April 19, 2008
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Edited to add before I forget:
So dinner was leftover Thai food with glass noodles and some shrimp in it. And a glass of V8 juice. For snacks I had one banana and one little pack of applesauce. For lunch I had salad shrimp in cocktail sauce over lettuce. Probably too much shrimp today. Oh, and scads of lemon, ginger tea. And two,16 oz water bottles.
It feels like I’ve been gone longer than a week. I’ve had the flu which has developed into a cold so to wake up this fine morning with no stock market to think about and the whole day ahead of me, feeling sooo much better, I am deleriously happy.
What kept me going were the morning and evening calls from the Canadian, my lifeline. He was vacationing in Puerto Rico, a trip for two, planned well in advance. It was a little hard for him to be alone and he knew I was stuck at home, too sick to get out of my chair. It was probably dumb to get more emotionally involved but he’s home today with his boys, it’s his birthday and things should get back to normal.
So, having eaten next to nothing for a week, I am trying to start out slow with small portions of easy to digest food. This morning I made oatmeal – actually, it feels a little heavy — with rice milk. The way I do it is a German thing my sister taught me. I use half milk and half water to cook the oats. And rather than my usual brown sugar and butter on top with whole milk poured over the whole thing, I add nothing but salt. I only used 1/2 cup of oats to 1 and 1/2 C liquid, and I let it sit for a long time, first on low, then on no heat. And I don’t use the quick-cooking oats.
I’ve made the switch to tea again, my Chinese morning tea called Toucha — I’m too lazy to get up and check the spelling — which is black but very smooth. And I took my calcium and fish oil. And I drank one glass of water. Sorry to go on and on but I’m thinking about using this to log my progress towards my usual spring diet.
It’s not so much a diet as a shift in focus. This time of year I get really excited about the upcoming produce and the idea of wearing all my summer clothes. I am already feeling more beautiful just because I drank my water. Have you noticed how much better the skin on your neck looks when you are well hydrated?
Here’s what I’ve been thinking about. Some movie star — I watched a lot of TV – said something like this: You attract no more and no less than you think you deserve. I’ve never looked at it that way, kind of put off by the word deserve. But I’ve been looking at that wrong.
Comments (13)
I went on a new training diet for the spring too! The first time I put on short sleeves, I saw how mushy my arms had gotten in the winter!!! I had to get back in the gym and get everything back into place! I was shocked at how I’d let it all go! It’s not like I gained a lot, but it was too much to carry into summer! I’ve eliminated most grains and focus on fruits, veggies and low fat protein. Makes me feel healthier and I think I look better too… but some of that has to just be that the weather makes me smile more and smiles are pretty lol
I am glad you feel better. I like to eat oatmeal plain, no salt or milk. It still tastes good and rich to me perhaps my food mostly is plain.
Water is wonderful. I’m going the tea route of late. I need to homework today, but if I get stuck in a rut and it’s not raining, my bike is calling for me.
Using this as a log for the food changes will be neat. I would am interested.
Very glad you took the time to get rest and more happy that you are feeling so good. I do not eat oatmeal but I kind of want to try it now. Ha!
That last seems like the law of attraction thing a little and I have problems with that whole concept. I hate to think that randomly people have good and bad things happen to them but I think it’s true. I see people who behave poorly and treat others with contempt (and admit they are shitheels deserving of painful death {their words})rewarded and people who give compassion and seem to send out some of the most self respecting and positive vibes crushed to death under the weight of what some would call bad luck. I do not think they got what they thought they deserved for a second.
And I also hate the idea of randomness because in truth there is a lot of repetition in honest to goodness randomness. Still, the more I hate to think it is true and that what we think and feel has no bearing on our fortunes, part of me understands that it is true. I wish it weren’t at this stage because damned if I know what else to do. It would be nice to be able to change what I think and expect something good, but I have done that and only worse things have come. Meh. Even a string of randomness has to break some time.
Thai food is delightful. The tea sounds great… and of course I could eat shrimp in any form all day long. Ah yes, aluminum is probably bad. Oven-roasted veggies of any kind are divine, though, too. Some very health-conscious friends of ours like to put cut up sweet potatoes and broccoli in the oven among many of the other things I mentioned. Yum!
Glad you’re feeling better. Thai food sounds wonderful, I haven’t had Thai in ages.
Law of Attraction…go to http://www.abraham-hicks.com and get the daily quote from their seminars…a very cool way to look at life.
My Missy turned me on to a show on TLC with Paul Makenna…he helps people lose weight. Four golden rules.
1. Eat when you are hungery
2. Eat What you want (meaning don’t rule out anything..it sets up cravings and binges).
3. Eat consiously..no tv, no book, no radio. Put you untensils down between bites…chew minimum of 20 chews
4. Stop when you are full. (He maintains you will get full quicker when you are consciously aware of the food and the chewing and tasting each bite.)
If you follow these guidelines you will lose weight. He also taught techniques for emotional eating, cravings and excercise… very interesting guy. He writes books on it…
i had the flu around easter…it is a hard thing. wishing you well.
and i always make my oatmeal with milk. mmmmm…
Oatmeal….Who would ever think that would be a subject for a blog! I read a recipe about cooking it over night in the slow cooker. So I bought a small one as it’s only me who likes oats. I did it according to the recipe but the cooker only has one temp setting. It was like mush the next morning and not enjoyable at all. I suppose if you had a whole flock of people, putting it into a larger crock would make better since on the very lowest setting.
I like the long cooking oats too. I do it according to the directions with water but add: salt, butter, brown sugar, a smidgen of cinnamen and raisins and bananas while it’s still very hot. Then I use soy milk. That Vanilla Silk is great!
The key in that quote is “think.” What you think you deserve, also what you expect. It’s not necessarily what you actually deserve. They aren’t necessarily the same thing. Add to that that it’s not 100% because our lives intersect with others and sometimes you’re expecting opposite outcomes to the same thing and both won’t get it. And some will do anything (good or bad) to get what they think they deserve. And some don’t seem to think they deserve anything. But in general, in my life, it has proven true.
I eat my oatmeal raw. Why not? It’s raw in granola. I can’t eat it cooked. It makes me gag. But I love the taste, so I put a cup of blueberries, half cup of oatmeal (chopped if they’re not quick) and a cup of nonfat plain yogurt with just enough sugar to take the sharpness out of the yogurt. I think it tastes good. Mom doesn’t, but she doesn’t like granola, either.
hope you are feeling better. I believe that is so true- we attract who we deserve. That says so much! Which makes me feel bad for the people that keep attracting the negative personalities in their lives…
Your meals are so yummy. How do you do?