Daily Food Diary – Day 17 of 365

I have been tracking my food and liquid intake for seventeen days.   ⭐

It is funny how changing one part of our self-care, automatically affects others.  This week, I have been focused on upping my hydration.  This has helped to subdue cravings for snacks throughout the day, especially  sweet snacks.  Mostly relative to improvements in my respiratory system from the increase in fluid intake, my workouts have become easier and better.  And the quality of my sleep has improved – sort of.  

Monday and Tuesday night, my sleep was typical.  Wednesday night was a trainwreck.  Thursday night was great! Ten hours of solid, uninterrupted sleep. 

Last night started badly and only got worse.  My soft sleeping headphones were dead. Since my bedtime routine involves listening to soothing meditation music, I was forced to use my earbuds.  I cannot sleep on my back, so every time I even thought of turning onto my side, I had an earbud drive into my brain.  (That will wake a body up.)  I finally gave up and put the earbuds away.  I woke up briefly when Dan came to bed, but managed to doze back off.   I had barely gotten back to sleep when Molly, who generally sleeps on my side of the bed, let out a small, quiet ‘woof’.   With a normal dog, one could assume she was talking in her sleep and ignore her. 

One small ‘woof’  leads to a meltdown complete with racing around the house like a crazed animal, jumping up and off of the furniture, and of course enough barking to wake up every dog and their human on this side of the city.

Last night, Dan cut her off at the pass, by getting up,  having a quiet chat with her, taking her for a tour around the house, and finally getting her to settle down on his side of the bed.  That was all appreciated, but by that time, I was wide awake.  I did manage to get some quality sleep when I finally drifted off some time later.

There is only so much adequate hydration can do when it comes to dogs and other outside influences but, I continue to  focus on drinking water and working on making it a natural part of my day.

Food Diary – Day 17

(1) c coffee

(1) apple

(1) granola bar

(12) oz water

(12) oz water

(1) c tea

(2) sm bowls Hint of Lime tortilla chips with salsa

(12) oz water

(3) small battered fish fillets, (1 1/2) c fried, (1) c peas with butter & pepper, (1) side salad with lettuce, onions, radishes, cauliflower, sesame seeds, fried dried onions, and salad dressing

(12) oz carbonated water

(12) oz water

Note:

* (60) ounces of water 🎊

* The fish came prepared and packaged, unlike most of our main supper dishes which are homemade from scratch – mostly  in an attempt to avoid yeast or yeast related ingredients

* My afternoon snack was somewhat larger than usual, but being a Friday I did do my afternoon weights workout. 🤗

That’s it for today.  Take care and have a great day! 💞🌞