Re: Day 14

January 27, 2005

> Tomorrow I'm going out to lunch at the Japanese restaurant. Not much luck

> in finding accurate nutritional info

The only Japanese restaurant I had ever been in in my life was called Kobe

Steak House, adn it was one of those places where you chose waht you wanted

and the chef would stand there and cook it on the griddle in front of you,

doing all the fancy flips and tosses. If you already know apx. how many

calories are in a certain size hunk of meat or the veggies you can

approximate what's being cooked. The entree itself probably won't be that

much, especially if it's just meat & veggies, but watch out for your dessert

& drink choices.

so I'm just going to SWAG it and limit

> my calories for the rest of the day to 1000. Sound ok?

Do you think you're going to be eating/drinking 1000 calories worth there?

Sue in NJ

January 27, 2005

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From: " Sue in NJ " <susang@...>

> doing all the fancy flips and tosses. If you already know apx. how many

> calories are in a certain size hunk of meat or the veggies you can

> approximate what's being cooked.

This isn't a Japanese steak house, just a regular Japanese restaurant with

sushi bar. No one yelling or flipping. Nice ambience. Quiet and a

nice place to read.

> much, especially if it's just meat & veggies, but watch out for your

dessert

I always get iced tea (use sweet n low AND equal and I don't get

dessert.

> Do you think you're going to be eating/drinking 1000 calories worth there?

Here's what I've found on the internet:

Tempura: 3 prawns and veggies 320 18 grams fat

Miso soup: 85 calories 3 grams of fat

Maki: per piece 70 calories 1 gram of fat

I also get soup with some kind of dressing. I get cucumber maki which is

cucumber and rice rolled in a seaweed wrapper. It's 6 pieces but I doubt it

is 70 calories per piece because it only has cucumber and rice inside. Say

50 calories each so that's 300 calories. Say the salad dressing is 200

calories and I'm up to 900 give or take. I think limiting the rest of the

day to 1000 sounds good. That might be a good plan whenever I go out to eat

and can't really figure out the calories. Well, unless it's Tex Mex then I

can have 3 calories the rest of the day and I have to walk on the treadmill

for 7 hours.

I'm pulling a Sue and gaining weight on 2000 calories a day this week. Ugh!

I know our weight fluctuates day to day so I'm just going to stick with my

plan and see what happens on Monday for official weigh in. I know Sue is

going to tell me not to weigh during the week but I weigh pretty much every

morning.

I'll do 20 min. on the treadmill today. My knees are sore from skating but

not too bad. I have a ton of stuff to do today. I have to clean out my van

so I can take a load of Girl Scouts to the library for a tour this

afternoon. We have a wonderful library that is only about 2 years old and

we'll get a behind the scenes tour. Hopefully the girls will find it

interesting.

Have a healthy day!

Ann

January 27, 2005

> This isn't a Japanese steak house, just a regular Japanese restaurant with> sushi bar.

Never been to one of those, and you'll never get me to eat raw fish! (I know, not all sushi is raw fish, but I like to complain)

>Say the salad dressing is 200> calories and I'm up to 900 give or take.

Gosh, calories do add up fast!

I think limiting the rest of the> day to 1000 sounds good.

Yeah, probably.

>Well, unless it's Tex Mex then I> can have 3 calories the rest of the day and I have to walk on the treadmill> for 7 hours.

LOL

> I'm pulling a Sue and gaining weight on 2000 calories a day this week. Ugh!

>I know Sue is going to tell me not to weigh during the week but I weigh pretty much every> morning.

(click, click, click - the sound of Sue deleting what she just finished typing)

> so I can take a load of Girl Scouts to the library for a tour this> afternoon. We have a wonderful library that is only about 2 years old and> we'll get a behind the scenes tour.

Ours will celebrated its 115th anniversary this year, 102 years at its current location. They've changed the interior around a bit, and over the years added just one extension, but it's still an interesting place to visit, especially when they take you to the workrooms behind the scenes.

Hopefully the girls will find it> interesting.

I'm sure they will. So few parents take their kids to the library any more, some of these girls may have never been there before. Make sure they all take home an application for a library card for their parents to fill out!

Sue in NJ - bibliophile

September 9, 2005

Hi Aggie, hang in there!!! I'm in my fourth week and feeling better. The drug

is quite subtle. Probs are still there but I am able to cope better, and no

anxiety attacks. Just hope this one doesn't stop working like Zoloft. Take

care, Barb

Aggie <agathea@...> wrote:Oh, what a flat day I'm having today...and

yesterday too. The main

thing at the moment seems to be lack of motivation and a couple of

intrusive thoughts. I guess it's still early days and I'm hanging in

there.

Aggie

September 9, 2005

Give it another week and if it doesn't improve I would ask for a

increase in dose. It can take a while for the full effect of the meds

though. Just keep thinking it's not your fault that you have no

motivation...it's the depression. That helps me sometimes. My

psychologist told me to go out and get sunlight in my eyes and that

would do wonders. At first I thought he was an idiot. But when I go

out bike riding with my kids, I feel great! Of course that is hard to

do when you aren't motivated to do anything. Just try and hang in

there! :-)

> Oh, what a flat day I'm having today...and yesterday too. The main

> thing at the moment seems to be lack of motivation and a couple of

> intrusive thoughts. I guess it's still early days and I'm hanging

in

> there.

>

> Aggie

September 9, 2005

Hi

I was wondering if it had anything to do with need to increase the dose....but

yeah, I need to give the meds a chance to kick in with the full effect. I'm

really looking forward to that!

I'm thinking that if I do need an increase I would try 15mg instead of going

straight to 20. I'd see what the doctor thought, though, obviously.

Thanks for the encouragement. Talking about all this and hearing about the

experience of others sure helps.