Sistah Pat

I’m copying this one to my favorites so it won’t get lost!  Thanks, Sarah!

Julia Child’s Clafouti
serves 6-8

1 1/4 cups milk
1/3 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 Tablespoon vanilla
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup flour
3 cups cherries, pitted (the French recipe books all said to leave the pits in, so that’s what I did)

1/3 cup sugar
powdered sugar

1. Preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C.
2. In a blender blend the milk, sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt and flour.
3. Pour a 1/4 inch layer of the batter in a buttered 7 or 8 cup lightly buttered fireproof baking dish. Place in the oven until a film of batter sets in the pan.
4. Remove from the heat and spread the cherries over the batter. Sprinkle on the 1/3 cup of sugar. (THIS SUGAR I OMITTED)
5. Pour on the rest of the batter until the tops of the cherries are just poking through (With the remaining batter you can throw away or make another small clafoutis).
6. Bake at 350 degrees for about for about 45 minutes to an hour. The clafouti is done when puffed and brown and and a knife plunged in the center comes out clean.
7. Sprinkle with powdered sugar (DIDN’T DO), serve warm.

NOTE:  I’ve changed a couple of things.  Made it with blueberries once and it was wonderful.  Also made the following adaptations:

My family is in love with this recipe. Made it last week using blueberries. Made it tonight and discovered that I was out of whole milk so I used Silk Light Vanilla Soy Milk. Can’t tell any difference in the taste (It’s fabulous!) It even puffed up higher and lighter than the one I made using whole milk. The only calories in the entire thing are:
1 ¼ cups Silk Light Vanilla Soy Milk (100)
3 large eggs (240)
½ cup white flour (220)
2 cans pitted tart cherries in water (360)

Total 920
6 very large servings at 153 each or 8 servings at 115 each.

Ah, Summertime!  Calling for 94 degrees today and I’m lovin every one of them.  While we’re on the subject of numbers, I’m weighing 179.5 this morning.  Slowly breaking the barrier and leaving those 180s behind.

Joy, I think you may be right.  I’m a math teacher and the calorie debate is still way too much math for me to worry about.  DH may be right on this topic.  He said, “Are you losing weight?”

“Yes”

“Then you’re doing it right.”

Plain and simple.  No resting metabolic rate, maintenance rate, carbs and points and sodium.  If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.  A man’s logic.

Stacy is picking up Jake and Scout at David’s from 11:00 to 11:00 today.  This makes both of us a little nervous.  She refuses to give him a phone number or address.  Says it’s none of his business.  On the other hand, her court appointed visitation is supposed to be today so he’s going to go ahead and let them go.  She’s supposed to have them overnight but she only wants them for the day so that’s a relief.  I don’t think she would take them but you never know.  She took them about five years ago and disappeared with them for almost a month.  That was before David had custody so I don’t think she’ll do anything like that again.  Anyway, in my renewed role as optimist, I’m going to assume everything will be fine and I have a day off from watching them.

DH and I are buying new shoes today.  I have LOTS of shoes that I can’t wear and I don’t want to get any new ones that go in that category.  It’s so hard for me to get a pair that work.  I try them on, they feel good.  I buy them and wear them for four or five hours and my ankles start to hurt.  Remember my tale about the old Reeboks?  I’m wearing them out.  Not a little, a lot.  They look terrible.

We’re going to go to Habitat for Humanity while we’re out.  A friend told me that they were selling topiary shrubs for $10 each and annuals and perennials for $.50.  I didn’t even know they did anything except build houses but they have a summer fundraiser of selling plants that lasts all summer long.  Maybe I’ll find some goodies!

1:45 - Oh my gosh!  I have so much work to do.  Went to Habitat for Humanity and went wild.  I bought about 200 plants and paid $22.00.  Wave petunias in 6″ pots were $.25, I got a huge boston fern in a hanging basket for $2.50.  I won’t go into all the details except to say I got impatiens, lots of petunias, blue daze, Gerbera daisies, geraniums, bacopa, and gazanias.  They still had the tags on them from local nurseries and were donated because they were a bit faded, leggy, one of a six pack was dead, etc.  The guy said they send their truck out every Tuesday morning and when they get back to Habitat, there’s always a long line of people waiting.  Sometimes, they do more than one pickup (as was the case this week when they did another one Thursday) and people don’t know about it so they last longer. 

