Well I'm back from my vacation. It was loads of fun, and I did get a fair amount of exercise while on the trip as well. While I ate a bit too much junk food, I didn't eat a ton of it. At the end of the trip I actually lost weight.
As of Saturday morning my weight was: 202.4 pounds.
So that's where we're starting from going further into this diet. I've noted for years that when I go on vacation I tend to lose weight and clearly this trip was no exception. The weight lost was due in no small part to the fact that my idea of a vacation tends to include museums, walking and just generally being busy all day. By the end of the day my feet are sore, I'm tired and I crash early in the evening. I also tend to only have two meals on a day (breakfast and dinner most often) and they don't tend to be crazy big or significant amounts of calories.
I was a little surprised by how much weight I lost, but excited to see myself creeping ever closer to that 200 pound threshold I've been targeting of late. So the hiatus was over as of today, food today was: no breakfast or lunch, but several snacks including a granola bar, some peanut butter, a slice of turkey and cheese, and a small bag of popcorn at the movies (combined for around 900 calories), dinner was penne and sauce with garlic toast (1000 calories). No specific exercise on the day however.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 1900
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1100
Total Points Earned: 44035
Points to go: 155965
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Temporary Hold for Vacation
If it hasn't already been obvious this week, I decided to take a hold on the diet for vacation. I'm still planning to eat sensibly, and I know I'm going to be active, but I didn't want to both have to think about earning points and trying to find time to post to the blog during the trip. Day 37 will be the day I come back from the trip. See you then.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Day 36
This weekend has clearly been about healthy activities but not healthy eating. Yesterday I did 17 miles on the bike, today I ran a 10K. So in terms of an accomplishment I finished the 10K in 1 hour and 5 minutes which compares very favorably to my 5K time as well (a little bit slower as an average pace, but not too bad). Unfortunately the unhealthy eating reared its head after the race when I went and got pizza for the day. Not really too bad of course, and while I did eat a little too much on the day it was certainly balanced by the run.
Of course what's worse is that I completely recognize that my craving pizza after the race is due to the race organizers having pizza available, but only for a subset of participants. Since I didn't want to eat the food they did have for runners (some sort of crappy pasta dish), and wasn't allowed to have pizza, I was both very hungry and craving pizza on my way home from the run. There wasn't much chance of eating healthy after a 45 minute drive of that combo.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), pizza and breadsticks for lunch (1500 calories), dinner was another couple slices of pizza (500 calories). Exercise was the 10K run (800 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2300
Exercise: 800
Points Earned: 1500
Total Points Earned: 42935
Points to go: 157065
Of course what's worse is that I completely recognize that my craving pizza after the race is due to the race organizers having pizza available, but only for a subset of participants. Since I didn't want to eat the food they did have for runners (some sort of crappy pasta dish), and wasn't allowed to have pizza, I was both very hungry and craving pizza on my way home from the run. There wasn't much chance of eating healthy after a 45 minute drive of that combo.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), pizza and breadsticks for lunch (1500 calories), dinner was another couple slices of pizza (500 calories). Exercise was the 10K run (800 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2300
Exercise: 800
Points Earned: 1500
Total Points Earned: 42935
Points to go: 157065
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Day 35
20K to 40K took 19 days. It's not surprising that I've slowed down over the last month in terms of scoring points. I haven't been exercising much and I've had a few days of eating badly (today's kind of another one). As such the points have slowed down. What is shocking though is that I've continued to lose weight. I honestly expected to have stagnated over the past few weeks. Instead I've continued to maintain my average loss.
Weigh-in result: 206.8 lbs.
As I mentioned a bit ago 200 pounds has become a bit of a target for me, now it looks like I might be able to hit that target without a ton of trouble. Of course as I do so, my nice new clothes will start to become baggy instead. Who would have believed I'd be considering getting rid of the X's on my sizes (honestly getting down to only one X is nice).
