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May Stats – Part II: Food

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It’s that time again. I am here to share with you all the amazing unhealthy things I ate last month. I will say that I am lacking on preparing a home cooked meal. There are many factors. I really have no time. Okay, I do. I just am lazy when I get home. I cook food for about 1800 kids (now, only 1100) every morning. No one wants to spend all day cooking at work, get home and cook more. It’s unheard of. Plus, it’s hard to cook for just one person. I tend to make too much food and rather than saving it for leftovers, I over indulge myself, licking the plate clean. Gluttony at its best.

My fridge is barren. It does have the essentials all good bachelors need. I have my ketchup and miracle whip bottle. I have the pizza box (with one slice still lingering inside), the soda, the beer, and block of processed cheese. I live the good life. It would be a crime if I ever decided to get married and have kids. We’ll stave. But if my wife is a homebody, then she can do the cooking and we’ll probably have food with names I cannot pronounce and textures not seen by many.

Looking back at the year and everything I have ate, it’s basically the same shit over and over again. I said I hate change. When I find something I like, I stick with it. No need to go and be adventurous. It’s too much of a hassle and I am not a “on a whim” kind of guy. Not saying I don’t do things on a whim. I do. Just not very often. But you’re probably asking yourself right now, “so, Kirk. What did you eat last month? All your readers are dying to know. Please! Please, tell us!”

No need to twist my arm. Here is the list. Enjoy.

Breakfast:

  • 2 Farmer’s Choice Breakfast
    • 4 eggs over easy
    • 4 pancakes
    • 6 pieces of bacon
    • 2 orders of toast
      • 1 white
      • 1 wheat (this was during my “be healthy” era. Did it taste different? No. But I prefer white.)
  • 1 Bowl of Oatmeal
    • (brown sugar, butter)
  • 12 Bagels
    • 10 blueberry bagels
    • 2 cinnamon raisin bagels
  • 12 Yogurts
    • 3 Strawberry
      • 2 with granola
      • 1 without granola
    • 2 Raspberry with granola
    • 7 Blueberry

      • 6 with granola
      • 1 without granola
  • 11 Donuts
    • 8 maple cinnamon rolls
    • 1 maple iced raised donut with chocolate drizzle
    • 2 Quicktrip long johns
      • 1 maple
      • 1 chocolate
  • 3 Jumbo Blueberry Muffins

Lunch (work meals):

  • 9 Medium Spicy Beef Lo Mein
    • no vegetables, no oyster sauce
  • 2 Grilled Chicken Breast Sandwiches
    • lettuce, tomato, mayo
      • 2 Rotini Pastas
  • 2 Pasta Bakes
    • 1 corn
    • 1 mashed potatoes with beef gravy
    • 1 rotini pasta
    • 1 slice of wheat bread
    • 1 bread stick
  • 1 Chicken Enchilada
    • side of mexican corn
    • side of spanish rice
  • 3 Pulled Pork Sandwiches
    • 2 small, 1 large
      • 1 side of baked beans
      • 1 side of mashed potatoes with beef gravy
      • 1 piece of cornbread
  • 1 Beef Tip Sandwich (with BBQ Sauce)
    • 1 side of baked beans
    • 1 side of macaroni and cheese
    • 1 piece of cornbread
    • 1 oatmeal raisin cookie
  • 1 Grilled Club Sandwich (with 3 miracle whips)
    • 1 bag of fun size fritos
  • 2 Hot Turkey Sandwiches With Beef Gravy
    • 1 on white bread/1 on wheat bread
      • 4 scoops of Mashed Potatoes
  • 1 Bacon Cheeseburger
    • lettuce, tomato, ketchup)
    • 1 side of tator tots
  • 2 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Lunch:

  • 1 Philly Time Deluxe Philly Steak
    • 1 side of onion rings
    • 1 chocolate chip cookie
  • 1 Burger King Whopper
    • 1 side of onion rings
  • 7 Peanut Butter and Raspberry Sandwiches
  • 1 Hy-vee Club Foot Long on Wheat
    • 4 miracle whips
  • 1 Subway Cold Cut Combo
    • 1 on white bread
    • 3 oatmeal raisin cookies
  • 1 Visit to Pizza Street
    • 2 slices of baked potato pizza
    • 2 slices of bacon pineapple pizza
    • 2 slices of pepperoni pizza
    • 1 slice of taco pizza
    • 2 slices of cheese pizza
    • 1 pizza street cinnamon roll

