Knock Knock...Is anyone still listening?

It's been a while since I posted, mainly because I haven't been disciplined enough to do and partly because I didn't have anything to write about. Plus that little deal with med problems....Anyway, I'm back and ready to post some of my thoughts and opinions.

My ADHD, while not "under control," has been manageable lately, except when I had the meds problem. Never, ever, run out of your meds. If you can only manage one thing in your life, manage your medications. It wasn't an ADHD med, but it did me a flick. I had talked to the doc about quitting this one, but now I know I can't do it, yet. A real scary time!

Another week is getting going. I set the alarm for 6am, but I was awake by 5:15 or so, so I got up and started working. I'm the district statistician for our church district. Not to bad a job until you run the reports that show who hasn't turned in their statistics. They have to be in by March 2nd or the get a penalty added to their apportionments. Of course some of them don't pay their apportionments anyway, so they don't care. But I do. Statistics to me is fun. I suppose it's because of all the variations in the data between previous years and this year, and between churches. It's quite interesting. Until today. Now I have to send out emails and make phone calls to those without email prompting them to turn in their data. And I have to keep at them for the rest of this week. Oh well, you have to peal a banana before you can eat it, as they say.

Speaking of bananas, I still haven't been doing good on tracking my eating. It goes well for the first half of the day but then I tend to slack off by supper time and after supper, my meds are worn off, and I forget to enter the figures. It's really interesting when I do it, and the CalorieKing website shows me my list of foods eaten, with the ability to drill down to see the calories, fiber, fat, etc. associated with that food. The summary of the food I ate, in five catagories, is tracked all day long and stored in a bar graph I can access. I have goals set for calories, fat, fiber, cholesterol, protein and sodium. It's a real motivator to watch what I eat. I'll weigh myself after I finish this blog to get my weight for the week. It'll be interesting to see if my ditching carbs at lunch has helped my weight loss. I've just been eating fruit and a desert (I know, I know!) for lunch. I'm never really hungry at lunch so this meets my needs. Well, I just weighed myself. I weighed 381.4. That's a loss of 3.4 lbs since the last time I weighed in. Not too bad. That was 3 weeks ago, so about a pound a week. A little less than I want but now I can adjust my eating.

By the way, my eating theory goes this way: A good breakfast followed at lunch with fruit and desert, then a medium supper. I do have a snack of peanuts or crackers in the afternoon, and milk and a granola bar in the evening to take with my stomache killing pill. My breakfast is almost always 29 grams of Cheerios with milk and juice and a hard boiled egg. Works for me.