Food & Exercise -- 3/27/2004

Food (all at home);

8:00: 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices melted
f/f cheese; 3 mint meringue cookies

11:00: 1 apple

12:15: sandwich w/ 2 slices whole wheat bread, 104g grilled chicken
breast, and 1 tsp mustard

3:30: protein shake

7:15: 104g porterhouse steak; 146g baked potato; 90g snow peas {This
was takeout from our country club. Our food minimum was running out,
and we didn't feel like going out to eat, so DH went over (it's just a
mile away) and got 3 take-out steak dinners to use up the minimum.
It's enough steak for about 6 meals, I think. I ate less than half of
one serving.}

sometime later this evening: creatine

Totals: 1450 calories, 22g fat (14%), 177g carbs (49%), 131g protein
(36%)

Averages for the week: 1403 calories, 22% fat, 45% carbs, 32% protein

Exercise: Just a little housework -- not much. {For the record, I
will be cutting back on exercise to conserve energy for the meet on
Friday.}

Chris
262/157/ (145-150)

Chris Braun wrote:

7:15: 104g porterhouse steak; 146g baked potato; 90g snow peas {This
was takeout from our country club. Our food minimum was running out,
and we didn't feel like going out to eat, so DH went over (it's just a
mile away) and got 3 take-out steak dinners to use up the minimum.
It's enough steak for about 6 meals, I think. I ate less than half of
one serving.}

I totally didn't get the 'food minimum' thing. Can you enlighten me?

Dally

"Dally" wrote in message
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Chris Braun wrote:

7:15: 104g porterhouse steak; 146g baked potato; 90g snow peas {This
was takeout from our country club. Our food minimum was running out,
and we didn't feel like going out to eat, so DH went over (it's just a
mile away) and got 3 take-out steak dinners to use up the minimum.
It's enough steak for about 6 meals, I think. I ate less than half of
one serving.}

I totally didn't get the 'food minimum' thing. Can you enlighten me?

Dally

Don't know whether it's the same at all clubs but at many of the local
country clubs members are required to purchase a minimum amount of food and
beverages to support these services.

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:35:40 -0500, Dally wrote:

Chris Braun wrote:

7:15: 104g porterhouse steak; 146g baked potato; 90g snow peas {This
was takeout from our country club. Our food minimum was running out,
and we didn't feel like going out to eat, so DH went over (it's just a
mile away) and got 3 take-out steak dinners to use up the minimum.
It's enough steak for about 6 meals, I think. I ate less than half of
one serving.}

I totally didn't get the 'food minimum' thing. Can you enlighten me?

Dally

Sorry -- I shouldn't have assumed it made sense. It's typical for
country clubs to require that members spend a certain amount in the
dining room per month or per quarter. If you don't, they bill you for
it anyway. This quarter we had around $60 of our minimum left that
we'd have been billed for at the end of the month whether or not we
spent it. So in effect what we got last night was free food.

Chris

Chris Braun wrote:

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:35:40 -0500, Dally wrote:


Chris Braun wrote:


7:15: 104g porterhouse steak; 146g baked potato; 90g snow peas {This
was takeout from our country club. Our food minimum was running out,
and we didn't feel like going out to eat, so DH went over (it's just a
mile away) and got 3 take-out steak dinners to use up the minimum.
It's enough steak for about 6 meals, I think. I ate less than half of
one serving.}

I totally didn't get the 'food minimum' thing. Can you enlighten me?

Dally


Sorry -- I shouldn't have assumed it made sense. It's typical for
country clubs to require that members spend a certain amount in the
dining room per month or per quarter. If you don't, they bill you for
it anyway. This quarter we had around $60 of our minimum left that
we'd have been billed for at the end of the month whether or not we
spent it. So in effect what we got last night was free food.

Chris

Ah, thanks. I have no experience with them. I don't even think there's
a Country Club near me. What benefit does it give you?

Dally

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:14:53 -0500, Dally wrote:

Ah, thanks. I have no experience with them. I don't even think there's
a Country Club near me. What benefit does it give you?

I know country clubs aren't that big a deal in the Boston area; I used
to live there. I expect it's because golf isn't that popular, and
most people join country clubs primarily for the golf. We don't
really do golf. For us, the benefits of the club a
* It's a sort of social center for the neighborhood. There's a
community of homes surrounding the club and most people belong.
* They have a good restaurant, and it's within walking distance of
our house. The nearest other restaurants above burger quality are
around 10 miles away.
* There's a swimming pool that we use in the summer. There are also
tennis courts, but I've only used them a couple of times -- don't
really play tennis.
* It's a nice place to take guests, where we can just sign a check
for a meal and never deal with cash or credit cards or anything that
might make them feel like they should offer to pay.
* The club also has a small gym, which I want to check out for
occasional workouts when I don't feel like going to our real gym. I
haven't ever used it, though.

Chris