100 Days

What I ate today

Breakfast (10 a.m.)
½ bag of peanuts (bad idea, I explain below)
Calories: 130
Fat: 13 grams

Lunch (1 p.m.)
1 Healthy Choice smoked sausage
2 ounces of roast beef
Calories: 346
Fat: 10.75 grams

Snack (4 p.m.)
2 ounces of turkey
Calories: 50
Fat: 1 gram

Snack (6 p.m.)
1 small stick of beef jerky
Calories: 80
Fat: 1 gram

Dinner (7 p.m.)
2 slices of multi grain bread
2 ounces of turkey
3 ounces of roast beef
2 servings of fat free mayonnaise
Calories: 270
Fat: 5 grams

Snack (9 p.m.)
1 small package of beef jerkey
Calories: 140
Fat: 1 gram

Total calories: 1,016
Total fat: 31.75 grams (ewww)

Exercise: 40 minutes on elliptical, somewhat abbreviated upper body workout with sets of 20.

I am tired as all hell today. So I am going to keep this short. I hope you appreciate this, people, I really do. It’s 12:30 a.m. and I have written at least 4,000 words tonight. I was very close to not giving you an entry for today, but then I thought about all the people (5) who come to work each morning and look to me for inspiration to get them through the day. I did it for you.

Anyway, this was a weird eating day all around. I woke up late as hell for work so I had to scramble without preparing a proper breakfast. In turn, I had to resort to the vending machines at work. I was determined to find something of value amongst the chocolate donuts and Snickers and Twixes. I was close to getting lowfat sun chips until I remembered that peanuts were a good source of protein. So I went for the nuts and then read the back label. I forgot that peanuts are also a good source of fat. There were 26 grams for the very small package. I was pissed. The Sun Chips would have been more satisfying. Actually, if I had gone shopping over the weekend like I planned, I wouldn’t have found myself in that situation, and that would have been more satisfying.

So I sucked it up and ate half the peanuts, finished work and then headed to evil Wal-Mart around noon thirty. I planned on spending about $30. I ended up spending more than $50. (I think I am officially broke right now. I’ll have to check the balance in the morning.). I bought all the usual stuff. Of course, there were a few wild cards thrown in. Three cans of soup, two cartons of cottage cheese, and beef jerky that I only bought because it was cheaper than most beef jerky.

I was on the run for most of the nighttime hours of my day. I had to do the radio show at 6 p.m., directly after I worked out, so I stopped at the gas station for a liter of water, and ended up buying another stick of jerky to pass the time until dinner. Hey, I love beef jerky. Late in 2005 it was the main staple of my ill-fated all-jerky diet. And really, if you check it out, it isn’t too bad for you: Low calories and fat, minimal carbs, high protein. But the sodium, that will get you. This stuff retains water like a dam.

But really, I think I can only concentrate on minimizing two things on nutrition label, and I have chosen calories and fat. So a little sodium won’t hurt me too much. Hopefully.

After that jerky, I had the taste for it. At 9 p.m. I ended up diving into the small bag I bought at Wal-Mart. It was delicious, even if my jaw is bruised from the chewing. Still, I think I will save the jerky for those convenience store emergencies.

As you might be able to tell from yesterday’s post, I had myself all talked out of working out today. I thought I had too much work to do, so I decided yesterday that I was going to take today off. But, as it turns out, I had plenty of time to work out today. I just didn’t want to. I played video games until 4 p.m. When I finally lost to Chris DiMarco on match play in Tiger Woods ’06, I was kind of disgusted at myself – not for the loss, but for the sedentary day I was suffering through. So I got off my ass and went to work out. I burned about 600 calories on the elliptical and I felt much better about myself afterwards. But now I feel a bit groggy. I have been tired all day and I don’t really know why. Hopefully I will spring back tomorrow.