Weight: 249.8

Exercise: mowing the yard in the evening (2 hours pushing and pulling the mower)

Breakfast: bowl of Cocoa Peanut Butter Spheres

Between breakfast and lunch, I took a walk on campus to run a couple of errands. In the Culp, some first-year nursing students were doing a free blood pressure check for smoking awareness. I quit smoking over 7 years ago, so I'm okay in that area. My blood pressure wasn't that bad either (for me, at least): 128/83.

Lunch: Lean Cuisine Flatbread: Pesto Chicken; V8; Keebler Soft Batch chocolate chip cookies (4-pack)
Snack: a peach
Supper: Barberito's--spinach tortilla, rice, pintos, tofu, some veggies, chips & salsa, Diet Coke



Here's something to be remembered. The snack machine's package of cookies looked relatively innocent there in its slot between Poptarts and Rice Krispies Treats; the rows above it hold different kinds of M&Ms, as well as Snickers and Twix and 3 Musketeers and Baby Ruth and on and on. But as I was writing it down in the lunch report above, I began to wonder. So, I pulled the packaging from the office trash can, and here's what I discovered. The serving size is 1 cookie. Not 4--1. I ate all 4, ate them slowly, mind you, but ate them all all the same. In the eating of the 4-pack I consumed 310 calories, 130 of which came from fat. (I have to work the elliptical machine hard for 17-20 minutes to get rid of 310 calories!) I read further and discovered that I took in 14g total fat, 5g saturated fat and 1g trans fat. No cholesterol, thank goodness. 220mg of sodium also went in to combine with the fairly high sodium content of the Lean Cuisine and the V8. In the 4-pack were 42g of carbs, 1g fiber and 23g sugars. And at last, 2g protein.