I haven’t had a lot of energy today. I did my aikido class in the morning. When I got home, I ate and took a long nap. I got up, and started running my 9 miles (which I still 3 miles to go). I didn’t know what to make for dinner. I went through a couple of my cook books, and had some ideas. But I really didn’t want to go to the store. I asked my wife what she wanted for dinner. She suggested that we pull some of the chili out of the freezer. (see my Low Fat Chili Recipe) I asked, how about having chili dogs? She said that sounded like a good idea. Great! I didn’t have to leave the house! I pulled some of the frozen chili out of the freezer, cut it out of the FoodSaver bag, and put it into a large pot over medium low heat. Then I went back to running on the treadmill. Every once in a while I would take a short break from running, and go and stir the chili. When the chili was completely thawed and heated through, I put a few Ball Park Fat Free Beef Franks into a water of water and set the burner to high. After a little while they were done cooking. We just set the hot dog buns on a plate, laid the dogs on the buns, and spooned some of the chili over the dogs. We ate them with forks as there was too much chili on the dogs to eat easily with our hands.
The ease of pulling stuff like chili out of the freezer is a great reason to have a big freezer! Also the FoodSaver sealer is a great plus. And my chili recipe (actually it was my mom’s) is so easy to make in big batches!
I got up this morning, played on the computer, then realized I hadn’t even grabbed a Diet Pepsi. So I grabbed one, played a bit more, took a shower, then headed off to aikido class. I was at aikido class and dragging. I realized that I forgot to eat breakfast. I managed to get through class, but I was tired feeling. When I got home I ate a couple of Fat Free Beef Franks from Ball Park. I played on the computer a bit more, then I took a long nap. After my nap I got up to start my 9 mile run. I ran a mile and I was slogging. So I ate a Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwich. I got on the treadmill, and ran another mile. I was still hungry, so I made another PB&J sandwich. Oh yeah, and a small orange. I feel better now. I need to buy some bananas so I can at least have something around quick to eat.
I went to compete in a stair climb challenge a couple days ago (I ran up 19 floors in a little over 2 minutes…read about my Stair Climb). A bunch of people from the company I work for competed in it. I Think there were about 30 of us. We raised a bunch of money for the cystis fibrosis foundation doing it. Anyway, at one time we all worked in the same building. But then as our company grew, they need room, so they moved us all to a new building. Then we kept growing, and they moved a lot of the people to different buildings. So a lot of the people at the stair climb were people I don’t get to see much anymore. So they haven’t seen me in a while either. It was nice having them tell me how I look so much thinner! Some of these people haven’t seen me since I weight mid 180’s. Other’s maybe 190’s. And few people may not have seen me since I weighed in at 210 pounds! This morning I weighed in at 169.2. I really don’t want to lose any more weight, but I would still like to burn off more fat. So I continue working out, and eating healthy low fat foods. I was actually surprised my weight was down this morning as I felt like I ate a lot yesterday.