Muke's growing journey

I never know what the best way is to react here whenever I don’t make progress.

I can dwell on it, make excuses, and act all bummed, but that’s not a mindset I like to get into, and makes for a depressing blog, which doesn’t make for good reading.

I can shrug it off and keep going, but that has its own problems: there are names—and not good ones—for the kind of person who says “I’m gonna get real big” all the time and doesn’t appear to do anything about it.

Y’all let me know how I’m doin’ sometime.

Anyway.
Meal plan for week of 11/22–11/28, average ~3000 calories, result +0 lbs:

• Breakfast: Muffin.
• Lunch: Seitan sandwich, potato chips.
• Dinner: Rice and beans.
• Snack: Italian bread and dipping oil. Cheese. Marinated black olives.

Of course Thanksgiving came along near the end of the week and messed with that, so.

In unrelated news, one project I’ve been planning to start is an encourager bot for the #gainerfurs IRC channel. Besides keeping track of people’s weights (and changes therein) and regular snack reminders/suggestions, what kind of features should such a program have?

Didn’t eat on budget at all last week and still somehow managed to poke upwards a bit.

Planned average daily intake (~3400 calories):

• Lunch: seitan sandwich, potato chips
• Snack: microwave burritos
• Dinner: macaroni & cheese, Italian bread

In actuality I usually only got two out of those three meals, since I kept finding myself too sleepy to cook at the end of the day. I’ve since moved my dinner back an hour to compensate for this; hopefully that will help.

I’m hoping this week will go better, if only because I’ve got my boyfriend up here over Thanksgiving, and while I may be slacker enough to skimp on my own meals, I’m not going to let him go hungry. They do say eating with others does help people eat better; I guess we’ll get to test that theory.

Till next week.

So I got into eating better this week—tasty, tasty sandwiches—but no result quite yet. Fair enough; I wasn’t really going all-out like I ought to be. I’m going to try and get back into the full planning cycle and all, because I really hope to break this slump by the end of the year.

A while back I’d started posting the menus for weeks that had worked out for me; I think from now I’ll start posting the weeks that don’t work as well, kind of to give an idea of why I tend to have trouble.

No pics this week; I’m not at home today.

Hey guys.  Still alive; sorry for the lack of an update last week.  Been trying to work through some discouragement issues on this.  Feels a little frustrating I guess that after so many years tryin’ to get bigger I’m still basically goin’ it alone.  I don’t let it bother me in general, like it used to, but feelin’ like this doesn’t particularly push me to work at gaining.  So, like I said, I took a week or so off of worrying about it, and I think I’m ready to keep tryin’.

We’ll see what happens.  You guys that leave comments, it’s much appreciated.