. . . any way you can!
Today was a rest day cause of my crazy weekend, but I still wanted to get in my steps. I made a trip to the grocery store with mom to get out and walk, but I spent the rest of the day studying indoors. After going to class and taking the LONG way home, I was still only at 5,000 steps at 8:30.

I was thinking about going to the gym and walking on a treadmill, but it was late. So I decided to stay at home and jog in place for 5,000 steps.

That’s two and a half miles. Of jogging. In place.

Seriously.

But I did it, and finished the day with 10181. Yay me!

Back to regular workouts tomorrow.

Even though my butt is still bruised.

This is what my night stand looks like.  Every night before I go to bed, I turn my bottle of Synthroid (my thyroid medicine) upside down so I know I haven’t taken it yet.  I also have to have a glass of water next to my bed every night so I can take my pill in the morning.

Since having my thyroid removed, I have to take a pill every single day for the rest of my entire life.  I have to take it on an empty stomach one hour before eating, so I wake up in the early morning and take it, and then have a second alarm that goes off when it’s actually time to get up.  I try to take it about 2 hours before I would normally have to wake up, to make sure I’m able to go back to sleep.  So if I have to wake up for 8, I take my pill around 6am.  Then, once I take it, I turn the pill bottle right side up, so when I wake up at 8, and see its right side up, I know I’ve taken it.

The other day I had a dream that I had taken it, and in my head, I kept arguing with myself about whether or not I had taken it.  I woke up at 9 to see the bottle still upsidedown, and I groaned, because I hadn’t taken it like I thought, and now I had to wait an hour before I’d be able to eat breakfast.

It’s been happening a lot to me lately where my 6am alarm will go off, and I shut it off without taking my pill.  Then I wake up later and realize I must have shut my alarm off.  Luckily, I usually wake up before it’s really time to get up.  That way, I don’t have to putter around the house starving for an hour.

Having to take a pill for the rest of my life sucks.  Having to keep water by my bed everynight also sucks.  I’m always afraid I’m going to spill it on my iPhone, and that has to be near me too, cause that’s what I use as my alarm clock (I can set multiple alarms with it).

Also, what am I going to do if/when I get married (or live with someone)?  They too will be woken up every morning by my pill alarm clock?  That’s super annoying.  I agree that I can set one alarm, wake up, take my pill, then shower and get ready for work and THEN eat, but I’m always starving in the morning, and it is the absolute first thing that I do.  I can take my pill 2-3 hours after I eat, too, but I don’t think I would remember it all the time.  Plus, I’m a constant snacker, and don’t know if I can go 4 hours without eating anything.

I want someone to invent a thyroid medicine Nuva Ring.  Where I can put something in my body once a month and it will naturally release the correct amount of thyroid hormone. Thing is, where would I insert it?

Governon Schwarzenegger in California has signed a law that will require all chain restaurants to put nutritional and calorie information on their menus, and on their indoor menu boards.

But, the law is only for chains with 20 or more locations (17,000 restaurants), and they don’t have to do it until 2011!!!!  I don’t understand why it isn’t ALL restaurants, and why it isn’t by June 2009?  That would give them 8 months to do it.

New York put in a similar law in March of this year.  New York restaurants have responded to the law by offering healthier, low-fat ingredients and smaller portions.  Even just making the meals smaller would have a HUGE impact, I can imagine.  I know that Il Forno restaurant here in Fitchburg gives enough food for three meals.  Dinner one night, and then lunch and dinner the next day, too!  It is absolutely amazing food, but that sure is a lot.  Not only would giving out half the amount of food deter people from eating so much, but it would also bring down the price.  I think that my favorite meal, Chicken and Brocolli Aglie Olie is about $14 a plate!  They could cut it in half, and still charge $9.  That’d be a good drop in price, and maybe it’d still be enough for me to have a small portion for lunch the next day.  Or, maybe giving me only half the meal, I’d eat the entire thing.  But with the HUGE portion, I only eat 1/3 of it (and 1/3 for lunch, and 1/3 for dinner the next day.)  So would making the portion actually make me eat more?

It’s amazing to learn that a serving of pasta is one cup.  I’m going to start measuing it out so I can see how much exactly one cup is.  Lately, I’ve been measuring out my breakfast cereal and milk to make sure I don’t go cereal crazy.  I always thought that 1/2 cup of milk was way too little, but its really the perfect amount. I’m getting really interested in sizes and stuff, and how much I probably over eat.  I want to get a kitchen scale for Christmas.  Megan has one, and they use it for baking.  I’d want to use it so I know when a serving is “28 grams,” that I know exactly how much that is.