, and cheese burriot

Morning snacks:

Creme De Menthe Squares (they are so good)

Lunch:

Arby's giant roast beef sandwiche + lots of arby's sause

(note: sandwich is 560 calories... each packet is 15 calories... i probably use 10 packets... overall, not a bad lunch calorie wise)

Snack:

We got taco bell for everyone else and I had a few nachos and a 1/2 a cheese quesadialla

Dinner:

Same arby's meal

Late night snack:

- roast beef (deli)

- 1 chocolate cookie

So - that's a lot of food, but... for me it's a good road trip.  I'm actually more proud of myself than not, which might seem a bit silly.

I'm thinking of giving myself christmas eve and christmas "off" when it comes to food - but i want to be sure to work out for each.

So, yeah, I lost... but it was one of my best losses yet.

Date:	22-Dec
Win:	No
Today's Score	3-4
Overall Record	16-15
Last 7 day Record	5-2
Last 7 day Score	29-20
	22-Dec	21-Dec	20-Dec	19-Dec	18-Dec	17-Dec	16-Dec	Historical
Diary Food	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	52%
No Drinking	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	87%
No food after 9pm	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	68%
7+ hours of sleep	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	35%
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	19%
4+ glasses of water	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	61%
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	19%
Score	3-4	5-2	7-0	1-6	5-2	4-3	4-3

The score is better than the day

The behavior stuff was good today... except eating right and working out.  No working out again.  I need to figure out how to.  Food was bad - went back to the christmas candy.  lots of creme de mente squares.

Otherwise, not too bad.

Breakfast:
Bacon, Egg, Cheese Sandwich

Lunch:
Turkey and roast beef sliders
- 4 total - i cut the bread differently, so there was very little bread this time... still used mayo though and added cheese to some

Dinner:
3/4 serving of shrimp & pasta meal --  like 750 calories

...

So food was good, not great... except the gobs of christmas cookies... and now a 16 hour drive tomorrow... might prove to be pretty bad

Date:	21-Dec
Win:	Yes
Today's Score	5-2
Overall Record	16-14
Last 7 day Record	6-1
Last 7 day Score	30-19
	21-Dec	20-Dec	19-Dec	18-Dec	17-Dec	16-Dec	15-Dec	Historical
Diary Food	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	50%
No Drinking	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	87%
No food after 9pm	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	70%
7+ hours of sleep	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	37%
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	20%
4+ glasses of water	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	60%
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	20%
Score	5-2	7-0	1-6	5-2	4-3	4-3	4-3

My first 7-0

After a string of bad days, I've rebounded and have a 7-0 --- my first perfect score!  (assuming I can avoid eating and drinking before I go to sleep)

Breakfast:
- Bowl of crispix

Lunch:
- deli meat "sliders" (made on small pieces of french bread)
3 roast beef - a mayo, a horseradish, and a mustard one
1 turkey - mayo

Dinner:
Panera salad
Small piece of french bread

Date:	20-Dec
Win:	Yes
Today's Score	7-0
Overall Record	15-14
Last 7 day Record	5-2
Last 7 day Score	28-21
	20-Dec	19-Dec	18-Dec	17-Dec	16-Dec	15-Dec	14-Dec	Historical
Diary Food	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	48%
No Drinking	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	86%
No food after 9pm	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	69%
7+ hours of sleep	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	34%
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	21%
4+ glasses of water	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	59%
Workout for at least 30 minutes	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	21%
Score	7-0	1-6	5-2	4-3	4-3	4-3	3-4

A bad streak

Travel is always rough for me.

On Thursday & Friday I traveled.  I did ok with Thursday compared to what i normally do.

Breakfast:

Egg & Cheese Bagel (i did no meat intentionally, but the bagel was a massive bagel and 2 eggs came on it... i really should have only had half or something)

Lunch:
- I was in a meeting and lunch came in bags
I had half a buffalo chicken wrap
but..
a bag of doritos
and 4 cookies (only 2 came in my bag, but i took another 2 that were left over)

Dinner:
- Small cup of french onion soup
- Large ceasar salad with extra dressing and salmon

... for dinner, i should have just had the salad.  Going back, I should have done no cookies, no doritos (or maybe went and got a salad, even though they had a lunch there).  dinner: no soup and no extra dressing

I guess the good news is that I didn't drink and everyone else was.


Friday:

Well, Friday was OK... except....

Breakfast:  I had a breakfast burrito from DQ.  It had egg (maybe 2 eggs worth?), cheese, and bacon.  I also had OJ. I was debating just having a juice, i probably should have done that

Lunch:
Standard panera salad that i like (mediterranian), but had 2 piece of bread with it

Dinner:
A reasonable portion of speedie's chicken... which is a great dinner.

