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Eileen - Day #281 - Monday
 Daily intake goals::  < 35g carbs / < 1700 calories / > 64+ oz. water
Exercise yesterday::  1 1/2 hours playing outside!
Net carb grams yesterday:  19.6      Calories:  1311
Weight today:  239.2     Change:  +0.8    Total weight loss:  -46.0
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Easter was not difficult to manage, food-wise!

I made twice-baked-cauliflower (my low-carb potatoes!) to bring along with us to my Mom’s.  She had bought a ham and rolls and had made mashed potatoes (the real kind, hehe) and fruit salad.  I brought corn and green beans, a big salad, and my cauliflower stuff.  Lunch was delicious and everyone got what they wanted.

I had also brought a cake - a yellow one since my hubby likes yellow cake - which I cut and served about an hour after lunch.  I didn’t have any - I was still really full from lunch so it wasn’t hard to resist.  I promised myself some macadamia nuts later when I finally wasn’t so full.

We (my three men and I) left my Mom’s around 4:30.  We were in a good mood, riding in the Mustang with the top down and the weather was beautiful - so I suggested we go find a store that’s open on Easter and buy a ball.  “We’ll find a park, it’ll be fun.”  Well, the only store nearby that was open was a grocery store.  So the four of us went inside in search of something to play catch with.

The store had a big display of bouncy-balls, but no footballs or baseballs or softballs.  The boys really wanted a football, so we walked around the store while they made suggestions for replacements.  I had to take several items away from them in the produce department before they could demonstrate how each could be used as a football. 

Suddenly we see “Dad” coming toward us with something in his hand.  I said, “You’ve got to be kidding.”  My three men laughed as my husband demonstrated how this item could easily replace a football.  It was a chicken.  A stuffed chicken.  More accurately, it was a dog-toy, which resembled a cartoon-hero-chicken but it was rigged to work like a slingshot.  Pull back on this stretchy part and the chicken sails through the air.  Oh, and it makes a noise.  A cock-a-doodle-doo noise.  OMG.

We each tried it, laughing hysterically there in the grocery store.  At one point, Kevin said, “We’re gonna get kicked out of the store.”  I think that was right around the time the chicken landed on top of the freezer section.  Lucky that hubby is so tall.

We bought the chicken - and a bouncy ball.  We ended up in a church-yard, playing throw and fetch and catch and fetch and kick and fetch.  There was a lot of fetching going on.  And a lot of laughing. I got a nice workout out there - I actually ran a couple times.  I know I felt more energetic and more mobile - able to move - than I have in years.  It was good.

We stopped for a drink and I suggested we play four-square.  I haven’t played the game since I was about twelve, and my husband doesn’t remember ever playing it.  It, too, was a good workout for me.  We played for over an hour and I was sweating the whole time.  I have no idea who won, it was more about the laughter than anything else. 

It was a good day.  A very good day!

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