And a weekend followed...

So alright… I hate doing multi-day blogs but yet I keep finding myself without the proper time to devote to the endeavor so I wait until “tomorrow” which of course turns into several days and thus here I am straining to remember each day of the weekend and cursing to myself that I am certain that I lost valuable stories and details to Old Man Time.

But I digress… Let’s get started.

Friday cont.

We ended up taking Veronica, our assistant, to a farewell lunch at Fuddruckers on the pike. It was freezing so I couldn’t handle another salad so I got a Veggie Burger on a whole wheat bun. No cheese, bacon, additional burger, nada. I did take a bunch of the fixins and made a mini salad on the side but that’s it. No fries, onion rings, malt, etc.

Of course the day couldn’t be complete with another meal that I couldn’t control. My Uncle Pete was in town for three weeks from Australia. Because my grandmother is a creature of habit at the fine age 85, we eat where she likes, which is a Chinese place in Four Corners. I get there and wanted the spicy garlic vegetables but no. The rest of the table didn’t want to share those… So I got the beef and broccoli and did my best to drain the sauce. I stayed away from the egg rolls. I did have a small bowl of wonton soup and a ton of black tea.

I came home from that, had some Tostitos and salsa while I watched the new episode of Battlestar Galactica. Holy shit did some stuff go down! And all in roughly 45 minutes. Dizamn! If you don’t watch the show because you think its some crazy Star Trek rip off, please Jesus put away your bias for one episode and you’ll love it. I promise.

Saturday

I will quote a post of mine on TheNHLArena.com’s weight loss thread. I wrote it right after I got home from my first spinning class at Bally’s.

“Just got home from my first spinning class and all I have to say about it is: OH.... MY.... GOD.

I haven't sweat this much since high school football two-a-days. The instructor was good tho he didn't bike much which bothered me but I guess when you get paid to teach you don't have to do the actual workout. Lol”

It really was that intense and I wasn’t going 100%. The instructor tells you to increase and decrease the tension knob as you’re doing all this hellacious peddling and I gotta be honest, I refused to not finish the session so I only did about 85% of the increases. I had no fucking clue what I was in for so I decided that human preservation was the most important. Next time (tomorrow morning), its on like Donkey Kong.

I then had to shower and get ready to go have lunch with my good college friends Katie and Gavin at Katie’s new townhouse in Alexandria. On the way there I figured that I should eat a bit of what I could control not knowing what would be there once I arrived. I swung by Safeway and in addition to some toiletries, I tried one of those Mojo Clif Bars and washed it down with a venti skinny caramel macchiato from the Starbucks there. Mike, you’re right they’re good. Bad thing is they’re sticky. By the time I had gotten my coffee Im sure I had smeared sticky residue all over the cashier at Starbucks… I’m gonna have to stick with the original creature. I picked up some new flavors so I’ll report on my findings.

Got to Katie’s before either Katie or Gavin got back from errands so I let myself in an started guzzling water in anticipation of what was to come. I was pleasantly surprised as Maria, a friend of the house, made me a vegetarian meal to die for: Pumpkin soup and a Rueben with (im sure Im fucking this up) Tofurkey. Other than the dressing on the sandwich, it was all really healthy, and I only ate half the Rueben. So ya… winner.

Jason and I met up afterward for my first exposure to Dungeons and Dragons so just in case, I had a sugar-free Red Bull to keep me on my game. It was interesting, and something worth doing again, but it was no World of Warcraft. That’s for certain. When we called it, which was pushing 10 pm, we swung by Qdoba and had a burrito bowl and I did my best not to finish all the rice but I failed. It was just so f’n good.

Finished off the night with some reduced fat cheese-its while watching the Caps/Bruins game at Tim’s. I suppose they were VICTORY reduced fat cheese-its so let me call them that.

Sunday…

Was a clusterfuck of herding 518 Chinese and one 7’1 American around backstage at Strathmore. On my way in at around 9:30 I stopped by Starbucks again and had another venti skinny caramel macchiato and much to my dismay they have SHIT for healthy breakfast food options. As I was paying I noticed a bowl of bananas so I bought one. Im sure it was like 3 dollars but whatever.

When I got there I had one of the few remaining Clif Bars at my desk and started pounding the water. I prob went thru 5 or 6 32oz Nalgene bottles of water of the course of the day. Had the last Clif Bar for lunch. Had some homemade sushi the renters brought us for a mid-day snack, and then had the Chinese food they brought us for dinner at around 8:30 or so. It was mostly all tofu based stuff which can’t be too bad since there was no sauce. There was also a few General Tso’s chicken nuggets in there… which I had… and felt shame. But whatever, I was on my feet yelling at people for 13 hours. I deserve a treat.

Came home. Went to bed.

Monday

Got to work at about 9:30 and on the way ate half my energy bar that I had bought from Bally’s the other day. The whole bar is like 420 calories so usually half is good for breakfast for me. Didn’t have anything else at work believe it or not and got out of work at about 1 for the day. Did some shopping at JCPenny’s and then hit the gym. Did about 45 minutes of faster pace elliptical and burned 775 calories and then did upper body and inclined sit-ups. Im sure Im going to feel it tomorrow for spinning at 6am. Im such a fucking masochist.

Got a protein smoothie and stocked up on Clif Bars for tomorrow’s long day. I’m taking the day off from Strathmore to go work as a stagehand at the National Harbor for some inaugural ball they’re having. I’ll report on that after I know what I did. For now, I know very little about what is going on.

Dinner was finishing off the not-so-healthy pasta and meat sauce from the other night and while I was writing this blog I had the rest of the salsa and some Tostitos.

In addition to a potentially grueling day of spinning and work, its also weigh in for me. Keep your fingers crossed because after writing this weekend down on paper, there’s no way Im going to be as low as I want to be. We’ll see.

And as always… I’ll leave you with a clip from the land of Brown Bear and Gizmo

I’M A MAN AND A MAN DOES NOT CARRY A PURSE!!