Days 17 & 18 – Bye bye bands…

Ahhhhh Wednesday – the first day to sleep in all week (sleep in meaning 6:55am)!  I woke up refreshed got ready and made my breakfast for the day…4 veggie sausage patties and one english muffin.  I also enjoyed an apple on the way to work.  Let me take a moment to say one thing about apples…WHEN THE F DID THEY START COMING IN SO MANY DIFFERENT VARIETIES?  Growing up we had Granny Smith and Red.  Were we too poor to afford the other kinds?  Did our local grocery stores just not carry them cuz everyone was afraid of them?  Now we have Granny Smith, Red Delicious (they are delicious), Gala, Fiji (or is that the water?), Jazz, guagua (or something like that) and MANY MANY MORE!  It’s flippin’ ridiculous!  Who names apples?  Why do all the apple’s stickers have fish on them?  Isn’t that kind of contradictory like putting a picture of a butt on a lollipop wrapper; would you buy that?  Obviously, it hasn’t stopped me or the rest of the public from buying apples, but still….

I actually wasn’t feeling sore at all after a night of Plyometrics.  I felt a little stiff Tuesday night, but was fine in the morning.  Muscles must be developing, right?!  For lunch I enjoyed using my George Foreman and had chicken breast with romaine lettuce and sweet corn.  These chicken breasts that I bought from Kroger must be from the Dolly Parton Chicken House!  It’s great though because they really fill me up.  I have to say, I’m pretty amazed at the cooking of the Foreman and I don’t know why I never used it at home.  The only thing I don’t like is the tough skin it puts on the outer layer of the chicken, but I deal with it!

The day went fairly quickly and before I knew it, dinner was upon me.  Abbey had the day off, well she was home with Isaac all day, but she made stuffed peppers for dinner!  I thought I was going to eat two of them, but one ended up being enough.  I snacked on some carrots a little later, after our shoulders and arms workout.  So, to the workout…I had previously broken the red and the blue bands that I had been using (I guess my massive strength is enough to snap anything!)  All I had left was the green band (the highest tension) and I surprisingly did pretty well with it.  There was only one exercise that I couldn’t do and it was the behind the head trap thing…impossible with the green…maybe in a few weeks, but not yet!  Towards the end of the video I acatually snapped the green band…I know what you’re thinking “he gave up and quit for the night.”  Maybe the old Jeff would have done that, but not this determined Jeff!  I started using the bands without the handles…just grabbing the rubber bands hoping they didn’t fly out of my hands.  It worked, not perfectly, but it worked!  Abbey and I caught up on some TV..mainly The Biggest Loser and then I had to stay up and work on homework for my class.  Nothing too hard, but had to write a one pager and read a lot.

Before I get into Thursday I want to say something about Tiger Woods.  Ever since I heard he was going to rehab for a sex addiction I have had the same thought pop in my head…over and over again…ARE YOU F’ing SERIOUS?!  On the radio today I heard a good comparison…Tiger Woods saying he has a sex addiction is like me saying I have an Ice Cream addiction, I eat it cuz it’s around.  I agree!  Know what would stop his addiction right away?  If he is a sex addict that means he likes all sex…sex with with women, sex with men, bondage – so I say lock him in a room with “Tiny” from the local prison and say “ENJOY!”  Tiger would run out of there so fast you’d think he changed his name to Cheetah…oh wait, he already did!  Glad that’s off my chest, lets continue.

I woke up this morning not feeling any pain at all.  I’m starting to wonder if I’m doing the exercises wrong since I’m not really feeling anything anymore.  That or I’m just numb to the pain…I don’t know.  I weighed myself this morning and I’m still stuck around 236/235.  I keep saying I’m not worried about the numbers, but that seems to be a good way to guage how I’m doing…one would think anyway.  Then, I go to work and with shoes and all my clothes on I am down to 246.5 (I started at 255).  It’s very odd, I don’t really trust the work scale though…maybe tomorrow I’ll venture to the plant during lunch and use their 99.9% accurate bulk scale…I’ll let you know!