Dinner:

  • 3 Twenty Piece McDonald’s Nuggets
    • 6 BBQ,
    • 6 Sweet and Sour Sauces
  • 2 Chicken Ramen Noodle Soups
  • 1 Ming Garden General Chicken (ate half)
    • 1 side of steamed rice
  • 1 Plate of egg noodles
  • 2 Popeye’s 3 piece dinners (3 legs, 3 thighs)
    • 2 sides of mashed potatoes with gravy
    • 2 biscuits
  • 2 Subway Cold Cut Combos
    • 1 on white
    • 1 on wheat (forgot the tomatoes
    • 2 M&M chocolate chip cookies
    • 3 oatmeal raisin cookies
  • 14 Papa Johns Pizza
    • 8 hot slices of cheese pizza
    • 3 cold slices of cheese pizza
    • 3 nuked slices of cheese pizza
    • 10 pieces of cinnamon sticks

Drinking Snacks:

  • 2 handfuls of Lime Chips
  • 1 Tostinos Cheese Pizza

Bar Meals:

  • 1 Order of Mozzarella Sticks
    • 8 count
  • 2 Orders of Quesadillas
    • (6 count) 12 total

Desserts:

  • 2 Granola Bars
    • 1 Fudge Bar
    • 1 Honey and Oats
  • 1 Hy-vee Ice Cream Bar
  • 7 Cookies
    • 1 oatmeal raisin cookie
    • 2 M&M cookies
    • 3 Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • 1 Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie
  • 2 Caramello Candy Bars
  • 3 Mini Blueberry Muffins
  • 1 Bag of Sour Patch Kids
  • 1 Scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream
    • topped with mini m&ms and chocolate syrup
  • 4 mini cinnamon rolls

Test Tasting:

  • 1 Chicken Taquito
  • 1 sample of crisp topping
    • flour, butter, brown sugar, oatmeal, cinnamon
  • 3 Samples of Taco Salad
    • 1 mixed with black bean salsa
    • 2 without the black bean salsa
  • 1 Strip of grilled Porkloin

Misc…

  • 34 Valerian Pills
    • to cure my attacks

There is the stats for the month of May. I say it about everytime I finish with the stats but I really do need to learn to eat better. I can’t say I try cause I don’t. But you never know. Maybe after this month, I will. I am planning on doing a half way point tally of what I have ate the entire year so far. I don’t know if it will be done but it’s an idea I have. That will take some time. Just keep watching the site. You never know. It might show up.


May Stats – Part I: Drinks

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The month began like any other. I drink what I wanted. I ate what ever I felt like. God gave me this amazing gift of staying fit. Deal with it, mofo’s. I had a couple of attacks last month. I was determined to figure out what was causing it. I ruled out work. At first, I thought it was. Work is effin’ crazy. It’s a damn soap opera around there. I’ll save that for another post. Hell, with the amount of hoopla that goes on daily, I’d probably need an entire blog dedicated just to everyone’s antics.

Aside from work, I was still unsure. Could it be the food I eat? Could it be cause I smoke? Maybe the amount of soda I drink? I do drink a lot of soda. Tallying up January to April, I had a total of 222 servings.

Holy Carbonated Drinks, Batman!

Sometime during the month, I thought I needed to fix that. I drop the soda for a week. I know. I would have gone longer but I didn’t. I had no real excuse as to why I did. I wasn’t having caffeine withdrawls. Even when I went back to drinking it, I haven’t had any attacks. So I don’t think it’s the soda. But maybe, just maybe, it’s water. I don’t drink water. Read back at all the logs. I hardly drink it. But I have continued to drink it each night before bed. I take my pills and a small glass of water each night. If anything, I can say drinking water is keeping me alive. Let’s jump to the log. What crazy crap did I put in my body this time?

