June 11, 2013

I woke up again today with eyes stuck shut and my nose was hurting....I could feel plugs of mucus way back high up in my nose....so, have been blowing junk out all day!! But at least my headache is gone....and eyes aren't as bad today. Yesterday, they were irritated and itchy all day.....

I'm feeling good today..although a little tired from all the walking yesterday at Walmart waiting for my car to be worked on.....back and forth across the store multiple times made my feet hurt. And my left foot (which is the plantar fascitis one) was really swollen and painful....just too much walking.

On "The Talk" today, Jorge Cruz was promoting his new book about limiting sugar calories to only 100 a day.....which sounds good on the face of it until you learn what he considers to be "sugar"....he actually had labels from whole wheat bread, no sugar added....but he told the audience that the "carbohydrate" grams were really sugar....and since carbohydrate has 4 calories per gram, to multiply the number of grams by 4 and that was how to count "sugar" calories.....is he serious??? He considers all carbs to be "sugar"  including whole grain products....but it's OK to eat anything without sugar, including butter, cheese, bacon, etc....in other words, this is the old Atkins low to no carb diet...but I've never heard any reputable person say that complex/unrefined carbs are the same as eating sugar..and allowing only 100 calories means only about 25 grams of carbohydrate...which is Atkins all over...He was telling people that even if a label says there are zero sugar calories, to multiply the carbohydrate grams by 4 and those are "sugar" calories...that the labels aren't true...really??? Interesting that he didn't just call it a low carb diet and not a "limited sugar" diet...

I read Howie Mandel's book "Don't Touch Me"....he wrote a lot about his OCD which is about being a germaphobe...but it was interesting what he wrote about what obsessions are like.... he wrote "It's debilitating to know I'm not in control of my mind. It goes paces and I cannot bring it back.  The best description is that I feel incredibly busy in my own mind and that busyness is sometimes torturous."....I loved that...it's exactly how it feels to have all the "STUFF" running around in my head all the time, it can be just exhausting....even if I am getting better at controlling the compulsions the thoughts are still there...running around in my brain like having a bunch of tapes all going on at the same time...makes it hard to focus sometimes....like a race going in in my brain to see which thoughts "make it" into action!!