[Mindful i Mouse] Week 76 Reports

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Yesterday was a bit bumpy, but I made it through it all. I ate a great breakfast, 4 slices of bacon and coffee. Lunch, I cooked up ground turkey with broccoli and almonds. I drank 78 oz of water. We then headed to my parents for cocktails and dinner out. I had another decision to make, whether or not to have the french brandy that my mother bought for me, as she knows how I love it. I decided to have it, thinking again, it gets the desire for it out of my system and I may be able to resist it the rest of my home time. I laughed at how this all is getting taken care of in the first two days of home-time! So, again, in a controlled environment, I had my two brandies before dinner and one after dinner. Heavenly. I ate 4 potato crisps with my brandy, leaving all the other carby and wheat based snacks alone. At the restaurant, I had planned on my usual dinner. It would have been the ground beef patty with mushrooms and onions, broccoli and a side Caesar's salad. But Mother had a coupon for an onion blossom, so I ate a few of the sticks, instantly regretting it. Of all the food combinations there are, my weakness is always chips and dip, or crunchy with something creamy. The taste was intense, the spice was sharp and I felt as though this was going to soon haunt me. It completely took my appetite away. I ate my salad and the beef patty, but could not finish the broccoli. I was once again, stuffed and uncomfortable. I look back on it now, I regret the crisps and the onion blossom. Even though the 4 of us were eating it, there was 3/4 of it left, so I counted my portion as 1/10 blossom. Carbs were better compared to yesterday, but still too high for me. And yes, by early this morning, I had the usual gut distress from the wheat on the onion thing. Hip is achy. Fingers, swollen a bit. Wedding ring does not slip off easily. Warning! Warning! That so ends the home-time frivolity. Although dinner was very early at 3pm (my parents wanted to avoid a Saturday night crowd), I ate no more for the day, had 2 cups of evening coffee with creamer and S/F syrup about 8pm. This morning I felt mildly hungry and ready to get right back to how I really like to eat. I made eggs and sausage for breakfast, will have turkey and broccoli for lunch and chicken curry tonight with a salad. Even my husband said he was looking forward to keep back on schedule. lol. It's been a whirlwind so far. We had picked up our mail and it was so much fun opening up all the little packages. I have all my home-time projects before me. I got the Cricket internet connection all set up....Yay, no more sharing the modem, I have my own! I am so thankful for that. I need to get our daily groceries later this morning, then I should be pretty much set for relaxing and thinking through what I will do on the last 4 weeks alone. I am not still 100% sure about my direction, I will wait until I can sit down and sort it all out. We do have an A1C test to take, I am monitoring my BG's, which are unfortunately higher than they need to be from my food intake. It was 127 before bed last night, 107 this morning. This is the end of my 76th week of my diet. I don't want to weigh in until next Saturday, as I know the last two days of food will show a false high from the massive amount of sodium and the carbs. I made a huge pitcher of weak ice tea (barely flavoured water) and will drink it all today (78oz). I have not had any soda pop in two days, so at least I have a tiny victory! lol. So here is my weeks reports, skewed by the last two days of heavy eating: I am adding alcohol back into this report, but instead of using the amount for the tally, I want to watch what calories I am using up towards this vice of mine. I know I have made the choice to be in excess, still, it irks me to see it in RED. This has not been a good week for my BG's at all. I am concerned about it and if I cannot get them back down with low carbs, I may check with a doctor. If the A1C is fine, then I will let it go for awhile yet. So, all in all, I will say that this was a wild week, filled with emotions, excitement and evenly tempered with crabbiness. Food choices were all mine, all thought about and not impulsive and I have to say that I feel 100% free of any temptations to binge, which is a great relief to me. In fact, I feel delighted that I had all the foods I would have wanted had I binged...chips, chocolate, desserts, brandy....all in moderate amounts, all in the presence of others (a biggie for me) and I stopped when I had enough. Tomorrow, I will start focusing on a plan of action. --

Posted By i Mouse to Mindful i Mouse at 3/13/2011 09:19:00 AM

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I think you are going to be fine... just F-I-N-E on your home time and in Hawaii!