Coffee:

I still drink a lot of coffee. It’s the one drink I will never rid myself of. My mother drank coffee for years. She lost the taste of this delicious beverage when she was pregnant with my older sister. Thankfully, I am a man.  For the month of May, I had a total of 69 coffees. To break it down,

  • 3 of those were large Starbucks coffees. I don’t miss Starbucks. I am not trying to save money. I just don’t drink it as much. How is that for starting with about 26 the start of the year?
  • 57 of those were coffees I had at work. I grab a cup every morning I get to work. I usually cap it off at 2 but some days, I’ll get three. When I do, I break my rule of using public restrooms.
    • 54 of those were regular coffees. It’s an 8oz. serving.
    • 2 of those were dark roast coffees. I am not a fan of this kind of coffee. I don’t like strong coffee. It hurts my chest and it makes my heart race. Funny how I was able to drink 2 or 3 energy drinks in one day and feel nothing but give me a bold coffee and I feel like I want to die.
    • 1 was a decaf coffee. We were out of regular coffee at the moment. I wanted coffee and didn’t want to wait.
  • 4 of the coffees were my Foldger’s  I drink at home. I am out at the moment and haven’t restocked my cabinet. If I had, the amount would be more.
  • 5 of these were coffees at Bob Evans. It’s tough to measure these when they constantly come by and refill my cup. Look. I just took a sip. I don’t need a refill. I want to finish my cup, log it, and then you can refill it. But it’s okay I guess. I manage to estimate the amount I drink.

Soda:

At one point during the month, I wanted to see if soda was the reason for my attacks. I did go a week without soda and I didn’t have one. I fell off the wagon and went back to drinking soda. I still have yet to have an attack. They are still random. Hopefully I will eventually discover what’s causing it.

This month, I had a total of 44 sodas. Quite impressive I must say. To date, I have had a total of,  266 sodas. That’s everything, from cans of coke to the drinks I have at work.

  • 41 of the sodas I drank were Coke.
    • 17 of those Cokes, I had on break at work. Out of 15 days, I only went for a second cup on 1 day.
    • 19 of those were cans of Coke.
    • 2 of those were from McDonald’s
      • 1 was a large Coke
      • 1 was a medium Coke
    • 1 was a large Coke from Burger King
    • 2 were from the local movie theatre. I went to see, “Iron Man II” and “Shrek 4”.
  • The last 3 were Pepsi.
    • 1 was from Philly Time
    • 1 was from a trip to Popeye’s (the clean one)
    • 1 was from Pizza Street

Juice:

I drank just this month but not as much I did the month before. In the month of April, I had 10. This month, I had 5.

  • 4 of those Orange Juices.
    • 2 were had when I made my monthly (sometimes bi-monthly) trip to Bob Evans.
    • 2 were 16 oz. bottles of Minute Maid Orange Juices.
  • 1 was a 16 oz. bottle of Minute Maid Cranberry Grape Juice.

Alcohol:

I looked at my stats and it seems I drank more than I thought I did. Maybe it was the bottle or two I would enjoy after a drama filled day at work. No matter. I am not going to cut this out of my life. I like vices. Miami especially. This month, I had 49 liver ruining alcoholic beverages.

  • 4 of those were shots of Captain Morgan Lime. It’s new to me. I don’t know where I stand on it quite yet. I mean, I like it but it has a strong lime flavor. I guess it’ll get you to drink more without knowing how much it’s inebriating you.
  • 45 were Bud Lights.
    • 41 of those, were long neck bottles I had at home. Much more than last months, 23.
    • 4 of those, I had at 54 Street Bar & Grill. (or is it, Grill and Bar?)
      • 1 was a small mug.
      • 3 were tall mugs.

Milk:

I do enjoy a nice pint of milk every so often during a slow period of my morning. I get to work early. I work my ass off for 5 hours. After things slow down and I get cleaned up, I stroll over and get a milk and sometimes I’ll enjoy yogurt with it or get a bagel. There is no formula to it. It’s just a spur of the moment kind of thing. This month I had 10. It’s the same amount I had last month too.

  • 9 of them were chocolate.
  • 1 was a white milk.

