Life Without Meat

Today I decided to go vegetarian. Cecil and had a discussion before about the number of times we eat meat during a day. I am pretty sure I eat a meat at least twice a day, if not three. Matter fact, I don’t remember a single day in my life where I have gone without eating a meat. It is kind of sad and unhealthy at the same time. While I am sure I will be tired AND grumpy by the end of the day, I have decided to challenge myself to bypass any meat product today. Thus far I am 2 for 2!

For breakfast I enjoyed some Post bran cereal with the nuts and berries. I guess I should look at the box and figure out exactly what I am eating. I bypassed the milk and just ate it dry. I figured that would save me a few calories for the day. I also ate a nice green banana. That surprisingly kept me full until lunch. I am currently enjoying the nice vegetarian pizza I decided to have for lunch, and some chips I packed. I can not readily identify the diverse array of vegetables they decided to put on this pizza. Each time I bite into it though, there is a new pleasant surprise. I do recognize the mushrooms, onions, peppers, and cauliflower though. I am almost certain they found every vegetable they had in the back and decided to chop it up and put it on this pizza. It is fulfilling nonetheless.

I am motivated to go 3 for 3. Maybe then I can turn my vegetarian streak into two Whole days.

Off to a bad start

So, you know it is never good when you eat breakfast and lunch an hour apart, right? That is how I know my eating today will be disastrous. Although I have not been too bad, I had breakfast circa 10AM and was at work eating the lunch I packed by 11:15. Breakfast was simple, a bowl of some kellog’s flakes with some yogurt and fruit clusters. Lunch was a turkey sandwich, a small portion of chips, a fiber one bar, and a banana. Hopefully that will sustain me until dinner time, but I doubt it.

Back Sliding

How do you backslide on the first day you start your flog? What had happened was... I have a good excuse though, National Championship football. That however doesn’t quite explain my grocery list. I went into the grocery store with good intentions, but that went out the window once I passed the chips at the door. I need to start preparing for the grocery store with a list, instead of doing this impromptu shopping thing. My basket consisted of TWO bags of chips, two frozen pizzas, fries, chicken tenders, Gatorade, and a pound of sliced turkey. I did pick up some bananas though. I don’t foresee much weight being lost until all of that is out of the house.

I cooked an undisclosed amount of chicken tenders and fries in preparation for the game. I am pretty sure it was enough for two people to eat off of. At first I couldn’t find my ranch, so I thought I was going to have to make one of those combinations of mustard and mayo I made as a kid. Don’t play like you haven’t done it before. I finally located the ranch and had a nice pool of it for dipping sauce. I washed it all down with the lone Miller High Life I had in the fridge. I considered going to get more, but I figured that was a good stopping point. Better days are on the way.

Ahem Ahem

I am back bitches. I will officially be the first one to start the flog back in the New Year. Cecil is in an exam so I sure he won't start back until later tonight. He will probably be exhausted from writing, and I am sure he will spend half the night indulging in some pleasure/celebration food. And well, we didn't warn Nwenna we were starting back, so she is at a disadvantage. The holidays were filled with tons of sinful pleasure. The trip back home was a total disaster, from eating at all my favorite fast food joints to eating dessert multiple times in a day. A little monitoring will be very much necessary in the New Year so that I won't be shopping in the Husky section of JCPenny's. With that being said, let's get into it.

This morning I had a cinnamon raisin bagel for breakfast. Somehow I need to find someone something fulfilling and tasty to eat in the morning. The bagel isn't going to cut it. I’m sure eating a bagel has to be equivalent to eating an entire box of cereal. Lunch wasn’t much better; it however was at least in a reasonable portion. I have a great Brazilian spot on the way home from my gym that I probably stop at too frequently. I had some chicken wrapped in bacon and a little pork leftover. Yeh, it even sounds bad after I typed it out. Also, someone needs to come get these sea salt and cracked pepper chips out of my desk drawer.

That was relatively painless; dinner will be too be continued….

Motivation

Ok, I have been really lazy about flogging recently. I got out of the groove for some reason but I guess I should get back to it. I found a picture of me and one of my grade school friends from when I went to the bowl game in Florida back in '03. Yes, I knew I was looking a mess in the photo, but when I sent the image to Cecil he confirmed it. Determined to never look like that again, I will start back flogging. One friend suggested I should flog my liquor intake, but I won't take it to such a desperate measure yet. O yeh, soon I will be posting this horrendous picture, please don't laugh too hard.

Today hasn't been to catastrophic on the calorie intake side. For breakfast I had my english muffin with peanut butter, toasted of course. I am really getting tired of those things but there isn't a wide variety of things to eat in the AM that aren't fried or actually taste good. I have had two snacks already today. I recently tried the Kashi Go Lean bars from the Shaws across the street and decided I would finish the two left in my drawer. Lunch was leftover pizza. Two slices of Digornio's Supreme and about 10 cheddar cheese pringles. I need some vegetables for ruffage. Yes again we are calling on Jesus to take the wheel so that I can get my diet back on track!

Doggy Bag?

It was hella hard to get out of the sack this morning. Did I mention there is nothing cute about getting up at 5am? For my first breakfast I chose to have a protein shake and a banana. The strawberry protein shakes are getting kind of played out but rest of the Syntha-6 protein flavors are garbage. I got in a pretty kick ass cardio session this morning. I lost about 3-4 lbs in water weight this morning. By the time I left the gym i was weighing 188. Of course I was starving by the time I got to work so I had my peanut butter english muffin and a coke zero. I am not sure but I think I blacked out on the way to work because at one point while driving I was sure I was going the wrong way. SMH. I am sure I have surpassed 2k calories for the day and it is only 12. I had 2 hard boiled eggs for lunch and the rest of my Cheesecake Factory chicken and biscuits left from yesterday. I didn't too much touch the mashed potatoes left over. I just figured all those carbs weren't too good, plus I am sure they made them with 50% butter.

西艾尺艾艾娜伊艾丝伊

Betcha didn't know your boy knew a lil Chinese eh? Actually I don't I just copied that from a website. Yes, I treated myself for my weekly "yes it is Friday and I made it through another week!" Chinese buffet is what I had, and it wasn't as diasterous as I thought it may be. I had a few fried items here and there, but mostly kept it to sushi. Buffet grade sushi isn't the best but it will suffice when you are hungry.

Breakfast was the same damn english muffin and peanut butter. I opted to have only one today, I was being good. Plus I had a ham and cheese sandwich at 1:30am last nite in a drunken stupor coming home from the club. SMH.