MARCYINCNY2's CalorieKing Blog
Time for New Jeans
Friday, April 30th 2010
Im firmly convinced one thing that undercut me and made it a lot easier to regain some of the weight I lost first time round was the fact that I continued to wear a lot of my old size 12 knock around clothes when I was quite comfortable in size 8. I guess this notion gives a new twist to the phrase, Penny wise and pound foolish.Next week, despite the fact that I really detest shopping, Im going out there to buy some new jeans and maybe a pair of khakis. Im about 12 pounds from my...
Honey Dijon
Wednesday, April 28th 2010
I think it's fair to say I ratchetted up my weight loss effort beginning on Saturday so now four days out I'm down to a weight I haven't seen in probably fifteen years, half a pound less than the low I hit first time 'round with CK in 2007. I'm going to try to keep it close to the bone for at least another week, try to get to 136/22.5 before I back off a bit.Meanwhile it snowed here yesterday, off and on all day. Some genius at Wayside Gardens thought it was a good idea to ship bare root r...
The Time Has Come
Monday, April 26th 2010
Alright then, I'm tired of seeing 140-whatever. More important the rhubarb is looking fabulous and rhubarb pie is going to be my reward for getting to this CK silver goal of 137. I can almost taste it...
So this week I'm going commando.
I will log every morsel.
I will eat no more than an average of 1150 calories.
I will keep my net calories at an average 650. (But I will exercise 500 calories/day off the books because although every weight loss program I've ever come ...
Out, Out Damned Bittercress
Sunday, April 25th 2010
It's back to trying to figure out exercise calories for yard & garden work. I spent a lot of time yesterday pulling the bane of my gardening existence, lesser bittercress.
The CalorieKing manager list 6 cal/minute for weeding but as I've said before, I don't buy it. That's more than walking at a moderate pace. Weeding for me is usually sitting on an overturned bucket and pulling weeds out by the roots. If that kind of weeding really burned 6 cal/minute I would never have gained a...
Odds & Ends
Saturday, April 24th 2010
To address some questions that have come up:The flavor of ramps is much like that of leeks but stronger and fresh wild ramps often have some additional layers of herbal flavors.
And someone asked about my Matcha marshmallows. They look much better before I give them a few seconds in the microwave oven and mix them into the yogurt at which point they look pretty disgusting.
