August 29 - day 52

Starting weight -202

Breakfast - nothing

Lunch - Salad, 6 small shrimp in butter sauce

Dinner - 1 piece of fried chicken and 100 calorie pack cheese crackers

Snack -

Today was fantasy Draft Day #1. I was a good boy. I had a TON of leftover food from Fitz's party, but i only ate a little of it. Instead I had a salad :-) Be impressed!

August 28 - Day 51

Starting weight - 201 :-(

Breakfast - I don't remember if i had anything, maybe a 100 calorie pack

Lunch - a hot dog

Dinner - OH MY, This is not a pretty picture . . . . . .Although, the food was awesome at Brian Fitz's surprise 30th birthday, so I had to go for it:
cheese and crackers (way too many) THEN I discovered Pizza dip. OH MY GOD. It was amazing, and a terrible idea! hahaha. Had about a million tostito scoops with the dip. Some pringles also. For actual dinner, i had a piece of fried chicken, raviolis, 4 mini meatballs, about 6 mini shrimp in butter sauce and some broccoli.

Dessert/drinks: Overall, had 3 beers and then 2 pieces of ice cream cake.
Night: 2 beers and a flask of blackhaus

August 27 - day 50

Starting weight - 198! I cracked 200, and quickly began the FAILURE that is today!

Breakfast was a simple 100 calorie pack. Things were looking just fine.

Lunch - 1/2 sandwich with roast beef, mayo, cheese and carmelized onions. A few chips and I was on my way to a great day!

Snack - 100 calorie Pack

Dinner - - - - - EEK! I could not tell you a total #, but I must have had about 2000 calories worth of ravioli. Scott and i just went bananas. I was probably worse. This was one of my worst binges in recent history. I knew what i was doing and i could not stop it!

Exercise: We promptly went to play racquetball for 1 hour and 15 minutes. We could barely move. It was not the brightest move, but i figured hey, work off some of that garbage (glorious garbage) that I just ate.

Late night - Hoboken with Brody Rachel and Megan. I could not resist while I watched everyone else eat pizza, so I got the "Meat Packer Pizza." now only 1 slice, so thats good, but i was already full and it was 11:30 at night! I also had 3 beers and 3 shots.

I epically failed from 7:30pm on. I finally cracked 200 and i jumped right back up. Gonna have to do GREAT tomorrow.

Stay Tuned!

August 26 - day 49

Starting weight - 200!

Breakfast - granola bar
Lunch - turkey, pepperoni, cheese on wheat roll
snack - 100 calorie pack
dinner - 1 Slice of pizza! (this was REALLY tough. it was our end of band camp pizza party and i usually eat about 5 slices at this. I limited to ONE and had no chips and no cookies!!!!! I am the man!)
Snack - medium slurpee and buffalo chicken taquito.

Night: 2 beers with Scott and 2 shots at the Harp (1 from my flask that Pete got me in Vegas that says "Vegas Pimp" . . . hehehe)

** Had a lot of slurpees this week because my voice is SHOT after band camp with no microphone. I took too long to send in my system for repair cuz I am an idiot. In return, i needed Slurpees to help me out in the throat tiredness**

Regardless, I'm doing well! hoping to get the fruits and veggies back in the diet starting tomorrow.

august 25 - day 48

Starting weight - 201

Breakfast - 100 calorie Pack
lunch - turkey, pepperoni and yellow american on wheat roll
Dinner - 1 slice of sausage pizza with buffalo sauce and a LARGE CHEF SALAD! the salad had deli meats as well as the regular salad stuff - lettuce, cheese, cucumbers, red onion, vinegar
After work - slurpee (medium)

I kinda like this pizza dinner diet. HAHAHAHA. i mean, i get to eat pizza EVERY night, and i still lose weight! I may have found something here. :-)

August 24 - Day 46

Day 4 of band camp . . . . .

