...though a small one. 17.06 today. I seem to be managing a steady 1lb a week, which (although half the target) is both healthy and (apparently) achievable.
Let the good work continue!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Wednesday Weigh In - Dr Mom
This morning I came in at 155.8 lbs, which is a loss of 2.4 lbs. The extra exercise may be helping, I guess.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Too many lentils
I had lunch at a friend's house today: lentil soup, wholewheat bread, and cheddar cheese. Tasty, but I've been suffering ever since. Have I mentioned that I have Crohn's Disease? Which means that too much fiber is A Bad Thing. We made up for that with a visit to Zao Noodles in downtown Palo Alto for dinner. I had bought bread and soup for dinner, but couldn't face Round Two of nutritious virtue. Maybe we can eat that tomorrow when I am scrambling between the end of Deep Thought's medical clinic appointment and the start of my dance class.
In the interests of mutual education, I have just started reading "Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond" by Chris Crowley and Henry S Lodge. It's aimed at women in the late 40s who are menopausal - so not quite me just yet. So far the main ideas seem to be (1) give up eating fast food of any kind and (2) exercise six days per week. I'll report further when I've got past chapter two....
In the interests of mutual education, I have just started reading "Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond" by Chris Crowley and Henry S Lodge. It's aimed at women in the late 40s who are menopausal - so not quite me just yet. So far the main ideas seem to be (1) give up eating fast food of any kind and (2) exercise six days per week. I'll report further when I've got past chapter two....
Blue Monday, Cheerfully-coloured Tuesday
Monday - complete failure of willpower. Didn't even try to keep track of what I ate, but it included cheese, goldfish, bread, crumpets, and roast beef and yorkshire pudding. (We've moved Sunday lunch to Monday dinner, because it's good to have something to look forward to at the beginning of the week!)
Tuesday - re-invigorated moral fibre. Cereal, soup and a small sandwich of cold roast beef. This leaves plenty of calories for the spag bol which will be dinner.
And I've done my last set of prep for Tax and am making good progress with How to Incorporate a Company and How to Avoid being sent to Prison for Illegally Offering Financial Services and Advice (as if!)...
Tuesday - re-invigorated moral fibre. Cereal, soup and a small sandwich of cold roast beef. This leaves plenty of calories for the spag bol which will be dinner.
And I've done my last set of prep for Tax and am making good progress with How to Incorporate a Company and How to Avoid being sent to Prison for Illegally Offering Financial Services and Advice (as if!)...
Monday, February 8, 2010
But where to eat lunch?
Among various chores this morning I found time to do my ultra-virtuous six mile walk, and beat the rain too.
Returned home to find the house full of tarry smoke. Bleugh. The family room is now off limits - the door has literally been sealed up. There is one man ripping the door frame off the dining room French windows, and another man in a digger outside the living room door. So I am an exile in the house, bowl of virtuous vegan pumpkin soup in one hand, small chicken sandwich made with one slice of double fibre brown bread in the other. Maybe Little Starlet's room would offer some respite?
Returned home to find the house full of tarry smoke. Bleugh. The family room is now off limits - the door has literally been sealed up. There is one man ripping the door frame off the dining room French windows, and another man in a digger outside the living room door. So I am an exile in the house, bowl of virtuous vegan pumpkin soup in one hand, small chicken sandwich made with one slice of double fibre brown bread in the other. Maybe Little Starlet's room would offer some respite?
Sunday, February 7, 2010
This eating out lark is bad news
The problem with having no kitchen is that you eat out all the time. The problem with eating out is that the portions are too big. Plus the food is generally pretty calorific. Plus there is too much temptation all round. I shall be astonished if I am not fatter at the end of our four weeks sans kitchen than I was at the start.
Saturday began with Weetabix. At lunch we ate at Fresh Choice in Mountain View. Fresh Choice is a great place to take kids as there is, as the name suggests, a lot of choice. You pay one price ($4.99 for the kids) and help yourself to the salad bar, the hot food, and the dessert. The hot food includes baked potatoes, pasta, pizza, soup and other random things as the restaurant deems fit. The challenge is not to eat too much. Finding things that are healthy choices is not difficult as the calorie details are given on each item, and things which are low salt, low fat, etc are pointed out with handy little signs. I had various salads, avoided the blue cheese dressing (which is frankly the only thing that makes salad tolerable), and had a bowl of carrot soup with a piece of bread. For dessert I selected a cube of sugar free Jello, a spoonful of chocolate pudding, and a spoonful of low fat "whip". I'd have rather had one of their "decadent brownies" but I was being good.
In the afternoon I succumbed to a coffee and biscuit.
