31 December 2006

Breakfast: Left over bacon on a baggle with ketchup and a can of D.P.

Lunch: Left over minute steak on toast with ketchup, coffee and a can of D.P.

Dinner: Hungry-Man Buffalo Style Chicken Strips (Fried Chicken Patties Coated in a Floured Buffalo Style Seasoning with French Fries, Corn & a Brownie) I'm really glad I'm not checking my blood sugar level two hours after eatting this!!!

So, it's New Year's Eve! I had the 40% of the bottle of "Champaign" left over from Christmas. It had a screw on cork and so it had not lost any (or much) fizz...

30 December 2006

Breakfast: Some well cooked slightly burnt bacon and two eggs "poached" in the hot bacon fat, coffee and a can of D.P. I should have stock in Pepsi!

Lunch: Two "minute" steaks, boiled rice and a can of D.P.

Dinner: Healthy Choice Chicken Margherita White Meat Chicken With Angel Hair Pasta & Roasted Garlci In Balsamic Vinaigrette Sauce and a can of D.P.

Pre-bed: Half a hot dog, gin and tonic sans tonic and lime but with water instead (really wretched; no doubt in my mind: I like g and t for the tonic water!).

29 December 2006

Breakfast: The remainder of the left over turkey from Christmas, a chunk of sour dough bread with peanut, a can of D.P. and a cup of coffee.

Lunch:

28 December 2006

Breakfast: Left over bacon, coffee cake, coffee and a can of D.P.

Lunch: The remainder of the leftover (frozen) stew, a big hunk of sour dough bread with margarin and a couple of cans of D.P.

Dinner: Healthy Choice Grilled White Meat Chicken In Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Sauce over Linguini Pasta and Broccoli Florets with a can of D.P.

I had a handful or two of unsalted peanuts before and after dinner...

Pre-bed time snack: A couple hunks of sour dough bread with butter and a small cup of wine...

27 December 2006

Breakfast: Left over turkey, dressing and the last of the gravy...

Lunch: McDonald's "southwest club" salad and several "McNuggetts" and a very large glass of "Diet Pepsi"...

Dinner: Healthy Choice Grille White Meat Chicken In Roasted Red Pepper Alfredo Sauce over Linguini Pasta and Broccoli Florets and a can of D.P. I also had a couple of handfulls of peanuts.

Pre-bed snack: slice of well cooked bacon, piece of sour dough bread with margarine and small cup of water...

26 December 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima pancakes and sausage and a cup of coffee.

Lunch: Burger King for double "whopper" (for what it does to the heart?), fries and a large "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: At Applebys: Steak and chicken "combo" fahetias{sp}, lots of veggies and cheese and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi".


I had a small gin and tonic when we got home and went to bed early...

Christmas 2006

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, coffee cake, champaign and orange juice, coffee and a can of D.P.

Lunch: Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, rolls, water and a can of D.P.

Dinner:

Christmas 2006

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, coffee cake, champaign and orange juice, coffee and a can of D.P.

Lunch: Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, rolls, water and a can of D.P.

Dinner:

Christmas Eve 2006

Breakfast: Left over steak from last night, three small eggs scrambled, slice of toast and coffee.

Lunch: Large order of notcheos and cheese and glass of "Diet Pepsi" (we saw "Happy Feet" at the local multi-plex theater...)

Dinner: We had homemade "Mexican": fried chicken and fried steak stripes on those soft shells with refried beans, cheese, sauce and a Mic Lager. Later, I had a gin and tonic.

Several times in the middle of the night, I awoke with an upset stomach. I probably should have taken "Pink" (pepto bismol) for it...

history of beer

This link is for those of us who like to sip good beer and not just chugg it like a bunch of college Freshmen or junior enlisted. I din't drink before I enlisted in the US Navy in 1970; in fact I couldn't stand the flavoiur of beer. But, after "A" school, I quickly learned that having a social life meant learning to drink beer...

Oh, well...

23 December 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jemami pancakes and sausage, coffee and a can of D.P.

Lunch: Burger King double hamberger, fries and a large glass of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: A really nice steak, large baked potatoe, broccoli, an "oil can" sized Fosters and for desert, a gin and tonic!

23 December 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima pancakes and sausage, coffee and a can of D.P.,

Lunch: Burger King double burger, fries and a large "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: A very nice steak, baked potatoe, broccoli and a can ("oil can") of Foasters. Desert, a gin and tonic...

