Sunday, March 22, 2009

An outside day...

We are LOVING the beautiful weather here! It has been so nice and *knock on wood* my typical allergies have not been bad at all! Whenever I think its starting to flare up, I take a Claritin redi-tab. I don't know if those are what is doing it, but I'm so not complaining. They've really been mild.

Today at my grandma's, we ran around outside for several hours. D got a new toy bat and ball, and we spent some time working on D's swing. Yeah, he misses a lot, but the little man sure tries!

I didn't eat breakfast today as usual for a sunday. Lunch was stroganoff (though I doubt it was beef, my grandma has been using elk meat in stroganoffs recently, and I also know its semi-low fat, as she doesn't use heavy anything), plus a salad with light ranch, a bit of cottage cheese, and a piece of cornbread with country crock. Dessert was those Little Debbie hearts. Dinner for us was chicken, mashed tatoes, and broccoli. Its becoming a pretty standard meal but I've got it down so its easy. I do vary what seasoning I put on the chicken. Sometimes its Tony Chacheres, sometimes zesty italian light dressing, sometimes worcestershire. Anyway you cook it, its YUM. Then tonite I was hungry and low on cals, so I had a waffle with a bit of light syrup to end my day at 1243 calories, though that might be a bit high as I don't think I calculated the stroganoff as accurately as it could have been. But better to overestimate than under.

Output today was the several hours playing outside and sweating. We had so much fun!

3 comments:

Jamie said...

You know I am not the calorie police. I am not even a calorie expert of any kind. But I have a question...Do you think you are getting enough? 1200 seems really low right now.

Brandie said...

Right now, I'm just playing it by ear each day, so its going to vary widely between 1200-1800 cals. If I feel satisfied, I'm happy with that for the day. Last week I consistently had between 1575 and 1780 cals, mainly around 1600, so I'm ok with a few 1200 days to keep it shook up. I'm glad people are checking up on me though...lol keeping me accountable...thanks!

gradtchr2 said...

Great job on playing outside that's always a fun way to get the exercise in!