Today I ended up doing about 17 miles of biking with people from work (well 14 miles with them, another 3 getting from my house to the bike path and back). The day was perfect and I was able to keep up with everybody (though fortunately no one was on a pure street bike or racing bike). What has become a lot of fun for me though is that I regularly have the ability to do these sorts of things without really feeling a ton of after-effects any more. A 20 mile bike ride used to wipe me out, now I got home and was ready to do more stuff.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich (300 calories), piece of toast with peanut butter (200 calories) and a 5 Guy's trip (2000 calories). Exercise was the bike ride which I'm estimating at about 700 calories.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2500
Exercise: 700
Points Earned: 1200
Total Points Earned: 41435
Points to go: 158565
Weigh-in result: 206.8 lbs.
As I mentioned a bit ago 200 pounds has become a bit of a target for me, now it looks like I might be able to hit that target without a ton of trouble. Of course as I do so, my nice new clothes will start to become baggy instead. Who would have believed I'd be considering getting rid of the X's on my sizes (honestly getting down to only one X is nice).
Today I ended up doing about 17 miles of biking with people from work (well 14 miles with them, another 3 getting from my house to the bike path and back). The day was perfect and I was able to keep up with everybody (though fortunately no one was on a pure street bike or racing bike). What has become a lot of fun for me though is that I regularly have the ability to do these sorts of things without really feeling a ton of after-effects any more. A 20 mile bike ride used to wipe me out, now I got home and was ready to do more stuff.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich (300 calories), piece of toast with peanut butter (200 calories) and a 5 Guy's trip (2000 calories). Exercise was the bike ride which I'm estimating at about 700 calories.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2500
Exercise: 700
Points Earned: 1200
Total Points Earned: 41435
Points to go: 158565
Day 34
Today was supposed to turn into a slightly higher calorie day, but it never really appeared. Had lunch with folks from work, and was going to go out to dinner with my sister. Still expected to make the necessary points to cross the 40K mark but it was going to be close. Unfortunately Erin got sick and we had to go to the hospital (check out http://www.active.com/donate/virginia12newengland/VASDwyer for more on that). Between spoiling her dog with three different walks, and eating lightly for dinner the day turned out to be quite reasonable.
Food for the day: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), burger with fries for lunch (1200 calories), various snacks on the day covered dinner as well (500 calories). Exercise was a few walks with the dog (200 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 200
Points Earned: 1200
Total Points Earned: 39035
Points to go: 160965
Food for the day: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), burger with fries for lunch (1200 calories), various snacks on the day covered dinner as well (500 calories). Exercise was a few walks with the dog (200 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 200
Points Earned: 1200
Total Points Earned: 39035
Points to go: 160965
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Day 33
Well today I was back on track a bit. Ate a few too many little snacks during the day (particularly jelly beans) but still got exercise and generally kept myself on the diet. Two weeks off from kickboxing though definitely left me a little bit out of fitness as far as that went. Got a bit more tired than I would have during today's class. All in all no major challenges, but I am worrying a bit about my growing tendency to snack during the day.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich (300 calories), small PB&J (500 calories), snacks included jelly beans, a granola bar and an english muffin (300 calories), dinner was salmon, noodles and green beans (900 calories). Exercise was an hour of kickboxing (500 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 500
Points Earned: 1500
Total Points Earned: 39035
Points to go: 160965
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich (300 calories), small PB&J (500 calories), snacks included jelly beans, a granola bar and an english muffin (300 calories), dinner was salmon, noodles and green beans (900 calories). Exercise was an hour of kickboxing (500 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 500
Points Earned: 1500
Total Points Earned: 39035
Points to go: 160965
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Day 32
Today was a lot more challenging, but more because of a lot of snack foods rather than for a particular challenge with the diet. Lately I've definitely been snacking more than I should, and it's tied in a fair amount with my lack of exercise. I have more time to snack, and am getting more free with the snacking even though I should be controlling it more. Once the trip is over, I'm hoping to get back on track and leave some of these bad habits behind again.
