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.

February 13th

Sorry I missed a few days I was feeling a little under the weather last week. The good news is I am feeling much better now so back to the blog I go.

I got up and had my coffee, juice and oatmeal this morning. Then headed to work with anouther cup of coffee to get me through the morning.

For Lunch I had a Santa Fe Rice frozen dinner, a granola bar, a string cheese and a yoghurt. It was ll very good. Then after I got back from lunch our manager had brought in some cupcakes. I had a chocolate one with chocolate frosting. It tasted great and hit my sweet tooth just right.

After work when I got home I got in a little exercise as I did some manly things around the house. I scooped the drive way from the little now we had. It was to slushy for the snow blower so I had to pull out the old scope shovel to get the driveway and side walks cleaned off. Then I filled up the window washer fluid in the car since it had been empty for about a week.

For supper we made salad. I chopped up a head of lettuce and had some dressing, bacon bits, cheese, croutons and sour cream in a taco shell bowl. It was good but not amazing. I really needed some taco meet or chicken in it. Then after supper I had two chocolate rice cakes for desert.

So I got in a little exercise and didn't eat overly bad so I am going to call it a good day.

February 6th

No exercise and not the best eating today. I need to start exercising in the morning before work. I think I( have devised a good indoor work out I just need to get up and do it. Since our basement is cleaned out I am going to walk/jog laps down there. Then in the middle or at the end, I have not decided witch yet, I am going to do a push up and sit up regiment. I just need to get myself a good nights sleep so I can start getting up and doing it.

I got up and had a cup of coffee, a glass of juice and a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast. Then I made my self another cup of coffee to take to work with me and left it on the counter. It really made my morning drag because I was tired.

For lunch I had the left over Chinese food from last Friday. It was sesame chicken, some steamed rice and some fried rice. I also had a Twix at the end of lunch. Also before and after lunch I had some cookies that a co-worker had brought in. I had two chocolate chip cookies, two rolo cookies and a Oreo ball. I know I had to many but they were just so good and so close. I am going to try and restrain myself tomorrow since there will still be some left at work.

Late in the afternoon I got an email from our real estate agent about the people who looked at our house last week. She had told me on Sunday that it was down to our house and another house. Apparently at the last second they decided to build a house instead of buy. It was nice to know that someone liked our house enough to have it in their final two. It also kind of sucked that they didn't buy it. But if one person liked it then hopefully we will get someone else who likes it soon.

That kind of put a damper on the evening but my wife got home and we watched some TV and had supper. We had left over supper bowl food. I had 4 pieces of pizza and 6 left over chicken wings. They all warmed up surprisingly well. The pizza really surprised me. I just threw back in the oven for about 7 minutes and it came back out crisp and delicious.

February 5th

Today I got a little exercise again because of the snow. Eating not as good due to my anual bad eating during the supper bowl.

I did not get my breakfast I this morning. I got up and did some blogging and cleaning and before I knew it it was noon. I did have a few cups of coffee though. The exciting thing was I had them with no creamer in them just straight black. I am pretty happy I am doing that. I will still probably use creamer in the early morning before work but it is nice to know I don;t need loads of creamer n my coffee any more.

For lunch we had some grilled cheese sandwiches and some cheddar sun chips. It was a nice little pre-Super Bowl meal.

After lunch I changed the kitty litter and took it and the garbage from the kitchen out. Then I pulled on a sweatshirt and cleaned off the front step and scooped off the bottom of the driveway where the snowplow had left a nice wall of wet heavy snow for me. I counted the cleaning and then scooping as my exercise for the day.

After I got back in side I got some food ready for the Super Bowl. I threw some chicken wings in the crock pot, made some lemonade and browned a pound of hamburger and pork sausage to put on our pizzas we were making later. Then I sat around and watched Super Bowl Pre-game the rest of the day.

About 4:30 a friend of ours came over to watch the Super Bowl with us. He has been having a tough time in his personal life so we spent the first half watching the game and commercials, munching on our snacks and talking with him. During the first half I had five chicken wings, plate dip and ships and M&Ms. I also had a few glasses of beer I got for Christmas. Then at half time I made two pizzas. One was a peperoni and pork sausage pizza, the other was a pepperoni and hamburger pizza. The both turned out great. I had three piece of the pork sausage pizza and one piece of the hamburger pizza and a can of beer. Then we watched the rest of the game and tried to keep our friend in good spirits until he left.

