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Daily Journal – Day 251: Long run, great food, spinning, the end

May 20, 2018 by Susanne Leave a Comment

Well.

I woke up as usual, had breakfast a little late and then went to the bakery to get breakfast for my husband and the boy.

Later I ran 13k. Well, I say that I ran it but the truth is that I walked a lot as well, as I do. Around kilometer four my husband crossed my way and we ran together a little. Only I’m a lot slower than him. He did give me a few tips concerning my gait, though, and I think that is making a difference. My phone started acting up around kilometer seven. Which is why I don’t have any pictures even though I took some. That was also when I started feeling thirsty. No, I did not take any water. I might want to find a way to take some when I’ll run farther than that. When I got home I downed three glasses of water right away. And I helped my husband make lunch. Veal cutlets, homemade gnocchi and tomato sauce:

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Very yummy.

After lunch I didn’t really want to do the dishes and instead I sat down to spin while watching the Giro d’Italia:

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The green polwarth has now been re-plied.

I had plans to go grocery shopping afterwards but I decided against it when it started pouring rain. So the boy and I watched some Netflix while I crocheted.

Then to the nearby grocery store for some emergency butter and garlic.Then the huge pile of dishes. Then very few words.

My legs might be a little sore. And I didn’t make any music today. But that’s alright.

Today there will be, well, not much of anything. I will still try to beware the afternoon slump.

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Daily Journal – Day 250: Last day before two weeks off

May 19, 2018 by Susanne Leave a Comment

This was a very good day.

I think I’m starting to have more energy. Now, I don’t know if that’s the result of upping my thyroid medication or of skipping dinner.

I actually cleaned the house pretty early, so that I was all finished even with mopping the floors when my husband came back from running. Then I wrote a little before we went out for lunch, Today we did go to the Greek restaurant. This is just the usual one, where my husband goes to eat every other week:

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Yes, I only thought about taking a picture after I had already started eating.

Since the boy’s school had had a notice on its website that students would be off at 12.30 we hoped that the boy would join us for lunch. It was a good thing that we didn’t wait for him, though, we were done by the time his teacher let his class out. At 1.10. And they got to work right until the end. Boo.

The boy said he’d rather eat frozen pizza at home than Greek food at the restaurant so we all went back home.

Then I taught quite a few students. And then the boy and I watched „Star Trek: The Next Generation“ and an episode of „Big Bang Theory“.

And then I still had to write some more words before bed.

Today there will be running and writing. Other than that I don’t have any plans. Maybe spin and watch the Giro d’Italia. Or maybe not. I just have to take care that I won’t fall into the dreaded weekend slump. With Pentecost break looming that might take weeks to recover from. A two week slump has happened before. That is not pretty.

So I better put some more things on the to do-list.

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Handgemacht – Folge 105: Warum UFOs UFOs werden

May 18, 2018 by Susanne Leave a Comment

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Und hier das Video:

Gestrickt habe ich:

  • Brown Cria: Vorher- und Rückenteil weiter, jetzt geht langsame die Wolle ausIMG 1345
  • Carbeth Swan Dance: angefangenIMG 1342

Gehäkelt habe ich:

  • Häkeldecke für das Kind: wächst und gedeiht weiter
  • Virustuch: angefangen, aber doch wieder aufgemacht (die Wolle Ist Lang Jawoll Dégradé)IMG 1329
  • Color Pooling Cowl: angefangenIMG 1344
Gesponnen habe ich:
  • Grünes Polwarth: der erste Teil ist neu verzwirnt
  • Lila Nube: ersten Teil gewickelt
  • Orange Merino mit Seide (glaube ich): auf dem Louet Victoria angefangen
  • Grünes BFL/Seide: minimal weiter (ich dachte schon, ich hätte diesen Teil fertig, aber dann war da noch ein Puschel

Genäht habe ich:

  • Nicht
Projekt Kleiderschrank:
  • Fehlanzeige

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  • Stricken für Obdachlose auf Henriettes Blog

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Daily Journal – Day 249: On skipping dinner

May 18, 2018 by Susanne Leave a Comment

So a pretty good day overall if a litte cold and gray. I got lucky and only had very little rain on my morning run:

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Then my husband went all out and made Indian food:

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Very yummy.

