from happyrobot - updated 6/9/2026 1:51:19 AM https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp en-us https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8541 Breakfast - breakfast cereal bar around 10am
Lunch - Egg salad and avocado on 7 grain bread
Dinner - Peanut butter on two slices of bread

WT - 235.5

PT -
Walk from work to train
Walk from train to home]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8537
Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Broccoli in garlic sauce, brown rice
Dinner - assorted thai appetizers - tofu, spring rolls, calamari

WT - 235 lbs

PT -
None

Stace's band played last night, so I didn't get a chance to do any PT. I did, however, join the gym that is right downstairs from my office. I'm going to start hitting the gym during lunch at the office.]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8534
Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - One slice of Brocolli pizza, one slice of cheese pizza
Dinner - Chicken Pad Thai, some kind of Thai spring rolls

WT - ?

PT - none

Work supplied pizza for lunch on Friday - so I ate it. I stayed away from the "super meat combo" pizza - but that was the best I could do.]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8529
Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Vegetable fried rice, sesame chicken, and by popular demand (Broccoli)
Dinner - Two hot dogs on hot dog buns

WT - 234 lbs

PT -

The usual walking:
Total of about 4 miles with a 20 pound pack

Today is my PT day off (other than the above)
(and crunches and pushups...)]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8525 Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Vegetable fried rice, roasted chicken with lemon sauce
Dinner - Turkey sandwich on white bread with mayo
Snack - peanut butter on bread

WT - 235 lbs

PT -
Walk 1.4 miles house to train (25 pound pack)
Walk 1.2 miles train to work (25 pound pack)
Walk 1.2 miles work to train (25 pound pack)
Walk 1.4 miles train to house (25 pound pack)

30 pushups
100 crunches
30 pushups
30 situps
25 pushups
Bicep curls - 2 sets 15 (20 llb weight)
Triceps - 2 sets 30 (20 lb weight)
Flutterkicks - 1 set of 40 (4 count)


I put weights in my backpack again this week, and I'll be doing that from now on. Walking with weights really burns my calves, and I can do shrugs during the walk, which works my shoulders and neck. Walking up the stairs out of the train is really good with the weight on too - It's like a free workout.

I did the 100 crunches ala Sunshine Jen. I just get bored doing so many at once - I forget what I'm doing halfway through - I'm going to go back to shorter sets.

This was a light day for me, but the first time I did real situps. Prior to this, all of my situps have been unassisted - which means nobody (or nothing) was holding my feet. This is a good way to work the hip flexers and abs, but not a good way to train for situps (situps is actually an event for my PT test)

I was going to do the dreaded Pyramid today, but I lost energy before I even got started. I haven't been eating enough, and I'm beginning to drag. I'm going to have to increase my caloric intake or I'm probably going to die.

]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8520 Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - 4 oz chicken (with lemon on top), 2 fork fulls of vegetable fried rice (I didn't eat the rest), 2 small spring rolls.
Dinner - Turkey on white bread with mayo

WT - 235.5

PT -
Walk 1.4 miles home to train (25 pound pack)
Walk 1.2 miles train to work (25 pound pack)
Walk 2.0 miles train to home (25 pound pack)
Circuit training for 20 minutes:
15 lunges
15 reps chest press
15 reps reverse crunches
15 reps bicep curls
15 reps front kick
Rinse and repeat (2 sets total of the above)
pushups to muscle failure
60 situps]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8517 Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - 4 oz vegetable rice pilaf, 3 oz roasted chicken
Dinner - 2 pieces wheat bread , 2 slices bologna, mayo (not as dry as it sounds)

WT - 236

PT -
1.2 mile walk from train to work
1.2 mile walk from work to train
1.4 miles walk from train to home
3 sets 30 pushups (2 close arm, 1 wide arm)
2 sets 40 crunches
2 sets 40 flutterkicks (4 count)
1 set 30 leg spreaders (4 count)
30 minutes cardio (martial arts training - at least what I could remember from when I studied martial arts)]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8508 Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - 5oz Vegetable fried rice. 3 oz lemon chicken. two tiny vegetable spring rolls.
Dinner - Bologna (3 slices), on potato bread with mayo.

WT - 237

PT -
1.2 mile walk from train to work
1.2 mile walk from work to train
2.2 mile walk from train to home
50 crunches
30 leg spreaders
35 flutterkicks
free weights - 10 minutes (shoulders and chest)


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Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Turkey on multigrain bread, apple chutney
Dinner - Garlic hummus and crackers

WT - 238 lbs

PT -
Walk to train 1.4 miles
Train to work 1.2 miles
3 sets 25 crunches
45 situps
3 sets 25 pushups
Free weights - biceps and triceps - 15 minutes
]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8503 Monday, March 19th, 2007

Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Half of a tunafish sandwich on some weird herb bread (ate the tuna from the other half of the sandwich and tossed the bread) (probably about 3 oz. of tuna)
Dinner - Bologna sandwich (three slices) on white bread, with mayo, salt and pepper. One vegetable samosa left over from a couple nights ago.