I was a big milk drinker when I younger. I don’t crave it much any more. I tried white milk and it was nasty. I don’t know why. I loved milk. Chocolate milk is better. It isn’t great for you but anything that taste good is never good for you.

Water:

Did I really drink that much water this month!? Did water finally make the upper portion of my list of drinks I had the current month. You bet it did! This might be the reasoning behind the whole attack fiasco I go through. Since I have started to drink water on a regular basis, I haven’t had attacks. I have a water every night before bed. Let me tally up all the water I have had for the year. January through April, I had a total of 16 1/3 glasses of water. Last month, I had 25. I had more this month than I did the first 3 month of the year. Let me break it down for ya,

  • 7 of the waters I had at work on break.
  • 2 were had at the local “54” when I was Mcdrinking.
  • 16 were 8oz. tumbler size waters.

Etc…

Here is the rest of the items I drank this month. I was debating if I should have added my fruit drinks to the list. I mean, I did have a number of those. But I am not sure if it’ll become a regular thing for me. If it does, then it will move to the upper section of the food log.

  • 1 was a glass of pink lemonade I had at home.
  • 6 were fruit drinks.
    • 3 were Fruit Punch Powerades.
      • 2 were 32oz. sizes.
      • 1 was a 20oz. size.
    • 3 were Fruit Punch Gatorades.
      • 2 were 32oz. sizes.
      • 1 was a 20oz. size.

That ends the stats for what I drank last month. Sorry for delaying this stats. I would say I was busy but that would be a lie. I was lazy. Maybe a little busy. But I was more lazy than anything. I cannot say when the food stats will be posted but they will. Keep looking. Thanks for reading.

Kirk

February Stats – Part II: Food

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I have been tied up with some personal business but finally now have the time to post the stats for the food I ate last month.

It has occurred to me that I am not very adventurous when it comes to food and dining out. Just by writing out the places and things I ate last month, I have noticed I eat just about the same thing over and over again.  Shall I begin?

BREAKFAST:

  • 2 Farmer’s Choice Breakfasts
    • 2 eggs over easy, (4 total)
    • 2 pancakes, (4 total)
    • 3 pieces of bacon, ( 6 total)
    • 1 order of white toast, (2 total)
  • 4 Sausage link and biscuit sandwiches
  • 2 French Toast Sticks (1 w/o syrup)
  • 1 double egg and sausage muffin
  • 2 cinnamon rolls (1 w/o icing)
  • 9 mini muffins
    • 4 apple cinnamon
    • 5 orange
  • 2 jumbo cherry muffins
  • 7donuts
    • 2 maple cinnamon rolls
    • 2 chocolate long johns (from Quicktrip)
    • 2 maple long johns (from Quicktrip)
    • 1 chocolate ring donut

LUNCH: (work meals)

  • 3 1/3lb. bacon cheeseburgers (lettuce, tomato)
  • 1 chicken strip wrap (lettuce, tomato, cheese, mayo)
    • 1 side tator tots
  • 1 grilled ham & cheese sandwich
    • 1 side of onion rings

 

  • BBQ Pork Sandwiches
    • 2 orders of mac and cheese
    • 1 order mashed potatoes w/beef gravy
    • 1 new york style cheesecake
    • 1 piece of Trident Peppermint gum
  • 1 Roasted Porkloin (4 slices)
    • 1 order of mac and cheese
    • 1 order of mashed potatoes w/beef gravy
    • 1 order of cherry crisp
  • 1 BBQ Brisket Sandwich
    • 1 order of baked beans
    • 1 order of mac and cheese
    • 3 pieces of Take 5 “flare” gum
  • 1General/Orange Chicken
    • 1 side of steamed rice (2 sugars)
  • 5 Medium Spicy Beef Lo Mein (no oyster sauce)

LUNCH:

  • 2 Chic-Fil-A Deluxe Chicken Sandwiches (lettuce, tomato, mayo)
  • 5 Slices of Pizza Street Pizza
    • 1 slice of pepperoni/hamburger
    • 3 slices of alredo
    • 1 slice of pepperoni
  • 1 Philly Time Double Cheeseburger (lettuce, tomato)
    • 1 order of onion rings
  • 1 Philly Time Creamy Deluxe (onions, green peppers, cheese)
    • 1 order of onion rings
    • 1 chocolate chip cookie
  • 1 Homemade Egg roll (pork, cabbage, onion, carrot, soy sauce, salt/pepper)
  • 1 double whopper with cheese (no onions, no pickles)
  • 1 Chili Southwest Egg roll
  • 2 subway cold cut combos (lettuce, tomato, salt/pepper, vinegar/oil)

DINNER:

  • 2 McDonald’s 20 piece chicken nuggets
    • 4 bbq sauces
    • 4 sweet and sour sauces
  • 2Ming Garden’s General Chicken
    • 2 orders of steamed rice
  • 1 plate of homemade Goulash*
  • 7 beef hot dogs (with ketchup only)
  • 11 slices of Papa John’s Pizza
    • 2 slices of pineapple, pepperoni, mushroom (picked off mushrooms)
    • 9 slices of cheese pizza (1 slice was cold)
    • 3 pieces of Papa John’s cinnamon sticks
  • 1 3 piece Popeye’s Chicken (2 thighs, 1 leg)
    • 1 side of mashed potatoes w/gravy
    • 1 biscuit
  • 1 2 piece Popeye’s Chicken (1 leg, 1 thigh)
    • 1 side of mashed potatoes w/gravy
    • 1 side of cole slaw
    • 1 biscuit
  • 1 Plate of Venetian Pasta (broccoli, chicken)

DESSERTS:

  • 14cookies
    • 2 Oreo Cookies
    • 1 Sugar Cookie
    • 6 Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • 5 Girl Scout Cookies (peanut butter patties)
  • 7 Wonka Brand Candies
    • 2 packages of bottle caps (12 total caps)
    • 4 boxes of nerds
    • 1 cherry flavored laffy taffy

DRINKING SNACKS:

  • 1 Tostino’s Pizza (cheese)
  • 10 Girl Scout Cookies (peanut butter patties)
  • 3/4 bag of Tostito’s Hint Of Lime Chips

BAR MEALS:

  • 1 Beef Taquito

MISC. TEST TASTING AT WORK:

  • 1 single grain of white rice
  • 1/2 size of beef/bean burrito
  • 1 Turkey Roll-up

Turkey Roll-up

Grilled Ham and Cheese Sandwich

Chef Steve makes me breakfast

Venetian Pasta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There you have it, folks! Month two of what I have ate this year. Oh, the asterisk by “Goulash” is there for a reason. My mother likes to call it, Hamburger Italianio. We’ll call it goulash and she gets upset. It’s the same thing! I am hoping to post another ‘chef john’ video soon. I was quite surprised to see so many videos of people making beef lo mein. Some questions for you,

  1. What should I tone down on eating?
  2. What other places do you recommend?
  3. Should I watch what I eat?
  4. Should I watch what I drink?
  5. Cut back on coffee?
  6. Cut back on soda?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February Stats – Part I: Drinks

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Before I start this post, I need to give myself a pat on the back. I am still going strong on logging in everything I have ate and drank so far. Like January, I am going to post everything I drank and then within a day or two, I will post what I ate.

Here is February. It’s the shortest of all the months. Black history month, Groundhog Day and Valentine’s day all fall in it. I don’t celebrate any of them. I wonder if I ate and drank more this month than last month.

Like before, I’ll post in the same format.

For this month, I had a total of 42 coffees. Let me break it down for you:

  • Starbucks: 26 total. Each coffee cost me about, $2.15. This month I spent, $55.90 on Starbucks coffee. Out of the 28 days, 1 day consisted of 2 coffees. Totaling last month and this month, I have drank, 51 Starbucks coffees and spent a whopping, $109.65! Someone needs to slow down on this coffee. I tried. Really, I did. I just like coffee. If I keep this trend up, drinking roughly 26 coffees a month, I could be looking at a total expense of:

26 coffees x 12 months = 312 coffees

312 coffees x $2.19 = $683.28

If I refer back to this previous post, my total amount is cut in half. Good, yes?

