Family and I went up to San Francisco today to see Swan Lake at the War Memorial Opera House. We had pretty good seats in the Grand Tier (which is the second layer of dress circle up, the first layer consisting entirely of boxes). The stage seemed a fair way away, though it must have looked tiny to the people upstairs in the balcony. The good side was that we could see all the pretty patterns that the swan chorus made. Nice costumes, minimalist but appropriate sets. Not too hammy. Good quality dancing. Surprisingly, I think Hubby and I enjoyed it more than the gruesome twosome. Deep Thought announced that she "quite enjoyed the music" while Little Starlet (for whose benefit the outing was originally arranged) pronounced it "boring" and "when can we go to see Mr Shakespeare again?"
Sitting in a theater for three hours doesn't burn many calories, but neither does it provide many eating opportunities. We did, it is true, partake of a cup of filter coffee and the cookie plate at the first intermission, but my section of the cookie plate consisted of two bite sized morsels, and the coffee was unsweetened, so I figure that wasn't bad. At least the sugar and caffeine injection helped keep my eyes open for the whole performance.
After ballet we went to Max's Opera Cafe on Van Ness for dinner. Deep Thought was desperate to have the blue cheese bacon burger but, alas, it was no longer on the menu. I had the shrimp louie salad - that's lots and lots of lettuce with cauliflower, carrots and red pepper, garnished with shrimps and avocado - with about a quarter of the dressing; then Deep Thought and I shared a half-portion of the chocolate cake. Even a half portion was enormous, so a quarter portion was just right. We scraped off the extra frosting on the top and felt very virtuous indeed.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Two More Days
Saturday: raging munchies all day. Foul temper. 2100 calories.
Sunday: foul temper. Not munchy. Don't yet know the number. Had:
Cereal with banana
Soup and a smallish ham and salad sandwich
A quarter of a Bear Claw
Salmon, rice, broccoli and spinach with pine nuts (a slightly odd combo).
If I still had them, I'd say I had PMT...
Sunday: foul temper. Not munchy. Don't yet know the number. Had:
Cereal with banana
Soup and a smallish ham and salad sandwich
A quarter of a Bear Claw
Salmon, rice, broccoli and spinach with pine nuts (a slightly odd combo).
If I still had them, I'd say I had PMT...
Home cooking
We ate our first home-cooked meal in four days yesterday at a friend's house. Cottage pie. Yum. It was quite a relief to have something that didn't come with a side or a dipping sauce. (There was, of course, HP sauce on the table, but only the smalls partook of that.) This would have been a relatively low calorie day except that the aforementioned friends put out the tortilla chips and dip on the table while we played a board game. I tried, I really did, but the Trader Joe's Cilantro Dip was very moreish.
Lunch, we ate at Bappo's Pizzeria in the Stanford Shopping Center. I had a chicken ligura foccaccia sandwhich, which I'm sure had a million calories, but at least it wasn't a pizza.
No evening nibbling. No cake. No coffee. No exercise either, but not a bad day all round.
Lunch, we ate at Bappo's Pizzeria in the Stanford Shopping Center. I had a chicken ligura foccaccia sandwhich, which I'm sure had a million calories, but at least it wasn't a pizza.
No evening nibbling. No cake. No coffee. No exercise either, but not a bad day all round.
Friday, January 29, 2010
My Virtue Runneth Over
Another fine day.
Shredded wheat for breakfast - nasty, but filling. Meeting in Starbucks in the morning, with a coffee but no nibbles. Lunch provided by my lovely friend Yin, consisting of bagel, alternative crisps containing lentils, and a bit of vegetable matter. (This was a sympathy lunch, in support of those of us who are Without Kitchen.)
Another walk in the afternoon, this one involving some uphill and downhill, at the Arasteradero Preserve in Palo Alto. Unfortunately many of the most scenic paths are currently closed due to overwhelming muddiness, but I still managed a nice loop of 2.78 miles, which took just under an hour. What was even more virtuous was that I did the last 20 minutes of the walk in the pouring rain. How devoted to personal self improvement is that? OK, I was at the top of the hill so I didn't have much choice, but hey - !
