Food & Exercise -- 8/7/2004 to 8/13/2004

Well, here's the data for the week I spent in North Carolina. Rather
more food and less exercise than usual. There were some good reasons
for both, though, and I don't feel any fatter :-). The calories
weren't way over budget but the food choices weren't always too great.
(If you read this, you may note all the chocolates. My mother likes
to eat one or two a couple of times a day, and given that her appetite
had faded away to almost nothing, and her weight had dropped from
around 107 to around 102, I was buying whatever she would be tempted
to eat. And of course I joined her :-) .) Anyway, here's the data:

Food:

Saturday, 8/7:

8:30 (driving): ready-to-drink chocolate protein shake
10:30 (driving): 1 oz. mixed nuts
12:30 (restaurant): 7 fried oysters; 3 oz. green beans; 1/2 cup
applesauce
2:30 (driving): 2 pieces string cheese
3:30 (driving): 1 oz. mixed nuts
6:30 (retirement home dining room): 6 oz. wine; 2 flatbread crackers
w/ butter; tomato & mozzarella salad w/ 1 tbsp Italian dressing; 3 oz.
veal saltimbocca; 1/4 baked potato w/ butter; 2 oz. asparagus; small
piece apple streusel pie

Totals: 2023 calories (129 from wine), 90g fat, 162g carbs, 109g
protein

Averages for week ending 8/7: 1577 calories, 29% fat, 39% carbs, 33%
protein

Sunday, 8/8:

9:00 (retirement home breakfast buffet): 2/3 cup oatmeal; 6 oz.
cranberry juice; 2/3 cup fresh fruit
10:30 (running errands): apple
12:30 (Mom's apt.): 2/3 cup clam soup (homemade -- just clams, milk,
butter); 6 saltines; 1 bite-sized chocolate
5:30 (retirement home Sunday dinner buffet): 1 cup salad w/ 1 tbsp
Italian dressing; 1 oz. roast turkey; 1 oz. roast beef; 2 oz. baked
salmon; 1 cup mashed potatoes w/ turkey gravy; 1/3 piece each of
carrot cake, chocolate mousse cake, and lemon meringue pie
11:00 (apt.): 1 chocolate; 1/2 oz. mixed nuts

Totals: 1579 calories, 66g fat (38%), 198g carbs (50%), 52g protein
(13%)

Monday, 8/9:

8:00 (breakfast buffet): 2/3 cup oatmeal w/ 4 chopped dates; 6 oz.
cranberry juice; 2/3 cup fresh fruit
12:00 (apt.): 2/3 cup clam soup; 3 saltines; 1 chocolate
3:00 (apt.): 2 string cheese; 1/2 oz. mixed nuts
5:30 (retirement home grill room): 4 oz. wine; dinner roll w/ butter;
1 cup French onion soup; 3 oz. grilled tuna; 3 oz. broccoli
7:00 (apt.): 1 chocolate
11:00 (apt.): 1 chocolate

Totals: 1194 calories (86 from wine), 40g fat (30%), 144g carbs (48%),
56g protein (19%)

Tuesday, 8/10:

8:30 (breakfast buffet): 2/3 cup oatmeal w/ 5 chopped dates; 2/3 cup
mixed citrus fruit
12:00 (apt.): 1 can tuna mixed w/ 3 tbs. f/f ranch dressing; 1
chocolate
4:00 (apt.): 1 chocolate; 1 oz. mixed nuts
6:30 (seafood restaurant); 7 oz. wine; 7 fried oysters; 5 oz. grilled
salmon; 2 hushpuppies
11:00 (apt.): 1 chocolate

Totals: 1503 calories (150 from wine); 57g fat (34%), 123g carbs
(33%), 94g protein (25%)

Wednesday, 8/11:

8:30 (breakfast buffet): 2/3 cup oatmeal w/ 1 tbsp raisins; 1 peach
12:00 (apt.): 1 can tuna mixed w/ 3 tbs. f/f ranch dressing; 2 fried
oysters; 2 hushpuppies (the latter items are restaurant leftovers)
2:00 (apt.): 1 chocolate
4:00 (apt.): 1 oz. mixed nuts
6:00 (grill room): 4 oz. wine; dinner roll w/ butter; 1 cup French
onion soup; 2 oz. grilled shrimp; 4 oz. whipped sweet potato
11:00 (apt.): 2 chocolates

