Wednesday July 17th

I got up and rode the bike for twenty minutes followed by a two egg omelet and some coffee on the way to work.

For lunch I had a toasted pepperoni and salami sandwich with pepper jack cheese on it. I also had a applesauce cup, a granola bar, a bag of fruit snacks, a string cheese and a bad of sun chips. In the afternoon a co-worker was having a birthday and brought in a huge cookie to share. It would have been rude not take a piece so I did. It would not have been rude to go get a second piece toward the end of the day but I did any way. Cookies are a weak point for me, they are just to darn good.

My wife was not feeling well so after work she went to the doctor to try and feel better so we did not exercise at all. I could have done some by my self but I did not. For supper I had marinated some chicken in a lemon marinade on Tuesday night and let it sit in the fridge over night and all of Wednesday. Then we made some corn on the cob and I had two of them to go with the chicken. It was a great meal. After supper we watched a movie, The Aristocats, and my wife had picked up some Thin Mint candy bars at the store when she got her drugs from the doctor.

Over all an ok day. I could have done with less cookie and more exercise but you can't be perfect every day.

Tuesday July 16th

Yesterday I rode our exercise bike in the basement for twenty minutes first thing when I got up. I like doing that in the morning because it lets me catch up on the news while I exercise. We had been doing really good at exercising in the morning but for some reason in June we kind of fell off of that. So I bumped my self back down to twenty minutes this week just to get myself back in the groove again.

After exercising I made my self a two egg omelet with bacon bits in it and had a cup of coffee with sugar free creamer in it on the way to work.

For lunch I had a Pepperoni and hard salami sandwich with pepper jack cheese. I warmed the meat and cheese up in the oven and toasted the whole wheat white bread in the toaster. It was really good, I am looking forward to it again tomorrow. I also had a little apple sauce cup, a string cheese, a granola bar, a bag of fruit snacks and a bag of Cheddar Sun chips.

We had kind of a crap storm at work yesterday afternoon so I broke down and bought a bag of chocolate chip cookies from the vending machine in the afternoon. I had a free vending machine token and i was kind of hungry and craving something sweet. If I had not had the free token I think I could have resisted. Hopefully with token gone now I will have a little better restraint.

When I got home we decided to exercise inside since it was a heat index of almost 100 outside. I rode the bike again for twenty minutes while we watched some TV and chatted about our days.

For supper we made bacon wrapped sirloin steaks on the grill. Then we cooked some onion rings we got at the store in the freezer section in the oven to go with them. The steaks came out a perfect pink in the middle and really juicy. The onions rings were a nice side dish for them, they crisped up really well in the oven.

After dinner we watched a movie, Walt $ El Gruop, and I restrained my self to one cup of honey flavored greek yogurt for my after dinner snack. The snack was much better then the movie, the movie was very slow and a little to dry for my taste.

Monday July 15th

I slept in on Monday as is my usual routine now, hence I did not eat any breakfast. I need to start doing better at eating a little something before I go to work even on days when I do not exercise. When I got to work there were some left over cinnamon rolls that were left over form last week and they were still sealed in a container and still good so I had one to tide me over until lunch. At lunch time the guys tried to tempt me into going out for lunch but I know I am already going out for lunch on Thursday with my mom so I passed and ate teh lunch I brought with me. I had some left over vegetable pasta we had made on Sunday night for dinner, a applesauce cup, a string cheese, a bag of chips, a bag of fruit snacks and a granola bar. I was a very filling lunch and the vegetable pasta warmed back up very nicely. When I got home m y wife and i went for a one mile walk around the school before we made supper. For supper we made a layer salad. It was a layer of iceberg lettuce, fresh red onion from the farmers market, fresh tomato slices from the framers market, spinach, artichoke and cheese on top. It was really good and i had two bowls of it. As usual I probably put on to much salad dressing but it is something I am working on. Later in the evening I had some peanut butter and grape jelly toast. Four slices to be exact. Also I had a few handfuls of peanut M&M's. Then I had a bag of popcorn later. The bag of popcorn was uncalled for and I know that so I will be trying to cut down on my post dinner snacking in the future.

Trying To Slim Down For Disney World

I am back at the blogging thing again. I am trying to get in better shape because my wife and i are going to go to Disney world in December and there will be a lot of walking and i want to make sure I can fit in all the rides. I am going to try and do a daily post of my eating and exercise for the day to try and keep my self accountable for what I eat and how much I exercise. I will also do a weekend round up on Monday mornings. I plan on posting my starting weight at the begging of August, or as close as my scale will get to a starting weight. My hope is to be close to 310 by the time we go to Disney World at the beginning of December. That means I will probably need to lose around 25 pounds in 4ish months. I don't know if that is do able but I am going to try.