Thursday, 6/10/10

Weight: 213.5
Exercise: rainy day, did active housework for an hour, MFD counts as 250 calories
Net Calories: 1687

Rainy all day, not chance for running or biking. We were almost out of bread so I made a batch of four sandwich loaves... a bad idea on a day when I can't exercise since there's nothing so appetizing as a house that smells like fresh bread! Despite sampling the bread I ended up almost okay, but over my actual goal, MFD says that if every day were like today I'd lose 1.4 pounds a week.

Yummy dinner tonight, I'm on a mission to use up an unnecessary fridge item every day, and tahini and dried tomatoes are on the list. So tonight we had portabello bruschetta with a dried tomato spread and wilted spinach with a lemon tahini sesame seed dressing, both recipes from epicurious.com and both surprisingly tasty. It was a reasonable dinner as well, and would have been more so if I hadn't had such generous pieces of bread. It was really nice to actually prepare new recipes and make a real dinner with two dishes, makes me savor the food more when I get to eat it.

Also exciting - I love our homemade bread and have never been sure of how to log calories from it, but in today's batch I weighed the end result and calculated calories per gram so now I can toss my piece of bread on the scale before I eat it so I can accurately log it - really helpful! I love our food scale, although it does tend to bring out the obsessive side of me.