Jumping Jacks: thou art my nemesis

I've decided to expand a bit on my food entries by including calorie info as that's mainly what I'm watching. I'll preface this new addition by saying: I am keenly aware that it's all estimates for the most part. I'm no dummy. A bag of chips has x amount of calories per x amount of chips but not every chip is uniformly shaped to be the exact same size. What a restaurant has listed as it's calories for joe bob's pasta surprise isn't going to be exact. Maybe the person plating was feeling generous that day. All of this to say that again, it's all estimates. I feel like if I'm in the ball park for what I'm shooting for then I'm good.

On to today's food ;)



B - medium banana (105 cals) on 2 slices light Nature's Own whole wheat (80 cals for both) and a smear of peanut butter (100 cals). I have to expand on this a bit. I major big puffy heart peanut butter, but the combo of peanut butter and banana is crazy good. So yummy food that also happens to be a fruit, good source of potassium, fat, protein and grains all balled up into one sandwich that was only 285 calories is a winner for me.



L - Thai Kitchen pad thai noodles (390 cals) with 1/2 egg (36 cals)scrambled in. The box is 2 servings so the other half of the egg and the remainder of the noodles is put away for tomorrow. I typically add some onion and either shrimp or tofu to this but since I was out of shrimp and tofu and too lazy to cut up onion it was a simple meal, full of carbs and sodium but oh well. I also had 1 serving (1/2 cup) of Ben and Jerry's cherry garcia frozen yogurt (160 cals). I typically don't eat a dessert type food at lunch lately but today I was folding laundry and felt like snacking on something sweet and chocolatey.


Snack - my love, Lara bar apple pie flavored (180 cals). Cashew cookie is my fave but the grocery was out so I got some different flavors.


Dinner - Michelina's swedish meatballs (360 cals). Now I do tend to eat a lot of frozen dinners at night. It's just easier for the most part with my work hours and ease of preparing. I love frozen dinner swedish meatballs. I tried to make them homemade one time and it just wasn't the same. I'm all for the deliciousness of homemade food over frozen but not this time. Brought leftover Glory canned collard greens from Sunday and intended to only eat a cup or so but couldn't resist eating the whole danged bit. I had maybe a bit over 2 cups but to be on the safe side will say 3 (105 cals). Also had 2/3 serving Ghirardelli dark chocolate with raspberry filling (139 cals)


Snack - I will likely eat some colby cheese cubes for a snack and if I do it will be around 55 cals which is 1/2 serving



Total cals for the day if I calculated correctly, or if Fitday calculated correctly, 1704. I calorie cycle and my calorie goal for the day is 1876. I don't know if I've mentioned or not but I use Fitday.com to log calories and love it!


On to exercise~ Did Level 1 Day 2 of 30 day shred and while I survived it I am still sore from head, well neck, to toes, literally. I reference the jumping jacks in my post title because well, I suck at them. I am not able to get through all of them in this sequence but hope to be able to by the end of the 10 days. Further, I look forward to the day, if it ever arrives, that as I said in yesterday's post my arse and thighs jump in concert with me rather than independently of me. That being said, I've never been good at jumping jacks. I think they take some semblance of coordination which I lack and combine that with my being totally and utterly out of shape, doesn't make a good combo.



I.need.to.step.away.from.the.Pampered.Chef.catalogue. It is currently sitting here staring at me enticing me with it's sultry bowls, delectable utensils, curvacious pizza stones and sizzling cookware. I have never bought anything from it because one, I've never been to a party but two, it's danged expensive. The lady in my office who is hosting the party just told me that she's not doing it until end of September/beginning October so I have a few months to save up, seriously. We had a luncheon at work last week and one of the males that I work with brought in this awesome bowl that I'll add a pic of below (have yet to figure out how to insert pics in between text). I love the lid on it. He said if you put a salad in it a week later it's still just as crisp. I need this set. Need it. If I had the funds I could easily spend hundreds of dollars. Damn the lack of money. This has been an extremely long post so I'll end it now and maybe entice you as well into the devilicious catalogue.