sometimes mac donald’s is like laxitive.

i said before if i don’t go to the grocery and get something for lunch, we end up eating fast food.  well, no one went to the grocery so we ended up having mac donald’s for lunch today.  and i was doing so good.  i was on three days with no fast food or soda pops or beers.

i’m not so sure the quarter pounder with cheese hurt me today though.  fifteen minutes after i ate it, it escaped through my butt hole.  it was terrible.  it was even worse because we were working in a residential house today.  sorry folks.  when you gotta go, you gotta go.

i suppose that’s better than blowing up a steamy, hot porta john.

oh well.  skipped the gym today too.  getting home from work at seven makes it terribly difficult to muster up the motivation required to go ride the freaking bike for fourty five minutes.  but i did walk up and down a flight of stairs all day today.  so i guess that’s not so bad.

i skipped the y yesterday too.  but i walked about three miles.  so that kinda makes up for it.

i reckon the real key is to be active and do something physical every day.  going the gym is idea, at least for me it is.  but as long as you are eating right and getting at least some physical activity, you are going the right direction.  well, you may not be moving forward, but at least you aren’t going backwards.

no fast food today.

i’m tipping the scales at 200 again.  that pisses me off.  but i have been really lazy with the not going to the gym and eating fast food and drinking lots and all that.

but today i had no fast food at all, no soda pops, and no booze.  i did however eat out twice…had a sandwich wrap and a slice of pizza for lunch and a nathan’s chili cheese dog for dinner.  oh, and doughnuts and coffee for breakfast.  so i guess i ate out three times today…ay carumba.

still beats the hell out of fast food.  fast food kills, man.

i’m snacking on cottage cheese, peaches and a banana now.  so that’s good.  and i did make it to the gym today.  just did some cardio work.  the first step in getting back in the habit of going to the gym is to simply go to the gym.  just go and do something.  anything.  just go.

so i went and played ball with my nephew.  i kicked his ass.  i beat him four out of seven games.  the last one was pretty ragged for the both of us though.  playing ball for an hour or so works me harder than the same amount of time on the bike.  i guess i’m just trying harder when i’m playing ball.  i’m sure i could work myself that hard on the bike.  but whatever.

tomorrow dawns a new day and i do not intend on eating out or having any drinks.  i bought strawberries and bananas and yogurt for a breakfast smoothie and i’ve got cottage cheese for my morning snack.  i should have gotten something for lunch too, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

it’s obvious

if i don’t go to the grocery, ain’t nobody going to the grocery.  everyone knows how bad it is to eat out.  to eat fast food.  but these em effers are all too lazy to go to the dadgum store.  i know, i’m one of them.

so for lunch tomorrow we are having balongna and cheese on oatnut bread.  beats the hell out of fast food or convenient store food.

i don’t like going to the gym when i get home from work.  especially if i have to work late.  i got home at seven tonight and felt like doing anything but going to the gym.  i hate it.  it’s much easier for me to go in the morning before work.

saved myself from mac donald’s double cheeseburgers.

i was off work late and tonight is band practice night.  so i gotta roll up to la grange as quickly as i can get there.  we usually start around five thirty and it’s already close to seven.  sometimes my guitarist wusses out and leaves early.  if he even makes it to practice in the first place.  we need a new guitarist, but that’s for another blog.

there’s a mac donald’s on the way and man, i’m really hungry.  didn’t have my two o’clock snack today and a dollar double cheeseburger sounds awesome right about now.

but i am strong.  i drive past the mac donald’s and just hope danny’s got something to snack on when i get to practice.

to very little surprise, practice has been cancelled.  but i do get there in time to share dinner with danny and melanie.  danny grills us up some chicken breast and his wonderful woman makes some corn and stovetop stuffing.  i love stovetop stuffing…

that’s hella better than a double cheeseburger at the mac donald’s.

but then i had to drive past that damned mac donald’s on my way back home.  the pull of the double cheeseburger was too great for me to resist this time around.  i suck.  i better get my fat ass up and go to the gym in the morning.

alright, here’s a tip for ya

quit your job.  if you ain’t gotta go to work, you got plenty of time to go to the ymca.  no excuses.

well, don’t quit your job.  unless you want to.  i didn’t quit my job, we just ain’t got no work this week.  and that sucks because i could really use the money.  but this does free up time where i can get back in the habit of going to the gym every day. 

and going to the gym makes it easier to eat right.  if you are just leaving the gym and it’s time for lunch, you ain’t gonna blow it all by going and getting fast food.  or you might.  but then you suck. 

so leaving the gym today, i stopped at the kroger and picked up fixin’s for lunch today and breakfast tomorrow.  lunch today was chicken stir fry.  and it was pretty good, actually.  i cubed some chicken and stir fried it in the wok for a few minutes then i dumped some frozen stir fry veggies on top of it.  mmm…stir fry.

i need a bigger wok though, i didn’t have room for the rice.  i fixed some wild rice and just had to put in all together when i ate it.  i also put some of those kick ass crushed oriental peppers in mine.  just to kick it up a bit.

had doughnuts for breakfast.  that’s not so good.  but it’s not fast food and i did go to they Y.  breakfast tomorrow will be a strawberry smoothie.  strawberries were on sale today.  two things for five bucks.  that’s not too bad.  should last most of the week.

