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Day 3

 So Day 3 was yesterday.  It went very steady until bedtime, which can be a problem at times.  I have had serious insomnia and/or some type of sleep disorder for over 20 years, so every night is an adventure!  Actually, the recent past has gone pretty well, and I'm closer to a normal sleeper than I have been in many years.  But back to Day 3.

My points for the day:

Breakfast:

Grapes - 0 points

(My stomach felt rather strange and acted up a bit.  Took awhile before I was ready for some heavier food.)

Lunch:

Leftover stir fry with rice - 1 point; small sloppy joe - 9 points

(My lunch drug out over a few hours)

Dinner:

Very small bowl of broccoli and cheese soup - 4 points; 4 club crackers - 2 points

Snacks:

Light English Muffin with Brummel & Brown yogurt spread - 4 points; small red potato with salt - 0 points; fat-free cottage cheese with crushed pineapple - 0 points

I used 20 points by evening, still without a bed time snack, dipping into my dailies by 3 points.  I always need a fairly substantial bedtime snack to go to sleep, so I was looking for free foods, hence the potato, then the cottage cheese with pineapple.  

But I couldn't go to sleep.  I was restless and a bit itchy.  I finally got back up for awhile, walked around a bit to relax my legs.  I'm suspecting that I had the wrong kind of snack that puts me to sleep.  A lot of times, I will eat a small p.b. sandwich or something very carby.  I was suspecting that was some of the problem.  It was about 2 in the morning, so I went ahead and had that peanut butter sandwich (8 points).  This morning, I decided to count that as today's points since it was well after midnight.  That leaves me with eating a lot of zero foods today.  

So end of day yesterday, I ate 20 points, leaving 33 weekly points (used 3 yesterday), only 1103 calories.   FitBit tracked 5621 steps.  I'm wanting to get to 10,000 daily, but it's a decent start.  I get rather lazy later in the day about getting up and walking around, especially when we are watching TV.  

Day was interesting.  It seems like the calories are very low for the points eaten.  By evening, I had eaten only 880 calories with 20 points.  I guess I need to eat more free foods and very low-point foods.  It's really not enough calories, even the 1103 calories by bedtime.  That's definitely not sustainable for the long run, I'm thinking.

This morning, I was up on the scales a few ounces (that's with eating the PB sandwich in the middle of the night), so not surprising.  



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