A couple days ago, I had joined the Atkins community to get some healthy recipes and got a free quick start kit for joining. It came in the mail today. I tried out the caramel nut chew bar...it's exactly like a snickers! I want more! It only has 1g of sugar! I noticed that I really need to cut back on my sugar intake. My usual carnation breakfast has 30g of sugar...that's 75% of my daily intake right there! Sadly, I should really try to cut carnation out of my diet completely. That's hard for me, as I've been drinking the stuff for over 5 years almost every day for breakfast. I also need to not buy those fruit flavored yogurts for smoothies...too much sugar, 26g sugar...over half my daily intake right there!I recently signed up for the MyFitnessPal website. It has a food diary that I am hoping I can utilize and it will make calculating all this nutritional information a little bit easier. It also has an exercise calculator, which I am hoping will help me get my butt moving because I need the exercise. I especially need to build muscle. I am no where near as in shape as I was a couple years ago. I want to get in on that zumba class that is on Thursdays but I guess it will have to wait another week. I am going to drive the hubby to work again tomorrow as he has to go to that base that is far away. It's nice to get out of the house and I have a few more crafty things I want to shop for at Michael's.
I am pretty disappointed with how I spent most of my day today. I did change the catbox, take out the garbage, unload/load the dishwasher, and make dinner, but aside from those few things, I've pretty much been on the computer all day. I've been spending a lot of my time these past few months promoting and helping members in the ForgiveStudentLoanDebt.com group on FB. A petition that was started just 3 months ago in support of H.R.4170 - Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 surpassed one million signatures late last night. There was an influx of new members asking to join the group so I spent a lot of time this morning adding members, bumping important posts and answering questions. The rest of my day was spent calculating past days' nutritional intake, but mostly on Pinterest and a random tutorial generator. I should have been catching up on homework for my online javascript class. I fell behind on the weekly homework assignments while I had my gallbladder removed a month ago. I get two problems, usually having to create some sort of mock website for each. It ends up taking me anywhere from 4-10 hours to complete. I've been working on last week's homework but I still need to finish this week's homework by Sunday or I'll still be a week behind. I really need to devote one entire day to just doing homework to catch up. Could have happened today, but it didn't, sadly. Won't happen tomorrow, but hopefully I can force myself to at least do a few hours when I get back from my day-long adventure out in Virginia Beach. Really need to get my butt in gear though! There is so much I want to do and need to get done, but I waste so much time online! Damn you Pinterest!
For dinner, I attempted this oven crisp chicken recipe. Mine didn't turn out so well. I used a ranch vinaigrette dressing that I had at home already and the cracker crumbs just didn't stick to the chicken very well. Most of the crumbs fell off while it was in the oven. Also, I checked the chicken after 25 minutes and the tips were starting to burn. I stuck my meat thermometer in one of the breasts and it only reached 130 degrees. I put the chicken back in for 5 minutes and checked the temperature again and it was the same. Maybe I need a new meat thermometer, but isn't chicken supposed to get up to 165 or so? I cut one of them open and it looked thoroughly cooked. It wasn't too bad, but it was too thymey, I accidentally spilled a bit extra in the cracker crumbs. It was edible though. May try it again with real ranch dressing and different crackers.
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