Rant and Realization

I've come to a bummer of a realization.  I really don't like eating salads for lunch and dinner every day.  I change up the ingredients a bit for each; tuna and diced apple in the salad at lunch that I eat at work (made at home), and teriyaki chicken with avocado and possibly a hard boiled egg , at home.

"What are you getting at already?  Nobody likes eating nothing but salads day in and day out."



Well, a big part of the losing weight, etc... has been eating more greens - a lot of greens.  Now, a lot of people will picture some random salad from a restaurant but that's not what I'm talking about.  I posted a picture of one that I made earlier in the week on a previous entry.  They're pretty good sized salads and pretty dang tasty.

Okay, okay...the point.  So on Tuesday morning I mentioned that I got my weight down to 209.3 lbs, I was super excited!  Want to know what's even crazier?  Wednesday morning, before work, after my morning routine, I was down to 208.5 lbs.  Good right?  Cool right?  Yea, I thought so too.  Well, I forgot to pack my greens for lunch on Wednesday, so I had the "Blue Steak Salad" from the cafeteria at work, for lunch - plenty healthy, but it had a good handful of red meat in it - which I haven't eaten much of in a long time (I also added some diced red / yellow bell peppers, some various nuts, spinach, and a couple hot sauces, to the mixed greens and dressing that was made for the dish, oh yea...and blue-cheese).  Bingo - blue cheese....shouldn't have done that with the red meat (I don't do much cow dairy if any at all).

Man, that lunch was amazing!  Fast forward to home and dinner time....  I was planning on making a salad of some sort...but it really just wasn't appealing to me.  So I grabbed a couple items that I need to use or throw out in the next day or two.  I made turkey burgers!  Okay, here are the details....  I took roughly a quarter pound of ground turkey, ground some multi-color peppercorns on it, added some Worcestershire sauce, diced up a jalapeno , and mixed it all together; then I split it in half and made two small burger patties.  After cooking them, I wrapped each patty up in a couple BIG spinach leaves and put them each on their own gluten free ciabatta bun (along with some "not typical" ketchup, mustard, and relish)....and I had a few corn chips with some jalapeno lime salsa.

Naturally the burgers and everything hit the spot!  I knew.....I KNEW...that I would regret this day of food, the following morning.  Sho-nuff.....  After my morning routine, 209.6 lbs......after work:  209.4 lbs....

To say I let myself down is pretty accurate.  I mean, barring a miracle, I already screwed up (please, "screwed off" is more accurate) enough to make hitting 204.5 by Friday evening an extreme undertaking.  I mean, if I went balls to the wall starting Monday and didn't flake on anything, there was a solid chance.  But, naturally, life got in the way a little bit, and so did my taste buds and my stomachs taste for good food.

Quick history, because it will be relevant to my next thought.  I don't recall the last time I was under 200 lbs.  I mean, I don't remember when the weight really added up to that point.  I was around 170-180 area I believe, my senior year.  Anyway, part of the reason I don't remember is because I never owned a scale or cared enough to weigh myself; I could tell I was putting on weight, I could tell if I was losing weight.  Okay, back to the point...  October 2013, the fall after the summer that I had spent doing DDP Yoga religiously for 3 months (and then completely sluffed off due to moving in with the - at the time - girlfriend and spending more time "exercising" by moving and unpacking), I was down to 207 lbs.  I think it's safe to that I would be pretty ecstatic if I could just beat that number at this point.

There's still a chance I might be able to magically drop 2.5 lbs in the next 24hrs .....but not if I don't put extra work into things; semi cop out time.., I can't see much extra work being put in right now - I'm struggling to keep my eyes open, and I still need to fix dinner as I'm pretty hungry, and tomorrow is a work day followed by grocery run.  We'll see what happens.  Do I think I think I'll hit my original goal of 204.5?  Hahaha nope!  But if I can manage to squeeze under 207, I'll consider that a huge win.

That's my rant / realization for the night.  Hopefully anyone that reads this manages to get something out of it.  I don't know, maybe something like "If you're going to work hard on getting in shape and losing weight, don't slack off for a couple weeks or throw caution to the wind over the weekend" ...just a thought. :)

Salad I made at work...on TUESDAY...dressing hasn't been added yet...