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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Update

I've been a slacker this week in keeping track of my grazing, I mean eating. This being home all day, job hunting on the web is most certainly not conducive to avoiding snacking, much less being enjoyable. I do have the weight stats, though, so here they are.

6/26 - 278.2 lbs and 35.6% body fat.

6/27 - 278.8 lbs and 36.3% body fat.

6/28 - 277.4 lbs and 36.6% body fat.

I'm not doing as well as I'd hoped, much less as well as the other bloggers in our little competition, but this is the lowest weigh-in that I've had without the assistance of food poisoning! Woo hoo! I did track my food intake today, so I can give you those details here.

Breakfast
Instant Breakfast - 220 cal

Snack
R/F Wheat Thins - 240 cal

Lunch
Lean Gourmet Lagsana - 320 cal
Campbells Select Chicken Noodle Soup - 180 cal
3 pcs ghiradelli 70% cocoa dark chocolate (holy crap is this stuff good) - 140 cal

Snack
R/F Wheat Thins - 240 cal

Dinner
Chipotle Chicken Burrito - 1047 cal

Total for the day - 2387 cal. I honestly had no idea the burritos were that evil. For the record, I checked on Calorie King to see what the chicken burrito salad option checks in at, because that's the way I try to order when we eat at Chipotle. Getting the chicken salad instead of the burrito saves more than 300 cal (704 vs 1047). The major culprit is the flour tortilla at 340 cal. Good to know.

One thing I've tried to do, both to try and control my eating/physical activity and to simply help my mental state while I job hunt is to put myself on a schedule. No more coming in from walking the dog and plopping down in front of the computer to surf job listings while playing poker, and deciding to shower at 2 in the afternoon. Frankly it will probably help my poker game, too. Set time for the dog walks, set time for the gym, set time for job hunt/web surfing, set time for poker, and with the weather as fan-dam-tastic as it's been here in San Diego, set time for the beach. Hope life is good wherever you are.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Weekend Update

Hey, I'm still posting! Woo hoo!

6/24 - 280.2 lbs and 35.6% body fat. As I figured, the combo of a substantial lunch and a substantial dinner had an impact. Still, it could've been worse.

Breakfast
Nothing.

Lunch
1/2 of a ham and swiss sandwich, a small caesar salad, and a chocolate chip cookie at Boudin Sourdough. What amazing bread. No calorie count, sorry. That'll be a theme for today.

Snack
Reduced Fat Wheat Thins

Dinner
Asian Fusion Tapas at Roppongi. Tiger shrimp skewers, kung pao calamari, seared ahi tuna, grilled flatbread, and crab cakes. Evil good stuff.

Dessert
Mixed bag of chocolate covered raisins, chocolate covered brownie bites and chocolate covered cookie dough (sense a pattern here?) that we were able to sneak into the movies.

6/25 - 279.0 lbs and 36.2% body fat. I guess the chocolate covered festival didn't do as much damage as I expected.

Breakfast
Nothing

Lunch
Reduced Fat Ravioli - 380 cal
Lean Gourmet Whole Wheat Rotini pasta - 260 cal

Dinner
1/2 of a small veggie pizza from Round Table Pizza - 500 cal

Dessert
1 scoop of Marble Slab Birthday Cake ice cream - 450 cal

Total for the day - 1590 cal. My best day yet! Of course, I'll probably gain weight for the Monday weigh-in, just to spite myself.

Saturday, June 24, 2006

6/23

6/23 - 279.0 lbs and 37.8% bodyfat. Up 2/10 of a pound since Thursday morning. Given all that I ate, I'll take it.

I really couldn't keep a detailed food log today, due to circumstances beyond my control. I mean I know what I had, but it would be difficult at best ot attempt to guesstimate or recreate the weight for each meal.

Breakfast
Instant Breakfast - 220 cal
2 Lean Pockets Breakfast sandwiches - 300 cal

Snack
Peanuts - 150 cal

Lunch
Teppen Steakhouse combo of miso soup, shrimp, New York steak, fried rice,and assorted veggies

Snack
Jack in the Box chocolate shake

Dinner
GF got home from work late, so we went to this Chinese place she knew about. Won Ton soup, Kung Pao Shrimp, and steamed rice.

We shall see what the day will hold...

Friday, June 23, 2006

Getting Back Into It

So...when last we left things, I was fat. Well, I still am, but I'm starting to head in the right direction again.

6/20 - 281.6 lbs and 36.3% body fat.
6/21 - 280.4 lbs and 35.9% body fat.
6/22 - 278.8 lbs and 38.4% body fat. Maybe there is something to this rededication thing after all.

