Since I'm here and have a little free time I'll see what I've missed this morning. I moved around my rest days, so now Tuesday and Saturday are my free days during the week. This was mainly so I could have steak and corn on Sundays. I add 250cals on my exercise days so it means on Sunday I'm only eating a third of my calories at dinner instead of closer to forty percent.
I'm now searching for breakfast foods other than eggs. I'm getting a little tired of them but I still need to keep the protein levels up. My personal preference if left to my own devices would be bread, jam, and fruit. Yep, not much protein there. So this morning I reworked my mother's scones that she normally has with jam. I swapped out the white flour for a combo of whole wheat & wheat gluten. It already has oats but I replaced most of the fat with applesauce. They actually turned out pretty good. I had two for my midmorning snack (with cheese) and at 201cals are pretty substantial. My breakfasts vary but since they're usually well over 350cals I think these are quite doable.
We're kind of having a general breakfast 'competition' on the fitness board I log my workouts on. I'm not sure how I got roped into it because I'm not a baker. It came out of a conversation how I like lightening up my favourite foods. Suddenly we're working on breakfast baking... and I think I'm supposed to come up with a high protein muffin. I'm not quite sure how that happened. However, since I'm getting sick of eggs, and I'll be starting school in the fall it's probably not a bad thing to be working on. Since I hate eating really early I wouldn't mind having something portable I could eat quickly before class (even if it's in my car in the parking lot). Can you tell I'm not a morning person?
M'Chelle - that's the one thing I don't really pay attention to - salt. I do know that the extra water should help though. Diet products often contain lots of additives to make us forget that they're diet. I remember looking at low-cal ice cream bars one night: sugar, caramel color, dextrose, palm oil, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup - well, the list goes on. And I edited out some of the ingredients. I'm not sure that sugar and high fructose corn syrup should really be in diet products, but that's just me. I put down the 140cal bars and bought the 200cal ones with less ingredients. Anyway, good luck on your weigh-in next week.
Bernice - I know more than 10 years ago I had a piece of alligator in Louisiana, but like yours, I think it was fried so it just tasted fried. That's probably a good thing though.
Debi - glad you're getting some relief. I plan to try the clothes on about mid-Aug so I'll know what I have to start school with. And if I need to I can take some of the tops in a bit.
Annie - thanks for the good wishes. I posted last week's vet attempt. I can laugh at it but I know I hate taking them. The two little angels are sleeping on the bar (they followed me down for my morning snack and decided to stay). I thought of trying to get them now but don't want to leave them in the cage for more than an hour. I know they will come upstairs for lunch meat, they always do. Wow, I'm impressed with the amount of riding you are doing. Sounds like Biker Chick might have a sister.
Debbie - it's not bad out today. We're starting to get lots of little ripe tomatoes. My zucchini is not so hot though. I'll give them a week and then I'm going to try hand pollinating them. I think maybe I'm just being impatient though. Usually I'm not around so much (ie. not looking at them daily). This is how we usually get monster zucchini!
Catherine - I don't know the material it was made of but I had a jacket that I bought for our freighter trip. It was light nylon on the outside with a fairly light cloth lining on the inside. I bought it big so I could wear a vest underneath it. It was a perfect solution. It kept rain/snow out and with the vest it was very warm. I put it on yesterday and it's way too big (it was big on purpose at 330lbs). I'm really thinking I'd like to try taking it in but I'm not sure I'm good enough at that. My mother has a friend who does alterations so I might see if she's up to it. If not I might as well try it anyway, since I can't wear it as is.
Penny - I always thought I could win a contest when it comes to procrastination. Of course that would mean I'd have to show up.
Sara - that's great that you're seeing changes. I'm horrible at admitting to them myself. I still see the person I was (which is a shock because I feel so much better) instead of who I am. I hope as I continue to lose weight I'll get better at seeing the changes. I hope it's only a short flu bug (fingers crossed).
Well, I should go upstairs so the cats aren't sleeping still at lunch time. Oh, I really don't want to go to the vets...
