Monday, July 10, 2017

I made stuff, migraine, fatigue, bad sleep, and cuddly cats


Remember that picture I posted of myself the other day. Well, this one is a better one in my opinion. 


I have been pretty busy these last several days. We went shopping at Fred Meyer for groceries and then we checked out a new store called My Fresh Basket. It opened up in Kendall Yards. My Fresh Basket a bit pretentious but they do have some specialty things that we haven't found elsewhere. I bought a bar of Sandalwood soap as a treat.  Anyway, because we have adopted a new food diet, I made sure we had plenty of fruits and veggies, which meant that I was in the kitchen cutting, slicing, and chopping- doing food prep- pretty much most of the weekend. When I wasn't doing that, I was cooking or baking. I made a peach pie and a Strawberry pie- both of which have been eaten. Last night I made eggplant parm without the parm. I also decided to make my own Popsicles. The above was supposed to be strawberry pomegranate but I forgot the pomegranate.   


This one is lavender lemonade with real lavender. I also used some of my lavender syrup, not a lot. 


Here is peach pineapple.


And this is vanilla matcha. I have a vanilla coffee syrup and I used just a little to sweeten the matcha.

I have been very exhausted the last several days. I have trouble focusing and staying awake sometimes and others I feel sick. At night I've had some trouble sleeping in bed again and end up on the sofa. Today, I woke with a migraine and it only grew worse as the day progressed. Thankfully, after some coffee, alieve, and laying down for a bit, its disappeared. However, I tried to make vegan apple cinnamon breakfast cups and misread the recipe for lack of being able to focus, and put in too much vanilla. Amanda had to take over for me and double the recipe. That did the trick. I decided to make bread today. It has been rising a little longer than usual, but I need it to double in size and with the air conditioner going, it's been a slow process. 

I am a bit annoyed with my Mom. I called to talk yesterday and during our conversation she informed me that I wasn't going to lose weight just because I decided to go vegetarian. Um, thanks. What the fuck?! I don't get it. We were vegetarian for a whole year when I was a kid. They still cook stuff from the vegetarian cookbooks they have, granted it's not much, but still. Plus me being vegetarian affects her in no way except for the the week or so she and Dad will be visiting in October. If she's worried that I am going to become one of those self important, high horse, condemn you for eating meat vegetarians, she's mistaken AND she should know me better than that. More importantly, I should have to feel that I have to justify myself for trying to see if this will be better for me health wise and reduce my physical pain.

On a much happier note, my cats have been very cuddly lately. Even Narcisa. She actually let me lay my head lightly on her last night. She even purred! 

5 comments:

  1. The kitties have been especially adorable lately - I think it's to make up for the nightly breaking of shit lol. Also I'm excited about the popsicles - I think we should do a fruit juice one with the juice we keep buying. I am really liking it and we could easily put some strawberry bits or something in them as well. ^^

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  2. Good going with the dietary changes! I still eat fish, cheese, and eggs, but I'm doing okay. Portion sizes are my problem. Actually my portion sizes are small to moderate and the weight loss has been tediously slow. I have to account for my sluggish metabolism due to age, genetics and inactivity. I know I need to move around some more.

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    1. I love cheese! I won't say no to it, but I'm going to cut back a little. Portion sizes are okay for me for the most part. I mostly graze through the day. But dinner time, I like an actual meal and tend to eat too much.

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