Day 23

There's no question that right now I'm at the point where dozens of my diets have died in the past.  The knee injury (which fortunately seems to have gone away today) gave me the excuse not to exercise, and between hanging with friends and feeling kind of crappy (again due to the knee injury) I've been eating a lot more junk than normal.  If this were two years ago the diet would be falling apart.  Yesterday or today I would have "forgotten" to update my calorie counts.  I would have decided to "take a day off" from the diet.

The one thing keeping me honest at the moment is the blog.  Even with the blog, it's possible I undercounted calories on the last couple days.  Never the less, while I'm planning to rest the knee for another couple days before experimenting with running again, I think when the time comes to pick it back up later this week I should be able to get back on track without too much difficulty.  I've probably gained back a couple pounds, but the trend should start going back down again.

Food today:  egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), turkey sandwich for lunch (500 calories), a cheeseburger for dinner (800 calories), and chips as snacks during the day (800 calories probably between all the chips).

Today's Results:
Daily Food Total:  2400
Exercise:  0
Points Earned:  600
Total Points Earned:  28385
Points to go:  171615

Day 23

One of the quirks of my diet, since I've been trying to control the number of calories, has been the fact that I've cut ground beef out.  Usually I would have hamburgers, meat sauce, lasagna or meatballs.  All of these would use a fair amount of ground beef.  Just the nature of the diet has limited that a fair amount.  Nothing wrong with making any of these, I just haven't.

Today I satisfied the craving I didn't even know I had.  I went with some friends to Mohegan Sun Casino, and after walking around exploring, we went out to dinner at Johnny Rockets.  Got a burger, fries and a diet soda.  It was more tasty then I expected simply because of satisfying that craving.  Johnny Rocket's doesn't post their nutritional information, but I found a couple websites with nutritional info.  I'm rounding up my meal a bit, just because I'm suspicious of the values.  The burger should be around 800 calories.  The fries around 600 calories.

Breakfast and Lunch were combined (vacation days and sleeping late are fun), and I had a grilled cheese sandwich and a glass of milk (700 calories).  I also went to the gym (407 calories expended).

Today's Results:
Daily Food Total:  2100 calories
Exercise:  407
Points Earned:  1307
Total Points Earned:  29732
Points to go:  170268