Food today: egg and cheese for breakfast (300 calories), small PB&J for lunch (500 calories), dinner was the leftover pizza from last night (500 calories), snacks included some clam cakes at lunch, and candy when hanging with friends (1000 calories). Exercise was a lunch time walk again (100 calories)
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2300
Exercise: 100
Points Earned: 800
Total Points Earned: 37535
Points to go: 162465
Food today: egg and cheese for breakfast (300 calories), small PB&J for lunch (500 calories), dinner was the leftover pizza from last night (500 calories), snacks included some clam cakes at lunch, and candy when hanging with friends (1000 calories). Exercise was a lunch time walk again (100 calories)
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2300
Exercise: 100
Points Earned: 800
Total Points Earned: 37535
Points to go: 162465
Day 31
Tuesday wasn't particularly challenging though I did eat a little bit
too much on the day. Luckily it wasn't too bad a day as far as that
went.
Food: egg and cheese for breakfast (300 calories), PB&J for lunch (500 calories), some jelly beans for snacks (150 calories), homemade pizza for dinner (1000 calories). Exercise was a lunch time walk (100 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 1950
Exercise: 100
Points Earned: 1150
Total Points Earned: 36735
Points to go: 163265
Food: egg and cheese for breakfast (300 calories), PB&J for lunch (500 calories), some jelly beans for snacks (150 calories), homemade pizza for dinner (1000 calories). Exercise was a lunch time walk (100 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 1950
Exercise: 100
Points Earned: 1150
Total Points Earned: 36735
Points to go: 163265
Monday, April 23, 2012
Day 30
Well today ended up quite a bit more on track than is usual for me. Still took the day off from exercise, but I went through the full day without more than a couple minor twinges in my knee going up and down stairs. Even got out for a walk at lunch and didn't have any major problems. The knee isn't healed, and I'm not pretending it's not going to be sore next weekend after my 10K, but hopefully it's tracking closer to healed.
Food today: egg and cheese for breakfast (300 calories), turkey sandwich for lunch (500 calories), pasta with garlic toast for dinner (1000 calories), snacks included some jelly beans and other candy (200 calories). Exercise was a lunchtime walk (100 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned: 35585
Points to go: 164415
Food today: egg and cheese for breakfast (300 calories), turkey sandwich for lunch (500 calories), pasta with garlic toast for dinner (1000 calories), snacks included some jelly beans and other candy (200 calories). Exercise was a lunchtime walk (100 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned: 35585
Points to go: 164415
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Day 29
Yesterday's post was a little bit negative in nature, in part because I'm still peeved that my knee hasn't magically gotten better. One positive fact that I was able to take from yesterday though, was that even without much exercise to maintain my fitness over the past two to three weeks, I was still able to pretty much run most of 8 miles. I did slow down to a walk twice during the run (once to go up a steep hill, once to give my knee a rest). Still, it's not something I would have even imagined doing two years ago.
One thing I have noticed over the last few days though has been a trend in my thinking about the diet. A lot of my plans now start with, "once I cross 200 pounds." It's become something of a mantra in my head for future planning. On the one hand, it shouldn't be too hard since it's only 10 pounds or so away. On the other hand it represents a change in my thinking as my diet has stagnated a bit in the last few weeks.
One of my keys to success on these Challenges has been the fact that I don't "care" about my weight. Obviously weight loss is the goal (and fat loss even more of the goal), but none of the actual diet goals or signposts are really weight based. It makes something nice to post to Facebook, and put in the sidebar here, but not something that actually "matters" for the success or failure of the diet. Now that seems to be changing a bit, and the fact that I haven't seen the weight loss through the first month of the new Challenge that I hoped, has put a weight goal into my head. Success is now more and more based on that 200 pound threshold.
Once the knee gets better, and once my vacation is done, and I'm free to go back to my established patterns of diet and exercise I suspect that I'll be getting back to a point where it's points that matter not weight. But as the last few weeks have made clear, weight does matter, I just didn't notice it when I was losing it so easily.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich with extra cheese for breakfast (400 calories), homemade burger and one potato's worth of fries (1200 calories), a roll and some cheese for dinner/snacking (400 calories). No exercise today again as I was once more resting my knee.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned: 34585
Points to go: 165415
One thing I have noticed over the last few days though has been a trend in my thinking about the diet. A lot of my plans now start with, "once I cross 200 pounds." It's become something of a mantra in my head for future planning. On the one hand, it shouldn't be too hard since it's only 10 pounds or so away. On the other hand it represents a change in my thinking as my diet has stagnated a bit in the last few weeks.
