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This was a very strange eating day. First, I once again proved to myself that I am completely incapable of pulling myself together fast enough in the morning to shower, dress, make breakfast for the dogs, walk the dogs, make breakfast for myself, drive the Little Guy to doggie daycare AND get to a 9:30 am meeting on time without arriving looking like a deer caught in the headlights. I don't know what's happened to me. I used to regularly get up at 5:30 am and do 25 things before leaving for work, but somehow I've lost the knack. The result of all this is that this morning I had to run out of the house with Carson, Carson's food for the day, and a thermos of skim milk, and a Luna Bar. I brought 16 oz of milk, because I knew I'd be starving by mid-morning. But of course, that bumped my calorie count up higher than usual.
Then I met a friend for lunch in Little Italy, and I admit it I ate sausage and peppers and grilled veggies -- because I swear if I have to eat one more Caesar salad with grilled chicken because there's nothing else on the menu I dare eat, I'll jump in front of a bus. I usually try to go to places where there's grilled fish, but this particular place had pasta dishes and some meat dishes that were made with ingredients I can't eat, so I went with the sausage and peppers. I ate half and brought half home for my housemate to eat, and she was thrilled. But again -- more calories than usual, but low carbs.
Finally, dinner was my post-St. Pat's meal: I made my own corned beef brisket on Wednesday, with cabbage, carrots and garlic-parsley red potatoes. So tonight I carefully measured 3 oz of corned beef and 3 oz of potatoes, plus a sweet onion, cooked it all up in a skillet, topped it with scrambled egg whites and cheddar cheese. It was so delicious, and so much better than anything you can get in a restaurant.
It all adds up of course, even if my carb count was pretty good. Still, I know I have to drop my calorie count this coming week, or I am just kidding myself: I won't lose weight this way! But that corned beef hash was delicious. It's a dish I don't dare eat out anymore because I am so sensitive to the nitrate/nitrites in commercial corned beef. Last time I ate it from the deli, I was up all night shaking from head to foot with bladder pain so bad I thought I was going to have to go to the ER. Finally, I flushed it out of my system with tons of water. But never again! Now, once a year in March I can buy the no-nitrate uncured corned beef and make it myself. It looks a little odd because it's not the same color that you're used to seeing in corned beef, but it's much , much healthier for me. I have a couple more of them in the freezer, so I can make them later in the year.
But for now, I need to rein myself in a little...
Diet Calendar Entries for 18 March 2016:
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1619 kcal
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Fat: 80.46g | Prot: 102.41g | Carb: 129.69g.
Breakfast: Luna Luna Protein Bar - Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Milk (Nonfat). Lunch: Sharky's Woodfired Mexican Grill Grilled Vegetables & Onions, Italian Sausage. Dinner: Kraft Natural Shredded Mild Cheddar Cheese, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Butter, Red Potatoes (Flesh and Skin, Baked), Bland Farms Vidalia Sweet Onion, Pocino Uncured Corned Beef Brisket, Cooked Egg Yolk, Cooked Egg White. Snacks/Other: Kroger Texas Red Grapefruit, Kind Nuts & Spices Caramel Almond & Sea Salt. more...
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2234 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Sitting - 2 hours, Clearing/washing dishes - 10 minutes, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 10 minutes, Driving - 1 hour and 50 minutes, Shopping - 1 hour and 30 minutes, Sleeping - 6 hours, Resting - 11 hours and 50 minutes, Cooking in Kitchen - 30 minutes. more...
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