Meals for the Day - 03/09/08
Another Zone bar, this time paired with a small glass of skim milk. You know, that whole “let’s increase the calories” idea I’ve got going on. 
Breakfast: 300 calories, 7 grams fat, 38 grams carbs, 3 grams fiber, 22 grams protein
Mmmm…banana. I’d been skipping bananas in favor of pineapple for a few weeks because bananas are so much higher in calories. That said, the potassium is super great for you. Plus, I just flat out like bananas. So when the Elnora decided she didn’t want to eat the banana I’d just peeled for her, I figured it was a good morning snack for me.
Snack: 105 calories, 0 grams fat, 27 grams carbs, 3 grams fiber, 1 gram protein
A super yummy salad for lunch. Skipped the apple this time and popped a bit of leftover pineapple in here. Also had some leftover chicken breast from the other night, so I chopped up half a cup of that and threw it on top.
Snack: 337 calories, 7 grams fat, 51 grams carbs, 12 grams fiber, 27 grams protein
After my massive snow shoveling workout (see below) I was famished. My salad at lunch had been on the light side and dinner was still a ways away, so I had a PB&J on whole grain oatmeal bread and another small glass of milk.
Dinner: 520 calories, 17 grams fat, 70 grams carbs, 6 grams fiber, 27 grams protein
It’s funny that on the day I decided to increase my calorie intake, my lunch and dinner ended up being really low calorie. On the plus side, that meant I got to eat lost of snacks and drink some of my beloved milk. Dinner tonight was scalloped potatoes, green beans and some turkey smoked sausage. It was the first time I’d bought the turkey smoked sausage and I was pretty amazed at how yummy it was.
Dinner: 385 calories, 15.5 grams fat, 35 grams carbs, 4 grams fiber, 20 grams protein
Yum! Dessert! Three mini blueberry muffins from the batch I made for Greg and the kids. No butter, but they were sweet enough they didn’t need them. (And no oil in the recipe, yay!)
Dessert: 150 calories, 4.5 grams fat, 25 grams carbs, 1 gram fiber, 2 grams protein
Daily Total: 1797 calories, 51 grams fat, 246 grams carbs, 29 grams fiber, 99 grams protein
Exercise: Once again, I knew I wasn’t going to make it to the gym. On the other hand, I remembered how many calories I could burn while shoveling snow after my little “dig out” incident yesterday. While Greg had plowed the driveway, he hadn’t done the sidewalks, nor had he dug his truck out yet. So, I dug out his truck, shoveled more than 50 yards of sidewalk and cleared a path to the mailbox for the mail truck. Since we had 18″ of wet snow, it took me a good 80 minutes of solid work. Something tells me my shoulders will hate me tomorrow. Calories burned: 768
Net Total: 1797 calories - 768 calories = 1029 calories
March 10th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I think I will do our sidewalk today while Catie sleeps. Since I’ve already done 20min on elliptical, it should be a good day. I was set to show a healthy (not) gain today at my weigh in, but it was cancelled, so I’m getting motivated to show a loss by next Monday.
My arms are sore from shoveling our driveway, but not crazy sore like I feared.
I gained 5lbs this week from bloating and horrible eating.
I’ll quit typing now.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Does that oatmeal bread have wheat in it?
March 10th, 2008 at 11:42 am
yes