June 17, 2012

  • It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood!

      I've had a busy day. Up early with the dog and then husband's pipe smoke wafting into the bedroom window from the porch. So I did the usual Sunday thing: read, do word games, drink coffee. Then I spent the morning with my friend, Pauline. We've been friends since I moved here and both our boys were in kindergarten together. She used to be big like me. She's lost over one hundred pounds in the last few years. She's able to do more active things than I am due to her improved health and natural need to be a body in motion.  At want point we played cards a lot and ate and celebrated. Our focus when together has shifted. We spent three hours together, talking, drinking coffee and catching up. At one point we were talking about how to avoid low blood sugar when I realized that I was having symptoms of the topic at hand. Some nuts, some carrots and cucumbers and I started to feel better. Ironically, she has less in her refrigerator to deal with things like blood sugar dips, so there wasn't much respite from the sensation I was beginning to recognize as hunger. So i bid her good-bye and headed home. 

       I wasn't home very long before i decided to cut up tofu for the weekly ritual of marinating. I was so hungry, I ate some uncooked tofu before it was able to hit the marinade. To my surprise, I liked it. I must have been some hungry in order to like raw tofu!  I've also started using some soy milk to cut down on the amount of dairy I consume. It's tasty, unsweetened and has some vanilla flavoring in it, so I enjoy it. Plus, it has fewer carbohydrates than fluid whole milk, so less sugar to feed the yeastie beasties. I don't see myself cutting out the half and half for my coffee until I am prescribed the antibiotics that require one to avoid milk. Eventually, I'll get there.

    Time to bake the tofu! 

    Blessings abound