Today is a brilliant day, the sun shining brightly in a cloudless sky on all the icy snow. If I go out, I will need shades so I can see with all the white on the ground. However, I won't be going out today. I thought I was, but my carotid artery ultrasound is next Tuesday, not this one! So glad I saw it in time not to show up for nothing and waste my gas.
Sunny days like this one give me energy to do things at hand, so this is why I am posting today..here lately I haven't felt like it. My diet has been terrible for the past week. Definitely not helped by grey skies and my grandson's birthday cake and ice cream! I am powerless when it comes to this kind of temptation!
I had a peanut butter and banana sandwich for breakfast, and I plan to have cottage cheese mixed with something for lunch. Maybe some yoghurt for flavour. Then I will do my best to get around my husband's cooking. You see, he comes from the mountains down south and most of his food, though delicious, is full of fat and calories. I have some Healthy Choice diet meals in the freezer, I will do my best to eat one of those for supper.
Much of my eating problems come from the fact that my husband is an early-to-bed-early-to rise- person and I am a night owl. So he likes to eat supper around 2pm and heads to bed after 4pm (he says he is watching TV but I know he sleeps through programmes.) So here's me getting up at 7, having breakfast around 9, and I should be eating lunch about the time he likes to eat supper. Back in the day before I knew him, supper was at 5pm and I do my best when I eat like this. During the depressing winter months it is so easy just to eat what he does and when he does, then be hungry in the evening and night hours that I am up.
The fact that my eye doctor found cholesterol in a vein in my left eye last week (hence the test and blood work) means I will probably be put on a low fat diet (technically I am supposed to be on one anyway, as I take pills for high cholesterol) means I will have to be extra strict. Today I feel able to cope. I hope tomorrow I feel able to cope as well, for my health's sake
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