Starting Weight - 202
Breakfast - oreo cakesters 100 calorie pack
lunch - Turkey, pepperoni, yellow american cheese on wheat roll
dinner - 1 slice of ziti pizza, a sliver of free sample of whole wheat pizza
Night Time - medium slurpee and 1 buffalo chicken taquito

(sorry for the lack of detail lately, just trying to remember everything i can!)

August 18-23 days 40-45

OK, so i have gotten a little behind on this because of band camp and no internet for a weekend, so let me TRY to update the best I can.

August 18 - day 40
Starting weight - 203
Breakfast - probably a 100 calorie pack
lunch - small sandwich with turkey, pepperoni and yellow american on hard roll
dinner - 1 slice of ziti pizza

August 19 - Day 41
Starting weight - 202
Breakfast - dunkin donuts - egg white turkey sausage flatbread
lunch - small sandwich with turkey, pepperoni and yellow american on hard roll
dinner - 1 slice of ziti pizza

August 20 - Day 42
Starting weight - 200
Breakfast - don't remember
lunch - don't remember
Dinner - KFC and Taco Bell - - - eek - - - - chicken burrito, kfc buffalo snacker, biscuit, soda, doritos
Late night - many beers

August 21 - day 43
starting weight - unknown
Breakfast - bagel with butter and powdered donut
Lunch - don't remember
dinner - burger, dog, chicken, corn on the cob
snack - smores!
late night - many beers

August 22 - Day 44
Starting weight - unknown
Breakfast - egg/cheese/sausage omelette, powdered donut
Lunch - half meatball sandwich
Dinner - chinese buffet (NOT GOOD, but it was my 1 buffet/month allowance
Snack - 100 calorie pack

August 23 - day 45
Starting weight - 205
Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Turkey, cheese, pepperoni on wheat roll
Dinner - Turkey, cheese, pepperoni on wheat roll

August 18-23 days 40-45

OK, so i have gotten a little behind on this because of band camp and no internet for a weekend, so let me TRY to update the best I can.

August 18 - day 40
Starting weight - 203
Breakfast - probably a 100 calorie pack
lunch - small sandwich with turkey, pepperoni and yellow american on hard roll
dinner - 1 slice of ziti pizza

August 19 - Day 41
Starting weight - 202
Breakfast - dunkin donuts - egg white turkey sausage flatbread
lunch - small sandwich with turkey, pepperoni and yellow american on hard roll
dinner - 1 slice of ziti pizza

August 20 - Day 42
Starting weight - 200
Breakfast - don't remember
lunch - don't remember
Dinner - KFC and Taco Bell - - - eek - - - - chicken burrito, kfc buffalo snacker, biscuit, soda, doritos
Late night - many beers

August 21 - day 43
starting weight - unknown
Breakfast - bagel with butter and powdered donut
Lunch - don't remember
dinner - burger, dog, chicken, corn on the cob
snack - smores!
late night - many beers

August 22 - Day 44
Starting weight - unknown
Breakfast - egg/cheese/sausage omelette, powdered donut
Lunch - half meatball sandwich
Dinner - chinese buffet (NOT GOOD, but it was my 1 buffet/month allowance
Snack - 100 calorie pack

August 23 - day 45
Starting weight - 205
Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Turkey, cheese, pepperoni on wheat roll
Dinner - Turkey, cheese, pepperoni on wheat roll

august 18 - day 41

Starting weight - 201

Breakfast -
Snack -
Lunch -
Snack -
Dinner -
Snack -

August 17 - day 40

BAND CAMP - DAY 1 . . . . AAAAAHHHHHH!!!! Summer is over!

Starting weight - 203

Breakfast - egg white/turkey sausage flatbread - dunkin donuts
snack - 100 calorie pack
Dinner - 1 slice of ziti pizza
snack - 100 calorie pack

crazy day today, so i ended up not eating too much. I will eat more tomorrow.

august 16 - day 39

Starting weight: 204

breakfast - 100 calorie pack
brunch - 2 slices of bruno's square. ARGH! well, it was a stress eat.
snack - 100 calorie pack x2
snack - pudding
dinner - 1 slice pizza at Benny Tudino's
Snack - chicken fingers and fried with ketchup, small sprite (Giants game)

ok, this was not great. i still maintained my weight though, so i'm feeling ok about it. Band camp tomorrow.

