Thursday, June 17, 2004

Locked Out: Then to Carl's Jr.

Locked out of house; then decided to go eat.
Carls.


The maintainance crew at my apartmetn complex completed a minor repair in my apartment today and locked my apartment when they left. They locked both locks. I only lock the top lock. Much to my consternation I learned my key wouldn't open the bottom lock. Called the building management company and Hector said he'd be out in 30 mins.

I was starving. Told Hector, 30 mins was fine, I'd go grab something to eat and meet him at my apartment at 705p.

I drove down the street and contemplated doing some grocery shopping, but if Hector was actually on time, then I could really screw up the timing (it would have taken 45-60 mins). Decided, instead that I'd go eat Carl's instead. Got the original. Last time I checked that meal packs 1400 calories. I'd eaten sensibly the rest of the day.

I always try to keep the big picture in mind and not focus on the day to day. I have photos of my caloric intake for the past week (but I have yet to download the photos from the camera). Today seemed to be an aberration (approximately 2700 calories); the other days seem to hover at ~1900 or so calories (I'm sure it's probably +/- a few hundred calories, I have a general idea of the calories of many items, and I don't go crazy weighing stuff -- typically, at the end of the day (if I'm at work/school all day), I'll simply write down what I ate on a wipe board and track it that way).

In the end, I think I can reasonably be critical of myself in two respects today: 1) Probably bad choice to head to Carl's (indeed, probably better off to get water and sandwich from 7-11 instead; it would have, literally, been half the calories); and 2) and once at charles probably a bad choice to order the original; could have gotten a salad, or chicken sandwich or other suitable non-hamburger alternatives.

But maybe my own solution is when I need to eat in a quick pinch to head to 7-11 instead -- adn buy a regular old sandwich and water to drink with it.

Having said all of this, eating at Carl's once every 3-5 weeks is probably no big deal; not sure what my actual frequency of eating there is, but it seems like it is probably aboutg 3-5 weeks or so. . . I'll check.

oh yea, I currently weigh 260/ bf = 29.5% as of this am.

k

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