Was I tired yesterday? Nahhhhhhh, compared to today I could have run a marathon, heck a TRIathalon. Grooooooooooan......must get out of bed, child demands it, musttttttt
It wasn't till late afternoon before I started to come out of the brain fog but I knew I had to be getting over the hump. By evening I was even able to string enough coherent sentences together to finish my homework and turn it in. I really should have cleaned the house but just didn't have the energy and, with a three day weekend coming up, figured I'd have plenty of non-baby time tomorrow to do it. So the place was a mess. Oh well.
Kiddo is getting a new tooth and ranges from grumpy to happy. She slept a little better (which means I got a little sleep) but seemed extra needy. Worked out good, spent a good portion of the day cuddling her and holding down the couch. It was a fairly dull day-which was about all I could handle.
Breakfast
Chicken sandwich (spicy mayo, oopsie roll, leftover baked chicken breast)
Lunch
Leftover grilled chicken thigh, raw carrots, and another chicken sandwich (for some reason I was starving)
Supper
Grilled hamburgers on oopsie rolls with Parmesan chips
I should point out right here I am a little confused on dairy products-are they part of the primal diet or not? I know I need to get the book but have to wait for payday and the library doesn't have a copy. Oh well, if it doesn't then maybe I'm a...prima-tarian....or...half-primal....or.....need a catchy phrase for some who is mostly primal but eats extra things (like a vegetarian eats chicken and fish but no red meat....or is that a vegan? So many darn titles for people!!!)
Snacks
4 or 6 Sugar-free candies (darn you hubby for buying these things!!!)
Liquids
Ice water
A little whiskey over ice nightcap
Crystal light grapefruit thingy...way too sweet, won't have again
Exercise
Does snoring count?
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Day Two
The second day. Always the worse.
I woke up with ringing ears and that bright, burning ache which usually signals the start of an ear infection, plus a vague, all over ache. Ahhhhhhh, the wonderful switch from burning sugar energy to fat energy. I can almost hear all my internal gears grinding to a halt and switching over. Oh well, it only lasts a few days. Tomorrow will be better.
Spent most of the day in a slight fog, trying to roust myself off the couch to do....something...anything (besides crawl back in bed). Kiddo hadn't slept well the night before but you'd never know, she was everywhere and laughing like a loon. How does she have so much energy??
Watching her I ran up into a dilemma. I know sugar and heavily processed grains are bad (why else am I getting rid of it from MY diet?) but what do I do with kiddo? She only has 6 teeth and has trouble chewing meat (even crock pot stuff) and is iffy on veggies. Her usual diet has oatmeal, potatoes, carrots, dry cereals, and some bread....how do I replace those but still have food she can eat?
Hubby and I talked it over and thought up some ways around things (dicing meat into a fine meal for example...though not sure how she's going to like it since then it will be harder to pick up) and steaming veggies. How to replace cheerios though? That godsend when she suddenly decides she MUST EAT NOW and I have to prepare the meal first. A handful of cheerios and she is happy stacking, munching and throwing them at the dog and I get 5-15 minutes to throw a meal together. I wonder if dried veggies, sliced really really thin, would have the same crunch and dissolving ability as cheerios. Hmmmmmmm will have to think more on that one.
Otherwise the day went good. Hubby came home and cooked dinner (yeah!). By evening I was still exhausted and dragging but Day 2 is over.
Breakfast
Chicken sandwich with spicy mayo on an Oopsie roll.
Lunch
Grilled chicken thigh with raw baby carrots
Dinner
Chicken stuffed with provolone and prosciutto, roasted asparagus in olive oil and garlic
Liquids
Finished the Diet Cokes. Sigh...good-bye my red and silver friends!
Exercise
Lifted 3 pound hand weights for 5 minutes
6 twenty-foot wind sprints carrying 20 pound weight (translation: ran up and down the hallway-living-room-kitchen corridor carrying kiddo)
Mood
TIRED! Don't have the strength to snarl at anyone but if I did I'd be cranky. Looking forward to Day 5 when usually the energy comes back (or at least, always has the last few times I've done low-carb).
