Well, tomorrow I lift!

Strangely enough, since I decided I was going to, I feel more in the mood for it. I’ve pulled out the sheets and will likely load the barbell before I go to bed. I’m just not that alert in the morning so it’s probably a good idea to be ready to go. I’ll still have to get up, having something (likely liquid) to eat, and wake up before I start.

I’m looking at my list and I did pretty well. I ended up with 10 1/2-cup jars of the cranberry sauce (as well as a single 1 cup jar and an almost full 2nd). It was really made for my mother to have with her (now homemade) smoked turkey. That’s the only slightly negative thing about the homemade stuff, it’s not quite so moist. Of course, that’s because they’ve pumped the luncheon meats full of water, so it’s not a bad trade-off. The turkey was the best. The eye of the round roast is a touch dry, but I’ll get better at it as I go along.

I ended up getting 20 servings of the stewed beef (done with a few mushrooms and onions) at 314 cals 34g protein, 15g fat, 6g carbs - it means tomorrow I can actually have some potato with it since it’s a lifting day. So I froze 9 double portions of it, which will be nice to have as the evenings get colder. Oh, and I ended up with some well concentrated stock with 5 ounces of chopped meat in it as well. I’ve got plenty of stock now… think I should start making soup!

The blueberry bran muffins turned snack cake were pretty good. I substituted yogurt for the original cottage cheese which dropped the protein a little bit and raised the carbs. However, it did use up the yogurt that was short dated. Since I still had yogurt left, I made a second pan in the afternoon. Yes, 46 piece in the freezer seems excessive, doesn’t it. However, I take a piece (sometime two) each day and my mother takes another, so it’s not as bad as it sounds. Oh, and I made some fruit salad as most of the soft fruit season here is past (just plums left really). This week’s fruit salad is all home canned fruit (peaches, sour cherries, sweet cherries) with a few chopped apricots. Have to watch there aren’t too many of those!

The hair is coloured and the laundry is almost dry. In fact I stopped posting so I could go take it out. So, it’s just about 10pm and I’m done for the day. (Yikes) I think tomorrow I’ll also take my shoes and a different shirt and maybe do a little walking during my 2 hour break. If I don’t then I will work on my homework from the morning class. So it’s one or the other. I suspect that the weather will end up being the deciding factor. I don’t want to do any high heart rate cardio, which I seem to do in the fitness center. So if the weather sucks it will be homework instead. Looking at my schedule for the next two weeks (evening tests on both Tuesdays) I might have to do Wed/Sun lifts in which case I might do cardio at the fitness center Tues/Thurs those weeks. I’ll cross that bridge at the time.

So, that’s it for me tonight. Just the food, then off to my bed.

Food for the day:

Total: 1994 (35% fat, 31% carbs, 33% protein)

Breakfast: two scrambled eggs, zucchini bread, jam, peaches (361)
AM Snack: chocolate zucchini cake (156)
Lunch: whole wheat tortillas, eye of round, nectarine (372)
Snacks: blueberry bran snack cake, carrots, hummus (281)
Dinner: hamburgers(2), condiments, edamame, salad w/dressing (692)
Late Snack: protein shake (135)