Muke's growing journey

This week’s meal plan:

• Breakfast: bagel with cream cheese (~300 cal)
• Lunch: burger sandwiches (~475 cal)
• Work snack: wheat chex, grapes (~250 cal)
• Home snack: marinated green olives with pickled red onions (~175 cal)
• Dinner: some tofu thing, garlic bread (~1250 cal)
• Drink: ginger ale, milkshake, water (~1125 cal)

So we’re lookin’ at upwards of 3750 calories a day.

I’m mildly concerned about the ‘some tofu thing’. It seemed to taste all right when I was making it yesterday, but it looks like it’s in that category of things that look good in theory but you wouldn’t really want to make a meal out of. I guess I’ll get to see what it’s like tonight.

While I did manage to get my weight back up last week, it looks like it isn’t enough to keep me on track for the goal I set. Going to have to try harder. And this week feels like it might be a struggle for me already… Here’s hopin’ I can keep it up.

All right guys, here is the plan I have put together for the week:

• Breakfast: bagel, with cream cheese (~300 cal)
• Lunch: hamburger helper (~625 cal)
• Work snack: corn chex (~100 cal)
• Home snack: marinated black olives (~250 cal)
• Dinner: asparagus soup, garlic bread (~875 cal)
• Drink: water, ginger ale, milkshake (~1100 cal)

Or somewhere over 3,000 calories total per day. In theory this should be easy: a third of the calories are liquid and the meals themselves are not very large. But we’ll see how it works out in practice.

Based on the rate I’ve been gaining, I’ve set as a goal to be at 220 lbs by the end of the year. With all the year-end holidays it’ll be difficult, but we’ll see how we manage.

Some skills are easy to pick up. Havin’ a milkshake every day and a bagel loaded with cream cheese for breakfast every morning is one of them. (Updating your gaining blog on a regular basis, unfortunately, is not.)

Over the past two months I’ve managed to put a dozen pounds back on, which I think is pretty great. My progress is starting to slow, though; it is looking like this week is going to be my first week since the beginning of July where my weekly average weight is going to be less than the week before.

Clearly my instincts are beginning to fail me, and of course we can’t be having with that. So it’s time to go back to dedicated meal planning and calorie counting to make sure I keep progressing. From here on out I’ll be posting my menus again and we can compare them to my progress and work out what makes a bigger tiger. With science!

Love to you all.