I’m a little late on the new year post, but I have not let you or myself down on my new year new me challange! I’m pretty proud of myself, although we’re only in the second week of January.
Today I was “Walking to the Hits” with my girl Leslie Sansone, and walking with the Boston Terrier in the room my Bella littering the place with dog toy stuffing. So my walk also included lets pick up all the stuffing while trying to walk to the hits.
So this would be day 11 of my new year, new me challange. The days I worked I used the stairs, because I think I was a little overly ambitious with trying to get a true workout in on the daya I work. Getting up at 5am getting home at 9-930pm totally wasn’t happened with a workout. But let me tell you about those damn stairs, they are killer. Three flights does a body good!
Let’s talk about my diet lately. I’ve been sick several times this past month, probably with dumping syndrome. What is that you may ask??? This is the definition right from the Mayo clinic, “Dumping syndrome is a condition that can develop after surgery to remove all or part of your stomach or after surgery to bypass your stomach to help you lose weight. Also called rapid gastric emptying, dumping syndrome occurs when food, especially sugar, moves from your stomach into your small bowel too quickly.” And did I mention you want to die when this happens. Actually you feel like you’re dying; cold sweats, nausea, blurry vision, diarrhea the works! I’m now trying to cut out all the foods that have large amounts of hidden sugar in them and of course cut the carbs because they turn to sugar. For years I’ve sweetened my coffee with sugar and since I’m not a big fan of artificial sweetener I’ve gone cold turkey with the extra sugar in my coffee/tea. I also substitute the skim milk I used to use for almond/coconut milk with no added sugar. I’m still doing at least one protein shake sometimes two a day and a lot of times I use my protein shake like creamer in my coffee, which has mainly been decaf since I had surgery. Every once in awhile I’ll have a cup of regular, but I can live without it.
My meals have consisted of a lean protein, I’m eating very little red meat these days. Although I did have filet mignon on New Years Eve and I burned my damn hand on the handle of the frying pan after I took it out of the oven, but it was delicious and worth the pain. I usually do make some kind of startch/carbs but this is mostly to benefit my significant other and it’s usually mashed or roasted potatoes or a little rice. And there is always some kind of vegetable. My protein size is about the size of a deck of cards sometimes a little less and basically I put like a tablespoon of veggies and slightly less carbs/startch on my plate and they don’t all get finished. Yesterday was homemade meat sauce, and for that I did use meatloaf mix, and zoodles. And this morning I made an egg is purgatory, which used some leftover meat sauce and a poached egg or and egg over easy goes on top. Delicious 🤤.
Hope everyone’s new year is off to a fantastic start! Happy reading 📖!
