Oops.

Traveling days suck.

• Sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit
• orange juice
  
• Double Whopper with cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo
• Clif bar
• Balance Bare bar
• cup of turkey noodle soup
• side salad - iceberg, croutons, cheese, raspberry vinaigrette
  
• 12oz prime rib
• baked potato, butter, salt
• apple pie a la mode

Hey, at least nothing was deep fried.

Almost forgot!

Yikes.

• Balance Bare bar
• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
• Cytofuse recovery shake
• Turkey sandwich on multi-grain bread, lettuce, tomato, and mayo from Saxapahaw General Store
• handful of Sun Chips
  
• huge salad with rotisserie chicken (from Harris Teeter) on it...mixed greens, shredded carrots, raw broccoli, two hard boiled eggs, cheese, honey-dijon vinaigrette

Next up, traveling day. Ugh.

Brewery!

The food is generally good at the Carolina Brewery in Pittsboro, but man, the service is always highly mediocre. Our waitress did fine, but the lady doing the seating was just odd. She was giving one guy in our party crap for wearing a Tony Stewart cap in a friendly way, but it's still just a dumb thing for restaurant staff to do. Then later she stopped by our table to ask who we all worked for and be all chatty, all the while holding my arm and whacking me on the back. Again, not something you do to strangers, and not why we came there.

• Balance Bare bar
• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
• Cytofuse recovery shake
• taco salad from Carolina Brewery (grilled chicken, mixed greens, onion, tomato, cheese, salsa) and I did not eat the bowl
• two pb&j sandwiches with the all natural Smuckers stuff on wheat bread
• big glass of whole milk
• bowl of grapes
  

Yeah, supper was jacked up tonight. Ash intended to do an awesome chicken dish in the crock pot, but somehow forgot to plug it in this morning. Didn't realize until she got back around lunch time that it was never really on. She had a 6pm meeting at school and I didn't want to go out again (during this ugly weather), so the kids had leftovers and I had pb&j.

Yeee-hoo!

Short list again.

• Balance Bare bar
• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
• Cytofuse recover shake
• Double BLT from Merritt's Grill on wheat, light mayo, no salt and pepper
• two steak and two chicken soft tacos from Armadillo Grill, each with lettuce, tomato, and cheese
• handful of pecans
• bowl of grapes
  

Still pretty decent, though. Hopefully Jonas notices that I switched from crispy to soft tacos at his suggestion. I'm down over seven pounds in three weeks. Yes!

Back to the grind.

Workout this morning.

• Balance Bare bar
• Muscle Milk shake (2 servings)
• Cytofuse recovery shake
• big salad with mixed greens, steak, two hard boiled eggs, cheese, and honey-dijon vinaigrette
• two steak and cheese quesadillas with chipotle salsa
• bowl of grapes

And much, much water. Soon Jane will be telling me I'm going to start craving water. She already says that about salad, but I've got a funny feeling she missed the mark on this one.

Was I awake today?

Shortest list ever.

• Balance Bare bar
• big salad with steak, two hard boiled eggs, mixed greens, pecans, apple slices, cheese
• bbq chicken, black eyed peas, macaroni and cheese
• banana
  

I think from now on I'll make the egg and the apple slices mutually exclusive as salad ingredients. I like both, just not together.

Saturday.

I'm too tired to come up with anything even half way witty, so here it is:

• Balance Bare bar
• steak stir fry with green and red peppers, broccoli, and carrots
• rice-a-roni
• one bite of chocolate chip cookie
  
• 9" "grinder" from Rudinos with cheese, roast beef, turkey, lettuce, tomato, and mayo on wheat
• couple handfuls of popcorn
• couple handfuls of pecans

BORING.

Back on the wagon again...

Damn, I really wanted Mt. Dew tonight. REALLY wanted one.

• Balance Bare bar
• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
• Cytofuse recover shake
• Jersey Mike's "number 9" regular sub on wheat (turkey, roast beef, swiss cheese, light mayo, lettuce, tomato)
• half bag of Doritos (Zach and I split it)
• two Char-Grill hamburger steak sandwiches with mayo, ketchup, and cheese
• handful of pecans

I guess this is decent. LOOK JONAS, NO FRIES! AND NO "CRISPY" CHICKEN!

