Welcome to super hot Sunday edition! 101 degrees outside and everybody is inside. I mean everybody – Disney Plus and other streaming services are very slow, which I think means everyone is using them and not going outside. The pool across from me has “opened” but only a few people are there, or allowed there, because everyone still has to keep a distance, all the water features for kids are shut down, and it sounds like you can either swim laps, by appointment, or bob up and down a bit with your household. It sounds sad that the kids can’t run and play and splash and talk to each other. All the social distancing means half the fun of a pool is gone. The hot tubs are also closed – all that is left is lap swimming for exercise and bobbing up and down. This corona stuff can’t end soon enough.
But this blog is about a weight control journey. What does all that mean for weight control? Well, it means that for the last several months I haven’t been able to swim laps for exercise. Has it affected my ability to lose weight? I’m not sure. It has made me change my routine, and I liked swimming. I liked my old life, but things change.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – 8oz slow cooker Spanish tortilla (450); wheat wrap (110); mayonnaise (70);
- 630 calories
Lunch – Burrito bowl with 130g refried beans (100); 100g Mexican ground beef (280); 30g cheese (110); 2Tbsp sour cream (50);
- 510 calories
Dinner – 1/6 serving of slow cooker ziti, sausage, and cheese bake (520)
- 520 calories
Snacking – pretzels (50)
- 50 calories
Total for the day: 1710 calories (limit 1850)
That's not all
Probably I’ll have something later that will bring me closer to the daily limit of 1850 calories. A cold dessert? I do have some lovely Tilamook ice cream and some Snickers ice cream bars. We shall see. I do have some watermelon in the refrigerator. But the ice cream is very tempting. I like Tilamook’s vanilla flavors the best, especially toffee, but also their chocolate chip cookie dough. The cookies and cream was a bit dull.
It’s been a pretty good year for watermelon. I’ve bought five, and four of them were good to great. One was disappointing, no flavor or sweetness to it. I mostly buy the seedless ones, which are the most common now. I also bought cherries from Washington state, which were the best cherries I have had in a long time. All in all, it has been a good summer for every fruit I have tried, except strawberries. Blueberries in particular were cheap, abundant, and very good this year.
The hot week continues. I have planned to do slow cooker and outdoor cooking this week for dinners, with mostly cold breakfasts and lunches. It’s not as much fun and I don’t look forward to it as much as when I do more elaborate cooking, but things change. And it’s not forever.
This week I will have to put in some thought about what I want my life to look like. A large part of my weight control lifestyle is the vision and reality of the life I want to create. It can be a challenge. I lke a challenge.
-The Doctor