This morning I didn't get out of bed until 8am! I don't know what was going on. Shadow woke me up at 6am wanting some attention. I petted her for awhile and then fell back asleep. I woke up again around 7am, pulled the covers over my shoulders and went back to sleep. I finally really woke up at 7:44am but laid in bed until 8am snuggling with Shadow. Now if that isn't laziness I don't know what is. There is no reason for me to be like that this morning. I didn't work out yesterday so I'm not tired from that, I didn't do any hard yard work, or spend long amounts of time outside, so what made me tired. Well I'm not going to dwell on it, it's time to get off my can and get some things done!!
So this morning my blood sugar was 99! Woo Hoo!! Those are the numbers I like seeing. Today I can eat soft protein. Yeah, I couldn't believe how much I missed really chewing food. I thought that I would try some new things in my EggBeaters this morning. So I put in some cottage cheese and Mrs. Dash. Okay, well putting the cottage cheese in the eggs, wrong mistake! It turned my eggs into soggy scrambled eggs, yuck! It didn't hold up like Ricotta does. The Mrs. Dash...well lets just say we have a difference of opinion of what tastes good. So breakfast was not my best feat today. I had to eat it within 15 minutes which was no problem because it sort of slid down, yuck. The only good part of it was that I got that same feeling of something in my pouch. So I stopped eating. If you have been following my blog, you will know that I am using this feeling like a full feeling since I don't get the sensation of being full or hungry. By the way I was not hungry this morning even though I didn't wake up until 8am.
Now it's time to wait 30 minutes until I can drink some water and take my medicine. I am surprised that I have been able to drink 64 ounces of water a day. I normally don't get anywhere near that. I have to admit though, Crystal Light has been helping me a lot! The flavors make it easier to think that you are not drinking water for a diet, but more for, do I dare say....fun?!?! LOL.
I never made it to my 4am cardio this morning, so I am going to have to make it up some way else. I'm thinking that some yard work might do the trick but we'll see if the heat keeps me from it. If nothing else, I'm going to mow the lawn.
Oh, I almost forgot, I haven't really had any cravings for anything other than the first day. Now there are things that I would love to eat, like some peanut butter and chocolate cookies I have in the freezer, or some JellyBelly jell-o, but I have to be good. It's almost the end of July and I think that I have only lost maybe 10 pounds. That puts me at 40 pounds in 3 months. If I don't start getting serious, I'm never going to make my goal. If I don't make my goal, that will make me very unhappy and I don't need those thoughts right now.
12:56pm - Lunch was sort of hard to come up with. I didn't want to eat eggs again, and trust me neither would my hubby. *grin* I didn't want to eat tuna, because I can't eat that without a ton of mayonnaise and sweet pickle relish. So I ended up with some canned chicken. For a 12 ounce can of chicken I only used 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise. Chew, chew, chew, because it was fairly dry. I also ate with the chicken 4 cherry tomatoes (from my garden) and 3 sweet pickles, I needed a little flavor to the mix. I totaled up the whole thing and for a cup of food it came to about 250 calories. I had that feeling of something in my stomach again, so yes I took that as a full feeling, even though I could have still eaten the whole kitchen!!! I'm not hungry, it's just that food looks so good. What's that old saying, you don't want it until you can't have it! Well that's where I'm at now.
I am picking mom and Kelly up for a dentist appt tomorrow, and the first thing mom asked me is should they eat before I pick them up. Yep! Then she asked if I am able to go out to eat for lunch should Kelly be able (she's having deep cleaning done). I thought about it and thought, well maybe I could do it, then I thought, no, I have come this far and not slipped don't start now. So I told my mom no on eating out. I feel bad because that is one of their forms of enjoyment in going out places but this time I have to think of myself. Oh wait....did I just say that?!?!?! Did I just put myself first?!?!?! Everyone better take note, I don't think this has ever happened before AND it's in WRITING!!! LOL.
So now it's time to think about what to fix for dinner, and what I'm going to eat all day tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be a biggie for me, I will really have to focus on what goes into my mouth. Things get kind of jumbled when I have to spend all day with mom and Kelly.
I made some killer baked fish and some okay tasting green beans. The only problem was that by doing this 5 day pouch test, it has my insides all messed up. I started having diarrhea a little bit after lunch. I'm hoping that this isn't going to be the norm for the rest of the test.
I was only able to eat my fish and then I felt like there was something in my stomach so I quit eating. I haven't done any exercise this week and I'm starting to feel the effects of it. I am getting tired and it's not just because I have been eating less calories. At least I don't think so, I hope not.
