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| You can never have enough puppy pictures... |
Yesterday it
has been three weeks of no sugar. I am holding up quite well, although I have
experienced some craving those few last days. I often suffer from PMS and this
time it hit me especially bad. I am proud that I didn’t give in though. I just
ate a lot. And I mean a lot! But not the sugar that my body was craving.
Usually I have no self discipline whatsoever on those days, I basically run to
the supermarket and put everything into my shopping cart that is loaded with
sugar, chocolate and caramel. I managed to stay away from the stuff this time,
but it was hard. Saturday morning I did not only have the worst kind of
cramping, but felt really sick and could not eat at first. It was worse than
usually, but maybe I had some kind of infection at the same time.
Yesterday,
while at the supermarket, I was tempted by the “industrial sugar free” isle and
took home with me those two babies. They cost a whopping 3.50€ per piece, but I
wanted to give myself a treat, so I did. The chocolate is sweetened by
coconut-blossoms, so not really sugar-free, but at least no processed sugar. I
ate a little piece of the coconut flavoured one and it was MAGICAL! The good
thing was though, I was satisfied after the little piece and did not need more
of it.
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| Ombar you get it in German drugstore dm. Yummie! |
I have
noticed several things about my brain and mind while being without the usual
candy-dose: they are working much better! I am less tired, less moody and my
memory is much better. Furthermore, I am motivated to move, to run, to do Yoga,
to take the dog on a long walk. (Ok, I won’t deny, the awesome spring weather
those last days has helped big time, too.) In one movie I have seen they tested
the effect of sugar on the brain. The hippocampus, responsible for memory
function and personality has been proved to be damaged by too much sugar
intake. I used to be forgetful all the time, I forgot things that I had said
and done, events that should have had a huge impact on my memory. My memory
loss proved to be so profound that Mr. Schön was sometimes really worried (and
also annoyed) about living with someone having the memory of a goldfish. Maybe
it is just wishful thinking and knowing about the effect on the brain, but I
have the feeling that my memory has gotten much better and I am more able to
focus on one thing at a time. (By the way, Mr Schön got infected with the idea
of sugar-fasting, but he has decided to indulge on weekends. I am proud to say
that so far I have not been tempted, even when he was sitting next to me,
enjoying chocolate.) A nice side effect, I have lost a pound per week since I started sugar fasting, without ever going hungry. To further motivate me, I read all I can about sugar and nutrition. This new German book is a lot about the body chemistry while digesting. Very interesting, but not always so easy to understand for a laywoman.
Knitting is
a great way to keep yourself busy in front of the tv if normally you were
snacking. I don’t know about you, but I am terrible with all my projects, I
almost never finish them at once, so you can find a lot of UFOs in our flat,
Unfinished Objects. Elephant socks almost finished for our neighbor, a big
shawl, a half-finished cardigan… Finally I took up the work on one cropped
cardigan again that I have knitted ages ago. The back seemed to be way to broad,
so I got frustrated and let it rot in a corner of my knitting basket. A few
weeks ago I found it again and a friend suggested to knit a collar on it,
tightening it. I did that yesterday on my way to work and hey, it doesn’t look
too bad. The colour is a really beautiful deep red, and the fabric is
surprisingly soft, so it would have been a pity not to finish it. On the way
back I started with the missing sleeve, the last part of it and by tomorrow it
is going to be finished. I like the style of Bernadette in the Big Bang Theory
and wanted to have a small cardigan to put over dresses. Voilà! My next project
(new project, ahem…) is going to be a Miette. (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/miette)
I have always wanted to make one, but so far was too lazy to follow the English
instructions. A friend of mine, she is Australian, has bravely started to knit
a German pattern, as though it is really hard for her, all the abbreviations of
the German knitting terms, so I feel like an idiot, shying away from an easy
English pattern. Miette it is. Then I will have one more nice cardigan to wear
on my dresses.
My cousin’s
wife wrote to me yesterday, that they badly need a new hat for their son, as he
loves the hat I made him so much, he refuses to wear anything else. By now the
old one is pretty drawn already, plus too small, so I started with a new one
yesterday. I had written the pattern myself, it is not complicated at all, but
apparently, little Lukas likes it a lot, so I also tried to find matching
colours, hoping he will like his new hat just like the old one. I also started a new one, in different colours, so maybe they can wash one while he is wearing the other one, but kids know what they want and maybe he does not fancy the new orange/yellow one, which I admit looks a bit crazy. It is, of course, a big compliment that
he loves my knitting so much J
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| A copy of the hat that Lukas loves so much |
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| Will he like the bright orange? I don't know... |
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| The pattern is really easy. It came to me after talking with Mr. Schön about how digital "code" consists of only 0s and 1s. |
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| Two friends of mine on a stroll last Sunday |
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| Lisek of the leafs |
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