Drive home:
20 oz Diet Pepsi
small stick sausage (5/$1.00)

Dinner:
Chicken & Dumplings
salad with walnuts, craisins, carrot strips, parmesan, and Ken's Lite Burgundy Basil Vinaigrette dressing;
16 oz. grape Kool-Aid (2/3 sweet).

No lunch, really.
Afternoon stuff:
20 oz Diet Mug root beer
1 slice, red velvet cake
1 slice (a little extra frosting) chocolate on chocolate cake.
'Bye Quinton.

Drive in:
20 oz Diet Dr. Pepper.

Breakfast (at work):
small square cheesey hash brown casserole
big slice of this breakfast cheese/tomato/pastry pizza-shaped (but tastes nothing like pizza) thing
small slice apple turnover
1 piece of Peach French Toast (several million calories!)
16 oz coffee.

Trip to church:
20 oz Snapple Diet Air (new, untinted)

At church:
8 oz coffee

Dinner at Cracker Barrel:
Catfish, grilled
side beans
side collards
corn muffin
16 oz iced tea
1/2 strawberry shortcake w/ whipped cream & ice cream
8 oz coffee.

Last night, late night:
pear
banana
4 tiny squares, Cadbury Fruit-n-Nut (owemjee!!!)
6oz. whole milk

This morning:
Skipped breakfast:

Drive in:
20 oz. Diet Coke w/ Lemon.

Office:
16 oz. coffee.

Lunch, Chez Speedway:
American sub, 480 cal.;
16 oz. Nestea Diet Lemon.

Drive to Birch Run:
20 oz. Diet coke w/ Lemon;
10 over speeding ticket (no calories, but expensive - and 2 points)

Dinner, Applebee's:
Fiesta Lime Chicken (forgot about the cheese sauce - yummy, though);
rice;
excelsiorized tortilla chips;
2 20 oz iced teas (unsweetened)

The Chilicheeze Weblog - I thought it was interesting, anyhow...

Skipped breakfast.

Drive in:
32 oz. Faygo Raspberry sparkling water.

At work:
16 oz. coffee (yay for my Empire Builder cup - still warm 2 1/2 hours later!)

Lunch at Mr. Taco:
side beans;
side rice;
chips & medium salsa.
also 20 oz. diet Coke w/ Lemon from Speedway.

Between:
20 oz Diet Dr. Pepper;
2 8 oz. coffees;
20 oz. Diet Sprite.

Dinner (way late!):
3 med. ravioli w/ cheese & sauce;
baby peas w/ butter.

Lunch:
Kroger Turkey Lavosh sandwich;
Dannon Boysenberry Yogurt;
20 oz. Aquafina.

Exercise: 20-25 minute walk.

Yesterday - exercise
Lotsa yard work:
A couple hours on the tractor (almost no exercise, but some sun!):
1/2 hour with the tiller (serious workout);
1/2 hour with the push mower (aagh! real hard time getting it going - resulting in lots of arm exercise).

Breakfast:
2 pancakes (from Seros doggie bag) w/ butter and (real) maple syrup;
2 sausage links;
2 8 oz. cups coffee.

Trip in:
1 20 oz. Diet Dr. Pepper;

At work:
1 16 oz. coffee.

Late night:
20 oz. Diet 7-up.

Between:
20 oz. instant iced tea.

Dinner:
Ya-ya's chicken breast,
garlic rice;
salad with walnuts, craisins, carrot strips, parmesan, and Ken's Steak House Ranch dressing;
20 oz. water;
10 ox. white grape juice.

Breakfast:
1/2 bowl Rice Chex;
3 8 oz cups coffee;
2 sausage links.

Lunch:
1 breast, 1 thigh, Ya-ya's chicken;
Watergate Salad;
10 oz. water.

Skipped breakfast. 3 8 oz cups of coffee at church.
Lunch at Seros in Lapeer:
Southern omelet (scraped off some gravy, but not enough);
buttered rye toast;
oatmeal w/ milk, raisins, brown sugar;
12 oz. coffee.
Ordered pancakes, but didn't eat them.

Between:
20 oz. Snapple Diet Air.

Dinner:
beef teriyaki;
salad with walnuts, craisins, carrot strips, parmesan, and Ken's Lite Sun-Dried Tomato dressing;
Watergate Salad;
8 oz. water.

Big family picnic today, lunch & dinner, nephew Chris' graduation. Here's what I remember:

Lunch:
1 piece of ham & cheese sub;
1 Ya-ya's chicken thigh (Ya-ya's is THE best chicken I've had anywhere, mid-Michigan chain, only 4 stores or so - not breaded, but marinated);
water;
small helpings of:
potato salad,
taco salad, and
cole slaw.
dessert a little later:
Watergate salad,
Dirt cake;
chocolate graduation cake, white icing.


In between:
12 oz. coffee;
16 oz. Diet Snapple gren tea w/ lime.

Dinner:
Ya-ya's thigh & leg,
potato salad,
Watergate salad,
dirt cake,
relish tray assortment.

Fortunately, not many of these.

Breakfast - Mickey D's:
breakfast burrito;
16 oz. black coffee;
10 oz. orange juice;
1/4 Kim's sausage biscuit.

