BuckSpin - A Year Of Change

A busy day at work Saturday, which is good & certainly beats the alternative. Also a cruel one. Let me set the stage:

We got a mini-lunch rush. We offer various deli sandwiches: smoked turkey, deli ham, roast beef we make ourselves & curried chicken salad, all on either bread, baguette or as a wrap. Today I had to make 4 sandwiches back to back to back to back. The first 2 were roast beef on baguette with aioli and aged cheddar.

I remember making the roast beef, or more appropriately roast beast. It must have been close to a 20lb eye of round. Took forever to even get to rare (which is how we prepare it). It got a bath in extra virgin olive oil, fresh cracked black pepper, some sea salt and then a gazillion smashed garlic cloves. The aroma when it is cooking is amazing.

This is what I was shaving on the meat cutter to sandwich thin slices (not the whole thing but manageable steaks/chunks of the original behemoth. It was pink in the middle and very nicely marbled. The baguette it was on I had baked earlier that morning. They were soft & dough inside, yet crunchy on the outside. On this I spread the garlic mayonnaise, then piled the shaved beef, some greens, a nice crumbling of aged white cheddar, then some fresh tomato slices (those crazy thin deli cuts) and finally the top.

Now repeat….

The other order was for some Italian soppresetta with provolone. 2 of those.

*sigh* Welcome to Cut Hell….LOL Didn’t even one taste of anything. Nada. Nothing. Zip.

I did have a great lunch. I LOVE my lunch & dinner on off-training days. A huge meal…for me. 9oz chicken breast, 6oz broccoli, 4oz sweet potato and a serving of almonds & walnuts. Get that TWICE on off days!

Plus that grapefruit for snack. Don’t get me started…

Tomorrow will be the same menu, but I also have to set up my nutrition for the last week. 200 more cals & 25g of carbs gotta go to get to 1600 cals & a whopping 125g of carbs, but also stay at a minimum of 200g of protein. I know that my 2 PWO shakes, which my coach & I declared off limits to alternating, have about 80g of carbs between them. Not a lot for the rest of the day on the days I train. I’m afraid I know what is gonna happen, but I don’t want to think about it.

Its now Sunday, the day before the beginning of my final week….I gotta think about it.

I try & I try to save it. I really do. I’m deleting and swapping all kinds of things in CalorieKing’s Nutrition Manager to hit those numbers. But finally, just like a desperate man trying to keep a lifeboat afloat in a monsoon, I throw it overboard.

Bye bye morning bowl of steel oats

I am officially NOT in a good mood and NOT looking forward to the 4 training days when I can’t have that. I will be able to on the 3 non-training days.

What Must Go For Week 3:  
- The 1/4 cup of steel cut oats on training days (Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri)
- 33%% of the Fa-Ge 0% yogurt (damn!)
- 50% of the walnuts
- 15% of the almonds
- 1/2 of the grapefruit on non-training days (Wed, Sat, Sun)
- 20% of the broccoli on non-training days, ironically, if I want to keep my 2 4oz servings of sweet potato, which I do

What I Gain For Week 3:  
- 2 egg whites for breakfast. At least a 7 egg breakfast sounds cool, plus I should get some more training day sleep in that it will take me no ^%$#@#! time to make my lame excuse of a breakfast.

I am definitely going to savor these last 2 meals today.

On a bright note, Mother-In-Law BuckSpin offers to watch Thing 2 & Thing 1 and allow Mrs. BuckSpin & I to go to JCPenney’s and spend some of her birthday money (its tomorrow). This is gold….

I score some badly needed jeans! My 32"s have become baggy as hell, and I can now wear 30"!!! They are a tiny bit snug, but pass her test. Ironically, one brand’s (Arizona) 30s are a joke…not even past my thighs! Reminds me of my "Before"! But 30s from Union Bay are OK.

On a whim, I check out the Arizona rack one last time. Damn if they don’t have 31"s! They fit just a lil’ better than the Union Bay 30s, so I get those. I like em! Boot cut….sylin’

On the way out I notice a sale rack with these SWEET faux black leather biker jackets with sewn in black hoodie. DISCLAIMER - LEATHER JACKET JUNKIE! I have about, oh, too many leather coats. I can’t help it. I can even wear "Ol’ Rusty" (brown bomber jacket from American Eagle) again from back when I was 18!!!!

I know I am gonna look goooood in this. I try it on. Mrs. BuckSpin, who is tired of seeing me in XL coats, make a very complimentary comment. Its waist cut, kinda faded, some zippers, just sharp.

And on sale for 1/2 off…

So Birthday Girl treats moi to said jacket! And even, courtesy of an internet coupon, knocks an extra $5 off! Score one jacket for $24.99!!! Upon leaving the store I detag it & wear it home. I’ve become such a fashion whore!!! LOL

This will make tomorrow morning (Weigh In as well) a lil’ more bearable. The last week of The Cut begins. I am soooooooooooooooooo planning a carb bender for the day before Thanksgiving! I will have an absolutely pornographic bowl of oatmeal to start the day, after which…..well, more on that when it gets here.

Avg. Daily Cals: 1802
Avg. Net Cals: 1328
Protein: 226g (49%)
Carbs: 151g (32%)
Fat: 40g (5.5g sat) (19%)

14 down, 9 to go. 2 whole weeks done.

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