MARCYINCNY2's CalorieKing Blog
Valentine's Day
Tuesday, February 16th 2010
It wasn't really about Valentine's Day it was about being offered a place to stay for a weekend in NYC so we ended up spending the holiday seeing some very un-Valentine productions: another Arthur Miller play and "Carmen" at the Met.I have mixed feelings about big-name film actors being used to drum up business for Broadway but there wasn't anything else we really wanted to see. As it turned out it was one of the best things we've seen onstage.
I didn't even tr...
Lindt Creation 70%
Sunday, February 7th 2010
I'd be a lot closer to my goal if it weren't for the chocolate. Usually I eat plain dark chocolate but my nephew brought some Lindt chocolate at Christmas including my first taste of Lindt Creation 70% Cherry & Chili. I can get it locally and I think I've eaten one square everyday since. Very nice.Yesterday I peeked in the Lindt store at the mall and found this:
Fortunately it's more expensive and I don't get to this mall very often......
Embraces Broken and Otherwise
Friday, February 5th 2010
I think I've slipped into a kind of maintenance without consciously intending to do so. I've been logging my meal plan every morning (sticking pretty closely to it but not always going back to add the extra nuts or piece of bread) and I've maintained or increased my level of activity but I'm just not spending a lot of time thinking about diet and exercise. No real change in my weight: 143 to 145.Yesterday I did stick to my meal plan but I used the only listing from the database I could fin...
Phooey
Tuesday, January 26th 2010
My first Zumba class was canceled this morning. I was really looking forward to it and hoping it would kick my metabolism up a notch. Not that it still won't; I signed up for a second class on Fridays.I'm also not happy about not having much in the way of canned tomatoes left in the cellar, last year being The Summer of Slugs and Blight. Yesterday I used some commercially canned tomatoes in a pot of spaghetti sauce in the hope that our exposure to BPA is otherwise low.
I hope this sum...
Can We Program Ourselves To Be Fat?
Wednesday, January 20th 2010
Eating lots of cheeseburgers, fries, and sugary snacks makes people gain weightbut not, new research shows, just because these foods are so high in calories. A high-fat, high-sugar diet, say Washington University scientists, changes the balance of bacteria in the gut, and effectively programs peoples digestive systems to make them fat. The human intestinal tract has two main types of bacteria that help us digest food: Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes. Research has shown that peopleand m...