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Food & Exercise -- Wednesday through Saturday

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Chris Braun - 31 May 2004 03:07 GMT
Well, I'm back from Rhode Island.  We had a wonderful time!  I ate
more than I should have, though at least I got a bit of exercise.  We
stayed with friends who had a dog, and I took him out for walk/run
sessions (with a fair amount of stopping mixed in -- it's not clear to
me how people really do serious runs with a dog!).  And our hosts have
a weight room and we managed to lift one morning.  And they also have
an indoor pool so I got in a swim.

Here's the data:

Food:

Wednesday -- travel to Providence and big dinner at friends' home:
6:30 (home): 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese
11:15 (waiting for plane): energy bar
1:00 (on plane -- brought from home except for the snack mix):
sandwich w/ 112g grilled chicken breast on English muffin w/ 1 tbsp
f/f mayo; 1/2 oz. snack mix
6:30 -- 11:30 (friends' home): 16 oz. wine; 4 crackers w/ goat cheese;
salad w/ vinaigrette; 3 oz. roast lamb; green beans; orzo w/ pine
nuts; passion fruit custard w/ blueberries

Totals: 2215 calories (343 from wine); 93g fat (38%), 218g carbs
(30%), 132g protein (24%)

Thursday -- all-day symposium and dinner in celebration of the 25th
anniversary of the Brown computer science department  {We were staying
at the home of the professor who founded the department, who's now VP
for Research at Brown.}:
7:15 (friends' home): 3/4 cup Kashi GoLean Crunch w/ 3/4 cup 1% milk
9:00 -- 11:00 (symposium snack food): small bits of various fruit
breads, adding up to about 2 slices
12:00 (symposium lunch): salad w/ greens, 2 oz. grilled chicken
breast, vinaigrette; 1/2 brownie
3:30 (symposium snack food): 1.5 oz. cheese; 1/2 cup snack mix
5:30 (symposium cocktail hour): 6 oz. wine; 6 various appetizers
(chicken satay, phyllo pastry w/ mushrooms, etc.)
7:30 (symposium dinner): tossed salad w/ citrus vinaigrette; 3 oz.
roast lamb; 2 oz. asparagus; lemon cake; 5 oz. wine
11:00 -- 12:00 (friend's home): 1 oz. pistachio nuts

Totals: 2214 calories (236 from wine), 97g fat (40%), 189g carbs
(34%), 98g protein (18%)

Friday -- hanging around at friends' home in morning, bumming around
the RI seacost in the afternoon, campus dance -- a big traditional
commencement weekend thing -- in the evening:
7:30 (friends' home): 3/4 cup Kashi GoLean Crunch w/ 3/4 cup skim milk
8:45 (friends' home): 2 scrambled eggs
2:00 (restaurant -- old favorite from college): 1/2 appetizer of
littleneck clams in oil & garlic; 1/2 entree of spaghetti w/ seafood
(clams, shrimp, lobster) in oil & garlic; 1/2 entree of fried clams w/
french fries
7:00 (restaurant): tuna melt sandwich
22:00 (campus dance): 7 oz. wine

Totals: 2085 calories (150 from wine), 94g fat (41%), 144g carbs
(28%), 130g protein (25%)

Saturday -- in the daytime, up to Boston to have lunch with an old
friend and visit some old haunts; in the evening, Linda Ronstadt
concert that was part of the commencement weekend festivities :
7:30 (friends' home): 3/4 cup Kashi GoLean Crunch w/ 3/4 cup skim milk
9:30 (friends' home): 1 slice dark hard bread w/ 1/2 oz. goat cheese
12:30 (Chinese restaurant): mai tai; various dim sum (4 steamed
dumplings, Chinese noodles with meat sauce, 2 oz. roast duck, 1/2 cup
Peking noodles)
3:30 (bought in drugstore): 1/2 Milky Way ice cream bar (split w/ DH)
7:45 (restaurant): 1 cup clam chowder; small hot fudge sundae

Totals: 1927 calories, 61g fat (28%), 249g carbs (52%), 50g protein
(10%)  {Geesh -- terrible ratios!}

Averages for the week: 1799 calories, 33% fat, 37% carbs, 26% protein

Exercise:

Wednesday:
  5:30 p.m. -- 2 miles run/walk/stop with dog

Thursday: none of significance -- at symposium all day -- a bit of
strolling around the campus

Friday:
 7:30 a.m.  -- weightlifting:
    bench: 1x10x45; 1x10x65; 1x8x85; 2x5x95
    incline bench w/ DBs: 1x10x15s; 1x10x25s; 1x8x35s
    DB flyes: 1x10x15s; 2x10x25s
    DB bent-over rows: 2x10x35, each side
    front squats: 1x10x45
    back hypers: 1x10
    reverse hypers: 1x10
 9:30 a.m. -- swimming:
   10 x (1 length breast stroke, 1 length backstroke)
 5:30 p.m. -- 2.5 miles run/walk/stop with dog
 evening -- a bit of strolling around the campus

Saturday:
 8:30 a.m. -- 3 miles run/walk/stop with dog (more running this time
-- it was a gorgeous crisp morning and both the dog and I were feeling
frisky :-) )
 5:30 p.m. -- about 1/2 mile slow walk with dog (We were walking on
top of a rather battered seawall -- my friends' home is on the bay --
and running wouldn't have been safe.)