Well, I’ve gotta run.  Lots of planting to do.

4:00 - It’s HOT out there!  I think I need to take a break.  I’m only thinking of the plants, you know.  It’s not good for them to be traumatized in this much heat.  I think I should go out to the pool, climb into a pool lounger, pop open a beer, put on my sunglasses, and have a smoke. 

Alright, alright, I’ll jog in the pool.  Party Poopers!

5:45 - Jogged in the pool for an hour.  It was so BORING!  I didn’t think I’d ever get finished.  It wasn’t like that yesterday because Jake was in the pool with me and I had a little company.  If I’m going to keep doing this, I need to find a waterproof MP3 player.  Now I deserve a veggie burger on the grill and I’m going to make one of Susan’s Clafoutis!

Breakfast
Mickey D’s Fruit and Yogurt Parfait (130)

Lunch
Tuna salad on Light whole grain bread (125)
grape tomatoes (25)
1/2 orange (35)
Cheddar rice cakes (70)

Snack
Schwann’s Trim Creations fudgesicle (45)

Dinner
veggie burger (170)
bun (100)
salad with lite dressing (75)
Cherry Clafoutis (200)

Snack
Fudgesicle (45)

Total 1,020

Ackkkk!!!  The blogs are off-line!  Some people might take that as a sign that they should get off their butts and clean the house but not yours truly.  I’ll just blog in Word and paste it later.

I’m really confused about calories.  It used to be so simple.  You ate fewer calories and you lost weight.  Then we came out with low-fat, low-sodium, low-carb, then metabolic rates and set-points and it all got so complicated.   The last time I attended a class in nutrition they were saying your body could go into “starvation mode” and slow down your metabolism if you consumed fewer calories.  To counteract this, you were supposed to do more cardio exercise to raise your metabolic rate so you would continue to burn fat.

Now, I’ve got a bunch of people telling me that I’m eating too few calories and headed for a train wreck.  According to an article I just read, you should:

1) Begin with a base of 655 calories. - (655)
2) Multiply weight (in pounds) by 4.3 - (778.3)
3) Multiply height (in inches) by 4.7  - (291.4)
4) Add numbers from numbers 1,2 and 3 - (1724.7)
5) Multiply your age by 4.7 - (263.2)
6) Subtract the total of #5 from the total of #4 (this is your resting metabolic rate) - (1461.5)
7) To determine your daily maintenance calories, multiply your RMR (#6) by one of the following: 1.2 if you don’t exercise
1.3 if you exercise 2 to 3 hours a week
1.4 if you exercise 4 to 6 hours a week (2046.1)
1.6 if you exercise 7 hours or more a week

Your calorie intake should never go below your Resting Metabolic Rate (BMR), and, ideally, should be at least 150 calories above it.” ****”To lose 1/2 to 1 pound a week; subtract 250 to 500 calories a day from the figure you came up with for maintenance calories. Create a daily deficit of 500 calories per day by eating fewer calories, burning off extra calories with physical activity, or by doing both.”

For me, this would mean I would have a Daily Maintenance Rate of 2,046. calories and I should never consume less than 1,800 calories.  My question is: “Says Who???”  Who am I supposed to believe?  All my friends who are saying this aren’t losing any weight.  And what if you want to lose more than ½ to 1 pound per week?  If you’re not supposed to drop below this, does that mean you’re supposed to go grab an extra 200 calories if you work out an extra 30 minutes???  I wish I knew a dietician who had some actual knowledge in this area.

