April's CR Diary

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April 12, 2005

Psycho DWIDP/Applebees Weight Watchers Menu

Hello bloggiefriends,

Glad you enjoyed yesterday's rant. I had fun with it! Thanks for all your nice comments.

Yesterday was a fairly quiet day, nutritionally. I was having big problems with my nutritional software, but it seems to be working okay now. Still thinking about migrating to Mary's tool though.
I had to start calling olive and flax oil by some other name, because when I type in flax oil, no matter what else I've eaten that day, my percentage of carbs goes to 0. Now this seems unlikely... the Atkins people would have found out about it by now! So I'm calling oil peanut oil. Also, I'm calling my twenty calorie calcium supplement "sugar." It's not showing up in the nutritional crunch though, so the RDA on the calcium shown is the actual amount I got from food. Yea for ricotta! I need to talk to MR about the calories in Essential Mix, since I eat less than a scoop a day, just two teaspoons. I'll check with him -- thanks for the tip, Howard!

Here's the crunch for yesterday:

Food List : april1105.fls
DATE : 04/11/05
Num. Foods : 16
Food #1 : Egg, white, raw, fresh 1 cup
Food #2 : Oil, peanut, salad or cooking 3 teaspoons
Food #3 : Kale, raw 100 g
Food #4 : Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, November thru May average 200 g
Food #5 : Peppers, sweet, red, raw 100 g
Food #6 : Cottage Cheese Lowfat Light and Lively 1 cup
Food #7 : Lewis Labs 2 tablespoons
Food #8 : Soup, chicken broth cubes, dehydrated, prepared with water 1 cup
Food #9 : Broccoli, frozen, chopped, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 25 cals
Food #10 : Cauliflower, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 25 cals
Food #11 : Carrots, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 25 cals
Food #12 : Fat-free ricotta 2 tablespoons
Food #13 : Alcoholic beverage, wine, table, white 6 oz
Food #14 : Coffee, brewed, prepared with distilled water
8 oz caf, 8 oz decaf
Food #15 : Sugars, granulated (1 calcium chewy)
Food #16 : Nuts, filberts or hazelnuts, dried, unblanched 10 g
NUTRIENT TOTALS:

P:F:C = 27:31:42
Abs. Values %RDA/SA

Calories 1002.20__cal 50%
Protein 67.89__gm 123% RDA
Total Fat 34.58__gm 53%
Sat. Fat 10.47__gm 52%
Mono. Fat 15.40__gm 53%
Poly. Fat 6.84__gm 103%
Carbohydrate 84.59__gm 28%
Fiber 24.58__gm 82%
Cholesterol 40.56__mg 14%
Vit. A 31665.86__IU 633% RDA
Vit. B6 1.39__mg 87% RDA
Vit. B12 1.99__mcg 100% RDA
Vit. C 468.02__mg 780% RDA
Vit. E 10.61__mg 133% RDA
Thiamine 0.54__mg 49% RDA
Folacin 358.82__mcg 199% RDA
Riboflavin 1.99__mg 153% RDA
Niacin 6.83__mg 46% RDA
Panto. Acid 2.42__mg 48% SA
Calcium 1254.52__mg 105% RDA
Copper 1.08__mg 54% SA
Iron 7.48__mg 50% RDA
Magnesium 302.91__mg 108% RDA
Manganese 3.76__mg 125% SA
Phosphorus 1254.85__mg 105% RDA
Potassium 3243.50__mg 162% RDA
Selenium 83.82__mcg 152% RDA
Sodium 3237.55__mg 135% SA
Zinc 7.36__mg 61% RDA
Tyrosine 4.79__gm 499% RDA
Lysine 9.60__gm 1333% RDA
Phenylalanine 6.08__gm 633% RDA
Leucine 10.89__gm 1135% RDA
Valine 7.63__gm 908% RDA
Methionine 3.52__gm 1173% RDA
Cystine 1.81__gm 604% RDA
Tryptophan 1.79__gm 995% RDA
Threonine 5.46__gm 1137% RDA
Isoleucine 6.51__gm 904% RDA

My appetite has still been low, no doubt because though I'm feeling much better, I still haven't been out much, so I've been inactive. Once I'm all recovered, I'm going to get back to exercising. Tall MR is urging me to exercise, Little MR is urging me to get my B vitamins... I feel loved! :) One thing that I think changes in your perspective upon getting involved with CR folks is that you start to take advice and suggestions about diet and lifestyle as expressions of love and care, not as nagging or controlling. Everytime a CR brother or sister makes a suggestion to me, I feel like I've received a little present. It's how we care for each other.

On Sunday night, my mother decided that I absolutely had to be gotten out of the house. So we did some research on a place where we could go out to eat and still be sure of our calories. I discovered that the Applebees' Weight Watchers' menu had been expanded, and had some really good, low calorie choices. You can read about it for yourself here. I had the grilled chicken salad and the French onion soup. The onion soup was amazing! Hard to believe it had so few calories. The chicken salad was okay, though I think next time I'll order the shrimp. My mom ordered the chicken skillet, which she enjoyed. I was under 1000 for the day on Sunday, but I'm not sure of the crunch because I have only the calories, fat grams and carbs for the Applebees' food, not the entire nutrition info.

Okay, this is boring, sorry. You know what I ate for breakfast. I'll try to entertain you more soon.

Posted by april at April 12, 2005 9:10 AM

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