So I missed the last couple days
But it was all due to stupid getting up at 430ish for work everyday and not eating bad.
This is exampled by the fact that I am down 2 pounds since my last weigh in, and where I took this pic.
Have a good one.
Did someone say porterhouse?
I had a busy day watching Liam and helping with My moms demonstration party. That meant I got to 7pm and I’m just hungry enough and have enough points left that a juicy grilled porterhouse with a massive side of grilled asparagus will finish the day off nicely.
So much effort for crappy tasting food… BOO!
I roasted broccoli with garlic in the oven and cubed squash and sweet potatoes on the stove top and NEITHER of them came out well. Ugh, nothing more depressing than putting in the effort to cook healthy food and have it taste mediocre. Well, accidentally putting gasoline in your printer instead of printer ink and having it burst into flames when you try to print out your tax return is probably more depressing, but that’s another story.
So today was a good day health wise. That’s four in a row, I’m happy with that. What I am sad about is that our company is moving offices and tomorrow is our last day in the place I have gone to for nearly 15 years. I’ll admit, I’m a girly boy so that does make me sad. What makes me irritable about it is, in the new building we are not allowed to have personal refrigerators. That is going to make it more difficult to eat right. I’ve been on a hunt for an excellent cooler bag for my daily food. They do have community fridges, but I doubt they will have enough room for everyone. Plus, no one ever takes care of their shit in those fridges so they smell like zombie that has baked in the sun for a day with a skunk crammed up its ass.
Anywho, weekend coming up… those are always the worst eating wise. Hoepfully I’ll have some time to do a couple less stream of thoughty posts.
Have a good one.
Well I couldn’t make it two nights in a row.
But at least I have the excuse that the Flyers game went into overtime so I was up past my bedtime. Thank god they won or this could be a post where I bemoan a binge.
I wasn’t in a stupid good mood yesterday like the day before, but it was still alright. Most importantly I stuck to plan and even went to the gym in the morning for a short workout!
Last night my wife did an awesome job of getting back in the swing of cooking. We now have soup; a turkey breast; cauliflower; roasted squash/turnips; and what I am eating right now for second breakfast, a vat of oatmeal. All that will help through the rest of the week!
One thing that I have always done that I’d like to change is saving the best for last, specifically with eating. During meals I power through the veggies and have mounds of meat left at the end. During the day I try to make sure I’m full so I don’t do anything stupid, but I love the thought of having 30 points left at 7pm. It lets me have a tiny bit of a binge at night. I want to learn to indulge during the day more.
Have a good one.
Nightly recap 1
Well I have been in an awesome mood for 15 hours now. This is easily a record. I’m not even going to be my usual pessimistic self and mention how hard the crash will be when I lose this goodness… Damn, I just did mention it, grrrr.
I got 12K steps in and 11 floors, Fitbit goals met!
Tracked everything I ate today and stayed on plan. Kept my hunger in check virtually all day. It managed to wait to get home and eat a little cold chicken instead of the snickers bar I was standing next to in the grocery store when my hunger hit. That’s another win!
cya tomorrow
I feel too good not to write SOMETHING
As you can tell I have been away for a while, but everyone needs a little respite from the grind once in a while… Someone has been about 4 months, not a big deal right?
Anywho, I haven’t been as bad this time as I have in years past when I stop paying strict attention to what I eat. I have definitely made smarter bad decisions… Especially last week on vacation in Vegas. I’m feeling pretty good about that, but also I’ve been eating well for two days (Yes, including Easter) now and woke up feeling GREAT!
So I have a goal now to try and write a little something every night before I go to bed, just a little recap of my day. We will see in a couple hours how that goes.
Well, day 4 of Fitbit and I’m walking my ass off
So when I got this nifty little toy it was mostly so I could verify I really was as active at work as I thought I was. Monday was no gym and I cruised in with around 11000 steps. I thought I would be around the standard goal of 10K. It took a bunch of trips around the office to get to where I was though, so on average I was probably around 8K. That was a little depressing, but now I know and can do things to make sure I hit my goal every day.
That is the low end. Saturday, Sunday and today I went to the gym and pulled down at least an hour on the elliptical. This weekend I was in the 15′s and today I busted out with 20K. Right now my body is rebelling a bit, but I think it’s pretty cool I got up that high. Fitbit is definitely inspiring me to get more steps in. So much so I was in the high 19′s and felt compelled to walk some stuff out to the car so I would definitely break 20.
A quick semi funny story of my gym trips today… yes I said trips. I had everything planned out for a morning trip to the gym. getting out of bed in the mornings to get my gym trip in is the bane of my existence. It’s the right thing to do. So many articles tell you morning is great to work out since it stokes your metabolism for the rest of the day, you get it out of the way so there is no way for life to get in the way, etc. I have this weird problem though. When I need to be up at a certain hour in the morning I can NOT FALL ASLEEP. Thankfully I have a job that does not have a rigid start time so I can kinda get up whenever. Generally that is in the 6 o’clock hour somewhere. On gym days I need to get up earlier so I am constantly looking at the clock saying in my head, “If I fall asleep right now I’ll get [7,6,5...] hours of sleep.” That makes it tough to get up early. Yesterday however I had everything planned out great. Had taken my Melatonin early so I was sleepy and the boy went down easy so I was in bed at 9pm and up at 5am, woot!
I had prepped my coffee, laid out my gym clothes and filled my water bottle. Somehow I had managed to prep everything… except for my headphones. I don’t know how you all work out, but I need some kind of music/podcast to listen to or I am lost. I made it all the way to the gym before I realized, so I managed to read closed captioned news for 20 minutes but that was it.
All day long that nagged at me. To rectify the situation I found myself back in the gym after work. This is new territory for me people, two gym trips in one day. We should all be worried : )
I’ll leave you with this cartoon , I thought it was pretty funny…
