Tuesday - My birthday and hopefully an end to this sort of eating...

Good breakfast. Coffee, half a cup of yogourt and about a quarter cup each of strawberries and blueberries.A very light lunch - three slices of dry cured ham, 45g of camenbert and a fistful of celery sticks.
Birthday dinner at Mom's place. Not the restaurant - my actual mother's cooking! Braised lamb shank (a favorite), little green peas and mashed turnip. Also a side salad. Delish!
Instead of cake just a Skinny Cow brand fudge pop - only 90 calories.
After pestering all my friends about the fact that Doug would be working late on my birthday I ended up at Spinnaker's Brewpub with a couple of couples. Andrew ordered a pitcher of their Iceberg Ale and poured me a pint.
While the boys went off to play pool (Rob 3, Andrew zip) the girls order a couple of desserts and extra cutlery. I fondly remember the Mile High Apple Pie from years ago at this place and they didn't let me down. I ate about half.
Kama was really jonesing for something chocolate and ordered the dark chocolate creme brulee. I had two spoonfuls. Carol had a "When Harry Met Sally" moment on tasting this one.
More beer.
Rob was designated driver and the first stop was Andrew and Carol's where we admired the view and Andrew's skill as mixologist. He presented me with a peach martini - very tasty and way too easy to drink!
So that's it for birthday season this year. I'm sure there will be other parties but the flurry of eating and drinking is over now until the Christmas season rolls around. I hope.

Another restaurant meal, hoo boy.

Coffee.Wasn't really hungry for breakfast, had two scoops of my new chocolate flavoured Whey Gourmet protein shake.

By 2pm I really had the growlies. Had four of the paper thin slices of dry cured ham and a little cheese together weighing in at 50g.
Because that wasn't really enough to keep me going until a late dinner - so two fried eggs.
I didn't know that parking a scooter could be so hard but it's tourist season (does that mean we can shoot them - *rim shot*) and I ended up sharing a smart car spot with a motorcycle then after finding that one of our party had taken a big car space much nearer the restaurant, went back and moved it so I'd feel a little less worried about leaving my baby on the street downtown.

After all that confusion I opted for a light beer (Kokanee, I think).
I had the Santa Fe Chicken Salad. Mixed greens, seasoned grilled chicken, avocado, feta (very southern is feta), black beens, corn, bits of dates, and crisp bits of tortilla that had been julienned. And a squeeze of lime on top. Now while trying to eat low-carb I don't have bread very often but I have corn even less. What a fantastic treat. It was delicious and I probably shouldn't have, but I ate the whole thing!
For dessert we ordered what the menu called a Pavlova (because the birthday girl really needed a taste of something sweet on her day) and six spoons. They did a deconstructed style pav which could have been better called discombobulated. From the bottom up we had lemon curd, blueberries and strawberries, a berry gelato and a semi-soft meringue perched on top. It was pretty much a catastrophe in the sharing department. With some effort I did get one spoonful with a little of each ingredient in it. It really wasn't all that - especially at $7.00!
Lots of carbs, lots of calories going to do some sit-ups now...

Everything I ate - yesterday

Sunday evening we went out to KnB's for dinner and I didn't manage to blog before bedtime - so here's yesterday...

Started normally with coffee.Two sausages and two fried eggs.
Went grocery shopping and when I got back the nuts looked so good and I was hungry so I had to have a few (30g) brazil nuts.
Realized mid-afternoon that I really needed something to keep me going until supper which would probably be later than we would normally eat. Had a Flat-Out multigrain wrap with 45g of cream cheese, 50g of lox and as much lettuce as I could pile on.
Brian always has the best beer. This one is from Brazil and was light and tasty and went down very easily.
We started with Brian's caesar salad with made from scratch dressing. Fitday credits it with lots of calories from the fat - which is correct but we didn't have croutons so slightly less carbs.
Dinner was roast beef - beautifully done, marinated with a little garlic and sliced thick! I also had two small roasted potatoes and a little of the very rich gravy. It was delicious.
After we played in the back yard for awhile we came back in for dessert and tea. Kathleen made a rhubarb compote but added blueberries and raspberries. She always cooks with stevia or splenda so there was no sugar added - she did pour a little light cream on top though. I also had some clear tea.
My rough guess with fitday is about 1,800 calories for the day and approximately 64g of carbohydrates. Not bad for roast beef dinner.

