Sistah Pat

Feeling much better today!  Besides breaking my toe on Friday, I had already started to feel like a cold was coming on and it was bothering me all day Saturday and Sunday.  I feel a lot better this morning but really achy and tired.  Of course, lying around on the couch or bed for two days could have a lot to do with that.

My weight is at 183 this morning.  I’m really pleased about that.  I didn’t binge the last two days but I didn’t keep track of what I ate or keep a calorie count.  Needless to say, the most strenuous exercise I did was rearranging my pillows.  I ate healthy food and didn’t eat much of it so I should be okay.  DIL brought me two McDonalds fruit parfaits and I ate one.  Probably loaded with calories.  If not, I might eat the other one for breakfast. 

I just opened a new tab and checked the calories.  It’s only 160.  Sounds like I need to eat breakfast!

12:30 - Feeling much, much, much, much better!  I discovered part of the problem.  I am totally hooked on caffeine in the morning!  I had forgotten that we ran out of coffee on Friday and, under the circumstances, I didn’t get to the store.  Saturday morning, DH made coffee.  I didn’t realize he was using a package of decaf he found in the cabinet and he made it again this morning.  I was dragging around the kitchen and found the bag on the counter and bells went off.  I need my coffee every morning!  I scrounged around in the pantry until I found a bag of Kona Coffee we picked up in Hawaii last summer and brewed a pot.  The transformation is nothing short of miraculous!  There are lots of things I feel guilty about but I refuse to worry about coffee.  It doesn’t have any fat or calories, it’s cheap, and I drink it every morning.  At least three cups!  I am hooked.  I admit it and I don’t care.

After my caffeine kicked in, I started working on the vacation plans for this summer.  We’ve added and taken away so many times that it had been a while since I calculated the mileage.  We cut out the Redwoods in California because of time limitations.  I would love to see them…  :-(   but we just can’t work it out.  When I figured up the mileage this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it shaved 1,200 miles off the trip.  It’s now just 5,800 miles instead of 7,000.  That’s a very big deal when you’re driving a motor home that gets 8 miles to the gallon.

2:30 - Just got slammed by hunger.  I’m fixing dinner but it’s still got a couple of hours for the marinara sauce so I just nuked a frozen diet entree (processed food…I know).  310 calories for a little blob of rice and some “Thai” chicken.  Here’s a thought, why do these “lean” entrees have so little food?  An entire boneless, skinless chicken breast has about 240 calories.  I’m looking at this thing and it has about 2 tablespoons of chicken (I kid you not! Six itty bitty pieces), some sauce, and about a cup of rice with some spinach and red pepper in it.  Why not use an entire chicken breast in a light sauce, skip the rice, and give me 3 huge cups of green beans for the same calories?  I’ve always wondered why these diet entrees have so little actual food in them.  Gimme some veggies!