UP UNTIL THIS POINT, I was good.  If I finished the day then, I would have felt good about myself.  BUT I fucked up.  Royally.

There was a great weakness of mine: creme de menthe squares.  I probably had 10.  Which is like eating a stick of butter, with a bowl of sugar, and a bowl of chocolate - with a shot of alcohol.

....

Saturday:
Breakfast:
- Crispix, normal size bowl and no OJ -- good start, right?

Lunch:
- I had this at 3-4 in the afternoon and was starting.  Had a wendy's spicy crispy chicken (which isn't bad on it's own) and then some fries (ok, that's ok).

At this point, i was doing OK... but...

then I came home AND ATE A BUNCH OF THOSE STUPID SQUARES

A LOT of them.  I don't know what's wrong with me.

Dinner:
- I had a few chicken nuggets and pieces of cheese
- but also had 2 glasses of red wine (all at our neighbor's party)

We then went to see star wars...
- I had nachos and popcorn.  A little bit of nachos and a lot of popcorn

Honestly, I'd be ok with the popcorn consumption.  I wanted loaded nachos, but only got cheese nachos.  I guess that's better?  I wish I just skipped them, wasn't worth the calories

After the movie, we came home, had leftover speedies chicken and then more of the FUCKING SQUARES.

Saturday was a huge ZERO for me.  I'm going to get a point for documenting food.  But i don't deserve that.  What a horrible string of days.  

I'm really hoping I can make today my perfect day.  I've started ok with a crispix and a small OJ for breakfast.

I have a panera salad i can have for lunch.  I am playing basketball tonight.  So I have a lot of stuff lined up.  I slept 6 hrs 56 minutes - which i'll count as 7 hours.  I just need to NOT EAT THE SQUARES.

I really fell apart the last few days.  I'd completely my fault.  Tricia tried to help me and I didn't let her.  I need to do better.

Date:	19-Dec
Win:	No
Today's Score	1-6
Overall Record	14-14
Last 7 day Record	5-2
Last 7 day Score	26-23
	19-Dec	18-Dec	17-Dec	16-Dec	15-Dec	14-Dec	13-Dec
Diary Food	1	1	1	0	1	0	1
No Drinking	0	1	1	1	1	1	1
No food after 9pm	0	1	1	1	1	0	1
7+ hours of sleep	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
4+ glasses of water	0	1	1	1	0	1	1
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Score	1-6	5-2	4-3	4-3	4-3	3-4	5-2

A decent rebound

Yesterday, i went off the wagon so to say.  A massive taco bell lunch and waaay more hershey's chocolate than anyone should eat in a week, but just in one day.

Today, I'm back to a good day...

Breakfast:
Fresh squeezed OJ
Starbucks  breakfast sandwich

Lunch
Protein Bar Buffalo Chicken Salad + small chicken chili

Dinner
2/3 package of bowtie pasta and vodka sause
+ a little bit of hummus and chex mix (don't knock it until you try it)

...

So, not a great day, but not a bad day.

Date:	15-Dec
Win:	Yes
Today's Score	4-3
Overall Record	11-13
Last 7 day Record	6-1
Last 7 day Score	32-17
	15-Dec	14-Dec	13-Dec	12-Dec	11-Dec	10-Dec	9-Dec
Diary Food	1	0	1	1	1	1	1
No Drinking	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
No food after 9pm	1	0	1	1	1	1	0
7+ hours of sleep	0	1	0	0	1	1	1
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	1	0	0	1	1	0	0
4+ glasses of water	0	1	1	1	1	1	1
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Score	4-3	3-4	5-2	5-2	6-1	5-2	4-3

A good day

Didn't get enough sleep today and ate some sweets, but did ok otherwise.

Breakfast:
At late, -
Bacon (3 slices)
Egg
One slice of cheese
Whole grain english muffin

Lunch:
Taco -
Ground beef
Salsa
Lettuce
Corn
-- a pretty decent sized serving

Snack:
Hershey's kisses (maybe 6 of them?)
A little bit of hummus
A little bit of cheese nips

Dinner:
Famous Hummus, Peppers, Egg, and Lettuce salad

It is really yummy, but i need to explore other recipes.

I think that's all I ate.  I thought my snack was bigger than that though - i was feeling really bad about it at the time.

I did get to play basketball today, so that was good though.

