Wednesday, low-carb day two-hundred and forty-one, repair day Weigh-in at start of day wt. 108.2lbs (analogue scales corrected ~106.25lbs); 0.8lbs gain
... t.measures - ub. 28.5, w. 25.5, t. 30.25, h. 34.25 inches
Booooh. I know that I was somewhat overindulgent yesterday but this is a bit much V&P vary-fairy (nearly a pound for a couple of hundred calories?) and, if it is vengeance for Tuesday's over-carbing that's not supposed to kick in until tomorrow! Whimper. My over-carbing on Sunday was pretty moderate (81g) maybe it needed to be higher to serve its purpose of shaking things up? Don't think that's really a good excuse for throwing out today's repair, but I'm sufficiently miserable today to use it as such. Whimper.
Hunting for idiot-proof SQL Server management information and discover, incidentally, the joys of Kindle on a tablet computer. And procrastinate big time (whilst conning myself that I'm working) by down-loading all sorts of exceedingly useful free stuff... yes, yes, including SQL Server books, but also cookbooks and meditation guides and the likes... Trouble is, I'm not sure where any of it is actually stored and I'm exceedingly "space challenged" on my system drive". Then, more serendipity, I find the download link for the USDA food database (I've never looked that hard for it, but if I'm to get this recipe thing going the data will be essential) - the full shebang plus an abridged spreadsheet version: exceedingly useful. You can tell that I don't want to reach "the moment of truth" can't you? Will SQL Server create a database on my SD card or not?... Prayers to the great god of being-kind-to-FatDogs.
So off I go to work-up the recipe for tonight's dinner
That received 9/10 from the bestest neighbour and the OH thought it was excellent, very tasty; and I thought it pretty good myself. Happy enough with that.
........ Calories 731.30 Carbs 21.63 Fat 53.99 Protein 38.49 Fibre 13.79
baked cheeses with savoy cabbage, inspired by Gayler's cabbage & reblochon in a Passion for Cheese (p.42)
cabbage, savoy, tesco, whole leaves, 32c/C4.1/F0.4/P1.7/Fi2.4/100g
......... 153g 48.96 6.27 0.61 2.60 3.67
butternut squash & sweet potato, co-op, prep'd, 40c/C6.2/F0.3/P1.0/Fi4.0/100g
......... 300g 120.00 18.60 0.90 3.00 12.00
chestnut mushrooms, 1/6'd, 16cal/C0.4g/F0.5g/P1.8g/Fi1.1g/100g
......... 253g 40.48 1.01 1.27 4.55 2.78
oyster mushrooms, medium sliced, co-op, 10c/C0/F0.2/P2.3/Fi2.4/100g
......... 96g 9.60 0.00 0.19 2.21 2.30
dried mixed mushrooms, tesco, 210c/C26.4/F1.7/P21.9/Fi32.6/100g
......... 10g 21.00 2.64 0.17 2.19 3.26
onion, red, co-op, fine sliced, 35c/C7.6/F0.2/P1.3/Fi1.4/100g
......... 50g 17.50 3.80 0.10 0.65 0.70
chives, fresh, chopped, 30c/C1.85/F0.73/P3.27/Fi2.5/100g
......... 10g 3.00 0.19 0.07 0.33 0.25
olive oil, 824c/C0.0/F91.6/P0.0/Fi0.0/100ml
......... 5ml 41.20 0.00 4.58 0.00 0.00
brie, tesco, christmas, 290c/C2.1/F22.4/P18.5/Fi1.8/100g
......... 117g 339.30 2.46 26.21 21.65 2.11
taleggio, f.f. semi-hard cheese, diced, 330c/C1.1/F27.0/P20.4/Fi0/100g
......... 124g 409.20 1.36 33.48 25.30 0.00
goat's cheese, hard, Village Green, crumbled, 408c/C0.1/F29.5/P23.0/Fi0/100g
......... 47g 191.76 0.05 13.87 10.81 0.00
walnuts, raw, co-op, medium chopped, 654c/C7.0/F65.2/P15.2/Fi7.0/100g
......... 40g 261.60 2.80 26.08 6.08 2.80
nutmeg, dried ground
......... a few good pinches 0.00
s&p 0.00
total for baked cheeses with savoy cabbage 1503.60 39.18 107.53 79.36 29.88
308/964 portion baked cheeses with savoy cabbage 480.40 12.52 34.35 25.36 9.55Methods: 1. put the dried mushrooms in a wee bowl, add hot water to soak and set aside; 2. de-vein the cabbage leaves, wash in salty water, drain roughly, ping in a lidded dish for 4 to 5 minutes until the leaves are tender, then drain well and set aside to dry off; 3. heat the oil in a non-stick pan and sweat the onion for a few minutes then add the chestnut mushrooms, cook for a few minutes and then add the oyster mushrooms and the dried mushrooms (drained - use the soak water later as "gravy" if you like); 4. add the squash and tattie and stir-fry that for a few minutes (or ping it, as I did, from frozen for 5 minutes); 5. layer the cabbage, squash & tatties, mushrooms, cheeses (pinch small bits off the brie and scatter), walnuts, nutmeg, chives, and s&p as creatively as you will - I finished on top with a layer of cabbage, squash & tatties, lots of cheese and s&p; 6. bung in a pre-heated oven at 200C for 20 to 30 minutes, do a final browning off under the grill if needs be.
