Later Update

I have decided to totally blow my diet tonight… figured I could use a nice carb blowout before going back to low carb. And what better way to do that than with… Mexican food.

So I ordered some cheese enchiladas for myself, my sister and niece (who are on their way over) and am having myself an absolutely delicious glass of Riesling – which is the sweetest and most decadent flavor of wine I’ve yet tried. I will probably have a second glass of this stuff… mmm.

I had a pretty unpredictably busy day… when I left my house to go run some errands earlier, I noticed I had a puddle under my car. When I got home I checked it and it was oil… not good. Considering there wasn’t one under my car just yesterday, I knew it was leaking at a pretty good rate. So I worriedly called my local Midas shop, where I had just had my car’s oil and fluids changed last Friday. He told me at the rate it was coming out, I should have the car towed there to be on the safe side. (The shop is about 4 miles from where I live). So I called AAA and they came. (The driver was SO hot and I felt like such a bum – I was wearing a purple long-sleeved shirt and a pair of jeans that were hanging from my hips, which is only a good look on a skinny girl, IMHO. I think it’s about time to retire those particular pair of jeans and trade them for one of the smaller-sized ones!) Anyway it turns out the oil leak was caused by a gasket head that had broken. But the shop fixed it for free… which is great!

I got plenty of exercise running from the 9th to the 3rd floor, back up, then down to the ground floor, out to my car, back up, etc etc. I took the stairs twice although I felt like absolute crap.

Part of my lousy feelings lately could be from pollen, which is supposedly very high in my area. Everyone I know (including me) is sneezing, has headaches, has burning eyes, is light-headed, itchy, etc.

Speaking of which, I felt terrible all day today until just after 5pm after I went to pick up my car and stopped at Whole Foods for my spinach/parsley/celery/carrot juice, which I haven’t had in almost a week. I had them add a wheat grass shot too (although I did have a few wheat grass tablets earlier today). I drank the entire 16 ounces of juice in record time, and FINALLY started feeling better! Man I love that stuff. I am just so thankful to be feeling better. Hopefully when I go back to semi low carb, I will start feeling strong, healthy and vibrant again. The past few days have been HELL.

I am going to keep my carb intake between 20-50 each day for a while and see how that goes.

I am going to miss my exotic fruit adventures, though… I will still be eating them, but only 1 or 2 servings first thing in the morning. I truly believe that if I hadn’t have messed up my body, metabolism and digestive system, that I could easily live on fruit. But years and years of bad eating have made me pre-diabetic and carb-addicted, and it just doesn’t work so well for me to eat so much of it. ::sob::: I so wanted to also be apart of the raw movement, but that didn’t work out very well either. Raw foods cause movement all right, but not the type I am particularly fond of… (sorry, very bad joke).

Well, family is on their way and I’m going to go grab another glass of wine… I’m sure I’ll be paying for this blowout tomorrow morning, but oh well!

I have no idea how many calories I’ve had today. I ate my soup with some potato slices for breakfast, some coffee with half and half and honey, a pear a few hours later, the veggie juice around 5pm, and haven’t really had much else to eat until the Mexican food, which will be here any minute. I will start back up my calorie counting tomorrow…

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Even later Update:
I didn’t overdo it, just had a couple of cheese enchiladas, a few chips and half of some kind of beef roll thingie. (It was my first time having beef in nearly 2 months!) I also had 2 glasses of Riesling. It’s 9pm now and I’m ready for bed! I have a very positive outlook for tomorrow, not only because it’s going to be sunny out (finally!) and in the 70’s. I’m not going to get on the scale again for a while.