Wed. food journal

Trying to keep this simple & short right now but still have a record of health and diet...

Breakfast: rice cake and almond butter
Lunch and mid-day snacking: granola bar, banana and strawberries, 1 handful barbeque chips and 1 handful of pita chips with hummus (that's what happens when I don't pack a lunch)
Snack: Cadbury Egg and Reece's Pieces (1 package)
Dinner: leftover tortellini with pesto and parmesan
Snack: later when Ryan came home I had some steamed broccoli w/lemon and a bite of his mac and cheese plus a bite of his eggroll

To me, this is a perfect example of a day without planning ahead. This is nothing like a bingey day, but definitely could be a lot better.

I went to my doctor today and she said I have a sinus infection and gave me a shot of antibiotics and a shot of steroids (one in each side of my hips - ouch!)
She wrote me a prescription for some heavy-duty cough medicine with hydrocodone in it for my cough, but it was $75 so I just took some Robitussin DM instead (pretty gross).
She also recommended this fizzy thing that disolves in the shower...Suda Care Shower Soothers or something
And she recommended this solution to use with a squeeze bottle or Neti Pot for clearing out my nasal passage - it's called Sinus Rinse. I used it and didn't mind it. It didn't have that nasty feeling that nasal sprays usually do - very gentle. Pretty gross what comes out though, but I guess it's better out than in.
She said I should keep taking my sudafed and advil and my allergy pill and my guifenemine (probably didn't spell that right - generic Musinex) so I just took all that and am off to bed very hopeful that I'll feel better soon :)
Somewhere in the back of my head I remember being a person who was careful about taking too many meds...hmmm....wonder where she went?

Tues. food journal

Quick entry for food journal today.
I'm still trying to get so much work done before we go out of town on Friday. I'm going to have to bring some with, but hopefully it won't be too bad.
Still sick - I made a doctor's appointment for during my lunch today. But I am feeling a little better this morning. I only had 2 or 3 bad coughing fits in the night and got a lot more sleep than yesterday. The funny thing is, yesterday at work I was so miserable, but I felt better pretty soon after I got home. I think it makes a big difference just getting to lie down and have a cup of tea. At work, if I talk too much (which is hard to avoid) or walk or climb stairs my throat and lungs were burning like I was in a sauna, but not as fun. So...my (very small) dilemma is - if I'm at home, I feel sick but well enough to get through the day at work. But if I'm at work and using energy, I feel like I'm not being productive enough and that I should've stayed home.
I could totally do the work we're doing this week (inventories for the ESL standardized test) at home, but unfortunately I don't have the kind of job that lets me make that judgment call and trusts me to work here.
So - I'm going to work, then to the doctor and depending on how I feel mid-day I'm considering taking a half-day. We'll see.

Here's what I ate - my appetite was nonexistant in the earlier part of the day so I just sort of snacked. But when I got home I wanted warm food and made a fairly big early dinner.

Breakfast: blueberry crisp Clif Bar
Lunch: banana
Snack: ~4-5 pita chips; handful of cashews (~12)
Dinner: bowl of cheese tortellini with pesto, 3 veggie meatballs, and broccoli w/lemon and parmesan
Snack: 1 small ginger lemon cookie

Back to counting points

1st day back to counting WW points; first work-day using TwitPics; first day of classes at UT!

I thought I'd packed everything I was going to eat for the day this morning (21 pts worth, which is my daily allowance). But I was hungry all day, and still hungry and headachy when I got home, so I had 2 tempeh tacos (corn tortillas, 1/2 slice of havarti cheese, fried tempeh, cabbage, romaine lettuce and Wizard's hot sauce - 5.5 pts.) that Ryan had made for dinner.

Total: 26.5 points

I did pretty well with my GHGs too - no time for exercise, but everything else was good.

