Thursday - post number 202

As ususal - started with coffee.Didn't make lunch - had strange work hours today. Bought this on my way to work Broccoli Delight salad. They had others but the dressing on this one had the least carbs. It was pretty tasty, especially nice having salty roasted sunflower seeds that stuck to the broccoli thanks to the ranch dressing.Closed the library early for strike action but had to go downtown for a city council meeting this evening. Made coffee (to help me stay awake during the meeting) had more broccoli, cooked this time 145g, the last of the sweet potato from Thanksgiving dinner (80g) and some chicken (100g) with cranberry sauce (1 tbsp) since we already finished the turkey.
Thought this pomegranate looked really nice but it was under-ripe in parts so I only had about half.
Back to some of my bad habits. Feeling put-upon and bored after the council meeting (even though I only stayed for an hour) I came home and had 32g of mixed nuts and a Ross' nsa chocolate bar for a snack. I did eat them slowly and mindfully - but wasn't really hungry.
Since I ate so little early in the day my total calories today were only 1,128 although counting the maltitol as carbs, my total was 71g. The sweet potato was kinda high and surprisingly the fitday doesn't list any fibre in a pomegranate although I'm pretty sure all those little seeds should count for something!

Sunday - coffee and... pizza?

Coffee and bacon and eggs this morning for breakfast.



Off to scooter meet and coffee at the Black Stilt.


Mid-afternoon, too late for lunch but not early enough for dinner. Had 40g mixed nuts and a big glass of Fresca.


And because I was feeling cold and a little lethargic - a mug of coffee.


I had been talking about doing this for a couple of weeks. We have those great high fibre Flat Out brand oval wraps. They have only 100 calories and 9g net carbs. I spread some of the Classico Bruschetta very thinly on top, several sliced mushrooms, added some seasoned lean ground beef (120g) and about 40g shredded cheese. And to be good we still had our side salad. While it had more carbs than our usual cheeseburger sans bun meal it actually had less calories because I end up eating much less ground beef. Besides it was really tasty.


Not right away but a little later I really wanted something sweet so went with one of the Jell-o nsa chocolate puddings. These are about as far from whole foods as I would ever wander, but they are very chocolaty and when eaten with a baby spoon do the trick. (I was worried that one might lead to another or at least wanting another but after taking my time eating it - felt full and satisfied the craving.)

Happy to report total calories for the day: 1,346 and in spite of wrap and tomato sauce only 46g (net) of carbohydrates.

Yay! Sushi!

Woke up around 5am again this morning - got up for a couple of hours but then went back to bed and slept in until 12:30! When I finally got up I had two cups of coffee.
Doug and I had decided to go out for dinner tonight and I didn't want to eat much early on so I had a hard-boiled egg and a piece (40g) of feta cheese.We knew we wanted Japanese so went into the first place we stumbled past Shiki Sushi. After spending rather a long time trying to decide what and how much we wanted to eat we went for a small bento box each... I chose the tempura with 6 pieces a little salad and some rice (I ate about 1/4 of the rice in the picture). There was also a piece of pineapple and a couple of orange slices with the presentation - I had half of each.

And we shared the Shiki Special Sushi platter. I had 3 1/2 pieces of nigiri and 3 pieces of the tuna roll, also most of the ginger. It wasn't the best sushi we've ever had but it was very good and we both admit we've missed having rice.
Later in the evening I felt I needed a little something. I had two nsa werther's candies and a 30g serving of Planter's macadamia cashew mix. How decadent!
No idea about calories but thinking since there was only one meal and a couple of snacks I probably didn't do too badly today.

Saturday September 15th and Sunday the 16th

Friday night I started feeling like I was coming down with something. Had a headache and a sore throat and had that woozy feeling you get with a cold, on and off all evening. I knew I had to go to work Saturday - I got to be the boss - so I made a wrap with some turkey, havarti, red onion and lettuce.
I guess I forgot to take a picture of my breakfast since I was feeling pretty bad Saturday morning. I'm thinking I had one slice of bacon and two fried eggs, it's a safe bet that I also had coffee. I got another coffee for my morning break.
Here that wrap at lunchtime with some veggies and sugar-free jell-o.
For my afternoon break I brought a little chunk of cream cheese with a few bits of lox on top. A small but very tasty snack.
By the time I got home I was really feeling under the weather. I changed into my flannel nightgown and lay on the couch. Eventually Doug got hungry enough to make dinner. I wasn't particularly interested but was hungry once he put it in front of me. He did make the hamburger patties a little too big though. I didn't finish my second one.
Still feeling pretty miserable later that evening I had a mug of tea and four of the little Joseph's brand no-sugar-added cookies.
Went to bed around 10pm and felt a little better in the morning. Had coffee at home then, since it was raining, Rob picked me up and took me to scooter meet at the Black Stilt. I probably would have been too tired to go if he hadn't offered me a drive. Once there I had a large americano and a half of a chicken pesto pannini.