Over all it was a nice night but a little on the depressing side. I felt bad for my friend but glad that I had a wonderful wife who loves me through all the difficult time we have been through in the last year.

February 4th

Well the snow storm hit last night and it looks to be as big as they said it was going to be. When we got up the yard, and every thing else, was covered in a thick heavy snow. The news said we already had six inches on the ground and there was still another four to seven inches to come. My wife had to work this morning and I didn't want her driving in this weather by her self so I drove her downtown in the truck. The side roads in our neighborhood would have been almost impassible in a car but the main roads were not terrible just snow packed and icy. I go her downtown and decided I didn't want to drive back in these crappy roads only to turn around and make the same trek again in a few hours. so I parked behind her work and walked across the street to the downtown The Egg and I. I was going to be down there for a few hours so I was glad I had the foresight to bring my Kindle with me to read. There were not to many people there so I got a lot of attention from my server. When I said i wanted a cup of coffee he spent a great deal of time explaining their coffee choices and how they make them. I chose the Rain Forest Bold. He said they grind the coffee beans fresh to order for each pot they make. I also asked for cream with it. Much to my surprise I did not need the cream, the coffee was amazing. I am going to say it is probably the best coffee I have ever had. When he brought my coffee I had still not made a decision as to what I wanted. I asked him what was good and he recommend their Eggs Benedicts. I had never had an Eggs Benedict before but I though i would give them a shot. I went with their Parisian Benedict. it was a buttery croissant half layered with shaved ham, sautéed portabella mushrooms and melted Swiss cheese. Topped with two poached eggs, hollandaise sauce and green onions. It also came with their ranch potatoes, he told me that they bake the potatoes with ranch and garlic spices in the oven then finish them on the flat top grill to order. Lastly I ordered a side of bacon as well. It was all AMAZING! I can say out side my trips to Disney World this is the best breakfast I have ever had. It was all so good and the service was great. I can say with out a doubt that I will be coming back again and I will bring my wife along so she can try it as well.



After I finished eating I sat and read my book and continued to drink the delicious coffee. I had started reading a new book called Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose. It is a book about the GI solders in the US army during WWII starting with the invasion of France on D-Day all the way until the defeat of Germany. I have read Ambrose's Band of Brothers and loved it so when I saw this on sale for a dollar ninety nine on Amazon one day I could not pass it up.

Well about nine thirty my server at The Egg an I came over and told me they were closing early due to the weather. I was a little disappointed but he gave me a big cup of their coffee to go. So i headed to the front and paid then walked back across the street to my wife's work and spent the rest of the morning there reading in their waiting area.

Finally noon rolled around and my wife's work closed so we headed home. The main streets were really good down town when we left but the farther you got to the edge of town the worse they got. On our way home I stopped and tried to help on girl who had gotten her car stuck. Unfortunately for her it was to high centered to get out with out a tow rope and a tractor. I made sure she was ok. she was calling her boy friend to pick her up, and headed home. When I got home the drive way had a lot more snow on it then when we left. so I got my boots on and pulled out the snow blower. Unfortunately the snow was very deep and heavy so it took me about four passes of the driveway to get it cleaned off. It took me about an hour to get the driveway and the sidewalks cleaned off but it was good exercise.



When I came back in my wife and I had some lunch. We made some pizza pockets that really hit the spot after being out in the cold for the last hour. Then I had a yogurt to finish off my lunch. After lunch we got caught up on some TV all afternoon. About 4 we got a call fro our relator about canceling the open house due to the weather. We decided that between the weather and the Super Bowl tomorrow we would not get a lot of people so we cancelled it and settled in for a nice night in.

About seven we finally decided to remove our selves from the couch and make some supper. My wife made Hash-brown casserole. I added a little of my new Buffalo Tabasco sauce to it and it gave it just the right amount of zing. After we ate we settled in for a movie. We had gotten The Ides Of March from netflix. It was a really good movie I would recommend it if you like political dramas. While we were watching the movie I had a bowl of ice cream. Who doesn't want some ice cream when there is a final total twelve to thirteen inches of snow on the ground?

