Day 8 - First full post for a day

Today's starting weight - (-3.2 pounds)

I type this edition of J-DOC at almost 2am before I go to bed because I will not have time tomorrow morning and I know you are all waiting with baited breath to see how I did.  I have to say it's staggering to see how much Social Media has picked up over the past few years.  I will use this blog's stats to explain:

In the history of this blog, which has had many versions over many years, no single post has ever gotten more than 93 views.  Most were in the 40-60 zone and there was a stretch of time where no one was really looking at all.

My opening post from yesterday got 214 views.  And today's post - a ridiculous 384 views!!!!!  All I can say is (in the voice of Janice from Friends) - "OH. MY. GOD!"

This is unbelievable and exciting.  I NEED to do well, so the more people who read, the better!  Feel free to comment on Facebook if you are keeping track of me. I find it motivating.  Thanks to those who have reached out already with words of encouragement.  I feel good so far, and today was a good day!  Let's check it out.

BREAKFAST - 1 whole egg, 2 egg whites - scrambled - on an everything bagel thin.  This is the best possible breakfast sandwich option, and it was delightful!  I also had a bottle of water and a large swig of apple juice.  Not a glass, a large swig.

LUNCH - I had a cold cut sandwich on an everything bagel thin.  This included Turkey, Pepperoni and Yellow American Cheese.   It's my usual "go-to" cold cut sandwich.  I know cold cuts are not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but trust me, it's much better than the alternative that I would have had! I also had 4 baked ruffles chips and water.

SNACKING - Now this is where I know I mean business.  I had about a 3-hour stretch where I was hanging out at someone else's house.  I was offered chips, cookies and then my wife showed up with Burger King for Joey III.  It was as if the universe was just teasing me.  In this time, while I watched everyone else eat (including my son, who I was holding at the time, All I had was this:

• 1 chicken nugget
• 2 doritos.  Yes, 2 doritos, not to bags of doritos
• 1 small bite of a cookie
• 2 french fries - not to small fries,or 2 medium fries.  Literally 2 french fries.  

I have to say, my will-power was on point.  If I didn't know I had to face you all tonight when I got home, I would have had 2 bags of doritos, finished the last 3 nuggets my son left + all the fries and eaten 2-3 of those glorious Costco chocolate chip cookies.  This was a test, but I passed!

DINNER - For dinner, I cooked.  We had pork, corn on the cob and egg noodles. I treated myself with some flavorful diet orange soda.  Check out this lovely meal.  

Now, I ate a few more noodles than that and a few more pieces of pork than shown.  BUT in the end, I left enough pork and noodles for Kristyn and I to each have lunch tomorrow.  Very often, I darn near finish the pork and noodles that night. 

LATE NIGHT SNACKING - NOTHING!  I had nothing after dinner.  Dinner was a little late.  Probably finished around 8:30, so that had to be it for the night.  Just some bottles of water to hold me over.  I think I'm gonna be happy with the scale tomorrow morning.   :-)

EXERCISE - I went for a run - 2nd day in a row.  Added 1/2 mile and 7 minutes to yesterday's run.  Very happy with this.  I'm feeling it today in the ol' legs.  It's good pain.  Not really pain - just fatigue and some soreness.  It's good to have that soreness that says "I actually did something physical today!"  Here is the screenshot of the tally from this run. 

Ok, that's it for today.  I feel good about today.  While still part of STAGE 1, it was better than last week.  Tomorrow is going to be tough because I will not leaving the house at 6:20am and coming back in time for a late dinner.  I have a plan.  I hope I can stick to it.  Wish me luck!

OH - - - - it's the next night right now and I think I forgot to write that I had half a cucumber yesterday!  I think I need to get credit for that!  :-)