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Rain, rain, go away! Solid, heavy rain all morning long makes my challenge walking not likely. We'll see how the rest of the day shakes out, but I may have to go with this as a day off and walk on Sunday....or go on Stairmaster for a bit later.
But, for now, I'm off to the kitchen to get that chili done up. Lots of slicing and dicing waiting for me, but the meat's already done and ready to go in the pot.
My foods are a bit off and I think I'll need to make up some additional meat. DH kept a leftover (low carb) blueberry pancake from the weekend but then forgot about it. Now, he doesn't want it and you know I'm not about to let something like that go to waste! So, this AM, I ate the leftover and then decided to do up a batch of plain pancakes - no blueberries left - instead of having eggs. The pancakes skew my total carbs, so I need to cut back in other areas, if possible. I'm usually prepared for that on Saturdays, but today I had planned on having the deep dish pizza quiche I made up yesterday....probably won't be able to fit it in now. Well, I could fit it in, but I probably shouldn't if I am working on weight LOSS, and not maintenance.
So, I guess you could say today is just a mixed-up kind of day.
RANDOM THOUGHTS: My chili is simmering and will be for a couple hours now, so I can get back to this.
I was shopping the other day and happened to notice the magazines in the checkout area. Saw one that had a lead article touting that one could lose 47 pounds by.....THANKSGIVING!!! Can you believe it? Actually, it's pretty sad that there will be quite a number of people out there buying the magazine that "promises" them a way to lose close to 9.5 pounds PER WEEK from now to T'giving.
Another item caught my eye in the local newspaper's grocery flyers. One store recently changed house brands, so they have new products and signage up in the store. They're advertising "simply healthy shelf tags." Depending on the color, these tags are supposed to let you immediately locate proper products if you're looking for "gluten free," "sugar aware," "all natural," etc. Well, one of the tags is "carb smart." So far, so good....UNTIL....you read what constitutes a "carb smart" product.
This is their definition of carb smart: "...identified by manufacturer as natural; minimally processed, no artificial colors or ingredients." What????!!! That's it??!! While these can be good qualities in foods, they don't address carbs at all! I thought perhaps they had a typo here and "carb smart" got mixed up with "all natural," but no..."all natural" is defined as "uses FDA definition of "healthy;" low fat (<3 g. total fat), low saturated fat & more."
Except for maybe the gluten free tags, the rest of these are worthless. Certainly the carb smart tags could lead one to several products that are NOT carb smart on a low carb WOE.
Diet Calendar Entries for 18 October 2012:
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843 kcal
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Fat: 56.19g | Prot: 47.12g | Carb: 48.71g.
Breakfast: butter, Mrs. Butterworth's Sugar Free Syrup, Maple Grove Farms Sugar Free Pancake Mix, blueberries, eggs, Egglands Best. Lunch: sweet onions, Swanson beef broth, Libby's 100% Pure Pumpkin, yellow pepper, orange pepper, minced garlic, chopped celery, Rotel original diced tomatoes & green chilies, beef. Dinner: Wishbone ranch dressing, romaine, Armenian cucumber, chia seeds (bulk), grape tomatoes. more...
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1715 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (exercise) - 3.5/mph - 17 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 43 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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