I would say I ate pretty well today and with the snow blowing I got my exercise in. I will probably need to do a little snow clean up tomorrow but nearly as much as I did today.

February 3rd

Today was suppose to be rainy then turn to snow at some point. I didn't get up and walk again because I was tired and lazy. Plus I didn't have to pack any lunched today so it meant I could sleep in a little more. Over all the eating was ok for the day but there was no exersies to speak of.

For breakfast I got up and had my coffee, juice and oatmeal just like normal. Then I headed to work with another cup of coffee.

Since it was suppose to be rainy and or snowy today my coworkers and I had decided to order lunch in today. We ordered from a little Chinese place called Zhang's. I ordered sesame chicken, my favorite if you can't guess, with fried rice, an egg-roll and half an order(4) of crab rangoons. I ended up getting both steamed rice and a side of fried rice. The food was really good and the crab rangoons were great! I could not finish all of it so I put it in the fridge down stars by the break room for lunch on Monday. I was pretty proud of my self that I didn't just keep eating because it was in front of me. After lunch the afternoon just seemed to drag on and on. around 3:30 in the afternoon I started to get a little hungry again, as is the case with Chinese food. so I headed down to the vending machine and got a snickers. It really hit the spot and kept tided over until supper. It did not help to make the afternoon go any faster though.

After I got home we had to run back to Wal-Mart to take back the shower curtain my wife had gotten for our bathroom. The shower curtain just didn't work in the bathroom the way we had hopped. This was a terrible choice. Wal-Mart was a mad house because of the impending snow storm. Luckily after we got the new shower curtain my wife thought of checking out at the jewelery counter instead of standing in one of the long lines at the check out lanes. That saved us about thirty to forty five minutes I think. Then we headed home and put the shower curtain up and it looks really nice.

After that we made some Mmmm Noddle Soup. It really hit the spot on a cold rainy night. We also had some Ranch potato ships as well. After supper we watched some TV had some little apple crisp things my wife had bought at the store. They were little cups of apples in a sauce then after you heated them up for twenty seconds they had a little thing of oats to pour on top. They were really good and rounded out the evening nicely.

February 2nd

I had intended on getting up and walking this morning before work but I was still catching up on sleep from my month of working seven to four so I slept in. I Did get up and have my breakfast. I had a cup of coffee, a glass of juice and a bowl of oatmeal. I have noticed that when I eat breakfast I have a little extra pep in my step in the morning.

For lunch I had another Hawaiian Hot Pocket, a string cheese, a yoghurt, and a granola bar. I was still a little hungry so I got a Twix from the Vending machine during lunch.

After work I headed to class. I got there and went to the student lounge to do some reading in my book. When got near the student lounge it seemed very busy around there. Then I realized there was a high school basketball game going on in the gym across from the student lounge. I was lucky I did not have any money on my because they had the concession stand set up in one of the entry ways in to the student lounge and the hot dogs smelled amazing!

While I was at class my wife had run home and done some cleaning up because we had some one coming to look at our house. It was their second time through the house and our agent called them a strong possible buyer. This really excited me because we had been felling a little down about the whole process. So my wife did a little sprucing up then took the cat over to my sisters and went to the store. She was then going to pick the cat up on her way home. The thing is there is a big snow storm predicted for Friday night into Saturday so the stores were a mad house. So by the time I got done with class she was just leaving the store. So I stopped and picked the cat up on my way home and she went straight home to unpack the food she had bought. Class had run a little late so by the time I got the cat it was 8:30. I figured the last thing my wife wanted to do after being trapped at the store in craziness was make supper. So I stopped at DQ (Dairy Queen) and got us some food for supper. I had a double cheese burger, fries and a lemonade. Then my wife and I split an order of cheese curds.

This marked basically the fifth time in 6 days I had eaten out at fast food. Not only am I getting tired of fast food it can not have a good reflection on the scale this weekend. I need to get back at eating at home. Plus Out of all of those meals I was not overly impressed with any of them. I feel like we make better food at home. So next week and the rest of this week is a refocus on eating at home and not going out to eat as much.

