16th December 2014
Make today so awesome yesterday gets jealous!
One of two more Tuesdays to work before I get a holiday,
looking forward to it I have to say, even if I’m agreeing to do another project
whilst I’m off – sucker for punishment me.
So yesterday went okay after a shaky hormonal start, food
wasn’t ProPointed but I was careful, we have my brother and his wife staying so
it was all a bit busy. However I stuck
to eating just the three meals, mushrooms on toast for breakfast, Actifry chips,
beans and egg for lunch and a small bowl of grey peas for tea, so not so bad.
I did go shopping though and now have a fridge worthy of
a Weight Watcher; I’ve invested in some good for you ready meals because they
were on offer 3 for £6, so I’ll let you know what I think of them as the week
goes by.
I also bought some marshmallows for our hot chocolate,
and I was surprised to find there were two almost identical bags one said “sugar
free” the other “no added sugar”, the calories per 100g on the sugar free was
287, and on the no added sugar one was 219, I would have assumed they were the
same! The regular marshmallows were 331
calories per 100g, but when you worked out the ProPoints on all three bags they
were 7pp per 100g, so that just shows it’s best to check the calculations
rather than to assume and that further to contrary belief you can’t convert
calories to ProPoints, there isn’t a calculation to do it as ProPoints are
based on Protein, Carbohydrates, Fat and Fibre, the reason the system was
changed was that there is scientific proof that all calories aren’t equal in
the body.
Anyway, moving on, my brother and I had a great time getting
creative in the kitchen but not in a cooking way, we were creative a snow scene
with flour for a photograph, you had to be there!
It’s lovely having visitors; mom enjoys it, despite
making out she doesn’t! It does show her
dementia up though when things are different, Terry and Alexis paid a brief
visit Friday afternoon before going off to spend time with their friends before
coming back yesterday and by Friday teatime, she had to ask me who’d visited as
she couldn’t remember, now if it was Joe Bloggs that would be expected but her
son, it’s so sad; the way she is now reminds me to make the most of every day because
you never know what’s round the corner or when you’ll start forgetting it all.
I’m not saying I’m always happy, far from it, yesterday
morning I was like the real life version of the 7 menopausal dwarves, say no
more, but I try to see the positive and good in situations and work on being a
happy, positive person. Yes you read
that right, I have to work on it, I’m quite the loner in real life, I do have low
points, so being happy and sociable doesn’t always come easy especially when my
mom’s confused, upset and in pain, being cheerful doesn’t really jump out as
the preferable mood of the moment. I always
remind myself I can’t change the situation but I can change my reaction to it,
so yes I sometimes have to work harder on that optimism and happiness but it’s
worth it because the alternative route SUCKS!
Right I’m ready to start my day, will try and sneak
downstairs without waking our visitors who are sleeping on the bed settee in
the living room, we’ve upgraded since last year when they had two small bed
chairs and the year before it was an inflatable that kept going down ;) yep,
you gotta see the laughter in situations, when you’re mom comes back from
walking the dog and looks at Alexis and asks “how long you been here?”, you’ve
got to laugh, when she says it to me, I might find that laughter more difficult
to find, but I’m sure it’ll be worth searching for.
Life’s too short for sadness BeYOUtiful so smile and
enjoy the season of goodwill to all mankind!
Have a fab day. xx
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