It's been fun to "watch" you go through this and see your success. I wish your hubby the

best when he heads back out on the road alone this next time and for the following year.

[Mindful i Mouse] Week 76 Reports

Yesterday was a bit bumpy, but I made it through it all.

I ate a great breakfast, 4 slices of bacon and coffee. Lunch, I cooked up ground turkey with broccoli and almonds. I drank 78 oz of water. We then headed to my parents for cocktails and dinner out. I had another decision to make, whether or not to have the french brandy that my mother bought for me, as she knows how I love it. I decided to have it, thinking again, it gets the desire for it out of my system and I may be able to resist it the rest of my home time. I laughed at how this all is getting taken care of in the first two days of home-time! So, again, in a controlled environment, I had my two brandies before dinner and one after dinner. Heavenly. I ate 4 potato crisps with my brandy, leaving all the other carby and wheat based snacks alone.

At the restaurant, I had planned on my usual dinner. 0; It would have been the ground beef patty with mushrooms and onions, broccoli and a side Caesar's salad. But Mother had a coupon for an onion blossom, so I ate a few of the sticks, instantly regretting it. Of all the food combinations there are, my weakness is always chips and dip, or crunchy with something creamy. The taste was intense, the spice was sharp and I felt as though this was going to soon haunt me. It completely took my appetite away. I ate my salad and the beef patty, but could not finish the broccoli. I was once again, stuffed and uncomfortable. I look back on it now, I regret the crisps and the onion blossom. Even though the 4 of us were eating it, there was 3/4 of it left, so I counted my portion as 1/10 blossom.

Carbs were better compared to yesterday, but still too high for me. And yes, by early this morning, I had the usual gut distress from the wheat on the onion thing. Hip is achy. Fingers, swollen a bit. Wedding ring does not slip off easily. Warning! Warning!

That so ends the home-time frivolity. Although dinner was very early at 3pm (my parents wanted to avoid a Saturday night crowd), I ate no more for the day, had 2 cups of evening coffee with creamer and S/F syrup about 8pm. This morning I felt mildly hungry and ready to get right back to how I really like to eat. I made eggs and sausage for breakfast, will have turkey and broccoli for lunch and chicken curry tonight with a salad. Even my husband said he was looking forward to keep back on schedule. lol.

It's been a whirlwind so far. We had picked up our mail and it was so much fun opening up all the little packages. I have all my home-time projects before me. I got the Cricket internet connection all set up....Yay, no more sharing the modem, I have my own! I am so thankful for that. I need to get our daily groceries later this morning, then I should be pretty much set for relaxing and thinking through what I will do on the last 4 weeks alone. I am not still 100% sure about my direction, I will wait until I can sit down and sort it all out. We do have an A1C test to take, I am monitoring my BG's, which are unfortunately higher than they need to be from my food intake. It was 127 before bed last night, 107 this morning.

This is the end of my 76th week of my diet.

I don't want to weigh in un til next Saturday, as I know the last two days of food will show a false high from the massive amount of sodium and the carbs. I made a huge pitcher of weak ice tea (barely flavoured water) and will drink it all today (78oz). I have not had any soda pop in two days, so at least I have a tiny victory! lol. So here is my weeks reports, skewed by the last two days of heavy eating:

I am adding alcohol back into this report, but instead of using the amount for the tally, I want to watch what calories I am using up towards this vice of mine.

I know I have made the choice to be in excess, still, it irks me to see it in RED.

This has not been a good week for my BG's at all. I am concerned about it and if I cannot get them back down with low carbs, I may check with a doctor. If the A1C is fine, then I will let it go for awhile yet. So, all in all, I will say that this was a wild week, filled with emotions, excitement and evenly tempered with crabbiness. Food choices were all mine, all thought about and not impulsive and I have to say that I feel 100% free of any temptations to binge, which is a great relief to me. In fact, I feel delighted that I had all the foods I would have wanted had I binged...chips, chocolate, desserts, brandy....all in moderate amounts, all in the presence of others (a biggie for me) and I stopped when I had enough.

Tomorrow, I will start focusing on a plan of action.

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Posted By i Mouse to Mindful i Mouse at 3/13/2011 09:19:00 AM