I told you about beginning to drink a mixture of apple cider vinegar and water. The bottle is 42 oz, so it is a pretty light mixture. I've been sipping away at it, though, and I can honestly say I feel some good effect.
Other than that, I have not had any real plans. For breakfast, this morning, I poured some orange juice and have utterly failed to drink it; but, I think I still shall. I, also, toasted up an English muffin and cooked a couple of medium-sized eggs, though the whole of neither made it to my plate, a few blackberries from the 99 Cent Only store, and had an apple and two clementine teeny tiny oranges.
Later on, I had two blueberry toaster pastries. The kind from the 99 Cent Only store, which are smaller than other ones; and, just now, I had some guacamole tortilla chips, also from the 99 Cent Only store.
In other words, I have made no attempt to not eat what sounds good, but, I did allow myself the indulgence of fruit, despite the nagging feeling that it is too expensive.
Where I grew up, when I grew up, fresh fruit was far too expensive, especially for a family of six. We had apples, oranges and bananas, sometimes and on very rare occasions we might have some sort of melon, grape, or berry. For fresh vegetables, it was pretty much iceberg lettuce, salad tomato, cucumber, onion, potato, and carrot. Everything else was canned or something we grew ourselves.
Beans and rice were normal, as was bologna and homemade bread, for the sake of cheapness. Cheese was bought in huge, economical bricks and bologna was bought in huge, economical rolls.
It really was not bad, mind you, as I look back on it. Too much milk, but, otherwise, a mostly healthy form of eating that probably is the reason I did as well as I did. Certainly, my health deteriorated after I stopped eating that way, but, then, my stress levels went way up and I gave birth to four children after that, too, and I imagine all that had something to do with my decline.
Never mind all that, for now. My point was to tell you what I am eating like, today. Tonight, I shall probably eat a stew that I made the other day, which is the same stew that I ate two days hence, with my sister.
If I have not told you already, I shall tell you now, that it has apple cider vinegar in it, and many yummy vegetable bits, with only a smattering of pork. If I have told you, already, it still is so.
It is my intention to move toward cooking more food that has more spice and is more from scratch, because, it will make me healthier and happier to do so. There is too much yeast and other leavening agents, too much sugar, too much weird stuff that I don't know what it is, in the boxed or otherwise prepackaged foods. Not enough taste.
Plus, food should never be something to be got out of the way, to be hurriedly prepared, at the sacrifice of good taste, good health and good familial relations.
We should revel in the aroma, taste, texture .. the slice of a knife and the different shapes that a thing can be chopped, diced, sliced or carved into. I want to make my own unleavened bread and feel the pride of creation. It is not onerous labor, but, sweet entertainment, in it's finest, most useful form.
We are all living wrong, those of us who live some other way. Remember, life is a celebration. What good is a celebration, if you are not seeing, tasting, touching, smelling or moving anything or in anyway that makes one happy.
This is a progression for me. I started out by ceasing to buy myself cheap bread for $1, which is thoroughly unsatisfying by taste or nutrition, when I can get two loaves for $5 that are so much more satisfying that they are worth the price.
Remember, a good lot of what makes the difference in how much you eat, is whether or not your body lets you know that it has what it needs. If you eat things that do not have enough vitamins and minerals, then you are going to want to eat more to make up for the lack. That is on top of, as I previously mentioned, the need for satisfying taste.
Well, I recently read about some place where they mostly eat unleavened bread and it was supposed to be a very healthy little town, or country, or whatever it was. Sorry, but, I was not taking notes! What I came away with was a desire to look into the making of unleavened bread, so I did a quick Googling and found there are many fine recipes, some which are basic and sound boring and some which are only slightly more complicated but sound quite yummy.
See, any leavening agent at all, not just yeast but baking soda and baking powder, can potentially help cause yeast overgrowth, arthritis and related issues. That's what the article said, anyway. I combined this, in my head, with whatever remains of the memory of my reading of the Yeast Overgrowth Cookbook, its companion and a book called Back To Health, along with some other words, that is also about yeast overgrowth. It made sense.