Ska Fest, beer and even ice cream!

Up early because today is the last day of Ska Fest and my buddy Rob and I are going to the afternoon show at Market Square. Coffee!And one slice of bacon and two eggs to keep me going for awhile.We left early and went to the Peninsula Country Market to visit a friend with a booth. While we were looking I got a free cherry tomato. I was very sweet.
As we were heading back to town I wanted to stop for something to drink (another hot day) but since it was lunchtime we grabbed a bite of lunch at a pub. I had a spinach salad. It doesn't look very big but this was one of those 40cm (16 inch) restaurant plates, not the little 9 inch ones we use at home.
Rob had beer and a burger and fries. I had diet coke and water. Also one of his very crispy fries.
I did eventually have a beer though, at the Ska Fest in the beer tent. Where they CARDED me! Good thing I had my license on me that said I was old enough to be mom or possibly granny to most of the kids in the place.
This is Skaboom! doing their ska version of the Tom Jones song "It's Not Unusual" and the kids just kept on dancing. I sang along.
When it was all over we wandered back to the parkade which unfortunately took us past Sweet Memories Ice Cream Parlor. I asked Rob if he wanted ice cream which he took to mean that I wanted ice cream. He got two scoops, coffee and chocolate. I had four bites off the coffee and two off the chocolate. In fitday I counted each bite as 10g of premium ice cream for a total of 60g that was about 150 calories. I remember when I would eat something like this all by myself!
When I was finally ready for dinner I found that the only thing I had to work with was a couple of chicken breasts and not enough greens for a dinner salad. To Doug's delight I threw together some shiritaki noodles with some Classico bruschetta from a bottle, grilled the chicken and stuck the works under the broiler for two minutes with a handful each of grated edam and shredded parmesan. Although the chicken breasts were about the same I gave Doug the lion's share of the noodles, cheese and sauce.
Strangely enough a couple of hours later we were both quite hungry. I had a bowl of 80g of raspberries with two tablespoons of cream and splenda (Doug had blueberries).
Okay, today was completely out of control. I basically ate whatever I wanted without worrying about calories or thinking too much about carbs. Calories 1,769 and 78g of carbohydrates. I guess I'll have to behave for a bit now.

Down another pound

Glad to see I was down another pound this morning. I had been quite low with calories and doing lots of exercise with little change since the weekend so down is good. Heeeeeere's coffee!One large lamb sausage and two fried eggs.

Too hot for coffee so had a Dr. Pepper (diet) instead.

Pretty much the same as yesterday, chicken salad with capers, jicama, celery, radishes and rhubarb which while in the picture came home with me and will probably get eaten tomorrow.

Dinner with Rob since Doug got called into work. Made chicken caesar (with croutons!) and I had about 3oz of Rob's beer since I knew I wouldn't be able to finish one myself.
For dessert we had the Breyer's Fudge bars. Yum!

After fighting with the computer for awhile we gave up and went for a swim. Came back a little peckish so I introduced Rob to jicama, I had two little sticks of it, probably 20g or so.

Even later I decided that the salad really hadn't been enough and I had four strawberries and about 35g of my favorite cheese.

Totals for the day 1,378 calories and 39g of carbs.

Finally my weekend.

Very average breakfast. Two eggs, two little pork patties with my own seasoning, coffee.Coffee at coffee break.

Tuna salad today with just celery and radishes. I was so lazy last night I didn't want to fight with the jicama!
Sugar-free jell-o. Cherry and orange.
More coffee and some yogourt flavoured with Torani Caramel sugar-free syrup.
Burgers are starting to be a regular Saturday night thing around here. Tonight I also had 65g of sauted mushrooms along with 30g of cheese, a side salad and about two teaspoons of Maille dijon style mustard.
I was prepping the veg for short ribs (check the background) and had one celery stick left over so I ate it.
Company dropped by (Hi Kathleen!) so I helped myself to a beer. We talked so much that I didn't even finish it and poured the last four ounces into the short ribs.
With the three of us in the kitchen and the oven and dishwasher (and computer) on it was really warm so I went for the last sugar-free creamsicle. It was tasty but I wasn't really hungry so I gave the last third or so to Doug to finish off.

Total calories for today 1,502 and 34g of carbohydrates.