And then I recorded the podcast as planned, had only two students to teach (the first one didn’t show, no idea why) and then I worked a little more on the podcast, did show notes and cut the video and audio and such.

The boy had leftover lasagna for dinner but I had – nothing.

I’ve been doing this for almost three weeks now, I think.

It all started with Holly Lisle recommending „The Obesity Code“* and „The Complete Guide to Fasting“*. You all know that after losing a large amount of weight between 2014 and 2016 I started packing it back on last summer. At the end I was eight kilos up from the weight that I had wanted to reach. Now, I know that I’m still totally within the healthy range, and that things could be much worse but then I really don’t want to end up gaining all the weight back in a short time. What if I gained eight more kilos until next summer? And then more?

Of course I tried losing it again, and I used the exact same strategies that had helped me in the past but somehow I just couldn’t do it.

So I read the books. You know me, I’m a sucker for books. And after reading them I decided to a) not eat snacks anymore (something I also did when I first lost weight), b) eat a little less carbs (only a little), c) eat nothing with added sugar (I still put rice syrup on my breakfast, though), d) only eat chocolate occasionally and e) eat nothing between lunch and breakfast.

Now, lunch is always our biggest meal and the one that we eat together as a family, so dinner is not as big a deal as it might be for other people. And my usual dinner was bread, butter and liverwurst with some extra cheese. Plus cheese a little later. And some more cheese later. And some almonds. And chocolate. And a little more cheese.

That was usually the time of day that I would binge-eat. And try to regain my energy by eating more so that I could still work on my novel.

Now, I did try to skip dinner in the past. My husband has always been doing this whenever he wanted to lose weight. And in the past, only a few months ago, I would skip dinner, and then start binge-eating two hours later.

This time my mindset must have been different. I already knew that I wouldn’t drop dead if I felt hungry for an hour or two. I regularly go for my run while my stomach is telling me it would like some food now. And I always tell it to be quiet and just wait an hour or two until lunchtime. So I knew I could do it. I was somewhat afraid of going to bed hungry and expected to wake up in the night because I needed to eat but that hasn’t happened yet. And I’m not particularly hungry in the morning either.

I also always got hungry around five in the afternoon, and since I’m no longer snacking and since I usually teach at that time I got used to just feel the hunger get bigger and then smaller again.

The first two days or so were not all that easy. I did stay away from the kitchen during dinnertime. And then my husband said he wanted to skip dinner too, so for the past ten days or so the boy has made himself a sandwich for dinner and has eaten it alone most days. He doesn’t mind, though.

And then it got easier. And then the five o’clock hunger went away. And now I’m pretty used to it. Which is really surprising. Who would have thought that eating nothing for dinner would be much easier than eating only a little? And my weight is going down. I have lost three kilos already. Even though I cheat on weekends and drink a beer instead of eating something. I know. But it’s traditional.

I don’t feel weak, I don’t get cranky, I have about the same amount of energy as before, and I feel really good. It’s weird.

Now, those books I linked above say that it’s not only the amount of food that you eat it is also that because we are eating almost constantly our body has to send out insulin constantly as well and that makes us gain weight. If you have longer breaks between meals your body can switch from storing for as fat to using that fat again. Now, we all know that a lot of sugar and other carbs make our blood sugar go up and down like crazy and that that makes you hungry all the time and so on.

I know that back when I tried the low-fat diet for weight-loss I was constantly hungry. I needed something to eat every other hour, no kidding. I was eating at least as often as my infant son. Now when I changed the way I eat to a low-fructose diet I suddenly was able to go much longer without eating. And I didn’t get cranky, or dizzy, or hangry. These days I am just feeling hungry and that’s it.

This is making me really happy at the moment. Yeah I know it’s weird. Not eating chocolate and sweets and walking around a little hungry for hours at a time should make me happy? But it does. I’m starting to feel like myself again.

And when something special comes up? Like last weekend when we had a lot of leftover pizza on Sunday? Well, I just ate pizza for dinner. And enjoyed it very much. And the next day I skipped dinner again.

