Blogging hasn't been a big priority lately..

But that's not a surprise. Now that the kiddoes are heading back to school next week, I'll be more likely to pack my lunch rather than eat out. Which has to help the CRON thing. I have been trying to keep calories low and nutrition high, but I just haven't had enough intensity/obsession about CRON lately to blog about it, or even think about it. Just in a comfortable routine, spinach/eggwhites for breakfast, salad veggies/ lean meat for lunch and couple of bites of whatever the family is eating for dinner. Rut or routine? Whichever, it's working and I'm down four pounds of the ten i gained this year since I started working full time again.

Um, yeah, I'm still alive....

Abject apologies I just opened mine eyes, and lo! I have not updated this since they invented sliced bread... You would not believe that I'd been abducted by aliens. But I'm sorry you'll just have to take my word for it..

I am totally and utterly flat out with setting fire to people wearing Crocs, driving from one end of the city to the other, just generally being an embarrassment to my kids, my day starts with the dawn patrol from crawling out of bed at 6.30 to midnight. I am not complaining though. I need a nap.

I won't promise anything to you but I will make more of an effort to blog more often. No, really! What do you mean you don't believe me?.


Gotta love the internet.

Doesn't happen often...

But I'll be busy the next few weeks, and the reason is all over the Texas news...Haven't been sent to "the compound" yet, but my shift with the removed children is coming soon. Not sure if the hotels will be cron friendly, and not sure I'll really care...

Not what I'd call a good breakfast

My son sent this to my cell phone at 6 am. Yep, my kitchen floor. yep, a snake.


You heard of Snakes on a Plane

here's the sequel, Snake in my Kitchen

Can't find nutrition information, so not sure if it's CRON Friendly. But the Chinese apparently use them in soup.

How CRONIEs enjoy their chocolate Easter Bunnies....

It scares me how much I laughed at this.

The month thus far...

I've been playing around with macro nutrient ratios. I'm finding that I really feel better and function better with lower carbs and higher fats, protein. Like even my hair and skin look better. It's keeping weight off better too, since I'm only running 40 miles a week, rather than the 70 I was running last summer.

As far as cutting out the carbs, pretty much no white flour, no white rice, no white sugar. My weight is back where it was before I started the job, 126-127 and there's much less hair in the hair brush. So carbs come mainly fron veggies - brocoli, cauliflower, leafy greens including kale, spinach and chard.

And there is a new addiction: Emerald Cocoa Roasted Almonds. Absolutely to die for. And it comes in a club size!




Here's the week's crunch. Honestly, the calories have been closer to 1700 or 1000 depending on daily activity. So here's the average.

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Nutrition Summary
March 17, 2008 to March 23, 2008
Daily Averages over 7 days
Report generated by CRON-o-Meter v0.9.3
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General (68%)
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Energy | 1364.7 kcal 91%
Protein | 100.4 g 89%
Carbs | 40.3 g 82%
Fiber | 9.9 g 33%
Fat | 88.4 g 82%
Water | 1153.8 g 31%

Vitamins (100%)
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Vitamin A | 13426.4 IU 448%
Folate | 677.7 µg 169%
B1 (Thiamine) | 5.7 mg 473%
B2 (Riboflavin) | 7.2 mg 557%
B3 (Niacin) | 60.7 mg 379%
B5 (Pantothenic Acid)| 15.6 mg 312%
B6 (Pyridoxine) | 7.3 mg 430%
B12 (Cyanocobalamin) | 21.5 µg 895%
Vitamin C | 166.8 mg 185%
Vitamin D | 440.3 IU 110%
Vitamin E | 70.5 mg 470%
Vitamin K | 364.7 µg 304%

Minerals (89%)
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Calcium | 661.3 mg 55%
Copper | 2.8 mg 310%
Iron | 18.2 mg 101%
Magnesium | 284.2 mg 68%
Manganese | 3.8 mg 164%
Phosphorus | 1253.8 mg 179%
Potassium | 2291.1 mg 65%
Selenium | 158.3 µg 288%
Sodium | 2890.3 mg 222%
Zinc | 26.5 mg 241%

Lipids (80%)
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Saturated | 25.5 g 128%
Omega-3 | 0.8 g 47%
Omega-6 | 10.3 g 73%
Cholesterol | 581.5 mg 194%

This employment thing can sure get in the way of life...

One of the duties of my job is to write "narratives" about the people I speak with all day. Which isn't hard for me, but when i get home, like tonight at ten pm, it makes it really hard to sit down and type. At work, we have a dictation service. We can either call in our dictation, or write hand written notes, fax them in, and within a couple of hours, it all shows up neatly typed in the email box. Very cool. Makes me wonder who does this all day, sitting around somewhere and getting my scribbled note with arrows and marging notes to turn into a pretty document.I hope this poor person gets paid well. It's a cool service.

The landline is gone and i haven't missed it.

Oh, yeah, this is my cron blog. Calories have been a bit higher, 1600-1700 range. Otherwise, pretty boring. i'm in a food rut and it doesn't bother me a bit! I've been trying to get better about weighing and measuring, so I'm most likely not eating more than I have been, just more diligent about entering every bite. No more unaccounted for almonds!