Totals: 1336 calories (86 from wine): 47g fat (31%), 149g carbs (45%),
71g protein (21%)

Thursday, 8/12:

8:00 (breakfast buffet): 2/3 cup oatmeal w/ 1 tbsp raisins; 1 peach
12:30 (apt.): 2/3 cup clam soup; 6 saltines; 1 chocolate; 1/3 oz.
mixed nuts
3:00 (apt.): 1 string cheese
4:00 (apt.) 1/2 oz. mixed nuts
6:30 (dining room): 4 oz. wine; 1 cup tossed salad w/ 1 tbsp Italian
dressing; 3 oz. calves liver; 3 oz. broccoli; 1/2 cup mashed potatoes;
1/4 cup vanilla ice cream w/ 1/2 tbsp caramel topping
11:00 (apt.): 2 chocolates

Totals: 1318 calories (86 from wine), 69g fat (40%), 140g carbs (43%),
51g protein (16%)

Friday, 8/13:

8:30 (breakfast buffet): 2/3 cup oatmeal w/ 4 chopped dates; 2/3 cup
mixed citrus fruit
10:30 (driving): 1 oz. mixed nuts
11:30 (driving): 1 string cheese
12:00 (driving): 3 oz. ham
3:00 (driving): energy bar
5:00 (driving): 1 oz. mixed nuts
7:00 (home): 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese
11:45 (home): 1 cup f/f Greek yogurt

Totals: 1327 calories, 54g fat (36%), 123g carbs (37%), 94g protein
(28%)

Exercise:

Tuesday: 30 minutes on treadmill: 3 x (1 minute each at 4.2, 4.4, 4.6,
4.8, 5.0, 5.2. 5.4, 5.6, 5.8, 6.0) {pretty hard}

Wednesday: 30 minutes on treadmill: 15 x (1 minute at 6.0, 1 minute at
2.0) {pretty easy}

That was it, other than miscellaneous errand running (and a certain
amount of stress:-) ).

I did find time for some clothes shopping -- bought nothing bigger
than a size 8, and several 6s :-).

Chris
262/143/ (145-150)

Chris Braun wrote in alt.support.diet on Sun, 15 Aug 2004:

I did find time for some clothes shopping -- bought nothing bigger
than a size 8, and several 6s :-).

Goodness, aren't you lucky! Even when I was very thin, as a young
adult, I could never fit into anything smaller than a size 14 UK, which
is a US size 10-12. Now I am UK size 18 (US 14-16), but I know that
even if I were to get down to 65 kg (which I don't actually plan to), I
wouldn't drop more than 1 or at most 2 clothes sizes. Sigh. I'm very
broad-shouldered, you see, as are all the family.
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/88.5/80kg

Chris Braun wrote in alt.support.diet on Sun, 15 Aug 2004:

I did find time for some clothes shopping -- bought nothing bigger
than a size 8, and several 6s :-).

Goodness, aren't you lucky! Even when I was very thin, as a young
adult, I could never fit into anything smaller than a size 14 UK, which
is a US size 10-12. Now I am UK size 18 (US 14-16), but I know that
even if I were to get down to 65 kg (which I don't actually plan to), I
wouldn't drop more than 1 or at most 2 clothes sizes. Sigh. I'm very
broad-shouldered, you see, as are all the family.
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/88.5/80kg

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:00:58 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote:

Chris Braun wrote in alt.support.diet on Sun, 15 Aug 2004:

I did find time for some clothes shopping -- bought nothing bigger
than a size 8, and several 6s :-).

Goodness, aren't you lucky! Even when I was very thin, as a young
adult, I could never fit into anything smaller than a size 14 UK, which
is a US size 10-12. Now I am UK size 18 (US 14-16), but I know that
even if I were to get down to 65 kg (which I don't actually plan to), I
wouldn't drop more than 1 or at most 2 clothes sizes. Sigh. I'm very
broad-shouldered, you see, as are all the family.

I'm actually very broad-shouldered as well (and muscular, because of
the weight lifting), but mostly that just limits the kinds of tops I
will wear.

When I was in college (in the late 1960s) and at about the same weight
as I am now, I generally wore a size 12. It's not so much that I'm
smaller now, but that clothing sizes have changed over time. I expect
today's size 8 is more like a 1960s size 12. So you may surprise
yourself if you get to 65kg :-). I know it was a surprise to me; I
always said I couldn't get below a 12 with my bone structure, but I
didn't know they were bigger now.

