Working on my health
As I shared a few days ago, I've been working on improving my health after a bit of a hospital scare as well as some longer term complaints that just won't go away. Funnily enough I was already planning on getting my butt moving again because the treadmill was ordered the morning of the day that I ended up at the ER, which is typical, isn't it?
Either way, I had to wait another week before the treadmill would arrive but thanks to having the best weather in weeks, I had no issues going on long neighbourhood walks with my little helper. She has been great support and an absolute doll all week. Still, I was very pleased when it was Friday and the man of the house came back home to put the thing together. There's no such thing as me being independent when there's something like that needing to be put together, just being honest here!
Reading the charts
So even though I've been checking some of the charts of the smart scale to discover that my cardiac level index was low and that I've been growing muscle mass in the past days, I never really noticed (not before last week's event either) that my protein was too low. I'm pretty sure back in the days it was always too high, as I'm a freak for eggs, especially these tasty ones they have here, but I stopped eating them (or now eat them so rarely) after I noticed my stomach was upset every single time that I ate eggs.
My daughter hates the egg yolk (she's nuts) and I hate the egg white, so when she requests as boiled egg sandwich, I gave in by eating her egg yolks with some salt, lol. I noticed that that didn't upset my stomach but even that has been a while. This is a big change for me because a few years ago, I ate eggs at least every other day.
A journey
So this whole getting healthier journey doesn't only contain me getting fit and move more, it also contains more insights about some foods that I need (or need to replace with something that I normally don't eat) so that I don't put in the work for nothing. I noticed today that I was close to getting cramps constantly while on the treadmill, which eventually made me decide that today I will leave it at one time 30 minutes. But it's funny to see that in these few days my comfy pace already went up from 4,4 km per hour to 5.5 km per hour. Never did I imagine I'd notice such an improvement in a few days.
Lessons about food
I've never been crazy about meat, I have a few meat dishes I absolutely love but as I mentioned before, I can go without meat for days without any issue, especially now that I know quite some new things that are vegetarian and just as satisfying to me. But I never knew that being short on protein could lead to having cravings for sweet and unhealthy stuff as well as joint pains and muscle pains. I have quite a bit of experience with both and now I'm going to make sure to keep an eye on these protein levels and signs my body is giving me because if I can't fill this up by food, I may buy some powder for these days that I need it.
Not just yet though, let's first see how it goes. I think it's typical that the day that my protein was lower than the other days, I had quite some cramp coming up which I had 0 the other days. I've learned to listen to my body quite well and keep track in detail at the moment not just for the cardiologist but because I'd like to have proof about what works best for me.
Toaster in the pocket!
You may wonder what this picture above has to do with the story, well, this picture is the reason that I realized I can't even make a proper avocado toast as our toaster belonged to the house we rented. I didn't miss it until today and as we still had a 20 euros savings cheque available, we went to the Carrefour to get it. I knew it was 25,50 euros (which I think is way too much for what it is, but I know this is the price nowadays) so I figured we're in the neighbourhood, let's just get it.
In the supermarket, I saw the toaster, and noticed this:
First, I thought this was another model but the model I wanted wasn't there at all. Until I checked the model number and found out this is the same! They sell it in their own online store for € 25,50 while the store where I could pick it up for free within 2 hours sell it for € 33! Insanity. That's 33,33% more expensive, wow! Then we checked a few other things in the electronics department, same story. Good lesson!
That's all for today, going to wish you a great week ahead!