5-2 overall.  Still 6-1 over last 7

Date:	13-Dec
Win:	Yes
Today's Score	5-2
Overall Record	10-12
Last 7 day Record	6-1
Last 7 day Score	34-15
	13-Dec	12-Dec	11-Dec	10-Dec	9-Dec	8-Dec	7-Dec
Diary Food	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
No Drinking	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
No food after 9pm	1	1	1	1	0	1	1
7+ hours of sleep	0	0	1	1	1	1	0
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	0	1	1	0	0	1	0
4+ glasses of water	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Workout for at least 30 minutes	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Score	5-2	5-2	6-1	5-2	4-3	6-1	3-4

I pulled it off

Resisted temptation yesterday.  Finished 5-2 for the day, which is 6-1 over the last 7 days.

I also weighed myself this AM and came in at 277.  Which is the lowest I've been in awhile...

Maybe it's working...

Date:	12-Dec
Win:	Yes
Today's Score	5-2
Overall Record	9-12
Last 7 day Record	6-1
Last 7 day Score	34-15
	12-Dec	11-Dec	10-Dec	9-Dec	8-Dec	7-Dec	6-Dec
Diary Food	1	1	1	1	1	0	0
No Drinking	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
No food after 9pm	1	1	1	0	1	1	1
7+ hours of sleep	0	1	1	1	1	0	1
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	1	1	0	0	1	0	0
4+ glasses of water	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Score	5-2	6-1	5-2	4-3	6-1	3-4	5-2

Borderline

I don't know if i'll make it through the rest of the night.

It's 9:30 as i write this section:

Breakfast
Crispix + milk (normal portion) + a little OJ

Lunch:
Panera regular size salad (mediterranian chicken) - no bread

Dinner:
Very little pizza (1/2 slice of thin crust)
Chick Parm & Penne (from a bag mix - ~600 calories)

All I want to do now is eat and/or have a few drinks.  Just a long week and a long day.  Lots of stress... would be nice to wind down

Making this quick

Probably my best eating day in awhile:

Breakfast:
Oat squares + milk  (probably 2 servings)
A little OJ

Lunch:
The hummus+peppers+lettuce thing - maybe 1.5 servings

Dinner:
Panera Mediterranean chicken salad -- but extra dressing and at 2 pieces of bread

But this has to be my lowest calorie day in awhile, even though my portions were maybe a bit big.  I feel like i'm making progress in turning it around

Although, I really wanted to work out and I didn't make the time.  I need to get better.

But now 6-1 in the last 7 days.

Date:	11-Dec
Win:	Yes
Today's Score	6-1
Overall Record	8-12
Last 7 day Record	6-1
Last 7 day Score	33-16
	11-Dec	10-Dec	9-Dec	8-Dec	7-Dec	6-Dec	5-Dec	Historical
Diary Food	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	35%
No Drinking	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	85%
No food after 9pm	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	65%
7+ hours of sleep	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	35%
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	10%
4+ glasses of water	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	50%
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	20%
Score	6-1	5-2	4-3	6-1	3-4	5-2	4-3

Numbers are better than the day

 Breakfast:
Crispix cereal
Glass of OJ

Morning snack:
A LOT of Hersey's chocolate

Lunch:
A really yummy salad (hummus and peppers) that my amazing wife made from the real appeal recipes... it was awesome

Snack:
Cheeto puffs (way too many)

Dinner:
Meat loaf
Sugar snap peas

So - if I didn't have the snacks, today would have been awesome.  But I did, so that's not any good.

I guess if i avoid eating tonight, that's not bad.  I might want to try to work out after now, which would improve my score.  I want to tomorrow to be a really good day.  I'm technically off work (although, I will be working a lot).  I'm going to go to the doctor too, which is good for me.

But if i can focus on eating well AND working out, it will be a great day.

Good news - I'm now 5-2 over the last 7 days.

Date:	10-Dec
Win:	Yes
Today's Score	5-2
Overall Record	7-12
Last 7 day Record	5-2
Last 7 day Score	30-19
	10-Dec	9-Dec	8-Dec	7-Dec	6-Dec	5-Dec	4-Dec
Diary Food	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
No Drinking	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
No food after 9pm	1	0	1	1	1	1	1
7+ hours of sleep	1	1	1	0	1	1	0
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
4+ glasses of water	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Score	5-2	4-3	6-1	3-4	5-2	4-3	3-4

close one

Breakfast:
cheerios & milk

Lunch
Taco  bell
- steak crunch thing
- steak soft taco
- beef chalupa
- half of nachos

dinner
rotisserie chicken sandwich (w/mayo on hot dog bun)
snap peas (a lot)
glass of oj

late night snack:
some cheese puffs

Date:	9-Dec
Win:	Yes
Today's Score	4-3
Overall Record	6-12
Last 7 day Record	4-3
Last 7 day Score	28-21
	9-Dec	8-Dec	7-Dec	6-Dec	5-Dec	4-Dec	3-Dec	Historical
Diary Food	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	28%
No Drinking	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	83%
No food after 9pm	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	61%
7+ hours of sleep	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	28%
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6%
4+ glasses of water	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	44%
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	22%
Score	4-3	6-1	3-4	5-2	4-3	3-4	3-4

Well, back again

Well, today is my best day yet.  I am 6-1.  Best I was otherwise was 5-2 on Sunday.  Making better progress.  I have so many bad habits I have to break.

