Postby Harriet » Thu May 03, 2012 10:16 am
If it is super hot in your part of the world as it is in mine (90 degree mark passed one month early), please remember to up your water intake as though it were summer already. It's not the calendar, it's the heat index.
So glad to hear Kathryn got bloodwork answers back promptly.
Someone posted that their husband didn't get bloodwork answers back - they were kept by the doctor's office and he wasn't informed - who was that? I remember being upset about that but didn't have time to post then.
Nancy, dgd is excited about little changes in her independence, I bet!
OKay, you deserve congratulations, too. The record keeping is the ticket, isn't it? We've got to catch on to what we are eating in a thorough way so we can analyze it and learn. Nancy does this all the time, of course.
Celebrations - How to corral those things - wow. Just eeeeasing them over, more and more to your own house would be helpful. Find out loved ones' "favorites" and prepare plenty of the ones that are actually healthy choices, so that the cake, chips, ice cream, etc. aren't missed. Nice grocery stores offer lots of cake options in small portions - half cakes, already-sliced half-cakes, single portions. For cake, unless you find a healthy recipe of some kind and can make a small one, I think it's better NOT to cook it at home - too tempting, and the leftovers are like traps.
Fast food stops - remember fast food places are not in the business of helping you control your health, nor are they in the business of too much honesty about how their food impacts you. (Well, maybe Sub Way, but they're not perfect either.) It's the SODIUM.
Example: one day when all other food choices had been excellent, I was pressed into one meal out for dd13's sake on an after-school shopping run, and Wendy's was the choice. I was SO GOOD and only ordered the "half-salad" option of pecan apple salad with water, which was only 340 calories, but would have 4 grams of fiber and count for 2 veggies/fruits. Well guess what, the next morning I gained! So I checked out their website - the half-salad has 800 grams of sodium! I really don't know how they even pack that much sodium into that little salad, but I felt it and the scale felt it. They must marinate the chicken in brine. Had I prepared a salad at home (which is how I was thinking of the meal as I planned my day) with my own grilled chicken breast, added chopped apple and chopped pecans, even added the dried cranberries they use, my sodium count would have still been tiny. So, when we pull a vehicle into a fast-food place, we just need to remember, these people are making their living off of salt.
I'm hoping to get to the second half of the link Lynlee gave us today. If I do, I'll try to make notes again.