After a pretty rubbish nights sleep, the alarm cut through me like a knife this morning. I am not and never have been a morning person and at my age, I doubt it's going to start anytime soon.
I snoozed the alarm, as usual, and snuggled back under the duvet, then was woken again to the screeching of the alarm, urgh, had 10mins really passed already? It was then that it occurred to me, usually during the 10 min snooze times, (I snooze it at least 2 if not 3 times!) I am only usually half asleep, as the other half of me is laid thinking how uncomfortable and sometimes how painful my abdomen is, but I had just gone straight back into a proper sleep.
Later as I sat drinking my tea after my bowl of porridge, I was suddenly aware of the silence....no gurgles, no, grumbling, no odd creaking noise and no feeling in general...who had stolen my insides?
I always have a constant awareness of my intestines, it's like I can feel every movement, even though it's not always pain I feel, I can always feel and often hear it going about its day. But not today. -Seems promising!
The book I mentioned in yesterday's post, is 'The Complete Low-FODMAP Diet -Sue Shepherd & Peter Gibson. This is what it looks like if you are interested in finding a copy. When I first picked it up, I was a tad overwhelmed by the never ending charts of foods I thought I could never eat, but you soon learn that it's not the case. It's a good book to dip into to check up on something you are unsure of and has a large selection of recipes and also several weekly diet plans to try or at least inspire you. When looking at the diet plans, you will see that you are still eating a quite wide variety of meals. When I first heard about this, I thought I was going to be drinking water and eating dust! Thankfully, that's not the case :)
So what have I had today?
Breakfast, porridge l/f milk, redbudsh tea.
Lunch: Ham, cucumber & salad cream sandwich.
A banana
Redbudsh tea...of course :)
Mid afternoon R/B tea. g/f Mrs Crimbles Bakewell slice....and about 30mins later I had another - bad Claire :(
I think the cake overload was to counteract the fact I was so insanely tired. Yessss, I know, I know a sugar rush will do nothing for long term energy, but it was tasty short lived energy. But by 2.30 I could barely stay awake, at 2.45 I gave in and laid on the settee and set the alarm for 15mins later for school run. It was only after I was rudely awaken it occurred to me that I haven't done the school run for about a year now and that Alfie wouldn't be home till about 3.30, so I could have easily had a longer snoozle. :-/
Dinner: Red & White Quinoa, bacon, orange pepper, carrots and a few peas and green beans.
Small serving of fresh pineapple.
Very small amount of diet Pepsi.
The jury is out on the quinoa so far. I've never had it before and can't say it was met with a joyus burst of happiness on my taste buds. I had bought a ready to eat pack of it to try. The pack was two servings, so I had half, but I think there was too much. I didn't finish it all, as it was becoming a bit of a battle eating it. While I had other stuff on my fork, it was ok, but it on it's own was a bit bleurgh. I will see if I can make the other half of it more palatable tomorrow.
Here's a rather unappealling photo of it. It didn't taste 'as' bad as it looks.
I'm very hopeful that the cake monster that made me eat the two cakes hasn't set me up for tummy ache later. I do feel quite podged, not really bloated though like the feeling of just being so puffed out it hurts. I just feel like I've eaten a huge meal, as you. I guess the quinoa must be quite filling.
I've just realised what the quinoa grains look like. When the boys were small we used to have a sandpit, whilst playing in it one day we kept finding these tiny little opaque balls, turns out they were snails eggs. Urgh, I think that's put me off even more! :-0
If by some random chance anyone is reading this and even more randomly eats quinoa, I'd love some ideas on different meals with it please.
Ooo there are lots of gurgles coming from within now, it's about 3/4 hr since we ate. It's the first time I've felt or heard the digestive system 'doing it's thang' today. Can't say it sounds very happy now though. Fingers crossed I'll have nothing else to report.
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