Muke's growing journey

Okay, I think I’m settled in enough that I can try getting back on the wagon—at least till I lose my job, which’ll probably happen sometime next month, when money’ll be a bit tighter.

Planning food intake that meets my calorie budget still takes me far too long, but I managed to come pretty close this week, so I should be showing at least a bit of progress by the end of the week. It’s harder now, too, since I have to go out to get my groceries and Wal-Mart doesn’t have its prices on its website (yet) so I can plan for my monetary budget as well. I managed it this week, though, just barely, which is kind of surprising, because I bought a lot of stuff I thought was expensive.

I don’t have the digital scale I’ve been doing my measurements on anymore, either; the roommates appropriated it for their bathroom, so now I’m back to my old analog scale. It’s not the most accurate, but hopefully it’ll offer good numbers. I’m also going to start weighing in on the weekends, closer to the time I do these posts, since I don’t have to order my food a day in advance anymore.

Tried takin’ pictures for y’all, but I’m entirely unphotogenic today.

A week of moving and not planning meals takes its toll.  Disappointing how tenuous the gains can be.

Sorry I haven’t got much to say this week.  Still trying to get back into my regular routines.

No gaining update this week — been moving house for much of the weekend, which hasn’t been very conducive. Hopefully things will start settling down soon; if so, there may be  an update mid-week, but if not, see you back here Sunday!

I ate a lot less this week and still managed to feel full all the time and put on a whole two pounds. Not sure how that works out, heh. I took a look at my eating records from the past and it looks like around last year from January to March I had the same sort of rise in the amount of calories I needed to gain from; might be a cyclical thing—who knows?

Meal plan for week of 3/29–4/2, result +2.0 lbs:
Sunday (~4000 calories)

• Breakfast: Hash brown patties. Bagel with cream cheese.
• Lunch: Frozen pizza. Soda.
• Dinner: Cucumbers, radishes, and yellow pepper with olive oil and vinegar. Italian bread. Penne pasta (as ‘Inside-Out Manicotti’.) Key lime pie. Soda.

Monday–Thursday (~4700 calories)

• Breakfast: Same as Sunday.
• Lunch: White rice and corn. Soda. Milano cookies.
• Snack: Sunflower seeds. Chex mix.
• Dinner: Same as Sunday.

Where I didn’t stick to the plan:

Hash browns were too much bother to make in the morning; I ended up having them in the afternoons.  (Someday the lesson of not relying on breakfast eating will set itself in my head…)

They sent me about twice as many bagels as I’d ordered, so I had one in the morning and one or two in the afternoon.  They did the same thing this week, actually: where I ordered two individual bagels, I was sent two packages of six, like they’re trying to help me along or something.

I couldn’t eat the whole pie or all the sunflower seeds, so I have leftovers for this week; likewise, I still had some of the last week’s box of cheese crackers left (they’re cheap, but a little too much on the junkfood side, so I can’t really eat them that much).  Added on a 7 oz. package of Nerds candy given to me by a co-worker.

No pictures or anything tonight, as I’ve been out all day and worn out.   Good night, all!