Day 8
I've gone past the first week! Well I have skipped two days of weight loss blog. I have been eating just the way I think I should. But I had other things I urgently wanted to record. I've posted them here now. I think writing is helpful to me in itself - but by today I was finding things a little harder, and that may have been because while writing less, I was also thinking less about getting the healthy things right. I haven't done anything about exercise for the last three days - and that is a bit of a sign. Also I've been forgetting to take useful food with me.
I'm still finding that I'm having hard patches in the day, usually while I'm out, and skipping snacks and not prepared for lunch. It's hard to choose wisely while I'm in a shopping centre full of the smells of fresh food, almost all unsuitable, and I'm hungry! Yesterday (about the time I was forgetting to pay anyone for the $80 worth of bags I walked off with), I just passed by the food. I figured my house was between where I was and where else I had to go, and I'd remembered I still had leftover corned beef, and some nice dense wholemeal Vienna bread, so I stopped there and made myself something before I went on.
Today, when I'd finished shopping, instead of going home tired and hungry, I stopped in the food hall and bought something ready made. I had to be careful with the choice. I actually went to the bit they were calling "Fresh and crunchy", where there were lots of sandwiches and rolls and so on with salad and stuff in them. They must have had 30 things ready in the window and they all looked good - but only 3 were on wholemeal (=wholegrain) bread! I chose one of them. White might have worked ok, with the fibre of the veges and some protein in it to slow down absorption - but it's still more of a risk than wholemeal, and by eating something away from home, I figured I was already taking a bit of a chance. Also I got a cappuccino. I took a moment when I saw it put on a plate to think about how big it was. It really was a large roll!! It looked about twice the size of the kind I've weighed in the past and decided were a good size, so I asked them to wrap half and took that home. It turned out to be a great afternoon snack later, and I didn't have to worry about messing up my sugar levels and making it hard to stay on plan. I felt better for the break too. The half roll seemed a bit small by itself. I had another coffee and a couple of apricots when I got home. It all worked out fine this time, but I can see I need to be a bit more careful.
Today I went to the doctor to get a new script for something else and he decided to check my blood pressure. It was 115:78. "Quite athletic!" he said. I think he was surprised that it was so good. I was a bit nervous!! I think that 78 is up a bit from what it was while I was slimmer and fitter.
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