Day #96 - Hops.
Comments(2) Starting weight (7/15/08): 279.8 (1/8/08): 285.2
Calories/Carbs Goals (limits): 1400 / 30.0
Yesterday’s calories & net carbs: 1288 / 17.9
Yesterday’s exercise: 1 hour DDR
Weight Yesterday: 252.0 Today: 252.2
Change today:: +0.2 lbs. Loss-so-far: 27.6 lbs. / 33.0 lbs.
Hey I saw another little tiny gain this morning but I know what it is. My knees - though they feel okay! - are swollen from last night’s DDR. (BTW Lillie, DDR is “Dance Dance Revolution,” a video game that is my workout of choice.) I’m fully expecting to see yet another gain tomorrow morning, because I went bike-riding today and I’m thinking my knees will swell even more.
This afternoon I decided to wash my husband’s Jeep - a task which requires one to stand on a ladder to properly clean the top and I’m like majorly afraid of heights. But the weather was so beautiful and his white Jeep was so dirty, that I felt compelled. I called upon my 16-year-old son to help me (because no task or household chore should be accomplished without your teenager if you have one!) and without a single rolled eyeball, my son did his fair share. Life is good, ha!
While my son was rinsing the Jeep off, I pulled out our bikes and lined them up for a bath too. “When we’re done washing the car, let’s go for a bike ride!” I said to hubby. He mumbled something about the tires needing air but didn’t say no, so I took that as a yes. After we washed down the bikes and wiped everything down, I got the (strong, hale, hearty, teenaged) boy to carry the compressor outside and proceeded to start checking the air in the bike tires. Of course I couldn’t get the gauge to work right so hubby ended up doing it for me. (It’s fair! He does the same thing to me when it comes to folding clothes!)
Son decided he didn’t want to go with us on the bike ride. His loss, because our destination ended up being the Hops Restaurant which is 2 1/2 miles away from our house. Hubby thought it was pretty funny that we went out for a healthy, vigorous 5-mile bike ride — but stopped for steak halfway through LOL! Hey, I figure it this way - we would have eaten dinner either way. Whether the bike-ride was separate from the meal or combined with the meal doesn’t diminish the value of the exercise one bit.
Here’s where we parked our non-vehicular-mode-of-transportation:
I went inside (while hubby locked up the bikes) and requested a table on the front porch. When the hostess brought me out there to choose a table, we saw Mike with the camera so we stopped to pose, heheh.
By the time we finished our meal, it was dark outside! Here’s the hubby, enjoying his after-dinner-coffee:
In the picture, there’s a menu spread out on the table because we were playing our dice game after we finished eating. (He won a game before the food arrived, but I kicked his butt in the game we played afterward!)
Okay, so I mentioned … I had steak! It was awesome. Once again, I got creative with the items which were available on the menu so that I could have a low-carb meal. My steak came with a small salad (which I asked them to strip of everything except for the lettuce and bacon bits and to bring me italian dressing on the side, of which I only used about a half a tablespoon because the dressing was so strong and sweet). For my side I asked for broccoli and also paid extra for a “topping” for my steak- it was a yummy mixture of spinach, artichoke, and marsala sauce (which the waiter gave me with no mushrooms, that was nice because I fully expected to just pick them out).
If I go there again, I’m gonna order the exact same thing - only chicken instead of steak. The steak was delicious - and was a nice change since I eat chicken almost every day - but it was also over 400 calories for the 6 oz portion that I ate! I could have had chicken for less than half that. Doesn’t matter, though, I’m still well within my calories for the day.
Have I mentioned that I love eating out? Heheheh!
Edited to add:
Hey! I was looking at that picture of me on the porch at Hops and thought, “Crap, I still can’t see any change, I’m as huge as ever.” This so bugged me because I can feel it in my clothes! So I zoomed in to take a closer look … and did finally see a difference! The purple shirt that I’m wearing today is one of many - I have just about every color - in size 26.
The orange shirt that I wore in my “before” pictures is exactly the same size and style as the purple shirt I wore today. Look at my left arm (er.. on the right)… see how roomy the shirt is now?! Woooohoooo I can see it! I can see it!!!
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