RUN 4.5 miles in 45 mins
Just me and BE today, IT was busy, EW working with a trainer today, and LA still in bed. I forgot my headlight, felt a twinge in my right ankle, and planned on only doing 3 miles today as per plan.
All that said, it all went better than expected. BE had a light but the cloud cover reflected enough light that we barely needed it. My right ankle wasn't even a thought once I got running. And we decided at the first mile that we felt good enough to slow down and try for a zoo loop.
It felt great! But at the end of the run in the parking lot I knelt down to stretch a bit and my right knee twinged on me. Hurt just a little in the stretch. Then later in the day, I'm feeling the same weak feeling I've had with it last year. Like it needs to be stronger. So...do PT!
In other news, I have a televisit scheduled today with Dr A to get a referral to neurology for my face. I don't think I've mentioned the facial spasms and odd feelings I've had since last April here? Anyway, today during the call I might get asked about everything else - and I'll have to admit (do I really *have* to) that I quit taking my Aspirin and statins last October, and that I do feel some chest pains (chest or heart, I don't know), and whatever else I'm in denial about. See how it goes I guess, might not even come up in the discussion.
Also, I had initially set a goal of doing a Whole30 in January, the goal not being so much about elimination but about cleaning up and getting my gut fixed. I've been "off" since the oxalates change in November, then the 2 weeks with the kids and gluten and Christmas, and since then I'm not eating great.
I'm eating way too much oats and rice, they're yummy and after having been off-limits for me for so long It's like I'm making up for lost time. I stick to 1 serve of oats a day most days, but the rice can be all day long. Oddly, I really cut back on fruits for some reason during the oxalates and Alaska time period. So I need to limit these foods and exchange back to fruits.
Same goes for the fats I've introduced. I cut out butter and went for ghee. For some reason, I'm ignoring the ghee and instead going to veggie-oil based butter spread which I find more tasty. I think it's more the consistency - cold and creamy? And I've put aside avocados for peanut butter. Last night I tried sunflower seed butter and it upset my stomach (to the point that 12 hours later I was still burping the taste up of it, yuck). Sometimes I get mayo. Sometimes I nibble on coconut oil, but that's a stupid nibble that I eat with marmalade
And the marmalade -- suddenly I'm eating marmalade on rice cakes, sometimes on a spoon. That's kinda dumb, the first ingredient is glucose syrup!
And my protein consumption is really low. Some days I just eat egg whites and a yolk.
So all my macro goals are off. Too much oat and rice, too few fruits. I didn't even mention the veggies -- I eat carrots and that's it. My fats are random and wavered away from the healthier types. My protein is limited and low.
Let's get this back on track! Some ideas:
1A. Limit the oats and rice to 200 calories a day, choice of both or either or whatever.
1B. Increase the fruits to 1 serving a meal.
2A. Limit the butter spread to 1 serve a day.
2B. Increase the fat to 1 serve a meal, once a day for each of the types that work.
3A. Limit as above the oats that have been used as "fiber"
3B. Increase the veg to 1 serving or more per meal.
4A. Stop the countertop meals, they lead to the oat-rice-azuc-butter problems.
4B. Sit with a templated meal.
5A. No more raw azuc. Seriously, that canister was low this morning.
5B. Have up to 100 of a sweet treat - marmalade or caramel or chocolate instead.