Breakfast
Instant Breakfast - 220 cal
Lean Pockets Breakfast Sandwiches (2) - 300 cal

Snack
Peanuts - 340 cal

Lunch
Turkey and Swiss Pita Sandwiches (2) - 400 cal

Snack
Wheat Thins - 270 cal

Dinner
TGI Fridays Potato Skins - 500 cal
TGI Fridays Santa Fe Chicken Salad - 300 cal

Total - 2330 cal. More than I should've had, but dinner screwed us up. When we go to places like TGI Fridays, we usually get veggie burgers in an attempt to be a little more health conscious. Unfortunately, TGI Fridays has removed veggie burgers from their menu, for reasons unknown. As such, dear and patient gf wanted some comfort food, and the potato skins were it. So it goes.

Monday, June 19, 2006

I'm lame. I know. Whatever.

So the past two weeks hadn't been going too badly, until this weekend. At one point I'd gotten down to 279.2 lbs, but as of this morning, I weighed in at 281.2 lbs. The weekend was not good, combining a beer laden (mmmm, beeeer) poker home game with an Italian food-fest for Father's Day. I wish it was that easy, to just point to that.

Unfortunately, this whole being laid off thing kind of has me drifting (and not in the fast and the furious way). I am rededicating myself to a bunch of things that have been falling by the wayside. First of all, I'm trying to put myself back on some sort of schedule. When you don't have to head out the door to go to work, it becomes far too easy to stop doing things that you should. I didn't make it to the gym this morning, but I took a nice long run/walk with the doggie. I just had my instant breakfast for breakfast, instead of grazing my way thru the kitchen. I'm sitting down to do my job search before I jump into a poker game (ok, hadn't planned on blogging yet, but some people actually seem to care what is up with me, so I feel justified). Basically, I'm trying to get my head screwed on straight and kick my ass into gear again, and I promise that this will include regular blogging (reading and posting). I invite you all along for the ride, and feel free to offer up your comments.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Monday

When last we left our hero (me), the weigh in from Sunday was 280.2 lbs. Let's see what happened on Monday.

6/5 - 280.0 lbs and 38.0% bf (dry feet)

Breakfast
Instant Breakfast - 220 cal
I am attempting to avoid all things muffin.

Snack
String Cheese (2) - 120 cal

Lunch
Healthy Choice French Bread Pizza - 360 cal
Ghirardelli Caramel Chocolate Squares (2) - 145 cal

Snack
String Cheese (2) - 120 cal

Dinner
Whole Foods Organic Cashew Chicken Dinner - 400 cal
Healthy Choice French Bread Pizza (that dinner was really small) - 360 cal

Drinks
Jack Daniels and Diet Coke (2) - 300 cal

For the day, 2025 cal. We shall see what Tuesday holds.

Monday, June 05, 2006

I'm Still Here!

So. Combine the holiday weekend with some absolutely weird times at work, and you get no real time to post. I work in the real estate development industry in San Diego, and the market seems to be slowing down. As such, things are really sketchy at work. Not exactly like another blogger who actually had to delete his blog due to workplace politics, but sketchy and uncertain nonetheless. As things progress (or regress as the case may be) with work, I'll update things as appropriate. In the meanwhile, back to the fat!

During the period of darkness, I was not keeping a detailed food log. I had started to, but as things headed south following Memorial Day, that took a back seat. I did still weigh myself each morning, and I can post those results here. As a point of explanation about my body fat percentages: my scale measures bodyfat, but part of how it measures it depends on my hydration. Particularly, how moist (soft? supple?) my big feet are. I normally weigh in after I get out of the shower, so all is typically good. If I weigh in before I shower (work with me here), my feet, which are callused from wearing flip flops far more than I should, register as more solid to the scale which leads to an increased body fat measurement. During this period, which included barbecues over the holiday weekend, beer over said weekend as well, and a significantly increased amount of Jack Daniels during the week following Memorial Day, my weight stayed remarkably consistent. I didn't manage to lose anything, but I didn't really pack anything on either. Given the circumstances surrounding the past 10 days or so, I'll take it. Here's the numbers:

5/26 - 279.2 lbs and 35.2% BF
5/27 - 279.4 lbs and 36.5% BF
5/28 - 280.0 lbs and 35.5% BF
5/29 - 280.0 lbs and 35.6% BF
5/30 - 281.6 lbs and 34.6% BF
5/31 - 280.2 lbs and 37.1% BF
6/1 - 280.6 lbs and 36.2% BF
6/2 - 280.2 lbs and 38.6% BF
6/3 - 280.0 lbs and 34.5% BF
6/4 - 280.2 lbs and 34.7% BF

Hopefully I'll be able to get back on the losing track and be able to post more regularly. More so, I hope things settle down on the work front. Things are kinda fugly and uncertain, and I'm hoping that the stress doesn't cause me to seek out comfort food. Wish me luck.