February 1st

Today I ate pretty good. The exercise thing I will cover but I think it was exercise.

I bet you can't guess what I had for breakfast. I had coffee, a glass of juice and a bowl of oatmeal. Then I had another cup of coffee at work and I only put one little cup of creamer in it. I am trying to work my way to black coffee because it is so much healthier for me.

For lunch I had to run some errands so I stopped at Amigos on my way back to work and grabbed some lunch. I had four soft tacos. I know that is a lot but they were the special for the day so it was cheaper to get 4 then it was to get three like I wanted. If you have ever been to Amigos you know you have to eat the tacos while the are hot or they get gross.

After work we decided to do some cleaning and de-cluttering based on some feed back we got from a showing a few weeks ago. They said the closets were too full and the bathroom was dirty. So we cleaned out the closets. We took some stuff downstairs to the storage room and some stuff out to storage. Then we moved some things from the office closet to the spare bedroom closet. The closets did look a lot better when we were done. My wife also put some more clothes in space bags to take out to storage as well. As for the dirty bathroom the only ting I could think of was the walls in the master bathroom. I had never really cleaned them since we decide to put the house up for sale. So I got out the vinegar, paper towels and the step stool and started cleaning the walls in the master bath. It took me a little while but I got all the walls cleaned and it made a surprising difference to the look of the room. Hopefully this will make the house a little more appealing to the next person that looks at it and we can get the damn thing sold.

I decided that I am going to count all the work we did as exercise for the day. It took us a few hours to get it all done. So I think a few hours of cleaning is equal to about twenty minutes of exercising.

We finally got home at about 8:30 from the storage unit and showered. For supper we had our left over chicken. I had two chicken breasts and bowl of cottage cheese with bacon bits in it. It was a really good meal but I know that eating at almost nine in the evening is not overly good for me. We use to eat at nine almost every night when we were getting the house ready to put on the market, I don;t know how we did that for months on end.

January 31st

Today turned out to be a good day over all for all my goals of eating and exercising. I ate good all day and got some exercise in. I am pretty happy with my self after the chicken debacle yesterday.

I started they day out the usual way. I had some coffee, juice and a bowl of oatmeal. This is a nice routine I am in and I can tell it helps me get going in the morning. When I miss my breakfast the morning seems like it takes a little while to get going.

For lunch I had the left over Red Lobster from Sunday. That was a bit of a disappointment, fish and shrimp do not warm up well in the microwave I now know. I also had a yoghurt, a string cheese and a granola bar.

After work I headed to school. I spent 25 minutes walking outside around the parking lots. Once it again it felt great walking out side. I can't wait until spring when I can do it all the time. It was also the first time this month that I got two consecutive days of walking in. After my walk I did a little homework in the computer lab and read some chapters in my book for class. I learned some fun stuff in the book, that makes me feel a little like a nerd but I am ok with that. In class we spent time working on a new class project of a marina. It has a lot of different classes and some that will use inheritances and other new things that will be useful to put to practical use after reading about them.

After class I stopped by Runza and grabbed some food on my way home. I got each of us a temperature Tuesday deal. It has a Runza, a medium fry and a medium drink, I got lemon aid as my drink. I also got a bowl of cauliflower cheese soup. I was happy that I have not kept my streak of not up-sized my drink and side yet this year intact again. After supper I had a oatmeal raisin cookie we had in the cupboard while I watched TV.

January 30th

I am going to be honest I made a huge food misstep today. On the bright side I got some exercise in.

I started the day with some coffee, a glass of juice and a bowl of oatmeal before heading to work. I had some coffee on the way to work.

For lunch I had a Spicy Hawaiian hot pocket. It was delicious. It has ham and pineapple in it then some chipolte spices. It is sweet and spicy all at the same time. I also had a string cheese, a granola bar and some buffalo and ranch Doritos.

When I got home my wife and I went for a walk outside because it was so nice out. We walked around the neighbourhood for about 30 minutes. It felt really good to go outside and walk. To bad this nice weather probably will not last until spring.

My wife needed to get gas in her truck. So after our walk we took the truck to get gas and decided to grab some food on our way home and that is when I made my eating misstep. We choose Popeyes and we got chicken, biscuits and two sides of rice. I ate way to much chicken and rice and after I was done I realized that I had eaten to much. Now I need to work all that extra fat and calories off the rest of the week.

