7-20-19 Meals

Breakfast: Big Mac, Large Fries, and Unsweetened Tea

Dinner: Two Beef Tacos, refried beans, and fried rice, Tamarindo drink (like a sour lemonade)

Snacks: (3) cookies, (2) cups of coffee with cream.

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Also had a bite of beans really early before breakfast/lunch. I spent about 20 bucks on bad food today. I need to devote more time to my health, eating and exercising. Essentially, after work, I prioritize my free time and sacrifice my personal care time (a habit I never really developed). I need to change that.

7-19-19 Meals

Breakfast: Half a chile colorado burrito, 3/4 cup of pinto beans, 1 roasted chile (left over mexican food from parents)

Lunch: 1 piece of fried cod, 3 red lobster biscuits, 8 asparagus spears cooked in butter and garlic

Snacks: small bag of movie popcorn, 2 cups of coffee with creamer, about 3 cookies.

Dinner: unsweetened iced tea, 2 mcchicken sandwiches, small fries.

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Notes: I did not eat anything after 9pm or until 1pm the next day (16hrs). Felt a little dizzy this afternoon, but that was likely because I was overheated and had not slept more than five or six hours. Having 2 of those sandwiches for dinner was a very bad idea - I wasn't really hungry for two, but mentally, I thought I was. I ate them anyway. Classic eyes bigger than stomach thing.

07-18-19 Meals

Breakfast: Big Mac, Large Fries, and Large Unsweetened Iced Tea (at about noon.)

Lunch: Three slices of a mini pizza, water, and a single fried potato skin.

Snacks: Two cups of coffee with creamer. Three chocolate chip cookies.

Dinner: Ham sandwich from Subway, with spinach, olives, tomatoes, jalapenos, banana peppers, oil, vinegar, salt & pepper

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Notes: I know this is a terrible diet and fresh fruits and vegetable will do me a world of good. I need to expend more effort in making better choices.

Trying Again?

Okay. This project sort of turned into a chore, and I think I need to simplify it a little. I also need to be a little clear about the goal.

Initially, the goal was to track calories and reduce the amount of them I intake in a day. I think the new goal needs to be focused on cleaning up my diet. Too many of my meals come from restaurant, which is almost entirely fast food. As an American, this is probably par for the course.

One thing I am trying to do now is only have about two main meals in a day: a large calorie breakfast meal, and a smaller evening meal. Why? Well, I am eating enough "snacks" in a day for snacks to qualify as an entire third meal. The change here is a mental and behavioral one. By focusing on the habits and behavior, rather than the numbers, I think that will help me make the change.

Also, I need to "clean up" my meals. The way I think I need to do it here is to allow myself one "bad meal" and one "good meal." This is also a largely behavioral shift. I hope to gradually make the change from fast food to good food by incorporating a good food habit in the evening when I have the most time. It's not a sudden from dark to light, flick-the-lights-on change. It is a slow waking up and arising from bed gently change. The successes will accumulate over time, I hope.

To recap:

1. Two main meals, one big, one small. (With snacks in between)
2. One main meal is "bad." The other is "good."
3. Document what I am eating focusing more on the things than the calories. 

One thing I have not mentioned yet is exercise. That probably needs to be a part of the solution, but I do not feel that, at this stage, I am ready to tackle that problem. It is one of my major physical health goals, but I feel that diet has to come first, at least until I have several successful months of change under my belt (so to speak).

Effort and perseverance is the real challenge. If I use this blog to help me keep track, maybe I will develop the habits I need to accumulate progress.

8-23-18 Day

Breakfast
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 420 calories worth of Ice Cream


Lunch
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Big Mac
Large French Fries
Large Unsweetened Iced Tea

20 oz Chai

Dinner
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Bo & Vine Hamburger with:

• pepperjack cheese
• mayo
• lettuce
• onion
• pickles
• tomatoes

Lots of Pub Fries
with Dijon Mustard

Note: Totally sabotaging myself today. Emotional eating and laziness, combined with not being at home. I need to figure this problem out, especially after glancing at myself in the mirror this afternoon, I was a little depressed. I am not trying to be vain, but clearly, I have a food problem that I am not fixing yet (for some reason).

8-22-18 Day

Meals
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Big Mac
Medium French Fries
Unsweetened Iced Tea

3 cookies
1 cup of coffee

Fried Steak
2 cups of fried rice with sauce
stir fried vegetables

2 scoops vanilla ice cream

Notes: Too much junk because not enough time to prepare the meals when I needed them. However, I did some small amount of grocery shopping to save on money and eat healthier.

8-21-18 Summary of Whole Day

Day's Food
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Two Fried Beef Tacos
Spanish Rice
Refried Beans with Cheese

Jamaica Drink (64 oz.)

2 cups of Coffee with Cream and Sugar

Footlong Ham on Wheat from Subway with:

• spinach
• olives
• pickles
• tomatoes
• onion
• green pepper
• banana pepper
• jalapeno

I am hungry at the end of the day. And, I spent too much money on food.