Archive for May, 2009

Breakfast for May 7, 2009

Looks bad, but I have to run errands during lunch today, so this is it until dinner:

1 Large Orange Juice
1 Hashbrown
2 Sausage Burritos
1 Egg McMuffin

1300 calories so far today – I can’t keep these big meals up, I need to start spreading my intake out.

Dinner for May 6, 2009

This is where I fall apart:

1 Wendy’s Double
1 20 oz light lemonade
1 small fry

then, later:

6 oz prime rib
caesar salad
1 roll (buttered)
french fries

I’m not even going to total it up – I know it blew my day up.

Lunch Menu for May 6, 2009

1 McDonald’s Cheeseburger Happy Meal with caramel apple dippers and milk
2 20-oz bottles of Diet Sierra Mist

Total Calories: 500

A single McDonald’s Cheeseburger is 300 calories. I usually order a double quarter pounder with cheese and a filet o’ fish “sidecar”. That’s a cool 1120 calories, and we haven’t even gotten to the fries and soda yet.

Total Calories so far today: 630

Breakfast Menu for May 6, 2009

1 package unflavored instant oatmeal, prepared with 2/3 cups water
2 cans Sugar-Free Amp Energy Drink

Total Calories – 130

I know slamming two cans of energy drink is not the best way to start the day, diet or no. I promise to do better.

On Blogging Your “Weigh” To Weight Loss

I started this blog in October of 2007 to chronicle my weight-loss journey from 435 pounds to (hopefully) 185 pounds. Unfortunately, the journey turned out to be a round trip – after reaching a low of 367 pounds, I have watched my weight creep back up until I have arrived back where I started.

Well, shit.

I lost 68 pounds. I know how to lose weight. What I’m doing a piss-poor job of is staying motivated and not letting my personal issues with food overpower my desire to be fitter and live longer. That was supposed to be what this blog was about, and instead I tried to get cute and write little funnies, blog about television, my job, and whatever else. All those things would be fine to blog about if this was just a blog about a fat man who watches too much TV, spends too much time at work, and makes funny pictures of rappers and the pope. But when I started this blog, I stated that its primary purpose was to be a chronicle of my weight loss journey. Like Bugs Bunny, I took a wrong turn at Albuquerque, and I’m nowhere near where I intended to be. Read more…