Which says a good deal positive about the protein level of the Miscon con suite.
We had, during the course of the weekend, breakfast (comes with the room) of hotel scrambled eggs, which we think had carbohydrate filler. But it was better than a sweet roll or cereal (they use sugar to stiffen the flakes)—then the hot dog (no bun) and pulled pork sandwich (hold the bun) items from the con suite for lunch and again for supper. One meal out, a chicken Caesar across the street at an actual restaurant. And the convention barbecue: 2 hot dogs no bun (me) and a couple of hamburgers no bun (Jane) and that was it for food for the weekend. We never felt hungry. And the carb in the eggs probably worked out to be enough. No alcohol. Zippo. Tempted, but no. Didn’t.
On the 3 hour drive home, being tired, I had fantasies of pulling into a gas station for a monster Toll House Cookie/Ice Cream sandwich, which is horrifically sweetened, which probably would have hit my carb-short system like a ton of bricks…
Fortunately I had more sense: Jane and I each got a packet of cashews at the 10,000 Silver Dollars stop at Haugen, the halfway point, and more coffee, more diet soda for her, and I was good.
WHen we got home, I’d gained back 3 pounds and she hadn’t. But… back on our regular diet, it went away, so that was just water-retention from something I was allergic to, probably something in the last hot dogs…such is life with allergies to the lily family (onion.)
At any rate, back to normal…and where I was when the weekend started.
We’re going to have a few more such tests of dietary ingenuity upcoming, a visit with Patty and Mike, and SoonerCon…but if we just stick to hotdogs and sandwiches, no bun, we can keep from undoing everything we’ve done. Fitting into those size 14 slim Levis this last weekend was a Good Thing.
Ahh, so the previous note that said what you hadn’t been able to do really did imply you did now. I know, programmers really can be literal-minded PsITA. 😉 🙂
BTW, cashews are in the same family as poison oak and can cause severe allergies in some people, so I once read.
I did gain 3 pounds. I just wasn’t sure what sort of weight it was; but I shed it after 2 days, so it’s all good. The one meal out was just exactly one meal in the whole weekend, not part of the daily diet, so that was a hotdog we didn’t have.
I’ve been known to get almonds for snacking. Or mixed nuts. (Dried fruit may be too high-carb for you, but it goes well with the nuts.)
Hot dogs tend to have tons of salt, which can cause water retention.
Raw almonds for snacking (if you’re not allergic) are great because humans can’t generally process all the potential calories in raw nuts.
I’m just a wee bit to sensitive to trees to eat true nuts raw.
Roasted almonds are good, too, but I try to avoid the glazed ones.
Happened to have a packet thawing in the fridge. A 1.5oz frank has 380mg NaCl, 16% of RDA.
Congrats on sticking to the diet thru the con. We were out of town doing a sailboat race this weekend, and I managed not to gain any weight. Amazing,since I succumbed to the temptation of dessert on Friday night! My favorite snack nuts are macademias, since they have the fewest carbs of all the tree nuts. Cashews are a close second and what I took with me for the weekend, since I’m not inclined to share the macademias since they are so expensive. Actually found roasted unsalted cashews at Wegman’s Grocery in club pack sized bottle, so I was happy about that. I generally travel with nuts so I have a low carb snack on hand when that sinking feeling suddenly comes over me.
Best place to get cheap macadamias is Costco or Sam’s. There’s a huge difference in some products, and nuts, vinegar (we use it for fish tank cleaning), and chips, likewise veggies are way cheaper there.
Mac nuts… 😀
Costco is great. I go there about once a month for a standard list of supplies, and add non-standard supplies maybe every third trip. Their house brand (Kirkland) is usually as good or better than name, and costs less. The one thing I have found is that, despite being cheaper, check the dates on the fruit and veg. I was disappointed once to discover that every container of raspberries in the top layer and a half had mold, and a 5 pound bag of mini carrots had a use-by date in 2 weeks — on a root vegetable! That may be simply due to travel time to where we are, but I still have learned caution.
OT, but may be of interest:
Mary Rose museum opens in Portsmouth
The Mary Rose was Henry VIII’s warship that sank in 1545 and has been recovered with an amazing amount intact.
The 3 links to related articles are also worth looking at – In pictures: Life on the Mary Rose, Face of Mary Rose sailor recreated, and The Mary Rose crew members revealed.
The museum was still being assembled when DH and I visited GB in 2005, but they had a few things on display that had been recovered. All attention at that time was on H.M.S. Victory; there was a big to-do over the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, and the venerable lady was being spit-and-polished for the festivities.
Very neat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose is a lengthy account of her career.