Chats on the Farmhouse Porch with Patrice

I’ve tried to wrap my brain around daily calorie intake for my age, height, & weight. When I enter my data into one of the calorie calculators, it outputs 1800 calories. Okay, I understand this is what I need to do, if I don’t want to lose weight. I re-key data making my weight 10 pounds less and I get the answer 1700 calories.

The problem I see with this is it’s too many calories period! Whenever I take the time to really watch what I’m eating and physically chart everything out then I can keep my calories between 1000-1200. This is easily 500 calories fewer than what’s recommended, which means within a week’s time I should be able to melt away at least one pound. The good thing about this is, I’m not hungry with the reduction in my diet.

My next weight in will be Sunday. I should see some loss on the scales, but I’m always troubled by this because in the past I’ve seen first hand all of my hard work – closely monitored diet and exercise to yield a big fat NOTHING. sigh

Oh well, I’m not going to worry with such things this morning. Instead, I’m going to happily skip off to visit Patrice for Chats on a farmhouse porch.

This week’s questions… 

1. What do you do when friends or family pull out a camera? Hide, pose, smile, pull out your own camera and take a photo of whatever they are photographing, or something else? It depends. If I’m presentable, then I may pose and smile real big or if I’m in one of my blah moods then I may cover my face insisting the person go away.
2. Did you take any type of music lesson in elementary school? I was in band from grades 5-8. I played a flute. At some point, I took a little piano. I wish I had stuck out piano lessons now. Is it too late to learn how to play?
3. What is your favorite color of cat (even if you aren’t a cat person)? I think I prefer a calico with three colors best. We had a calico years ago, but I’m allergic to cats and had to give her away. 🙁
4. What did you have for dinner yesterday? Chilly dogs with cole slaw. I made slaw over the weekend and since this is something I don’t do too often I made sure to make hot dogs so I could have my favorite hot dog.
5. Do your feet hit the floor running in the morning, or do you drag your self out of bed?From Monday-Friday, I get up with no problem. The alarm clock sounds and up I go, but the weekends are entirely different story. All I want to do is sleep, sleep, sleep!

Before you hop away, I want to call attention to these giveaways on my blog:

A Little Bird Told Me rubber art stamp set (ends June 26th)
Elfishki and the Giant Cake iPad interactive book (NO entries so far – ends June 19th)

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