6:00 p.m.
Yay!  The blogs are back up!  Had a busy day but it was “good” busy.  Did a little weeding in the flower beds.  Gave the pool its first real cleaning of the summer.  Jogged in the pool for an hour.  Straightened the house (no heavy duty stuff today)

Here’s another interesting dilemna…How can jogging in the pool burn more calories than plain old jogging?  I looked it up and had a hard time finding very many articles but the one I did find comes from Runner’s World.  One website I looked at estimated 480 Calories for an hour “jogging on land,” and 680 Calories for an hour “deep water jogging.” I, personally, find it hard to believe that pool running would burn more Calories than land running.  Another article said a 150 pound person would burn approximately 600 calories for water jogging for an hour.  It just doesn’t make any sense to me.  I can walk on the treadmill for almost two hours, be drenched in sweat, breathing hard, heart rate way up there and burn 600 calories.  In the pool, the water buoyancy actually lightens your weight and I can run for an hour, be cool and collected, breathing a little bit heavy but not much and they say that burns more?  I know all that about the resistance of the water making you pull through it, yada, yada, but it’s just so much easier that it doesn’t make sense to me.  You’re not working all that hard!

 Oh, by the way, weight is 181.5 today.  My bad!  What can I expect by relaxing the diet a couple days and not exercising? Oh, wait!  I  forgot!  I’m never supposed to go below 1,800 calories anyway! NOT!

Breakfast
Mickey D’s Fruit and Yogurt Parfait (130)

Snack
Pretzels (100)

Dinner
2 slices Lite Whole Grain Bread (70)
Tuna salad (egg, tuna, fat-free mayo, onion, dill relish) (150)
Orange (70)
Cheddar rice cakes (100)

Snack
2 Schwans (Thank you, God!) trim creations fudgesicles (90)

Obviously, this is not enough calories!  I ate another half sandwich to add about a hundred calories.

Total 810

Read a blog yesterday evening that was so happy and motivated.  It made me realize how much of a hole I’ve been in for the last couple of weeks.  Today, nothing goes on this blog but the good stuff! 

1.  It’s going to be a gorgeous, HOT day here in Kentuckiana.  Temp is supposed to be at 93 this afternoon.  That’s going to really warm up the pool.  I may be able to get in this weekend.

2. After today’s seminar, I don’t have anything looming in the near future and can concentrate on getting ready for vacation and house cleaning.

3. My weight is at 180.5 in spite of the fact that I haven’t been very diligent about exercise and counting calories since Monday.

4. Tomorrow is my 39th anniversary and I still love my hubby and he still loves me.

5.  I’m fairly certain I will have an epiphany today and the perfect gift for hubby will pop into my head.

6.  My new chair for the living room should have come in yesterday and we should be able to pick it up.

 7.  While rinsing my hair in the shower, I felt the absence of my favorite gold hoop earring.  Looked down and saw it balanced precariously at the edge of the drain.  I was able to retrieve it before it went down and it’s now back in it’s rightful place.

8.  Felt a terrible cold coming on yesterday afternoon and evening.  Took a couple of Dayquil before bed and it seems to have knocked it out.

9. I’m at the seminar at Bellarmine University.  Just had a pleasant 15 minutes of chatting with a bunch of friends I haven’t seen for a while.  Had no trouble passing up the doughnuts.

10.  Just realized that TODAY is June 5th so today is my anniversary.  It’s a very good thing that I discovered this today instead of tomorrow.  (Teacher!  End the school year and we don’t even care what day it is!)

11. Finished up the seminar, learned some cool teaching tools that integrate cutting edge technology.

12. Got in the pool for the first time this summer and it was nice!

13. David got off early, picked up Jake and Scout, Darryl took Andrew and Steven to Civil Air Patrol.  DH is in bed and it’s gloriously quiet!

Attending a two day seminar called Imagine the Future of Learning.  These are pretty long days.  They start at 7:45 and finish at 4:30.  Sistah Pam is picking me up because all my Sistahs will be attending as well.  Always good to see them!Tipped the scales at 180 today.  Finally made my June 1st goal even though it’s June 3.  Today will be a challenge (as all work/social occasions are).  They’re providing a continental breakfast (might as well call it a doughnut/pastry breakfast) and a box lunch.  After the seminar, I’m supposed to go to the gym with Pam for water aerobics.  At least, I’ll get a mini break from the kids.  David doesn’t have to be at work until 4:00 today so DH will watch the kids until I get home around 7:00.