One of my keys to success on these Challenges has been the fact that I don't "care" about my weight. Obviously weight loss is the goal (and fat loss even more of the goal), but none of the actual diet goals or signposts are really weight based. It makes something nice to post to Facebook, and put in the sidebar here, but not something that actually "matters" for the success or failure of the diet. Now that seems to be changing a bit, and the fact that I haven't seen the weight loss through the first month of the new Challenge that I hoped, has put a weight goal into my head. Success is now more and more based on that 200 pound threshold.
Once the knee gets better, and once my vacation is done, and I'm free to go back to my established patterns of diet and exercise I suspect that I'll be getting back to a point where it's points that matter not weight. But as the last few weeks have made clear, weight does matter, I just didn't notice it when I was losing it so easily.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich with extra cheese for breakfast (400 calories), homemade burger and one potato's worth of fries (1200 calories), a roll and some cheese for dinner/snacking (400 calories). No exercise today again as I was once more resting my knee.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned: 34585
Points to go: 165415
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Day 28
So over the last few weeks I've developed a pattern of carelessness, both for the diet and for the blog. Partly I think it has to do with my knee injury limiting my exercise. Posting to the blog is fun when I'm doing well, and scoring points. When I can't do that it becomes something that I think about less. Then the next thing I know I've missed two days worth of posts in a row.
Carelessness with what I eat has also played a roll. I always have a good reason for eating more than I should (ran 8 miles today, too hungry to cook, or I don't feel like what I have defrosted). But in the past week there have been a few nights that felt more like old Seth rather than new Seth. Now on the plus side, after 6 months of dieting when I overeat it's uncomfortable. Rather than being an enjoyable experience, eating too much leaves me unpleasantly stuffed. Of course my brain hasn't entirely picked up on that change yet so I eat too much before realizing that I'm not going to like it.
Today was a bit of an overeating day, but as I mentioned...I did run 8 miles. Breakfast was an egg and cheese sandwich (300 calories), lunch was a burger and too many fries (2000 calories probably), dinner was a hot dog on a sourdough roll (500 calories). Exercise though was 8 miles of running (1000 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2800
Exercise: 1000
Points Earned: 1200
Total Points Earned: 33585
Points to go: 166415
Carelessness with what I eat has also played a roll. I always have a good reason for eating more than I should (ran 8 miles today, too hungry to cook, or I don't feel like what I have defrosted). But in the past week there have been a few nights that felt more like old Seth rather than new Seth. Now on the plus side, after 6 months of dieting when I overeat it's uncomfortable. Rather than being an enjoyable experience, eating too much leaves me unpleasantly stuffed. Of course my brain hasn't entirely picked up on that change yet so I eat too much before realizing that I'm not going to like it.
Today was a bit of an overeating day, but as I mentioned...I did run 8 miles. Breakfast was an egg and cheese sandwich (300 calories), lunch was a burger and too many fries (2000 calories probably), dinner was a hot dog on a sourdough roll (500 calories). Exercise though was 8 miles of running (1000 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2800
Exercise: 1000
Points Earned: 1200
Total Points Earned: 33585
Points to go: 166415
Day 27
Continuing the quick posts for the missed couple days. More to talk about later on.
Food Friday: corn muffin and 1% milk from Dunkin Donuts (700 calories), some candy as snacks (150 calories), pasta, sauce and garlic toast for dinner (1000 calories). Lunch time walk for exercise (100 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 1850
Exercise: 100
Points Earned: 1250
Total Points Earned: 32385
Points to go: 167615
Food Friday: corn muffin and 1% milk from Dunkin Donuts (700 calories), some candy as snacks (150 calories), pasta, sauce and garlic toast for dinner (1000 calories). Lunch time walk for exercise (100 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 1850
Exercise: 100
Points Earned: 1250
Total Points Earned: 32385
Points to go: 167615
Day 26
A couple quick posts for the missed days.
