Full Of Weekend

Saturday, January 2, 2016

It's going to take a few days to get used to writing 2016.  I'm sure that happens every year to everyone, but that's definitely the case for me this morning.  Anyway, I am super glad to still have a full weekend ahead after the holiday.  Lots to do but also time to relax and recharge.

Breakfast:  2 eggs fried in a bit of butter, 5 strips Hormel jalapeno bacon, Alexia hash browns in butter, coffee.  630 calories.

Variety is not exactly my middle name.  Then again, when it's good why change?

A repeat of yesterday, just with an odd slice of bacon.  I was trying to eyeball how much I had left, we'll find out tomorrow if I succeeded.  Plus, it's bacon.  Still quite good though with lots of seasoning it's an odd match with coffee.  I'll be having some water to clear the palate before having a fresh cup.

Lunch:  Turkey sandwich (Onion roll, butter, mustard, golden legacy turkey, slice cracker barrel sharp white cheddar), leftover vegetable noodle soup.  610 calories.

Yeah, I really need to work on my plating.  What can I say, I was hungry.

Soup was just as good the second day.  I added chicken to my grocery list so that I can make it again but with meat.  We'll see how well it sticks, I'm planning on a snack later.

Snack:  6 original Triscuits.  120 calories.

Not photographed.   Holiday leftovers.  For the calorie hit I could have had a sleeve of kettle corn.  Or maybe a couple pepperonis or something.  Went Triscuits.

Dinner:  Chicken soft tacos (4 Mission white corn tortillas, sous vide chicken seasoned with creole seasoning, lettuce, tomato, cheddar cheese, hot sauce and salsa verde).  750 calories

It's a big bowl of stuff.

This was okay, not great.  I might need to try searing the chicken to get the temperature up - I just like it to be hot.  The texture is great though, nice and juicy.  The other stuff was fine, just basics.  Anyway, it was plenty of food and I went from hungry to quite satiated.  I had planned to have avocado as well, but my avocado was too ripe.  Bummer.

Exercise:  And now for something different ... an evening walk!  1.9 miles, 44 minutes.  Stupid icy sidewalks.  I had a reason to go out and decided to walk it, pretty happy with that decision it was nice enough if a bit windy.  I talked myself out of going this morning and I only managed a third of a mile when I went and did a lap around the grocery store.  Too busy.

Total Calories:  2,110.  Right in the sweet spot between 2,000 and 2,400 (what can I say, I'm fat).  I wasn't too hungry, though it did seem like a long time between meals.  I assume that was more a factor of not having much to do, er, not doing much of anything than it was of being hungry.