I will be posting later until I can get my sleep patterns back to normal. Pain is still a big deal right now with me. I am taking as much pain meds as I can without "oding". I do want to wake up when I finally fall asleep. Yes, I do eat during those late night hours (or early a.m. depending on how you look at it). I know that I am not hungry but I am simply using food as a distraction from the pain I am feeling.
However, credit for me, I am logging that as my breakfast choice. It does mean long hours in between meals (average 8 hours) but I am determined to keep on track so my food intake is spread out over the day (and night). As I said before, I embrace hunger so I can tolerate it for long periods of time. Caveat: as long as my mind is in the right place. Right now, we finished the Divine Mercy Novena. We sing it acapella. It is such a beautiful rosary. We are especially lifting our prayers up for those who are warring with each other. We need to show mercy to ourselves and to others. Another word synonmous with mercy is charity.
BBE it sounds like you are having a wonderful time enjoying the Baroque music. My favorite period. It is a joy to sing along in the Messiah. I am sure that Boston has it so you may join in if you wish. They do here.
Eusebius my DH is familiar with that instrument. He has tuned harpsichords.
It sounds like we are all hitting our strides in sticking to our food plans, using our techniques and dealing with life's bumps without extra food! Yea to
futurefitchick,
Chefjoona,
maryann (I know how this has been hard for you so extra Whoop for you),
gardenerjoy,
Lexxiss,
silverbirch.
To our newbies here;
grayhenry--great to hear your delicious and nutritious salad and
chinakat---it will become easier the longer you do it. One day soon you will look back and say wow look how far I have come!
When I can, I ask for a take home menu from a restaurant so I can pre-plan what I am going to have before I arrive-the next time. I am doing that now since we are going to a favorite Greek restaurant after Mass tonight. I think I am going to have the Greek salad bowl: lettuce, tomato, vegetables, feta cheese, anchovies, calamata olives, stuffed grape leaves with either the grilled chicken breast or authentic gyro.
Since I wasn't up to planting yesterday we are going to plant tonight after we eat. This will be my summer garden: sugar snap peas, sweet green peppers, tomatoes, Swiss chard, cantalope ( a wonderful low glycemic fruit), arugula, radishes, sweet potatoes, strawberries and a huge blue flowered hydragnea in the middle of our garden plot. My DH loves that flower. If there is room after I have calculated the space for the plants and seeds I would like to add a white flower around the blue and then a red one around the white. Bulls eye!
Have a great reminder of the day.
Discussion continues on the May 2011 Thread