I woke up with ringing ears and that bright, burning ache which usually signals the start of an ear infection, plus a vague, all over ache. Ahhhhhhh, the wonderful switch from burning sugar energy to fat energy. I can almost hear all my internal gears grinding to a halt and switching over. Oh well, it only lasts a few days. Tomorrow will be better.
Spent most of the day in a slight fog, trying to roust myself off the couch to do....something...anything (besides crawl back in bed). Kiddo hadn't slept well the night before but you'd never know, she was everywhere and laughing like a loon. How does she have so much energy??
Watching her I ran up into a dilemma. I know sugar and heavily processed grains are bad (why else am I getting rid of it from MY diet?) but what do I do with kiddo? She only has 6 teeth and has trouble chewing meat (even crock pot stuff) and is iffy on veggies. Her usual diet has oatmeal, potatoes, carrots, dry cereals, and some bread....how do I replace those but still have food she can eat?
Hubby and I talked it over and thought up some ways around things (dicing meat into a fine meal for example...though not sure how she's going to like it since then it will be harder to pick up) and steaming veggies. How to replace cheerios though? That godsend when she suddenly decides she MUST EAT NOW and I have to prepare the meal first. A handful of cheerios and she is happy stacking, munching and throwing them at the dog and I get 5-15 minutes to throw a meal together. I wonder if dried veggies, sliced really really thin, would have the same crunch and dissolving ability as cheerios. Hmmmmmmm will have to think more on that one.
Otherwise the day went good. Hubby came home and cooked dinner (yeah!). By evening I was still exhausted and dragging but Day 2 is over.
Breakfast
Chicken sandwich with spicy mayo on an Oopsie roll.
Lunch
Grilled chicken thigh with raw baby carrots
Dinner
Chicken stuffed with provolone and prosciutto, roasted asparagus in olive oil and garlic
Liquids
Finished the Diet Cokes. Sigh...good-bye my red and silver friends!
Exercise
Lifted 3 pound hand weights for 5 minutes
6 twenty-foot wind sprints carrying 20 pound weight (translation: ran up and down the hallway-living-room-kitchen corridor carrying kiddo)
Mood
TIRED! Don't have the strength to snarl at anyone but if I did I'd be cranky. Looking forward to Day 5 when usually the energy comes back (or at least, always has the last few times I've done low-carb).
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Another Year, Another Chance
Last year the weather turned so cold that the garden stopped growing. By August we had a bunch of zuccini but not much else. In December the three small pumpkins finally gave up and rotted, half green and half wanna-be orange. Check out the carrots:
Yep, that's one of the BIG carrots. Sighhhh....I got so discouraged I stopped blogging, stopped weeding, and just glared at the dark, cloudy sky as it rained, rained, rained.
BUT...IT'S A NEW YEAR!
I've already started some pepper seeds going under the BrightLight. Organic red and greens, plus some orange belles (couldn't get organic orange ones). It's been 10 days and no sign of a sprout and I am getting worried. Last year only one of these seeds sprouted (out of 24)-I had thought it was because of the cool weather. Hopefully it isn't the seeds, these organic things are expensive.
The garden is still in a state of ugliness. I never got around to "putting it to sleep" so it's basically a mud pit right now. Once the ground firms up I hope to get another 3 yards of composted steer manure to mix in and help break up the clay some more. I'd love to get a real fence up instead of that ugly road construction neon orange stuff but we'll see. Definitely will get the log borders settled in and hopefully the grapes planted this year so we can start getting table grapes. And there is still the chicken coop/run to build and chicks to get.
It's only February and we are busy! Here's to hoping for a more productive year. *fingers crossed*
Yep, that's one of the BIG carrots. Sighhhh....I got so discouraged I stopped blogging, stopped weeding, and just glared at the dark, cloudy sky as it rained, rained, rained.
BUT...IT'S A NEW YEAR!
