T’ursday? Meh!
full day, but with the coming race to the goal line tomorrow, dunno, just a meh sorta day.
Tomorrow is when I get to pull out all but one of my hats. Not going to be wearing the “Carpenter” hat tomorrow. Welding? Check! Electrician? Check! Gate installer and Programmer? Check! Crew Lead? Check!
Won’t be completely finished tomorrow, but Son of Bossman wants it to be as complete as possible. Wants it so all I need do on monday is ‘hook up the drive chain’. See, We have to set the Pedastal the drive motor sets on, and you can’t have a 1000# gate battering on that in green concrete: even if we use the quickset (we are) it will still be green by the end of day. Promise was “Complete on the 19th” but thats not truly possible due to the constraints of materials.
And end of day today was making sure that all the toys and parts and gee-gaws I will need, are loaded and ready to roll. All I need do is toss my tools in the truck and roll out, along with ALL and I do mean ALL of the crews. We are throwing everything at this,,,
Must be one hell of a bid on that contract.
Likely one that costs us if we miss the target, or so I would think by the anxiousness to ‘Git-r-Dun!’.
again, DUNNO,,,just extrapolation on my part.
Update on fasting thing. Still maintaining my No sugar thing, just black coffee, water, greentea, water with applecider vinegar or pinch of salt. Dropped all carbs from diet, but am eating. Tuna, avocado, cheeses, green olives, steak with grilled onions etc etc. One meal a day, don’t eat after 5pm, period: if I miss, I miss,,,
and I put that 10# right back on.
Heres the rub. DO NOT JUMP INTO FASTING without some work up prep. I know better, should say I had already known it, but I didn’t put things together too well. Fact is, I shocked my bodies system and it went into full on survival mode: STOCK PILE FAT STORAGE!!! Ok, so I need to work on getting away from sugar as ‘easy fuel’, get the body used to burning the fats (it converts them to sugar: it converts sugars to fat for storage, then reverses the process for fuel when short.) Even with me cutting sugars down to less than 50g a day (from over 300g/day) my body is in full grumpy cuss mode and fighting me. Getting rid of all sugars I am finding is damned near impossible; but I am cutting down to near nothing. Sugar is one hell of a hard addiction to break, let me tell you. The hardcore cravings I’m getting,,, Guy cracked open a soda near me today and I swear, the smell was ambrosia,,,, Like jonesing for a fix it was. I resisted
Untraining habits, learning new GOOD habits,,, And yeah, struggle it is, but WORTH IT.
I’m gonna run with the current ‘thing’ I am doing for one full month before I go attempting another fast. I wasn’t worried about the weight so much as I wanted to clean my system out, and I did get some signs that was happening. My skin for one: I’m getting some elasticity back and I don’t bruise like I did. I’m also not bleeding like a stuck pig with the slightest knick. Blood glucose levels are stable, not wildly flucuating: average is 107 for the week where I had one high of 146 (dad made something and insisted I eat; Had a lot of carbs in it.) (I hadn’t told him I’m doing this because he always nay-says me,,, Even when he doesn’t know, he does things like make way to much to eat so passes it on to me. And yes, Cosmos loves that fact since I have passed on the grub to him when dad leaves.)
NO beer, no Bourbon,,, I think that hurts nearly as much as the lack of the other addiction of Coca-cola. I do like a drink at the end of the day, but I am forgoing that while I am trying to clean house.
So, don’t just jump into fasting feet first, unless you are already eating properly and not addicted to mad sugar levels. 66% of the US population are classified as “Sugar Burners” and if you read the ingredient lists, you see sugar in everything: I have no doubt that figure is a conservative one. With Diabetes hovering at 11% of the population,,,
I’m not Diabetic, YET, but I was headed down that road and that is not where I want to be.
Like I said before “I have no desire to commit suicide by 12oz soda can.”
But man, it’s rough,,, That I am struggling means my body is adapting, slowly, grudgingly, with the oft-times Temper tantrum, but hey, “get in line, body, I ain’t playin’ here!”
(and this post is one written to distract my craving for a ‘pop’. I’m sneaky like that,,,)
Anywhooos,,, long day tomorrow, gonna be a late return and will need to make the bank run thing as well. May not post or might post late. Check back on Satyrday and see what this hooligan is up to for the weekend. (ain’t made plans yet,,,)
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