Reply #62: 11/21/06 - Day 63

[Systematic Chaos]

I got home last night, and tired though I was, I got myself about 20 minutes of exercise on the bike. Jeanette went to the store to get our Thanksgiving dinner stuff and also stopped at Souper Salad, which we hadn't had in a long time. I had some of my salad for dinner and then we went to bed.

An extremely loud vehicle woke me up at about 3:45 and I wasn't terribly tired, so I made the best of it and rode the bike for a little while again. I'm at work now and feeling sleepy but I'll make it through. I'm thrilled that we both have Thanksgiving as a paid holiday off. :)

I'm eating light today, the richest thing I have being the baked potatoes from the salad bar topped with lots of salsa and a little bit of lowfat sour cream. I don't buy into the scare tactics about potatoes at all, and my blood sugar readings after eating them are never out of my usual post-meal range of 130-160. They're so low in calories (at 0.6 per gram or about 17 per ounce) that you would need to consume ELEVEN POUNDS of them to reach 3,000 calories in a day or over seven pounds just to hit 2,000. Thanksgiving will be a bit of a feast for us, but now that we know we can get produce delivered (a huge time and money saver over using a taxi or the bus) there will be a lot more vegetable soup and other creations in our house and less easy to fix stuff that may not be as healthy.

I started my day in a truly horrible mood, brought on by the nagging fear I have about my legs and some posts here that I stumbled upon. I'm feeling better now, though. More positive than yesterday as well. I keep noticing that my pants aren't getting tighter on me, but I really want to see them getting looser. I'll keep working at it and hopefully things will work out in the end.