Zach: Hi Cheaters! So last Cheat Day we pretty anti-climactic. Cheat Day has indeed become imbedded in my mind and in my soul as a day to gorge myself almost to the point on incapacitation. However, this has become less of a celebratory thing as the weight has ceased it's dropping. With the Holiday Season coming up and my weight loss hitting a plateau I fear that the life of Cheat Day may have an impending end. For now I will continue to report on the proper ways of cheating. I will also seek an altered method of Cheat Day so that poundage will continue to shed!
NOW, last cheat day….I ate cookies and cake in bed along with the lovely Liz. I then ate a non-Cheat Day meal for real breakfast (eggs, beans, and broccoli) and took a KILLER nap in the wake of an outrageous storm that struck down on Northern, IL. It was really cool to watch but was apparently really brutal on some outlying towns/neighborhoods. Which sucks and my thoughts go out to them!
I then ordered Chinese food for lunch and it was AWESOME, I miss chinese food. The food was from Orange Garden on Irving Park…yes AGAIN. It is a really not bad Chinese for the North Side Chicago. Liz got off of work and she and I went to the Giamichael's for dinner! It was very nice to get a home cooked meal. Especially when it was pasta and bread! PERFECT for Cheat Day!
Later that night it was my good friend Rob's surprise birthday party and I got pretty rip roarin' drunk off of beer and whiskey, another perfect thing to do on cheat day. It was a fairly low key party held in a store front art space, but it was ton of fun to see all the old friends back again! It was a great low key way to end a low key Cheat Day.
I am not sure what next Cheat Day holds as Thanksgiving (most epic of ALL cheat days) is next Thursday. Also, without cheat day as this blog's niche this really just turns into another lame food blog…so we'll see how this goes!
Friday, November 22, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
The Power of Bacon
Liz: Any dish, no matter what it is, will be better with bacon on it. I don't care if you're a vegetarian. I bet you still love the smell of bacon cooking. I don't know what it is about those strips of pig fat cooking in their own lard juices that is so amazingly tantalizing, but I do know that I WANT IT IN MY MOUTH.
The week before last cheat day, Zach and I got this wonderful idea from a buzzfeed of different awesome foods you could make at home with whatever was around (like a homemade butterfinger bar out of peanut butter, baker's chocolate, and candy corn). When I saw the idea to wrap bacon into a cinnabun... I was like WE ARE DOING THAT.
It is the American way to wrap things in bacon. Hell, I plan to wrap my Christmas presents in bacon. You're welcome.
So we tried this idea with some bacon (that was on sale!) the Jewel Osco brand cinnabun log. While they were a fantastic truffle of gooey fat and sugar, we would recommend using a plumper cinnabun (not the cheap brand) and leaner, thinner pieces of bacon (ours were thickly cut and fat LADEN). You want that crispy bacon and soft bread...o yes...yes you do.
The rest of the day, both of us had to go off doin' our own bizznaz, so we had already pre-planned our own cheaper, grocery cheat day treats: fer Zach--meat and sharp cheddar sandwiches, and fer me--Velveeta shells and cheese...with the extra bacon crumbled into it. O YES.
I went to my boss' apartment to practice for a gig, and he had a whole spread of great stuff, so I of course, indulged in cheat day fashion. However, when I got to my shells and gooey cheese and bacon in the evening, I felt really sick. The non-cheat days will shrink your stomach so your cheat day eyes are bigger than your stomach. I felt like a disgusting ROMAN. However, the sickness subsided, and sleepy time took over.
Happy Cheat Day everyone! Can't wait for the cheat day coming up that ALL OF YOU WILL PARTICIPATE IN WITH US: Thanksgiving.
Friday, November 8, 2013
It's Getting Harder to Lose, So Let's Keep WINNING!
Zach: Effin'-A Cheaters! Did you miss us this week? NO?! Well go Ef yourselves! I tell you what, I am stuck. Stuck at 28 lbs lost! I can't seem to get past it. I am weighing in at 211 pretty consistently. This isn't a bad weight for a man of my size, 6'2", especially considering what I was 239 lbs. My original goal was to get down to 200 lbs and then begin working out. Not lifting real hard or nothing, just push ups, pull ups, sit-up, planks, and v ups. But, I'm wondering if I should take what life has thrown at me and just begin the process now, a little earlier than expected…this next Cheat Day will tell.
