July 22 BodyMedia

Not too bad overall.  I burned more calories.  Kept my intake down.  Even got all my steps in.  Lots of sleep too. 

Why is this such a hard thing to do???

I mean seriously.

My challenge - to eat 6x/day. 3 meals and 3 snacks.

I just can't seem to do it. It's not that I'm not hungry and wanting to snack. It's just I can't seem to do it.

I go to the fridge. I come away with nothing.

Because of my food restrictions right now, it's hard to find things. But almost all fruits and vegetables are fair game. I have about 8 pieces of fruit in the fridge as I am writing this.

But I don't want them.

What is my problem? I like fruit. But I look at them. I decide I don't want them. Can't figure out what I do want. So I close the fridge and decide to wait. Right now it's because it's almost time to start to cook supper.

So what. If I got up and started cooking now, it'll still be about an hour to supper. It's not like a piece of fruit will ruin my meal.

I get that it's not chocolate, or pasta, or some rich heavy snack. I can't eat chocolate. I really should take it easy on the pasta, because in a few weeks I won't be able to have much of it for a while.

I know I'm just plain angry.

I'm angry that I am so hungry. I'm angry that it's so much more work to feed myself. I'm angry that anyone else can just walk into the grocery store and pick something up. Heck, they can walk into a fast food place and get something to eat. Not me. Between food allergies, and food allergy testing/restrictive cleansing diet for the testing, I can't.

I'm also finding I may not ever go back to some things. I won't eat anything that has citric acid on the label anymore. I think that's what contaminated me over the past year and had me getting sick again.

I still can't eat excessive fat. Deep fried foods, yuck! My body rebels against it.

Sugar - FORGET IT! After what happened a couple of days ago when I tried to have a "treat", no way.

But that's the hardest one to cope with. Do you have any idea how many things have sugar in them? At least I'm learning how to make home made ice cream, my own version of prego, BBQ sauces, fruit syrups and fillings , etc. But seriously. It's a lot of hard work.

Right now I have 12 - 500ml jars of fruit sauces. 4 cherry. 4 blackberry. 4 raspberry.

Wait a minute. I'm not on a strict cleansing diet for the next few weeks. I can add some of this fruit to cottage cheese. That will be so yummy!

At least I have one more snack idea.

Today's Kick in the Butt

There was no running for me yesterday. It wasn't really a planned day off. It just happened that way. I didn't get up early enough to run, so I was going to try to go in the evening. But then got too much sun out in Crosby, and needed rest more than I needed to run.

So it was unplanned, but I'm not counting it as a mistake either. Sometimes life gets in the way. It doesn't happen for me often, so I'm good with it.

However, that means I've only run 3x this week. Between my injury, and live getting in the way once...

That's not so good. No use dwelling on that fact though. My body needed the rest. I can't change the past. So now it's time to move on to today.





It's a beautiful morning out. The sun is shining. The storm we had last night cooled everything off. I will need to put on bug spray - cooler wet air means mosquitoes. It's already 20C out there. No use waiting until it heats up. Now's the perfect time.

Going to tackle C25K Week4Day3 again - run 10min, walk 1min repeat 2x, then finish with an 8min run. I was so close on Friday. I had to walk once in my second 10min run, but then quit 2min before the end of my last run. I was less than a block from home, and worn right out. My HRM said I really pushed that workout too. Not bad considering I was off for three days - one easy run and two full days off.

So today I'm going to kick that workout. Finish it strong. Come home sweaty and tired, but accomplished.









********UPDATE**********
Just got back.  Kicked C25K Week4Day3's butt.  Done.  Avg hr was 147.  Spent 55% of my run in zone 3 for my heart rate.  It's getting higher, which is okay.  I am still able to finish my run strong, even though my heart rate is not dropping down yet.  I'm sure I'll see it drop soon

Day 5 Probiotics - July 22

I really am finding nothing new to report at this stage.  Things are going well.  My moods are much better.  I am running regularly.  I am still struggling with weight loss, but that will be a long battle. 

I think I'll stop with these daily updates until I am making changes again, or something major happens. 

So the next known big change will be when I go back on the cleansing diet 100% again.  That will be in 4 weeks and 2 days.  Mind you, I think I'll start it early, so I can start testing foods again sooner rather than later.  I really don't want to still be doing this into October when we have Thanksgiving here.

So that date  is ....  August 14. 

So unless there is something major to report between now and then - some accidentally discovered food allergy, or some major mood/pain/etc, I won't bother updating again until then. 

July 21 BodyMedia

Not bad for not getting my run in.  The physical activity has no vigorous activity, but I got in plenty of moderate.  Didn't get all my steps in though.  It was a killer hot day yesterday.  We all got a little too much sun. 

Day 4 Probiotics - July 21

Today is not too bad a day.  I am so tired and lethargic, but I didn't eat nearly enough food yesterday, so this doesn't surprise me.  Couple the low calories with the heat, and that explains why I'm ready to go to bed again.

Otherwise, everything is going well.  No reactions.  No pains.  No mood swings.  No anger.  It's all good. 

July 20 BodyMedia

Not too bad overall.  I need more steps.  And lots more calories.  I'm paying for that today.  I'm sluggish and lethargic.