August 15 - day 38

Baseball game day!

STARTING WEIGHT - 203

i actually lost a pound at the bbq? crazy!

Breakfast - taylor ham sandwich on hamburger roll
Dinner - 12 inch sub from quik check - turkey, pepperoni and cheese on wheat roll and large gatorade
snack - corn dog at the game

not the best, but not too bad. rough day to diet. Think i did fairly well again.

August 14 - day 37

Well, it was BBQ day, so i can't really remember to write down EVERYTHING. But to be honest, I did pretty well.

STARTING WEIGHT: 204

Had a starbucks in the morning and then a little picking from the buffet - a piece of chicken, a drumstick, some ziti, some sausage peppers and onions.
Had a few beers and a couple of mixed drinks (with diet soda)
All in all, i did fairly well.
I opted OUT of the hot dog eating contest so i would not be eating 5 hot dogs in like 2 minutes. i thought that was a wise idea.

AWESOME TIME by the way. about 120 people. Great music, great food, great fun! Year 9 - IN THE BOOKS!

august 13 - day 36

Starting weight - 204!!!!!

Breakfast - peanut butter reduced fat on light wheat roll
snack - 100 calorie pack toast-chee
Lunch - 8 mini pizza bagels - (400 cal, 24 fat, 58 carbs)
Snack - 16 cheeseballs
snack - 100 calorie pack cheese crackers
Dinner - peanut butter reduced fat on light wheat roll
snack - 16 cheeseballs

no gym, but getting ready for BBQ was a lot of exercise

august 12 - day 35

Starting Weight - 205
Breakfast - 60 calorie pudding
Lunch - Spicy sausage on light wheat bun
dinner - 4 chicken drumsticks and mashed potatoes. (Thanks Mrs. Brody)
snack - 16 cheeseballs
snack - italian ice (100 calories)

Gym: 1:15 minutes of racquetball with Scott

August 11 - day 34

Starting weight - 206

Breakfast - Smoothie
Snack - 100 calorie pringles
Lunch - peanut butter sandwich on light wheat roll
snack - 60 calorie pudding
snack - 100 calorie oreo snack cakes
dinner - 1 slice of pizza - Penne Vodka topping.
NOW - lets talk about this meal. I had made a salad and put it in the refrigerator at school. When i went to get it out of the fridge, the office was locked. Then i had to wait til like 9pm to eat. At that point, i just had to get something in my system. BUT the remarkable thing happened there. I was with Julie Passaro and she was the first person to successfully stop me from getting too much. I was seriously contemplating getting a 2nd slice of Buffalo chicken pizza, because its so glorious. She yelled at me. Instead, i was allowed one bite of her ziti pizza and that was it. I don't know if i REALLY would have gotten it, but i was not even allowed to think about it. I left, content and full. (but without my buffalo chicken fix)

Gym - Chest and Triceps - 19 sets, 80 abs.

August 10 - Day 33

Starting Weight - 205

Breakfast - cheerios with skim milk
Snack - 100 calorie pack - lorna doone - (100, 3, 16)
Lunch - Peanut Butter sandwich on light wheat roll
Snack - Granola Bar, Cucumber
Dinner - Salad!
Snack - Mac & Cheese homemade by my sister. She failed at her job, and kept watching me eat MORE and MORE of it. but it was not tooooooo much.