2:47 - Taking a break.  We just finished a session and I’m waiting for this next one to start.  It’s on the computer so I can kill a little time.  Managed to avoid breakfast.  Nothing but pastries and doughnuts.  I was hoping they would have some fruit but they didn’t.  Don’t know how I did on lunch.  I ate about a Tablespoon of potato salad, a pear, and a vegetarian wrap.  It obviously had a lot of dressing on it but I figured it was better than the chicken salad on croissant.  Ate a small sugar cookie.  Every one of my friends is raising Hell with me that I’m not eating enough calories.  They made me promise to go to a site called sparkspeople.com  so I guess I’ll check that out this evening.  Getting ready to start.  Later…. 

5:22 - Not doing well.  I’m definitely feeling the pressure.  We had afternoon snacks of rice crispy treats and drinks.  I don’t even like rice krispy treats so why did I eat one?  Finished up at 5:00.  Pam drove me today and as soon as we got in her car I said, “So, are we going to the gym now?”  She gave a little groan and I jumped right in and said, “I don’t want to either.”  She picked me up this morning at 7:00 and we’d already put in 10 hours and I just didn’t want to go.

Came home and found out that Stacy called David today.  She wanted to pick up the kids to spend the night with her.  David told her “No.” and she got furious.  Says she should have known he’d make this difficult.  He told her he wasn’t trying to be difficult.  She could see them during her regular visitation hours.  She was really mad when she found out he’d gone down to the courthouse and gotten a copy of his custody papers and was going to hold her to the visitation schedule the court set up almost three years ago.  She ranted and raved about how he was keeping her kids from her and he reminded her that she walked out a week ago, took the car, took the money from the bank account, and hasn’t bothered to even call and check on them for an entire week.  He told her if she wanted to see the boys and the visitation schedule doesn’t work for her, he’d be glad to change it but he was not going to be at her beck and call whenever she had a few minutes free and would like to see them.  He said if they mean that much to her, she should be willing to set aside specific days and times and make a commitment to be there for them.  Good for him!  He didn’t tell her that he reinstated the child support order.  I’m sure things will get very nasty when she finds that out.  In the meantime, I heard from a very reliable source that she has a new boyfriend and she’s living with him.

On the diet side of things…what’s going on with me???  It seems like the pressure of trying to do what I need to do and keep up with Jake and Scout at the same time is not working.  Here’s my committment…give me one more day.  I have to go to this seminar for another 10 hours tomorrow and Jake and Scout will be here clammoring for attention as soon as I get home.  I’ll do my best with dieting tomorrow but I will get back on track first thing Friday morning.  I’ll have to get my exercise in and plan my meals before they get here each day.  I feel like everyone is grabbing a piece of my day and there’s no time left for me.  I can’t even blog without being constantly interrupted.  Enough for today…

Sistah Pat out.

Wow!  Weighed 177 for about 4 hours this morning!  Then they gave me an IV during the colonoscopy and I came home and found I’m back at 181.  Bummer!!!  Why did they have to replace all those fluids?  I liked 177!

I am sooo glad that’s over with.  They found and removed one polyp (whatever that is) and said I won’t need another colonoscopy for three years.  The doctor said finding a small polyp is not unusual for someone over 50 and removing it was routine.

It was nice to see 177 this morning but I’m not thrilled with the way it happened.  Dulcolax, Miralax, and a day of fasting followed by a night of running to the bathroom is not any fun.  I think I’ll just stick to the old plan of diet and exercise.

As soon as I left the surgery center, I had Darryl take me to Subway and got 1/2 of a Subway club.  Tasted good but I really wanted to get home and get some coffee!  After 1/2 a sandwich and some coffee I’m feeling pretty normal.  I’m not supposed to do anything strenuous today so I guess the treadmill is out.  Felt a little woozy for a while so I came home and watched “I am Legend”  (so, so…).  Now I’m going to try to do some house cleaning.