Back to normal.

Wheeeee.

• Balance Bare bar
• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
• Cytofuse recover shake
• Turkey sandwich on multi-grain bread, lettuce, tomato, and mayo from Saxapahaw General Store
• handful of pecans
• crispy chicken salad from Red Robin

Yep, back to normal. Sweet.

Flying days suck.

Okay, last day of badness for a while. But this was definitely my worst day since starting this blog.

• banana
• two steak and egg biscuits from McDonalds
• orange juice
• two packs of Lorna Dune shortbread cookies
• Wendy's crispy chicken sandwich
• fries
• Mr. Pibb soda
• chicken strips from Chick-fil-A
• large fruit cup

It's just that flying sucks. We were short on time and needed to go through one line for something for the four of us quickly. Wendy's fit the bill, as did McDonalds in the morning. I know, we can do better. Next time.

Ski day 3.

Here we go again...

• three pieces of bacon
• two bowls of Honey Nut Cheerios, whole milk
• chicken and cheese quesadilla
• half pack of peanut M&Ms (from two days ago)
• banana
• Clif bar
• steak
• vegetable stir fry (snap peas, broccoli, green peppers, zuchini, carrots, etc)
• potato casserole
• big chocolate chip cookie

Just awesome. Not. Flying tomorrow. Won't be much better.

Ski day 2.

Ugh.

• Balance Bare bar
• bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios, whole milk
• two cheese burgers, ketchup, lettuce, tomato
• one macadamia nut cookie
• 20 oz Mountain Dew (my first soda in almost 2 weeks)
• lemon bar
• spaghetti with meat sauce
• side salad
• small piece of garlic bread

I'm sure I'll pay for that Mt. Dew in muscle soreness. I'm really tired from a full day of skiing.

Ski day.

So sue me.

• scrambled eggs
• bacon
• orange slices
• footlong hotdog with ketchup and cheese
• small bag of Doritos
• half bag of peanut M&Ms
• Clif bar
• half fruit punch Gatorade
• grilled chicken breast (HUGE!)
  
• potatoes au gratin
• side salad (Jane will have to give me the ingredients)
• lemon bar (tiny one, homemade dessert by Colleen that was MISSING the powdered sugar, but honestly that's a good thing for me)

I'm vacating, dammit.

Airports Suck

Can't find nothing good.

• scrambled eggs
• sausage patties
• bacon
• a few breakfast potatoes (yes, fried)
• Nature Valley Fruit and Nut bar
• Southwest Airlines peanuts (three packs)
• apple
• pb&j sandwich
• Ritz Bits peanut butter sandwich crackers
• Cheez-its (handful)
• one pack of Lorna Dune shortbread cookies
• chips and hearty salsa
• In-N-Out double/double with sauce
• Hilary's really really good homemade burrito with chicken, black beans, cheese, tomato, onion

Dang, I ate a lot today. But I was still hungry most of the day somehow, too. Strange.

Eh.

It's Friday night, what can I say.

• Balance Bare bar
• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
• Cytofuse recovery shake
• big salad (mixed greens, shredded carrots, cheese, broccoli, lots of grilled chicken)
• grilled chicken sandwich from The Loop with lettuce, tomato, mayo, bacon
• fruit cup
• half of Kevin's hamburger
  
• one french fry
• one sip of coke
• one animal cracker (stolen from Zach)

Yes, I'm being that complete. And I've been that complete all along.

What doesn't kill us...

...doesn't kill us, I guess. I don't know that I agree about the stronger part. Anyway:

• Balance Bare bar
• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
• Carrburrito burrito with black beans and chicken with chips and chipotle on the side
• Pizza from Rudinos (pepperoni and meatball)
  
• side salad (olives, mushrooms, onions, cheese, tomato, iceberg, balsamic vinaigrette)

Not my best day. Not particularly horrible, I guess.

Decent.

Short list today. Not much snacking (though the pb&j was at 10:20pm, which probably isn't the greatest idea but I was getting kind of hungry).

• bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios with whole milk
• four crispy tacos from Armadillo Grill
• big salad with mixed greens, cheese, shredded carrots, raw broccoli, pecans
• roast beef, mashed potatoes, and gravy (from the other night)
  
• Cytofuse recovery shake
• pb&j sandwich with Smuckers all natural crunchy peanut butter and spreadable fruit (strawberry)

I was tempted by the lure of pizza at an event tonight, but was able to avoid it. It also appeared that if I wanted water I might have to take a cup in the bathroom, but I was saved by a hidden case of bottled water. They did have plenty of soda (diet and otherwise) available along with a good beer selection, so the idea of going to the bathroom for water in a foreign household didn't seem great. It would have just been at least a little weird to do that, I think.

Normally I get three tacos and an order of chips and queso from Armadillo, but those chips and queso, in large quantity have to be bad for me, right? But somehow I'm thinking not really the more I think about it, and the four tacos didn't fill me up like the three+chips do, so I'll have to re-think that one.

Bad Day.

It was a bad day on two counts...one, I didn't eat very well, and two I forgot to post this last night like normal.

• Balance Bare bar
• one bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios in whole milk
• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
• Cytofuse recovery shake
• pot roast, mashed potatoes and gravy from the night before
• three meat balls, handful of nacho chips and salsa, small barbeque sandwich (tiny, really), some sort of tiny (two bite) tortilla appetizer with chicken in it, two hot dogs, some popcorn (high quality stuff except the hot dogs...didn't have much choice as we were at a basketball game as guests and didn't have time for a proper supper beforehand)

So, no vegetables, couple hot dogs, etc. At least I didn't have much sugar again. Still, not a good day.

Calorie up!

My workout was pretty tough today...don't know if that was it, but I've been pretty hungry today. Had to have a pb&j late, even. *sigh*

• Muscle Provider shake
• Balance Bare bar
• Cytofuse recovery shake
• apple
• Turkey sandwich on multi-grain bread, lettuce, tomato, avocado, and mayo from Saxapahaw General Store...very large and very good (huge pile of meat!)
• apple slices
• handful of walnuts
• pot roast
• pepper and zucchini stir fry (just EVOO)
• mashed potatoes and gravy
• handful of grapes
• pb&j sandwich with Smuckers all natural crunchy peanut butter and spreadable fruit (strawberry)

Still no really bad stuff. Yippee.

Well....

Hard to say on this one. The pepperoni rolls are probably not the healthiest. But I've been really good otherwise!

• Balance Bare bar
• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
• Cytofuse recovery shake
• grilled chicken wrap from the Olive Branch Caffe (yes, they spell it that way...ugh!)
• small side of coleslaw
• banana
• handful of banana chips, pecans, walnuts
• apple
• homemade pepperoni rolls (Pillsbury Croissants with some cheese and pepperoni rolled in them)
• cabbage based side salad

Still no soda. Came close to hitting an 8oz. Coke today. Real close. Talked myself off the ledge, though.

It'll do.

Another good day.

• Balance Bare bar
• cup or so of grapes
• banana
• beef-a-roni (leftover from the other night)
• side salad (not huge)
• handful pecans and walnuts
• half a banana (I end up finishing Zach's quite often)
• small handful of banana chips (dried banana)
• bowl of ribollita-like soup (Jane will have to post the details!) over a hunk of bread
  
• side salad with some sort of very light dressing

Breakfast was light today since I got up a little late. But I have an excuse! Insomnia. Woke up at 3:45 (thanks to a child) and just couldn't go back to sleep until around 6am. *sigh* No workout today...hitting it again tomorrow, though. Five days in a row is enough anyway. Might get six starting tomorrow, but have a weekend plus a couple days off after that.

I'm not sure how to define today.

You tell me.

• two bowls of Honey Nut Cheerios in whole milk
• about three cups of grapes
• huge Chef Salad from Elmo's in Carrboro
  
• handful of pecans
• banana
• 10oz Ribeye, five ribs, baked potato (salt and copious butter), three yeast rolls (some butter), two french fries (honey mustard and stolen from the kids), all from Texas Steakhouse
  
• Cytofuse recovery shake

Fat is probably still high, but sugar has been in check all week. The Elmo's salad had ham, turkey, roast beef, one whole boiled egg, cheese, tomatoes, and lettuce and I put honey dijon vinaigrette on it. It's a large salad, too, and I ate it all. Ate every bit of my dinner, too. Was fairly hungry at dinner, but was pretty full after.

