SUNDAY. No Church for me today in a brick and mortar building nor on the internet. The morning started out well. Actually felt energized. Wanted to have a productive day. I started the day by giving God thanks for the restful night, prayed for my family also giving thanks for much.
Menu for the day: Breakfast was two hard boiled eggs with Hot tea.
Lunch was 2 cups organic Butternut Squash creamy Soup with a few croutons. Water.
Snack was a Starbucks Steamer.
Supper...another Homemade Avo-Cobb-O Salad.
Tallying up my calories tonight, I knew I should have had a steamer made with almond milk. Next time I will. There's lower calories with almond milk than with regular milk. When I'm counting, lower calories are needed for losing weight. This week I'll be aiming for low cal days. 8 weeks until I have my yearly physical blood work for labs. I have hopes of dropping some more weight and having a good A1c and lower bad cholesterol numbers and higher good cholesterol numbers.
I feel like I'm in training for a big event. A little nervous. A little scared. Deep breathes. Deep, deep, deep breathes.
I was busy today and had no desire to sneak any snacks in which surprises me as I usually crave chocolate on days like today.
After going through another large cardboard box full of papers, I was ready to go straight to TARGET to get a few more storage boxes for old letters and cards that I want to keep for now. When I was at Target yesterday, I forgot to look at their front fastening brassieres. Looked today and will have to go elsewhere for one. I have never constructed and sewn a bra before. Not sure I want to. As slow as I am, it would take way too long to make and I have my hands full thinning out and getting more organized around here. SO on a different day, I will have to go to Walmart.
Took the scenic route HOME listening to an old Kathy Mattea soundtrack about GOOD NEWS. This was my Church today. With the powder blue skies, the cold didn't bother me so much. HOME we went, unloaded our spoils and rested.
I spent the afternoon taking my brothers letters he wrote to me out of the envelopes, dated the letter and then placed them in chronological order. I read through some of the letters again and this time I had my composure. I was able to tackle this. When I get sheet protectors, I will place the letters in them and put them in a notebook.
Next, I went to the JUNK ROOM and worked at thinning out things that need to go elsewhere in the house or thrown away. I shuffled some big brown recliners to where I could sit and go through a laundry basket full of guess what? Pa A a a a pers. This is awful to be so far behind. I'm further ahead than I was yesterday. That's a good thing. If I could I'd continue working on this room all night, but my body gave out on me.
Ate a salad and watched the television. The evening was spent watching AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS and 1883. Turned down popcorn. I must be ill.
I believe I'm ready for this week. The weather is suppose to be in the 50s! I like the sound of that. Lord willing, I will continue going through piles of paper, clearing out the JUNK ROOM, catching up on laundry, writing out my Valentine Cards and getting them in the mail. I will focus on nutritiously dense low cal meals this week. I can do this thing. I can do this thing. I can. I have to talk to myself to encourage myself to eat less and lose weight.
Perhaps my menu for the day and week will be without meat getting my protein from eggs, seeds, nuts, legumes and cottage cheese.
Breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs and HOT green tea.
Lunch: A small bowl of oatmeal sprinkled with cinnamon, chopped walnuts and blueberries. Maybe a dollop of almond milk.
Afternoon Snack: Fruit and mixed nuts.
Supper: A large vegetable salad with black beans, nuts, chick peas and dressing.
Evening Snack: 2 cups of popcorn.
Water with each meal and throughout the day. Also Green Tea.
Vitamins, minerals and supplements: 1 tsp. Olive Oil,
Apple Cider Vinegar 250 mg after lunch,
CEYLON CINNAMON 2000 mg plus Chromax Chromium Picolinate 100 mg after lunch,
Ubiquinol CoQ10 50 mg after lunch,
Liposomal Vitamin C 1,000 mg after supper,
Liposomal Vitamin D3 5000 IU after supper,
ZINC plus Selenium after supper,
Vitamin B6 after supper,
Vitamin B12 after supper,
Collagen Peptides with Verisol (skin health) after snack.
*Need to take Vitamin B3 (Niacin) and garlic pills which are suppose to lower cholesterol.
*Just read that L-carnitine 2 grams lowers LDL levels and reduces oxidation for people with diabetes.
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