Day 10
Once again, I had a day which was rather overwhelming, and in which food seemed a side issue. Fortunately, it was a side issue which was controlled, and I'm quite happy about it. Breakfast was routine, lunch was routine. I did manage to include a vegetable in each again. After I finished teaching in the afternoon, I also managed an afternoon snack before I went on to the rest of the day. Thank goodness for that, because the rest of the day needed fuel! I had a piece of toast with Vegemite (I don't bother adding butter or margarine any more), a carrot, and a handful of almonds. For the evening meal I had some take-away Vietnamese - a little steamed rice and - a mild chicken curry with coconut cream, and some prawns/squid and veges. My guess was that the coconut had made the fat level in the curry a bit high, but I didn't have heaps of anything. I still felt a little hungry afterwards, but I figured that might just be because I ate quickly. Later on though, I was feeling a bit hungry before bed, and I decided that might be real hunger, not emotional, so I had some weetbix, with soya milk and preserved peaches. I know Vegemite and Weet-bix are well known brands to Australians and mean nothing to some people for elsewhere, so I'll post some pics.
Vegemite.
An iconic Aussie food. A very salty, yeast based spread. It's black. The flavour is intense, so it must be used sparingly - smeared on. The calories are neglible. It is a source of B group vitamins. Apparently it is not likely that anyone who first tries it past the age of 6, will ever develop a liking for it. In the UK some people eat a similar spread called Marmite. However, for most devotees, one cannot be substituted for the other.Weet-bix.
A cereal made from whole wheat grains, rolled, then formed into rectangles. There's not much else in it. Once milk is added it quickly becomes a kind of moosh - but to my mind it's not an unpleasant moosh, the consistency of porridge. I add preserved peaches when I eat it these days, and I use soy milk.Weet-bix is a brand name. I usually buy a similar biscuits, in a cheaper brand, but I noticed tonight that the cheaper one has a few extra calories and a lot less minerals, so I might swap.
2 weetbix = 1.5 serves of complex carbohydrate (20 gm) 4 gm fibre and 107 calories. It also contains some vitamins and lots of minerals.
I love it because it's filling and healthy, and when I'm eating well it seems sweet, plus it's yummy and comforting.
This is what I wrote about Friday, on Friday:
Today I worked, did some washing,partly cleaned the kitchen, shopped, rang the bank, had a long fight with my son, drove him to a concert, ran out of petrol on the freeway, bought two lots of takeaway food, and watched Miss Congeniality.
You would think I would have learned to think about whether I have petrol or not, and to have a routine for getting it, but actually I go through bad patches with remembering small important things and this is one of those times. (The petrol gauge is either vague or doesn't work, but I should be able to work it out.)
It was still light when the car started to conk out. We weren't far from the concert venue which was near an off ramp. BoyKaf said he'd run. I made him a map, which he glanced at, and then he ran off and had disappeared by the time I had finished ringing the RAC on my mobile. Then I just waited there with the littleKaf until the guy came.
I was a bit stressed while the car died, because at first the car wouldn't go fast enough, but I didn't realize why, then I could tell it was dying, but I had to get past an on ramp, before I could get to the emergency lane. Only, the cars that were a few cars behind me, were trying to use the new lane to pass me, and to change lanes for the next exit. It was a bit scary. The spot where my car eventually stopped was right where the cars looked like they were headed as they changed lanes, which was a little unpleasant also.
When the RAC woman asked me for my mobile number I could only remember the first four numbers. I was going, "0403, um... 0403 ... " She said they would send someone as fast as they could - within the next 90 minutes!! I listened to littleKaf tell me a story about someone who deliberately swerved towards her and her friend and beeped a horn while the girls were crossing the next local street to our home, and then when I said, "OMG did I hear you properly he did what?" (or words which meant that to me), she said "You never listen to me!" and got cranky. She must have been pretty hungry by then, because we had been intending to go buy her dinner when the argument started, which was 2 hours earlier... I rang boyKaf after 10 minutes and he was fine. He'd found his friends and was eating Subway. Anyway, the RAC only took about half an hour.
Then, even though I told littleKaf we were going straight to top up the petrol and then buy dinner, I forgot to get petrol again, and we went and ordered Vietnamese food from a place manKaf and I used to go Before Kids. I didn't order by phone in case littleKaf wanted some and she said she couldn't tell without seeing a menu. But she didn't. The manager recognized me and smiled and said, "Hi. You have not been here long time." (Meaning: "First time I saw you I was still in high school. Last time I was getting married. Now my daughter in high school!") While we were waiting for the order we walked to a Subway, where there was no real queue, but it took us 10 minutes to get out because while she was trying to tell us the price the girl kept pressing some buttons over and over and then she said, "Sorry, just a minute," and went and got another girl who did the same thing. The man after us, just gave up and called out to them that he was leaving the money, and put down some coins. So then we worked out our charge and left the money too. The girl was making someone else's order by then. She just smiled at us and said, "Sorry. Computer broken." So off we went, and had a spat about nothing. We got back to the car next to the restaurant ... and I turned off the headlights. We collected the other food, which despite the manager's good memory had turned from cheap and delicious for dine in, to pricey for take-away, with mangulated squid.
But Miss Congeniality was good. I like Sarah Bullock.
And boyKaf came home in a good mood at a good time and said the concert was not as intense as he thought it would be, which was a pity,he said, but that it was really intense, and that Alex's band (the one I'd heard), was really good.
So again this was a high stress day which did not lead me to pig out! Yay!
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