I had a lot of gas and an upset stomach from the boiled cabbage and broccoli I had last night. I definitely should have had "bean oh"...

22 December 2006

Let me tell you about the jobs involved in the colon check. This is meant as a way to see if one has blood (I guess) in one's stools. The VA clinic MD told me to do this on 30 November 2006 and I put it off because it is (to be blunt) a shitty -er- nasty task.

You start by eatting veggie for two days and eatting only small amounts of "well cooked chicken, tuna or turkey". No red meat or certain veggies allowed. I was strongly encourage to eat a lot of ruffage! A whole lot!

After the joys of this "bulking up", I then had to collect a "sample" of the output (feces) on a piece of toilet paper and smear it on a sample card. The card was then closed and when all three were "filled out" (in a manner of speaking), I put this stuff in the pre-stamped envelope and mailed it. The outside was clean yet I couldn't get my wife to carry it into the Post Office to mail it. (Why not? She had to go inside and mail a package anyway???)

It was every bit as disguesting as it sounds. When I put the third sample in today, the lid on an earlier sample opened. It was a good thing I hadn't eatten breakfast yet because I think I would have vomited...

Dried, rotting feces...

It really was nasty...

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima pancakes and sausage, a cup of coffee and a can of D.P.

Lunch: An Arby's "French Dip" samwich and a medium "Diet Pepsi".

Pre-dinner snack: Several slices of sausage and "yellow" cheese and crackers at work. They were put out as part of the Chritsmas spirit rising thing...
I ate a large "slice" (credit card sized) of dark choclate and of couse, drank a can of D.P. with this. When I jump off the wagon, I take off with both feet; ain't no stepping out on one foot for me!

Dinner: (Veggie again): Boiled broccoli flowers, cabbage and carrots, plus a couple of handfuls of unsalted peanuts and a somewhat ripe bananna. I drank water with dinner...

21 December 2006

Breakfast: Bran flakes with bannana and 2% milk and a couple of cups of coffee.

Lunch: Salad with shredded carrots and "Italian" dressing and water.

Snack: Several handfulls of unsalted peanuts.

Dinner: Leftovers from last nigth (chicken, boiled cabbage, cooked onion flakes) and an apple and water.

20 December 2006

Breakfast: cream of wheat and coffee.

Lunch: At Casey's Cowtown: Salad with roasted chicken, chopped tomatoes, chopped onions and probably chopped garlic, pluse two glasses of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: Boiled rice and cabbage, with a lot of dried onions, several handfuls of usalted peanuts, a bananna and several glasses of water.

Pre-bed snack: slice of sour doubh bread...

19 December 2006

Breakfast: Spoon sized shredded wheat with a bannana and a cup or two of coffee.

Lunch: Salad with chopped carrots and "Italian" Dressing.

Dinner: Boiled corn, potatoes and the leftover cabbage from last night. Oh, yes, an 11oz can of chicken and a glass of water.

Pre-bed snack: slice of sour dough bread...

18 December 2006

Breakfast: Spoon sized shredded wheat and two cups of coffee.

Lunch: Salad with carrots, tomatoe, lettuce and some watermelon and a bottle of water.

Snack: Bananna (I was suddenly very tired, hungry and weak. I thought I might have been getting hypoglycemia. Anyway, the bannana did the trick so, as much as it amazes me, I might have had low blood sugar...)

Dinner: Boiled cabbage, a small boiled potatoe, an uncooked apple and water.

Desert: A bannana...

18 December 2006 (first draft)

Breakfast: Spoon sized shredded wheat and two cups of coffee.

17 December 2006

Breakfast: Two pork chops, pan fried potatoes, two scrambled eggs, a can of D.P. and coffee.

Lunch: 1.5 rubbans and a can of D.P.

Movie snack: chips and cheese and a large glass of D.P. - shared with my wife.

Dinner: Home made beef stew, several chunks of sour dough bread browned in the oven and a glass of water. Also had 1.5 gin and tonic later...

16 December 2006

Breakfast: We went out and I had several well cooked stripes of bacon, two eggs over medium (rather flavour free), hash brown potatoes, two slices of whole wheat toast with grape jelly and coffee.

