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Daily Food Diary – Day 277 of 365

by annemariedemyen, posted in 2025, Health and Fitness

Today is Day 277 of my Daily Food Diary.  😍

Today is Sunday and my husband Dan is out picking up a few groceries.  Yesterday,  he did likewise.  Yesterday, we even went through the fliers together before he went.  I showed him that one store had bags of Halloween Candy on sale.  One brand contained  Reese’s Peanut Butter cups, Oh Henry’s, plus three types of candy that I wouldn’t eat, even if it was leftover.  So.. relatively safe. Right?

He came home with three bags of Halloween candy – all the same – all with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups…..

Basically, I will have one full bag of Peanut Butter Cups and Oh Henry Bars if we get our typical handful of Trick and Treaters…

But it gets better.  He hid them so I would not be sneaking any before Halloween (to save them for any possible Trick or Treaters).   Great idea, EXCEPT…

He hid them behind a bag of potato chips. 😳

There was another bag of chips on this side of the Doritos, but still…

Between Thanksgiving and Halloween, this could be a rough month for my Daily Food Diary. 

Daily Food Diary – Day 277

Breakfast:

(1) c coffee (2)

(1) c Protein Oatmeal Crisp (180)

(1/4) c milk (28)

Lunch:

(1/2) c beef broth (15)

Snacks:

(1) Mott’s Clamato Caesar (168)

(1/4) c mixed nuts (180)

Supper:

(1) chicken burger: sourdough bun, butter, chicken patty, havarti cheese, mushrooms, onion (517)

(25) barbecue chips (260)

(1) pc puffed wheat cake (130)

Total consumed calories: 1480

Total used calories: 176

(30) min aerobics (176)

Total net calories: 1304

Net calorie goal: 1229 – 1304 = 75 over 👍

That’s it for today. Take care and have a great day! 😃💗

Oh, oh..Now look what he bought me while I was sitting here picking on him.   Thank you, Dear… For ALWAYS doing the shopping and for always thinking of me and for buying me chocolate and flowers.  💞🤗

Daily Food Diary – Day 129 of 365

by annemariedemyen, posted in 2025, Health and Fitness

It is 129 days since I started my Daily Food Diary.  It is 9 days since I started tracking the  saturated fats that I consume each day, and yesterday was the 1st day that I met my daily saturated fats goal.  Whoo Hoo! 🌹

Yesterday was the second day of taking the extra medications that my respiratory specialist prescribed for me on Thursday.  They have already been kicking in – for better and worse.

The sinus spray seems to have been a good call.  I don’t know about doing it indefinitely.  I have to begin the process by using my Neti Pot to rinse my sinuses and then follow up with the spray.  I know people do a heck of a lot more to maintain their health, but seriously Everyday indefinitely! 🙄

The antibiotics hit me hard on the first dose, but they seem to have settled down and my lungs seem to be clearing up.

Yesterday, the Prednisone kicked in.  The side effects can range anywhere from lethargy, moodiness, to super hyper Good Year Bunny mode.  Yesterday, I went with Good Year Bunny Mode. 

I got in an intense aerobic workout, went for a walk with Dan & Molly – and hit the kitchen.

I had found that the baked beans I made a few days ago were a bit bland, so I called daughter Jen to see if she was up to splitting a roaster of Smoked Baked Beans for supper.  The brown beans we had left over called for – two large cans of kidney beans, two large onions, two pounds of bacon, two pounds of ground beef,  two cups of ketchup,  one cup of brown sugar, and a couple of tablespoons of liquid smoke.  Dan and I would have been eating beans for a month.

Jen was up for an easy supper, so I started that.  Then she called to say that her fiance  would appreciate Puffed Wheat Cake for dessert.  And… I couldn’t make Tanner Puffed Wheat Cake without sending Prim and Maddy  Rice Krispy Marshmallow Squares.  (The Puffed Wheat and marshmallows meant a quick jog to Freshco a few blocks from us).

Fortunately, Dan was home and chopped up the bacon and onions for the beans, washed  all the dishes, and packaged up the deserts.  I made it through the entire adventure without breaking the burn blisters on my hands from the muffin incident a few days ago.

By the time I went to bed, the Prednisone high was wearing down so after a couple of hours of Prednisone paranoia I did get a pretty decent sleep.

Only eight more days of antibiotics and Prednisone. 😊

Daily Food Diary – Day 129

Breakfast:

(1) c coffee (2)

(1) oatmeal bran apple muffin (164) (.6 grams)

(1) tsp butter (34) (2.3 grams)

Snacks:

(30) oz water

(1) c Lemon Ginger tea

(1) Mango (135)  (.1 gram)

Supper:

(1) Paratha (240) (1 gram)

(1 1/2) c Smoked baked beans (532) (7.9 grams)

Total net calories: 838

Net calorie goal: 1243 – 838 = 405 under 👍

Total saturated fats: 11.9 grams

Saturated fats goal:  <13.75 grams 👍

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