Mrs. hit a homer...

What a great weekend! I got an extra day off from the big bosses and boy did we take advantage. It was a gloriously sunny day here and we hit the beach to catch some much needed rays (I can't remember ever being so pale - even when I lived in the sunless lands up north!) The days of my golden brown youth are well and truly gone... then again, I guess I don't get to spend my whole summer at the town swimming pool anymore either. That's kind of a pity, huh? I'm excited for our pool to open up here, shouldn't be much longer as warm as it's been the last few weeks. In the meantime, Mrs. and I have taken up a new sport and are gearing up for the Spring Softball season. It's kind of a new one for me (minus a few summer games me and big bro jumped in on in Rockville!), and definitely a new one for Mrs. We practiced last night for the first time, and I gotta say - she's a natural :) She almost took my head off a couple times and I was definitely Jumping Jim - I always was afraid of the ball as a kid, which is why I was a terrible baseball player! Anyway, we even managed a few sprints (carefully framed as "base-running" practice) and were feeling very good by the end of it! I could go for a three day weekend every week.... wonder if the big bosses would go for it...

-Mr.

Guess who's back....

Oh yes, I have returned with a bang....the cholesterol police state is back in operation. First item on the agenda - wait til Mr. is in the bathroom to check the freezer and see how much of my hard work was actually eaten while I was gone. Just a few little plastic containers left. Hmm...one part of me was thinking 'wow that's great' and the other part was going 'well it's not as if he didn't know I was coming home, he could have just ditched the evidence'. I know, I know, completely unreasonable, and as a friend of mine once said - benefit of the doubt! So as I closed the door of the freezer, looked around the sparklingly clean apartment (what better welcome home present could a mrs ask for!?) and hugged my already trimmer Mr I thought maybe this time it's for reals. :-)

Mrs

xxx

Wednesday's Menu

Breakfast:  Low-Sugar Maple Oatmeal

Snack:  Kinder Schokolade 

Lunch:  Whole Wheat Penne with Red Sauce and Turkey

Dinner:  Pulled Pork on Wheat Bread with reduced fat Mozzarella

Home!

I welcomed Mrs. home today with great excitement... She wasn't even too tired after her flight, which was a doozy.  I had a few small bars of Kinder Schokolade she brought me....  I don't even feel to bad, 'cause we all know Kinder macht die Jimbo froh, und Erwachsene ebenso!  Or is that Haribo???  Well either way, it has extra calcium for my growing bones ;)  

Game 2 of the new basketball season will be tonight - can't wait!  I'll let you all know how the exercise goes - it's starting to pay dividends on the court, so I'm hoping to see some off the court soon as well.  

Welcome home Mrs!!  

-Mr.  

Monday's Menu

Breakfast:  Eggbeaters and wheat toast

Snack:  Sugar Free Fat Free Cheesecake Pudding

Lunch:  Turkey Sandwich on Wheat 

Dinner:  Pasta with Red Sauce

Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock

The clock is ticking - only a short time now and Mrs. is gonna be back!  Can't wait!!  Just in time, my food supply is running out ;)  Ok, I'm just joking, but it has made things very easy on me.  I've had a great day today (well, work was a drag - but I barely even take that into account anymore!), getting over the ill effects of my Saturday indiscretions!  Exercise yesterday was perfect, got in a great run at the gym.  I told Mrs. I was feeling inspired from all the basketball I've been watching.  Hehe.  Today, I picked up my bike from a tune-up and it felt so smooth I just took a little spin in the afternoon sunshine.  Loving springtime, 

-Mr.

Falling off the wagon...

I had a rotten day today, and I don't have the energy to pretend otherwise. Not that I should, you guys all know better than to believe every single day is a cheerful breeze. Problem is, i just went off the rails completely. That's what stress does for ya, huh? In fairness, I kept it relatively contained - low fat vanilla wafers, some fat free chicken franks (Mrs. will be getting sick in the background right about now) and my all time worst weakness - organic blue corn tortilla chips and salsa. Don't you love how they slap organic on there to make you feel better about things? Anyway, that was the real kicker. I walked right past the pita chips like they didn't exist. it's an old and familiar trap for me to respond to stress by eating. I'm pretty good at beating that now, but add in a whole lot of annoyance on top of it, and I usually blow it. I felt fully entitled to the gunge I ate, unfortunately.

well, tomorrow's another day and i've got a basketball game to boot. get that bloody wagon back up and rolling, i'll be back on in no time.

-Mr.

Friday's Menu

Breakfast : Low Sugar Maple Oatmeal

Snack: bananananananas

Lunch: Cajun Black Bean Pasta with Ham

Dinner: March Madness Turkey Burgers on Whole Wheat Buns

the should-be-longer-winded night train

i've drenched myself in basketball for two straight days. three actually, if you count the league game i played on wednesday. i'm feeling inspired, really want to recapture a level of fitness so i can play close to my potential again. i reckon it's been a couple years since i last played at that level. i spent that entire summer training for a season i was playing with my club, usually three or four times a week. core training with a seriously fit trainer, which if i attempted now i would almost certainly fall apart like a big stack of jello. but man, it felt good - that burn after a 30 minute circuit and few lines for a finish. brilliant. anyway, all this basketball has me thinking again about exercise (hence the new poll)... for me it's definitely all about getting on a roll with this stuff - once i get two days a week going, then i start to want three, then four and then i'm running out on the fast breaks for easy layups ;)

speaking of layups... what's with Mrs. calling me out on my 1%? too easy, Mrs. and this is one sous chef you can't get rid of that easily...

you know what? i was planning on stringing out a long long ramble here, but my head is cooked from the work week and i'm on call tomorrow. better hit the sack! oh, and rock chalk :)

-Mr.

Keeping tabs from afar! :-)

So, this week is a great big test for hubby- I'm back visiting family on the aul' sod so he's been flying (sort-of) solo. That means no disapproving looks as his hand hesitates over chips and cheesy dip instead of the healthy home made version, no arched eyebrow when he announces he's taking the car to work instead of cycling, no suppressed sigh when he says he's taking a night off from cholesterol stuff (I don't notice the baddies in his blood taking a days rest!). Okay, so he's not quite that bad, but I was sweating it a bit at the thought of all the damage he could do in 10 days with no jiminy cricket :-) I figure the blog is  a good way to keep track and happily I married a man who is a terrible liar (or maybe so good that he's faking being bad?!) so I should be able to spot the bits that don't add up. So far so good though, and he's even updating the menus...hmmm. Right now as I look out as lashing rain, after a feed of spuds (potatoes) I think it definitely is easier to eat better when the sun is shining..I crave much lighter food then and the outside world is a much more inviting place for exercise, which I will definitely need lots of when I get home!

By the way - the 1% of the cooking that hubby says he did - curdling cream, dropping cooked pasta all over the floor, spilling sauce half over the sink and the piece de resistance - smashing a ramekin of salt in the tiny space between the fridge and cooker...of course I'm sure it will be all cleaned up before I'm home! (Yup hubby, that's a "hint-hint" moment!) Oh and please no more helping! :-D

Mrs.

xxx