Well, it was a pretty quiet day overall. I made the jam in the morning and had a nice Sunday brunch egg dish for lunch. I did a few things outside but came in when the weather started to look a bit dodgy. We had a bit of a torrential downpour for about 15 minutes with a bit of hail. Oh joy. There’s a little water in the back of the crawlspace, but I just saw it now so it can wait until the morning. Since all the plants are out for the summer it’s just a small patch of wet in the middle of the floor.

And… we had barbecued steak for dinner. Only particularly special because the barbecue is finally back in one functional piece. Now I’m looking up calorie counts for corn on the cob, although it will be a while before it’s local corn.

Food for the day:

Total: 2166 (31% fat, 33% carbs, 35% protein)

Breakfast: grapefruit (53)
AM Snack: lemon ginger pecan bread, jam(+), protein shake, almonds (433)
Lunch: baked egg/egg whites with mushrooms, turkey pepperette, cheese, cracked wheat oatmeal bread, apple (523)
PM Snack: soy nuts, protein shake (269)
Dinner: sirloin steak, mushrooms, asparagus, butter, salad w/dressing (646)
Late Snack: cherry yogurt sorbet, protein shake (243)

Okay, so technically the recipe was called a marmalade, but still. The thing I’m most happy about is that it worked out to 45cals per Tb. I’ve been using the generic jam entry in FitDay (56 cals) but wasn’t sure where the homemade ones were in comparison. This ended up lower but I will check the rest when I’m making them this year. I also counted both the orange pulp and the peel when working out the recipe, since I suppose most normal people don’t usually eat the peel.

A Recipe for Weight Loss: Rhubarb Marmalade

Today’s weigh-in brings me to 295.4 which is 2.8 pounds less than last week.  I’m quite happy with that, although I still don’t get why some weeks are higher and some weeks are lower, especially now that I’ve pretty much standardized what I’m doing.  Anyway, since I started keeping track this is day 164 on plan with food.