Day 78 Weigh In

Ok.....here we go..........230LBS
I have not gone #2 in a couple of days.

Day 77 Meals

Protein shake
Grilled Chicken Ceasar Salad
Omega Trail Mix
Sugo's Eggplant parm which was awesome and lite. Two pcs of bread (little pcs) and two little bites of kids pasta and two glasses of red wine.
Two Sugar Free Jello's and Lite Whipped Cream and a Crystal lite Lemonade popcyle.

For you St. Louisans Sugo's is a must. Very authentic Italian, not at all like Pasta House which looks like McDonald's compared to this place. Fresh clean food and normal serving sizes not glutton man sizes. However the pasta dishes are pretty big so you just get to take it home and the kids can get two more meals out of it.

Day 77 Hockey Part II Bobby Orr & Gordie Howe

For those of you who know nothing about hockey, the guy on the left is Bobby Orr, the greatest defenseman the game has ever seen and on the right is Gordie Howe, the greatest "old school" player. Gordie Howe owned every scoring record, until a fella named Wayne Gretzky came along.

But before Wayne there was Bobby Orr, who changed the game into what it is today. Bobby Orr revolutionized the game in the late 1960's to the mid 1970's, until after only nine years, his knees wore out from all the hacking from other teams tyring to stop him. The Bruins were the first team to score 300 goals in a season in a large part because of Mr. Orr. In his day, the rest of the players looked like pylons as he skated around them. He could single handedly take over a game when he wanted to.

Gordie Howe on the other hand epitomized brute toughness. He was not a speed deamon. He was pure might and power. His era was one of speed and power. Which is pretty much what the modern NHL game is today.

When I was a young boy,  Bobby Orr was my idol along with the Boston Bruins. I was not alone in this worship. But in my mind I played with the Bruins and dreamed that one day I would play with Bobby Orr before he retired. I spent hours in the basement, with my strap on roller skates,  replaying the 1972 Stanley Cup Playoffs where the Bruins defeated the New York Rangers who had Brad Park, Jean Ratelle, Eddie Giacamon and many other great players.

This was my refuge before I got away with eating my feelings. I would listen to the AM radio and skate to Elton John's Benny and the Jets, Saturday Night, etc among many other great bands while I scored on poor old Eddie Giacamon. I was the hero and this ritual saved me. This was my routine from the ages of 9-12 living on Westmoreland (1973-1975) before my mom and I moved to 7122 Pershing. Those were magical times. I would come home from school, strap my skates onto my hard shoes and go at. Then break for dinner and head back down again after dinner. I really picked up some skills without any training. I think kids nowadays really miss out on that alone time where you make up games in your imagination.

Day 76 Meals

2 McEgg & Hamm
Grilled Chicken Ceaser Salad
Omega Trail Mix
Turkey Meatloaf, Fennel, Grilled Cauliflower
2 Crystal Lite Pops and a handful of Pistacio's with the shells

Day 76 Weather and Back Pain

Happy Birthday Suzanne!

I hit the Y @ 5:30am. Then off to my breakfast--McEgg & Ham--Do you like that one? So I am chit-chating with Ester (she is a sweet older lady (past retirement age) who works mornings, who waits on my at McD's and she tells me that she is happy that Spring is on the way. And I mention that they are talking snow Saturday here. To which see replies, "I am going to make some nice cookies for the nice weatherman but if he's not so nice I am going to put something not so good in it." I am not going to eat any of her cookies.

So I tell her that we should all be weather people. We'd get paid for getting it right half the time. Then I said "imagine if I ordered my Egg McMuffin and you left off the muffin and you said "well sorry its just how we made it. Thanks for your money--see you next time." She liked that one.

A more serious subject--My back continues to bug the heck out of me but I keep forcing myself. I have to believe that once I get to my goal the pain will go away. I keep reminding myself that Bobby Orr, a great hockey player for the Boston Bruins and Larry Bird, a great basketball player for the Boston Celtics, played in great pain for years. But I believe that I can greatly reduce my issues. I noticed before that when my weight hit 190 and below my back felt like it was brand new. Look at it this way. At 70 lbs overweight, I may as well be pregnant.

Note: these hotel beds suck and they really don't help my back at all. It seems like some large person sleeps in every bed on one side so the bed sinks on one side. It's as if Goldilocks is really fat and she sleeps in every bed in every hotel until she finds just the right bed, but in the meantime she is ruining all the beds for everyone. Ha Ha. Maybe its not Goldilocks, maybe its the three bears who moved out of their house because Goldilocks was too picky. Ha Ha.

Day 75 Meals Road Trip Tips

I am in South Eastern IA so the food choices are limited. The Holiday Inn breakfast is horrible and there really are no options. So what does a healthy person do?

McDonalds.......McDonalds?!.....Yes.....Here is a road trip tip. Order the Egg McMuffin but remove the egg and the ham (Canadian Bacon) and skip the muffin and american cheese. And poof there is your opition.

This is what I ate yesterday for breakfast. But I had two cheeseless and muffinless, McMuffins.
Snack--Lunch was a bag of Frito Deluxe Nuts. I was in no-man's land. This was about 450 calories.
Snack--Omega Trail Mix
Dinner--again a double Grilled Ceaser Chicken salad and water.

I hit the Y late in the day.

Day 74 Part II

So I get up this morning, before I leave for my road trip, and hop onto the scale. And what do you get?... 231lbs? I did hit the gym on Saturday and again today at the Y here in Iowa. I think I just ate and drank too much on Friday night. So tomorrow I will stay on the McD's plan (lunch and dinner salads). I brought the nut packs with me for the snacks.

I still think I should have lost more weight last week because I ate some larger meals than I should allow myself and I "cheated". Hence my devotion this week. Lets see what happens.

Normally when I am here in IA, I treat myself to a great dinner both nights. And cheese popcorn etc. But lets try the McD's (I should own stock in McD's....nahhhhhh...that just doesn't seem right). Whole Foods might make more sense.

Breaking 230 would be awesome! 

Day 72 Through Day 74 Meals

Ok game on....Saturday was not great. But not really bad either.

BFT--Egg Beaters
SNK--Omega Trial Mix
LNC--Grilled Chicken w/mixed greens
SNK--almonds
DNR--3 small servings 1/4 wheat pita with pork loin and some veggies.
DSRT--2 glasses of Newman's Cab and a pettifore, a little snowball, small cup cake, and some kind of small chocolate covered creame cheese sucker thing.

Sunday--All the above thru Dinner:
DNR--grilled chicken and veggies
DSRT--3 pops

Monday--
Egg Beaters
No snack
Panera Ceaser Salad w/chicken
Roasted Almonds and Omega Trial Mix
Chicken Chilli--One bowl

Tuesday--
Egg Beaters
Almonds and Omega Trail Mix
Panera Chicken Ceaser
Almonds
McD's Salad with Chicken 2 of them
Omega for dessert.