  • With my schedule being changed, I don’t drink my quick morning coffee as often. Compared to last month, I drank 11 less coffees. This month I had, 8 small coffees and 2 large coffees.  The sizes are still the same. The small cups are 8 oz. and the large coffees are 20 oz. servings.
  • I visited Bob Evans twice this month. I had a total of, 5 coffees. That is 8 less than last month. It seems about right. I visited Bob Evans 4 times month. I average about 3 coffees per visit.
  • I had lunch twice at, “Philly Time”. Usually going there means I will get a coffee at Latte Land. I had a total of 2 coffees from Latte Land this month.

Soda:

I told a friend I would try cutting back on soda this month. I don’t think I did. I cannot recall without looking what I drank last month soda wise, but I am sure I either drank about the same, if not more. I had a total of:

  • 43 1/2 cokes
    • 18 1/2 of those are from work. They are 20 oz servings. The half serving is when a co-worker knocked my drink over, losing about 1/2 of it. Out of the 14 days I had these size cokes, 5 days consisted of having 2 cups worth.
    • 20 canned cokes
    • 3 of the 43 were the 20 oz plastic coke bottles
    • 1 was a medium size drink from Burger King.
    • The last coke was when I went to the movies. I saw, Legion. I do not recommend it. It was horrible. I had 1 serving.
  • 8 pepsi’s
    • 1 Pepsi was from Subway.
    • 2 of these were from, Ming Garden. It’s a chinese place I frequent often.
    • 1 was from a local  Italian restaurant.
    • 2 were from my sandwich place, “Philly Time”
    • 1 was from my monthly (sometimes bi-monthly) visit to “Popeye’s Chicken”
    • The last Pepsi I had this month was from, Pizza Street.

That is all the soda I drink this month. That is a total of, 51 sodas. Compared to last month, I drank less. (62 sodas last month) I guess I did improve on something. Kudos to me!

Back to my favorite drink of all, alcohol. Let’s break this down for you. Checking last month, I had 30 Bud Light beers. This month I had, 29. Lets check out the bud lights I had:

  • 25 of those were bottles. My friend and I decided that the 5th beer I drank on, 2/9 was gay. I don’t know how a beer can be gay but it is. That is a long story to explain why we said it. I take many notes about the food and drinks I consume.
  • 2 were Bud Light cans. I am not a fan of the can. I’ll drink it from tap and I’ll drink it from a bottle. I just cannot get to liking the taste from a can. It still has that metal taste. Remind me to tell you an event that happened this night.
  • The last 2 beers I had this month, were from “54 Street” They were both the tall beers. Compared to last months 11, I am slacking. It would be more but I haven’t visited it as often as I like to. I need to get back to doing that. Maybe this weekend. Text me to remind me, please.

Ending off my alcoholic intake for this month was my lack of Rum drinking. Last month I had 36, this month I had only,

  • 8 shots of Captain Morgan Rum. 2 of those shots were for, Matt. He asked and I said okay. They were nightcaps. They did the job. I sleep like a baby.

Aside from all the crap I drink above, I do drink juice. Sure the juices are full of sugar but they still have to be better than all the soda and alcohol I drink. Breaking  down the 18 juices I drank for you, yo:

  • 2 juices were Orange Juices from Bob Evans.
  • 1 of the 18 juices was a Capri Sun. The flavor of the said juice was, Fruit Dive
  • I had a total of 15 minute maid juices.I will say this. I am in love with this juice.

    Minute Maid Orange Juice

    • 1 orange juice
    • 5 cranberry apple raspberry juice
    • 9 cranberry grape juice

Finishing off my list,

  • 1 big ass cup of lemonade from Chic-Fil-A
  • 1 taste test of, sweetened black iced tea (4 oz.)
  • 1 mug of homemade Hot Chocolate
  • 1 glass of 2% white milk (Belfonte)

I don’t see much of a difference in what I drank. Do I think I will ever cut back on coffee? (I’ve already had two so far this month) Will I tone down on the alcohol I drink? Will I drink more water? Only time will tell. There is still ten months left this year. Within the next few days, I will post the food stats.