Tofurkey Italian Sausage

Been eating a lot of meat lately, so I was excited to try Tofurkey Italian Sausage for breakfast sauteed with shiitake mushrooms in olive oil.  I was feeling meh before breakfast, but am now feeling optimistic.  M. decided to go downstairs and get ritz crackers from my mother-in-law rather than eating any of the foods I offered her.  I have to watch these situations where healthy choices for me don't result in healthy choices for my kids and maintain a balance where we can all be healthy.

Breakfast was positive this morning. I got a spicy cheese dog with sauerkraut and mustard, and a black Colombian coffee. $2.77.  This was at the Circle K at 3321 Apex Hwy 55.  You can put as much sauerkraut on your hot dog as you want, and no one judges you for not eating it with a bun.

Typical afternoon

Managed low-carb for breakfast and lunch.  Picked up R from school with plans to take them somewhere, (the library?  a playground?  a park?  a hike?  the mall?) 

After that ...

Knew we had to eat something before grocery shopping.  Kids asked for ice cream.  I said how about smoothies instead.  Started driving toward smoothie place. Kids started fighting about whether or not radio should be on. I stopped at Saladelia instead of smoothie place because it sounded healthy and I was too hungry to listen to them scream about the radio. One kid chose fruit and pumpkin muffin. Other kid chose fruit and croissant with chocolate chips. (I said no to cupcakes and brownies).  I got a square of lasagna (not low carb or low calorie, but atleast it wasn't ice cream, right?  All the fat from the cheese and meat will slow down the absorption of the starch from the noodles into my bloodstream) and a side of green beans in a tomato sauce with onions and garlic.

Price:  about $25 including tip.

Lasagna was cold in the center. Green beans tasted like they came from a can instead of fresh.

As we were leaving, kids were running around in circles refusing to walk out the door, because they'd made a friend. Manager came out and fussed at me because my kids were running around in circles. I said "I'm trying to leave."

It's been a long time since I was holding something in one hand (a half-eaten muffin and a cup of fruit) and a door in the other hand, and had someone fuss at me because I didn't have two more hands to grab my kids and drag them out of the place.  How many arms do men think women have?

People will say I'll save a lot of money by just keeping snacks in the car, but what? 

My mom would have almonds.

Hello old blog from 9 years ago

Now this blog is going to be about prediabetes. What that boils down to, is this is mostly a journal about walking and eating in NC.

More specifically, this is about me trying to avoid Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is chasing me. I am running. Actually, as you might have guessed, I don’t run much. Historically, exercise has not really been much of a thing, for me.

With type 2 diabetes, controlling one’s blood sugar is a way of life.  It’s all-encompassing.  It’s a never-ending cycle of staying conscious of one’s decisions.

I am not there yet, but I am close enough to call out the stops on my graduate school plans and rethink my future. Maybe I need to become a chef? I definitely need to be in control of my food, my sleep, and my exercise. Graduate school will throw that out of balance, so no graduate school.

Here’s the thing:  I don’t check my blood sugar. I am not approved to possess diabetic test strips. I have no way of knowing if I am actually doing well or not in my quest for health except by listening to what my body tells me.  That’s why it seems essential to keep track of supposed success and failure with a journal.  What did I eat?  How did I feel?  What happened?  Was my family willing to eat it? Did the decisions that were healthy for me seem healthy for my family?

This might be boring, but atleast you don’t have to read it if you don’t want to, and I won’t feel the need to over-share to my therapist and coworkers and brother.

in google earth

with parking lots

homework

After dinner sat down with my homework tonight. I figure I don't know whether I need to go in to class on Thursday until I sit down and do it at home and see if there are any problems.

It went pretty straightforwardly. I'm not done yet, but I did figure out how to fill in the blanks in the fields, (oh, i have to be in an edit session). And now all my buildings have names and numbers. Now I just have to give them stories, which seems like it won't be too difficult. And do the parking lots. Not a big deal. No worries.

Here's a picture of what central campus currently looks like.