Post Memorial Day Food wrap-up

As I speak, I am 5 days DD, 711 and Red Bull Free - for the most part. .  .  .. . .  Keep reading to see why I say "For the most part."  Its legit, I swear.

so we went to the pork roll festival and Atlantic City on Saturday after my initial blog.  I had some tots and a "pork roll" sandwich.  I know its Taylor Ham, but it was "Case's" brand pork roll, so technically, its not Taylor Ham.  Its the same crap.  relax!  But i have to be respectful of the name of the festival, and for the day, call it pork roll.  At night, we went to AC and had a few drinks and dinner at Carmines.

Sunday, we went to Jengo's BBQ and I had to really fight through one brief moment.  ON the way there, we were going to stop and get a dessert to bring.  FIrst, i went to Dunkin to get munchkins (Which I was going to not eat ANY of) but the line was REALLY slow.  Next door was a 711.  I was going to grab an entenmanns cake, which I would not have eaten, since it was from 711, but they were grossly overpriced.  So I had to walk into both of my worst places and not get anything.  It would have been harder had i actually bought the stuff and had to stare at it all day.  Ended up getting cookies at shoprite :-)  Had the typical BBQ food amount - which spanned lunch AND dinner.  Played lots of cornhole, and had NO beer.  well, I had about 3 ounces of a specialty beer that Jengo wanted me to try.   Good times!

Monday - Memorial DAy - had Kristyn's dad over for lunch and had some hot dogs and a burger.  Was probably too much, but barely had breakfast and wasn't eating til later.  Went to Tiki Bar at Pt Pleasant for an 8:00 show with Don't Call Me Francis - the band that will hopefully be playing our wedding :-)  On the boardwalk, we stopped at Little Mac's for dinner.  Had 2 slices of pizza for dinner.  they were not even that great.  Kind of disappointing.  The pizza was SO MUCH BETTER LAST TIME.  I think they are probably better when they are not so busy.  Had Kohr's ice cream for snack before the drive home.  Can't go to Point without getting Kohrs!

Tuesday was about to be the first really good day for dieting.  Back to school, back to cooking breakfast, and back to bringing food for lunch!  I went grocery shopping on Monday and got a whole bunch of functional food that will help me not overeat, including drinking lots of water and seltzer.   Had a smoothie for breakfast and a granola bar for snack.  In the meantime, I forgot that a parent had offered to bring in home made chicken parm for me and her son for lunch today.  Well, she was crazy!  Brought in 3 trays of chicken parm - thats almost 20 nice thick pieces of chicken parm! Holy Moly!  It was awesome - and came with side of pasta and really good italian bread.  I had a good amount of it!  hahaha.  Dinner was at home - had a spicy sausage sandwich, pork veggie pot stickers and some veggies.  Add a little light snacking, and not a terrible day.  Oh  almost forgot - This was Brody's birthday, so we went to the CLif around 10.  Had 1 beer and then i had my OOPS moment, which I am not going to count.  I ordered a Red Bull and Vodka.  Totally thinking of it only as an alcoholic beverage, and not as a means to wake up, I am not counting this red bull.  As the bartender said, the liquor cancels out the red bull :-)  ahahaha.  Totally accidental, and I didn't realize it until I was about 1/3 of the way through the drink, at which point i yelled out "OH SH**!!"

Wednesday was legitimately the first REALLY good day. Smoothie for breakfast, cold cut sandwich for snack.  lunch was a salad! You hear it, a salad!  Dinner - spicy black bean veggie burger (no bread) with some rice and broccoli.  Also had 2 slices of yellow american cheese.  Thanks chef Kristyn!  I then passed out around 6:30 and didn't get off the couch until 4:30am!  I was planning on going to the gym.  Oh well . . . . .  . . .

All together, this 5 day stretch has seen me drop about half of the weight that I had gained back.  If I can knock out the 2nd half in the next week or so, then I will be on track to be down for my trip to Korea - a.k.a. J-DOK - Joe's Diet of Korea!  Because I know I will be dropping weight there - since they eat slowly, with chopsticks, and undoubtedly, a lot of foods that I will not like!

Current weight - 213.6 LBS.
Weight loss for the year - 17.5 LBS

Would One Of You Please Get Off?

Hello faithful followers.  I regret to say that I have been a bad boy for awhile, but I'm hoping its time to get back to positive eating and exercising habits.

Today, I got on the scale and instead of it giving me my weight, it just shouted at me: 

"WOULD ONE OF YOU PLEASE GET OFF?!?!?!?!?!?!"  

After a very significant weight loss of 22 pounds in the first few months of the year, I have slowly regained my old form and slipped back into uncontrolled eating habits.  In this time, I have gained back 8lbs and I can not let it go any further. 

There are a few key components that I have slacked on and will be looking to get fixed up.

1. I have slipped back into my old morning routine of 1 donut, 1 buttered bagel and a red bull for breakfast.  So I will be putting myself on a 1 month complete ban from Dunkin Donuts in an attempt to re-program my brain.  After 1 month, school will be over.  When I'm not in school, I don't really go to DD because its not conveniently on the way to work when I haven't eaten breakfast yet.  Therefore, I will probably end up having DD 1-2 times a week over the summer, which is acceptable. 
2. My between-meal 7-11 runs have snuck back into my life.  This is bad because it is like adding a meal that I do not need.  Its almost a 4th meal in a day, which is silly unless I'm having 5-6 light meals, but that's not what I'm doing.  Soooo, I will also put myself on a 1 month ban from 7-11 in an effort to, again, re-program my brain that I don't just automatically need to stop there every other day.
3. Fast Food - I went all of last year without going to any of the major fast food chains - McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, etc.  New Year's brought me back, but I still only went 1 time in January.  Each month, I have had a little more, and a little more, and now, i kind of just get it at will, whenever I feel like it again.  This is bad.  The 1 month ban will include all major fast food chains.
4. Late night food - I have actually been really good with this.  I have not been going out for late night food, so I can't complain about this.  I don't need an official ban on this, but I will be trying not to do it.
5. Exercise - I had gotten into good shape with preparing for the 5k at Bear Mountain, but with the busy schedule of school in May, I have not done ANY running since then.  I need to get back on track with that.  I have an unofficial goal of doing a road 10k at the end of the summer if possible, so if that's going to happen, I need to work!

On July 1, I will be going to Korea for a 13 day trip, funded by the Cresskill Korean Parents Association.  I am told that this trip will test my physical stamina and I should be in shape.  I want to get my diet under control and get the 8lbs that I gained back to go away before this trip, if not more.  I hope that I can get back on track and use the willpower that I had used so well the first few months of 2014.  I don't want to use the busy schedule as an excuse, so its time to get back to it.