I've already started some pepper seeds going under the BrightLight. Organic red and greens, plus some orange belles (couldn't get organic orange ones). It's been 10 days and no sign of a sprout and I am getting worried. Last year only one of these seeds sprouted (out of 24)-I had thought it was because of the cool weather. Hopefully it isn't the seeds, these organic things are expensive.
The garden is still in a state of ugliness. I never got around to "putting it to sleep" so it's basically a mud pit right now. Once the ground firms up I hope to get another 3 yards of composted steer manure to mix in and help break up the clay some more. I'd love to get a real fence up instead of that ugly road construction neon orange stuff but we'll see. Definitely will get the log borders settled in and hopefully the grapes planted this year so we can start getting table grapes. And there is still the chicken coop/run to build and chicks to get.
It's only February and we are busy! Here's to hoping for a more productive year. *fingers crossed*
Day One
After a two week splurge of carbs it's back to meat, veggies, and more meat. During the two week hiatus I stumbled on the MDA (Mar's Daily Apple) website and decided to incorporate the primal diet with our low-carb diet mixture of Atkin's, South Beach, and common sense.
The Reason
I'm 29 years old and tired. I have constant back pain, migraines, and am always cranky. Ten months ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl who today is so close to walking is scary. Scary cause she's getting so big, and scary because I have no idea how to keep up with her in my current condition. To top it off, hubby wants another baby (so they are close in age) and I am seriously considering the idea. My major hang up: if I can't keep up with a 10 month old, how can I keep up with a running toddler and a newborn?
So, something has to change.
I've tried low-fat. I've tried calorie restriction. I've tried low-carb and had the best results that way (except for the inevitable lazy I-don't-wanna-cook-lets-get-pizza day that usually knocks me off the track. For the past two months I've been doing low-carb, kinda. Lots of cheat days, lots of skipped exercising. Not much weight loss or muscle gain.
Enter Primal.
Wandering the internet one day I stumbled on the MDA blog. It took four days to read all the posts but when I reached the end I had found a home. Growing up on a horse and cattle ranch our diet consisted mainly of what we could grow, raise, or hunt. Feeding cows, changing water lines, riding horses, hiking and tracking-all slow and steady activities, lots of lifting, lots of walking. And man was I skinny thing back then. Then I went to college and the draw of McDonald's, take-out Thai food, vending machines full of Snickers, sitting for long hours in classes and the library...well, they took their toll. Fast forward 10 years and all those good habits I learned as a kid are still just a memory, locked up behind a wall of fat, kicking and screaming to be turned free.
And Primal just might be the key.
It makes SENSE!! Meat and veggies, some fruit, no grains (that's gonna be a tough one) and lots of calm exercise. No demands for an hour at the gym, 5 days a week. Playtime even!
So, lets go PRIMAL.
Lunch
After skipping breakfast due to baby demands, lunch was a simple affair of cleaning out the fridge. Baby carrots, snap peas, and broccoli florets dipped into a veggie dipping sauce-thingy my parents gave us (lots of dill, heavy cream and mayo). A couple cocktail weenie's (needed to eat them up) on the side. Not the best primal meal but with our budget throwing out food is a no-no.
Supper
Whats more primal than ribs? Tearing meat off the bone with your teeth, getting BBQ sauce and charcoal in your eyebrows, oh yeah! While hubby was all metrosexual with his New York Strip that he'd splurged on, the kiddo and I got covered in grease and burned meat bits chopping on beef ribs (kiddo also had some grilled chicken since she only has a few teeth) and for the veggie was sauteed Brussels sprouts with bacon. Eating without utensils, licking meat juice off your arm...I could eat like this every night.
Snacks
No snacks today, what with one thing and another I didn't really get hungry till I started cooking dinner. Then it was hard to wait, so I probably should have snagged some leftover carrots from lunch.
Liquids
Awwwwwwwww the hard part of going Primal, giving up my Diet Coke. There were only 6 left in the case so I partook and enjoyed a few, mentally saying goodbye with each can. Once this box is gone no more!
