Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Well, we're really doing pretty good with this weight watchers thing: We've both lost over 20 pounds so far. It's pretty cool, because you can eat anything you want--even carbs--take that, Atkins! You just have to not eat as much, which ought to be common sense. Of course, they give you some tools to figure out how much you should eat, as well. Being a geek, I looked up the patent, found the formula for their "points", and converted it to something we could do in our head:
Being a geek (did I mention that?), I keep track to .25, but Rita isn't that A-R. It is amazing how much fat and calories some things have--like nuts! We thought we were eating healthy by eating trail mix--ha! Instead, we were piling on the points.
We had totally decadent sundaes at Ghirardelli Square (see, you can eat anything!) in San Francisco, where we went for our annual "what are we going to do with this holiday so soon after Christmas?" trip. (Couldn't Dr King have been born some time where there aren't enough holidays?) Of course, that sundae pretty much shot our "bonus" (flex) points...
Besides Martin Luther King Jr, San Francisco was celebrating Chinese New Year, so there were a zillion people in Chinatown. We stayed at the hotel where they filmed Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo". We went to the "Zeum" (using our Tech museum 50% discount, how cool is that?), where they had this cool interactive game which is a huge version of that old wood game where you tip the board to try and move the marble around and avoid the holes. Rita's playing in the picture. We walked about 10 miles, just in one day: over to Union Square, through Chinatown, down at the waterfront. We also had breakfast at a restaurant named "The Titanic", which I only mention because there are just so many umm, opportunities there... No, our meal wasn't a disaster, but if the food had been bad, we could have sung My Heart(burn) Will Go On...and you don't want me to go on!
And I've finally got the "Christmas" letters into envelopes, and they will go out tomorrow! Yeah!
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double the calories. If there's lots of fat, add 25 for every 3 gm of fat. Then subtract 20 for each gm of fiber, but you only get to subtract a max of 80. Then divide by 100. |
Being a geek (did I mention that?), I keep track to .25, but Rita isn't that A-R. It is amazing how much fat and calories some things have--like nuts! We thought we were eating healthy by eating trail mix--ha! Instead, we were piling on the points.
We had totally decadent sundaes at Ghirardelli Square (see, you can eat anything!) in San Francisco, where we went for our annual "what are we going to do with this holiday so soon after Christmas?" trip. (Couldn't Dr King have been born some time where there aren't enough holidays?) Of course, that sundae pretty much shot our "bonus" (flex) points...
Besides Martin Luther King Jr, San Francisco was celebrating Chinese New Year, so there were a zillion people in Chinatown. We stayed at the hotel where they filmed Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo". We went to the "Zeum" (using our Tech museum 50% discount, how cool is that?), where they had this cool interactive game which is a huge version of that old wood game where you tip the board to try and move the marble around and avoid the holes. Rita's playing in the picture. We walked about 10 miles, just in one day: over to Union Square, through Chinatown, down at the waterfront. We also had breakfast at a restaurant named "The Titanic", which I only mention because there are just so many umm, opportunities there... No, our meal wasn't a disaster, but if the food had been bad, we could have sung My Heart(burn) Will Go On...and you don't want me to go on!
And I've finally got the "Christmas" letters into envelopes, and they will go out tomorrow! Yeah!
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