It’s week 3.  How did I do?  To be honest, I didn’t weigh in this morning.  However, I do notice some small changes since last week in how clothing fits, so I’m still progressing.

I was a bit worried this week; last week, my wife and I judged our first barbecue competition.  Even though I was careful, I still probably ate the equivalent of 4-5 servings of meat… I’d guess well over a pound of barbecue in one sitting went down the ol’ gullet!  To help out, though, I made sure to eat all of my dessert (4 desserts, 2 of which were cheesecake!).  I didn’t eat any more that day, but that was more than enough!

So I’m progressing, but I’m having some issues.  I’m really stressed.  My dog is doing better, but his sleep pattern is affecting mine, and I only slept about 2 hours last night, as well as losing sleep the nights prior.  I may have discovered what to do, though.  He wakes up around 4 or earlier.  I need to go ahead and get up, get him outside quickly, feed him, get him outside one more time, then go back to bed.  After that second time of going out, he zonks for a couple of hours.  I can use that extra 2 hours to get more sleep!  Good thing I don’t have kids… I would have sold them to gypsies by now if they kept me from sleeping! (No, I wouldn’t have, of course, just in case the blog police are scanning this!)  The good thing about the dog situation is that, several times a day, I carry a 70 lbs. dog up and down flights of steps. 

Before signing off, I have a pet peeve about online barbecue posts that I read now and then:

Since when do grown men call sandwiches "sammies" or "sammiches"?  How much harder is sandwich to type than sammich?  And, don’t you think a grown man using the word "sammich" sounds a bit off?  I’ve never felt the need to have a nickname for a sandwich.  "Vegetable" to "veggie" makes some sense… that’s an ugly word.  Even ‘taters’ as a word isn’t horrible; it’s at least a well known colloquialism.  But "sammich"?  If I heard someone use that in actual talk, I’d have to give them pink belly, I think!!! (again, or course not… at least not physically, just mentally!)