Mood
Grumpy, tired, snappy. Stressed about school, kiddo hadn't slept well so I hadn't slept at all. House is a mess but all I want to do is curl up and sleep. Snarled at hubby countless times. Didn't exercise (bad Kaylee!) but did cook up some Oopsie rolls for tomorrow. Hand whipping egg whites till stiff should count as exercise!
The Stats
Height: 5'4
Age:29
Weight: 212.0
B: 46.5"
W: 47"
H: 47"
So...there's my first post on this journey. Will try and keep all the rest a little shorter. I am expecting a long, interesting, difficult-but-with-lots-of-rewards trip that will change my life for the better. Probably some melt downs, falling off the wagons, lazy days, and great days, up ahead. Let the journey begin!!
The Reason
I'm 29 years old and tired. I have constant back pain, migraines, and am always cranky. Ten months ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl who today is so close to walking is scary. Scary cause she's getting so big, and scary because I have no idea how to keep up with her in my current condition. To top it off, hubby wants another baby (so they are close in age) and I am seriously considering the idea. My major hang up: if I can't keep up with a 10 month old, how can I keep up with a running toddler and a newborn?
So, something has to change.
I've tried low-fat. I've tried calorie restriction. I've tried low-carb and had the best results that way (except for the inevitable lazy I-don't-wanna-cook-lets-get-pizza day that usually knocks me off the track. For the past two months I've been doing low-carb, kinda. Lots of cheat days, lots of skipped exercising. Not much weight loss or muscle gain.
Enter Primal.
Wandering the internet one day I stumbled on the MDA blog. It took four days to read all the posts but when I reached the end I had found a home. Growing up on a horse and cattle ranch our diet consisted mainly of what we could grow, raise, or hunt. Feeding cows, changing water lines, riding horses, hiking and tracking-all slow and steady activities, lots of lifting, lots of walking. And man was I skinny thing back then. Then I went to college and the draw of McDonald's, take-out Thai food, vending machines full of Snickers, sitting for long hours in classes and the library...well, they took their toll. Fast forward 10 years and all those good habits I learned as a kid are still just a memory, locked up behind a wall of fat, kicking and screaming to be turned free.
And Primal just might be the key.
It makes SENSE!! Meat and veggies, some fruit, no grains (that's gonna be a tough one) and lots of calm exercise. No demands for an hour at the gym, 5 days a week. Playtime even!
So, lets go PRIMAL.
Lunch
After skipping breakfast due to baby demands, lunch was a simple affair of cleaning out the fridge. Baby carrots, snap peas, and broccoli florets dipped into a veggie dipping sauce-thingy my parents gave us (lots of dill, heavy cream and mayo). A couple cocktail weenie's (needed to eat them up) on the side. Not the best primal meal but with our budget throwing out food is a no-no.
Supper
Whats more primal than ribs? Tearing meat off the bone with your teeth, getting BBQ sauce and charcoal in your eyebrows, oh yeah! While hubby was all metrosexual with his New York Strip that he'd splurged on, the kiddo and I got covered in grease and burned meat bits chopping on beef ribs (kiddo also had some grilled chicken since she only has a few teeth) and for the veggie was sauteed Brussels sprouts with bacon. Eating without utensils, licking meat juice off your arm...I could eat like this every night.
Snacks
No snacks today, what with one thing and another I didn't really get hungry till I started cooking dinner. Then it was hard to wait, so I probably should have snagged some leftover carrots from lunch.
Liquids
Awwwwwwwww the hard part of going Primal, giving up my Diet Coke. There were only 6 left in the case so I partook and enjoyed a few, mentally saying goodbye with each can. Once this box is gone no more!
Mood
Grumpy, tired, snappy. Stressed about school, kiddo hadn't slept well so I hadn't slept at all. House is a mess but all I want to do is curl up and sleep. Snarled at hubby countless times. Didn't exercise (bad Kaylee!) but did cook up some Oopsie rolls for tomorrow. Hand whipping egg whites till stiff should count as exercise!