Yesterday while shopping (you may note that I've become a shopaholic
:-) ) I actually had to regretfully put back a jacket and pants that I
loved because the 8 was a little too big, and they didn't have
anything smaller!

Chris
262/143/ (145-150)

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:00:58 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote:

Chris Braun wrote in alt.support.diet on Sun, 15 Aug 2004:

I did find time for some clothes shopping -- bought nothing bigger
than a size 8, and several 6s :-).

Goodness, aren't you lucky! Even when I was very thin, as a young
adult, I could never fit into anything smaller than a size 14 UK, which
is a US size 10-12. Now I am UK size 18 (US 14-16), but I know that
even if I were to get down to 65 kg (which I don't actually plan to), I
wouldn't drop more than 1 or at most 2 clothes sizes. Sigh. I'm very
broad-shouldered, you see, as are all the family.

I'm actually very broad-shouldered as well (and muscular, because of
the weight lifting), but mostly that just limits the kinds of tops I
will wear.

When I was in college (in the late 1960s) and at about the same weight
as I am now, I generally wore a size 12. It's not so much that I'm
smaller now, but that clothing sizes have changed over time. I expect
today's size 8 is more like a 1960s size 12. So you may surprise
yourself if you get to 65kg :-). I know it was a surprise to me; I
always said I couldn't get below a 12 with my bone structure, but I
didn't know they were bigger now.

Yesterday while shopping (you may note that I've become a shopaholic
:-) ) I actually had to regretfully put back a jacket and pants that I
loved because the 8 was a little too big, and they didn't have
anything smaller!

Chris
262/143/ (145-150)

Chris Braun wrote:

Yesterday while shopping (you may note that I've become a shopaholic
:-) ) I actually had to regretfully put back a jacket and pants that I
loved because the 8 was a little too big, and they didn't have
anything smaller!

Ahh, the problem we never expected! VBG

--
Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

Chris Braun wrote:

Yesterday while shopping (you may note that I've become a shopaholic
:-) ) I actually had to regretfully put back a jacket and pants that I
loved because the 8 was a little too big, and they didn't have
anything smaller!

Ahh, the problem we never expected! VBG

--
Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

On 15 Aug 2004 14:28:35 GMT, SnugBear wrote:

Chris Braun wrote:

Yesterday while shopping (you may note that I've become a shopaholic
:-) ) I actually had to regretfully put back a jacket and pants that I
loved because the 8 was a little too big, and they didn't have
anything smaller!

Ahh, the problem we never expected! VBG

Boy, is that ever the truth! It still seems ludicrous, honestly. But
there are brands I used to like (probably because they ran big :-) )
where all the sizes are now too big for me. (We are talking here
about brands that cater primarily to middle-aged ladies, I think.)

Chris
262/143/ (145-150)

On 15 Aug 2004 14:28:35 GMT, SnugBear wrote:

Chris Braun wrote:

Yesterday while shopping (you may note that I've become a shopaholic
:-) ) I actually had to regretfully put back a jacket and pants that I
loved because the 8 was a little too big, and they didn't have
anything smaller!

Ahh, the problem we never expected! VBG

Boy, is that ever the truth! It still seems ludicrous, honestly. But
there are brands I used to like (probably because they ran big :-) )
where all the sizes are now too big for me. (We are talking here
about brands that cater primarily to middle-aged ladies, I think.)

Chris
262/143/ (145-150)

Chris Braun wrote in alt.support.diet on Sun, 15 Aug 2004:


When I was in college (in the late 1960s) and at about the same weight
as I am now, I generally wore a size 12. It's not so much that I'm
smaller now, but that clothing sizes have changed over time. I expect
today's size 8 is more like a 1960s size 12. So you may surprise
yourself if you get to 65kg :-).

Yes, last time I got down to 10 stone 7 lb - can't think what that is in
kilos at the moment - I was surprised to find myself fitting into M&S
size 14 trousers. That was over ten years ago now.

I know it was a surprise to me; I
always said I couldn't get below a 12 with my bone structure, but I
didn't know they were bigger now.

Yesterday while shopping (you may note that I've become a shopaholic
:-) ) I actually had to regretfully put back a jacket and pants that I
loved because the 8 was a little too big, and they didn't have
anything smaller!

In one way, how very gratifying!
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/88.5/80kg