Mindful Eating

Good morning to me,

So yay. Today marks a milestone. It is 7 days since I started Lamictal Lamotrigne. The medication that has helped me with my strange disorder. Its been seven days since I have some control of this madness.  Last night was also a significant one cause I made the leap from 25mg to 50mg of Lamictal and I slept well although I went to sleep at 12midnight. I woke up twice (not to eat YAYYYYYYYY) but to cough and spit out. Seems I am coming coming down with an upper respiratory infection (URI) and I believe that my lovely adorable niece gave it to me.  So I woke up at 8 am and had to run errands. I didn't groom and left the house that way.

So I got hungry during my runz and you know what that means. TEMPTATION. Now, it is important to know that research has proven that we eat consume significantly more calories when we eat out. Reasons vary. Larger portions, underestimation of what we are eating and so on. I dashed into 7 eleven and went straight to my guilty pleasure (Chicken wings). I also bought a cup of  cappacino but then I made it half coffee and half cappacino. After I had paid for it, I realized what I had just done. I had purchased something that is quite unhealthy (because chicken wings have a lot of fat as poultry store fat under the skin). What do I do? Do I return the purchase (I guess not as it wont be accepted), Do I throw out my purchase (Throw away 7 dollars, are you serious?). So what do I do.?

I opted to peel the skin off the chicken wings and eat the flesh. This way I had just made it lean meat. Nutritionally, I had taken the wings from blah to fab (YEAH, THATS WHAT AM TALKING ABOUT). Animal fat (like that found in chicken wings) is bad fat. The only exception is fish fat which is high in omega fatty acids. So this is the lesson on mindful eating. You cannot always avoid the landmines, but you can learn to navigate them. You cannot stop eating out, but you can make better choices by understanding the basic laws of nutrition. Its 1152 AM and I just had one boiled egg and I am having another cup of coffee/tea mixture. There is a sexy looking bosch pear and I will eat it if I get hungry.

Last night I had to share my salad with my sister (and it was absolutely yummy) but I enjoyed two servings of ewa agoyin ( a Nigerian dish of mashed black eyed peas and pepper sauce) and it was yummmylicious. You know mindful eating is about eating right and loving it. When you know you are eating right you can savor the food and relish its flavor.


Ok. So now its back to studying. I need to study my Obstetrics and gynecology.  Am covering birth control and infertility. So that's it for now. Am off to study. Wish me well.

Ciao
Ozybaby