January 29th

I want to start out by wishing my Mom a Happy Birthday! We spent the afternoon with my family for her birthday. We went to Red Lobster for lunch. This was the first time I have ever been to Red Lobster as an adult. It was good but nothing I am rushing back to. I think the server we had really hindered my experience, she was not that great and it took us for ever to get our food and get out. We got there at 12:15 and did not leave until 2:00. That is a little long for my taste but over all the food was pretty. I had the Admirals Feast, a caesar salad and cheesy biscuits. I got my salad pretty quick so I ate that and it was pretty tasty but nothing I couldn't have gotten at any restaurant in town. It took forever to get our entries as I mentioned before so I filled up on to many of their cheesy biscuits. I will say that the cheese biscuits were very good. Finally I got my entrée, it had two pieces of fried cod, some fried baby scallops, fried clam strips and fried shrimp. I also got a side of a baked potato. The fish was cooked well and the coating was very good. The Shrimp was really good and the baby scallops were delicious. The clam strips were ok but I don't think I would get them as their own meal. Because of the biscuits I ate waiting for my meal I couldn't finish my meal so I ended up boxing up half of it. My wife didn't finish hers either so we are having left over Red Lobster for supper on Monday night. Over all the food was very good and it was the type of food that I can't really get any where else in town. Over all I would give the food a good grade but the service a close to fail. For my taste if I am going to drive to that part of town there are other restaurants I would rather eat at.

After we ate we headed back to my sisters house. Mom and Dad stooped at TCBY Yoghurt and picked up a cake on their way to my sisters. When we got there we went down stairs and played some kinect games with my nephew. Mom and Dad both played a dancing game with him and they were pretty funny to watch. Then I played Carnival Games with him. He wanted to play the Skee Ball game. The sad thing is that he beat me. In my defence it did take me a few throws to figure out how the angels worked. Then my wife played a rocket ship game with him, she beat him.

After we got done playing games we went up to the kitchen and had the cake Mom and Dad had brought. It was a peanut butter frozen yoghurt cake. It was really good but when is frozen yoghurt not good.

When we got home we played some games and did some laundry before supper. For supper I made two egg sandwiches each with one and a half eggs on them. They were really good and hit the spot on a night when I was not starving. My wife made some pop corn for her supper and I munched on that a little bit while we got caught up on the three episodes Fringe(Great show you need to watch it so they don't cancel it!) we had on the DVR.

We didn't have anything to eat before we went out with my family and eating breakfast every day is something I need to work on. We did do some cleaning before we left to get ready for our open house we were having while we were gone. So I am going to count the cleaning and the kinect game as a little exercises even if it is a stretch.

January 28th

Today I slept in and din;t eat any breakfast. Over all it was a fun day but not the best health wise. We were suppose to have some friends over today but their daughter was sick so we postponed it until next week. So instead we spent the day being lazy, witch is always nice.

I pretty much spent from nine until 6 playing Batman: Arkham City on my Xbox. I got the main story finished for Batman and for Catwoman and beat some of the side missions. Now I have to decide if I want to continue and beat all the side missions or not. If I do I am looking at probably another twenty or thirty hours playing this game. Or I can movie on to another game. I have not made decision yet but it might be a week or two before I play video games again so I have some time to think.

I did take a brief break to eat some lunch with my wife. I had the last bowl of chicken noodle casserole while we watched an episode of Storage Wars we had on DVR.

Finally around 6 we decided we should eat some supper. Since our friends were coming over next week now we decided to save all of the food we had for tonight until next week. So we mulled over our options and decided to go out to eat. We narrowed it down to a few places but Taco Bell won out because it was cheap and we didn't have to change out of our around the house shirts and pajama pants we had one. I had 5 tacos and a cheesy gordita crunch. I t all tasted pretty good but I had also ordered a Beefy Crunchy Burrito that they for got to give us.

After we got done eating and watching an episode of 90210 we put in a movie to keep our Saturday Night Movie streak at four. We watched Crazy, Stupid Love. It was a really fun and cute movie.So I was still a little hungry after we ate so I had a larger then necessary bowl of ice cream during the movie. I know I have said it before but ice cream is like my kryptonite. I have such a problem eating it in proper portions. It is for sure something I can work for the future.

