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17 June 2016
Carbs at 14% again today. This better not be a trend!
The peanut butter-chocolate Fat Bombs are so tasty without any added sweetening, I just
had
to have 2 with breakfast & lunch: hahahahaha! Maybe I will lose my taste for sugar? Wouldn't
that
be nice!!
Got another one of those hunches that going to Uwajimaya would be a good idea, so I did. I had to find something to peg the apple slices back atop each other. An explanation is in order, so here goes. I am absolutely
smitten
with those decoratively-carved fruits and vegetables of ItalyPaul and southeast Asia! And I do mean completely taken with them: once I (find and) get settled in my new apartment, I will buy the English-translation book, and take the online classes, and I can hardly wait! We're talking
dreams
about them, they are so
beautiful
! Okay, enough breathless preamble. I found a YouTube video from one of the rank-beginner lessons, and I want to do it for the potluck on the 26th, so I needed to practice. It involves slicing an apple horizontally -- and very thinly -- then pushing a small skewer through all the pieces to hold them together, and finally fanning out the slices into a spiral. This requires skewers that are not much longer than the apple is tall. I couldn't find the ones I bought for making hair sticks, so off to Uwajimaya I went. Turns out, they were having a food fest, with all kinds of booths in their corridor, and sale prices on some of their groceries. Fun city!
On my way home, I passed by a whole lot of boxes folded and jammed into other boxes, on the curb near that building's Recycle Cart. I took the largest box's worth home with me, and struggled up the steps. My friend was there, and opened the door for me, but we got so busy talking that it was a lo-o-o-o-ong time before we decided to go inside. She invited me into her unit to explain what she had learned from one of the constructioneers. Seems the new owners haven't decided
what
to do with these units: the idea to put bathrooms in all of them turned out to be unfeasible. They still need to update the plumbing, as some of these pipes were installed before 1904, but beyond that they haven't a clue. And we thought the plans were set and everything. Eeek! Kinda glad I won't be here for the mess and uncertainty, and my friend is beginning to think she doesn't want to continue working for the new owners with all this frightful "maybe, maybe not". I don't blame her
at all.
Then we talked about that toy store in Pioneer Square, and how wonderful it is, and went from there to the new buildings and businesses in our neighborhood. Apparently, there is a new "dangerous" store on Broadway, near the new light rail tunnel station: all the Penny Candy from the '50s and '60s (my childhood), and not all of it from the USA. I wondered aloud whether they have those super-delicious violet-flavored candies that the nearest World Market no longer carries. Then we went to our usual discussion about food. By the time I got home, it was too late for me to slice those frozen Brussels Sprouts, so I made a Loaded Turkey Burger. Oh, yum! Why didn't I think to do this to those burgers before?
I better bake those other Fat Bombs now, because I will need them tomorrow and Sunday.
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17 June 2016
Oh, brother! Carbs up to 14% today: I'd rather they went in the
other
direction. I mean, I even ate bacon fat to try to fix my Macros! Must need more bacon fat; there's probably a recipe for some kinda spread made of it, right? It'd be good on a turkey burger, wouldn't it?
Speaking of poultry burgers, in my haste at Trader Joe's, I accidentally picked up a box of the Chicken Burgers. Yikes! The reason I'd stopped buying them was because I didn't know what one of the ingredients actually was, as it had a vague and generic-sounding name like "natural flavor." After all, crude oil is natural, and would I eat
that?
I think not.
As a kind of an experiment, I sautéed a (paltry, I might add) serving of Brussels Sprouts with none of the cruciferous vegetables mix. As much as I love broccoli, it turns into methane in my gut, and I wanted to find out whether the Sprouts would do the same thing (answer: not even close). I did them up with the coconut oil that Thrive Market offered as a freebie last month. This brand -- Nutiva -- has a
mighty
coconutty fragrance, rather heady in fact, so I decided to go along with it, sprinkling turmeric and ginger on it with only a touch of pepper. It was tasty, but I think that, from now on, I'll put the spices in the pan, to soak up all the coconut oil that was left from the sautéing, and pour that over the Sprouts.
Finally got a chance to make some more Fat Bombs,
>whew!<
This time, I poured them into the molds with my left hand, bracing it against my torso to minimize the trembling and, thus, the mess. Looks like the recipe actually makes 29 servings, not 19. Bonus! Also,
way less clean-up.
I'll be glad when I can get off this friggin' medication: it does make me shake less than the other stuff did (I can play piano and knit now), but there are still disconcerting times in the kitchen.[/rant]
Meanwhile, searching for some answers to my tinnitus, I came across a website that produces white noise, pink noise, and brown noise. Having never heard the term "brown noise" before, I clicked on that icon. It wasn't high-pitched enough to mask the tinnitus (I hear a pure tone, two octaves plus one whole step above Middle C), but the effect was
quite
calming, indeed! Once I start working again, I'm gonna purchase an hour or two of that stuff, as it took the ache right out of my jaw. I mean, my jaw felt like it never happened!
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17 June 2016
Weigh-in:
133.8 lb
lost so far:
7.2 lb
still to go:
3.8 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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steady weight
16 June 2016
Carbs were 12% for the day, and fats only 75%, so there it is. That Chili Sauce was like sugar water,
blccccccccccch!
I took it upstairs to our building's "Free, Please Take" area on my way up the hill today, and it was gone by the time I got back. Better these college kids than me, much luck to whomever it was that grabbed it!
Didn't take a nap after doing laundry, so I am very tired & sleepy.
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14 June 2016
Yup, powered through the anxiety from today's online job search, and immediately afterward had a fat-snarfing, stress-eating, binge. Well, "bingette," since it took all of 10 minutes before I remembered that a spoonful of peanut butter could bring it to a halt. Carbs only 10% for the day, so that's good, at least. Oh! I just looked at the Fats: 80% at last! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Just remembered the 4-7-8 Breathing technique (it helped me come down from a would-be-freakout on an extremely crowded bus [still have a bit of enochlophobia]), so I think I'll put a sticky note on my keyboard to remind me to do it
before
I start the job search tomorrow. Maybe it'll keep me from binging. Who knows?
Gotta get up at oh-dark:30 tomorrow morning, so I'm signing off for today.
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