Muke's growing journey

It’s good to be making progress again — I’m really enjoying the shape of my body. If I keep up at this rate, in a couple of weeks or so I’ll be free again from wearing a belt on my pants for a while, which is always good.

Stats for week ending 1/30/2010:

Workday meals (~4100 calories):

• Breakfast: Powdered donuts and honey buns.
• Work snack: Wheat thins, apples, grape juice, misc candy.
• Lunch: Vegeburgers.
• Home snack: Italian bread w/ vinaigrette; marinated olives.
• Dinner: Leftover stuffed peppers…

I’ll admit this nonsense with the pastries and the candy, while it may be an easy thousand calories to my day, isn’t a state of affairs I’m entirely happy with. (I still haven’t grown that sweet tooth.) But I’m not sure what a good, easy sort of replacement would be. If you all have some good ideas, I’d much appreciate it!

Anyway, it’s getting late so I won’t be able to ramble on here much longer. Before I head off though I’ll link ya the stuffed pepper recipe I’ve been enjoying… I think it’s pretty good. Check back next week to see how my potato lasagna works out. :p

I really should stop writing these so late at night… at least, not till I can get into the groove of having constructive things to say to you all, because trying to figure out what kinds of things to post here is tiring. I need more feedback from you guys!

Anyway. Friday’s my birthday. I’ll be turning over another decade, and they say those tend to work on the metabolism… here’s hopin’, eh?

Stats for week ending 1/23/2010:

Workday meals (~3800 calories):

• Breakfast: Powdered donuts and honey buns.
• Work snack: Wheat thins, apples, grape juice; misc. candy.
• Lunch: Minestrone, French bread.
• Home snack: Italian bread w/olivada.
• Dinner: Stuffed peppers.

Also, here’s a pic of me from tonight:

I’ve noticed it’s been starting to get easier for me to find the calories I need, spacing it out across extra eatin’ times like I have been. It’s not huge amounts, though, so the progress goes slow, but here’s hoping it continues.

Stats for week ending 1/16/2010:

Workday meals (~3800 calories):

• Breakfast: Powdered donuts and honey buns.
• Work snack: Wheat thins, mango juice.
• Lunch: Ratatouille, French bread.
• Home snack: Italian bread, vinaigrette.
• Dinner: Tortilla chips, bean dip.

So tired. Want to head to bed, but still putting together recipes. I should start posting some of them up here.

I actually stuck to my goal this week, but didn’t end up any better. I plan to start keeping stats to see if this app is still working for me. If not, I may have to hunt or develop a new one.

Stats for week ending 1/8/2010:

Of course ‘average eaten’ means closer to 4K some days, closer to 2K others. Still, tho, 3K usually means a gain for me.   Anyway, I’m tryin’.

Workday meals (~3500 calories):

• Breakfast: Banana nut muffins and them Little Debbie twinkies.
• Work snack: Wheat thins, grape juice.
• Lunch: Lentil soup, hamburger helper, dinner rolls.
• Home snack: Italian bread with a balsamic vinaigrette.
• Dinner: Vegeburgers and fries.

I still haven’t mastered the ability to eat large quantities at once, so I’ve been working on getting eating in more often.

I put a link to the ‘About’ page back in the sidebar. There’s not really much on it yet, though. So, question for y’all for the week: What would you want to know about me and this page?

All right, guys, I’m back!

It’s a new year, so I’m going for new resolution, even if my resolution’s the same as last year: to finally hit 250 lbs. As you all saw, last year I didn’t make much progress at all, so I’m gonna need all you guys to help me out and push me along. My Twitter page might be a good place to start; I’d also totally appreciate it if you’d take a minute and leave a comment about what brings you here to my li’l old blog, what you’d like to see more and less of—that’d be great.

Anyway, I’m going to start setting myself goals again and trying hard to keep on track. 250 lbs is only forty-five pounds away from here; that’s almost four pounds a month or about a pound a week. It doesn’t sound that hard on paper but it’s a constant commitment involving constant effort. Some of you guys know what I mean, right?

No details this week—hey, I was on vacation and not keeping track—but here’s a picture or two: