Yesterday's eating consisted of aged Gouda, pork chops, peas, potatoes, and salad, a piece of cheesecake with strawberry sauce, and some cashews. Really not too bad. And it helped a bit - down a whopping 0.2 pounds this morning. I can tell that much of it is water - my hands are swollen and achy.
Theoretically fasting again today - the cheese yesterday started being consumed around 9 am, so it wasn't much of a fast. I don't know if I'll go for 16 or more hours today or not; based on when I stopped eating cashews, that would put me not eating until around 1:30 this afternoon, I believe. We shall see.
Dinner late tonight - in Phoenix. I have only $4 in cash on me, so I don't think I can even get McDonald's at the airport. This may end up being a fast of necessity.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Thursday
Wow - medicine head this morning. I took an Advil PM last night because of a headache at bedtime, and it's still working, I think. Except that I'm upright, ostensibly awake, and have just driven to work.
Definitely have been eating crap this week - I was up to 144.6 this morning, after a "lunch" of trail mix and potato chips (really need to stop doing that), episodic forays into some M&Ms that someone brought to the office, and a dinner from McDonalds - naked quarter-pounder with cheese, which by itself would be okay, and fries. They smelled good. Tasted amazing. But probably weren't a good idea, especially given that McDonald's puts flour on them for some reason. Followed it up with some dark chocolate and cashews - rather a lot of the latter, actually. So not such a good day.
I fasted again this morning, but have brought a bag of cheese with me to work, so I should be able to stay away from the trail mix, and any other random Easter candy laying around. Don't know what dinner will be - eating with my parents. The rest of the day consists of a meeting, and my doc appointment for the hot flashes I'm still no longer having. Gonna be a long one, I think.
Definitely have been eating crap this week - I was up to 144.6 this morning, after a "lunch" of trail mix and potato chips (really need to stop doing that), episodic forays into some M&Ms that someone brought to the office, and a dinner from McDonalds - naked quarter-pounder with cheese, which by itself would be okay, and fries. They smelled good. Tasted amazing. But probably weren't a good idea, especially given that McDonald's puts flour on them for some reason. Followed it up with some dark chocolate and cashews - rather a lot of the latter, actually. So not such a good day.
I fasted again this morning, but have brought a bag of cheese with me to work, so I should be able to stay away from the trail mix, and any other random Easter candy laying around. Don't know what dinner will be - eating with my parents. The rest of the day consists of a meeting, and my doc appointment for the hot flashes I'm still no longer having. Gonna be a long one, I think.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Wednesday
Note to self. No more random frozen leftovers for dinner. When I saw the container in the freezer, I thought it was some meatballs with spaghetti sauce. I was wrong. It was leftover commercially-made Irish stew - and as I was eating it, I realized it was full of flour (thickening the sauce) and barley. And didn't taste at all like spaghetti, which had sounded pretty good to me. I ate it - not all of it, but some - and had a slice of cheesecake to follow (but only that, this time - no chocolate cake, and no fruit sauce).
144.2 this morning, surely as a result of that, since I don't think I hit the machines yesterday for trail mix or anything. Also a night's sleep full of nightmares. Doing an "inadvertent" fast this morning. My stomach is not particularly happy with me, either, so the fast is probably a really good idea. I will try to eat better tonight, even if that means having a naked double Quarter Pounder or something.
Ugh.
144.2 this morning, surely as a result of that, since I don't think I hit the machines yesterday for trail mix or anything. Also a night's sleep full of nightmares. Doing an "inadvertent" fast this morning. My stomach is not particularly happy with me, either, so the fast is probably a really good idea. I will try to eat better tonight, even if that means having a naked double Quarter Pounder or something.
Ugh.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Tuesday
I finally got to sample the Easter dinner desserts last night - actually, in full disclosure, they're basically what I had for dinner last night. A few pieces of cheese to tide me over, and a slice each of amaretto cheesecake with a nut crust (which came out pretty much perfect this time, after cooking it in a water bath for 55 minutes and letting it cool in the slowly cooling oven for an hour), and flourless chocolate cake with strawberry sauce on it. They both came out really well, and I suspect that I will be having dessert most nights this week. Although I do hope to eat something a bit more dinner-like the rest of the evenings.
I had some pieces of aged Gouda for breakfast this morning, rather than anything requiring cooking. Lee's away for what I'm guessing is the week - it would be least-impactive to his work to drive back from Phoenix on Friday/Saturday rather than before that. So I may end up doing my version of IF this week - in my case, the I stands for Inadvertent, since it's very hard to get breakfast made when it's just me unless I get up 15 minutes earlier than usual, and I don't really want to do that.
Sleep has re-entered the picture for me, thank goodness. Very nice to be back in a cold room with a fan, even if it isn't as dark as the dining room was. Now that I have an appointment to discuss hormone replacement, the hot flashes have disappeared; at least, I cannot recall having even one in the past 30-36 hours. Well, I'll go in and talk, and maybe do a blood test to see if I've hit complete menopause, or if this is just some bizarre hiatus. Fine by me if that was it.
143.8 this morning - lost a pound of the weekend weight, even after my all-dessert meal (although between the two, I had the equivalent of 1/3 of a chocolate bar and maybe 1/10 cup of sugar (slightly over 1-1/2 tablespoons?) and a tiny bit of cornstarch - everything else was eggs, cheese, nuts, or flavoring. Oh, and some strawberry juice. So that probably wasn't exactly a ginormous carb load for the day. It's so crazy, after a year of eating like this, how my perceptions of a big-nasty cheat have changed. I'm good with that, obviously.
I had some pieces of aged Gouda for breakfast this morning, rather than anything requiring cooking. Lee's away for what I'm guessing is the week - it would be least-impactive to his work to drive back from Phoenix on Friday/Saturday rather than before that. So I may end up doing my version of IF this week - in my case, the I stands for Inadvertent, since it's very hard to get breakfast made when it's just me unless I get up 15 minutes earlier than usual, and I don't really want to do that.
Sleep has re-entered the picture for me, thank goodness. Very nice to be back in a cold room with a fan, even if it isn't as dark as the dining room was. Now that I have an appointment to discuss hormone replacement, the hot flashes have disappeared; at least, I cannot recall having even one in the past 30-36 hours. Well, I'll go in and talk, and maybe do a blood test to see if I've hit complete menopause, or if this is just some bizarre hiatus. Fine by me if that was it.
143.8 this morning - lost a pound of the weekend weight, even after my all-dessert meal (although between the two, I had the equivalent of 1/3 of a chocolate bar and maybe 1/10 cup of sugar (slightly over 1-1/2 tablespoons?) and a tiny bit of cornstarch - everything else was eggs, cheese, nuts, or flavoring. Oh, and some strawberry juice. So that probably wasn't exactly a ginormous carb load for the day. It's so crazy, after a year of eating like this, how my perceptions of a big-nasty cheat have changed. I'm good with that, obviously.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Monday after Easter
I was right - we ate out a lot over the weekend. The results aren't at all surprising, especially with how stiff I feel today - 144.8.
Easter dinner came out pretty well, but I don't seem to have the knack to get a large-scale (14 people and a baby) dinner on the table smoothly. Guess it's a good thing I didn't ever open a restaurant! I spent nearly the whole weekend cooking - and ended up with too much food, which is nearly always the case for me. I have heard that we have most of both desserts in the fridge outside, and there's a lot of meat left as well - we should have sliced up the portions a lot thicker, like Prime Rib should be served. Anyway, it's over with.
Biz had a violent attack of vertigo last night - on the heels of a week feeling completely normal, which totally sucked. It was so bad that she couldn't bring herself to fly, so she and Lee are on the road this morning. The spins have stopped, thank God, but she's a bit tilty and tired. Said she felt "off" during the day a bit - man, that sounds like a migraine, even to triggers like being surrounded by extended family and maybe more flour than she's been eating in a while. I, for one, am very grateful that Lee's job lets him do road trips occasionally - I was prepared to fly out with her and back this morning early if need be, but she didn't think she could even sit still in order for the plane to take off, so we bagged that. I'm glad we got the bedroom basically reassembled before the crowds hit - there's a bit of touch-up painting and some miscellaneous hardware/picture installation still to do, but everything else is done.
Time to get things back to a routine.
Easter dinner came out pretty well, but I don't seem to have the knack to get a large-scale (14 people and a baby) dinner on the table smoothly. Guess it's a good thing I didn't ever open a restaurant! I spent nearly the whole weekend cooking - and ended up with too much food, which is nearly always the case for me. I have heard that we have most of both desserts in the fridge outside, and there's a lot of meat left as well - we should have sliced up the portions a lot thicker, like Prime Rib should be served. Anyway, it's over with.
Biz had a violent attack of vertigo last night - on the heels of a week feeling completely normal, which totally sucked. It was so bad that she couldn't bring herself to fly, so she and Lee are on the road this morning. The spins have stopped, thank God, but she's a bit tilty and tired. Said she felt "off" during the day a bit - man, that sounds like a migraine, even to triggers like being surrounded by extended family and maybe more flour than she's been eating in a while. I, for one, am very grateful that Lee's job lets him do road trips occasionally - I was prepared to fly out with her and back this morning early if need be, but she didn't think she could even sit still in order for the plane to take off, so we bagged that. I'm glad we got the bedroom basically reassembled before the crowds hit - there's a bit of touch-up painting and some miscellaneous hardware/picture installation still to do, but everything else is done.
Time to get things back to a routine.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Friday
Interesting. No idea why this is going on. I'm at 141.0 this morning - a new low. We're not eating all that well, really - lots of meals out, Mexican with tortilla chips (n-6 oils bad!), a near-daily venture to the machines downstairs for either chips or trail mix or both. Crap sleep (still, though the thermal events are settling down, no doubt because I set up a doctor's appointment). And yet, after a dinner of shrimp on skewers (chosen for their PUFA profile over lamb, which, if domestic, would have been grain-finished - and they tasted good, so the purely-medical choice ended up being a good one) and vanilla gelato that was yellow (I am hoping that meant it involved a lot of dairy fat and maybe the odd egg yolk - and it wasn't over-sweet, either), with wine, I'm down a pound and a half. I'm cool with that - seems to indicate that my body is doing it's thing regarding weight regulation and my diet is not unduly influencing it - but I did think I'd hit my sweet spot, in terms of weight.
I have decided to make the croissants for dinner Sunday. They take 3 days to rise, which is a lot of time for the yeast to do their thing on the anti-nutrients in the flour, or at least, that is my hope. And the ambrosia - a pure-sugar salad, only really saved from utter depravity by a quantity of whipped cream, and the fact that the sweetened coconut shreds are coconut in there somewhere. I will probably skip that.
We are indulging in a bit of grandparenthood this weekend - our first, who is 7 months old and very charming, is visiting. She was sampling things at dinner, and was all over the gelato - so much so that Lee got much less than his half, I think - but he was the one feeding it to her. She also thought fairly highly of the olive oil, and Caesar salad - was helping herself to lettuce and sucking the dressing off. And trying to eat the leaves as well, but they struck me as a bit of a choke hazard, so I don't think she got much - I kept removing them from her mouth as she bit pieces off. It was quite entertaining. I am going to puree the prime rib and the green beans for her on Sunday, and give her a bit of the mashed potatoes, with her mom's permission, of course. I think she'll enjoy them.
This has been a very long week, but it is nearly over, and next week, we can go back to a quiet life and get some smaller projects done, I hope. The major disruptions (at least, the ones we instigated) should be nearly over with for the year. Barring any weather, warfare, or economic crises, that is, and those all seem possible these days.
I have decided to make the croissants for dinner Sunday. They take 3 days to rise, which is a lot of time for the yeast to do their thing on the anti-nutrients in the flour, or at least, that is my hope. And the ambrosia - a pure-sugar salad, only really saved from utter depravity by a quantity of whipped cream, and the fact that the sweetened coconut shreds are coconut in there somewhere. I will probably skip that.
