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Leftover cookies that went to work on Monday<\/p><\/div>\n
But, now’s the time of year when I worry the most about gaining weight. I’m not as active as during cookie season when I’m baking till all hours of the night; I’m more sedentary in the evening, reading or watching TV.<\/p>\n
Plus this year Mark’s home full time, a big change to the schedule we’ve had for the last 5 years. He’s more likely to eat nothing much during the day and want a real dinner where I prefer more eating in the day time, and less at dinner time. Of course he’d be the first to tell me that I don’t have to make dinner on his account – but it’s nice to have dinner together, so I like to do it. But I’m sure it’s better for my health to skip dinner once in awhile.<\/p>\n
Case in point – today so far: for breakfast at home I had an eggnog latte, the last of the second carton of eggnog I bought over the holidays, then for second breakfast at work I ate a bowl (plastic container actually) of the Ashure cereal with a 1\/2 cup of whole milk that I brought in a bottle from a Starbucks mocha, and a small apple cut up into it. For a snack later today I have 2 clementines. My diet & exercise app tells me I’ll have about 880 calories left for dinner = not really enough, plus if I go buy another latte or snack, or typical for this time of year, break into the leftover cookies, I could easily blow it. I was going to bring a bagel to eat, too, with some of the peanut butter I have on my desk – but if I did that I’d be down to around 450 calories left for dinner.<\/p>\n
The math is pretty harsh.<\/p>\n
The pictures are better:<\/p>\n
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Flattened eggnog carton<\/p><\/div>\n
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(leftover) Milk & cereal<\/p><\/div>\n
And here’s what I ended up having for dinner Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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Radish-carrot-cilantro slaw with lime juice (made to go on our fish tacos on Monday) & microgreens, topped with avocado & bread crumbs. Peanut butter bagel with apricot jam on the 2nd half.<\/p><\/div>\n
The diet and exercise app says I’m OK on calories today. Whew.<\/p>\n
Monday for dinner we had our leftover fish from Friday fish fry made into tacos with that slaw, above, and avocados. Leftover Hoppin’ John on the side. The app says I was OK that day. Tuesday we decided to try out a new neighborhood restaurant, Cadre<\/a>. French food using WI ingredients, and I decided, rather than Bouillabaisse or beef bourguignon, or even moules frites – or steak frites for that matter – to have the soup of the day, and a bread, Brie, and olives platter. It was cream of celeriac, and the calorie app say 76 calories over that day.<\/p>\n And this is too wide for Insta, so I’m sticking it here, though not much of anyone will see it.<\/p>\n hmmmm … the Shapiro is strong with this one<\/p><\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dadmejohn.jpg\")