LAter in the evening, after our band rehearsal, my sister offered everyone a Klondike bar. I gave her a dirty look and accepted only a can of lemon-lime flavored seltzer. I proceeded to kill the time while everyone else was digging into their delightful dessert by looking at a freaking photo album. This is what life has come to. Seltzer and scrapbooks. Its a good thing I was strong. All 3 of those jabronis were sinking their teeth into this chocolate and ice cream goodness of perfection and i have my least favorite flavored seltzer. Regardless, I am a strong man. :-)

No gym today, didn't have time

August 9 - Day 32

Starting Weight - 206

Breakfast - Cheerios with Skim Milk
Snack - 100 Calorie Pack Pringles (Sour Cream and Onion)
Lunch - Peanut Butter sandwich (reduced fat)
Snack - Salad! (no croutons)
100 calorie pack
pudding pack - 60 calories
Dinner: Spicy Sausage on light wheat roll, 1/2 green pepper with hot sauce
GYM: LEGS - 9 sets, 3 games racquetball
Snack - Smoothie

August 8 - day 31

Starting Weight: 208 (See what one great day can do after a horrible week? hahaha)

GYM: 10 minute elliptical warmup
300 abs,
Shoulders - 12 sets

Breakfast: 2 egg whites, 1 whole egg - Scrambled
Lunch: Homemade Smoothie - OJ, Strawberries, 2/3 banana
Snack - 100 calorie pack - Ritz bits w/cheese
Dinner - My Salad! This includes: Lettuce, Cheddar Cheese, Chick Peas, Cucumbers, Bacon
Bits, Croutons, Red Wine Vinegar. GLORIOUS
Snack: Burger King - DON'T YOU GET ON ME YET UNTIL YOU READ WHAT I HAD:
Grilled Chicken Sandwich and a bottle of water.

Let me tell you that I had to get that sandwich. When I change my eating drastically, its like a smoker getting off cigarettes or similar to that. I get headaches and stuff the first day or two. I realized that i really didn't actually eat anything of real substance today, and BK was the only place within walking distance to the DCI show that Brody and I were seeing. Therefore, be VERY impressed with my choice of food for the night!

August 7 - Day 30

Starting weight: 212 . . . . . . I knew this one was coming. And I am still paying for my final binge last night, but today was a start

Breakfast: 100 cal pack - Nilla Wafers
Lunch: 1 egg, 2 egg whites scrambles

GYM: 300 abs, back and biceps, 4 games of racquetball

Dinner: Hot Turkey on Wheat bread with gravy (kinda was a large sandwich)
Baked potato with ketchup
Veggies
small cup of chicken rice soup
Water: so far - 1/2 gallon. Will update if i do more.

So dinner was a little large, but i had barely eaten anything. not good to eat largest meal at end of day BUT i was so stuffed and everything from last night's eating, that i really wasn't hungry until dinner.

OK, LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS!

OK . . . . . . so, I am about 1 month into this debacle and where am I? Nowhere really. I have not lost any weight, I have not really eaten any better, and I pretty much have just been broadcasting my failures to everyone. I have had a few comments from a few people. A few motivators, and one person who straight up called me out (and was right! Thanks, by the way.)

It is time for me to get serious, and for anyone reading this, I will allow this to become an interactive opportunity!

I am lacking some of the willpower to make good choices during the summer, because we seem to go out a lot, late at night, especially, and I have been vacationing a ton! For those of you who are reading this, its time for me to give up the excuses! I will do my part to the best of my ability, but when i falter, You have full permission to destroy me for it. Call me out. Yell at me!

MY JOBS:

1. STOP SUCKING AT LIFE!!! (My diet life, that is. Let's be honest, I'm AWESOME at the rest of life) :-D
   
2. Go to grocery store and keep stocked of good, healthy foods
3. take the time to cook instead of grabbing fast food/etc
4. continue to hit the gym for lifting AND cardio
5. Stop making excuses and start making right choices
6. Follow the rules I created (below)
7. NEVER LIE to my people who are following the blog. I will not, I promise. That would defeat the purpose.
   

YOUR JOBS: (if you wish to take part)

1. Let me know if you are actually following this. The more who follow, the more apt I am to do well!
   
2. If you are out with me, do not push me to eat more than I order
3. Do not offer me your leftovers
   
4. If you are out with me, you are welcome to question my choices of food and remind me that I have to make better choices!
5. If we are out, and I am not drinking, deal with it and realize that I am fun as hell, regardless of whether or not I am drinking. Look at it this way, i can be the DD if I'm not drinking! This is an especially big one because over the past month, I have been to many bars with many people, and have drank countless glasses of water. Although some people are cool with it, many others spend too much time making me explain myself and then try to convince me to do otherwise. We are not 17. There is no peer pressure to drink. You have your beer, and I'll have my water if i choose!
6. Yell at me if you see me making bad choices. I really don't want people to tell me I'm doing poorly, so if you do, it will motivate me to do better!!!
   