6:15 - I’m drinking a Corona.  I’m tired, I’m frustrated, I’m used and abused.  David is the Executive Chef at the restaurant where he works.  His second-in-charge quit after a disagreement with the owner last Saturday.  I love my grandkids but I’m so tired of watching them.  Five days in a row without a break.  I’m sure David’s exhausted with dealing with everything he has going on and he’s working himself to death but I’m feeling really resentful this evening.  He won’t get a day off this week.  He doesn’t even know if he’s going to get a day off next week.  Even if they hire someone who fills the bill, he’ll still have to train them.  Still no word from Stacy.  I’m sure she’s out somewhere partying and having a ball with her friends and I’m watching the kids, feeding the kids, chasing the kids, and trying to keep my cool.  Scout is six years old and he had a bowel movement in his pants yesterday.  He did it again a few minutes ago.  He did the same thing the last time she took off.  He was two years old then and refused to use the toilet for almost a year.  How am I supposed to deal with this????  I know it’s some kind of anger, stress, psychological thing but I’ve tried to talk to him and he says he just had an “accident”.  I can’t really punish him but I  don’t relish cleaning up after a six year old either.

I’m angry that my routine has been disrupted and I’m having to take care of two little children at a time when I’m trying really hard to concentrate on myself.  These two are really good little boys but they’re being a pain in the a&& and I know it’s because they’ve been traumatized and don’t understand what’s going on.  Scout wants me to call Mommy so he can talk to her.  I told him I don’t have a phone number for her and he brought me the phone book and told me to find it.  I feel like crying.

8:00 p.m. - Just realized what I’m doing.  I fixed grilled ginger pork chops for dinner and microwaved sweet potatoes.  Found myself mindlessly playing solitaire and stuffing my face.  I ate TWO 1″ slices of pork tenderloin and the sweet potato I ate half of should have been cut in fourths.  Then I ate a McDonald’s Fruit and Yogurt Parfait.  I’ve eaten enough at dinner to make up a full day’s calories.  I’m sabotaging my diet out of anger and frustration.  This happened shortly after Scout crapped all over himself again, got it all over the bathroom when he tried to clean himself up and threw his underwear in the trash.  I don’t know what to do about this.  I didn’t get mad at him, I talked rationally to him about him being a big boy and knowing how to control himself earlier today.  After this latest incident, I told him if it happens again, I’ll have to get some pull-ups.  He said he might need some because he can’t help having “accidents”.  He’s not sick, if he were, I’d understand but he’s reverting back to what he did the last time his mother took off and I don’t want to deal with another year of this.

Had an epiphany.  Made Scout go in the bathroom and wipe down the floor and wall (although I’d already cleaned it up), dig his underwear out of the trashcan and rinse it out in the commode, squeeze out the water, take the downstairs and put them in the washer.  He DID NOT like that.  I made him scrub his hands with lots of soap and a nail brush.  I told him I didn’t like it either but he’s not a baby and I won’t clean up after him.  If he has an “accident”, he will have to clean it up.  Don’t know if this is the right thing to do.  We’ll have to see what happens.

Lunch
1/2 Subway Club (320)

Sounds optimistic, doesn’t it?  Today is my day of fasting to prep for tomorrow’s colonoscopy.  I’m still blown away that I can’t have anything to eat all day.  Maybe I should call this entry “Running (pun intended) on Empty” I could understand 12 hours before or even 16 but my appointment isn’t until 8:00 o’clock tomorrow morning.  I’m supposed to fast for 24 hours but I haven’t eaten since dinner last night so it’s already been ten hours.  By tomorrow morning, it will be 34 hours. Maybe I should eat some cereal or something in the next few minutes to make it easier to avoid food all day.  I really don’t like breakfast but it may be a smart thing to do.

