Update
Several of you have expressed interest in how I'm doing with Relacore since I started talking it. Today was the most amazing day I've had in quite a while.
I woke up this morning feeling really draggy - was up late last night and had to get up at 5:00 AM. I even considered calling in sick and going back to bed - my knee was hurting and I wasn't looking forward to a long day of sitting at my desk. Well, we are short-handed and I just couldn't bring myself to burden my supervisor - everyone was so great while I was out for six weeks - getting my work done and making it easy for me when I returned to work after my knee surgery.
So, I dragged my body out of bed, had a cup of decaf and got dressed. I yawned all the way to work, promising myslef that I would stay til lunch hours were covered then come home. Well, about 8:00 AM, I woke up. I had a project at work that was driving me nuts - I got to work at 7:00 and by 8:30 had in complete - and I had worked on it all last week and couldn't make any headway on it. I started from scratch this morning and got it done in an hour and a half. I was zinging along, dealing with one minor crisis (and some not so minor ones) when I realized it was noon. I hadn't had a bite to eat all monring and hadn't even had a hunger pain. I had been drinking but I always do that. My co-worker was late leaving for lunch (she normall goes to lunch at 12 and I go at 1:00. She didn't return til 1:35 and I was in the middle of a report and finished it before even thinking about lunch. I asked my boss if I could go to lunch at 3:00 and just leave since I get off at 4:00. That was agreeable so at 2:15, still having no hunger at all, I had a protein shake (Pure Protein, chocolate, premixed - 160 calories and 35g of protein).
I finally left work at 3:30 - thanks to my very inconsiderate co-worker who didn't get her deposit completed for the day til then (I had to verify it and take it to the cashier before I could leave). I picked up my son's friend to give him a ride to work, dropped him off and headed for Sam's to get a few groceries.
Did the damage at Sam's (and didn't take a single sample, even though there were lots to try) and headed to the supermarket to get cat food (my little cat would take a couple of years to finish off a bag of cat food from Sam's) and got home about 5:30. I put my stuff from work away, changed clothes and started dinner. I had fixed some barbecue ribs yesterday and reheated them, cooked some corn of the cob for my son, heated him some rolls and threw together a salad.
My dinner was 2 ounces of lean pork and about 1/2 cup of salad. I was stuffed. So, I decided to go for a walk to see if I would feel better. I ended up in the workout room and put in a huge 10 minutes on the treadmill and 5 on the eliptical (remember, I am recovering from a knee replacement and really haven't been cleared to exercise yet). Don't scold me, I promise I didn't overdo. I did my reps on the upper body stuff and walked back home. I'll admit, I was tired, so I took a quick shower and crawled in bed with my new novel. I just woke up a few minutes ago and got up to clean kitchen and fix the coffee pot for morning.
The long shot of this is that I haven't had one bite of any kind of snack food all day - not even a bite of celery and I have no head hunger at all. This is coming from a person who, two weeks ago, ate a bite of something, even celery, every two hours. I just had 2 beautiful strawberries and am ready to go back to bed to get ready for another wonderful day tomorrow.
So, my food stats for the day are this:
Protein: 50g
Calories: 350
Now, I know that I won't be that low on calories most days - in fact, I wouldn't even attempt it. But it amazes me that I put in a full day at work, went shopping, did a bit of exercising and that was all I had to eat all day and haven't even had the urge to eat anything else.
I just hope this keeps up - I feel so great being back on track and in control. And, if it takes me taking two capsules, three times a day to maintain that control, that's ok with me. I'd rather put my money into those vitamins and herbs than into junk food and larger clothes. Of course, my long term goal is to put my money into smaller clothes.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Monday.
Patty
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