I weighed myself at the shops. 96.9 kg with sandals on, 96.2 without! I may have weighed more than that before, but I have never weighed myself when it's registered more. Any time I have thought my weight could be more than that I have changed my eating for a while before I weighed myself! It has been a couple of days this time too, but 96 or 96.5 is probably about what I started on.
Today’s mistakes
Went to bed late. I don’t remember the time, but definitely past my planned time – maybe by 1 – 1 ½ hours.
Rushed out the door to take daughter to school, and though I intended to the shops on the way home I forgot to take water. Didn’t consider how long I would be or be prepare for what to eat if I become hungry. Rushing also made me forget to drink my tomato juice, again. I really shouldn’t try to actually post anything on the net before school – even if I’m not teaching.
Sat at computer and finished the post I left half done this am as soon as I came in from shops. Only it was already lunch time, so by the time I was preparing lunch I was already really hungry.
Somehow didn’t manage to prepare meal that would be quick to reheat, before leaving at 4.50 to take my daughter to netball – not home until 6.40 so didn’t eat until after 7.30 despite making a very quick meal. I was pretty hungry by then - it wasn’t controlling, but better avoided I think.
Changed my plans for dinner, twice and ended up carefully preparing and eating something I used to think was right and forgetting to include carbohydrate until afterwards (lucky I made too much potato for my husband).
Didn’t walk.
Things I have done right today.
Eaten lots of good food – not eaten outside my plan.
Took an antiallergy tablet and decongestant early on and topped it up, when I started to feel a bit woozy after lunch. This helps me think more clearly. I have many memories of eating in a half asleep blur – always very badly.
Bought a little notebook for my purse, to be more organazized and maybe forget less things, and be less stressed?
Looked for a good water bottle to buy, in the two most obvious places. Will have to keep looking.
Bought water, seeing as I forgot to take it with me. Bought an apricot, and had that and some of the nuts from my shopping trolley for a snack. So that turned out ok.
Remembered to weigh myself, so that my starting weight’s fairly accurate.
Remembered to buy some of the food that will help me keep to my plan:
Nuts, tomato juice,
diet yoghurt, mangoes ( to share tonight), watermelon, low
fat, low cal dips, lean meat, diced preserved peaches, topped up my standard salad veges.
Came home in time for lunch. Made myself a yummy lunch. I had some lite cheese and wholemeal crackers with tomato. Also I cooked a few little mushrooms with a little lean bacon and 1 teaspoon of margarine. That is heaps less
fat/oil than I have been using with mushrooms, but I think it actually tasted better. Bonus.
Remembered to take water when I went to collect my daughter from school, and when I went to netball. I was actually a little thirsty and finished a 750 ml bottle by 4.00
pm. That’s 750 ml more than I have been drinking. I hardly noticed that I was drinking it – I reckon my
body has probably been hanging out for it. It should help my skin too.
Remembered to take snack food to netball. Didn’t eat it though. Did remember to have some SoGood before we left, and felt better for it.
Thought about when I will walk tomorrow! It will be a squash to fit it in but can be done in between all the after school stuff and beginning to cook. I don’t know about getting sun on my skin though! Maybe I can pull my trousers up a bit and sit in the sun at lunch time or while I’m supervising outdoor play. Unless I’m very lucky the rest will have to wait.
To Do A lunch time muse.
Walk (getting urgent)
Cook chicken for lunches
Semi-prepare dinner because my daughter’s has a netball game this evening. Hmm. That could be a danger area for me tonight. I think I’ll try to take a hot drink, and maybe have a quick snack before I go – a glass of SoGood – and maybe carry some plain wholemeal crackers, or some Rice Thins. Maybe I should leave some of them in the glove box. A bottle of water in the car would be good too. Probably it would be good to have 2 water bottles just for me – one ready in the hall cupboard with my bag and keys and sunglasses ready to go out (or to remind me to go to the fridge if it’s hot), and one in the kitchen – being washed, or in the fridge.
Get sun on the rash on my leg (long story, but dermatologist recommended it, and I don’t feel comfortable trying to take the other kind of glucosamine again until the rash is completely gone, and I am starting to notice more aches and pains without glucosamine, which is not good for encouraging exercise!!) That will be hard to manage most of the time so I will do it now while there are no other bods around. I don’t think my husband could resist having a go at the idea of me sunbathing in very little clothing. At least it is sunny now yet not super hot. I could take my little notebook and use the time to plan, or maybe drowse a bit and rest, so my mistake with the bedtime has less impact.
Some nice things
Yummy smelling watermelon at the shop. Mangoes on special.
I have a new little handbag with no shoulder strap and put it down next to the watermelon, did all the rest of my grocery shopping before I noticed I had left it behind, rushed back and it was still there!!
I had some good fun on the net last night that really helped me destress after feeling physically off and bothered about something from school in the afternoon.
Such a nice comment from trucker last night and then some more welcomes this morning at this site.
Finding cute little decorations to give my daughter’s school teachers as Christmas gifts. I love to buy decorations and can’t justify buying more for my house this year. My daughter and I went shopping for them after school – and we both cooperated and didn’t fight at all!! Good for us.
My little sunbath. I thought I was burning after 10 minutes and came in, but what a lovely 10 minutes. Instant relaxation. Instant dry penetrating heat like in a sauna. A breeze, rattling the fronds in the big cottom palm and rushing through the leaves on all the other trees out there, but gentle on me. My back yard is very pretty. Green and multileveled. A group of big bluish purple agapanthas was nearby, next to a rose bush covered in little goldy orange flowers, white buds on a tree nearby and on a yucca… Forget about writing a to do list! I used the note book to shade my eyes. I felt so lucky!!
I must remember to keep trying to do this!
My children didn’t fight tonight!! No one did.