Chris
262/149/ (145-150) -- though I'll probably have gained some weight :-)
Alison L Miles - 31 May 2004 21:21 GMT
> Well, I'm back from Rhode Island.  We had a wonderful time!  I ate
> more than I should have, though at least I got a bit of exercise.  We
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> a weight room and we managed to lift one morning.  And they also have
> an indoor pool so I got in a swim.

> Here's the data:

> Food:

What, no clam cakes?  Maybe I just didn't read thoroughly enough, but I
didn't think it was possible to get through a trip to Rhode Island with no
clam cakes or Del's lemonade (btw--was the chowder the red Rhode Island
kind?).

Sounds like you had fun!

-Alison, who has never actually found a clam in a clam cake
Chris Braun - 31 May 2004 23:35 GMT
>What, no clam cakes?  Maybe I just didn't read thoroughly enough, but I
>didn't think it was possible to get through a trip to Rhode Island with no
>clam cakes or Del's lemonade (btw--was the chowder the red Rhode Island
>kind?).

Nope, no clam cakes :-).  Honestly, I don't love them -- mostly
they're just fried clam-flavored dough.  But the steamers and fried
clams were incredibly great.  I do like Del's -- and it's another
nostalgia thing -- but we didn't get any this trip.  It was a tad
chilly most of the time, which made it less tempting.

The chowder was the white "New England" kind.  I don't really care for
the red kind much.  I don't know that I think of it as particularly
Rhode Island style; isn't it supposed to be Manhattan style?

I take it you've spent time in Rhode Island :-).  Have you ever heard
of Tweet Balzano's in Bristol?  That's where we had the meal with the
steamed littlenecks, fried clams, etc.

>Sounds like you had fun!

Absolutely!

>-Alison, who has never actually found a clam in a clam cake

I think I did once in Maine :-).

Chris
262/150/ (145-150) -- up a pound today, but well worth it
Alison L Miles - 01 Jun 2004 12:55 GMT
> The chowder was the white "New England" kind.  I don't really care for
> the red kind much.  I don't know that I think of it as particularly
> Rhode Island style; isn't it supposed to be Manhattan style?

I never figured out the difference.  Every time I had "Rhode
Island" chowder it was red, like Manhattan style, but every web site I
just looked at said that the red was indeed Manhattan style and that real
Rhode Island chowder has a clear broth, mostly clam juice and chicken
broth, which I have never seen or had.  I'm so confused and so obviously
not a RI local!

> I take it you've spent time in Rhode Island :-).  Have you ever heard
> of Tweet Balzano's in Bristol?  That's where we had the meal with the
> steamed littlenecks, fried clams, etc.

I haven't been there, but that sure sounds good!  I could really go for
some fried clams.  If I ever have the luck to be in the area, I'll
definitely try to get there.  Yum!

>>Sounds like you had fun!

> Absolutely!

Good :)  

> Chris
> 262/150/ (145-150) -- up a pound today, but well worth it

That's great for a few days away and and all of the exceptional
dining!  Still, I'll bet it's nice to get back to your "normal" diet and
exercise plan.

Happy June, all!

-Alison
SnugBear - 01 Jun 2004 02:54 GMT
> What, no clam cakes?

If I went to RI, I'd want some Wright's Farm chicken <S>
(hold the shells & fries, bring more salad and chicken!)
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Chris Braun - 01 Jun 2004 03:24 GMT
>> What, no clam cakes?
>
>If I went to RI, I'd want some Wright's Farm chicken <S>
>(hold the shells & fries, bring more salad and chicken!)

Hmm, I don't think I know what that is.  I'll have to check it out
next time I'm there :-).  Is Wright's Farm a restaurant?

Chris
SnugBear - 02 Jun 2004 02:13 GMT
> Hmm, I don't think I know what that is.  I'll have to check it out
> next time I'm there :-).  Is Wright's Farm a restaurant?

Alison about covered it <g>  Let me just say the roasted chicken was
*almost* as good as what is served in the beer tents in Munich at
oktoberfest. <mmmmmmm - chicken>

It is beyond me why they serve shells & sauce at the same meal as fries,
but isn't that how we all got fat??

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Alison L Miles - 01 Jun 2004 12:42 GMT
>> What, no clam cakes?

> If I went to RI, I'd want some Wright's Farm chicken <S>
> (hold the shells & fries, bring more salad and chicken!)

Oh MAN, how in the world did I forget THAT?  That stuff's GREAT, and a
dieter's worst nightmare--family style rolls, salad drenched in dressing,
shells and red sauce, fries, and roasted chicken, as much as you can eat,
and a gift shop with yummy fudge.

It's in Nasonville.  Here's a link, for the unenlightened, curious, or
hungry:

http://www.wrightsfarm.com

Not to be confused with Wright's Dairy Farm in North Smithfield, a lovely
dairy with skim milk that tastes like whole and a bakery full of lovely
pastries, including great angel wings and any kind of whipped cream
dessert you can think of.

http://www.wrightsdairyfarm.com

Um, OK, off to find a healthy low-fat high-protein snack now that thoughts
of pastries have put me in hunger mode.

-Alison
 
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