Weighed in at 181.5 this morning.  Missed my June 1st goal by a pound yesterday then have another .5 on this morning.  This is such a slow process.  Still, it’s 13.5 pounds, maybe 14, in 6 weeks and that’s pretty good.  I need to face reality.  The “easy” goals of 5 pounds every two weeks may not be realistic.  I thought they were but I’m eating well, keeping calories around 1,000 to 1,200 each day and working out like crazy and I’m not meeting the goals I set. I think I’ll give it to the 15th and then reassess if I need to.

Gulping down a little oatmeal then I have to get a shower and see my orthopedic surgeon about this toe.  I should be home by 10:00 at the latest and will try to hit the treadmill.

1:10 - Saw my orthopedic surgeon and was pleasantly surprised.  He still has a little of that arrogance but he was so sweet and acted like he was greeting an old friend.  I didn’t even think he would remember me.  He took x-rays and told me the toe is healing great, i don’t need to tape it anymore.  The surgery he did two years ago looks great and then he chatted with me and showed me all the before and after x-rays and talked about my upcoming vacation as if he didn’t have a room full of patients waiting.  He said I was one of the first patients he saw after moving to Louisville from California and he was really impressed by my determination and drive to do whatever I had to do to get this ankle fixed.  He said he was just as determined to do everything he could to make it happen.  I expected him to bring up the other ankle but he didn’t so I did.  I asked him if I was making it worse by not getting it fixed.  He said that I wasn’t.  It will continue to deteriorate until it gives me a lot more trouble and he said he’d be here whenever I decided I was ready.  It will be another three months in the wheelchair and I’m not ready.  A bit of the old arrogance crept in when he said, “I’ll be here whenever you’re ready to do it.  Just make sure you don’t let anyone else touch it.”  He doesn’t have to worry about that.  I had a bump on the lower knuckle on my ring finger that I thought was a little arthritis and I asked him about it.  He took x-rays and said it’s a ganglion cyst.  I asked him if he would remove it for me and he said he would.  Something I want to get done after vacation but before I go back to work.

Came home and ran upstairs.  I must have missed an increment on the workout because I wound up doing 100 minutes and it should have been 95.  Must have doubled up on one and didn’t realize it.  Anyway, I managed to chug down 20 ounces of Gatorade.  Burned 627 calories, went 4.96 miles.  I was feeling so good after chatting with Doc, I upped the speed to 3.0 so I’m back where I was before I broke my toe.  Here’s something interesting…kept track of the calories burned for 5 minutes at 1% and it was 19 calories.  At and incline of 10%, 5 minutes burns off 46 calories.  More than double.  Of course, who knows how accurate that stuff is.

4:30 - Sitting out on the patio watching the kids in the pool.  It’s nice out here.  I guess it’s too early for mosquitoes or flies.  There hasn’t been a single pesky bug bothering me.  Holly is over today.  David works from 4:00 to 10:00 today so I have Jake and Scout.  Hopefully, all the splashing will wear them all out.  Actually, he brought them over at 2:00 so he could have time to go down and reinstate Stacy’s child support order.  Not that she’ll ever pay it but, last time, she didn’t ever pay and they said they couldn’t do anything about it for the first three months and then they didn’t do anything for the next three because she wasn’t working.  At least, the countdown has begun.  Today is the 5th day and no one has heard from her.

Working on redoing the vacation plans.  We would have been in Las Vegas on the 4th of July but, now that we’re reversing the route, it looks like we’ll be in Escalante doing the Lower Calf Creek Hike on the 3rd or 4th.  I just want to get the basics done and I’ll do some fine tuning later.

5:40 - Guess I’m going to have to gather all the kiddos out of the pool and head in.  There is no way I’m going to sit out here and watch them with DH grilling hamburgers and hot dogs 20 feet away. ;-[   Guess I’ll go plop on the couch and drink my nasty Gatorade!

Looks like it’s going to be a long day.  David said he has a 12 hour catering job today and will need me to watch the boys from 12 to 12.  He got a new $80 Chef Jacket to wear to today’s function and it’s in the backseat of the car Stacy took.  Still in the package.  He didn’t have a chance to get it before she took off.  There’s also a bunch of DHs tools in the trunk that David had borrowed.

