Friday, 27 August 2021

July Checkin

 Lol, I got a bit confused when I went to write this because it's almost September and I thought I was writing the August Checkin....but then I looked back wondering where July's was, before realizing that's what I was working on now!  Whoops!

I didn't do as well with exercising this month.  I was only successful in being active for 150+ minutes on two weeks.  The other two weeks, I only hit about 120 minutes (I was a bit sick on one week, and the other week I worked from home a bit and didn't fit in my regular walk to and from work).  

I made just one new recipe this month: some spring rolls with a spicy peanut butter sauce.  I'm not really a fan of spicy foods, but these were really good!  They also used marinated tofu.  I really, really liked the marinated tofu, and ended up snacking on the rest of it, rather than make more spring rolls!  This recipe is definitely a keeper (and I've since made more of the marinated tofu to snack on, too!)

I also had a scary low this month.  I was having trouble bringing my glucose down during the evening.  It was at a safe level when I went to bed.  But then my Dexcom woke me up a few hours later.  Thank goodness the alarms woke me up!  I had a really rough couple of days after that happened thinking I almost died - I was getting low enough that it was possible I may not have woken up! :(  Thankfully I did, and everything is okay.  I haven't had any lows like that since!

Oh, and July was my No Junk Food month!  That went really well.  I think there were maybe two times where I had some junk food (other than what was allowed for treating lows).  I also found myself feeling pretty good by the end of the month - I wasn't craving junk food, I was going out of my way looking for healthier snacks, and I felt that the few times I did end up eating a bit of junk food were no big deal.  I'm going to try to continue this going forward informally. :)

So that was July.  Hopefully I'll get to the August checkin a little sooner, so I don't forget which month I'm working on!

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