This is how I want you to picture the morning I had…think of a sitcom where a Dad has to take care of the baby and dog in the morning (maybe for the first time)…that was me!  I needed to move my car so Abbey could leave (she was with Isaac since he decided to wake up at 6:20).  I showered and did bathroom duties before she left put on my boxers, a t-shirt and my work shoes and ran outside to move my car.  Once Abbey left I finished getting ready for work and hung out with Isaac.  Everything was pretty hunky dorey till it was time to leave.  The dog was anxious and couldn’t wait to go for a car ride so I had him on his leash (restricted so he didn’t yank me), Isaac in his car seat, and my protein shake.  I thought MAYBE I could hold the shake in my mouth and as I tried that dipped my nose in my smoothie.  I had to put the smoothie down, clean my nose and then I was on my way.  I got outside, locked the front door, then realized I didn’t have my car key….YEAH!  I unlocked the door, reached in to grab my car key then started walking to my car.  As I got to the car I opened Isaac’s door and then BAM – his blanked falls to the road.  Now, on a normal road this wouldn’t have been THAT big of a deal, but since our road looks like woodstock it was pretty gross.  I was finally on my way till I realized I still had only my boxers, shirt, and work shoes on…JUST KIDDING, but that would have been hilarious, RIGHT?! 

I was supposed to meet a friend for lunch today that was coming in town from Cleveland for an interview, but his potential employers took him out instead so I was reduced to CHICKEN!  Today I only had chicken and vegetable soup (the best in the world), shot the shit with some co-workers, then back to the grind!  Dinner was two english muffin sandwiches (one ham) (one turkey) then off to class.  It’s Thursday so I don’t workout because I use it as my rest day (instead of Sunday).  It figures that on my rest day I decide to eat the most calories of the week, but oh well.  I came home from class and was starving (this hasn’t really happened to me yet) so I ate some carrots and hummus.  We watched “The Deep End” (aka Grey’s Anatomy with lawyers) and I’ll give it a thumbs up for a pilot.  During the episode one of the girls had a ton of cupcakes delivered to her and as she was eating one my mouth just started watering and I could actually taste a moist cupcake in my mouth…mmm…it’s watering now!  After the show, Abbey went to bed and I decided to do this…yes, just for you!  I was still hungry so I ate some salad.  I hate to snack at night, but if I’m going to do it at least it’s something healthy.  I actually feel guilty eating after dinner and really it shouldn’t matter if I eat the right things and not a lot of them. 

So that wraps the past two days.  I did promise to contineu with my segment so here it goes.  Down here in Cincy there is a place called Yagoot (PinkBerry of the East).  They have a sign around town that reads “The first 500 million spoons are on us”…
DO YOU THINK….that they will start charging after the first 500 million spoons?  If they did would people eat the yagoot with no utensils?

What’s really funny is that after everything you read in this blog…next time you are at the store you’re going to notice all the apples (and the fish) and laugh.

Until tomorrow or whenever…P90Xcitebike

Days 15 & 16 – Manic Monday/Tiring Tuesday…

Instead of doing two different posts I decided to be lazy and just do one.  Have no fear though, I’m doing my exercises! 

I started Monday by waking up at 5:15 with Abbey – she got ready for work…and I worked out.  The chest and back workout sucks in the morning…just to let you know.  I feel like I regressed for this workout because it seemed to feel like I couldn’t do as many push-ups as I did the week before.  I hopefully solved my problems by buying a set of push-up grips from Target.

For breakfast I decided to go with a protein shake then off to my parents to drop Isaac off.  Don’t you hate it when you get in the car, you’re feeling good, ready to have a good day, you leave on time and then you look down and realize that the whole weekend passed and you NEVER filled your gas tank…DOH!  Thank God Isaac was pretty tired so he was just chillin in his seat while I put in $15 of gas…When you need the pumps to go quickly does it always seem like you get the slowest damn pumps?  Is it Murphy’s Law that you get stuck behind slow people when you’re in a rush or is it just that you are moving so quickly that everyone else seems to be in slow-mo?

I didn’t have time to pack my lunch on Monday so I went Krogering and bought a baked potato, some tuna, plain yogurt (for sour cream…it’s pretty good), and a salad.  Afternoon snack was pistachios, yum.  Dinner rolled around and Abbey and I decided on Salmon – she made it with some simple seasonings and we ate it with veggies…it was a great dinner!  I made another batch of the veggie soup and packaged it all up so Abbey and I could take some for lunches or whatever we want to do with it!  The house behind ours caught on fire and I was so into what I was doing I didn’t notice till I was leaving to go Krogering.  I know they have been trying to sell it for awhile and I don’t htink anyone lives there so I’m pretty sure no one was hurt, but I’d like to know what started it and how bad the damage was.  From my view it doesn’t look that bad, but maybe it was all in the front?!  I have to say it was really nice not having to workout at night, but I did feel like I was forgetting to do something or that I ate everything I ate and didn’t actually burn it off.