Lunch: Around 2:05 pm, we went to a little Mexican restaurant and I had a couple of items whose names I can't remember, rice and refried beans, 2 glasses of "Diet Pepsi" and a plate of fran (the best part of the meal!).

Dinner: A medium and a small pork chop, a small amount of fried potatoes, a lot of applesauce with ground cinnamon and a bottle of real Mic!

15 December 2006

Breakfast: Cream of wheat (sized for two), large slice of sour dough bread, toasted in the oven, and a cup of coffee. Afterwards, a little dark chocolate and another cup of coffee.

14 December 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima pancakes and sausage and coffee and a D.P.

Lunch: Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, roll, pumpkin pie and whipped creamme and a couple of cans of D.P.

Dinner: At Applebys: Mixed chicken and steak fiehetias and cheese plus sour creame and 2 glasses of Diet Pepsi.

After dinner: Gin and tonics...

13 December 2006

Breakfast: SOS on toasted sour creamme bread and a can of D.P.

Lunch: At Casey's Cowntown: A "large" hamberger with fries and a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: Salad with low cal Thousand Island Dressing and water.

Eating blandly...

My youngest brother has had severe stomach problems nearly all of 2006. His MD has him on a very bland diet of things like mashed potatoes. While this is a bad idea from the viewpoint that potatoes "flash" to blood sugar very quickly, it is something that can be digested before his stomach "rejects" it.

We hope his MDs can cure him before the excess blood sugar does irreparable damage to his kidneys and eyes (the damage has already been done to his heart and his legs. He is 14 years younger than me but he is on track to die years before I do...).

There are times we all dispair about him!

12 December 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima® Great Starts Meal (Pancakes & Sausage) and mixture of low sugar pancake "spread" and margarine plus a can of D.P. and coffee...

Snack: A couple of pieces of thinly sliced cake and much of a bag of microwave popcorn, a can of D.P. and coffee...

Lunch: At Pizza Hut, a large salad, some choclate pudding, a piece of pizza, some kind of sauce covered noddles and a couple of glasses of diet soda (Diet Pepsi or Diet Coke?)

Dinner: Half slice of thick sour dough bread with peanut butter adn a Healthy CHoice Chicken Margherita (White Meat CHicken With Angel Hair Pasta & Roasted Garlic In Balsamic Vinaigrette Sauce) and water...

11 December 2006

Pre-breakfast snack...I had several creamme puffs that were left over from "an open house" yesterday. Not too bad, taste wise but definitely something I should not have eatten. (But I was very hungry...)

Tween meal snack: Dry popcorn and water...

Breakfast: Healthy Choice^& Chicken Breaded Chicken Chicken Breast Strips With Country Gravy / Cherry Dessert With Vanilla Crisp / Vegetable Medley / Mashed Potatoes and a can of D.P.

Lunch: Burger King hamberger, fries and Diet Pepsi/Coke...

Dinner: salad and water.

10 December 2006

Breakfast: Michelina's Lean Gourmet^® Swedish Meatballs (In a Luscious Cream Sauce with Pasta) and a can of D.P.

Mid morning snack: HOrmel Meatloaf^® with Potatoes & Gravy and (of course) a can of D.P.

Lunch: Two hambergers and a bowl of tomattoe soup and a can of D.P.

Dinner: Healthy Choice^® Lemon Pepper Fish / Apple Chyerry Dessert / Rice Pilaf / Broccoli Florets and a thcik slice of sour doubh bread, toasted in the oven with butter melted on it and a bottle of Mic.

09 December 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima pancakes and sausage and a can of D.P.

I folded over a piece of sour dough bread, put peanut butter on one half and strawberry jam on the other (maybe the jam is going bad?)
Big

Big

BIG Mistake!!!

I had several painful shots of stomach gas on the way to Garden City, where we were going out for lunch and we going to go some Christmas shpping. My squirming made it a bit hard to steer the car!

Lunch: At Lone Star: 16z Prime Rib, baked potatoe with butter, sour creame, chives, big homemade rolls and apple cobbler. The drink? A couple of glasses of "Diet Coke"

Dinner: Lean Cuiszine {sp} pepporina pizze and ... to drink.1

08 December 2006

Breakfast: McDonald's Big Breakfast (a folded over sheet of some yellow substance that is allegedly "eggs", sausage, biscuit with grape jelly, two mediocre pancakes with butter and pseudo-maple syrup) and a cup of coffee.

