Today my beautiful and wonderful wife celebrated her birthday. It was an amazing day.

I started her off with breakfast in bed, and gifts from the girls and I. The girls bought her crafts that they can do together and spend time with her. Bree picked out some glass pieces to paint. Georgia picked out a pottery set to make pottery and then decorate it. Together they are going to create a message boars with a mirror. I bought her a spa pass to a place she loves to get mani-pedis at.

We also had some family and friends over. I grilled some amazing food. I'm a charcoal kind of guy and just love to slow it down and grill. Mindy loves grilled onions so I made her a bunch of those too for her turkey burger.

It was funny because she loves Basken Robbins ice cream cakes. So I bought a little oreo one and a big one of the kind she loves with the mint chocolate chip and cake. I brought out the small one first to make her think I got the wrong kind. She actually whispered to her sister "he got the wrong kind" when I turned my back. I caught her but returned to the freezer with a huge cake of the one she wanted. It as great to see how happy she was with the day. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing wife. She is everything to me and I loved getting to pamper her today.

Breakfast: OJ, everything bagel, 2 pieces of bacon, poached egg.

Lunch: Bowl of cereal, then went with my beautiful wife to in and out for her birthday lunch. We split some animal fries.

Dinner: hot link sausage, two slider patties and a buns, ice cream cake from BR. Couple of small cups of cream soda.

For how much amazing food was available that I grilled I'm really proud of myself.

Tomorrow I need to go renew my gym membership.

Remember how I set the goal to lose 4 pounds last week. With my lack of holding myself accountable I didn't make it. I'm actually back up to 260.


Banana, watermelon this is all I ate until dinner.

Dinner: bertoli chicken pasta, three small pieces of garlic bread. Then I ate one of my daughters small pieces of pizza and their garlic bread crust. OJ

Not sure why I didn't blog last week. Oh yea I didn't want to write down all the crap I was eating.

This morning I had a shake for breakfast hopefully that will help me get back on the right track.

Lunch: OJ, cottage cheese, salsa and toasted crackers

Dinner: chicken and vegetable stir-fry
Sugar free pudding.

This morning I wasn't going to weigh myself but I just couldn't resist. I weighed in at 259lbs the same weight as when I left. It was actually quite an accomplishment to not gain any more weight with all the holiday treats. I'm a disappointed in myself though.

My youngest daughter is diabetic so we measure pretty much everything she eats so we know the right amount of carbs to give her. This morning I measured out my cereal for the recommended serving size of 3/4 cup. This fit in a tiny bowl that is 1/4 the size of my normal breakfast cereal portion. Quite shocking but if I do eat cereal I now have bowl to use. I wish companies that do advertising for cereal would show you in the commercial how much you should really eat.... Oh wait we live in America home of the Brave and fat!

Breakfast: small bowl of cereal w/fat free milk.

Lunch: Fiberone granola bar, Oreo's and milk. (I had to get the Oreo's out of my house and couldn't bring myself to throw them away)

Dinner: two eggs breakfast burrito and a handful of M&M's. (Mindy bought a automatic dispenser for Christmas and my dumb self filled it with Peanut M&M's)

I took the girls to the park and we played tag for a few minutes. I also did my shake weight exercise.

Hopefully some of that 259 was travel weight and I'll be able to drop a few pounds this week. 4 by next Monday to be exact!!