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A bit of a rambling journal...
Foremost in my mind this afternoon is my niece, Jillian and her unborn baby boy. I mentioned in an earlier post that she was recently found to have a brain tumor. The doctors have done one surgery to put a port in place to drain excess fluids as they hopefully allow the baby to grow to 34 weeks gestation. Jillian had her first weekly MRI last Thursday and it was found that the tumor is filling with fluid. The doctors used the port to drain some of the fluid yesterday and took out 21 staples from her previous surgery. She is such a trooper! And her only concern is for the babe. She is an OB nurse so she is very aware of the benefits to the baby of waiting. At one point the neurosurgeon told Jill not to Google the procedure she's had for this port. Of course she did anyway. When she saw the doctor she told him she had gone on google to research...he asked what she found out...she told him she couldn't find anything...he told her, "because it has never been done". The doctors are doing everything they can for both Jillian and the baby, even inventing new procedures!
Jill had another MRI today along with an ultrasound on the baby. We have to wait for the results of this MRI, but the ultrasound results were good. They estimate the baby is about 3 pounds. I will continue to pray for Jillian, her baby boy, and the whole family.
On another subject, I tried a couple of new recipes today. I got one of those spiralizers from Amazon and tried it out on some zucchini for lunch. I used a little olive oil along with some herbs and garlic and then sprinkled Parmesan cheese sparingly on top. It was okay for a side dish, but I don't think it would replace pasta for me. My second experiment was to tweak a recipe for cauliflower I saw recently in a magazine. The original recipe called for bottled ranch dressing. I adapted it to using a small amount of olive oil and powdered ranch mix. I tossed the cauliflower in that and then baked it. When I took it out of the oven I added a teaspoon of real bacon bits and 1/2 onion that I had softened in the microwave. Because of the dressing mix it was higher than I would like in sodium, but is not one of the things I'm tracking right now. GoodMan and I both liked it.
And the last subject on my mind is waste. A few people have mentioned to me that my suggestion to eat the best first is wasteful...hmmm yes, that would be true if I took one bite out of a large plate of food and threw the rest away...or if I ordered a number of entrees at a restaurant and only took a couple of bites out of each. But that is not what I suggest...if I go to a buffet restaurant and pile my plate high with a couple of items and then only take one or two bites, that IS wasteful...but if I go to that same buffet and only take small portions of a number of items, then decide to only take a bite or two of each, I don't think that is wasteful. I think that is smart. When cooking at home I try to find uses for leftovers. If one only takes a small portion and chooses to only eat a couple of bites, very little is wasted. EATING MORE THAN IS WANTED is a type of waste in itself. It wastes my life...I don't want to spend my life fighting my weight. If pushing my fork away from foods I don't want or need saves a few pounds, it may save a few years. (This is for the nail tech who was shocked that I would suggest throwing away food. I should have told her my son raises a couple of pigs so nothing ever really goes to waste.)
Thanks for enduring my rambling journal.
Diet Calendar Entries for 14 August 2014:
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1273 kcal
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Fat: 51.54g | Prot: 90.82g | Carb: 116.71g.
Breakfast: Kellogg's Low Fat Granola Without Raisins, Breyers Real Fruit, Fage Total 2% Greek Yogurt. Lunch: Olive Oil, HEB Zucchini, Watermelon, Baked or Broiled Salmon. Dinner: Watermelon, Oscar Mayer Real Bacon Bits, Hidden Valley Original Ranch Seasoning & Salad Dressing Mix, Cooked Cauliflower (Fat Added in Cooking), Ground Beef (80% Lean / 20% Fat, Patty, Cooked, Broiled), Aunt Millie's Hawaiian Hamburger Buns. more...
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3074 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Swimming (slow) - 40 minutes, Housework - 1 hour, Resting - 14 hours and 20 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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