Thursday's Food: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), turkey sandwich for lunch (500 calories), spaghetti and meatballs for dinner (1200 calories), snacks included some candy (100 calories). Exercise was a lunch time walk (100 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2100
Exercise: 100
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned: 31135
Points to go: 168865
Thursday's Food: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), turkey sandwich for lunch (500 calories), spaghetti and meatballs for dinner (1200 calories), snacks included some candy (100 calories). Exercise was a lunch time walk (100 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2100
Exercise: 100
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned: 31135
Points to go: 168865
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Day 25
So 25 days into the new diet I'm definitely not doing as well as I did on the last one. Now this diet's been complicated quite a bit with health issues which has limited how much I could do at times, but I'm really going to need to refocus. I have two weeks before I go on my vacation and I'm still debating what I'm going to do to track food on that trip. Since I won't be able to post on a daily basis as much, I'm thinking I may simply put the diet on hold for the two weeks I'm gone. Not sure if it's the best idea though, so I'm still considering.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich (300 calories), turkey sandwich and some grilled chicken for lunch (800 calories), pasta, sauce and garlic toast for dinner (1000 calories). No exercise for one more day.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2100
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 900
Total Points Earned: 30135
Points to go: 169865
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich (300 calories), turkey sandwich and some grilled chicken for lunch (800 calories), pasta, sauce and garlic toast for dinner (1000 calories). No exercise for one more day.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2100
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 900
Total Points Earned: 30135
Points to go: 169865
Day 24
Missed the whole day on Tuesday for a post. Just simply forgot to do one. No real need for commentary on that day seperately so I'll just go right into the food.
Food: egg and cheese for breakfast (300 calories), turkey sandwich (500 calories), a granola bar and some pieces of candy (150 calories), fish and chips for dinner (1200 calories). No exercise on the day.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2150
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 850
Total Points Earned: 29235
Points to go: 170765
Food: egg and cheese for breakfast (300 calories), turkey sandwich (500 calories), a granola bar and some pieces of candy (150 calories), fish and chips for dinner (1200 calories). No exercise on the day.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2150
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 850
Total Points Earned: 29235
Points to go: 170765
Monday, April 16, 2012
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
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 22
One thing I've already noticed about taking the last week off from exercise, is that my excitement about posting the day's results has declined dramatically now that I'm not putting in big point days. Going off the diet all together would be a lot worse of course, but it's harder to remind myself to calculate the points when the day's only going to be worth 500 points towards the goal.
Food for Sunday: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), lunch/dinner was a hamburger and hot dog on the grill with fresh sourdough rolls (1000 calories), snacks were the potato chips with lunch as well as from the afternoon with my friends (1200 calories). No exercise.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2500
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 500
Total Points Earned: 27785
Points to go: 172215
Food for Sunday: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), lunch/dinner was a hamburger and hot dog on the grill with fresh sourdough rolls (1000 calories), snacks were the potato chips with lunch as well as from the afternoon with my friends (1200 calories). No exercise.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2500
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 500
Total Points Earned: 27785
Points to go: 172215
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Day 21
Well Saturday was a generally crappy day. The knee injury I'd been nursing for a week seems to have flared back up, and prevented me from finishing my run. Instead of 8 miles and change I got 4 miles done, and had to ride back in a car the rest of the way. I'm hoping it's not serious, and I'm probably going to head to the doctor's on Monday to get checked out, but it's still very irritating. On the positive side, I got to see a couple Team Challenge folks I haven't seen since January. Getting compliments on my weight loss from the folks who haven't seen me in a while is always nice.
Decided since my day was crappy to treat myself to something for food. Ended up going to 5 Guys. Not a healthy choice of course, and afterwards I regretted it a little, but good while I was there. Food today: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), Burger and Fries at 5 Guys (2000 calories). Exercise was four miles of running (600 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2300
Exercise: 600
Points Earned: 1300
Total Points Earned: 27285
Points to go: 172715
Decided since my day was crappy to treat myself to something for food. Ended up going to 5 Guys. Not a healthy choice of course, and afterwards I regretted it a little, but good while I was there. Food today: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), Burger and Fries at 5 Guys (2000 calories). Exercise was four miles of running (600 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2300
Exercise: 600
Points Earned: 1300
Total Points Earned: 27285
Points to go: 172715
Friday, April 13, 2012
Day 20
Lately I've been noticing what may be a sign of the economy turning around. Namely a lot of new restaurants are opening in the downtown Providence area. A new place called Roi opened a month or two ago, and today some friends from work went there at lunch. Nice place, though kind of funny as it was a bar/concert venue in the past which I've been to once or twice.