dinner tonight has yet to be eaten but i’m not going fast food, i can tell ya that.  i’m probably going to patronize this local bar that’s about to go out of business because no one eats there.  so i’ll try and do my part.

getting ready to munch down on my afternoon snack of cottage cheese and peaches.  i love cottage cheese and peaches.

bad habits

come back like a rash you just can’t shake.

i’ve had a bad couple of weeks.  too much fast food to start.  not near enough time at the gym for second.  too much galavanting for third.

but i’m feeling much better now.

i remember back when i decided that i was going to live a healthier lifestyle and therefore changing my bad eating habits for good eating habits, the first thing i did was eat a good breakfast everyday.  that breakfast included bacon and eggs and wheat toast and tomatoes.

that’s a breakfast i think i could have for the rest of my life and die happy.  fat and happy.  but it’s better than a fast food breakfast any day of the week.  and dammit, i love bacon, eggs, wheat toast and tomatoes.  and part of motivating myself to get up earlier enough to prepare my breakfast and also pack lunch was the bacon and eggs.  i figure i’ll get up for bacon.

and then once i developed the habit of getting up and fixing breakfast, i turned towards weight loss objective and switched to fruit smoothies.

i’m doing the bacon and eggs again just to get back in the habit of preparing my own breakfast and therefore i’m up early enough to pack lunch.  which a packed lunch is a million times better than fast food.  anything is better than fast food.

i got an idea for another dbf t-shirt.  it says fast food kills.  because it does.

actually went to the Y the other day.  that makes once this week.  talk about a habit that’s easy to lose. 

this one is harder than the diet i think.  they go hand in hand really and if you can do one, your mind is always on the other.  kind of like brushing your teeth and flossing.  you should just automatically do the two of those things together.  but i’m like everybody else.  i sometimes don’t floss.

i sometimes don’t go to the gym.  i sometimes eat the wrong stuff. 

i sometimes fall back into bad habits of never going to the gym and always eating the wrong stuff.

it happens.

i’ve been so fat.

really.  i have been a fat, lazy peice of crap the last two weeks. 

been to the y only once.  lots of fast food.  too many, way too many beers.

i suck.

but hey, it’s okay.  one day at a time kids, one day at a time.  today was bad.  i’ll try better tomorrow.

i gotta refocus, man.

the last couple of weeks have been bad.  too much fast food not near enough time at the Y.

i think i got there two days last week.  but that might be pushing it.  i know i was there once.  and really if i think about it, that’s probably it.  and i ate out a bunch.  fast food, too much booze.  ay carumba.

that’s how i got fat.  how i lived most of my life. 

i’m trying to not be fat though.  i’ve had a relapse.  i remember i had those all the time with an ex girlfriend.  you’d think i didn’t learn a thing.

sometimes i think you just gotta purge and get in some old habits for a quick fix.  you just gotta cut them off at some point.  and not get back to living the fat ass life style.  which i’ve been on for about two weeks.

knock it off, fat ass.

sometimes mac donald’s is good.

I didn’t mean to be such a tremendous fat ass.  I mean, I was indeed being a tremendous fat ass when I hit the Mac Donald’s drive-thru at ten thirty at night.  I ordered a big mac meal with a coke and also a chicken sandwich with cheese.

 

That is being a tremendous fat ass.  But thanks to the incompetence of the local Mac Donald’s staff, I got a strawberry milkshake, a large coke, two chicken sandwiches and my big mac meal.

 

And I ate it all.

 

I was so hungry.  The fries didn’t make it home.  They could have pulled me over and charged me with driving under the influence of French fries.

 

I was shoving these things in my mouth by the handful.  I disgusted myself at how ravenous I was about these freaking French fries. 

 

I’m disgusted right now as I finish off the second chicken sandwich.

 

Sometimes ya just gotta eat what you want to eat, what you really feel like eating.  It happens.  Just don’t make a habit of it.  Two fast food meals in a row is plenty.  Any more than that and you’re just being a lazy fat ass.  Too lazy to go to freaking grocery store and get some food.  So you just cruise into some place fat.

 

You just gotta refocus on the overall plan and don’t give up and say screw it.  I already ate Mac Donald’s three times this week.  I might as well just go again.

 

Mac Donald’s is like crack to an addict man.  It just tastes so good.  And once you’ve had a taste you crave nothing but another.

 

Stop, step back and refocus.

memorial day weekend.

okay, it’s easy to lose focus on a holiday.  and that’s okay.  don’t be fat is a process and sometimes you get off track.  just know that you can make better decisions the next day.  only problem is i do this to myself every weekend it seems.

and it just don’t make no sense.  i spend all week getting up early and going to work out at the YMCA.  i eat fruit smoothies for breakfast.  i pack a lunch that consist of chicken breast and some kind of veggie.  i bring healthy snacks like carrots and cottage cheese and peaches.  i don’t drink soda, only water.  i try to ingest my carbs early in the day when my body processes them better and turns less to fat and more to energy.

then the weekend comes and it’s like i’m back in college.  i pour bourbon and beer down my throat like it’s my job.  and i do my job well.

and all that drinking leads to eating poorly.  fast food, soda pops, late meals.  it’s terrible the things i do to myself in the light of all that i’m trying to accomplish.

that’s okay.  don’t be fat is a state of mind.  a journey and not a destination.  yeah, i was fat this weekend. 

but not today.