Wednesday 5th July 2023
Day 10 of tracking ahead
Day 10 of tracking ahead
Well if I could bottle my mindset right now, I seriously would! Another day in the bag, not just tracked but within my allowance, actually I had 313 calories left from my 1534 daily, I had 208 left Monday too! Check me out, lots of things all coming together, how I've been feeling, this weeks huddle chat, the support of others and family life in general being easier.
I lost 2lb on the scales yesterday, which cheered me as I'd lost 3.5lb last week, so that's the holiday and fathers day gains sorted, now to move forward and lose more, I'm back to my pre Christmas weight and my aim now is to lose some before this Christmas, 2st would be amazing, but sitting here thinking about my weight right now, another 21lb would do, lol who am I kidding - any loss will be appreciated!
I made myself a priority yesterday, Aryn got the dinner he didn't eat Monday and I made myself mackerel on toast for lunch with salad which was delicious, it was canned in mustard sauce. I even went shopping and bought myself some raspberries which were amazing, had it with low fat natural Greek yogurt which was really good too, I was surprised at how low in calories that snack was in calories, 100g raspberries is only 25 calories. I had 6.5 portions of fruit and veg according to Nutracheck yesterday, 8.1 the day before but I've noticed they could the same veg more than once so I didn't have 5 different portions on Monday, I just had 300g mushrooms.
I spent a little time working out my meal plan for the week, have a Gousto box coming today thanks to 25% discount, I've sorted which days we'll have which meal, whether the leftovers can be frozen. I even made overnight oats ready for my breakfast this morning.
It's all tracked ready for the day ahead, I feel in control and I feel like I want to continue with it as I need to do everything I can to try and reduce the inflammation in my body and the stress on my joints. I also wanna feel good when I get dressed up to go out. I keep writing it, so I don't forget it because I know how easy it'll be for me to get to Friday and say, 'Oh I'm alright, I'm happy as I am, I don't care what I look like, I'll be in pain anyway!' Yeah that's me and that version needs to shut up.
I also sat and did a bit of online searching re menopause joint pain, that took me onto other pages that talked about joint pain in general and one thing I found was that dehydration can cause joint pain because of the lubricating effect it has on the joints. It’s estimated that 70 – 80% of your joint cartilage consists of water. Synovial fluid is the thick lubrication located between the joints, giving you a cushion so the bones don’t come in contact.
So yes, joint pain can be exacerbated, or even caused, by dehydration? If that's not a reason to drink more water I don't know what is, I managed 3 x 500ml bottles yesterday and I plan to do the same again today, if I replace my day time cuppas with water, it'll be easy, then replace my evening wine with a bottle, I can't say I can't drink a bottle of water when I'd have no problem drinking a bottle of wine can I!
I want to lower my pain and all this will hopefully help, I want to be healthy, damn I'm 53, my mom would've been 85 tomorrow if she was still with us, I won't have a daughter to take care of me if I end up sick so I need to do it now.
I got a bit emotional in our huddle yesterday morning talking about all this and as always Elle and our members were lovely, you've gotta love an emotional, menopausal mess opening up :) it did me good though, I've asked Elle not to let me forget how rotten I've been feeling so I don't fall off track again.
On that note, I'm off to have a second mug of tea, last of the day, eat my overnight oats and get ready for work.
Here's to making it through Day 10!
Mwah, luv ya
Love me x
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