When your Lexus paint job matches the trim on your house.
In other news, it was a lovely weekend. A number of my friends including HZ were boozing it up at a conference in our nation’s capital so I decided to stay home and workout like a crazy person.
Friday:
an hour on a kayak
an hour on a bike (stationary)
Saturday:
an hour on a bike (stationary)
Sunday:
75 mins on a bike (stationary)
Also includes miscellanous presses, pulldowns, evil situps, etc.
Total weight loss from Thurs- Mon? ZIP.
Thank you diet plateau, you can kiss my butt.
I also bought this little gem:
The 2009 Calorie King book (pocket sized) with updated fast food sections. After my disastrous Baja Chicken Burrito (800 cals, 2100 mg sodium) from a couple weeks ago I decided to go with the Boy Scout strategy of preparedness. I’m not foolish enough to say I’ll never eat out. I love eating out. I just need to know what exactly I’m eating so I can be aware of it.
The Calorie King further endeared himself to me when he listed the Costco Food Court as a fast food establishment and told me how much Herbrew National Hot Dogs are (trust me, you don’t want to know). I still heart Costco.
Shall I tell you the one thing I read that froze my innards?
“Allow for extra calories in packaged food. The actual weight of packaged food is usually 5-10% more then the label net weight (the minimum legal weight)- and in some cases up to 50% more.
What does that mean? (there was an example) Let’s say you’re road tripping and buy a prepackaged “glazed honey bun” from the local 7-11. The package is listed as 2.7 ounces. You flip the package over and it tells you there is one serving size 2.7 ounces and it’s a certain number of calories. It turns out if you had weighed that honey bun it could even be 3.6 oz. That totally changes your calorie count.
(I apologize if your innards have frozen also. I recommend a strong cup of black coffee as a solution).
This leaves me with one thought.
IS NOTHING SACRED? I just always assumed there was some legal requirement for this kind of thing. Aren’t nutritional labels supposed to be SEMI-accurate?
As for the book itself, I had an older edition and liked it a lot. It lists calories, fat and carbs. I wish it also listed protein but you can’t win ’em all. The great part is it’s a little book so you can keep it in your car’s glove box for dining out emergencies or (if you’re really OCD) in your purse. I bought mine yesterday and haven’t decided where it will live just yet. LOL.
I might need one of those new-fangled digital scales after all. Damn.
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Dammit! I had a whole paragraph typed about how I wasn’t going to obsess over calories and portion sizes, when my little voice inside reminded me that maybe that’s why I haven’t lost any weight either.
Dammit!
Okay, that was not good news!
But, I did buy my first digital scale the weekend before last. Kind of hard to say it’s off when it gives you a number and not just pointing around a number, if you know what I mean.