Author: annemariedemyen

It is 224 days since I started posting my Daily Food Diary. That is a full 32 WEEKS! 🌹

You would think for such a notable day, that I would have done better for my diet yesterday. 

Net calorie wise, I actually did.  When I subtract the calories used I only use exercise – walking, aerobics, weights and cardio.  Yesterday, I walked with Molly and Dan and I did my aerobics.  It wasn’t a weight/cardio day, but I used a LOT of calories cleaning house.  Our house wasn’t that dirty, but I was clearing out our spare room and one thing led to another. (Including but not limited to: laundry – several trips up and down the basement stairs, dusting living room shelves and  rearranging  elephants, repacking Dan’s Mother’s china, hanging a couple of paintings, and cleaning out, sorting, and rearranging one kitchen drawer). 

Totally off topic here: Pet peeve time – This morning I caught a news blurb about how extreme heat is detrimental to one’s mental health.  After noting a couple of  ways that one can  help themselves, family, or neighbours during a heal spell, the experts have decided that our provincial and federal governments should be held accountable for providing extensive mental healthcare for people during such times. 

I agree that mental healthcare should be available and accessible to people when they need it.  Absolutely! 

But I am really tired of hearing how we as Canadians are too pathetic to deal with any and every challenge in our lives without government intervention.

On another topic (sort of), it reminds me of my son Dan’s Two Year checkup with the health nurse.   She was asking him a few random questions,  for whatever reason.   A couple of questions in, she asked him what his mother would tell him to do if he was cold.  Without hesitation, he said “She would tell me to put on my damn sweater”.   The nurse laughed and then she asked “What would your Mother tell you to do if you were hungry?”

In retrospect maybe I have never been into coddling people,  but I can’t imagine what good can come of constantly being told that our physical, mental, emotional, and  financial well-being should be the responsibility of our various levels of government.  🤦

* And for the record, all three of my kids have turned out relatively responsible and self sufficient.

Daily Food Diary – Day 224

Breakfast:

(1) c coffee (2)

(1) sausage patty (150)

(1) cheese biscuit (151)

(1) egg (72)

(1) oz marble cheese (113)

(2) tsp butter (68)

Lunch:

(1) c homemade soup – white, red, green orange  (125)

Supper:

(1) Taco Time Mexi-fries (265)

(2) hard shell tacos – green, red, white (520)

(1) crisp meat burrito (428)

Total net calories: 1624

Net calorie goal: 1222 – 1624 = 403 over 👎

That’s it for today. Take care and have a great day! 💖😊