Really fell off the wagon…

I suppose these posts are starting to all sound the same. Overeating, not exercising, no self control, will power out the window, etc.

The past four days, I’ve completely neglected my diet. It all started Thursday, when it snowed here. And if you don’t think there’s anything special about snow, let me add that it has snowed here twice since I’ve been alive. Once in 1988 and again in 2001. This was said to be the heaviest snow in over 50 years.

Anyway, my power went out. I didn’t go to work that day either, so my food options were either canned Tuna or one of the very few fast food places that were still open after the snow. Of course, I opted for pizza, and everything just spun out of control since then.

Since I’m not really up to the task of logging all of this on SparkPeople, I’ll just list my food intake here.

Thursday
Lunch
Half of a medium Pizza Hut Supreme Pan pizza (1,000 calories?)
Dinner
Large fried catfish platter (1,600 calories?)
Snack
1 cookie (200 calories)

Friday
Breakfast
Smoothie King Island Impact Smoothie (300 calories)
Lunch
Ham/Turkey sandwich, potato chips, chocolate chip cookie, three pieces of fudge, and two fig newtons (1200 calories?)
Dinner
Office Christmas party food and 5 Crown Royals on the rocks (2000 calories?)
Late Night Drunk Munchies
Taco Bell Nachos and Grilled Stuffed Burrito (1,300 calories)

Saturday
Breakfast
Coffee shop mocha, a banana, two slices of toast with peanut butter, mini sausages (850 calories)
Lunch
Roast Beef Poboy with fries (1000 calories?)
Dinner
Other half of the pizza, a Turkey Leg and 100-cal pack chocolate covered pretzels (1,600 calories)

Sunday
Lunch
Mexican restaurant fajita tacos w/ beans and rice and queso dip with chips (1800 calories?)
Snack
Peach Slice Plus smoothie (360 calories)
Dinner
6-inch roast beef blimpie sub and a turkey leg (850 calories)

That averages to about 3,515 calories per day for the last four days. According to BMR calculators, that’s only slightly more than what I burn in a day. Still, like I’ve said before, if I manage to become successful at dropping even half of what it would take to reach my ideal weight, these binge days are going to be far more detrimental than they are now.

I’m very embarrassed about my major slipup. I can’t seem to control my trigger, which is any change in my normal weekday routine. If I had gone to work on Thursday, I would’ve eaten exactly what I should eat. But because my routine was interrupted by snow and a power failure, I spiraled out of control.

But, my friends, today is Monday, which means the routine has returned to normal and my eating habits are again healthy. Now if only I could get myself to the gym.

Ate like a pig and paid for it

My last blog discussed some upcoming meals that would be detrimental to my diet if I made bad decisions. Well, some of those meals have passed, and I paid no attention to my diet this week, aside from the single piece of chocolate pie that I decided not to eat.

Friday at the fondue restaurant was fine. I ate very little earlier in the day, and ate everything at the restaurant, at a total of 2800 calories for the day. Since I burn 3500 a day, no big deal.

Saturday was a different story. I ate a chicken salad sandwich and tortilla strips at my favorite local bakery, and then we hit the casino buffet. I had two full plates of food that included crabs, fried catfish/shrimp, cornbread, prime rib, mashed potatoes, among other things. Then I had a salad with ranch dressing. Then I had a peanut-butter pie slice for dessert. Worth every calorie.

Sunday morning, we went downstairs to the casino again to eat breakfast. They had a wonderful breakfast buffet that I was told I had to try. So I ended up eating two plates of breakfast food that included eggs, bacon, sausage, french toast, pancakes with syrup, and strawberries. Agan, worth every calorie.

On the way home, I had a frozen mocha drink. Probably another 500 calories.

That night, we ate at Longhorn steakhouse with her parents. I went fairly light and had an 8-ounce sirloin with mashed potatoes. Unfortunately, the ceasar salad and fried onion pieces beforehand were not so light.

I weighed myself this morning: 378. Last Wednesday I weighed 375. I’m hoping I only really gained a pound and the rest is just a bunch of water and food that has yet to come out. I ate a lot of food, drank a lot of coffee, but did not drink enough water. I figure I’m retaining a lot of fluid. We’ll see on Wednesday morning when it’s the official weigh-in time.

Trying to keep myself awake

It’s one of those days. There’s not much for me to do at work until I get some information back from someone else (that’s pretty much how it always is). I feel like I could take a nap, but that would just continue the vicious cycle of inadequate sleep at night.

I take Tylenol Simply Sleep pills almost every night, causing me to wake up with a feeling that I haven’t slept at all, even if I got 7-8 hours. I feel like if I don’t take the pills, however, I will end up staying awake until 2 or 3 in morning, ruining the night anyway. At least with this method I’ll get a healthy amount of sleep.

When I get up at 8 a.m., I give myself about 20 minutes to throw on clothes, gather up my food for the day and head out the door. On the ride to work, I pop an ephedrine/caffeine pill; half an hour later, I feel rested. Fast forward to around 1 or 2 p.m., and I’m back to “normal.”

When I get in this sluggish, umotivated, bored mood, I start thinking about my weight loss progress over the last month. Can I keep this up? Am I going to have the energy to exercise? Blah.

I don’t even feel like continuing this post. I hate afternoons more than mornings.