Hiking with the brother and a chili dog pizza.

Weight: 292.9
Mood: Physically spent

Today I got up at 3:30am, weighed in, and rushed off to be at work at 4:00. I ate really healthy today. I don't know what my body's doing, what with it hanging out at 292 and all, but I decided today that after work I was gonna do something about it.

After eating my lunch (a dynamite salad with chicken and peach-pineapple salsa), My brother and I went for a hike. It was so nice to spend some good time with Izzy talking about life and our weight loss and everything else. The weather was perfect, not too hot or too cold, no rain, and sunny. Altogether we hiked about 4 miles. The trail one-way is 2.7, but we turned around after about 2 miles because of the time.

Having Izzy in my life while I'm going through this is really good for me. He's someone I can throw ideas off of or talk with about struggles or just about anything. And I know he understands because he's been there. He's so much of an inspiration to me because I know all the hard work he's put in to get where he is. I only hope I can have the same drive as I work toward my own goals.

After we finished the hike we went to Wal-Mart and I picked up a De-lite pizza from Papa Murphy's. I had two slices with a good sized portion of salad, and felt full. Amazing. I never thought I'd see the day where two small slices of a super thin-crust pizza would even come close to filling me up. I used to put away half of a large pizza in a sitting with ease.

Since we're on the subject of pizza, allow me to be crazy for a moment. Awhile back I was thinking of the ultimate pizza that hadn't been created yet. It's hard to find something that hasn't been done in pizza form, since the pizza is such a great medium to use for all sorts of toppings and sauces and the like. One of my favorite foods from my childhood was a chili dog. If you don't believe me, read my first weigh in post. My mom would take two hot dogs, or polish sausages, whatever we had, put them in a hot dog bun, pile on a heaping ladle of chili, and top them with cheddar cheese and onions. If that isn't just a little slice of heaven then I don't know what is. So my crazy idea was to combine the two -- a chili dog pizza.

Now before you stop reading forever and report me to the funny farm hear me out. You take chili sauce (the chili that has no beans) and you put that on a pizza crust. Then you put down a combination of mozzarella and cheddar cheese, and top it with hot dogs (cut on a bias, if you wanna get fancy with it) and minced onion. Presto! Hot dog pizza. Try it. Eat it. Love it.

Anyways, odd pizzas aside, I feel like I had a good day. I guess the scale will let me know tomorrow.