Snack: Slice of sour dough toast with grape jelly and a can of D.P.

Lunch: A Quisnos "Roast Beef Dip" (French dip actually), chips and a large glass of Diet Pepsi.

Snack: A few pieces of dark chocolate.

Dinner: Healthy Choice Grilled chicken Marinara Chicken Breast & Pasta IN Marinara Sauce / Broccoli Florets and a glass of cold water.

07 December 2006

Breakfast: Left over baked chicken, rice pilof and coffee and a can of D.Pl

Lunch: At Wendy's a "plain" double hamberger, baked potatoe with butter and chives and a glass of "Diet Pepsi". They screwed up the order by putting some kind of cheesey spread between the two meat paddies; I scraped off as much as I could and ate it separately.

Dinner: A large salad with a glass of water and a bottle of Mic. After reading the latest bad news about my youngest brother, I did something stupid and had a gin and tonic.

I suppose we could have had Hawaiin food to commenerate yesterday being the 65^th anniversary of the "Day That Will Live In Infamy!"

06 December 2006

Breakfast: McDonald's "Big Breakfast" (egg or egg substitute in the form of folded material, a nice biscuit with grape jelly, a form of potato, a sausage patty), coffee and a can of D.P.)

Snack: An ounce or two of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Chicken Fried Chicken with white gravy, mashed potatoes with white gravy, a roll with butter spread, corn and a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi"Â?

Dinner: Hormel Meatloaf® with Potatoes & Gravy and a can of D.P.

I was disappointed in this meal.

Years ago, I ate this several times a week and only quite when I could afford better. I bought a couple of these this afternoon because I was going into work after Lions and didn't dare take a frozen "real meal" (i.e. a "Healthy Choice"). I was captivated by the appearance of the "Meatloaf" on the box. It looked like textured hamburger, like something my Grandmother would have made. It didn't have all that "green crap" that NavMeatloafaf was so loaded with. The instructions said "to break the plastic seal before heating in the microwave". I used a spoon to puncture said "plastic seal" and licked the spoon off.

That was a mistake as I immediately began to wonder if I'd made a mistake in picking this meal…

One half was clearly mashed potatoes with some gravy, the other half a smooth brownish substance. It didn't have the granulated surface I associate with meat loaf!

There was something distrubingly familiar about it.

I cut into the "meatloaf" and it looked like the "wet dog food" we fed our dog ("Ozzie") about 20 years ago. It looked like a frigging piece of "doggie food"!

I'm fond of the expression "Hunger is the best appitizer." Well, I'd eatten lunch about 6 hours before and was getting hungry. Still, I wasn't quite hungry enough to tackle a second helping of this "meatloaf". I'll have left over "no sugar added" applesauce when I get home. (I just hope tonight won't be one I spend "steering the porciline bus" a couple of hours after racking out!)

After I got home from work, I read the latest email from one brother about another brother of ours. Being hungry, I toasted a thick slice of sour dough bread in the oven and had a double gin and tonic. I was thinking of my brother, his problems and the arguemnts to come on the subject "do we pay his rent again this month because he can't get/hold a job or do we accept the guilt of him being homeless? A stiff drink was probably not the best solution but it surely killed the emotions involved...

05 December 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima Pancakes & Sausage and a can of D.P. (plus my second or third cup of coffee.)

Lunch: Wendy's double hamburger plain (but they put "cheese" on it anyway...), a baked potatoe with sour cream and chives and butter-substitute and a glass of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: A large salad, with "low-cal-french-dressing" and water.

This was a bit of a disappointment. My 2-hours-past-eatting blood sugar was 180. 180 after "eatting good"! Earlier this week (or was it last week?) I had "a steak, medium boiled potatoe and broccoli" and my 2-hours-past-eatting blood sugar was much lower.

I can't seem to figure this food-to-blood-sugar correlation out very well. I guess I'll just have to keep blogging and reading ADA material until it begins to make sense...

04 December 2006

Breakfast: Weight Watchers Smart Ones Bistro Roast Beef with Gravy (medallions of roast beef in gravy withi portobello mushrooms and mashed potatoes)

Yesterday, when we were at Wally World looking for "frozen good-for-me food for my breakfast tomorrow", this meal sounded good. It wasn't until I pulled it out of the freezer at work that I discover the silly shit had mushrooms in it! Gross

Lunch: Pizza Hut where I had salad with varous topings, a couple of slices of "meat" pizza, much of a slice of cooked apple pizza, about a cup of apparently low sugar choclate pudding and a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi".