January 27th

Today I worked 9-6 today so my routine was a little off this morning and I missed breakfast. I did get my cup of coffee I though.

For lunch I had to run some errands so I grabbed some food on my way back to work. A few co-workers had been talking about Chinese food and I was really craving it. So another coworker pointed out that there was a Chinese place in a little strip mall by where I was heading. I had seen the place before and it seemed a little sketchy but she said she knew some people who had eaten there and it wasn't to bad. As I headed out to lunch I still wasn't sure where I was going to eat but in the end the pull of the chines won and I went there. It was called The Magic Wok and the magic is that I didn't die. There were just two old Chinese dudes in there and no customers. On of then was surfing the internet on a computer in the corner of the dining room. I almost left but though i would give it a chance. I ordered their Sesame Chicken dinner, I didn't even know what that included but i was fairly sure it was $6.95. I was wrong it was only $5.95 so right off the bat I was thinking that if this place was good I would be coming back. So i got the food and headed back to work. The meal included sesame chicken that was pretty good. Fried rice that was very good and a crab ragoon that didn't have much in it but was ok. Then I sat back and waited to see if I died of food poisoning. Since I didn't die of food poising and the food was pretty good and cheap I will be going back I think.

I didn't get off work until 6 witch really sucked but my wife had run up to her parents that afternoon for a appointment so she wouldn't be home until later. So I headed home and got a few things done I needed to do. I got all my mileage copied down to paper from my phone and scanned it and sent it in to my case worker for my school grant so I can get reimbursed for the mileage. While I did that I was fielding text messages from our friend that was suppose to be coming over tomorrow about his sick daughter. I also took a long call from my in-laws because they broke their TV and couldn't get it to work. Finally I got my mileage in and my wife got home. She had eaten supper with her parents but I had not yet. So we settled in to watch the series finally of Chuck we had been DVRing and I had two left over bowls of the chicken noodle casserole from last night. I was pretty proud of my self because that was all I had the rest of the night.

So Over all I didn't over eat to much, the Chinese probably wasn't the healthiest meal but hey it didn't kill me. LOL I did not end up getting any exercise in but I am hoping for a really good exercise week next week.

January 26th

Today was pretty good for food and exercise. I haven;t said that since I started blogging again so I am happy!

The one disappointment of the day was the morning. I had to get a few things done around the house before I left this morning so I ran out of time to eat breakfast. So I just took my pills with some water and had a coffee on the way to work. Then at about 11 I was starving so I went down and got some Pop Tarts out of the vending machine and ate those. Probably not the best morning of eating but still not bad.

Since I had had Pop Tarts at eleven thirty I was not overly hungry at lunch. I had my frozen dinner, Santa Fe Rice and Beans, with some Doritos.

When I got to school I went on a 25 minuet walk around the school halls. I really got my heart rate going walking at a brisk pace. I also went up and down a few flights of steps. Over all it was a pretty good exercise experience and I felt better, and a little warmer, when I was done.

Then I hit the computer lab and finished up my horse race program that was do tonight. I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. I wish I would have had a little more knowledge when I started it because I would have done things a little different but by the time I thought of a better way to do thinks I was already waist deep in the program so I just made it work.

After class I came home and my wife had made us chicken and noodle casserole for supper. It was really good and I had was really hungry so I had two bowls of it. But on the bright side I didn't have anything else the rest of the night while we watched TV.

January 25th

Good day for food and I am going to count my running around stores after work as exercise.

Got up and had my coffee, juice and oatmeal per my new routine this morning.

For lunch I had a can of potatoes ham chowder, a yoghurt and a granola bar. I have come to realize that these cans of soup are very filling. I think I am going to start splitting them into two containers and having a can last for two days.

I got a text that someone wanted to look at our house after lunch so after work I headed home instead of doing some errands I had planned on doing on the way home. I tided the house up a little bit and loaded the kitty up in her carrier. I dropped the kitty off in my sister basement bathroom and headed out to run my errands. Since we had to be out of the house for awhile my wife and I decided I would run my errands and then we would meet at Wal-Mart and get groceries for next week.