Started to feel sick again in the afternoon. Had a little snack of salami bits to hold me until dinner.
Roast chicken, green beans and a side salad.
A quarter of a granny smith apple and about 20g of swiss cheese.
Again with the tea and cookies. I sure hope I feel better by tomorrow. I'll try to keep better track (ie in fitday) of how many calories I'm consuming. I certainly wasn't paying attention the last couple of days... sigh.

Sunday - Doug's birthday adventure...

Left-over steak from last night, an egg (fried) and coffee.On the way to Parksville - Timmy's for coffee and a taste of Rob's wasabi cashews.
Kama found chocolate covered sesame snacks. Doug and I split one.
What a huge spread we had for the picnic! On the first plateful is a piece of Kama's homemade focaccia that I split to try and make it go farther. Salmon salad made from fresh wild pink salmon that I bought and poached yesterday. A couple of razor thin slices of salami, some slaw made with fennel, jicama and cilantro and some of Kama's tomato/bocconcini salad (so good).
A baby carrot from the giant tray of veggies.
More tomato and bocconcini salad and a slice of havarti on the rest of my bread. I actually didn't finish the bread and cheese and gave most of it to Doug.
A piece of cauliflower and a radish from the giant tray of veggies.
Dessert. One chocolate chip cookie (I only ate half and gave the rest to Doug - any wonder he's putting on weight as I'm loosing it?), about 30g of cheeses, a couple of bites of mango and pineapple and two cherries and three grapes.
While we waited for the rain to stop at the half-way point of our 36 holes - I had more coffee.
Tired, wet and worn right out we snacked on some soy nuts on the way home.
Arrived back home around 7ish quite hungry for a bite of dinner. I thinly sliced some of the bread that Kama insisted we take and had a big scoop of salmon salad on it. Also celery, cucumber, radishes, broccoli and cauliflower from the left-over veg. Once again Doug finished my sandwich for me.
Then I had half a cookie.
It was really good. Really very good so a little while later I ate a whole one myself. I did nibble it slowly, savour it and made it last though.
Not even going to try a calorie count today let's just say it was pretty high. On the other had I got quite a lot of exercise. And I spent the whole day pulling up my new (two months ago) jeans because they kept falling down.

Saturday evening at the movies...

Victoria's Free-B Film Festival began this weekend. Every Saturday in August they have free "B" movies at the park bandshell. This week was Yellow Submarine. I think I enjoyed it much more this time around than when I was very young and didn't really understand it. Everyone sang along. All together now, all together now!

To munch on during the film I took two pieces of dark chocolate-cover candied ginger, 40g of almonds and two sugar-free candies.After the movie we were cold and didn't want to go right home so ended up (actually, as usual) at the Moka House in Cook St. Village. I had a small decaf and Doug and I split a date square (how decadent!). I had the sliver you see on the right side of the plate, about a third of the square. For the purposes of fitday I guessed that it was about 30g because although it wasn't very big it was very dense.

That brings my total for Saturday to about 1,516 calories and 79g of carbs.

Coffee, coffee, ice cream! and coffee.

Today was possibly the least low-carb day since my trip to Salt Spring Island last month. I had a rough night and woke late and groggy. Had some yogourt and rhubarb and didn't even want to wait for coffee but stopped by that place on the way to work instead.Had a grande americano.

Still groggy and confused at morning break so went to the Village Patisserie and Deli for another coffee.
For lunch had about 50g of rosemary ham, 35g of blue cheese and the usual assortment of veg.
By afternoon break I was stressed, tired and wanted a little sumptin-sumptin, so I hauled out a snack I had been saving for quite awhile, a 50g bag of mixed nuts and sugar-free chocolate chips. I ate it all while working. Not responsible eating that.
For dinner I had a high fibre wrap with a little more of the rosemary ham, some deli chicken breast, tomato slices, cuke, lettuce, cheese(20g) and a smear of mayo.
Then Doug and I, accompanied by Rob headed out to the early show of "Live Free or Die Hard". It blowed up real good! I had a diet coke during the show but didn't take a picture since I was in a theatre.
Afterward I decided for some reason that I really wanted ice cream. I was actually quite hungry at this point and thought I had enough calories to have a little blowout. Doug and I ordered the Caramel Waffle Crisp Blizzard (small) and Rob had a Peanut Buster Parfait. We didn't keep exact count but I think I had six spoonfuls of the blizzard...
And one of Rob's parfait since that used to be my favorite back in the days when I ate this kind of this regularly.
When we got home I had a big drink of water and put out some almonds to snack on. I had 19g worth.
Then I made coffee for Rob and I
and grabbed another 2 almonds from the bowl (almost without thinking - argh!).
Although I had a huge 66g of carbohydrates today I did manage to keep the calories down to approximately 1,450 (given what I estimated in fitday - 1/3 cup of a DQ chocolate sundae).