Bane's Quest For Fire page 89

[Twibble]

Also, why is my plate at YOUR house filled with tasty goodness instead of at MY house filled with tasty goodness?

Apparently you have excellent taste.

[Bane]

Do they just have one bone down the middle, like mini-drumsticks?

If you have a full wing (both sides - I like to use the proper technical terms flatty and drummy) then yes, the drummy has one bone. The flat half though has 2 thin bones like your forearm.

These 27 happened to be a package that had only flatties. You have to eat around it, then press the meat out from between the bones with a fingertip. Or sometimes it just pulls out, depends on how well they are cooked.

This was the best lunch I've had in a long time. When I stood up to go to the oven after the timer went off, my mouth watered so much I thought I blew a saliva valve or something. Pavlov's dog, big time.

Edit: No way, same plates? That must make the jealousy of seeing my lunch even harder to take. ha ha

[Twibble]

If you have a full wing (both sides - I like to use the proper technical terms flatty and drummy) then yes, the drummy has one bone. The flat half though has 2 thin bones like your forearm.

These 27 happened to be a package that had only flatties. You have to eat around it, then press the meat out from between the bones with a fingertip. Or sometimes it just pulls out, depends on how well they are cooked.

This was the best lunch I've had in a long time. When I stood up to go to the oven after the timer went off, my mouth watered so much I thought I blew a saliva valve or something. Pavlov's dog, big time.

Edit: No way, same plates? That must make the jealousy of seeing my lunch even harder to take. ha ha

Yup, I bought them for my husband a while back for his birthday.

I wonder if I could just cook drumsticks like wings...I have 9 pounds of those!

[Bane]

I think my body is liking this new diet. I ate way more yesterday than I had the previous few days, and still dropped 1.4 pounds on the scale. Yeah I know the scale isn't everything, but it's interesting. I'm at 187.6 this morning after weighing in at 195 on Monday.

One big thing is the booze. I bet I've averaged 4-6 drinks a day for quite a while. I know, I know, that's brutal. A couple with supper, a couple after kids are in bed. Then another 1 or 2 on top of that some nights. That's 600 to 900 calories a day that my body has to metabolize before it starts working on all the shit food I have put in my gut that day. No wonder I gained all that weight.

Anyway, here's yesterday's food intake:

Thursday, March 7

Meal 1 (7am)

• 3 eggs fried in butter, yolks only
• 4 slices of bacon

Meal 2 (12pm)

• 27 (!) goddamned chicken wings
• hot sauce: 1/2 cup Frank's w/ 4 tbsp butter, salt, pepper, garlic

Meal 3 (5pm)

• 3 pieces of meatloaf
• 2 canned, seasoned tomatoes
• 1/2 of a medium yam, boiled, w/ a big pat of butter
• 2 cups of unsweetened chocolate almond milk

Snack (7pm)

• 5 strawberries, 2 slices each cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple
• 2 tbsp fresh made whipped cream

That day was more like it. I'm getting into a nice little groove already. I haven't been working out a lot, but I did take my dog out the other night for over an hour, and I've been doing shoveling and random physical things regularly. I'll slowly ramp it up.

Edit: forgot to list the dessert!

[Bane]

Another good day today. Planned on having a couple of drinks tonight but decided to avoid it for another night. Feels good to put a little streak together here.


Friday, March 8

Meal 1 (7am)

• coffee with cream, 1 tsp sugar

Meal 2 (12pm)

• Liquid Fat Bomb (damn this was good)

Meal 3 (7pm)

• 3 pieces of hardly any dough pizza

Yeah, pizza. Got outvoted 3-1 on supper, and ended up making a couple of pizzas myself at home. So at least I know the toppings were were all good. Handmade crust too. Loaded with pepperoni, mozarella cheese, green peppers, banana peppers, feta cheese, pineapple, and tomatoes. I had a little crust but I mean a little... I scooted the toppings back to the edge of the crust and cut the bottom of the piece away, so I ended up with crust left that was about 1" wide x the width of the piece. Mostly just the crust plus a little extra. The whole dough was rolled flat, so it wasn't a big puffy crust at all either. I rolled the whole dough out nice and thin. Ended up with these 3 big triangles of dough to toss out. But what small amount I did eat was piled high with toppings! Friggin' delicious.

I bet this is the first time I've gone 5 days without a drink or a really bad meal/snack in 3 months. Feels great.

[Bane]

Saturday, March 9

Meal 1 (11am)

• new, bold dark roast coffee with cream, 1 tsp sugar (effing heaven)
• 4 slices of bacon
• 2 eggs fried in butter

Meal 2 (6pm)

• 1/2 an appetizer order of sweet potato fries
• 2 fish tacos (not the GOOD kind, but still not bad)
• 2 light beers (sooooooooooo good.)

Meal 3 (8pm)

• 2 small handfuls of M&M's
• 2 whiskey & diet cokes

Meal4 (10pm)

• 1 piece of leftover hardly any dough pizza

Busy day. Kids got shuttled to in-laws, had evening free with my wife. Went out for a bite to eat then back home to watch Skyfall. Had a nice cheat (or 20% if you prefer) tonight, a couple of small fish tacos in soft shells and sweet potato fries. First drinks all week, which were a real nice treat.

I'll be back on track tomorrow, planning on going 100% until next Saturday when I'll likely repeat tonight's shenanigans. If this is as bad as it gets then I'm not doing so bad.

Oh, a picture of the hardly any dough pizza:



(everything east of the cut line gets tossed, obviously)

So yummy.

[Twibble]

BTW, my husband said to ask if you have an extra plate, since we broke one of ours.

[Bane]

We have a few, but my wife would kill me for giving you one. Between the kids and my butter fingers, we've broken about 4 already. We bought an extra box for replacements.

[Twibble]

We need to, once it's in the budget. We bought 2 sets to begin with, but hubby actually likes to have people over and be social and all that crazy stuff.

[Bane]

Man, I know the scale lies, but after 5 straight days of drops (195 to 187.2 pounds) I've now had 2 straight spikes, from back up to 191.4. Holy shit. I had a big supper of salmon and some yams, and a couple of drinks with the gang after supper... I guess I'm due for a big drop here quick. Again, I don't sweat these things, I just think it's interesting to track. Draw a line between starting and goal weights on a big sheet of graph paper and see how the dots play out as I go along.

I'm going to drop the carbs a little this week and jack up my protein. I did really well back in the day shooting for a gram per pound of body weight. Not sure I'll get there, but I'm going to see what I can do, while cutting fruit and nuts out.