Just keep thinking!

Woot!  Weight check this AM was 196!  VERY happy with that!  I am not going to consider it 'official' until Sunday, obviously, but it does confirm that when my weight went up that it was mostly water.  I may have gained a bit, but the bulk was water.  I still hope it goes down a bit more by Sunday, but we will see.  I have some family that will be in town on Sat., and I am trying to decide if I should make the trip down to the 'rents to see them.  I know I could stay on plan, it's just harder because my family eats like CRAP.  I would eat well before I left, pack a lunch and a snack (including some stuff for the kiddos) and then make due on dinner.  I may even take my laptop so that I could try to check out any food before I ate it.  I KNOW we'd end up going out.  I know several places and how to eat there, but I like to double check in case I've forgotten!  And I don't really want to blow my diet right now since I had no loss last Sunday.  I'd really like to see a nice loss for this Sunday!  AND, I'd really like to see the 180's soon.  I'd really love to go for my check-up and be in the 180's.  I think my Dr. would be pretty happy with that!  He's never really fussed about my weight, but he has mentioned that it needs to continue to go down.  I want him to SEE that I've been working on it and not just been complacent about being fat and unhealthy.  The first time I went to see him, I was preggo and my weight was right at 200.  I told him about how I had gotten down to 186.5 with my highest being 226.5 at that time.  I told him how up until a month before I got preggo, that was the lowest I had been.  All he said was that there would be plenty of time to lose weight after the baby.  I love my Dr.

I think I've become addicted to documentaries.  Specifically, documentaries on food, diet, lifestyle and exercise.  I just watched two in the last week!  One was 'Foodmatters' and the other was 'Fork over Knife'.  Both had good and valid points.  I didn't agree with it all (such as going Vegan) but they did make good points about our 'Western' diets and how over the years, it has just become so obscenely blown up!  And a large part of it has been not only our governments failures (pushing medicine instead of healthy eating), our failures (having some control in situations where there are no health issues), and the food industry's wiles, but flat out nature.  Things that I had never thought of before.  The more I watch, the more I read, and the more I think, I realize that the diets our grandparents lived by is really what we should be following.  A mostly plant and grain based diet with little to no processed, sugary, and false carb filled food.  Good healthy meat that is LEAN and natural fats.  Lordy mercy but we eat such a crazy processed diet!  After watching a couple of shows, I even realized that I probably eat better than many skinny people!  Which proves that more than likely, there are just as many unhealthy skinny people as there are fat people!  Then there's the whole science behind food and the chemicals, how they react in our bodies... not only in our brains but physically and fundamentally in our stomachs.  Did you know that there are different types of receptors in our stomachs?  Not just for whether we are physically content (fullness), but also for satiety (how rich a food is) and calories?  Essentially, if you take 500 cals of any foods such as 500 cals of oil, 500 cals of a dense salad, or 500 cals of bread, your body will read it differently.  500 cals of oil will satisfy the satiety receptors and the cal receptors, telling it that the rich food was calorie dense, but then it fries out the fullness receptors because it's only got a small amount in there!  Oil is cal dense, so it would only take 5 tbsp. of oil to equal 500 cals... some oils only about 4!  That's not much food!  As a result, our stomach's receptor's tell us to keep eating, even though there other receptor's are saying the opposite.  It's a mixed signal.  A nice salad with lots of veggies however, satisfies the fullness.  Canceling out the richness and cals, unless you don't use a good dressing.  This tells your body that you are full even without all the fat and extra calories like the oil.  You get where I'm going with this.  As the food industry has gotten larger (to include restaurants and even grocery store foods), they've made food SO easy to get that we're eating even more of the wrong kinds of foods.  It's just astonishing that it could be that simple.  I am still trying to wrap my head around it.  It REALLY makes me feel like the government and the medical field in general hasn't really been telling or even looking for the real answers.  If it really is so simple?  Why oh WHY then is it so hard?

Bleh.  I'm telling you, I really love watching them, but then my head feels like it's going to explode from all of the information.  And of course you know it's not ALL scientific!  A lot of it is opinion.  I do take a large part of it as it is -- as someone running their mouth.  I'll listen, but that doesn't mean I have to take it as gospel!  Know what I mean?  It still gets my brain going, though.  LOL  And then I ramble on like a crazy person like I just did!  HA!

Today so far has been a boring day.  I'm honestly quite tired, but I did actually cook something for breakfast and go through and vacuum.  I also sorted and started laundry -- which I hear beeping so I need to go change it out!  Going to do dishes here in a bit, too.  When hubby gets up, hopefully I can finish cleaning our room up and putting things away.  Oldest's room is done and I got youngest's clean yesterday.  All of our things are in our closet year round, but we recently bought some new things and I was cleaning out some old things.  Plus, putting away clean laundry.  Hope I can finish that up!  But I don't think I will.  I am SUPER tired even after a little nap and then dosing on the couch off and on.  But I think I will at least try to do one more load before bed.  AND, I should probably call my Mom to see if my family got her safely.

Well, I am going to tie this up now.  It has been another one of those blogs that took me all day to say nothing.  LOL  Hope you chicks are doing well!  So glad that Yummy Mummy (Sue) is back!  WOOT!  :D

Still haven't decided if I should go to my Mom's tomorrow.  There's a party at a friend's house we were invited to, but hubby has to work. Plus, I need to take my other dog to the vet for her shots.  I may just stay home!  Other than the vet.