SOME OF MY J-DOC LIMITATIONS:
**I do not want to "Diet" in an unrealistic way. i want to try to do something i can keep up with for an extended period of time. This means that I will not be forcing myself to not eat things, I just need to limit how much i have and how often i have it.

1. Pizza: Pizza is fine. 1 slice. With or without toppings, and not more than once a day. I should not have any appetizers with that. Just the one slice.
2. Soda: Diet only, and only if necessary.
   
3. Water: 1 gallon a day is the best. Its tough in the heat because the gallon gets REALLY warm, but try my best
4. Breakfast Sandwiches: 1-2 a week is ok, even with the Taylor Ham, BUT no bagels. Wheat toast please! And egg whites if possible
5. Beer: Keep it to light if possible. if its at someone's house, the bud lite select 55 calorie beer is the choice.
   
6. Breakfast in General: Fruit Smoothies would be the best, egg whites, Cheerios with skim milk. Breakfast should be prepared at home. No excuses. There is no need to buy breakfast
7. Evening: No late night eating. All attempts should be made to eat the last meal by 8pm and the last small snack before 9:30. TGI Fridays, Applebees, 1/2 price apps are a NO-NO. I can go, but I do not eat/drink. Stick to Water. (Maybe a salad?) I can hang out, but don't let me order my triple chocolate meltdown, boneless buffalo wings, crap like that.
8. Snacking: 100 calorie packs are good because they are small and tasty. Salads at home are awesome, fruits veggies, etc. I always have them in the house, so I need to eat them!
9. Frequency: I should be eating frequently and small portions. This will keep me from eating huge meals!
10. Vacations: SOMEHOW, i need to keep it contained on vacations. I have the BBQ/Baseball extravaganza to worry about and cousins weekend the week after that. Events like these are when i tend to falter. Limit the ridiculousness of larger/fun events.
11. Buffets: not allowed! Under any circumstance. I will allow myself a buffet for every 10 pounds I lose starting tomorrow, although I don't necessarily HAVE to go.

Ok, Thats all i can think of for now. I will add to the rules if I think of any. These rules go into effect at 7am, Saturday morning, August 7, 2010. Lets get to it!

JOEY V

August 6 - day 29

starting weight - unknown

We must leave today :-(

Breakfast - Taylor Ham/scrambled egg on bagel
Lunch - Personal pizza from pizza Hut
Snack - Cinnabon and a red bull.

ok, so i've been dreading this for a week, I come home and get on the scale, after that disgrace of a breakfast/lunch and i'm at 211, WHICH MEANS, I started the day at 209 or maybe even better! (knowing how my body weighs in before/after certain types of food) which means I maintained on that vacation, even through ALL THE CRAP i ate. Was I good, no. I was VERY BAD. but I can use this to my advantage.

I will finish out today and get on tomorrow. read my next blog for details on that . . . . .

dinner: I like to call this one "The Last Supper" Buffalo Wild Wings - 12 wings, boneless. THEN Cheesecake Factory - 3 Fried mac and Cheese Balls.
Nite: 1 drink and one shot.

By the way - went to Dave & Busters. Was a ton of fun. Played lots of games and for a reasonable cost! Definitely can do that again :-)

August 5 - day 28

Breakfast - Jersey Burger, gatorade (I think i had a bunch of gatorades all week that I did not write down cuz i forgot about them)

Lunch - MIDWAY!! Last day at hte beach, had to finally get midway. Cheese steak and fries and a gatorade.