Unleavened bread appears to take hardly any preparation time, too cost very little and have great potential benefit. I have been considering making it for some time, now, but, have yet to do so.
Soon, I shall do so. In time, if it seems to be working for me, I shall switch over to almost entirely unleavened bread made by my own hand. Before I can do that, however, I have the other bread to finish eating, and a very large bag of pancake mix to get through.
My thinking, which is still in the negative range, tends toward "Oh, I have to wait until it is all gone and then .." But, I don't have to wait to start. It doesn't have to be perfect conditions or an immediate cutting out of everything "bad" and replacing it with everything "good". A little change here and there is enough to make great progress, so long as one does not stop trying.
So, I could pop into the kitchen, right now, and make unleavened bread. I don't have to wait for the other bread to be gone. All that does is leave me at the grocery store, another month, going "I still am not ready, so .." and buying more of what I have already decided that I don't want, instead of at home making what I am sure I do want. Silly!
By the way, no, I am not popping into the kitchen, right now, to make unleavened bread. Tonight, I will eat my stew and a couple of pieces of the oh-so-leavened bread from the store, most likely. It is good bread and is already out. I won't waste it. I simply have no interest in purchasing more.
The same goes for my cans of soups. I have lovely cans of soup and they are not as good as homemade soup, but, not some gross evil, taking in small quantities at least, so that I should throw them out. Eating them is fine. I have no interest in purchasing more, however.
I am working toward having my own garden, growing mostly my own fruits, berries and vegetables and making my own soups and stews. Will I get there? I don't know. At the very least, I can learn to do my own canning and to buy vegetables and such in bulk, methinks.
Again, because it would help me to be healthier and happier.
It occurred to me that I have not, yet, given you my measurements. I was not going to, as far as weight and such goes, as I intend to scan the GNC printouts and show you a big batch of progressive proof, later on; but, I may as well do, since I am going to tell you other things. Besides which, if I lost the GNC thing and I didn't type this out, not only would I lose proof for your sake, but, I would lose proof for mine. Now, my typing them out won't prove a thing to you, but, it will to me, so, here I go!
Just took my measurements of my upper bust, bust, ribcage at its widest bit, waist and hips/lower abdomen region. Have not taken measurement of my thighs, calves or arms and not sure I will.
For me, the biggest bit of me is my middle, anyway. The majority of my legs are more like a size 14/16, whereas my upper body is more a 16/18, whereas the middle of my body is more like a 22/24. Actually, my arms and upper thighs are somewhere in between those sizes, as well. It's mad!
I've read up enough to realize that the reason for some of this imbalance of size is because quite a bit of my weight gain has been from thyroid issues and from stress. And, no, I do not mean stress-related eating, I mean from stress itself and the things it does to the human body, under extreme conditions. Perhaps we can discuss more of that, later. For now, I need to type in the measurements.
Upper chest: 52"
Bust: 55"
Ribcage: 49"
Waist: 51"
Hips/lower abdomen: 56"
Weight: 300.9 lb
B.M.I. 48
Body Fat %: 44
Body Fat Mass: 131.8 lbs
Now, keep in mind that the BMI number is under the assumption that I should weigh between 118.2 lbs - 155.5 lbs. However, 300.9 lbs minus 131.8 lbs equals 169.10 lbs. And, that's me having lost a good bit of muscle, through illness and the general lack of movement that came with it.
Still, I have always figured I should weigh around 155 lbs - 175 lbs, depending on if I was lifting weights or not. So, the end of the B.M.I. related suggestion and what my actual weight says falls within that. Besides, it could very well be that some of what is not fat is also not anything I'd want to keep, what with such things as bloating, infection, impacted or sluggish bowels and endometriosis being possibilities I've had most of those, if not all, so I make no assumption. Just saying, for now, the actual weight I need to reach is approximately 170 lbs. As time goes on, I shall continue to calculate; because, its fun.
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