First I went to Menards to return a water filter for our fridge. I had bought the wrong one when we had been at Menards a few weeks before. After I did the return a ran to the back of the store and grabbed the correct filter then checked out and headed to my next destination.

Next I went to Bed Bath and Beyond. I had bought a coffee filter there before Christmas and it did not fit the coffee maker I had, plus I had gotten a new coffee maker since then as well. The took it back with no hassle and I hoped in the car to go to my next stop.

Next I stopped at Sam's Club to pick up some baby aspirin and regular aspirin that my wife and I take for medication. I also grabbed another box of granola bars because we were almost out. After checking out there I headed to my final destination.

My last stop was Wal-Mart to meet my wife and get groceries. I was a little early so I went to look at some ting in the electronics. I had a Wal-Mart gift card that I had been hoping to use to buy an Amazon gift card but I found out after walking around the electronics for awhile that they no longer carried Amazon gift cards. I then spent some time looking through the games and eventually decided I would wait and use the gift card to buy the new Muppets movie when it cam out in march. About that time my wife called and let me know that she was at the store. We meet u pin the pet food area and then headed out to collect all the groceries we needed for the next week. When we had everything and we were ready to check out I left to go pick the cat up while she checked out and headed home. It timed out perfectly. I got home and took the cat in and then she got home right after me.

While I unloaded the groceries my wife started making supper for us. She made us turkey bacon and eggs and I also had four slices of toast with cinnamon butter. It was a very good meal.

After supper and a shower I had a bowl of ice cream while we watched some TV. I need to work on my portion control here. I had way to much ice cream.

In closing I am going to count all my running around in all the stores I went to tonight as exercise because I did a lot of walking even if it was not continues it is still better then nothing.

January 24th

Today I got in some exercise and ate pretty well. I was very pleased with the day over all.

I got up and had breakfast as usual. I had my coffee, juice and oatmeal.

For lunch I had a can of beef and country vegetable soup, a yoghurt and a granola bar. It was surprisingly filling.

After work I headed to school for my class. Getting off at 4 lets me get to school with plenty of time to spare. So as soon as I got thee i started walking the halls at a brisk pace. I kept it up for a little over twenty minutes with out stopping. I was pretty proud of my self. After I got done walking headed to the computer lab and had an epiphany with an assignment I had been working on. I had been doing a for loop while trying to find the differences in two lists. It had worked but I had to do two for loops to get the correct results. I finally figured out to use a Do Until loop and I could do all the processing in one loop instead two. I was pretty happy with the results. Take that computer I win again! LOL

After class I stopped and grabbed some temperature Tuesday Runza deals on my way home. They also had cauliflower cheese soup today so I got a bowl of that for my self as well. It was all really good and stuck with my routine of not large sizing my meal. I am getting back to the no need for large sizing my fast food meals. I mean a non-large sized fast food meal is bad enough for me.

January 23rd

Today was a OK day for eating but no exercise. Today was the first day of our 100 day fitness challenge through my wife's work so I need to start getting moving.

When I got up I had some coffee, juice and a bowl of oatmeal. I think that my eating breakfast might have helped with my weight loss last week. I remember reading one time that eating breakfast will get your metabolism going earlier then if you don't eat breakfast. So I am going to try and keep this breakfast thing up.

For lunch I had a hot pocket, a yoghurt and a granola bar. You know, the usual fair.

For supper we made another batch of cinnamon rolls and had the rest of the Chilli from Saturday night. I had two bowls of chilli and four cinnamon rolls. I probably should not have had four cinnamon rolls but they were just so darn tasty with the chilli.

January 22nd

I got up and finished preping the house for our open house were having later in the day. After I got done with that we loaded the cat up and headed out to my Mom and Dads for lunch. We had some home-made chicken noodle soup my Dad had made. It was very good. We also had some carrots and a veggie pizza my Mom had made. After lunch we sorted through a few boxes of stuff we had out Mom and Dads and chatted with them until it was time to head home. When we got home we caught up on some more TV and had some supper. I had a mini frozen pizza and two frozen cheese mashed potatoes. Then after supper I also had a bag of popcorn while we watched TV.