The reason this post has taken me so long is because the entirety of this past cheat day was spent on the couch. They finally put the Kansas City Chiefs game on the TV here in the fine city of Chicago. And not a moment too soon neither as they played the Bills of Buffalo, New York. The Buffalo Bills are Liz's favorite team and traditionally they are as AWFUL as the Chiefs. Well they clearly are staunch followers of tradition, because unlike the Chiefs they remain awful. The Chiefs beat the Bills 23-13 in a come from behind victory. Neither offense did much of anything with the amazingly talented KC defense scoring most of the points for the Chiefs. KC goes into a bye week this week, but their stellar defense will face the terrifying Denver offense when they come back next Sunday. They have moved next Sunday's game to be the nationally televised night game because the chiefs are crushing ass like Derek Jeter, or like me after a Cheat Day. As for the Bills…ask Liz.
However! From the couch, bright and early again…IN time for the game I ordered 2 Large Pizzas, from Dominos again because it is cheap. 1 had pepperoni and mushrooms, the other had bacon, italian sausage, and green peppers. I also had to get my favorite, bacon and jalapeno stuffed cheesy garlic bread. This order lasted us ALL day! Also, before the game I grabbed a 30-pack of Miller High Life…also lasted us all day. And, even though I drank them beers all throughout the day I did not even get a little drunk. I did, however, get drunk on victory! With the Chiefs winning and this being the last great cheat day for a while, due to the holiday season coming to terrorize this diet, I would say this day of shit food and laziness was utmost victorious!
Liz had to go do a Jazz singing gig at a coffee shop in Pilsen. What was the name of that joint again Liz? She does it the 1st Sunday of every month. So, if you want to spend a nice leisurely day getting coffee and being serenaded by a HOT songstress go do that. I'll probably be heading back down that way some time soon. She came back and gave me tacos since Pilsen has a heavy Mexican population and that usually means great tacos. They were great, even though they were vegan, the salsa was on point though. I ate them, we watched Homeland and fell asleep, feeling disgusting, but totally ready to make this week the strictest dietary week we've had. And it has been…let's keep moving forward!
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The reason this post has taken me so long is because the entirety of this past cheat day was spent on the couch. They finally put the Kansas City Chiefs game on the TV here in the fine city of Chicago. And not a moment too soon neither as they played the Bills of Buffalo, New York. The Buffalo Bills are Liz's favorite team and traditionally they are as AWFUL as the Chiefs. Well they clearly are staunch followers of tradition, because unlike the Chiefs they remain awful. The Chiefs beat the Bills 23-13 in a come from behind victory. Neither offense did much of anything with the amazingly talented KC defense scoring most of the points for the Chiefs. KC goes into a bye week this week, but their stellar defense will face the terrifying Denver offense when they come back next Sunday. They have moved next Sunday's game to be the nationally televised night game because the chiefs are crushing ass like Derek Jeter, or like me after a Cheat Day. As for the Bills…ask Liz.
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However! From the couch, bright and early again…IN time for the game I ordered 2 Large Pizzas, from Dominos again because it is cheap. 1 had pepperoni and mushrooms, the other had bacon, italian sausage, and green peppers. I also had to get my favorite, bacon and jalapeno stuffed cheesy garlic bread. This order lasted us ALL day! Also, before the game I grabbed a 30-pack of Miller High Life…also lasted us all day. And, even though I drank them beers all throughout the day I did not even get a little drunk. I did, however, get drunk on victory! With the Chiefs winning and this being the last great cheat day for a while, due to the holiday season coming to terrorize this diet, I would say this day of shit food and laziness was utmost victorious!
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Liz had to go do a Jazz singing gig at a coffee shop in Pilsen. What was the name of that joint again Liz? She does it the 1st Sunday of every month. So, if you want to spend a nice leisurely day getting coffee and being serenaded by a HOT songstress go do that. I'll probably be heading back down that way some time soon. She came back and gave me tacos since Pilsen has a heavy Mexican population and that usually means great tacos. They were great, even though they were vegan, the salsa was on point though. I ate them, we watched Homeland and fell asleep, feeling disgusting, but totally ready to make this week the strictest dietary week we've had. And it has been…let's keep moving forward!
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