Girls night out with Little Starlet. Hubby and Deep Thought went to the school's Skate Night and ate tepid pizza. Little Starlet and I went to the local noodle bar. We shared pork dumplings, then Little Starlet had "simple chicken noodles" while I had orange chicken with sticky rice. The orange chicken was extremely spicy, so I didn't eat all of it, nor more than half the rice. Portions around here really are out of control. It had been such a virtuous day that we finished off our meal with small chocolate gelato's at the local gelaterie. Yum.
Shredded wheat for breakfast - nasty, but filling. Meeting in Starbucks in the morning, with a coffee but no nibbles. Lunch provided by my lovely friend Yin, consisting of bagel, alternative crisps containing lentils, and a bit of vegetable matter. (This was a sympathy lunch, in support of those of us who are Without Kitchen.)
Another walk in the afternoon, this one involving some uphill and downhill, at the Arasteradero Preserve in Palo Alto. Unfortunately many of the most scenic paths are currently closed due to overwhelming muddiness, but I still managed a nice loop of 2.78 miles, which took just under an hour. What was even more virtuous was that I did the last 20 minutes of the walk in the pouring rain. How devoted to personal self improvement is that? OK, I was at the top of the hill so I didn't have much choice, but hey - !
Girls night out with Little Starlet. Hubby and Deep Thought went to the school's Skate Night and ate tepid pizza. Little Starlet and I went to the local noodle bar. We shared pork dumplings, then Little Starlet had "simple chicken noodles" while I had orange chicken with sticky rice. The orange chicken was extremely spicy, so I didn't eat all of it, nor more than half the rice. Portions around here really are out of control. It had been such a virtuous day that we finished off our meal with small chocolate gelato's at the local gelaterie. Yum.
A Contagion of Virtue
(Doesn't that sound like a good title for a crime novel?)
1800 cals today - 2 pieces of toast, an M&S salad (240cals), supper was the grown-up version of sausage and lentils, and a glass of grapefruit juice. Doesn't sound enough to keep body and soul together, but I didn't fall over with hunger or anything.
I've bought a bunch of hyacinths (try saying that with a lisp) which are filling the house with the scent of spring. And it was a perfectly clear night with a glorious full (or full-ish) moon and Notsosmall and I saw Mars. So much is well with the world tonight.
1800 cals today - 2 pieces of toast, an M&S salad (240cals), supper was the grown-up version of sausage and lentils, and a glass of grapefruit juice. Doesn't sound enough to keep body and soul together, but I didn't fall over with hunger or anything.
I've bought a bunch of hyacinths (try saying that with a lisp) which are filling the house with the scent of spring. And it was a perfectly clear night with a glorious full (or full-ish) moon and Notsosmall and I saw Mars. So much is well with the world tonight.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Oh Virtuous Day
I've got to post smugly about my day.
- First of all, it is a No Cake Day. It was, admittedly, a two coffee day, but the first one was forced on me by the car wash taking over an hour to clean my car; which was pretty amazing given that the car is only two weeks old, so isn't even that dirty!
- Secondly, I had A Small Lunch - well, it involved a bagel, which I know has about a million calories in it, but it was Not Large. And lunch also involved a very nasty lemon flavored diet yoghurt (Light 'N' Fit Lemon Chiffon Yoghurt by Dannon), which I had really purchased for Deep Thought to consume with a school lunch, but she has been saved from that particular experience. (Also one I shall never repeat. Imagine eating toilet cleaner.)
- Third, and this is the really virtuous pinnacle of the day, I did my favorite six mile walk along the Bay Lands this afternoon. It's very flat but a long way and quite scenic. I can definitely feel it in my legs. I reckon I am doing a mile in 16 minutes, which doesn't seem too bad to me.
Not quite on target yet
Dear OEM,
Our original goal was to lose 2 pounds a week. We're some way off that, aren't we? Here we are after three weeks and you've lost 2 and I've lost 1.2 - total. Hmm. We're going to have to get stricter.
Have you managed to do the once a week exercise yet, as per the manifesto?
Love
Dr Mom
Our original goal was to lose 2 pounds a week. We're some way off that, aren't we? Here we are after three weeks and you've lost 2 and I've lost 1.2 - total. Hmm. We're going to have to get stricter.
Have you managed to do the once a week exercise yet, as per the manifesto?
Love
Dr Mom
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