My last 7 days, I'm 4-3 with an overall score of 28-21.  Not great.  But consider that I was 1-9 before the last 7 days with a score of 17-53.  So, a little progress.

Food today:

Breakfast:
Crispix cereal & milk

Lunch:
Taco bell (it's a big lunch):
Steak taco - fresco
Steak chalupa - fresco
Big steak crunch wrap thing

Dinner:
Leftover mustard chicken
1/4 a quesadilla & salsa

Date:	8-Dec
Win:	Yes
Today's Score	6-1
Overall Record	5-12
Last 7 day Record	4-3
Last 7 day Score	28-21
	8-Dec	7-Dec	6-Dec	5-Dec	4-Dec	3-Dec	2-Dec	Historical
Diary Food	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	24%
No Drinking	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	82%
No food after 9pm	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	65%
7+ hours of sleep	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	24%
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6%
4+ glasses of water	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	41%
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	24%
Score	6-1	3-4	5-2	4-3	3-4	3-4	4-3

Not good - need to be better

Date:	24-Nov
Win:	No
Score	2-5
Diary Food	1
No Drinking	1
No food after 9pm	0
7+ hours of sleep	0
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	0
4+ glasses of water	0
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0
Weight	282

Breakfast:
Bacon (only bacon - but too much of it)

Lunch:
Sams hot dog
1/4 of a sam's pretzel

Dinner:
Speedie chicken & peppers (a lot of it)

After dinner:
-  Carmel puff corn (too much of it)
- Chewy sprees

Well, day 2 was a bummer

Date:	23-Nov
Win:	No
Score	3-4
Diary Food	1
No Drinking	1
No food after 9pm	0
7+ hours of sleep	1
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	0
4+ glasses of water	0
Workout for at least 30 minutes	0
Weight	282

I guess if I diary my food now, I'll be ok?

I can't quire remember what I had.

Breakfast:

- Small bowl of Crispix + OJ

Snack:

- A bunch of Salted Carmal Corn Puffs (waaay too many)

Lunch

- Medditeranian Salad from Panera

... then had to ruin it with..

- Left over shepard's pie

Dinner:

- 3 tacos - put waay too much cheese on them

Late night:

- A ton of sugar snap peas

- A klondike bar

...

So - just too much food.  The morning snack was really bad.  Too big of servings with my meals - could have done without the late night snacks.

It was a long day - basketball practice and then a lot of work.

I need to do better.

My dog ate my homework

That's the best I can come up with.  I have no excuse.  I've needed to lose weight for years and I keep on putting it off.  Just a few Guinness for a Notre Dame game.  A little desert with room service won't hurt, right?  It's been a long week, I could use a beer.  I'm up late working, some food will help me think better.

My dog at my homework.

Even if true, it's just not good enough.

So, I'm going to try again.  I'm going to bring back the scores. But, I'll restart. 0-0 with a first game of today.  I'm only counting today b/c I would lose the last two days (I know, no excuses) and I don't want to start 0-2.

I am also doing something called Real Appeal.  It's a program that my work is sponsoring.  I need to get more into it.  I'm hoping blogging will help kick start me.

So - to today:

Date:	22-Nov
Win:	Yes
Score	4-3
Diary Food	1
No Drinking	1
No food after 9pm	1
7+ hours of sleep	0
No snacks/desserts (unless fruit or veggie)	0
4+ glasses of water	0
Workout for at least 30 minutes	1
Weight	283

Not great, but an ok start.  Hopefully, tomorrow will be better.

As for food:

Breakfast:

- I had a half of a brownie (from last night) and a half of a donut (free donuts after mass)

Lunch:

- I had a Panera Mediterranean salad and two rolls.  I bought 2 salads so I can have one for lunch tomorrow, and I ate both breads b/c I knew it wouldn't be good for tomorrow

- I had a half of a yeast roll

Dinner:

Three slices of thin crust, cheese papa johns (large pizza)

Some I dipped in garlic sauce.  I at the crust of a pizza slice too

I had a piece of a brownie

Embarrassingly, this is a pretty good day for me with food.  I only at at meals and didn't eat anything late.  I had a salad at lunch.  So I guess there's some good.

This is going to be a tough slog.  I hope I can do it this time.

 

I am back

It's been awhile.  But I'm back.  I'm going to start tracking again today.  Maybe this will be the time.