It’s Tuesday now and after staying up late to write my day 14 blog and catch up on Hoarders I slept in a little till 6:20am!  I got ready made 6 scrambled egg whites with seasonings and 4 pieces of turkey bacon..I like my breakfasts a lot more than the damn MEAL plan.  6 egg whites is so much more reasonable than 8!  I became a hero at work today because I brought in a George Foreman grill for our kitchen.  In the 3.5 years or so that Abbey and I have been living together we have used the thing once so I’m glad to get it out of our house!  I bought a bag of frozen chicken breasts and put them in the freezer at work so now lunch is going to be a chicken breast and whatever else I want.  Today was a breast, corn, string cheese and veggie soup.  The soup was AWESOME!  In Abbey’s words “fabulous!”  She said this one was better than the first batch – so we did something right…WOOHOO!  We talked about dinner over IM and decided that we were both going to be on our own…she was happy with cereal and a banana…I was just going to have ham and turkey sandwiches on english muffins. 

So…I had mentioned in a past blog that I had used The Daily Plate so this evening I decided to pop in everything I ate today and see just how many calories I consumed.  THEN I wanted to compare that to an average day when I was “trying” last year.  It amazes me that I thought I was “eating right” by staying under my alotted calories for a day.  The problem was that with everything I ate I was focused on hitting that calorie mark not on what I was putting in my mouth.  I remember always feeling hungry and wanting to eat, but it was because I was eating the wrong foods that weren’t going to keep me full!  Just check out the stats below…it’s nuts!  The July 22 was a decent day, but the choices in food affected a lot (also the lack of exercise didn’t help).   The 27th was a day full of all kinds of goodies including some beer!  MMMMMMM…beer!  Pay attention to not only calories consumed but also the other stats…you’ll be blown away how much they change!

Below is a pie (mmmm…pie) chart of my calorie breakdown for each of the above days…notice a trend?

  

It’s almost midnight on Tuesday and if it were July 22 or 27th there is no way in hell I could be typing the blog because I would be so famished my hands would be busy stuffing some sort of food in my mouth   I’m starting to sound like a health nut…and I’m not.  Once I get to day 45 – I’m going to reward myself with Chipotle and I can’t wait!  I know what I have to do to combat what I eat!  For this to be a lifestyle change I can’t NEVER have Chipotle again…it just won’t happen.  On that note…

Plyometrics was tonight and it kicked my ass!  I don’t know if I’m working harder because Abbey is in the room with me, but I’m probably going to be feeling it in my legs tomorrow…thats fo shiz!  I’ve realized that with the videos the first 30 minutes seem to take FOREVER, but the last 30 minutes seem to fly by - always a good thing! 

I have so much more to talk about, but I’ll save it for tomorrow’s blog…EXCEPT this one story.  After work I had to go to the Post Office and then meet Abbey’s dad to pick up the goods (Isaac).  While at the PO I had to PEE!  Of course the guy in front of me had 1 million packages so I waited and waited and waited…finally another “teller” clerk..what are they…was available so I mailed my shiz!  I went to the gas station to fill up since $15 only lasted me for one day and MAN did I have to PEE!  After I finished pumping I walked inside and stood in line behind large marge’s motorcycle riding brother.  Of course right in front of me was the little debbie snacks and they all seemed to be saying EAT ME!  Why are the little debbie snacks in front of the bathroom?  I waited FLUSH…ahh sweet ….FLUSH…ok, here we go!  FLUSH…hmmm I’m getting worried…Hugely Davidson left saying “jesus christ” and I decided “this guy can’t take tooo much longer in there, can he?”  FLUSH – anyone that needs 4 flushes (unless you are playing poker) is having some serious issues and there was NO WAY in hell I was going to be the poor soul to enter that bathroom next!  I left went to PetSmart and almost used one of their Oops bags in the parking lot before thinking they would probably have a bathroom inside…they did!!!

Until tomorrow…P90Xtasy