Default Julie's food & exercise journal

JuliePulie said:
So today I'm preeeetty confident I burnt more calories than I took in.
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Sure looks that way to me, you had a great day!
JuliePulie said:
Belgians are too fond of festivals, barbecues, and all sorts of other summer activities that involve a cool glass of beer.
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Belgium sounds like fun! Festivals, barbecues and beer. Sounds like a lot of the US to me. But I know your beer is better than ours, I've never been to Belgium, but I have taken the time to familiarize myself with a lot of your beer! Or I thought I had, I just looked at a bottle of La Fin Du Monde, one of my favorites, but on close examination of the label I see it says "Belgian Style Ale", and in very fine print it seems to have been brewed in Qubec. So maybe I don't really know Belgian beer...
JuliePulie said:
No, it's not me in the pic. It's a still from 'stranger things'. I like that show.
Is it you in yours?
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Absolutely, I am the one with beard and sunglasses, my friend is a crab.
 
alligatorob said:
Sure looks that way to me, you had a great day!

Belgium sounds like fun! Festivals, barbecues and beer. Sounds like a lot of the US to me. But I know your beer is better than ours, I've never been to Belgium, but I have taken the time to familiarize myself with a lot of your beer! Or I thought I had, I just looked at a bottle of La Fin Du Monde, one of my favorites, but on close examination of the label I see it says "Belgian Style Ale", and in very fine print it seems to have been brewed in Qubec. So maybe I don't really know Belgian beer...

Absolutely, I am the one with beard and sunglasses, my friend is a crab.
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I'm sure you know some Belgian Beers. Maybe Stella Artois, Leffe, Hoegaarden or Duvel? Stella is practically everywhere.
Cool, you look like fun! What happened to mr. Crab?
 
Sure, I know Stella Artois its popular here. From now on I will read the "Belgian" beer labels a little closer, even if it's really a Quebecois beer I sill like La Fin Du Monde, good name. At 9% alcohol it doesn't take many to make you feel like you can indeed see la fin du monde.

Mr Crab became dinner, or the claws did anyway. Its a stone crab and you break the claws off and release live. They are then able to regrow the claws, the only seafood I know of eaten without killing the animal. Not that I am above eating a whole animal, I like all kinds of seafood.
 
alligatorob said:
Sure, I know Stella Artois its popular here. From now on I will read the "Belgian" beer labels a little closer, even if it's really a Quebecois beer I sill like La Fin Du Monde, good name. At 9% alcohol it doesn't take many to make you feel like you can indeed see la fin du monde.

Mr Crab became dinner, or the claws did anyway. Its a stone crab and you break the claws off and release live. They are then able to regrow the claws, the only seafood I know of eaten without killing the animal. Not that I am above eating a whole animal, I like all kinds of seafood.
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Regrow? Woah! But they're so big and stern, it must take ages to regrow! I didn't know that. Interesting..
I love seafood so much.. i once went a year as a vegetarian but I was practically dreaming of salmon. Long story short: now I'm a pescetarian.
Are river fish still seafood or is there a different word for that? Riverfood sounds silly.
 
Okay so. Last two days haven't been too good. Yesterday I came home from work at night - I work late shifts now - and normally I just watch something on my laptop, have a tea and go to bed. But I'm usually hungry :) now I succumbed and had food. Weird cause I was quite confident before that I wouldn't. It didn't feel hard. But I was chatting to this guy, and then I suddenly had the urge to have food and I didn't stop myself. I didn't even try. It was weird...
Tonight my stomach is growling too. But I wouldn't be able to eat if i tried. I made a big mistake at work. So I'm still digesting that. :/
Food today:
- oatmeal with chocolate
- cheese thingies with french fries and salad (again not very healthy)
- 4 body & fit protein cookies (they're delicious, they don't taste like protein if you know what I mean)

Exercise today:
- cycling one hour
 
Hey Julie, parts of your food today sound good, take away the cheese thingies and/or french fries and you probably would have been good. How many calories today? Unless it was whole lot of cheese thingies and french fries with that hour of cycling you probably did ok calorie wise.

It takes the stone crabs a year or two to regrow, it does work, I have caught many with smaller regrowing claws. The big part of the claw has to be 2 3/4 inches to be legal, so most that get harvested are pretty big.

Like your question about seafood vs riverfood, never thought about but you are right, fresh water fish shouldn't be "sea"food. Can a pescetarian eat reptiles? Seems like a fish relative. My wife is a vegetarian who eats fish, what you are calling a pescetarian I think. When I lived in Florida and hunted gators we would sometimes discuss the issue, she never ate any of the gator though.

Keep up the good work, good to see you posting regularly again.
 
alligatorob said:
Hey Julie, parts of your food today sound good, take away the cheese thingies and/or french fries and you probably would have been good. How many calories today? Unless it was whole lot of cheese thingies and french fries with that hour of cycling you probably did ok calorie wise.

It takes the stone crabs a year or two to regrow, it does work, I have caught many with smaller regrowing claws. The big part of the claw has to be 2 3/4 inches to be legal, so most that get harvested are pretty big.

Like your question about seafood vs riverfood, never thought about but you are right, fresh water fish shouldn't be "sea"food. Can a pescetarian eat reptiles? Seems like a fish relative. My wife is a vegetarian who eats fish, what you are calling a pescetarian I think. When I lived in Florida and hunted gators we would sometimes discuss the issue, she never ate any of the gator though.

