Floater's diary

Hah, I guessed right: was feeling too hungry for protein to go to sleep so I had 150g of silken tofu with scallions and soy sauce. I need to keep this brand in mind, I found it in an Asian store and the taste is really pleasant and smooth. Half of a 300g pack has 10g of protein, and tastes great served cold - I find that the issue with eating vegan food for me isn't usually about the taste or the satiety factor, but convenience.

I think I'll have a handful of pumpkin seeds and a pear for dessert.
 
Floater said:
I find that the issue with eating vegan food for me isn't usually about the taste or the satiety factor, but convenience.
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Both, for me. The cost to satisfaction ratio of the available convenience products just isn´t there for me (yet). It´s either super processed, super expensive expensive stuff that´s meant to taste like something you know (but doesn´t really) or it´s super clean, super expensive stuff with all the satisfaction of a cold salad on a cold day. My stomach can´t deal with the former and my brain can´t deal with the latter. So I make my own. But I don´t always have the energy to and then I eat junk instead.
 
@LaMaria yeah the cost factor is a third issue for me too, sure! And I get the gut struggles as well. 12 eggs cost 1,80 cents and 300g of tofu costs 2,70 euros. I can't eat most of commercial mock meats, the taste is great but they mess with my stomach and aren't any healthier than meat anyway, sometimes less healthy.

Woke up in the middle of the night to a coughing fit. My lymph nodes are a bit swollen but it could be the cold? I ended up sleeping for 12 hours (minus the coughing fit and taking Nera out for a quick pee). Sometimes heartburn makes me cough and I did eat half a liter of onion soup last night... I guess I'll have my coffee and see if this passes on it's own or if I need to self-isolate...
 
Breakfast: oatmeal with soy protein isolate and nutritional yeast and a big dollop of marg, kidney beans and brussel's sprouts (served cold)
 
LaMaria said:
Hope it passes quickly and you feel better. Health in inter is hard enough without a pandemic!
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Yeah I think it was a false warning! I feel much better after eating and coffee. I also took a short effect ADHD med to make sure I'll make it to the pool in the afternoon.
 
OK, now I'm a bit annoyed. The assistance visit is moved to an earlier time so I won't make it to the pool and back in time. I could go to the gym afterwards, though.
 
I decided that the best use of my time with the schedule change was to food prep: I'm boiling beluga lentils and roasting potato "oven chips", as well as shredded some raw potatoes and put them in the fridge in cold water so that I can use them in a stir fry later. I'm feeling a little bit stressed, because my parents went to visit my sister today and they will probably call me and want to talk to me afterwards.
 
LaMaria said:
I hope they called while assistance was there :grouphug:
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Nope, but assistance was a saving grace. Apparently my brother had a girlfriend at some point between divorce and death and there's plenty of drama about that between the ex-wife's family and my parents. The ex gf will go see the body with my parents tomorrow at the forensic lab, because the ex wife doesn't allow her at the funeral. Mom was really on gossip settings. I guess I am too, for sharing all this, but it's like from a Nordic version of a telenovela. Telenordica?
 
It sounds like you survived the phone call ok though, which is good. If your Mum is carrying on about someone else she may be leaving you alone. One of the really good values I like in a friend is one who rarely gossips. We all do sometimes, but there are some that you would never trust with anything you wanted to be kept private.
Glad your cough vanished!
 
Cate said:
One of the really good values I like in a friend is one who rarely gossips. We all do sometimes, but there are some that you would never trust with anything you wanted to be kept private.
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Amen.

LaMaria said:
Humans are messy animals. I hope you won't have to engage about all of it too much.
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Yeah I'm DEFINITELY not going to attend the funeral. When it's done, I'll distance myself from the parents again... Their energy is better spent on my sister, and getting her out ans away from her bf who sounds like he's hitting the initial stages of alcohol dementia. (Then again, mom might just say they are trying. IDK. Not my circus, not my monkeys.)

I just had a nice little home spa moment; sauna, body scrub, and moisturizer. Never made it to the gym. But I did buy eggs, tofu, and scallions. My gut is protesting all the FODMAPs I've been eating. But other than the bloating I feel OK.
 
Had a lovely, long, moon-lit walk with Nera. We were out so late that the exercise stairs on the nearby hill were vacant, so we climbed up, and I tested some of the outdoor gym equipment up there. (It's -10 again so some of them were too cold to sit on lol.) I love frosty moonlit nights. The moon was bright enough to cast sharp shadows!

After getting home, I had a potato omelette with scallions, and shallow fried myself some papadams. I feel dumb for not knowing they can be dry-toasted in the oven, too. I had kept wondering why the restaurant version is always way less greasy lol.
 
They could just be deep-frying them, too. At the perfect oil temperature you just don't notice the grease.

The moon was so beautiful yesterday! We had lots of raggedy, low-hanging clouds that were moving quite quickly so the (just past) full moon looked super dramatic.
 
-13 outside. My gut is giving me hell, I'm so bloated that none of my underwear fits comfortably. Too many beans and too much stress. Today I'll go to the gym, even if I just do one squat, and instead of my oatmeal I'll get a cheeseburger afterwards as a bribe to the Fat Gods. I'm in emotional distress after having had so much contact with my family. Funny how it shows in my body, too.

Breakfast: three fried eggs, 200g of Turkish yogurt with cherry jam.
 
EUUUGGHHHH apparently all gyms and pools in Southern Finland will be closed after Christmas. Well, the more reason to enjoy the good stuff while I still can.

Stomach has settled a little bit, still very bloated but not as sore anymore.
 
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