It has snowed about a foot and a half here over the last four to five days and it looks beautiful outside. Since yesterday was a Saturday we were finally able to enjoy the snow, instead of plowing and shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. We live on 10 acres, so our driveway is about a quarter of a mile long. I have an old rider lawnmower with a snow blower rigged up on the front, so I don’t have to shovel all week long. Even with this system it will take an hour or so to clear everything off. I have no idea how long it would take if I did not have this piece of equipment.
For my exercise, we loaded up the dogs and snow shoes and drove down to the lake that we live near. There is a trail that is not used very much that is about a mile and a half that goes down to the lake. So we walked down to the lake and it was frozen over, so we were able to walk on the lake. I grew up in a slightly warmer climate, so the lakes never froze over. It is really kind of weird to walk out there and hope that it will not break through. I used my snow poles to check and it looked to me like the ice was at least six inches or more thick. So we walked and out and the dogs thought that it was a great time.
On the way back to the car was a little tougher, since it was all downhill on the way to the lake. Obviously it was all up hill on the way back and man when you are going uphill in snow shoes with a pulled achilles, it starts to hurt pretty quickly. On the way up I needed to stop a few times to rest and it really ticked me off. But I took it in stride and just tried to enjoy the scenery. I was a fun walk and a good work out and I was able to add 5000 steps to my pedometer.
Last night we both were feeling pretty hungry for pizza. So I went on line to check out how many carbs are in different pizzas. Ok, there are a lot of carbs in most pizzas, but we still wanted to have one. Papa Murphy’s has a thin crust pizza that only has about 13 carbs per slice. So I figured that if I had 3 slices it would be 39 carbs and I would try to stay a little low on everything else. Well I failed a little on the other end, but that was some good pizza. I consumed 1564 calories, 77 carbs and 91 fat grams and weighed in at 218.6.
So now I have gone two days over the 50 carbs of the low carb diet. That is not good, but I can justify it by being way under quite a few days last week.