It's raining. I actually like rain so I'm sitting here with the patio doors open watching and listening to the rain, eating my big salad, listening to "Summer Day" by Sheryl Crow and resisting the temptation to get up and dance around the house . . . at least until I finish my salad.
I've continued with my "healthy" new eating regimen. It's easier than I thought. I think using my vacation to immerse myself in it was good because I think it's made it easier to stay with cuz it's something of a habit now. I didn't check my morning blood sugar today but yesterday's morning reading (before eating) was 91 which is fabulous (a non-diabetic human should be between 80 and 100).
I've been tracking everything I eat on this web site that I really like (http://www.myfooddiary.com/) and at the end of the day, when you say that your day is complete, it gives you a report telling you how you did. Good news is accompanied by a green smiley face and bad news with a red frowning face. I generally get smiley faces for various things like eating lots of fiber, getting lots of certain vitamin, not having alcohol, etc., and I always get frowning faces for too few breakfast calories (I'm not a big breakfast person, generally speaking).
But, the last couple of days it's also been giving me a frowning face for having too little fat in my diet. Apparently 15% of your calories should come from fat and I've been under that limit. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Okay, back to work.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
10/19/2010
It's been a nice few days off but back to work tomorrow. I'm trying to figure out how to sneak in a Colts game at Lucas Oil Stadium this season. The problem is, it will require taking a day off and we're getting into a very busy time on a big project and . . . it's going to be tough to take any time off between now and the end of the year.
Went to a bar and watched the Giants game today with my brother and another friend. That was kind of fun. The Giants won which is good. I'm not really a baseball fan but I do like the Giants. I pretty much only watch games that I go to live and it's mostly cuz, I like the stadium that the Giants play in.
My place is a pigsty and I should have spent one of my days off cleaning but . . . I didn't. Instead I spent the entire time focusing on my new healthy eating regimen -- I figured it was a good time to try it out, get used to it, play with recipes, etc. Went to farmer's markets and bought some great looking produce. Ate at home everyday making healthy stuff -- I'm pretty much eating as much as I want but focusing on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, etc. . . . with some other things added in here and there (as cravings dictate). I'm also trying to eat several times a day (as I'm told I should for my diabetes). The bottom line is, my blood sugar's been great and I lost a couple of lbs.
For example, yesterday I had:
Breakfast:
Oatmeal with brown sugar and 2% milk.
Snack:
An apple
Lunch:
Chicken cilantro won tons
Snack:
Big salad with a soy/ginger dressing
Dinner:
Penne pasta with a tomato eggplant sauce I made from scratch
I've also noticed I have a lot more energy. So, it'll be interesting to see how I maintain this type of eating with going back to work. Being home makes it easy, planning ahead isn't exactly my strength so . . . we'll see. I'm going to try to package some stuff up to take to work -- fruit, veges, etc. I've told myself that I'm allowed to "cheat" once a week if I want so whenever I start thinking, "Mmmmm . . . a big juicy hamburger sounds good right now." I remind myself I can have it later.
I think I'm going to try following this healthy eating Monday through Saturday and let myself be bad on Sunday. But, again, I'm not great in the planning and discipline area.
Went to a bar and watched the Giants game today with my brother and another friend. That was kind of fun. The Giants won which is good. I'm not really a baseball fan but I do like the Giants. I pretty much only watch games that I go to live and it's mostly cuz, I like the stadium that the Giants play in.
My place is a pigsty and I should have spent one of my days off cleaning but . . . I didn't. Instead I spent the entire time focusing on my new healthy eating regimen -- I figured it was a good time to try it out, get used to it, play with recipes, etc. Went to farmer's markets and bought some great looking produce. Ate at home everyday making healthy stuff -- I'm pretty much eating as much as I want but focusing on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, etc. . . . with some other things added in here and there (as cravings dictate). I'm also trying to eat several times a day (as I'm told I should for my diabetes). The bottom line is, my blood sugar's been great and I lost a couple of lbs.
For example, yesterday I had:
Breakfast:
Oatmeal with brown sugar and 2% milk.
Snack:
An apple
Lunch:
Chicken cilantro won tons
Snack:
Big salad with a soy/ginger dressing
Dinner:
Penne pasta with a tomato eggplant sauce I made from scratch
I've also noticed I have a lot more energy. So, it'll be interesting to see how I maintain this type of eating with going back to work. Being home makes it easy, planning ahead isn't exactly my strength so . . . we'll see. I'm going to try to package some stuff up to take to work -- fruit, veges, etc. I've told myself that I'm allowed to "cheat" once a week if I want so whenever I start thinking, "Mmmmm . . . a big juicy hamburger sounds good right now." I remind myself I can have it later.
I think I'm going to try following this healthy eating Monday through Saturday and let myself be bad on Sunday. But, again, I'm not great in the planning and discipline area.
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