Quiting sugar and processed foods I don’t have any inflammation or aches any more, and eating lots of fiber means I’m rarely hungry. I also eat fruit throughout the day to maintain a steady blood sugar levels.
My main reason for working to control blood sugar is to prevent problems down the line, and because when my blood sugar isn’t low, I’m not super hungry and I don’t fill either cranky or dizzy. Blood sugar is something mostly talked about with diabetes but maintaining it within reasonable levels helps everything perform better and reduces caloric intake.
The other problem with processed sugar is it is essentially an narcotic. When you consume processed sugar not only does it give you a high by spiking your blood sugar, but dulling your taste for everything else. Sugar causes extreme cravings, and makes you desire to eat even more. I long had a ban on cookies and candy at home, but I’ve really stepped it up in weeks after turning 40, kicking out other sources of processed sugar like pasta sauce and refined carbohydrates like pasta. And I’ve started to refuse it away from home and don’t plan to have it while camping either.
I’ve built a lot of protein into my diet, adding lentils and sometimes black beans to the brown rice which I have with most meals. I make up a big pot, freeze it and have it all week, changing it around each week with different ingredients. I also have been experimenting with tofu in many meals. Not to replace meat per se but as a healthier alternative for variety. Big blocks of firm tofu is also the “cheapest meat” you can buy, as are big bulk bags of brown rice and lentil. Keeping things affordable is so important in these inflationary times, especially as I’m trying to step up my saving and investing to make up for a slowing market growth.
I think this was developed a few years back but this is a reminder of the agricultural legacy of the parts of the sand areas before suburbanites took over.
Pull it back into second on this Tuesday. Seems like the rain was done in time for the morning walk. Dark start to the morn but it’s getting bright out quickly. 9.1 miles yesterday.
Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Cloudy and 46 degrees in Delmar. 🌥 Calm wind. Mild weather.
Yesterday was nice with all that sunlight streaming into my office. ☀ I really like my private office with the east facing windows and my desk right next to the windows with the plants. 🌿 I can complain about a lot but that’s nice. The money’s good even if most of it’s going into investments for a better tomorrow. And I’m focused on more exercise every day and eating right. Maybe today though I’ll need my desk lamp on, especially later in the day.
Today will have a chance of light rain before 10am, then a slight chance of light rain after 5pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 60 degrees at 3pm. Seven degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around April 16th. North wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. The high last year was 54 degrees. The record high of 79 was set in 1950. 4.3 inches of snow fell back in 2016.❄
Out walking a bit early today 🚍 as the bus lately has been running earlier lately and I don’t want to risk missing it like I almost did yesterday. Plus I was up and going. 🚶♀️ I much prefer to walk first and eat breakfast second. Skipping the coffee ☕ before walking means I have much less of a need to use the bathroom, 🚽 plus it makes it more like a sleep walk. 🤖 Sometimes the best way to get through the morning.
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 53° from the due south horizon (-17.8° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 4.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:47 pm with the sun in the west (272°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (279°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:24 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 56 seconds with dusk around 7:52 pm, which is one minute and 8 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Full 🌝 Moon in the east-southeast (107°) at an altitude of 21° from the horizon, 246,641 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:27 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 53 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 9 mph. Tomorrow will have 12 hours and 57 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 52 seconds over today.
Seems like there is some hints of green in the grass 🌾now that we are in the month of April. It will be nice once things green up a bit. Looking forward to seeing more color in the world as things green up and the fire danger go down so I can have bigger fires in the woods. That said, the black flies are in waiting but I have the screen tent for those days.
A picture perfect weekend on tap for Easter. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 56. Sunday, sunny, with a high near 62. Maximum dew point of 30 at 9pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 56 degrees. It should be a nice weekend assuming I get out of jail before then, 🙌 though not much is likely to happen during that weekend I was more than a little hoping to get out of town come Thursday. Maybe I was a little too optimistic that Kathy would bail me out. I’ll find something fun to do this weekend. 🐰
One month 📅 from now will be 8:30 PM Dusk 🌆 when the sun will be setting at 7:59 pm.
