Good morning girls! I love the warm weather, but I wasn't expecting scorching weather already. It is so hot here. On top of that my darn feet and ankles are swelled again and I am hobbling around hardly able to do anything. I had a lot I wanted to do today, but it might be tough.
Maggie: I am posting a pic of Jackson's helmet and I lost your email address when we had to reload windows so here is a link to the original recipe. You can adapt it yourself to the number of servings and it has all the nutritional info you need too.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cornuco...li/Detail.aspx
Susan: My most difficult time is after dinner around 6-7 pm. I have just added a few calories to my menus and eat a little something, maybe a few squares of my reduced calorie cinnamon graham crackers or a serving of fruit with a tbl of ff redi whip, anything that curbs the hunger so I don't eat junk food. I am currently making up my own menus though you can follow their menus if you wish. The system calculates my calories, fats, carbs and proteins and I just fine tune until I have all my calories and such in the "green" which indicates they are where they are supposed to be. Funny, but the hardest thing for me to get into the green is fats. I am usually short on the amount of fat by a bit, but if everything else is where it should be my only recourse is margarine or oil and I am not going to take a tablespoon of oil and drink it to make my fat come out right!
I do use some of their recipes and input some of mine.
Jean: I love Red Lobster but I wish they would make an entree out of boiled shrimp instead of just a shrimp cocktail. I love cold shrimp and it is low in fat and good for you so I would be happy as a clam to have it as an entree. I noticed a lot of mom and pop seafood recipes give you that option. I read my hometown newspaper online every morning and always look at the obituary and one of our dear friends from our church in South Bend passed away on Tuesday. We had a group of 8 of us that used to go to lunch every Sunday after church and he and his wife were one of the couples. They are closer to my parents ages, but we always enjoyed their company so much. It was such a shock to see his obituary yesterday morning. I went to Walgreens and got a nice sympathy card and Jack mailed it off this morning.
I am down 4 lbs already gals!
I am almost halfway to my first 10 lb goal. You know me, I lose gangbusters when I get going and stay on track. The hard part will be traveling to Indiana next month and staying as close as I can to my diet. The hotel we are staying at gave me a deal where we get free hot cooked breakfast and we have stayed at this chain many times so I know I can get oatmeal, cold cereal, fresh fruit, toast or bagels, and prepared eggs or omelets. I will just have to stay away from the bacon, sausage, and sweets. The baseball park is going to be tough I know as I am always tempted by ballpark hot dogs, but I will work it out. I want to be down way over 100 lbs by December of next year for the cruise so I have to keep at it and not get sidetracked no matter what.
I better get going and get my morning chores started and then get some breakfast in me. This morning is hard boiled egg, blueberries and a slice of toast. I am going to put together Maggie's soup today and have that for lunch so I better hop to it I guess so it can cook for awhile. Have a great weekend all! Faye