WT - 239 (Fresh start, so we won't talk about how much I have gained)

PT -
1.2 miles from train to work
1.2 miles from work to train
1.4 miles from train to home
30 minutes cardio kickboxing (anyone know who Gilad is?)
2 sets 25 pushups
2 sets 30 pushups (wide arm)
50 crunches
1 set pushups to muscle failure (only took 18 pushups at this point)
Total of about one hour of PT

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Monday, March 11th, 2007

Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Egg salad on Wheat, 2 oz bowtie pasta with pesto, fruit salad
Dinner - Half a cheeseburger from a diner, some french fries

PT -
I don't know the mileage, but I did a bunch of walking

Tuesday, March 12th, 2007

Breakfast - none
Lunch - Avocado sandwich on 7 grain bread with sprouts and such...
Dinner - Sheppard's pie

PT -
Nothing official


I went to see 300 on Monday night. It was pretty terrible. I went to the Imax theater on Broadway and 68th and the place was jam packed, which meant there was no time to stand in line at the concession counter, which saved me. After the movie we went to a diner up the street and I ate most of a HUGE cheeseburger.

Tuesday I went out with some friends (and my wife of course) and tried the Sheppard's pie that was on special at our favorite eating and drinking place. I don't pass up Sheppard's pie - I think it's genetic.
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Friday, March 9th

Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - turkey sandwich with red onion
Dinner - none

PT -

1.2 miles to train in the morning
2.2 miles walking home at night

Saturday, March 10th

Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - nothing
Dinner - Amy's chicken pot pie, Amy's tamale (not really a tamale - more like a mexican pot pie)

PT -
15 minutes stretching
50 flutter kicks
50 crunches
3 sets 30 pushups
45 situps (no pressure on feet)

Sunday, March 11th

Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Amy's mushroom and olive pizza
Dinner - more of that same pizza

PT -
15 minutes stretching
15 minutes with free weights (shoulders, chest, bis and tris)
50 crunches
feeble attempt at pushups (arms a mess from weights)


Stace was on tour this weekend, so I had the house to myself. When her mother was here, they bought a whole freeze full of Amy's frozen food - and I ate most of it this weekend.

Started PT again, and I hurt pretty bad today.]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8453 Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Jalapeno chicken salad on focaccia
Dinner - Penne with spinach and sausage

WT - (not yet)

PT -
1.2 miles walking (slow pace - pretty much worthless)

]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8450 Tuesday

Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - Sheppard's pie
Dinner - Steak Chili, Turkey Burger

Wednesday

Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - nothing
Dinner - Some kind of frozen Indian food meal thing, but it's Amy's so it's really good (but it was also really small)

Tuesday the bosses took my department out to lunch. (there are two of us in the department) and we went to an Irish Pub type of place (there are thousands of them in Midtown - office folk love their Irish Pubs) The Sheppard's pie was fantastic, and it made me sleepy for the rest of the day.
Later that night we went to pick up this slate fire place that keeps getting passed around, and I somehow have to carry. It is a dozen pieces, and it weighs a ton. I hate it.

Wednesday I was sick. I have actually been fighting off being sick, and Wednesday I gave up. It wasn't until late in the afternoon that I was ready to eat again (it wasn't my stomach, it was my head - which should head off the next series of questions) so I had some Indian food. Amy's makes frozen meals that are fantastic. They are all Vegan (which I don't need, but it's fine with me) and I just found out that she (Amy) belongs to the same super restrictive religious cult that my mother in law belongs to. That means that all of Amy's foods are not "evil" - not at all like the gallons of Coke Zero that I drink weekly. When I was on the "Amy's diet" - you might recall all the soup - I lost a good amount of weight. There might be something to this "healthy" eatin' stuff.]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8436
Breakfast -

Lunch - two steamed pork dumplings, two steamed chicken dumplings, 3 oz. white rice, soy sauce.

Dinner - One half of Amy's brand frozen vegetarian pizza. (very good)

PT -
1.2 miles walk to work.
2.0 miles walk home from work

It was damn cold yesterday on that walk up the hill. No matter what directions I was walking, I seemed to be walking straight into the wind. The entire walk was like I was pulling an akio through the snow. (I'll talk more about this later, but in short, imagine several hundred pounds of gear stacked into a sled and you have to pull it like a dog team, but there are no dogs and no team)

That two miles home felt more like ten miles.

Actually, I just checked the distances that I walk, and I've been a bit off:

House to PATH train (Journal Square) 1.4 miles
House to PATH train (Grove Street) 2.0 miles
PATH train to Work (44th street) .7 miles

So yesterday was .7 miles from PATH to work, .7 miles from work to PATH, 2.0 miles from Grove street to house - total of 3.4 miles.