I'm going to try to stick with a better diet, taking a multi and taking my exercise and sleep seriously because I'm honestly starting to think something's the matter with me - I'm soooo exhausted all the time! I used to have no trouble getting up early and starting the day, and if I had a project to work on I could go - full of energy - for hours and hours. Now it seems like it's a struggle just to get through the day - and, I don't know if this makes sense, but it's usually that I'm more tired than sleepy - almost like an overtired feeling.
So - fingers crossed I'll feel better just improving my health habits. My mom wonders if I have SAD, but I don't think so... I will look into how much vitamin D I'm getting though, because I don't spend much time in the sun at all.

I'm off to get a bit of work done and then I'm crashing! It's another 4:45 alarm clock morning tomorrow :( Booooo!

Quick food & exercise journal

Food
no breakfast
lunch: Indian buffet - 2 wedges of naan, ~10 thin pakora strips with chutney, potato and carrots dish, saag paneer, yellow daal, rice, chickpea and apples salad

dinner: coconut, lemongrass, tofu and veggie soup (large bowl)

dessert: 1 c. Green & Blacks's chocolate ice cream with sprinkles and 1 Reece's PB cup

snacks: finished a bag of potato chips (~1/2 serving); 4 ginger chews; 2 mini candy-canes, 8 small rice and sesame crackers with pepper hummus, 2 small squares chocolate, 2 mini candy cane truffles....wow they were all such small bites, but it really adds up to a lot when I look at it now...

Exercise
walking only at the park - 5,000 steps; 2.5 miles, 50 minutes

I was soooo tired for at least the first half of the day - I think that's why I started craving sugary foods - and they did wake me up. I mean...I was scary tired - I thought something was wrong. I wonder if my body is just so used to the sugar it feels like it needs it.
I thought I'd slept well, but within 2 hours of waking up (after 9 hours of sleep) I was like a zombie. On the plus side, I made myself go out in 20-something degree weather and flurries to walk in the park. I didn't jog, because for some reason I nearly always twist my ankles when I try to run in the cold. But it was a good, brisk, hilly walk for 50 minutes, so I feel good about it. The most important thing to me is staying in the pattern of getting some activity every day, whether or not it's the toughest workout. I was sweaty and pink and out of breath, so - good enough for me!

I didn't get my asthma meds this week. I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 11, but it wasn't bad at all until I went away to college. From 18 to around 24 it was pretty bad. I used to sleep with my inhaler in my hand because I'd always need it in the middle of the night and would panick if it wasn't right there with me. I only needed to go to the emergency room once, and even then, though I was in a lot of distress, I still drove myself to the hospital so I know it could've been worse. It hasn't been bad for at least 5 years now. I didn't see any problems with it at all from about age 25 until 28 when we moved to Cookeville (asthma unfriendly territory), and I found myself not wheezing, but not able to take full, deep breaths - just a strange, constantly a bit short of breath feeling, but pretty mild. My dr. put me on Singulair and I've been taking it for awhile now. This week my insurance stopped covering it and I would've had to pay $75 for it, so I'm going to try going off of it and see what happens. I'm still going to take something for my allergies everyday, but just try to increase my lung capacity with exercise and start watching the sugar and chocolate a lot more to see if that helps.

Gotta go to bed. Big day tomorrow! Goodnight!

food journaling with TwitPic

Just a quick note to say that I'm going to try using TwitPic to post pictures of stuff I eat during the day. I haven't quite figured out if I set it up correctly, so we'll see tomorrow. I think what I'll do during the weekday is take pics of the food I pack for breakfast, lunch and snack all together and then when I get home I can post dinner and dessert. It might be a lot for me to keep up with though, so this weekend is just a try-out.
I'm also thinking I'd like to try one new recipe or way of preparing food (sprouting, dehydrating...something!) each week and that posting about it here might motivate me to stick to that. Ryan is the cook in our house, and I really, really appreciate him for that, but I should be able to make some sort of contribution in that area. It's only fair.
That will probably be a weekend day since I take forever to work in the kitchen. I'm just gonna play it by ear.