hi all! Just a note to show that I am still out here. As I wrote previously, I am weaning off the monitoring of all my food stuffs on fatsecret. I feel like I am within a personal experiment to see - To watch, what the scale reveals. So far, I have had up to 7 pound fluctuations, but not sure why because there hasn't been huge binges and the scale will be up and then suddenly down 7 pounds. It's a mystery,but what I have learned that there are so many factors to weightloss and the susten annce of a body.
I have done less yoga, at least the sessions have been shorter and farther inbetween. I have done a lot of physical work every day, so the thought of a bike ride is a dream. I have been gardening, mowing, tiling my new kitchen and other miscellaneous home work and it has felt good. When I am in Florida, the place has much less physical demands than our place here in the north, so the intentional walking and cycling and boating is our agenda.
I have been loving just sitting and enjoying the yard, the birds this season are amazingly loud singers!
We had a wedding, with lots of visitors and that was a fun time. My daughters have now moved back to town, so there is a lot of time spent hanging out and 'noshing' when they come around. Trying to demonstrate how to nosh in healthy ways. Yesterday, we had a midday visit that turned into a lunch. We went to the garden, picked lettuce, kale, arugula, blueberries and raspberries, chopped the greens, smashed the berries, added rice vinegar, a little maple syrup, walnuts and goat cheese, for a yummy sweet salad.
I have definitely been eating more carbs, and permitting myself to have more sweets. Still my baseline meal is a big salad and a chunk of meat.
I do notice that I feel different when I eat the sweets and carbs. I actually identify with being more hungry after and even tired. I am seemingly more mindful of that and I am also mindful that I don't like that feeling and that helps me to decide to avoid too much.
With this heat wave, I have been going for soft-serves. What I mindfully recorded was that even a small cone will make me lethargic about an hour later, and even nodding off as soon as the sun goes down. Rediculous.
My go to without guilt and that gives me a calm resolve is to be drinking more tea. A nice cup of hot tea, when I feel a bit peckish, or like I NEED something. And a tip! Drinking that cup of tea with someone else is a huge gain. You engage someone in a low-calorie relaxing ritual. All good! Don't get me wrong, I am a big coffee klatcher, but the tea feels more like yogic meditation..
Best wished to everyone on their journeys..
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