We are indulging in a bit of grandparenthood this weekend - our first, who is 7 months old and very charming, is visiting. She was sampling things at dinner, and was all over the gelato - so much so that Lee got much less than his half, I think - but he was the one feeding it to her. She also thought fairly highly of the olive oil, and Caesar salad - was helping herself to lettuce and sucking the dressing off. And trying to eat the leaves as well, but they struck me as a bit of a choke hazard, so I don't think she got much - I kept removing them from her mouth as she bit pieces off. It was quite entertaining. I am going to puree the prime rib and the green beans for her on Sunday, and give her a bit of the mashed potatoes, with her mom's permission, of course. I think she'll enjoy them.
This has been a very long week, but it is nearly over, and next week, we can go back to a quiet life and get some smaller projects done, I hope. The major disruptions (at least, the ones we instigated) should be nearly over with for the year. Barring any weather, warfare, or economic crises, that is, and those all seem possible these days.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Th-brrs-day
It's blizzarding in the mountains, and rain was starting as I walked from where I park my car to where I work. What month is it again? Feels like late February, if you ask me. But we need the moisture. Yeah, I know - we do. I'm just a bit chilled at the moment, and with a body thermostat that is stuck on "the wrong temperature", that's not pleasant. Springtime in the Rockies, I believe they call it.
Better sleep last night - nothing like exhaustion to prompt really good sleep. We got to use the bathroom starting yesterday evening, which was very nice - I'm much less likely to lay in bed freezing if I can make a quick trip - as opposed to the trek to the other end of the house - to the facilities.
Dinner yesterday was at Tokyo Joe's - ugh. I'd been once and hadn't particularly cared for it, and Lee wanted to go, so I figured I'd give it another chance. I had a steak bowl with yakitori sauce. Steak was overcooked, tough, and stringy, the mushrooms I'd asked for with it were uncooked, by and large, and the sauce was over-sweet. Okay, I was right the first time. I don't like it. It provided enough energy to get much of the rest of the house straightened out, though, and that was what we needed. A bit of cheese and one of the Godiva mint-chocolate thingies, and that was it for the night. Apart from that, breakfast was scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, and the bison "sausage" patties from the new Mark Sisson cookbook - pretty good, although I'm going to experiment with the spices for our next go round, and we did make ours with grass-finished beef instead of bison (it's half the price these days). I also had some potato chips late in the afternoon after a particularly stressful day - I had to go chasing after plumbing parts at lunchtime, so that we'd have working sinks. Totally worth it, but stressful.
142.4 this morning. With the kids coming in for the weekend, I figure Easter Dinner may be my only home-cooked evening meal for the next few days; will just have to tread carefully at the various restaurants.
Better sleep last night - nothing like exhaustion to prompt really good sleep. We got to use the bathroom starting yesterday evening, which was very nice - I'm much less likely to lay in bed freezing if I can make a quick trip - as opposed to the trek to the other end of the house - to the facilities.
Dinner yesterday was at Tokyo Joe's - ugh. I'd been once and hadn't particularly cared for it, and Lee wanted to go, so I figured I'd give it another chance. I had a steak bowl with yakitori sauce. Steak was overcooked, tough, and stringy, the mushrooms I'd asked for with it were uncooked, by and large, and the sauce was over-sweet. Okay, I was right the first time. I don't like it. It provided enough energy to get much of the rest of the house straightened out, though, and that was what we needed. A bit of cheese and one of the Godiva mint-chocolate thingies, and that was it for the night. Apart from that, breakfast was scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, and the bison "sausage" patties from the new Mark Sisson cookbook - pretty good, although I'm going to experiment with the spices for our next go round, and we did make ours with grass-finished beef instead of bison (it's half the price these days). I also had some potato chips late in the afternoon after a particularly stressful day - I had to go chasing after plumbing parts at lunchtime, so that we'd have working sinks. Totally worth it, but stressful.
142.4 this morning. With the kids coming in for the weekend, I figure Easter Dinner may be my only home-cooked evening meal for the next few days; will just have to tread carefully at the various restaurants.
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