Easter Weekend

Yesterday, Friday, was anything but a typical day. The weather was wonderful - warm and everyone was home from work/school. So, after breakfast, gym and some light shopping we began the task of spring yard clean-up. This was complicated by the fact that we bought the house last October and with the early snowfall - had very little time to do a fall clean-up. Therefore, we had a ton of leaves to clean out of the gardens and the lawn. All five of us pitched in and it took about 2 hours to get everything done. The yard looks great - I ended up with some dime-sized blisters between the thumb and forefinger of both hands - OW.

My parents arrived for Easter weekend and we enjoyed sitting out on the deck and enjoying the weather. Because our breakfast and lunch were so low in calories and with the workout and the yard work we estimated that we burned about 1200 calories - both the wife & I had nearly 1600 more calories that we could eat - we didn't but it allowed us to go out to dinner. Mexican!

We chose grilled chicken fajitas for 2, more food that we needed. We avoided the chips and salsa, and just had dinner - after 3 small fajitas each with about a 1/2 serving of rice. Next time we know to order fajitas for 1, and split it. We will also take our own whole wheat tortillas and save on some calories. But at the end of the day we only consumed about 700 for the whole meal (including sour cream and rice).

Today has been relaxing - woke up and had crockpot oatmeal for breakfast then went to the gym. For snack had sugar snap peas, carrots and a tangerine - lunch was leftover fajita on a whole wheat wrap - afternoon snack was cottage cheese, tomato, wheat crackers. For dinner we will be having a shrimp stir-fry, can't wait. The constant eating is keeping me from being hungry, but looks like I'm still going to be way short of my calorie goal.

For Easter dinner we have planned: grilled pork roast, baked sweet potatoes, boiled asparagus, and reduced fat apple pie. Happy Easter!