Dinner - ASBURY PARK! Nice surprise, there was a concert band playing right in front of the restaurant we ate at, one the boardwalk. And our friend Gerry was playing there, a buddy from Imperial Brass. OK, I will stop putting this off . . . . . . Fried Green beans w/buffalo sauce, Jersey Burger and sweet potato fries.

I must add one of the more glorious nights I have spent in awhile was tonight in Asbury park. We went to the PINBALL MUSEUM! $15 - all you can play pinball! I played pinball for 4 hours straight. old games, new games, broken games . . . . games all the way back to 1920! Attack from mars, Elvis, Addam's Family, Simpsons, Cyclone, oh man, that's just the beginning! BUT the highlight of the night, was making it to my top goal of the evening, eclipsing a high score on a machine. I did it on the "JUNGLE KING" machine, from the late 70's. Old record was 117,000 points. I took that down and put up a new score of over 224,000 points! My name is now on the machine for all to see. WAHOO! WOW, I love pinball.

August 4 - Day 27

Breakfast - Jersey burger, 16 cheeseballs
Lunch - donut and munchkins from D.D.
Dinner - Chicken Marsala, egg noodles (3 servings), corn on the cob. (nice cooking pete draney!)

Nite: Pt. Pleasant Boardwalk - KOHR'S - Large peanut butter/chocolate swirl w/sprinkles
Power House, and then some . . . . . . this will conclude my drinking binge for the summer. It was vacation, so we had some fun)

August 3 - Day 26

Breakfast: Jersey Burger - (Taylor ham, hamburger, roll), 2 slices of yellow american and 16 cheeseballs

Lunch: Buffalo Chicken Steak sandwich (kinda small)

Dinner: Jersey Burger

Nite: BEAT THE CLOCK - BAR-A in Belmar. Enough Said
Nite part 2: ok, this was unacceptable, but hey its once a year. BELMAR PIZZA!!! The legen- - - - wait for it - - - - - - DARY Macaroni and Cheese slice of pizza. In addition, 2 slices of buffalo Chicken Pizza.

**side note** DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT try to go to Bar-A with the Burger King mask on. It will not work. You will get reprimanded and you will have to take it off, so don't bother. I will keep you posted on what other bars think as the King will make various appearances at random in local NJ bars. Beware of the king!

August 2 - Day 25

Starting weight: UNKNOWN

Breakfast - Turkey Sandwich on Hamburger roll. (are you seeing a pattern here?) and 2 slices of yellow american.

Lunch: (I guess breakfast was really lunch)

Dinner: FIVE GUYS! Double burger with bacon and BBQ sauce, fries, sprite

Late Night:

august 1 - day 24

Breakfast: cinnamon donut

Lunch: turkey on burger roll. 3 slices of yellow american.

Dinner: 1 slice plain pizza, sprite.

Snack: small ice cream with chocolate sprinkles from kohrs.

Late Night: Went to TIKI BAR to see Timmy J play with his band, Don't Call Me Francis. They were pretty awesome, not gonna lie. ended up having a fair amount of drinks. Wasn't planning on it, but then TIm hooked me up with $3 drink coupons, which is HUGE cuz a glass of scotch there was $14 and an LIT was like $11 or something like that. Anyway, I also had a slice of plain pizza and called it a night.

july 31 - day 23

First full day of vacation.

Starting weight: unknown

Breakfast: cinnamon dunut
Lunch: turkey sandwich on hamburger roll and 4 little cheeseballs
Dinner: 1 slice of pizza with pepperoni and sausage.also a sprite and A little bit of funnel cake.

Then, 4 hours later, all hell broke loose!

I had a beer and then we did a power hour. Followed by a binge of cheeseballs, maybe 100 of them little buggers. 2 slices of yellow american also.

Then off to the boardwalk. 1 slice of plain pizza and a small kohr's ice cream with chocolate sprinkles. Aaaahhhh!!!!

I guess in the end, it coulda been worse, I skipped the fried oreos and sodas and 2nd slice of pizza, and fries, but eek. Tok a good day and destroyed it in 2 hours. Oh well. I try again tomorrow :)