The evening meal was supposed to just be the shrimp and the snow peas, but sometime in the late afternoon I decided it needed a little pasta with it. So I dropped part of my afternoon snack and added that pasta. It’s funny, but I added 2 oz for two servings and it really was enough. So I actually ended up a little light on calories for the day so I added an apple to my evening snack. That’s what I like about FitDay (the PC version). I can copy/paste things in and planning the day’s meals are quick and easy. I took a few minutes and planned tomorrow’s meals (even though I haven’t had the last of my snack today). And like today, a last minute change can be quickly figured out.
I know, I know, I should be able to do these things without the software. I’m willing to admit that I need the software. It keeps me on track, and that’s a good thing. I’ve also decided not to work on the new lunches until I’m closer to having the soups used up. I also think it’s probably a good idea to make sure I have room in the freezer for things that I purchase, so I think I’ll let it empty out for a bit first. I didn’t do the baking today either for the same reason. There’s lots of the small sweet breads for breakfast, as well as a half loaf of the cracked wheat oatmeal bread. It can wait until next weekend (at least).
Also, the last boysenberry clump is out. Hooray! I’ll send them off to their new home tomorrow. I tied up the ones we’re keeping today, as well as the raspberries. I also took great big hunks off the grape vine even though it’s not the best time to prune it. It was in three feet of snow when I wanted to do it and it was just far to overgrown to leave. When I was finished the male cardinal came down and sat on the vine and chirped at me. I think he was concerned. The cardinals sometimes get more grapes than we do. I think it was a couple of years ago, but I was checking the fruit and found the mother cardinal in the vine with the baby. It was like ’see, here’s the yummy fruit we can eat in a week or so’. And I found the gooseberry bush behind the boysenberries. It’s actually in pretty good shape, although I need to go look out my pruning book and prune it back. It’s been fighting for survival and it’s huge, so I’ll likely trim it back. Since we don’t plan to put much into the bed that was cleaned out I suspect we’ll add another gooseberry bush.
From the HRM (just showing that I did make up my 30 mins from yesterday):
| Exercise | Time | Cals | Max HR | Avg HR | Max % | Avg % |
| Treadmill | 0:30:00 | 296 | 147 | 135 | 83 | 76 |
Food for the day:
Food: 2412 (31% fat, 37% carbs, 30% protein)
Breakfast: egg white/egg omelet with cheese, pecan cherry bread, jam, grapefruit (476)
AM Snack: almonds (164)
Lunch: onion soup with whole wheat baguette and cheese, smoked turkey, apple (563)
PM Snack: soy nuts (134)
Dinner: shrimp with citrus/wine sauce, snow peas, whole wheat pasta, salad w/dressing (692)
Late Snack: protein shake, apple, fruit salad, biscotti (383)