The Stats
Height: 5'4
Age:29
Weight: 212.0
B: 46.5"
W: 47"
H: 47"
So...there's my first post on this journey. Will try and keep all the rest a little shorter. I am expecting a long, interesting, difficult-but-with-lots-of-rewards trip that will change my life for the better. Probably some melt downs, falling off the wagons, lazy days, and great days, up ahead. Let the journey begin!!
Saturday, July 31, 2010
A Taste of Fall
This morning was overcast and cool, not like the 95 and 100 degree weather we've been having the last couple weeks, and made me realize summer will be ending shortly. I look forward to the cool evenings and warm afternoons of fall, to tailgating and football games, to bright colored leaves and the smell of woodsmoke. It will be Miss M's first fall and I can't wait for Halloween and decorating the house. I know she won't remember any of it but the great thing I've found in having a baby is that it allows you to be a kid again. I can't wait to get out all my festival pretties, they haven't been used in years.
But, before fall gets here we still have at least two months of good, warm weather for the crops to grow. Grow babies grow!!!
With the cold season coming I am trying to decide how to over-winter the garden. My first option is to plant a cover crop which will keep weeds from gaining a foothold and hopefully keep the garden from becoming a mud hole in the winter rains. Winter rye seems to be the best bet but I'm not sure if the plants are tilled under before they are ripe or if they are harvested in the spring and then tilled under. I'm betting it's before they are ripe-though it would be nice to get a rye crop and then all the summer fruits and veggies.
My other option is to cover everything with a black tarp. Providing I do this while there is still some autumn warmth it could bake the ground, killing off any weeds and leftover seeds. I don't think this will keep the garden from becoming muddy though, and with Ko-dog's love of mud and the lack of a good fence I'm afraid most of the garden will end up in the house before spring returns.
Well, I still have a couple months to determine the best route. Any suggestions?
But, before fall gets here we still have at least two months of good, warm weather for the crops to grow. Grow babies grow!!!
With the cold season coming I am trying to decide how to over-winter the garden. My first option is to plant a cover crop which will keep weeds from gaining a foothold and hopefully keep the garden from becoming a mud hole in the winter rains. Winter rye seems to be the best bet but I'm not sure if the plants are tilled under before they are ripe or if they are harvested in the spring and then tilled under. I'm betting it's before they are ripe-though it would be nice to get a rye crop and then all the summer fruits and veggies.
My other option is to cover everything with a black tarp. Providing I do this while there is still some autumn warmth it could bake the ground, killing off any weeds and leftover seeds. I don't think this will keep the garden from becoming muddy though, and with Ko-dog's love of mud and the lack of a good fence I'm afraid most of the garden will end up in the house before spring returns.
Well, I still have a couple months to determine the best route. Any suggestions?
Friday, July 30, 2010
Slow growth
The late start to summer is showing in the garden. The corn should be producing silk but it's barely four feet tall and not a sign of an ear anywhere. The beans are very small but they are starting to produce tiny green pods and the zucchini has bright yellow flowers all over it. The tomatoes are the real winners, covered with flowers-if even half of the blooms become fruit we will have a bumper crop.
In other news, I have found a perfect french bread recipe that is better than store-bought, and simple to make to boot:
And...(drumroll)... I have also taken the big leap of quitting my job to stay home and be a full-time mom to Miss M. It's a little scary to not have the income coming in but with careful budgeting and some sacrifices everything is comfortable. I am one very happy and lucky girl.
In other news, I have found a perfect french bread recipe that is better than store-bought, and simple to make to boot:
And...(drumroll)... I have also taken the big leap of quitting my job to stay home and be a full-time mom to Miss M. It's a little scary to not have the income coming in but with careful budgeting and some sacrifices everything is comfortable. I am one very happy and lucky girl.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Grow babies grow!
The garden is finished except for updating the fencing and putting in the decorative border. Yay! Transplanted all the seedlings to their new homes, hoping that it's not too late in the season for them to produce. The corn seems especially happy to be in the ground rather than in their small containers-they were getting rather root bound. Next year will be easier and hopefully the weather will be more cooperative. Today it's supposed to get to 95 degrees, finally it seems like summer is here to stay!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)