Oh heck. I've just discovered the "Delphi complete works" collection on Kindle - can't resist the complete works of Jack London (that includes political pamphlets, poems, plays etc. as well as the usual 22 novels, plus all his non-fiction stuff). Wow. All for 99 pence. Shame it's still downloading after 3 hours - will need to leave wee Valentine on overnight. At least the OH can't complain about my books taking up space in his hoose this way! Yay!
Stupid of me to try it at this time of night I suppose, but the great god of being-kind-to-FatDogs was in residence and was feeling extremely generous! I now have a 'food' table in a new database sitting on my 32GB microSD card (drive D:) which has more than 20GB to spare, and I have a new hugely capacious 64GB microSD card on its way. Unlike the internal drive whose free space is shrinking rapidly. I *have* to find how to redirect my kindle files to somewhere other than the system drive or I'll be scuppered. But many woofs of celebration for the database stuff - that's the first techy database thing (hardly demanding I know) that I've done in a couple of years since burnout. Woof, woof, woof! That's a happy FatDog away to bed at just gone two... Sweet dreams.
Wonder if I could prevail further upon the generosity of the being-kind-to-FatDogs god and ask for a nice number on the scales tomorrow, or would that be being too greedy?
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Thursday, low-carb day two-hundred and forty-two, feed day Weigh-in at start of day wt. 108.0lbs (analogue scales corrected ~106.25lbs); 0.2lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 28.5, w. 25.5, t. 30.25, h. 34.25 inches
Well, greedy it must have been, as my post-repair day loss was a teensy 0.2lbs. Sniff. Methinks the fairies and gods have run out of favours for me - I just hope they're being nice to one of yous instead. It's as if the diet-devil is taunting me, baiting me, tempting me into throwing in the towel in disgust. I honestly don't know how you long-term plateau-dwellers hang in there - you're better (wo)men than me!
If I stick my "rational" head on (what? at this time of the day?) then I am, actually being totally and utterly unreasonable: 108lbs is exactly my target average and 108.0lbs is my weight this morning - so
what *is* my problem? I'm *MEANT TO BE MAINTAINING* for goodness sake!
Anyone out there with Asus Transformer / Windows 8.1 experience? I've a really weird one for you: if I have multiple windows open and I'm typing, say, in the google box, the "active window focus" will shift to somewhere else and away from the one I'm typing in (can't actually see where to, and the task bar indicates that it hasn't shifted at all)! It is *exceedingly* disconcerting. Am wondering if it's one of the cursor keys or the trackpad playing up. Possibly the touch screen too, of course. Google is not being forthcoming. Will need to detach the screen and see if it still happens - trouble is, it's only doing it intermittently, so I'll be into "one cannot prove a negative" territory. I. Do. Not. Need. This. Just. Now.
'Tis behaving just this minute, so lets see if I can't at least get my weight-log done. Yes, but only just. It'll be "good" for a few minutes and then, just as I'm thinking it's sorted, shift "focus" in the middle of my typing something - argh! Can't cope with it. Haven't a scoobie how to fix it. Upset? Yeah, just a bit - think I might have a wee weep.
Ah - I've found the google-grail search term, perhaps: "active window deactivation". It's an *old* Windows problem (possibly back to XP, so that's sort of a relief - it's not Valentine misbehaving) - now for what's doing it and how to fix it... 'tis a different matter.
To work - various *stupid* travails render me pretty miserable by the time I arrive at the bookstore - bless boss number two, who was sympathy personified and even made me a cup of tea. Survive and without ever failing a smile for our customers - me, I'm nae bad at this retail stuff.
There was *such* a tempting pack of seeds & nuts in the co-op on the way home this evening - just 2.9g carb per 100g. FatDog's heart went a-flutter... then realised that such numbers were complete bunk (of course) - given that most none of the individual components of mixed seeds, almonds, hazelnuts etc. have carb levels much below 7 to 9 grams per 100g. Sigh. I *hate* duff nutrition information. Especially when one tells the manufacturer about it but they leave it there anyway. Charlatans.
Lovely friends by this evening, talking legacy computing things and Scottish politics, whilst meantimes dinner was a crazy half-carb-fest of baked sweet potato, onion and garlic dip, with mixed beans, cheese and salad type stuff... followed by far more vino with nut and chocolate accompaniments than acceptable for a weekday, and finally nailed with FOUR cheese OATCAKES. Will be caloried and carbed out - but I've given up caring. So there.
........ Calories 2458.41 Carbs 114.47 Fat 142.48 Protein 62.67 Fibre 26.74
Not sure what that was all about - eating to drive away the blues perhaps, or "vengeance" on the scales for not doing what I thought they should do? Whatever drove it, it was a pretty impressive bit of self-sabotage.
Fortunately I didn't take my Ferriss "mad day of indulgence" last weekend so Thursday's insanity was actually "within the rules". Mind, that was just good fortune as I wasn't even thinking about that at the time - naughty FatDog.