Diet Log: Week 6, Day 2

For those you check out this blog for their daily dose of comedic relief I apologize in advance. I am short on time today. I am working from home today because my Hot Water tank is leaking, and In the hour that I choose for lunch I need to somehow find time to fix that AND do my taxes, which are also due today. Unfortunately, in my ghetto plumbing system, the shutoff valve to the Hot Water Tank supply does not work at all. So I have to back up to the next closest working shutoff which shuts off ALL water to both of my bathrooms. I have discovered a temporary solution, but I don't think it's workable for the long term. The shop vac is able to keep up with the leak, so I can put the shop vac hose right at the leak (held down by some towels which are conveniently soaking wet from sopping up all the water) and turn it on whenever I need water to that side of the house (or hot water to anywhere). I have thought about making everybody pretend that we are on a car trip, so we will just have scheduled bathroom breaks every couple of hours. I will turn on the water, and the shop vac, we all use the bathroom, and then I turn it back off for a couple of hours. I think my wife would probably shoot me, though. Anyway, I digress:

Workout: 45 minutes on the treadmill + 40 pushups + 40 situps. My treadmill is starting to act up somewhere between 8-10 minutes into the workout. Not sure how much longer before it totally gives up the ghost. Kind of worried about that because I can't afford a new one right now (well, maybe I can if my water heater doesn't blow up - but I don't want to), and the thought of actually walking or running without a TV to keep my from thinking about how much I HATE walking or running might make me want to stay in bed an extra hour a day. If worse comes to worse, I could work out at work, but that means using the communal showers....

Weigh-In: I stepped on the scale twice. The first time it registered -15, and the second time it registered -16.5. In light of the way the rest of my day is shaping up, I'm going to cling to the -16.5 (all new low - woohoo!) as one small bright spot.

Breakfast: Like yesterday - two hardboiled eggs. These ones were a more palatable blue color. I'm guessing they were the handiwork of my oldest daughter.

Lunch: Two cereal-size bowls of chef's salad each with half of a crumbled egg and some Ham on top. The first bowl had Parmesean Peppercorn Ranch dressing (170 calories - not really worth it). The second bowl I went with the Fat Free Italian - which actually tastes better. Calories: about 400

Dinner: Made the mistake of going to my oldest son's baseball game BEFORE bothering to eat any dinner or feed the other kids. By the time it was over at 7:15 everybody was STARVING and we had kind of promised them Wendy's. Now, Wendy's doesn't really have anything with eggs in it, but I realized that a chicken is nothing more than an adult egg, and therefore chicken is acceptable. Fortunately, the rules committee was as hungry as everybody else, so my request was quickly approved. I had the SPICY CHICKEN sandwich, but I gave my fries away. I was still hungry a little while later, so I also had about 1/5 of my wife's leftover Homestyle Chicken Sandwich. Calories: 612 Calories.

Snack: another small egg-salad sandwich. approx 200 calories.

Total Calories for the Day: 1364