Satuday, January 28, 2012
Day 26
Terrible night last night. I went to sleep about midnight and promptly woke up at 1:00, 2:00 and sometime after 3:00 with leg and/or foot cramps. The first one wasn't any big deal, it was the back of the leg behind the knee and I just went back to sleep. The second and third were a bigger deal and I had to get up and walk them off. After the third one I took a potassium pill. Had one more and then finally slept the rest of the way. My schedule has been messed up anyway so I expected to sleep until 9:00 or so, I ended up getting out of bed after 11:00. So glad it was Saturday. And now my schedule is even MORE screwed up. Sigh.
Other than that it was a pretty good day. I had a taco salad for lunch and while it wasn't up to the usual standard it was still just fine. Dinner was outstanding.
I went to the grocery store this afternoon and managed to spend $46, although some of that was on a couple of toiletry items. Probably about $35 in food. I did splurge on a couple items. Bought some olive oil for cooking and some mini cups of sugar free rice pudding. I shouldn't have -- I'm not a big fan of sucralose -- but they'll give me something manageable if I get a dessert craving in the next few weeks. I didn't buy a lot of meat -- some ham for the week and a package of meatballs for the freezer. I still hope to make homemade meatballs tomorrow. Oh, and I bought a calcium/magnesium/zinc supplement. I will have to watch carefully to see how these things interact with my medication.
Menu:
Breakfast: None. Slept in.
Lunch: Taco salad, spicy pork.
Same as always. This wasn't one of the better ones I've had. Used lots of hot sauce. I think the beans were a little different -- since they're at the bottom I didn't have much trouble not eating them.
Dinner: 8 oz boneless ribeye from Creswick Farms, cooked with about 1T of extra light olive oil. Some asparagus tips with a pat of butter. Small glass of red wine.
Day 26
Terrible night last night. I went to sleep about midnight and promptly woke up at 1:00, 2:00 and sometime after 3:00 with leg and/or foot cramps. The first one wasn't any big deal, it was the back of the leg behind the knee and I just went back to sleep. The second and third were a bigger deal and I had to get up and walk them off. After the third one I took a potassium pill. Had one more and then finally slept the rest of the way. My schedule has been messed up anyway so I expected to sleep until 9:00 or so, I ended up getting out of bed after 11:00. So glad it was Saturday. And now my schedule is even MORE screwed up. Sigh.
Other than that it was a pretty good day. I had a taco salad for lunch and while it wasn't up to the usual standard it was still just fine. Dinner was outstanding.
I went to the grocery store this afternoon and managed to spend $46, although some of that was on a couple of toiletry items. Probably about $35 in food. I did splurge on a couple items. Bought some olive oil for cooking and some mini cups of sugar free rice pudding. I shouldn't have -- I'm not a big fan of sucralose -- but they'll give me something manageable if I get a dessert craving in the next few weeks. I didn't buy a lot of meat -- some ham for the week and a package of meatballs for the freezer. I still hope to make homemade meatballs tomorrow. Oh, and I bought a calcium/magnesium/zinc supplement. I will have to watch carefully to see how these things interact with my medication.
Menu:
Breakfast: None. Slept in.
Lunch: Taco salad, spicy pork.
Same as always. This wasn't one of the better ones I've had. Used lots of hot sauce. I think the beans were a little different -- since they're at the bottom I didn't have much trouble not eating them.
Dinner: 8 oz boneless ribeye from Creswick Farms, cooked with about 1T of extra light olive oil. Some asparagus tips with a pat of butter. Small glass of red wine.
It's a terrible picture but holy cow was it good!
I've been reading up on how to cook a good steak and this was one of the best ones I've ever had. Start with a good piece of meat - this was a nice grass-fed ribeye from a local farm. I let it come to temperature with salt and pepper, then foiled it and cooked it in the oven at 185 for 15 minutes. After that, it got 2 minutes a side in a hot cast iron skillet. Rested it while I made the asparagus, then it was time for delicious!
I'm definitely buying more stuff from Creswick next week. I still have pork chops to eat this week, hopefully I'm ambitious enough to do them one night.
Much happier with what was eaten today. Yes, I went out to lunch. Yes, I had a steak (which was less than $7 but that's still expensive given my food budget). But I had no cheese, got in a good quantity of veggies and didn't have anything notably processed.
Since it's 2:00 am I should probably try and sleep. This will not end well.
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