Dinner at Lucky's Steak House in Imlay City (tried to go see SW2, no late show on Friday!!):

16 oz Guinness ($4.50 - where were the dancing girls?);
very good tossed salad (yay!) with cheese (boo!) and vinegar and oil (light oil - yay!) - needed second application of v&o (boo!);
boiled veggies, broccoli, carrots, zucchini, cauliflower - no butter, little or no salt;
killer hot bread, half a skinny loaf, lotsa butter (and parmesan? garlic salt? - something else, anyhow - stuff is addictive);
lightly breaded walleye big! (14 oz?) only ate 2/3 of it. A little tartar sauce, mostly lemon, though.

Kim had bread and caesar salad and bacon/cheese soup, and a shot of Bailey's.

My favorite thing there is a black&bleu burger - cajun spices & bleu cheese. Have to stay away from THAT for a while.

12 oz. Crystal Clear peach when I got home - Daf want more! Uh!

Ride home - 16 oz. 4-shot Americano w/ shot of peppermint. Need to find out cals for coffee syrups!

Other vital stats:
6'4"
38 in. waist (probably really 41-42, but I still squeeze in)
44T suit (last purchase, probably really 46 now)
Age: 47
Average weight at 20: 170
Average weight at 25: 180
Average weight at 30: 190 (brief ballooning up to 210 at 28)
Average weight at 35: 193
Average weight at 40: 210
Average weight at 45: 220 (brief dip to 200 during Atkins diet)

Never much exercise, but here are activities in which I no longer participate:
Bar band performance - 5 hrs per night on my feet, under lights, bopping around, stopped at age 38 - note sharp weight gain since! Church performance and recording (what I do now) just doesn't compare;
Bar band equipment moving - great exercise, though hit-or-miss in terms of frequency - could get a house gig with no moving for months;
Jogging - auto accident at 27 hosed my knees, but I could put on an elastic knee brace and run - finally gave up at 33;
Softball - never much playing time (there's a story, I'll skip now) - broke finger at 37, only played once since;
Volleyball - my favorite, but never joined a league - maybe I should?
Hiking - Got to do this as a scout dad, and a bit on my own (White Mountains, Olympic Forest). Really miss it, but never any time. So make some time! Dummy...
Walking dogs - THAT I could do. Haven't much lately. I'll start with that. And try to keep up the lunchtime walks.

Lunch:
1/2 hour walk! About time!
Kroger Italian rollup sandwich;
8 oz. Dannon coffee yogurt;
20 oz. Diet Dew.
Have so far stayed away from the remaining donuts.

This morning:
bowl of Raisin Bran & whole milk;
20 oz Diet Coke w/lemon;
16 oz coffee;
glazed cake donut ("mandatory" office celebration).

Honest, they MADE me do it!

The weigh-in from Hell:
245 freaking pounds. 245! Guess I'll go sit AROUND the house. Ba-dum-pum.

Last night (5/23) late night:
bowl of cottage cheese, lotsa pepper;
another 8 oz of Crystal Clear;
bowl of cherry cordial ice cream;
handful of golden raisins.

So much for "if I stop now."

Dinner:
bowl of pork & beans (Kim starts with Bush's then adds, and adds...);
big salad, Ken's Lowfat sun-dried tomato dressing (a bit sweet, but yum!), included pecans, carrots, craisins, parmesan, and more;
3/4 of Alyssa's (my granddaughter) apple/banana Fruitsations (~ 70 cal)
2/3 of Alyssa's Yobaby peach yogurt (also yum - whole milk!) (~75 cal)
12 oz peach "Crystal Clear" soda from Kroger (0 cal - has sucralose?)

If I stop now, it'll be okay...

Trip home (2 hours, 107+ miles):
6 Little Debbie PB/Cheese Crackers (190 cal)
1 Little Debbie Strawberry Roll (230 cal)
20 oz Mug Diet Root Beer (0 cal)

I gotta stop the snacking on the trip! At least I didn't do Fritos today.

Oh yeah. And NO exercise.

What I ate:

5/22 - last night was what kicked off this campaign, I think. Kim (wife) tried to get me to stop grazing, and I just kept going:
bowl of pasta and oil/vinaigrette w/ lemon - sort of a tangy pesto sauce (this was before she got home),
chicken & dumpling,
2 Mott's Peach Harvest singles,
banana,
giant bowl of cottage cheese,
glass of OJ, and a
bowl of buttered corn. She says soon she won't be able to get her legs around me... how's THAT for motivation?

5/23 - breakfast:
bowl of Rice Chex w/ whole milk,
20 oz. Diet Coke w/ lemon.

snack:
coffee (black. always black),
brownie (home-baked by Beth, a co-worker).

lunch:
Diet Dr. Pepper, and
Breakfast sausage (bratwurstesque, in a way) and bun - no toppings - from Speedway.

Resolutions:

Track (and post) what I eat;
Track (and post) exercise or lack thereof;
Weigh in at least weekly (major fear and trepidation for first weigh-in!!!).

Reasons for this blog:

1 - gotta lose weight somehow, maybe public self-ridicule is the answer (hence the public blog);
2 - guys are severely underrepresented here in blogdom;
3 - chance to work on my html.