Week Two

Since I skipped a couple days, I guess I can start by keeping track of how many weeks I've been trudging along with no progress on my weight. Yesterday I weighed in at 146 and this morning it was back to a very sad 147.5. I had pancakes (oat and wheat) salad, bread and butter, leftover cauliflower caserole, leftover scalloped potatoes and three beers. We went wood cutting. Good exercise. When we were done, my husband handed me a cold beer from the cooler. yum. but one led to another and then one with dinner. There was also a problem with dinner. I was compelled to finish off the cauliflower casserole, so I did. I wasn't really that hungry. but I ate it anyway so it didn't go to waste. I said to myself while I was doing it that I really shouldn't eat all this. and then there was all the delicious burnt cheese on the potatoes. that I just shoveled in because they were on my plate. then, I didn't sleep so hot. gee, go figure. so now I woke up late and don't have time to exercise.
There are so many factors going on here. Eating all that's on my plate and eating what my husband makes for me or having a beer because he's having one. Well, he can have one just fine. He is a grizzly old guy who has to remember to eat. skinny as a rail. I am a girl. with a chubby belly.
 I have an obsession with pooping good as part of my bloated/notbloated feeling. I open up this month's Whole Living (Martha Stewart) and here's an article about unhealthy guts. Well, I'm not done with the article, but it just backs up everything I think I know about having healthy bacteria inside - in your gut. throughout the intestines, colon. more on that later but what I have a tendency to do is a simple cleanse when I feel I'm not getting the right foods - sort of to kick start or get back to some healthy eating. None of this is by any means scientific or dr. recommended, just what I do after much reading on the topic. About once a year, I'll do Hulda Clark's gallbladder cleanse. More occasionally I'll do bentonite clay with psyllium husk. with or without eating. Today, I'm doing it with yerba mate tea, lemon and honey. it's no surprise, that with a good cleanse I drop multiple pounds. as much as 7 with the gallbladder cleanse, of course much of that being water, but imagine all that stuff stuck in my intestines. Then, there's the slow ease back into eating "regular" food. it usually takes me about 3 days to fall off the wagon and have apotato chip or something. but at a glance, the western diet is the culprit for lack of good bacteria and too much bad bacteria in our guts. duh.
Today's exercise is splitting wood. getting my shoes on right now. don't have to make lunch. or breakfast. had my clay. lots of water. Onward.
I ordered the book "Younger Next Year for Women." more on that after I get it.