I feel like today has been a good day. Fat day was yesterday and I basically just ate chocolate and cheese the entire day without even thinking of the calorie numbers. Today has been a much more restrained affair.
Breakfast was the last of my gluten free muesli with soy milk. Dinner was some homemade butternut squash soup (which has cost me the use of my right thumb..more on that later) and a coconut macaroon thing. I had a banana for a snack whilst waiting for tea and then pizza. Which I know isn't great but it was a home made job, apart from the base. A gluten free base and not all that big to be honest, smaller than a dinner plate put it that way. Mum made them with all sorts of meats and veggies and not a ton of cheese so I'm thinking it wasn't so awful. Not as bad as a take away at 300+ calories a slice anyway! Then I had a bowl of delicious strawberries with some vanilla yoghurt on top.
So yeah, not a bad day all round. That is literally everything I have eaten. I haven't had any nibbles of anything or anything like that. And I have done all my exercise as well so that's that nonsense out the way. So hopefully that should be taking me on my way to a minus this week. I ate tea around six o clock and it's getting on half nine right now and I am still pretty stuffed. I keep intermittently drinking a lot of water as well though which might be helping. Tough anyway, like I said in one of my other posts, if I get hungry I'll just have to deal with it. Time to think like a thin person.
As to the wheat free thing I think I'm going to loosen the reigns somewhat. I'm thinking of limiting that to more stodgy items like bread and pasta and just cutting it down rather than out of my diet. I know that it can have an adverse affect when you do cut things out, especially something like wheat, because you can almost make your own body intolerant to it by doing that. So I have been nibbling on bits and pieces of things with wheat in them to see if there is any sort of correlation between my stomach kicking off and wheat and so far we're ok. So yes, maybe cutting back rather than out is the best way forward.
The dairy thing, however, I think does make sense. I had a piece of cheesecake yesterday in a sort of gungho 'balls to it' sort of way and I definitely did get bloaty after that. So I'm thinking cutting the dairy right back is a good thing too. Yoghurt and cheese not so much however. I've read that the cultures in the yoghurt break down most of the lactose in their processes so yoghurt isn't so bad to eat. And cheese I refuse to do without but I don't eat a ton of it anyway because it's so fattening. We're getting there I feel. Balances and such of things but we're getting there (hopefully).
I had a moment yesterday during fat day of wanting to make some soup for my next couple of dinners. I enjoy home made soup, especially because I know how much salt there isn't in it compared to cans, but I always find I'm too impatient fresh from work to wait for it to cook. So I cooked it in advance. I had a butternut squash lying about so I figured boom, soups sorted. They're an absolute bugger to skin though, and as I was peeling it, my thumb slipped and I impaled myself under my thumb nail with a piece of the skin on the squash. It hurt so bad and bled everywhere. I was telling myself to man up last night when it was throbbing and burning, usually I have quite a high pain threshold, but I woke up this morning to it leaking pus and being generally unpleasant. I basically waved it in front of my mum whilst moaning and she cleaned and bound it for me so hopefully it will be better tomorrow otherwise I might have to go get it checked out.
But anyway, self maiming aside, I did create a lovely big bowl of soup. One butternut squash, two potatoes for body, garlic, salt and pepper. I wanted some onions to bring out the sweetness but we didn't have any so I had to do without. It's not as amazing as some butternut squash soups I have had but it is very simple and a little bit tasty. I have enough for a big bowlful today and another tomorrow with leftovers enough to wave in front of mum till she eats it. I don't know that it will be good for a third day.
Anyway, I think that's good for now as updates go. I'm going to go wallow in some self pity and watch some more Time Team. My passion for which has arisen again. I forgot how much I loved it!
Tatty boo.
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