Day 16: Water, Water Everywhere.

It's a known fact about me that I hate drinking water. I must have been W.C. Fields in a former life or something. I almost never do it, and part of the reason for this is that I almost never feel thirsty. It's like that part of my brain is broken or something. So, I'll drink something because I want the taste of it, or a hot/cold/alcoholic drink, but not from thirst.

WARRGLEBARGGGLE

So, what happens when I stop drinking hot/cold/alcoholic drinks (except for juices?)

Yup. I pretty much get zero hydration.

OH, did I mention I've been eating quite a bit of dehydrated fruit?

I am OH SO SMART. No wonder I've been having all sorts of difficulties. Thankfully this occurred to me this morning and I bought and drank several litres of lemony fizzy water, much to my bodies delight. You're welcome, body. Sorry for almost killing you, there.

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So, In my apparent quest to eat All The Fibre Ever I decided that, instead of a juice that leaves the pulp out, I would blend a smoothie (whole fruit) for breakfast instead.  It looked a little something like this.

1 c almond milk
1 c blueberries
1 c strawberries
1 banana

easy peasy. And more filling than just juice- I had this around 8 and wasn't hungry again until 11. Woo!

My midmorning snack was water (lemony!) and some prunes, and then some more prunes, and then the last of the dried apricots *sob*. Did I mention I love prunes? mmm.

Don't give me that look.

Lunch was more sugar snap peas and raw hummus- I liked it so much yesterday that I saved half the tub for today! I actually couldn't finish the half of the teensy tub it came in today, it's so filling. So I'll have a snack tomorrow too. *fistpump*!

I had a bunch of running around after work to do, not the least of which was hitting up my greengrocer to get the strawberries that were on Crazy Sale (2 big tubs for $2!!) so I could make a tray of dehydrated strawberries for making with the snackings later. Dehydrated strawberries, if you've never had them, are tiny super sweet flavour bombs of goodness. Try some. I've only had the non-organic processed with sulphites ones, can't WAIT to see how good they are when home made.

Strawberries, away!!! 

However, what with one thing and another, this lead me to walking around downtown for 2 hours with a super heavy knapsack on my back...and a rapidly fading bloodsugar, because I am smart and didn't bring snacks with me. Fortunately, I met Johnny for a movie and he brought snacks (also known as dinner...raisins, strawberries, one of those amazing raw doughnut holes he made yesterday) which much revived me.

I'm enjoying a salad and listening to the quiet whirrr of the dehydrator finishing up my second batch of flax crisps. Fingers crossed they're good! They smell good. Please don't let the smell be a lie.

Maybe I'll have a glass of water with lemon in it before bed, too. So I don't die.

Here's what I ate today! also I drank stuff!
I weighed in at 168.4 today.
My stats were 78/14/8 so, not bad not bad. The water has really helped.