April 12, 2000 -- 10:14 AM
EST
I am excited -- I want to get to
gym later today and do my weights!
Got Paul out the door with a
Carnation shake, a Coke, and his lunch. Let's hope he eats it all.
For dinner, we will be having
vegan paella, and he's going to be having MorningStar Chik Nuggets on the side.
I can live with handling lacto-ovo analogs, I still can't deal with cooking
animals. He can cook those!
Last night, I was reheating his
sausage from the weekend in the microwave and all I could think was
"Ugh!"
This weekend, we will be going to
Whole Foods across town with the cooler and shopping for other analogs and his
meats. Hopefully, heavy on the analog, easy on the meat.
I started keeping a food journal
for him. I forgot to ask him to save the tabs off the soda cans so I can count
at the end of the day how many he had at work and enter them into the food
journal for the dietitian. Oops.
He was surprised, but ok with
going to see her though.
Me: Is May 2 ok with
your schedule? Do you need a different day?
Him: So far it's ok. I don't know
how work will be that far ahead. We are still waiting a few more years before
babies aren't we?
Me: Yes, we still are. I just want
to have plenty of room beforehand to make any major changes if they need to be
made.
Him: OK
Me: You sure? I'm not going to
make you if you don't want to.
Him: You don't want to preview it
for me?
Me: Do you want me to? I can
change you appointment to the following week, I'll go first and tell you how it
was. If it sucks, we'll switch to someone else.
Him: No... I'll be OK
I didn't think a dietitian would
produce the same anxiety other doctors and dentists do for him. Maybe I'll
switch his appointment anyway?
We had capellini with a different
brand sauce for dinner -- Muir
Glen. It was good -- I think I will switch.
Then we watched the first part of
It.
I really hate clowns, so to
me Pennywise in It is a terrible, terrible creature! We're on a horror kick
again. Paul mentioned Silence of the Lambs in passing. That would be
good to watch again too.
Oh, and William B. Davis
(Cigarette Smoking Man in the X-Files) plays a teacher in It. Looked waaaaay
younger too. Paul didn't believe me but when he checked the credits, I was
right. Ha!
Coca-Cola Rants
I was trying to verify how much
caffeine is in a coke so I can approximate how much is in Paul. So I went to
the Coca-Cola
website to try to find out.
I never saw so much spin doctoring
in my life! The Coca-Cola FAQ was worse than the KFC ones a few entries ago.
Who are they kidding?
But I found the caffeine thing:
- They say it's 31 mg/8 oz.
(approx. 47 mg/12 oz.)
- My nutrition text says it's 65
mg/12 oz for Coca-Cola
Also from my nutrition
text:
A dose of 50 - 200 mg
increases alertness and reduces fatigue, but amounts between 200-500 mg produce
headaches, tremors, insomnia, irritability, and poor motor performance. Chronic
ingestion of high does produces symptoms indistinguishable from anxiety
neurosis, and for heavy users, sudden withdrawal can produce severe
headaches.
Then it goes on to list all these
other gory symptoms.( I know Paul drinks 6+ cans a day. That's 282-390 mg of
caffeine minimum, still over 200 mg no matter what number you use.
Blah.)
Not like you'd find any of this
stuff in the Coke FAQ. My favorite lie?
Is there any
relationship between soft drinks and kidney stones?
Soft drinks do not cause kidney
stones. In fact, the opposite is true. An inadequate intake of fluids is a
major contributing factor to the formation of kidney stones. Soft drinks
provide a pleasant and refreshing way to consume part of a person's daily fluid
requirement, thereby encouraging adequate fluid intake.
Soda is not water. And never mind
that caffeine is a diuretic and makes you LOSE fluids, right? Let's not even go
into what makes kidney stones happen.
~Astrophe
  
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