Then later in the afternoon it was Little Starlet's birthday party at a local kids' cooking center. I'd rather do parties at home, but no kitchen makes that a tough prospect. Needless to say I had to eat a scone at the end of the party as my daughter had made them. Dinner was bread and more soup with some double creme soft cheese (not the light option, but very yummy). And then, oh woe is me, crisps in the evening.
Today we ate lunch at The Fish Market on the border of Palo Alto and Mountain View. The food wasn't bad, but the service was awful. I had cajun blackened catfish with potato au gratin (instead of fries, a toss up calorie-wise, I think) and coleslaw (that's grated cabbage in mayonnaise to you). This evening we had dinner at a friends' house: chicken and rice with salad and bread...and more scones made by their children. Maybe I'd better do another walk tomorrow.
Saturday began with Weetabix. At lunch we ate at Fresh Choice in Mountain View. Fresh Choice is a great place to take kids as there is, as the name suggests, a lot of choice. You pay one price ($4.99 for the kids) and help yourself to the salad bar, the hot food, and the dessert. The hot food includes baked potatoes, pasta, pizza, soup and other random things as the restaurant deems fit. The challenge is not to eat too much. Finding things that are healthy choices is not difficult as the calorie details are given on each item, and things which are low salt, low fat, etc are pointed out with handy little signs. I had various salads, avoided the blue cheese dressing (which is frankly the only thing that makes salad tolerable), and had a bowl of carrot soup with a piece of bread. For dessert I selected a cube of sugar free Jello, a spoonful of chocolate pudding, and a spoonful of low fat "whip". I'd have rather had one of their "decadent brownies" but I was being good.
In the afternoon I succumbed to a coffee and biscuit.
Then later in the afternoon it was Little Starlet's birthday party at a local kids' cooking center. I'd rather do parties at home, but no kitchen makes that a tough prospect. Needless to say I had to eat a scone at the end of the party as my daughter had made them. Dinner was bread and more soup with some double creme soft cheese (not the light option, but very yummy). And then, oh woe is me, crisps in the evening.
Today we ate lunch at The Fish Market on the border of Palo Alto and Mountain View. The food wasn't bad, but the service was awful. I had cajun blackened catfish with potato au gratin (instead of fries, a toss up calorie-wise, I think) and coleslaw (that's grated cabbage in mayonnaise to you). This evening we had dinner at a friends' house: chicken and rice with salad and bread...and more scones made by their children. Maybe I'd better do another walk tomorrow.
Up and Down
I was doing all right yesterday: usual breakfast, soup for lunch, bowl of capiletti (420 cals) (don't think that's how you spell them - fresh pasta stuffed with wild mushrooks) with 5g of butter and black pepper for supper. Well, it was ok if you discount the relatively large number of crisps I munched (though I did weigh them AND there are still some left in the bag tonight, which is a big improvement on the general state of affaits). And the chocolate cake that I was forced to eat when I went to collect Notsosmall from a birthday party.
But my virtue level feels pretty high compared to David who went on a corporate jolly to Twickenham to watch the England-Wales rugby match (yes, can you imagine!) and was wined and dined and generally schmoozed in a calorific way.
Today was possibly less good: I finished off the pasta at lunchtime with a small quantity of hot smoked salmon and a tablespoon of cream. I had a chelsea bun mid-afternoon (remember not to buy any more of those - made fatal error of shopping when hungry yesterday) and dinner was cheese pudding which is marvellous and entirely evil. Do you know this substance? It is for using up stale bread.
Cut up all stale bread in the house. Beat up three eggs and enough milk to cover the bread. Stir it up and leave it to soak overnight (adding more milk if it dries out without the bread going squishy). Grate in lots of cheese, season with salt and black pepper. Tip into a buttered dish and bake in oven about 40 mins. It puffs up like a souffle and is delicious with tomato ketchup! Number of calories? About ten million.
Penitential lettuce eating for me tomorrow...
But my virtue level feels pretty high compared to David who went on a corporate jolly to Twickenham to watch the England-Wales rugby match (yes, can you imagine!) and was wined and dined and generally schmoozed in a calorific way.
Today was possibly less good: I finished off the pasta at lunchtime with a small quantity of hot smoked salmon and a tablespoon of cream. I had a chelsea bun mid-afternoon (remember not to buy any more of those - made fatal error of shopping when hungry yesterday) and dinner was cheese pudding which is marvellous and entirely evil. Do you know this substance? It is for using up stale bread.
Cut up all stale bread in the house. Beat up three eggs and enough milk to cover the bread. Stir it up and leave it to soak overnight (adding more milk if it dries out without the bread going squishy). Grate in lots of cheese, season with salt and black pepper. Tip into a buttered dish and bake in oven about 40 mins. It puffs up like a souffle and is delicious with tomato ketchup! Number of calories? About ten million.
Penitential lettuce eating for me tomorrow...
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