Pencil Thin

Finding a balance.

Snuz — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:18:20 +0000

At this stage in my diet and exercise program I am trying to find a balance that keeps my weight under control. Part of what I have been doing is trying to determine which foods cause my body to gain weight and those that do not. What I hadn’t planned for is determining how much I need to eat to balance out the calories I am burning exercising. I recently determined that the morning after I hit the fitness equipment really hard I will incur a slight spike in my weight. I then found out that I needed to eat more to prevent my body from hanging onto weight. Once I raised the amount of protein I was eating each day my weight balanced out. It is funny when you are used to watching calories very closely to find out that you actually have to eat more food to loose weight or maintain. I am hoping that everything is now stable and I can just consider this my new eating plan for life.

Eating new foods!

Snuz — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:13:40 +0000

I am now adding healthy carbs and some natural sugars back into my diet. One of the things I tried this week that I really enjoyed was Mrs. May’s Trio bars.

The name comes from the ingredients. The bars have a trio of trios: 3 nuts, 3 seeds and 3 fruits. The nuts, seeds and 2 of the fruits are the same in all the flavors. The nuts are cashews, almonds & pistachios. The seeds are sesame, pumpkin, & sunflower. The two fruits that are in all the flavors are dates and raisins, but you don’t really see or taste them so I wonder if they are cooked down into the “glue” that holds all the other ingredients together. The third fruit in each flavor is (obviously) dried fruit in the named flavor, though the tropical is a blend of three different tropical fruits, none of which dominates. The only other ingredients are rice malt, natural flavors, cane juice and sea salt.

These are great bars for anyone who has issues with wheat or dairy. The label says they are wheat free, gluten free, dairy free and kosher. They also have no preservatives. If you have peanut allergies, the label says they are packaged in a peanut free facility that processes other nuts.

Because of the nuts, they have 12 grams of fat per bar, but I’ve been reading articles that say nuts are a great snack and the fat in nuts is “good” fat. The label says there is 1.5 grams of saturated fat which surprised me but I guess some of the fat in nuts must be saturated. To round out the rest of the nutrition facts: calories, 170; total carbs, 14g; dietary fiber, 2g; sugars, 6g; protein, 5g; cholesterol, 0g; trans fat, 0g; and sodium, 45mg.

Getting old.

Snuz — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:20:32 +0000

I feel really blessed that my husband is able to fix and renovate most of the things around our house. He does and amazing job with just about everything that he does. This makes it hard to complain when something he installs doesn’t quite work the way it should. He installed a light in our bathroom that seems to work for a week and then quit. I would love to take the thing out and have some sort of Murray Feiss light installed but I don’t dare bring up the subject. He picked out the light that is currently in the bathroom. I really hate the light and bit my tongue when I saw it. It does absolutely nothing to brighten the bathroom and creates all sorts of shadows. If you don’t have makeup to put on or hair to style the light would be great. I can only hope he decides something is wrong with the light and suggests we look for a different one.