Well, today is Friday, you know the drill, cleaning and music and writing and then watching something with the boy, I hope. Since it’s the last day before Pentecost break we might even go out for lunch. I’m really looking forward to that.

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Daily Journal – Day 246: Rainy and gray

May 17, 2018 by Susanne Leave a Comment

I was basically cold all day. Except for the time I went running in the rain.

I woke up early again and promptly forgot to take my thyroid medication which meant that my breakfast was delayed half an hour. Not a big deal. After breakfast I did some research for a project that I want to start next week.

The the running. My phone doesn’t like the rain even inside my pocket and the running app was acting weirdly for the last kilometer. So my running app thinks that I ran only 4.3 k but I know better.

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Then my husband and I made lasagna which is always a big undertaking. It was rather good, so totally worth it:

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Yes, that’s an actual glass of wine. We made an exception because of the special meal. My family is so used to me taking pictures of my food by now that my husband even moved the bottle away so the light would be better. So there wouldn’t be as much shade on the salad.

After that there was quite a bit of teaching, only a little less than yesterday.

Then writing and bed. And reading, always reading. I seem to be on a non-fiction kick again, I haven’t touched any of the many novels I’m currently reading for two days or so. I can’t even decide what reading mood I’m in.

Today I will run again and hopefully record the podcast. It would be fabulous if I managed to get the rest of the groceries but I seriously doubt that will happen. Then mild teaching and then I will probably be spent.

And then one more day until Pentecost break.

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Daily Journal – Day 245: Errands and passports

May 16, 2018 by Susanne Leave a Comment

Another very busy day. I know that it’s my own fault, mostly, but then there are quite a lot of things going on as well.

Since I had fallen asleep around 9.30 I woke up at 5.30 again.With most of the GDPR-stuff out of the way I hadn’t woken up all night.

I had wanted to write in the morning before getting up but instead I just wrote the blog post and read a little.

I had planned to get my picture taken for the new passport and ID, and then to go grocery shopping. But then I realized that I might have just enough time to actually go to the town hall to get new ID as well.

So I packed my bag and put on makeup rather early for the picture, and I packed a brush and scissors and my birth certificate. The photo place was open and I had my picture taken right away. I had to wait for ten minutes before getting them but still, that’s pretty fast. I read „The Diabetes Code“ while waiting.

Then I was just about to go to the town hall when I remembered that I had left both my passport and ID on top of the fridge.

By then it was getting rather late.

I rushed home, fetched my stuff (after having a weird conversation with someone wanting to speak my mother-in-law, something that happens a lot, and no I had no idea that she still wanted him to repair the blinds on her window), took my bike out of the garage and left again.

I was the only one in the waiting room and only had to wait for about ten minutes. It all went well, everything was nice and cozy, only almost 90 Euros for both ID and passport is a little steep. I thought about not getting a passport because the last time I needed one was in 1999. But that just feels wrong. And if there is any kind of emergency situation where I would need one I wouldn’t want to wait around to have one made.

It will be valid for ten years, so there’s that.

Now that I finally got new pictures I might also change my old driver’s license to a new one. There is a new driver’s license (German driver’s licenses are valid for life) or rather there has been one for ages. It is a EU one and the system used for classifying which cars and such you’re allowed to drive is completely different. My father told me to make sure that I won’t lose the right to drive trucks up to 7.5 tons but I’m not sure I need that. So far I haven’t and I’m not driving at the moment anyways.

I came back just in time to go grocery shopping after all but because it was already a little late I went to the smaller grocery store on foot. Which meant that I will have to go to the bigger store later in the week anyway because I didn’t get everything.

Then there was lunch which my husband made all on his own, and then dishes, and making music for thirty minutes, and lots and lots of teaching. Today was a day where I really liked the teaching. Great students and time was just flying.

I didn’t do strength training. I had been very determined in the morning but then it felt like I could either do that or write, and writing took priority.

And early to bed.

I did manage to write some words, so that was good.

Today there will be running (in the rain) and preparation for recording the podcast and teaching, of course, and music and writing. I really need to do something to turn the fabric lying around into a dress but I guess not today. And I need to work on my husband’s blog and do the taxes for real.

One thing at a time. With not too many breaks for reading blogs and such.

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