Watching calories is bad...watching sodium is worse!

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Today, I woke up around 8 this morning.  I got up, leaving Ron sleeping.  I went out into the living room, sat in my recliner to enjoy reading in the quiet of the morning, and promptly fell back asleep.  I woke back up about a quarter after nine, and Ron was in his recliner, with the TV on (very low volume) and I just couldn't believe it.  I just don't DO that - once I'm up, I'm up for the day.  Wow.  I did my Wii Fit - my weigh-in for the week - the two weeks, in this case.  Ugh, I'm thinking, Gatlinburg, then Thanksgiving, this is gonna be bad!  But - it wasn't!  I lost a little over two pounds.  Yee-haw!  I was very happy with that!  Especially after doing the 'Simple Test' the other day and gaining .7 of a pound, and then gaining some just Thanksgiving morning....no, no, no!  But, it all came out okay and I'll take it ...

I got on the pute and got my games caught up.  After noon, Ron went outside to get the candles put up down the driveway.  At one, I got my lunch - chicken salad, pretzels, and a banana.  Ron didn't eat any lunch, although he did have a banana.  He just got to working outside and never took the time to stop and come in and find food.  I'm not sure if that is good for him or not.  It can't hurt him, I suppose, but it can't be really all that good for him, either.  His little wrist monitor reading was scary this morning - way scary numbers - but then, just before he went outside, they were good (for him), so we are hoping it was just an anomoly with the machine this morning.  If it had been way scary numbers a second time, we would have had a way different day, I think.
After a while - probably around two, two thirty - I got off the computer and sat over in the recliner again, and - once again - fell asleep.  Ron woke me up coming in the house at four thirty.  I am flabbergasted.  What in blue blazes is wrong with me?  I just don't DO this!  I do have something going on with my foot, but I don't just be so tired and restless and flat enough to sleep once I get up - I just don't.  This is too weird.

I make the decision to start working on my Sports Tree on the table in the kitchen.  It's only a small tree - maybe 4' tall - that I put up the weekend after Thanksgiving, using all my Bengals ornaments and any and all football ornaments (thus, "Sports" and not "Bengals") and I can enjoy all of that.  I don't get my REAL tree until the second Sunday in December, and enjoy it until January 6th, but this is a good compromise.

Ron finally comes back in for good around six, and we discuss supper.  He suggests going up to Frisch's because he hasn't eaten all day and has plenty of 'room' for sodium (mgs, points, whatever...) in his supper.  We are using my myfitnesspal as our guide - on my diet, I am allowed 2500, so we divided that into 1000 for his 'breakfast/lunch' and 1000 for his 'supper' and that leaves him 500 for incidentals like coffee creamers, a glass of milk, and other things you can't really measure.  If you think it's hard counting calories, try ONLY counting sodium!  Man, oh, man!
We went up to Frisch's and perused the menu, and he got the turkey burger (UGH! again) without the remoulade sauce - we have learned that things like sauces, mayo, ketchup, A1, are dangerously high) with unsalted fries, and I got a pork tenderloin, fries (mine came unsalted also), and a cup of veggie soup.  I also got 2 little cups of tartar sauce, and used 1-1/2 of them.   When I put all my food in on MFP, I was just barely under my calorie count today.  Yay, I think.  At least I wasn't hundreds short, although I kinda like that...

Today is getting five stars for food.  I was under on calories - not by much, true, but under - and it was GOOD!  Zilch for exercise - I slept too much.

Oh, the sleeping?  I found out the cause.  Finally.
My sister, who was diagnosed anemic the other day, went to the hospital (Brown County) and got a saline IV to raise her blood pressure, and a blood transfusion to get iron in her blood, and she will be in there overnight.  Yes, for some reason, we are all very much in-tune with each other and 'feel' when one or the other of us have something going on.  She had assured us all over and over again on Thanksgiving that she was taking 400% iron supplements and that she was going to go to be seen on MONDAY if she didn't feel better by then.  Guess she decided to listen to her body instead of her brain!  Amazing what happens when you do that...