We went a couple weeks ago, but it had been Lent so I was trying to be good and avoid eating meat. Even so, their burgers looked tasty and I was craving them. This week we went back and I got a burger. Relatively conventional burger, though very tasty. What was kind of neat was that their standard cheeseburger comes with Mozzarella instead of American or Cheddar cheese. Made an interesting change from the usual burger.
Most of the restaurants downtown are a couple blocks away, and the ones that are closer than that tend to be sit-down only. Sometime next month though a new pizza place is opening right across the street. Not sure what coal-fired pizza is, but it could be a whole new challenge.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich (300 calories), burger and fries at Roi (1200 calories), and dinner was another egg and cheese (300 calories). No exercise today, but hopefully I'm all healed up for tomorrow.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 1800
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1200
Total Points Earned: 25985
Points to go: 174015
We went a couple weeks ago, but it had been Lent so I was trying to be good and avoid eating meat. Even so, their burgers looked tasty and I was craving them. This week we went back and I got a burger. Relatively conventional burger, though very tasty. What was kind of neat was that their standard cheeseburger comes with Mozzarella instead of American or Cheddar cheese. Made an interesting change from the usual burger.
Most of the restaurants downtown are a couple blocks away, and the ones that are closer than that tend to be sit-down only. Sometime next month though a new pizza place is opening right across the street. Not sure what coal-fired pizza is, but it could be a whole new challenge.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich (300 calories), burger and fries at Roi (1200 calories), and dinner was another egg and cheese (300 calories). No exercise today, but hopefully I'm all healed up for tomorrow.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 1800
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1200
Total Points Earned: 25985
Points to go: 174015
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Day 19
The slow points week, otherwise known as "rest the knee so I can go on my trip in May without problems" week (less catchy), continues on pace. Despite doing the math at the end of the last challenge, I hadn't realized how significant the nearly daily exercise really was towards my point accrual. More importantly, this week's lack of exercise is really bringing down my daily average. I'm still netting points, but I'm just not feeling productive.
On an unrelated note. I know there's a lot of tasty healthy food out there, but sometimes switching from the junk food I love to a healthier version just doesn't work. At lunch today, instead of the traditional bag of normal Lay's chips (240 calories) I got a bag of Baked Lay's (120 calories). Unfortunately they do not taste even close to the same. Maybe it's the salt, maybe the lack of deep frying, but the Baked Lay's did not satisfy my chip craving at all. What they ended up seeming like was a thin, kind of disappointing, cracker rather than a chip.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), 6-inch meatball sub and a bag of Baked Lay's (600 calories), snacks were a few little pieces of chocolate and jelly beans (100 calories), dinner was pasta, sauce and garlic toast (1000 calories). No exercise again.
My meals have been repetitive lately, but I am still trying to load up on more fiber than protein. So lots of pasta.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned: 24785
Points to go: 175215
On an unrelated note. I know there's a lot of tasty healthy food out there, but sometimes switching from the junk food I love to a healthier version just doesn't work. At lunch today, instead of the traditional bag of normal Lay's chips (240 calories) I got a bag of Baked Lay's (120 calories). Unfortunately they do not taste even close to the same. Maybe it's the salt, maybe the lack of deep frying, but the Baked Lay's did not satisfy my chip craving at all. What they ended up seeming like was a thin, kind of disappointing, cracker rather than a chip.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), 6-inch meatball sub and a bag of Baked Lay's (600 calories), snacks were a few little pieces of chocolate and jelly beans (100 calories), dinner was pasta, sauce and garlic toast (1000 calories). No exercise again.
My meals have been repetitive lately, but I am still trying to load up on more fiber than protein. So lots of pasta.
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned: 24785
Points to go: 175215
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