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  • Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

    Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
    I am barely into this and savoring each page.

  • Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love

    Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love
    I have finished this book and found it over indulgent and not really all that interesting. I felt she missed the boat on many occassions. I know little about the author but this read like a clumsy first book to me. I could have done without the sex stuff, it added nothing and seemed creepy. I did not love any of the characters but felt like I really wanted to. It left me unsatisfied and not in a good way. (**)

  • Catherine Sanderson: Petite Anglaise

    Catherine Sanderson: Petite Anglaise
    I do not have this yet, but it will be in my bag as soon as it arrives!

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PCOS and Pre-Diabetes Journey

31 May 2007

I am finally at full dose on the Metformin and doing pretty well with my plan. There is a mountain of information to sort through. The nutritionist was really good about laying out guidelines for me and it isn't so hard to follow, just different. Having a proper breakfast is really important. Not a Denny's Grand Slam but a bit of fruit, something whole grain, active yogurt and a tablespoon of Blackstrap Molasses. I did have a burger last weekend from Wendy's and I also cracked and bought a bag of Kettle Cooked Lays Potato Chips. Somewhere in my mind I thought that would be better than fries, even though Wendy's will happily serve you an order with no salt added. McDonald's tries to comply but their bin is already so loaded with salt that it really doesn't make much difference.

I paid for two days for those chips. It was pretty miserable, I was really sick and my right leg was puffy. Lesson learned. It seems that a burger is really the only thing that I crave so I stocked up with frozen turkey patties and have a bag of sugar free buns in the freezer in case of emergency. My own burger will satisfy me but if I don't have the ingrediaents to build it then it seems easier to run to Mickey D's. I am not even craving Sonic or Taco Bell which seems very weird to me.

I also bought a Food Sealer thingy that I am pretty excited about. This way I can make a pot of soup or something yummy and portion it up properly and when I want something I can pop it in boiling water.

23 May 2007

Yeastrolls_2  I sort of hit a wall last night. Yesterday marked two weeks of following my program to the letter. I have lost 22 pounds which is certainly a lot, most of it probably because of the water pills. Either way I can see a big difference in my body shape, I have lost 3 inches from my waist or the place where my waist is supposed to be and I know that is excellent but honestly I am so sick of eating vegetables. Last night I wanted Sonic or McDonalds so bad. Not even the fries, just the burger. Actually probably the bun lol.

Giving up bread is the hardest thing for me, I love bread. When I was still cooking at the restaurant my favorite thing was to get a yeast roll hot from the oven and slide in a chip of salty butter and just devour it. Or put a piece of freshly baked ham and a dab of Dijon mustard.

Now it is meat and veggies, fruit and dairy and water water water. I like water, I have always had plenty so that is not hard for me, I drink water all day. I gave up my diet soda habit without much trouble. My only slip was when I found a half bottle of Diet Dr. Pepper in the back of the fridge and half of that ended up coming out my nose onto Frog's Blog. There is a special burn you get from DDP up the nose that plain cola just does not offer.

I have to say I do feel much much better, buying a treadmill was a great decision. It was very expensive and moved my spring vacation to a late summer one but I think my health was worth the tradeoff.

*image from Breadworld.com