Weekend Walls

Just a quick update because I dont have too much time. Weekends are the worst. I find that they are the hardest to keep on track for. I like to sleep in a little bit, so I wake up at a time between breakfast and lunch, which means I usually skip one of those meals. Then we either go to a friends house for a BBQ, or last weekend we went to a baseball game and met friends for food first, followed by more food at the game. So far, most of my weight loss has come from diet alone, and a diet I have fallen off track a bit. I need to start incorporating fitness and cardio into my work out as well. To do that Im going to have to make some tough sacrifices. I think thats the problem I have right now. There is only so much time in a day. As of right now, this is my daily schedule. Wake up at 6:30 and head to work. Work until 6pm home by 6:30. Make dinner with the wife, and eat it at the coffee table while starting to watch the shows we recorded from the night before. Watch TV from 7 to 9. The wife goes to sleep around 9:30 (she is pregnant - Due date FAST approaching), and I go into another room and play video games until about 11. Then to bed. Repeat. watching TV is one of the only things my wife and I get time to do together right now, with her being 8 months pregnant. Im too worn out by 9pm to hit the gym. What do I do? Do I skip the video games (which I have been playing since I was a little child), go to bed early with the wife, wake up at 5am and work out for an hour? I am sooooo not a morning person. Do I try getting home earlier. Am I working too much? Im salary so its not like I get paid any extra for being there. There is just A LOT to do, or do I procrastinate at work too much, like im doing right now, and would be able to leave after an 8 hour shift if I worked harder. Wow, that would be awesome to be home by 4pm each day. If I was home at 4pm. I would work out until 5:30, home and shower, then start dinner for when the wife gets home which is usually right at 6pm. and then continue on with life as usual. So, I need to work smarter. What am I doing still on Blogger? Im out! By the way, I weight 242.1 as of this morning.

June 7th - 243.3

I hate the scale.

I find myself being afraid when I step on it, Im also standing there thinking - well, I did have fries the other day, so Im sure it will be right back up to 250 now. But alas, its dropping.

To be honest, I dont feel like Im doing anything really different. Im just really thoughtful about how many calories a day Im eating. I have also recognized my "temptations". Snacks. I thought it was my lunches before, and granted, I did eat shit for lunches, but on average they were not that bad, maybe 400 more calories for a lunch than Im eating now. Snacks are the worst. chips and salsa or guacamole, or just some cheese on crackers or something - gets me. I started to realize the calories in just a handful of chips. my snacks were turning into more calories than my actual meals.

The worst was when my wife left this weekend, and I was home alone. So what do I do? I sit in my boxes and play video games all day. Hell ya! I got a few beers, made myself some nachos, and had a kick ass Saturday. 2800 calories later it was not the best Saturday weight wise, but hell - who cares.

One thing to note. Im doing alot of stuff without cheese. I find that cheese is just an extra topping that can be done without, and also adds to pointless calories. Is a burger still just as good without the cheese? I think so, maybe not AS good, but still good. Sandwiches the same. There isnt really anything I can think of where I would say - yep, Cheese makes this. Without Cheese its crap. So, im doing it without cheese.

Exercise. I havnt done much of it so far. I do job walks durring the day that takes an hour, but I havnt found time to go to the gym yet. My daily schedule is, wake up at 6:30, at work by 7:30, work till 5:30, home at 6. Eat at 7. watch some TV till 10 with the wife. She goes to bed, I stay up till 11 playing some video games. Repeat.