Weighed in at 181.5 this morning.  I had a bad evening yesterday.  Don’t know why but I found myself mindlessly watching TV and eating.  I caught it in time to avoid an all out binge but I’m not sure what triggered it.  It was after David picked up the boys, around 8:00 and I ate another bowl of tuna pasta salad with two garlic breadsticks.  Not a big deal, 200 calories for the pasta salad and 40 for the breadsticks. Then I had another small piece of the cherry clafoutis, another 100 calories.  A few minutes later, I had another bowl of pasta salad and a couple more breadsticks.  After that, another bowl of cherry clafoutis.  This is when I realized that I wasn’t even tasting it anymore and I was eating even though I was stuffed.  I haven’t done that for at least 6 weeks.  I wonder what triggered it.  I’ve been very stingy with carbs and I’m wondering if I somehow triggered it by consuming so many carbs at dinner.  I don’t know.  Anyway, I’m lucky to have caught it in time to have only loaded up an extra 600 or 700 calories.  It could have been much worse.

Have to meet Sistah Pam at the gym in about 45 minutes.  Gotta run.

10 minutes later…Pam called and cancelled so I guess it’s just me and the treadmill.  I went ahead and calculated the calories for my  bingeing last night and it came out to be around 900 calories!  Maybe if I put in 1 1/2 hours on the treadmill, I’ll be more careful next time I find myself bingeing.

11:30
95 minutes, 4.6 miles, 595 calories.  All the way up the incline in increments of 5 minutes at 2.9 mph and all the way back down.  Geez!  Remind me of this the next time I binge!

3:45 - Trying to think of something to fix for dinner.  I just realized today is June 1st.  Not tomorrow, today!  So, I didn’t meet my goal. :-(  Oh well, I’m not going to get upset about it.  I’ll blame the broken toe and try to make it up before the 15th.  I was going to fix lemon garlic chicken breasts and brown rice with almonds but DH says he wants spanish rice tonight.  Not sure where to go with that.

Finally gave up on fighting the kids.  Let them spend the day in the pool.  It wasn’t as cold as I thought it was.  74 degrees.  That’s still too cold to me but they’d turn blue before they’d admit it.  I raised the blinds in the family room and I can look right down there and watch them in the pool.  That’s good because it got them out of the way enough to let me clean on the kitchen some more.

8:00 p.m. - I’m out in the RV.  These kids are doing me in!  There’s a reason you have to be young to have kids.  Jake and Scout nagged me to death to go in the RV and watch TV and “sleep”.  I was trying to work on vacation plans but finally gave up and brought my laptop out here.  They weren’t in the RV a full minute before they spotted the rack-it-back game and took off for the back yard to play it.  Maybe I’ll stay out here.  It’s kind of warm and stuffy but it’s nice and quiet.

I’m supposed to drink 64 ounces of Gatorade this evening to prep for the colonoscopy and a day of fasting tomorrow.  I went to get it (I DON”T LIKE GATORADE) at the grocery and found that it has 310 calories in 12 ounces!  Are they crazy???? The doctor’s orders said you could get the G2 if you’re diabetic.  I’m not diabetic but there’s NO WAY I’m blowing 1,700 calories to choke down a bunch of Gatorade.  I got the G2.  It has 70 calories for 20 ounces.  I’m not even happy about that.  If I drink 60 ounces, that’s the same as a frozen dinner and I’d much rather have some food than a bunch of icky sweet soft drink stuff.  I’m not doing very well.  I’ve been working on it for almost two hours and have only drank about 14 ounces.  I hate sweet soft drinks.  I usually drink unsweetened tea, coffee, or water.

hmmmm…am I getting a little cranky or what?

Lunch
Healthy Choice Entree (290)

Dinner
Lemon Garlic Chicken (400)
Brown Rice with toasted almonds (150)
Sliced orange (70)

Total 910