Wow Summer sure has gone by fast. I know I haven’t been blogging that much as of late, honestly i am not sure what to say. I feel off track for most of august yet again. We all know that same old roller coaster ride. Frustration , hunger, stress and summer events got the best of me. I stopped tracking, weighing, and watching my calories and fitness. I haven’t done a blood level in a few weeks too. I am running low on low pro products but luckily i do have a lot of pasta left.

I knew I was spiraling and I can really feel the difference. I am back to working casually again, and if i thought working all nights where hard, working casual is harder. Unpredictable shifts and no same routine like I was in my night shift. Now I work days, evenings and nights , so its always changing and so is my meals and taking foods to work. Lunch or dinner is harder to take then snacks for night shift because I have to prepare everything a head of time. But I love my job and I love my residents and being here so I make it work.

I have been a bit stressed about how sporadic my shifts are and different hours every week so my pay checks aren’t the same and I have been worrying about payments and bills. Got myself into a bit of debut with all the low protein food I was making. I am currently on night shift so I have been making meal plans and working on my budget.

I had made a decision just over a week ago, that I was going to get back on track come September. So I have made myself some goals, made some meal plans, and am working on reigning in my portion sizes again, drink more water, spread out my meals more through out the day instead of 3 big meals. I am going to try to fit back in my fitness goals, of swimming, walking, yoga and even going to the gym.  I am going to start small and work my way up. I don’t want to over whelm myself to start off. That just leads to more frustration and loosing motivation.

I have a pku health and fitness group on facebook, so I did a weigh on on the 1st, my measurements and a blood phe for my base line and will do it again every month on the first. I am going to try really hard to just weigh in once a month. I would like to loose 40 lbs. When I Look at it like that it dosent seem like much. 3 to 5 lbs a month and I could reach my goal for next summer. But its sooooo hard!!!

I need to drink more water, its weird I certainly  drink more water when I am working but I am at home I do not drink as much. I need to get back into my habitats of baking and preparing food a head of time to. I also need a new way to track my intake,calories and fitness.  Nothing seems to work out for me long enough. I have tried my notebook and that worked out the longest but i had to do all the math part myself and that was harder to do. I tried the my PKU Diet android app and I didn’t like the lay out of it and the limited food list. I have tried my fitness pal, but I was frustrated with only tracking grams of protein and entering my low protein foods. I really wish that the dietwell app was on android and tracked fitness. so now I am using a notebook again and looking for an app that tracks fitness and calories burned. with out tracking food.

So there it is. September means end of summer and re focusing on my body, my fitness, my pain level, and my blood phe levels.  Most peoples kids are going back to school and everyone is getting back into the swing of things and fall routines. I am determined to make this my last summer of being un-healthy and poor habits. I love our new life in kamloops and now that we have been hear for a year, we are settled and into routine and our jobs its time to refocus on my own goals and my body.

I was doing really great with my levels too I got them down to 1.3 and 3.5 mg/dl so id like to get them back down to that again. I don’t no what they are now but I know they are higher. I am guessing around 8. That is why I am doing a blood test tomorrow.

So here is to yet again another fresh start! And good luck to everyone  joining me , in the pku health and wellness group on your journeys!