Today was a great day. It just was. I really had no reason to think so but I just felt good. I am still kicking my sinus congestion, therefore I am holding off on my second gallbladder cleanse. I can do that later in the month when I am stronger. But today I felt my energy coming back and I was so excited about it. Unbelievably, I have not needed to take any cold medicine this week at all. I think that is a first in quite a while. Sure there was a day or two where if I had a clariten D handy I would have popped it, but it wasn't convenient so I just went on and it was fine. Basically, I just listened to my body and I am getting better. I drank a lot of hot tea, a lot of water, some soup and some regular foods too. In fact, if I was able to make myself go to bed at a normal hour, I think I would have recovered much more quickly if given normal hours of sleep. I am actually feeling up to probably about 20-30 minutes of exercise tonight but I will try not to over do it. I am feeling restless from not doing any in the last week or so.
So back to the B6 unanswered questions from the last post. If you will remember, I was perplexed at the fact that an adult my age needs 1.3-1.6 mg per day and when looking at my multivitamin it said 25mg. I thought for sure one of my sources had misprinted something. But no, upon calling Whole foods market vitamin dept. I was assured those numbers were correct. He then told me, "is there a percentage next to that number of mg?" Sho' nuff, there sure was. When looking at the column with percentage of daily value for B6, it said 1250! So on some vitamins and minerals it doesn't hurt to exceed the daily amount by obviously a great amount. He also said that he only takes his vitamin a few times a week, not on a strict every day basis. This was a relief to me, as I am fairly regular about taking all of my vitamins but there are usually a day or couple days in a given week that I don't. It is more cost effective, too, to spread them out just a little bit more!
I've started reading that book, The Seven Pillars of Health, and it is basically set up like a 50 days of health tips sort of thing. The first one asked that you spend the entire day thinking about your drink selection. What a great first lesson, it gave me a little boost, because this is the one thing that I absolutely rule at. I pretty much drink water all day, and that is his point, to make sure you are drinking enough water. I have my coffee in the morning but then I pretty much drink water all day. I feel bad that I never have interesting drinks to offer people at my house. At home I buy low fat milk for bree and soy milk for me and then usually one juice like an apple juice to mix with water for her in the morning. That is really all I need. So it is this small aspect that I have very good habits in! At least that is something!
Tonight at dinner I didn't really have anything planned so I just sort of winged an easy whatever meal. I asked bree if she wanted peanut butter and jelly or tuna fish sandwich for dinner. As I was getting the supplies out she insisted that she had told me turkey. Whatever, that wasn't even one of the options! But luckily I did have some in the fridge so I went with it. So we each had a turkey sandwich ( i put a slice of cheese on mine and I am not supposed to, so i guess i lose 5 points for that) then I looked for stuff to put on the side. I just put some low fat cottage cheese on one section of our plates, sprinkled a little cinnamon on it and a couple of raspberries on top. Then put a couple raw veggies on the other section, of broccoli, carrots and cauliflour. It turned out perfect. And bree ate everything. I sat so satisfied - what a good kid, ate all her veggies and everything on her plate. Then I smiled about myself - what a good mom, served up a low fat dinner and set a good example. More times than not, if I am eating something, she is interested in it too. I am just very lucky that I like most healthy food. I just can't let her see those cookie binges of mine! Or hopefully I will eliminate that habit altogether! Today at work I didn't even feel interested in the treats sent in by our customers. I didn't have any. It was great. I had a Healthy Choice Low sodium vegetable soup and it was much better than I thought it would be.
So yes, I feel I have my groove back, my energy is good, my attitude is positive and although things are beyond crazy at work, I enjoyed it a lot today. You want to add 20 additional things to each loan we have to scrutinize?? Bring it, I am ready! I did awsome today. One girl had the day off and another left early and I was the only one funding one section of our department's loans and I just cranked, it was so great. I was like an efficient, number crunching machine - there was no loan I couldn't trouble shoot. Well enough of my nerdy life. Tomorrow is my favorite - Saturday morning with bree! To all good health, and remember, drink your water, lots of it, every day.
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