Keep up the good work, good to see you posting regularly again.
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Thanks! I heard gators taste like chicken. I had frog (I know, gross) before I went pescetarian and that's somewhat like chicken too.
LaMaria said:
I'm sorry, that sucks. But at least it doesn't seem to make you comfort eat. Silver linings?
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That's true! Though the next day I overcompensated a bit...:)
Oh well, I'm still posting!
 
Food today:
- oatmeal with chocolate
- salad with beet and pine nuts
- chili sin carne with rice
- raspberry sorbet

Exercise: does going to the supermarket count? Yeah not a very good day today, obviously. But I didn't have wine! Had a friend over and he brought a very nice smelling red wine, not aware I'm doing Tournée minérale. He drank it all by himself. Well, half. He left one quarter and spilt another quarter. Not a very good drinker my friend.
Maybe i can go for a run tomorrow before the storm hits. There's a storm coming and they even named it so it must be pretty serious. For Belgian standards. Ciara. Why is it always a female name? Should we take this personal?
Anyhoo, I could also hit the gym. Either way, exercise is coming
 
Well done not sharing in the wine! Food sounds delicious.
JuliePulie said:
There's a storm coming and they even named it so it must be pretty serious. For Belgian standards. Ciara. Why is it always a female name? Should we take this personal?
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I´ve heard discussions from... can´t remember where, US maybe?... about maybe no longer using female names because people don´t take "female" storms as seriously and because of that more people get injured.
 
LaMaria said:
Well done not sharing in the wine! Food sounds delicious.

I´ve heard discussions from... can´t remember where, US maybe?... about maybe no longer using female names because people don´t take "female" storms as seriously and because of that more people get injured.
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Ha! Well, Ciara just sounds like a cute little dog, so I agree in this case..
 
JuliePulie said:
Food today:
- oatmeal with chocolate
- salad with beet and pine nuts
- chili sin carne with rice
- raspberry sorbet
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Your diet sounds great, and not drinking any wine was very good. Must have been hard to resist.

In the US hurricanes and tropical storms are given names, and have been for over 60 years. Up to 1979 only women's names were used, since then every other storm gets a man's name. There is an official process for naming and its done by the US National Hurricane center, but it only applies to hurricanes in the North Atlantic and Central Pacific, there are other agencies who name hurricanes or cyclones in other parts of the world. I don't think people take female hurricanes less seriously than male, some of our worst hurricanes have had women's names. Like Katrina, Wilma, and Maria. Each season starts with A and works up the alphabet, only once, 2005, was that not enough. When they got to Z they switched to the Greek alphabet and just gave the storms letter names, we had 6 more storms starting with Alpha ending in Zeta. Hope not to see that again soon.

Even though hurricane naming is a big deal here and quite official, we don't really name winter storms, not sure why that is. The Weather Channel, a commercial TV station that shows nothing but weather, has been trying to get the idea accepted, but with little success. I know its different in Europe, but don't know much about how y'all do it.
JuliePulie said:
I heard gators taste like chicken. I had frog (I know, gross)
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Gator meat looks a little like the white meat of chicken, but doesn't taste much like it. Wild gator is quite tough and has a fishy flavor, not great to be honest. Part of why I stopped hunting them. There are alligator farms, the gators are raised more for the hides than the meat. In those the gators are fed a lot, not allowed to exercise and slaughtered much younger and smaller than what most hunters usually take. That meat has little taste, but its white so looks a little like chicken. Its still pretty tough, restaurants usually serve it in small pieces. Gator is good diet meat, very low fat and low calorie with lots of protein. I like frog legs, nothing gross there!

A couple of my last gators.2012 gators.jpg
 
Thanks LaMa, the study is interesting and you probably are right (as usual). As someone who grew up when all hurricanes had female names I learned a healthy respect for the lady storms. My first memory of a hurricane was Donna (Hurricane Donna - Wikipedia) I was too young to really understand the dangers, but the howling wind and damage I will never forget. I have vague memories of Audrey (Hurricane Audrey - Wikipedia ) it did not hit us in Florida, but my grandparents and a lot of relatives were in the direct path. I think all of my family survived, but a lot of people didn't. When you live on the US Gulf coast you remember time by hurricanes, I can't remember a lot about what happened in 1969, but I sure remember what I was doing when Camille (Hurricane Camille - Wikipedia ) hit.

I grew up thinking of hurricanes as ladies, dangerous ones. But things have changed, younger folks probably see it differently. I think hurricanes are getting more powerful. However, forecasts are getting a whole lot better, makes the hurricanes a bit less dangerous, but not safe, boys or girls!
 
LaMaria said:
Just looked that up and apparently before the early 1950 men´s names were used as well: https://www.history.com/news/why-hurricanes-and-tropical-storms-were-only-named-after-women
About "female" storms being more dangerous: Hurricanes With Female Names Kill More People, Study Finds
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Interesting read!
Apparently Ciara was called differently in Germany - Sabine - because people can adopt (buy) low pressure areas so they can name storms. Sabine Kaufmann did it with this one.
Anyway, Ciara was a bit underwhelming. I was hoping on a thunderstorm too but just got strong winds and lots of rain :)
 
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Today's food:
- oatmeal and chocolate
- Ristorante pizza pimped with veggies
- mandarine

And I made my own ginger ale with ginger, agave syrup and sparkling water. Was not bad!

Exercise: one hour of walking right before Ciara hit. It was already nice and windy. Cool walk. I was cautiously looking at the trees around me in order to be safe.
 
Our parks were mostly closed when Sabine-Ciara visited last week but even before I was kind of scared of getting hit by dead branches. Glad you stayed safe!
 
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