MARCYINCNY1's Feb 2008 CalorieKing Blog
Question:
Friday, February 8th 2008
If it doesn't have a nutritional label is it 'free'?
I've been eating little pieces of this lately, a very pure chocolate, no additional cocoa butter, just a little cane sugar, so it's more like a pressed cocoa powder which would be about 100 calories/25g rather than a chocolate bar, 150-180 calories/25g. Regardless, I haven't been logging it.
90% Plantations Arriba 100g Bar. 100% Arriba Cocoa, Rainforest Alliance Certified, Sustainable Cocoa Program. Grown only in Ecuador, ...
Blood Oranges
Thursday, February 7th 2008
I guess I should admit to myself that I'm actually maintaining my weight right now, not losing any of the last 4-5 pounds. I feel good about where I am so I think I'll just hold steady until the weather warms up and I can get out on my bikes and work in the yard & garden. I would like to get my BMI down to 22 before I turn 60 in June but I'll have time this spring and now I know how to do it.I've come to this realization, in part because of the blood oranges.
We've been ...
What a Mess
Wednesday, February 6th 2008
We've been getting rain instead of snow so I was expecting mud when I got to the park yesterday but, no, the trails were covered with thick ice. I didn't have my YakTrax but I was able to find decent footing on the edges of the trails except for few places. On the steep decent to Round Lake I finally fell, going down hard on my butt where I used to have a nice layer of protective padding. No damage, just some stiffness between my shoulder blades from bracing myself to avoid hitting my head....
No Real Choice
Tuesday, February 5th 2008
It's 10:30 and I still don't know if I'm going to vote today or not. The candidates for whom I could have voted are out and I don't support either of the remaining two. I find it hard to grasp the fact that I'm even considering NOT voting but if I do vote it will be against the one, not for the other and I hate to vote that way...
A Gentle Nudge?
Monday, February 4th 2008
If we all spent as much time reading nutrition labels as experts tell us to, supermarkets would have to start installing more cushy chairs and coffee bars than Barnes & Noble. Which may be what inspired two gods of healthy eating Harvard's legendary nutrition guru, Walter Willett, MD, and Mollie Katzen, author of the groundbreaking Moosewood cookbook to name names in their latest book, "Eat, Drink, and Weigh Less".
The book lists brands for the foods that make gr...