WATER

Water makes up 75% of your body weight. Water is your friend. I know water can make you feel full and help lose weight. But water helps with carb issues too!

I discovered this by accident.

Saturday was a bad carb day for me. Really bad. I went to bed hungry friday night. We were up late and went grocery shopping late and I just didn't feel like eating that late so I went to bed hungryish. not bad, just a little. I woke up with a god-awful sinus headache and did NOT want to eat with it. So I didn't.

Around 11am ish or so, we went through JitB and I got a chicken club salad. Low carb. Go me. I was trying to be really good. Mostly because we were meeting Jason's parents, sister, and nephews for dinner - at an italian place. I sensed doom coming.

We got home around noon. We were doing stuff at home, and I was getting an awful sweet tooth. And we were watching Food Network. Ace of Cakes. SUGAR. I went and got my leftover carmel sundae out of the freezer. I did not listen to the three bites rule. i did not remember the rule about not eating while watching tv. i ate the rest of my sundae. ALL of it. (Sonic Carmel Sundae)

Around 2:30 we get the call - the dinner @ 4:30 has been moved up. We are eating nowish. So to the italian place. I tried to be good - i ordered a salad sampler - three types of salad: spinach w/ basalmic vinegar, mozz, and italian spices (good!), a chicken artichoke heart salad (MMM!) and soup. somehow my soup got mixed up and i ended up with a pasta salad instead. um...kay? I ate it. it was ok, not great. and i knew the pasta could cause problems. there wasn't much of it, but...i'd had ice cream. Doom.

Felt ok afterwards, and we went to the mall. in theory this was to walk stuff off, but really...there were supposed to be stormtroopers at the lego store. so...yeah. no stormtroopers. but throughout the mall was the smell of:

CINNABON!

oh dear. i resisted. i resisted. i resisted...and then i didn't. Jason and I split a cinnabon. with extra frosting. mmm.

20 minutes later i am dizzy. i feel sick. the world is spinning. ugh.

Jason took me to a kfc. there we ordered a buttload of grilled & original chicken (10 pieces of each) and a water in the largest size glass they had. they gave us the water first. by the time they gave us the chicken i'd FINISHED the water.

and it helped. 30 minutes later i was fine. water flushes sugars. good to know.

water. it is your friend. drink water.