Food & Exercise - 8/8/2004

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Elly - 09 Aug 2004 12:55 GMT

(AF, day 5)

Food:

Breakfast: scrambled eggs w/Asiago cheese
(1 Ts olive oil, 3 eggs, 20 gr Asiago cheese)

Lunch: /

Dinner (restaurant): grilled calamari dressed with olive oil, parsley and
garlic; steamed spinach dressed w/fresh lemon juice;
dessert: "diet cocoa pudding" (1 cup light cream, 1 Ts unsweetened cocoa,
1/2 Ts cinnamon)

Water = 1 l; Coca Cola = 100 mL

Exercise: walking 2 hrs

According to Fitday = 38 grams of carbs, and 272 calories burned.

Elly
breastfeeding mom of a 9mo, following the balanced low carb WOE
Mid July 2004: 195.8 / 188.1 lbs / mini-goal by August 20th:
184.8 to 187 lbs
sometime in the (distant) future: 150 lbs

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Annabel Smyth - 09 Aug 2004 16:54 GMT

>Breakfast: scrambled eggs w/Asiago cheese
>(1 Ts olive oil, 3 eggs, 20 gr Asiago cheese)

You seem to eat Asiago cheese every day - I still don't know what it is?
Perhaps you could be kind and tell me, as it's probably something we
don't have in the UK

>Lunch: /
>
>Dinner (restaurant): grilled calamari dressed with olive oil, parsley and
>garlic; steamed spinach dressed w/fresh lemon juice;

That sounds utterly delicious!

>dessert: "diet cocoa pudding" (1 cup light cream, 1 Ts unsweetened cocoa,
>1/2 Ts cinnamon)

If it were me, I'd use natural yogurt or fromage frais rather than
cream, as they have less fat and fewer calories - perhaps enough so I
could allow a tiny bit of sugar in it with the chocolate. Or honey.....

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Elly - 09 Aug 2004 18:57 GMT

> >Breakfast: scrambled eggs w/Asiago cheese
> >(1 Ts olive oil, 3 eggs, 20 gr Asiago cheese)
>
> You seem to eat Asiago cheese every day - I still don't know what it is?
> Perhaps you could be kind and tell me, as it's probably something we
> don't have in the UK

I'm sure you have it in the deli shops... It's goat cheese, semi-soft; I eat
it rather frequently these days because DH bought 2 kg of it :-)

> If it were me, I'd use natural yogurt or fromage frais rather than
> cream, as they have less fat and fewer calories - perhaps enough so I
> could allow a tiny bit of sugar in it with the chocolate. Or honey.....

Oh, I'd love to be able to eat Greek yoghurt & honey (the habit I picked up
when living in London), but I don't tolerate honey well...
I have to try the natural yoghurt w/unsweetened cocoa... it hasn't occurred
to me yet to try that. I tried it once with cottage cheese, but didn't like
it much.
The reason I picked the light cream is because it has only 2 grams of carbs
per 100 mL.

Elly

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Annabel Smyth - 09 Aug 2004 19:22 GMT

>> >Breakfast: scrambled eggs w/Asiago cheese
>> >(1 Ts olive oil, 3 eggs, 20 gr Asiago cheese)
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>I'm sure you have it in the deli shops... It's goat cheese, semi-soft; I eat
>it rather frequently these days because DH bought 2 kg of it :-)

Ooh, sounds lovely - I ADORE goat cheese. I don't know I'd care for it
in eggs, though, but it is great to nibble or spread.

>> If it were me, I'd use natural yogurt or fromage frais rather than
>> cream, as they have less fat and fewer calories - perhaps enough so I
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>to me yet to try that. I tried it once with cottage cheese, but didn't like
>it much.

I tend not to eat cream when I'm actively trying to lose weight.

>The reason I picked the light cream is because it has only 2 grams of carbs
>per 100 mL.

Is that not true of all cream, though?

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Elly - 09 Aug 2004 20:13 GMT

> >The reason I picked the light cream is because it has only 2 grams of carbs
> >per 100 mL.
> >
> Is that not true of all cream, though?

I meant that more in correlation to yoghurt, which is higher in carbs...

Elly

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Annabel Smyth - 09 Aug 2004 21:12 GMT

>> >The reason I picked the light cream is because it has only 2 grams of
>carbs
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
>I meant that more in correlation to yoghurt, which is higher in carbs...

Ah, fair enough. Although I'm not sure why it should be, since all that
differentiates from cream (or skimmed milk, if that's what it happens to
be made from) is a bacterial culture. But then, I've no idea how these
things work. My low-fat, natural yogurt has 5.8 (I think, the print's
rather small!) grammes of carbohydrate per 100g, and my fromage frais
has 3.3, yet both are made from skimmed milk and cultures, with nothing
else added. Weird, or what?

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