After lunch, I was feeling slightly nausious the whole afternoon. It makes me wonder if I was having a reaction to perhaps too much sugar?

Dinner: McDonald's Club Salad with exta croutons and a glass of water.

03 December 2006

Breakfast: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast with Gravy / Apple Cranberry Crisp / Roasted Potatoes and a can of D.P.

Snack: A left over pork chop from last night and some (a handful) of cashews...

Lunch: Kathie's baked boneless skinned chicken, rice pilof, broccoli and a can of D.P.

Movie Snack: popcorn and a large glass of "Diet Pepsi"...

Dinner: Soft taco, something wrapped in a soft shell, rice (not very red), refried beans, chips and sausa and water plus a nice disk of flan!

Post Dinner Problems:I ate too soon to going to bed and kept feeling full and slightly ill. I ended up waking up with stomach juices in my mouth; fortunately, I was totally sober and snapped awake before I could have chocked on this liquid crap.

Breakfast: Healthy Choice Beef Pot Roast with Gravy / Apple Cranberry Crisp / Roasted Potatoes and a can of D.P.

Snack: A left over pork chop from last night and some (a handful) of cashews...

Lunch: Kathie's baked boneless skinned chicken, rice pilof, broccoli and a can of D.P.

Movie Snack: popcorn and a large glass of "Diet Pepsi"...

Dinner: Soft taco, something wrapped in a soft shell, rice (not very red), refried beans, chips and sausa and water plus a nice disk of flan!

Post Dinner Problems:I ate too soon to going to bed and kept feeling full and slightly ill. I ended up waking up with stomach juices in my mouth; fortunately, I was totally sober and snapped awake before I could have chocked on this liquid crap.

02 December 2006

Breakfast: Oatmeal with 2% milk, splenda and some brown sugar, the other half of last night's baggett, a can of D.P. and a cup of coffee. (Maybe my "caffine light" won't come on this morning?)

Lunch: Baked boneless skinless chicken, Kathie's rice pilof, "yellow" Kali-flower{sp} and a can of D.P.

Dinner: Pan fried pork chop, a baked potatoe skin and a beer.

01 December 2006

Breakfast: Aunt Jemima® (Great Starts Meal) Pancakes & Sausage and coffee and a can of D.P.

Lunch: At the Rat (well, KFC...): Extra crispy breast and wing, mashed potatoes, corn, a roll with honey and a glass of Diet Pepsi (or was it Diet Coke???)

Dinner: Almost a pound of overcooked sir-loin, a small boiled potatoe, broccoli florettes and a couple of glasses of water...
Dillions had miniture French Baggettes (or hard crust loafs of French Bread; I ate about ½ of the one I bought and it was quite good.)

November scores...

This is my most self absorbed blog yet and whose point
is.

Day    BGL  <>2_>2 _V R
Wed 01 120  0   0   n n  m
Thu 02 ---  0   0   n n
Fri 03 118  1   0   y n
Sat 04 ---  0   0   n n
Sun 05 ---  0   0   n n  m
Mon 06 217  0   0   n y
Tue 07 110  0   0   n n
Wed 08 ---  1   0   n n
Thu 09 ---  0   0   n n
Fri 10 ---  0   0   n n
Sat 11 ---  0   0   n n
Sun 12 ---  0   0   n y
Mon 13 ---  0   1   n n
Tue 14 224  0   1   n n
Wed 15 ---  0   0   n n
Thu 16 ---  0   0   n n
Fri 17 ---  0   0   n n
Sat 18 ---  0   0   n n
Sun 19 ---  0   0   n n
Mon 20 ---  0   0   n n
Tue 21 132  1   0   y y  m
Wed 22 143  2   1   n n
Thu 23 ---  0   0   n n
Fri 24 ---  0   0   n n
Sat 25 141  0   0   n n
Sun 26 ---  0   0   n n
Mon 27 ---  0   0   n n
Tue 28 ---  0   0   n n
wed 29 118  0   1   n n
Thu 30 ---  0   0   n n


Details:

<>2...peeing less than 2 hours of racking out

> 2 is urinating during the rest of the night

V vomiting

R resisted the urge to vomit