At home day 15, The beginning of week 3, and a new start.

Comments/Thoughts:
Well after my problems on Sunday, today was a chance to make up for it and I did fairly well.  We did eat out today, but I was pretty diligent in making healthy choices.  In the past one bad day has spilled into a week and then a month and so on and so on.  I think one of the most important changes for me is going to be ensuring that one mistake does not snowball into a huge setback.  If I can control and manage these small slip ups then getting to my goal weight should not be a problem at all.

I used my time after the kids went to bed tonight to work on a project for the blog.  I had purchased the web address http://screamingbeltloop.com awhile back and want to transition my blog to a web space that I have control over.  I really like blogger, but I think I can have more flexibility with wordpress on my own web host.  Last night I imported all the blog posts and comments from here over to The Screaming Belt Loop site and have already made a decent amount of progress on the transition.  Any input either here, or there would be appreciated on the look and things that need to be worked on.  I chose the name just because my poor belts seem to be victims of denial when I have gained weight back and just did not want to move back up a loop.  So some of the loops look like they have been put on the rack and tortured.  Anyway it seemed like a good idea at the time.  Check it out and let me know what you think.

Statistics:
I walked 11,487 steps and 5.6 miles and burned 3,816 calories via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22B6S6

My heart monitor stat is missing! =/

Exercise:
Again today I did go to the gym and workout, but it was a brisk walk at an incline.  I am looking forward to going back to kettlebells and double treading, but my body is just not there yet.  The fitbit and treadmill claim I burned 700 calories.  I miss my heart monitor.

Food:
Breakfast was eggs, toast and center cut bacon.  For lunch my wife really wanted to take Katie to Cracker Barrel since she eats so well there.  I had grilled chicken tenders with green beans and turnip greens, and also a small salad with less then a tablespoon of blue cheese.  For dinner I had a flatout wrap with leftover chinese turkey stirfry and lettuce in it, as well as squash soup and two kashi cookies.  I went a little heavy on the dessert section but still had less than 1600 calories today.

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At home day 7, Lazy Sunday, Valentine day prep..

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It was a pretty good food day, I did go a little above and beyond on making chocolate covered strawberries.  We had to do something for the teachers at my son's school so I made some milk and dark chocolate covered strawberries, some with pecans, some peanut, and some macadamia nut covered.  Also, I did do a little white chocolate drizzle on some of them.  When my wife got home from work we did some sampling...  Not too much, but more than I should have had by a couple of strawberries.  I hope the teachers like them because
I know we did!

I drove to Cincinnati today and was happy I avoided the temptation of drive through food.  It is a big step for me because I usually use the excuse of meeting at McDonalds to grab a burger, and that did not happen today.  I guess I should explain why I drive to McyDs, my son (step son) goes to visit his father who lives in Kentucky every other weekend and I am usually the one who drives and does the exchange.

Statistics:
I walked 4,363 steps and 2 miles and burned 3,440 calories via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22B6S6

Watch calories burned: N/A

Exercise:
I took the day off again, not because I wanted to but because of a small injury.  I will start back up again tomorrow.

Food:
Breakfast was great, I had almond butter and organic honey on an english muffin and put bananas and blueberries on it.  I also drank a small glass of skim milk with it, and thoroughly enjoyed the meal.  Lunch was leftover meatloaf sandwich as well as hot and sour soup.  I also had a 100 calorie bag of popchips and they are fast becoming my goto snack for crunchy needs.  Dinner was all natural turkey, 50 calories of bacon, olive oil based mayo, mustard on a arnold slim bun with veggies and brown rice.  It was good and very filling.  That being said I ended up eating a few of the chocolate covered strawberries I was making so I was a little naughty.

Pictures/Slideshow:
Once again they are added on to the end of the week album.  That does it for this album, one week down!