Trops Diary

Ah, extenuating circumstances seem to be not so extenuating. Fairly common, if you ask me. Right now I'm thinking about all the food I want to eat. BP&J is right up there at the top of the list. Sure, pork chops, steak, potatoes, pie, beer, it's all there, but I'm thinking about the stuff that is "good" for you. Even that seems like too much right now. :willy_nilly:

I'm sure that tomorrow I'll be going out for dinner and I'll have one drink. Gotta make it a good one, though. Ah, the possibilities. :hurray:
 
I'm drinking! As soon as I get home. I'm getting a bottle of Makers Mark on the way. We got no kids this weekend but the wife is laid up. May as well get hammered.
 
OK, I was able to fend off the hunger. I ate a big bowl of cereal with FF milk. It set me up for the evening. I took the kids to the gym with me because Fridays they have free babysitting. Good deal, right? Wrong. Not enough people were using (me included) it so they canceled it.

The plan was that I'd take them to the gym and then for pizza for dinner, picking up a hero for my wife. Give her some relax time in a quiet house for about an hour and a half. Well, she got about 45 min. My daughter wanted the white pie, ricotta cheese and mozzarella no red sauce but good garlic and oregano. My son wanted the roasted tomato and garlic and fresh mozzarella. each of these rotten kids ate one slice with another left over for dear old dad. :( I was strong. I didn't touch them except to bring them home. Well, I did eat my daughter's crust, but that's like nothing. I'm telling you, pizza is my weakness and we have some really, I mean really good pizza here.

I got home and my wife asked why I didn't just bring them right home and go back. Well, it's time for them to go to bed, so I got them ready and then headed back to the gym. I had a good, but quick work out. Chest, bicep, back, abs, then a quick sprint on the treadmill. Damn, I can not do that for very long.

Tomorrow is member appreciation day. I might go back in the morning just for the free stuff. :sifone: Of course I'll work out, too, but I'll have to go early. I measured the distance from my house to the gym is 1.9 miles on the road. I was thinking about running there, light workout, then run home. 3.8 miles round trip with a short break in there. I'll see. I wouldn't be able to bring home all my loot, though. :biggrinjester:
 
Me and pizza have had this fight before, and most time's I'm the one laid out. This was a good one for me. :smash:
 
Pizza is a major sticking point for me. I LOVE it so so much. Costco sells a frozen 3 pack of thin crust pizza that aren't too bad calorie-wise--200 calories for a quarter of the pizza (very big slice). Sure its not same as a greasy slice of cheezy goodness, but it takes the edge off of the craving when I'm desperate.

I gave into a peanut butter and banana sandwich today. I've got a cold and felt like babying myself a little. Colds are great excuses for poor decisions. LOL. I'm still in my calorie range, but I think I'm going to be a bit hungry later.
 
Ooh! Good weekend. I did get to the gym Saturday morning, and got a free t-shirt for the trip. They had all kids of goodies laid out. Bagels and juice and fruit and pastries and such. I didn't have any, aren't I a good boy? I did take the free t-shirt, but I'll probably only wear it there. Bright blue with yellow lettering. :ack2: What were they thinking?

Saturday I had a short get together with friends to go over some stuff, and the guy who's house it was at had a whole spread of chips and dip and chicken wings. Again, stayed strong. Then we dropped the kids off with my mother for a sleep over. We drove out to Montauk. It's really beautiful out there. We stayed in a great B&B and went out to catch some live music. The music was unbelievable. Some really great acts. Lots of fun. I did have a bourbon Manhattan, but even when the bartender bought me my second, my wife had to drink that for me. I was driving, so I couldn't have too many, but it was really the limiting myself to one that mad the decision. We were there for hours so the driving really didn't come into it.

Dinner last night was pan seared salmon with lobster risotto. From the taste of it, it wasn't very healthy at all. It wasn't the tastiest either, but it was ok. For breakfast I had two raisin and walnut muffins with butter, and cereal. Not as healthy as I'd like, but at a B&B it can get much worse.

Lunch we took the kids to Taco Bell. I wasn't going to have anything, but I succumbed to their "fresco" chicken burrito. Again, not good, but not the worst. From there, though, we went to the beach and took a tour of the lighthouse. That was cool. We walked for hours and walked up the 185 steps to the top. This sounds like a big climb, but the kids went up without thinking twice, so it really isn't that big of a deal.

Tomorrow is the day of truth. I'll see if the work out did the damage for the week.
 
Sounds like you had a stronger willpower weekend than I. Good luck on your weigh in!

I was attacked repeatedly by cinnamon rolls. I won most of the battles, but there were a couple that got by.

Then of course there was Sunday afternoon football and the stress surrounding it while my beloved and newly Brady-less Patriots managed to pull off a win over Favre and the Jets. My friend Sam Adams helped me through some tense moments...
 
One advantage I have is that I really have no interest in spectator sports. The idea of sitting and watching a bunch of people playing, just doesn't interest me. I would much rather be doing it then watching. My one exception is the Super Bowl, but that's more because of the party that it attached. That is the draw, and the game is the back ground.
 
I actually am the same way with most of them. Football is the one sport I enjoy. I don't follow baseball, basketball, hockey...

I used to follow the Tour de France, until doping became the primary focus of cycling and Floyd Landis became an embarrassment to the USA.
 
This morning I weighed in at 205.6. This wasn't bad for a weekend where I was eating stuff I shouldn't have and didn't do any real cardio. My problem is that today is a day off for me, and the kids are in school. I should get out and go running, and that's the plan right now, but I really don't feel like it. That shouldn't be the determining factor, because I really should be able to run even when I don't feel like it. The thing is that I also have a slew of chores for the day that I also should do. Right now I'm procrastinating doing any of them. :( I'll do it, but I really have to get my motivation up. :gnorsi:
 
C'mon Trops. Get out there. You have a whole day. You know you can fit in all those chores and a 20 minute run. :D To me the only thing worse than running is thinking about running... just gotta do it.

Congrats on the restraint you had on the weekend. A visit to Taco Bell and you went healthy (relatively speaking, of course)! Sweet heaven, I'd have had a couple chili cheese burritos, tacos and chili cheese fries. And I'd have felt like throwing up after but goddamn I love Taco Bell.
 
You are right, Fish. The problem is that what I really want to do is go for a longer run, so that's more like 40-50 min. Then there's the getting ready and cleaning up, it's really like an hour and more by the time you get down to it. Also, right now it's 80 and humid. I think that it'll be fine, but I'll try to get some of the chores done first.
 
Good job Trops on your maintainance! I ate horrible this weekend, but I kept my intake low and kicked out hard workouts to cominsate. Im only up one pound.
 
OK, I went out running, and the same thing happened. I have a course that is 2.7 miles starting and ending at my driveway. I planned on doing it twice, but after the first one I just stopped. I need to find a longer course so I have no reason to stop. Just keep going till you are home. :smash: Well, it's better then nothing.
 
Hey 2.7 is not bad at all!! But I know what you mean about doing things twice its hard to turn around and do it again.. you have to be super motivated! I am lucky that the loop we do is just over 5k... which is enough for me at this point... but I know someday I will want to do it again, but will I have the will power to do it again... So much of what we do is a freaking mind game... if it were completely up to my body I would be ripped!!!
 
2.7 is bad since last week I was doing 4 miles. :toetap05: Just the idea of going one more lap when I could just stop now. Ugh! It's too much.:nopity:
 
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