Sandy701's Journal, 05 Dec 10

It's been a busy weekend. Saturday I walked 3.8 miles in anticipation of taking today off. It was pretty nice out and the neighborhood was quiet with most people off to a local Christmas parade.

In the afternoon, I tackled leaves in the gutter by climbing a ladder with the leaf blower and managed to send most of the leaves onto me!!! I had intended on raking up the leaves that had fallen on the ground in the last week or so to keep things tidy and make it easier to clean up after my dogs. But the gutter leaves had fallen into a landscape bed and so I went to work on the shrubs there, cleaning out the leaves, raking, digging up weeds, pruning, etc. I even unearthed a landscape barrier! And, I found a brand new, still-in-a-wrapper foam kneeling pad! I had a feeling nothing had been done with these beds for years and I believe that even more now, after the work I did. I worked way past sundown and also managed to get the steaks grilled in the dark. All in all, it was a very pleasant day to work outside.

Today, it was much colder due to a front going through. DH took the dogs out and cut short the walk because it was so blustery. Church was fine and we found out our congregation put together 982 boxes for Operation Christmas Child this year, an increase of 80 boxes over last year! It's a big congregation, but I had written that I was worried that there might be a decrease this year due to the economy and the smaller promotional efforts. Glad to see my worry was unfounded!!

DH has been celebrating his passing of the PT test on Friday and has gone off Atkins until he's not really sure when. Nothing he's doing really tempts me; just makes preparing meals and grocery shopping more challenging. Hope he decides what he's going to do before next week's shopping trip.

Today, I'm higher than usual in calories due to revisiting the calories in a chicken leg quarter and eating the last of the Thanksgiving dessert. I actually input the Nutrition Facts from the bag of leg quarters I buy and did the math to find that the leg quarters are in the 600-calorie range, not the 200 or so calories I've been using for these past few months. I have NO idea how ANY chicken leg quarter could contain so few calories and I probably should have realized the error earlier. The only database entry I found for plain chicken leg quarters gave me the 200 or so calorie figure for 1 leg quarter. When you look at the info for a chicken leg, a chicken thigh and a back portion, you can see there's no way the leg quarter can be only 200 or so calories.

So, because the leg quarters are a staple for us on Sundays these days, it seems my calories will tend to the high side on those days. Although I split up the Thanksgiving dessert in my food diary, I actually ate it all around 2:30 and only ate the smaller amount of steak at about 7. I'll be lucky if my weight stays the same for tomorrow....will just have to wait and see.

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1646 kcal

Fat: 125.95g | Prot: 101.54g | Carbs: 25.94g.   Breakfast: Brown Sugar & Honey Breakfast Sausage, Kraft/Borden/Cooper shredded colby/Mexican cheese, Pieces & Stems Mushrooms, scrambled eggs. Lunch: pure vanilla extract, Heavy Whipping Cream (3/4 cup), Torani sugar free caramel syrup, Splenda (1 tbsp), Libby's canned pumpkin (15 oz can), Jello Sugar Free Cheesecake Pudding Mix, ginger, cinnamon, Cream Cheese, chicken leg quarter. Dinner: beef strip steak, pure vanilla extract, Torani sugar free caramel syrup, Splenda (1 tbsp), Libby's canned pumpkin (15 oz can), Jello Sugar Free Cheesecake Pudding Mix, ginger, cinnamon, Cream Cheese. Snacks/Other: Land O'Lakes sugar free whipped cream, pure vanilla extract, Heavy Whipping Cream (3/4 cup), Torani sugar free caramel syrup, Splenda (1 tbsp), Libby's canned pumpkin (15 oz can), Jello Sugar Free Cheesecake Pudding Mix, ginger, cinnamon, Cream Cheese. more...

2022 kcal

Exercise: Resting - 16 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...