WOW!! My shocked parents 40 years ago.
Horah, the day went off without a hitch - British weather and all. Everyone appeared to enjoy the day, myself included!! Probably because I ended in the best place for those who are NOT social butterflies - imprisoned in the kitchen all day. Despite the invitations being sent fairly late (only about 6 weeks ago) of 100 people invited 80 people made it. Myself and family friend catering for 80 people meant there was no escape from the kitchen, literally until the end of the day. But those that I'd wanted to see sought me out in my little cave anyway.
I dare not take any blood sugars today - if I did I'd probably be hospitalized!! Yesterday at 3 pm as things were calming I realized that I'd been so busy from the moment I woke up that I hadn't even had a sip of water all day!! let alone food. So when I finally did eat just the left overs remained - but there was plenty of them and have been hoovering up leftovers ever since. I'm afraid the fact that I'm diabetic hasn't really featured in my food choices. Tomorrow I'll have a fresh start and with that I've identified a little problem that I have to address the 'Tomorrow - I'll -syndrome'.
When I go to bed I have plan out my intentions for the following day. The day arrives, I forget, fail, feel like shite and then plan out good intentions for the next day. I fear that the potential bad habits could re-form if I don't get a grip on this. The problem seems to be completely forgetting my resolve from the previous night when I hit a tea-break, boredom and maybe lower blood sugar.
Time for tea:
In the past I have had jobs where lunch was a snatched bite and the work continued well into the evening, a factor I'm sure one as to why I gained weight. In contrast, my current position I'm extremely lucky with the working hours and fairly generous annual leave given and breaks during the day. However, 9/10 times I don't really don't tend to use this time particularly constructively. Since adopting a paleo WOE I usually end up staying at my workspace using the time on personal computer stuff, sometimes I buy a paper or book, but more often than not I take a break with a colleague and we'll nip next door to the cafe. Naturally, as you'd expect, paleo eaters are not being catered for (BTW, I do rarely break paleo but I do find this stressy).
Tea breaks are compulsary, and despite being thankful to the work of the unions for acquiring these to be completely honest at the moment I'm finding them a bit of a nuisance. I don't work in the center of town. In fact, the campus I work at is slap bang in one of the middle of one most undesirable estates in the area, so venturing out is not really and attractive or inspiring option. Dare I say this but only for the brave. Otherwise there's really not a lot to do when you get away from the desk apart from go to the cafe.
I did mention my bad relationship with said cafe once before in relation to the incredible savings I was making from withdrawing my custom. However, there was previously no where to go without sitting in the cafe and purchasing something. Recently though the uni has finally added some seating away from cafe where you can go without buying anything. It's been great, but the students are still on their summer break and once they're back we won't get a look in on this space.
So one rejoins the sugar addicts, the caffeine addicts or the other group standing in the rain puffing away on their little white sticks.
I'm setting a challenge this week, weather permitting, in a bid to excape the cafe. The plan is to just take a brisk walk around the boundaries. I know that the habits are there and it can be so easy to forget my good intentions from night before. Tonight I'm going write out positive statements on crib cards to remind myself that during my weak pre-tea break time that I won't be taking tea. The cards will be perched them in-front of my keyboard. Hopefully they'll serve the purpose of reminding myself that, when everyone else is disappearing to the cafe, for me tea break will be be walk break. Lets see how many circuits one can do around the car-park within the given two fifteen minute breaks.
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