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Breakfast - nothing

Lunch - Chinese food was provided at the office on Thursday, and there was enough leftovers for Friday. Saturday I think I had leftover pizza for lunch, and Sunday I had left over Indian food.

Dinner - Thursday night was at a bar, but I don't remember what I ate, Friday night I didn't eat (too busy cleaning the house), Saturday night I had Indian food, Sunday night I ate some kind of Vegan Pasta dish. It was good, there wasn't very much of it.

Desert - I ate an ice cream sandwich on Friday night, and Sunday night I vegan icecream (which did not taste like ice cream, even though it looked like ice cream)

WT - When i find that scale, I'll let you know, but I'm sure it's not good

PT -
A lot more walking, but nothing formal. I did some pushups on Saturday, but not enough to make a difference. Friday I was a whirlwind of cleaning and furniture moving for five hours.

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Breakfast - protein bar thingie (at around 10am)
Lunch - protein bar - peanut butter flavored (around 2pm)
Dinner - Chicken Salad (as in salad with chicken on it)

PT -
1.2 mile walk to train
pushups - 2 sets of 30 (sad showing, but not bad for not having done any for two or three weeks)
Still working on the house

WT - Still not weighing myself


I'm doing some new kind of eating plan with the protein bars. I was just really busy at work yesterday (or I was too lazy to go out and get lunch, you decide) and I didn't eat a real lunch. I had some of these bars left from my last National Guard training (I usually carry a couple of these on my person "just in case") so I ate those instead of leaving the building. I also only had two dollars - and that played a pretty big role in my meal choices.

I met Stace for a drink and quick dinner at around 8pm. I think we were in and out of the bar/restaurant in less than 25 minutes. It was record breaking. We are regulars at this little place, so they knew what we were drinking and what we were eating before we even walked through the door. I think we set a record.

There is still a bunch of work to do in the house. I've been up past 0100 every night doing stuff, and it's wearing me down. I get up at 0700 to get ready for work. That's not super early, but it's early enough. I have been averaging 6 hours of sleep. I read a study a couple months ago about insomnia and weight gain. This study claims that you gain weight if you are not sleeping - part of it has to do with more waking hours to eat.

I dont' know if I have gained weight (see above about not weighing myself lately) but I am pretty sure I have not lost anything either.

The good news is - I am wearing my favorite shirt today (Thursday)
The bad news is - The city is inspecting my house for housing code violations. If I fail this time (it won't be the first) I may see a $1000 fine per violation, per day it's not fixed.]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8414 Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - egg salad and avocada on multi-grain bread (It was actually much better than it sounds), fruit salad (cantelope heavy),
Dinner - Bowl of Chili

PT -
Officially, none. However I spent about three hours moving furniture from my truck to the house, from the first floor to the basement, from the basement to the first floor, and all around the apartment (from room to room) I think all of that has to count for something.
I left out the pushups and situps I did the night before (I'm not sure why)

WT - (scale is still buried)

I've been too busy to work out, which sucks. I haven't even been able to do my extra walk home, because it takes too long. It takes me an extra half hour to get home from work.]]> https://www.happyrobot.net/words/fatpat.asp?id=8411
Breakfast - nothing
Lunch - white rice, sesame chicken (about 3 oz), grilled zuccini
Dinner - Meatloaf sandwich with spinach and roasted garlic (from left overs)

PT -

WT -

Normally, I weigh myself every morning after I get out of the shower, but lately I have been doing work on the house and I moved the scale. Actually, I'm not sure where the scale is right now.

Last night I spent many hours working on my house. There is a room that we call "the office" that has pretty much been the junk room since we moved in. In theory, I will eventually move my desk in here, but it needed a bunch of work done that I have not had time to do. The time factor stems from the fact that I have to move everything out of the room and spread out all the crap throughout the house before I can do anything -and then move it back when I am done.

We had some water damage from a leaky roof that I haven't had time to do anything about. I have secretly feared that it was really bad, and didn't want to mess with it. Last night I was taking down some shelves and the wall fell apart. I spent the next three hours repairing the wall. All things considered, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

On to the meatloaf story. Eve suggested I eat a meatloaf sandwich - so I did. I happened to have leftovers from a Restaurant that Stace and I frequent. Those leftovers happened to be meatloaf. Meatloaf and spinach on potato bread - very good advice, Eve.

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Breakfasts - I had brunch on Saturday (scrambled eggs and sausage), otherwise - nothing
Lunch - Various lunch like things. One day was a roasted vegetable wrap, another day Stace and I got Indian food (I think that was Sunday), Friday I skipped lunch all together and was very cranky, and prone to making mistakes.
Dinner - I know I had meatloaf at the simple one night, and Indian food another night (left over from lunch) and spaghetti last night (which was Sunday)

PT - None

WT - haven't checked.

Poop - not as much as I would like

I fell behind in my reporting.
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