Oh, and while I'm not breaking things down by meal, I am trying to keep everything in the order it was eaten. When you see breakfast as a shake and a bar followed by a recovery shake, that means I did a morning workout. There's a recovery shake at the end of today because I went and ran on the treadmill when we got home from supper. Even on days when I play basketball at lunch, I typically sleep late those days and have the bar and shake before noonball, then a recovery shake right after (I take that with me now) and then lunch pretty quickly after that.

I feel a bad day coming on at some point, but I'll go with "good" for today. I'm open to opinions as well as suggestions on healthy snacks. So far I've got fruit, nuts, and Clif bars in my arsenal.

Good Day.

Break it on down!

• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
  
• Balance Bare bar
• Cytofuse shake
• mixed greens salad with leftover chicken breast from the other night, shredded carrots, raw broccoli, shredded cheese, balsamic vinaigrette dressing (and it was a huge salad!)
• beef-a-roni (Ashley's recipe...boxed mac-n-cheese, ground beef, some additional spices), pretty huge portion
  
• green beans
• an apple
  

My overall caloric intake is down and probably too low as I've been hungry a LOT. But we're going to have more fruit and nuts and stuff around starting tomorrow, I think. Gonna do better. Strongly tempted by some chocolate on Alisa's desk as well as some mini Reese's cups on the counter this evening. Stayed away. I'm thinking I need to have a small treat every now and then, though, or I might binge at some point.

Decent Day.

Seemed to be hungry all day and kept trying to do healthy snacks, but it never went away. The salad at The Loop was decent sized, and finishing Zach's grilled cheese seems to have put me in a happy place, but it obviously wasn't the best thing for me. Oh well.

• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
• Balance Bare bar
• Cytofuse recovery shake
• half chicken salad sandwich and mixed greens salad from Town Hall Grill
• medium Chick-fil-A fruit cup
• banana
• Cranberry Apple Cherry Clif bar
• mixed greens salad with light ranch
• grilled chicken sandwich with bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and mayo from The Loop
  
• half of Zach's grilled cheese sandwich
• one french fry (dipped in ketchup)...and yes, I mean "one fry", not one order of fries.

The day is far from over and there's a visit to the Dean Dome in my future tonight, but I will only be having water there. This is day three with no soda. I've had somewhat limited sleep the last two nights, so going soda-less today has been a struggle. Dying for the caffeine. Happy to have won the fight, though. I need to buy more Clif bars to have around as they are reasonably healthy as well as filling snacks, though I'm going to try to stay with just fruit when I can. Nature makes good snacks, too.

Decent Day.

Well, today was just decent.

• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
  
• Balance Bare bar
• Cytofuse shake
• mixed greens salad with leftover chicken breast from last night, shredded carrots, raw broccoli, shredded cheese, balsamic vinaigrette dressing (and it was a fairly large amount of salad!)
  
• half an apple (it was a little soft for my taste)
• Red Robin bacon cheeseburger, about half my fries
• piece of Lizzie's gingerbread and a cup of whole milk
• banana
  

Also updating a few more food products. I take Garden of Life Living Multi supplements every day. My Muscle Provider shakes also usually have a half scoop of Garden of Life Super Seed. It's good additional fiber and slows the absorption of the rest of the shake for better energy delivery.

It was a good day.

The weigh in wasn't so good this morning at my workout, so I'm going to do something about it. More exercise and eating way better. So here's today:

• Balance Bare bar
• Muscle Provider shake (2 servings)
  
• Cytofuse recovery shake
• Carrburrito chicken burrito with black beans and chips and salsa
  
• Chicken breast, skinless, pan fried, toasted sesame teriyaki marinade
• Rice-a-roni
• Broccoli, steamed
• banana
• apple

I'm going to only list drinks that I have in a day that are not water. I'm not really concerned with quantities on anything relatively good for me, though I'll try to list quantities on things I have that are bad for me. We can assume I'll be having plenty of water and I don't care to track that anyway.

Also note that I tried a couple of online food diary sites and hated them. Took way too long to search through and find your food items, and I don't really care to calorie count anyway. I just want to blog what I ate to keep track of it and help know that I'm going to be posting in public when I eat crap, too. No crap today. Wheee.