Wednesday 1 June 2016

Better than Candy

On the diet and exercise front, I am happy to report that, five weeks into my eight week diet, my favourite green silk dress (originally from Hobb's; I do love Hobb's) now fits.

The new goalpost is my powder blue early 1960s shift dress (Roderick Tweedie by Munrospun). I can already wear the matching coat.

Interestingly, B.A. has also lost weight and reports feeling better than he has all year. This provides more circumstantial evidence for the view that spouses influence each other's health, fitness, diet and therefore weight. B.A. may do most of the cooking, but I do most of the grocery shopping--and baking.

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  1. Thanks for the diet updates. I'm on a sugar-only-on-the-sabbath-(which-absolutely-starts-on-Saturdays) post-partum diet and the updates are encouraging, especially on afternoons when the sugar craving kicks in because I really just need a nap (but didn't get one). It's definitely not a calorie restrictive diet as a. those have never worked for me and b. I'm not allowed to eat less than 1800 calories a day as I am feeding a 16 pound human, but the anti-sugar statements are really encouraging!

    Sidenote: I might have to give up sugar on the sabbath as well. The sugar cravings are so much worse on Mondays- though that might have to do with the fact that I didn't sleep enough this weekend. Too busy celebrating my husband finishing the CPA tests!

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  2. Now that is interesting. Although sugar is sugar, not all sugars are equal, and you can get a healthy sweet in the form of berries, apples and pears. The recipes I have linked to have small amounts of honey, maple syrup or date syrup, so I recommend them for your sabbath sugar treat, if they are suitable for passing onto babies. I suppose the ones with honey might not be. Can nursing mums eat honey? Or peanut butter?

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    1. That is a good idea for the sabbath treat, thanks! That would probably be better than refined sugar after not having had it all week. I am eating fruit all week, but not honey or maple syrup, and only very limited amounts of white flour (like a bread flour/wheat flour mix bread).

      Yes to honey and peanut butter for nursing moms! No honey for babies until a year, but moms can eat anything (the small amount of botulism that can be present in honey can't be passed through milk).

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  3. Anamarie, do you like dark chocolate? I've cut out most refined sugars (Although, seriously, it's ridiculous how many things have sugar in them. Even salt!), but I find that a a dark chocolate truffle or a few dark chocolate covered almonds (and I mean very dark, as in over 70%-90%) give me a little bit of happiness without making me crave sugar.

    And Auntie S. I thought of you when I saw this recipe. I'm not sure if that's too much maple syrup for you, but it sounds delicious, esp. over greek yogurt. I'm going to give it a try this week. :) http://shaunaniequist.com/bread-wine-blueberry-crisp/

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    1. I LOVE dark chocolate. I find it very difficult to just have a little, so right now I'm having none (except on Sundays). I wish I could just have a few dark chocolate covered almonds :)

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