Sunday, January 26, 2014

Food Diary - Saturday 1/25/14

Got up around 6:30 or so.  Had a cup of black coffee and a pear.

7:30 went out for bagels.  Got a hazelnut coffee 2% milk.  Came home and completely forgot I was only going to have half a bagel.  Had a perfectly delicious everything bagel with veggie cream cheese.

12:30 had left over mushy beef with carrots/parsnips/tomatoes.

1:30 had another cup of coffee with 2% to fortify me to clean up, vacuum and dust Becky's room while she's still at her sleep over.

Started making chicken and rice soup from chicken broth I made on Thursday.

Oops, got interrupted making chicken and rice soup when I got an email asking where I was.  Was supposed to be at an Aquinas Learning mentor meeting.  Abandoned soup-making and family and went to meeting.  Told Rick I would be home early (meeting started at 4:30 but I didn't make it until almost 5:30 and then didn't get home until after 10 p.m.)

I wound up eating chicken curry over rice, some kind of chick pea Indian dish and then a side dish of cantaloupe and honeydew with a little vanilla yogurt dolloped on top.  This was from the Wegman's hot food bar.

It has now been a full week since I've started recording what I am eating.  I am about three pounds lighter than I was at the beginning of last week.  But my weight is like that.  I fluctuate about 3 or 4 pounds pretty easily.  Writing this down is pretty boring and more time consuming than I thought it would be.  BUT I think I should try to keep it up.  It did put a brake on my binging.  I was at times tempted to be dishonest as in I'd think to myself:  I can eat more I just won't record it!  Gluttony is truly a vice.

 This week though, I am afraid I'll lose my momentum.  My dear aunt seems to be dying and I keep thinking that some day very soon, we'll get the news that she has passed away.  I feel like Damocles with that sword dangling over his head.  It is going to fall, just don't know when.  I am kind of numb about it.  I plan to go see Aunt Jackie this afternoon; haven't been all week due to business and weather.
So I will try and record everything and I think I'll also try to record anything physical I do too.  I am so out of the habit of exercising now that I stopped the physical training.  I keep making plans and then not following through.  Also, through all this my arm still really hurts.  I have to get to the doctor to get a referral to get it x-ray and then to physical therapy.

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