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Day 226

First of all, here's my favorite Super Bowl meme from last night:
Photo: [ submitted by Mark Hyde ]
I hear their health care is fantastic.
Okay, on to exercise: Sunday is rest day--yay!  Here's what I ate:
  • Suggest Breakfast: fruit (90), grain (80) with protein or fat (95) 
  • Actual Breakfast was a half cup of pineapple (40), a slice of whole wheat bread (60), and a poached egg (80), plus 2 glasses of water.
My second-ever poached egg.  Gonna add that to my resume.
  • Suggested Snack: veggie and healthy fat/protein (120)
  • Actual Snack was nothing, because we went for a twenty minute walk.
  • Suggested Lunch: protein (180) vegetable with healthy fat (160) and fruit (90-100)
  • Actual Lunch was one of Lothar's sausages (215), red cabbage slaw (100), whole grain mustard (10), and half a pumpkin bar (25), plus 2 glasses of water.
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Tastes like Germany!
  • Suggested Snack: veggie and healthy fat/protein (120)
  • Actual Snack: a cup of carrots and two tablespoons of olive hummus (130).  I seriously have a love affair with olive hummus.
Olive Tapenade Hummus
Will you be my Valentine, olive hummus?
  • Suggested Dinner: grain (110), veggies (60), protein (250)
  • Actual Dinner:  Um, well, it was the Super Bowl.  But I still did pretty well, considering.  First, I had three glasses of water and a mug of hot green tea with sugar (30).  Then I had lots of peppers, mushrooms, and cucumbers with dip (200).  Next came the boneless wings (230).  Then the taco dip (made with fat free refried beans and light sour cream/cream cheese) (150) and tortilla chips (150).  And finally, a few crackers with ham (70).  Then I came home and my throat hurt, so I had more green tea with sugar (30) and a Mr. Goodbar mini (45).  Well that wasn't worth 75 calories!!
Suggested calories: 1400
Total calories: 1565

 We'll give it a Kate, playing football.  Well, the European kind anyway.

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