be healthy and sensible and eat the right things

I’m anaemic now. Joy. I now have about 6 weeks of constipation and black poos (when I do go) to look forward too.

by my husband, for not drinking or eating enough. Although I have found a miracle “cure” for heartburn! fresh pineapple, but in small amounts…

now I am able to stomach more sensible foods.

Also I am getting very definate messages when something is not particularly “suitable”.

Still addicted to jelly sweets and possibly developing an addiction to the smell of body shop spiced vanilla body butter. At least I can’t eat that…

And yes I am aware that it is super important but to be honest the stuff I should be eating is making me nauseous.

I should be drinking Milk: The thought of it does stuff to my tummy I cannot describe

I should be eating more oily fish/seeds: see above

I should probably lay off the jelly babies: No chance.

So I am trying to find alternatives, cheese for example is do-able, as is the occasional serving of salmon and creme fraiche linguine.

Jelly babies though… I cannot imagine life without them right now…

but then that’s understandable considering.

typical on my days off. That I spend the first one with my head down the toilet.

Lucky me

My Father-in-law tells me I have a tendancy to “jump right in”, which he says is the total opposite to hubby’s “think it over, think it over again, get horribly scared by it and probably never do it, just in case…” attitude. (BTW, he does sometimes act impulsively, and when he does he has put the BIGGEST smile on my face let me tell you!)

He also says this is why we are so perfect together, because hubby has always wanted to be the person who does without fear, and I should probably stop for a moment and evaluate. I have to be honest, I think he is right. He’s a wise man, I am lucky to be able to say he is my dad-in-law. I am very greatful for him and Mom-in-law, who is scarily like me in lots of ways.

Anyway, as far as this is concerned, there is a situation, where me, being me, I want to go ahead and do the thing, like now! Mostly because I am so excited and happy but Sean has talked sense to me, as is normal for his cautious nature and it really is important that we wait a little while before going ahead with the thing.

That doesn’t stop me being incredibly happy though, but maybe it’s a good time to learn restraint eh? (not the kinky kind…)

I don’t, I tend to cook nearly everything we eat from scratch, there are Zero ready meals in our freezer, we always have fresh fruit, milk, juice and yoghurt, I always buy wholegrain bread, I make all Of the Boys packed lunches for school and work, and there has to be fruit, carb, protein and fibre in there.

The problem is I sometimes forget about me, I am so preocupied with my family being healthy that I forget that I am included in that and end up living on some cottage cheese and marmite on a couple of crispbread, or a sandwich during the course of a 14 and a half hour shift in work. Which is neither sensible or healthy.

I am trying really hard to drink at least 1/2 a pint of milk a day (calcium, don’t want to end up with osteoporosis) and at least 2 peices of fruit and 3 portions of fresh vegetables. meat I seem to have gone off at the moment, but that’s ok because I have a big Quorn love thing going on for the protein. Although I bought Quinoa the other day and tried making porridge with it. NOT good, but I would guess good as a substitute to cous cous…