Monday
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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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Sounds like so much fun!! Am glad you guys enjoyed urselves. Eileen you have to give me cawliflower (potato substitute recipe). I’ve been so bad food wise this month. Have put on 4 lbs already. So I need to do a reality chk right now. I think I’m going to give the April challenge a miss. I’ll still update and all. But May will be my month,
Take care.
LOL oh my goodness that chicken story is soooo funny!
It sounds like you had a wonderful time. Plus you managed to bring healthy stuff that you could eat for the meal. That was smart!
Keep up the great work.
Joy
OMG four-square. I totally forgot about that game. We used to play it on the blacktop during recess. We should have a 3FC four-square weekend LOL. So glad you made lots of memories this Easter!
-kt
I love four square! Your post put a smile on my face. It’s nice to know other families do fun things together also. Sunday night my sister and husband and I played Mario Party 8 on the Wii and we were laughing and joking while we were playing. It’s a lot of fun cuz it’s all mini games so you have to stand and move around with the remote in your hand and pretend to play things like baseball or shoot darts and so on.
wow what a great day. it’s awesome to hear of how you are being active, living life, and having fun instead of dragging butt from one sitting place to the next. I got alot of walking done yesterday as well. The weather really encourages it!
Sounds terrific, I love to play ball! Jackson wasn’t interested in his ball last weekend and I spent a half hour bouncing his ball off a prk pavilion and running to catch it!
I miss those rowdy, fun ball games I used to play with my brothers and the neighbor kids…
What a lovely Easter. I can just imagine the chicken flying around the store. We actually have a monkey that screeches when you launch him, it’s a blast. I’ll have to get it out again.
WTG on the awesome Easter eating! I think you are the only one so far who stuck to plan
aaawww, eileen I love the story of your day. sound like a wonderful time with the family, and a great work out too. Im proud of you for how good you were on easter. I was really bad
Sounds like you had a great time. The best work outs are the ones when you don’t feel like you’re watching the clock. Can I get your cauliflower recipe?