Up and down

 88 to 81 then 85: today 84 again

Celebrating my one kilo loss, from last week, as I decided not to weight every day any more.

January I was down to 88 from 98; then continued to 81 kg till end May

Alas, from June all summer, went up again to 85, today, I see a drop again. Hope the drop will continue.

Diabetes ? Combined with...

I did believe my high cholesterol pointed the doctor to me, having diabetes 2 but it seems now that those are two different things and illnesses, the second more related to fat and heartache.

 Going up and down the stairs, not bad exercise perhaps.

 Giving speeches online, keeps me feeling alive

More end more vegetables!

Middle of June

Quiche, tomatoes and courgettes for lunch.

I looked up, and got 87 kg in January, 81 kg now, with lots of up and down but a downward curve.

Patricia prepared this lunch after we got back from M&S shop and a small vegetable/fruits shop.

No people on street, or at least very few and the shops also almost empty. About ¼ of everyone did have mask, the rest, kept their distance. Inside the shop, separations and reminders.

That gave a reassuring feeling.

Fruits of all kind

Cherries, strawberries, even bananas, all fruits recommended.

Perhaps, I eat too many of them?

I am still at 81.x and even if once I was at 80, I can not get for the moment lower, to the 79.x where I hoped.

As I begun, in September last year at almost 100kg it is not so bad, indeed, and I eat well.

I got my medicine changed to long lasting, and instead of three times a day, in the evening only.

Berries

Got three different berries, love all of them. 

The strawberries smell wonderful, and taste good.

The raspberries, taste the best, and has a subtle nice smell.

The big blackberries are melting under my mouth, but as it seems they last longer, they will be the lasts to finish. 

Happy that I ordered them!

Apples of all kind

And now, I also discovered as for children, in old  age we can grate the apples. So good!

Lunch

Lunch today. 

 Colorful! I did not miss anything.  

Cauliflower, spinach and sweet potatoes. 

Grated apples and Sweeps. I am now down to 82.xx

Loosing weight with variations

In one month. 3 kilos less, in all from 6 February. 85.4 a month ago, 82.3 today.

A lot of variation on the way. Now, looking at the water variation, it seems a lot has to do also with water retention. So, I have quit worrying about one kilo up and down, I almost had last days. And depending also of course, what hour I looked.

Today, at 4 am I was a lot heavier then at 8 am, just before my breakfast. Soon, will measure only once a week.

Attention to swindlers

While the food showed here is ok, they try to know a lot about you the sell you...almost nothing. For money up front.

Avocados + eggs will be my lunch

 Love them!

Good news today: 83.00 kg down from 95 in September, 85 from end January.

Delivery comes only after lunch, but I still have an avocado and egg.

Even went out, to shop yesterday and found two bananas. Alas, too big, so I eat half, later only the other half for next meal.

Forbidden pleasures? Small teaspoon of crunchy peanut butter, from time to time.

Not well from that?

Fruit salad, then huge diarrhoea again. Aïe aïe. Yes, it makes me loose, but no, it is not agréable.

Steaks and walking.

Those are steaks from tuna or other fish. Today, I will prepare some from turkey breast.

As my more relaxed periods first weak finished, I gained some weight, but not much. 

I have to decide, measure it only once a week not many times a day.

Get preoccupied more with other things.

I did begin to walk, slowly, not so much at the beginning. Still, 28 steps up and down to get out, and take pictures.

How to find good bred?

I love bred. And can not eat as much as I would like. OK, then three slices of toasted bred a day... but at least, those should be tasty!

How to find good bred? 

How to conserve in freezer even?

It seems a celery stick inside a closed plastic bag. Still, does not tell me which whole meal or rye bred is tasty! Some are even, alas unsalted, without announcing it. Of course, no taste because of it. 

I will not make my own bred. After the war, we used to do it, then bake it in a bakers oven. We did not have then any oven in the kitchen. Yesterday, I got bred craving and eat late evening some craquers instead. This morning, my weight is up again. Not too much.

Colours count too!

Colors, of food counts too!

First, it is enticing, here green and red from Avocados and Tomatoes.

And yellow citron, added too.

Then, all different colored foods contain different healthy ingredients.

Eventually, I may add an egg, and that adds yellow to all. And salt.

I will have to go buy avocados!

Enjoy what is

Again and again, have to remember myself:

Don't make a bigger problem with what happens to you then the problem is. 

Enjoy what is, deal the best possible with what happens. 

Perhaps, even create a book from this blog. 

Make a book from the blog?

Perhaps, perhaps not. It is not the cost, it would be good to be able to read it from beginning to end, and there are not too many posts, after all, from October to now.

I lost about ten kilos, on the way.

But that is not the most important. I learned to eat better.  I learned not to be panicked any more.

So what? I do have diabetes 2 and, probably had for a while, without knowing.

It opened a new window to a world I did not know about before, and my interest about food.

Weight changes with hours, before breakfast

At 4:30 it showed 84.9 and at 7 am it come to 84.5 

I had breakfast later, around 8 am.

This is a sign to me also not to worry about small changes on the scale. Worry only if it goes up with 2 kilos. In all, going steady down from when I begun to look every day. 

Plateaux

Learned to eat more vegetables, but also to combine more colours. Enjoy taste, savour, and delectable in colours.

Divers colours mean also combing different types of vitamins and other useful ingredients, I do not care to remember their names.

A lot changed in my life since I was diagnosed with diabetes 2, and even if now my weight is on a plateau, from September I lost  ten kilos.

Eat Pink greapefruit

Besides, they are also sweeter, tasting better.